 | THREE GREAT NOVELS: Career Girls; the Movie; Tall Poppies
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 |  | Money: A Suicide Note (Penguin Ink)
Release Date: June 29, 2010| Series: Penguin Ink One of Time’s 100 best novels in the English language—by the acclaimed author of Lionel Asbo: State of England and London Fields Part of Martin Amis’s “London Trilogy,” along with the novel London Fields and The Information, Money was hailed as "a sprawling, fierce, vulgar display" (The New Republic) and "exhilarating, skillful, savvy" (The Times Literary Supplement) when it made its first appearance in the mid-1980s. Amis’s shocking, funny, and on-target portraits of life in the fas...
|  | Becket
Release Date: September 1, 1995Anouilh's celebrated play draws from historical events in the Norman conquest of England to create a profound portrait of a man's soul—and a transcendent vision of the human spirit. ...
|  | The Watcher's Guide, Volume 3 (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Publication Date: July 6, 2004 As long as there have been vampires, there has been the Slayer. One girl in all the world, to find them where they gather and to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their numbers.From the first vampire staking to the last glimpse of Sunnydale, Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a genre-busting hit, attracting millions of fans worldwide. The last three seasons ran the gamut from an episode without music to a musical episode, from the arrival of a teenage sister to the death of Buffy (again).Now the third volume in this best-selling series of companions ...
|  | The Malice of Fortune
Release Date: September 11, 2012Against a teeming canvas of Borgia politics, Niccolò Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci come together to unmask an enigmatic serial killer, as we learn the secret history behind one of the most controversial works in the western canon, The Prince...When Pope Alexander dispatches a Vatican courtesan, Damiata, to the remote fortress city of Imola to learn the truth behind the murder of Juan, his most beloved illegitimate son, she cannot fail, for the scheming Borgia pope holds her own young son hostage. Once there, Damiata becomes a pawn in the politi...
|  | The Putt at the End of the World
Publication Date: May 1, 2001The richest man in the world invites a trio of mediocre golfers to play at a secret course in Scotland. The result of their efforts will somehow affect the fate of the world. Can golf save the world? ...
|  | Comte de Gabalis
Publication Date: December 1, 2005When you have been enrolled among the Children of the Philosophers... you will straightaway discover that the Elements are inhabited by most perfect beings. Unhappy Adam's sin has deprived his unfortunate posterity of all knowledge of these beings and all intercourse with them. [T]he Element of Fire... was not created to remain useless and empty. -from "Discourse II" Sir Edward Lytton's based his strange novel Zanoni upon this esoteric work. Alexander Pope, in his dedication to The Rape of the Lock, sings its praises.But let the reader beware! This book "of ...
|  | Hocus POTUS
Release Date: July 1, 2007THE CATCH-22 OF THE IRAQ WARWhat’s driving the ultra-dedicated State Department staffers nuts in the former Republican Palace in Baghdad’s Green Zone? Is it the rising insurgency? The lack of power and water? The tide of utter chaos? The sinking feeling that the adventure is going south?No.What bothers them is WMDs. Without one, how can their beloved POTUS (security shorthand for President of the United States) justify this mess? Not finding a single WMD to justify it all is making POTUS look bad. Real bad. Enter Rick Gannon, Ambassador Goodhair’...
|  | The Domostroi: Rules for Russian Households in the Time of Ivan the Terrible
Release Date: September 7, 1995Winner of the 1994 Heldt Prize from the Association of Women in Slavic Studies A detailed and colorful instruction manual on household management in sixteenth-century Russia, the Domostroi gives a fascinating glimpse of the world of the nobility. This "how-to" guide is one of the few sources on the social history and secular life of Russia in the time of Ivan the Terrible. Carolyn Johnston Pouncy here offers, with an informative introduction, the first complete English translation. ...
|  | More Pricks Than Kicks
Publication Date: January 7, 1994Samuel Beckett, the recipient of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature and one of the greatest writers of our century, first published these ten short stories in 1934; they originally formed part of an unfinished novel. They trace the career of the first of Beckett’s antiheroes, Belacqua Shuah. ...
|  | Antologia Poetica (Poetas Argentinos Contemporaneos) (Spanish Edition)
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| | Directory of Booksellers Association Members 1999: The Essential Guide to Over 3, 300 UK Bookshops
Publication Date: January 29, 1999This directory contains over 400 pages of Bookseller Association member details, including: an A-Z listing of all BA members by town, cross-referenced by a full index of shop names; full details of over 80 bookselling group head offices; and a named contact for each shop, with details of subject specialization and special services offered. The information contained in this directory is held on a database which is constantly updated. A selection of this information is available for purchase in label and listing format. Selections can include: company type; ge...
|  | When I Was a Child I Read Books: Essays
Release Date: March 13, 2012Marilynne Robinson has built a sterling reputation as a writer of sharp, subtly moving prose, not only as a major American novelist, but also as a rigorous thinker and incisive essayist. In When I Was a Child I Read Books she returns to and expands upon the themes which have preoccupied her work with renewed vigor.In “Austerity as Ideology,” she tackles the global debt crisis, and the charged political and social political climate in this country that makes finding a solution to our financial troubles so challenging. In “Open Thy Hand Wide”...
|  | A Caesar Reader: Selections from Bellum Gallicum and Bellum Civile, and from Caesar's Letters, Speeches, and Poetry (Latin Edition)
Publication Date: January 2, 2012| ISBN-10: 086516696X | ISBN-13: 978-0865166967| Edition: first A mature but accessible Latin, a narrative brimming with historical significance and fascination: these were once touted as obvious advantages of reading Caesar's Bellum Gallicum. A change in sensibilities, however, read Rome s brutal invasion and conquest of northern Europe as problematic, if not disturbing. But questions about the validity of Rome s actions and of Caesar s, especially in his later Bellum Civile are precisely what make these commentaries compelling to read and to discuss. Ad...
|  | A Perfect Knight For Love
Release Date: September 4, 2012With his reckless, drunken brother bringing ruin to the clan, and the lass he's loved all his life in the clutches of a violent husband, the last thing Thayne MacGowan needs is a spirited, sharp-tongued damsel to contend with - no matter how enticing she may be. Having narrowly escaped an objectionable arranged marriage, Amalie is starting a new life - with a new identity. But her freedom is cut short when a surly but irresistibly handsome Highlander is forced to take her as his bride. If only he knew who she really was. Fate designs an improbable match, and a ...
|  | Pashazade
Release Date: March 1, 2005Part mystery, part speculative fiction, and wholly unforgettable, Jon Courtenay Grimwood’s celebrated Arabesk series portrays the dark, hard-boiled story of a man out to prove his innocence in an alternate world where thefacts aren’t always the same as the truth . . . and murder isn’t the worst that can happen.It’s a twenty-first century hauntingly familiar—and yet startlingly different from our own. Here the United States brokered a deal that ended World War I, and the Ottoman Empire never collapsed. And lording it over all sits the c...
|  | Evil at Heart
Release Date: August 31, 2010Chelsea Cain’s novels featuring Portland detective Archie Sheridan and serial killer Gretchen Lowell have captivated fans through two New York Times bestselling entries, Heartsick and Sweetheart.And Gretchen Lowell is still on the loose. These days, she’s more of a cause célèbre than a feared killer, thanks to sensationalist news coverage that has made her a star. Her face graces magazine covers and there have been sightings of her around the world. Most shocking of all, Portland Herald reporter Susan Ward has uncovered a bizarre fan club th...
|  | Three Billy Goats Gruff (Flip-Up Fairy Tales)
Publication Date: June 1, 2007| Age Level: 3 and up...
|  | The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: July 25, 2005| ISBN-10: 0521812933 | ISBN-13: 978-0521812931In this highly original collection leading scholars address the largely overlooked genre of childhood writings by major authors, and explore the genesis of genius. The book includes essays on the first writings of Jane Austen, Byron, Elizabeth Barrett, Charlotte and Branwell Brontë, Louisa May Alcott, George Eliot, John Ruskin, Lewis Carroll and Virginia Woolf. All began writing for pleasure as children, and later developed their professional ambitions. In bursts of creative energy, these young authors, as...
|  | Arbuthnot Lectures, 1980-1989: Association for Library Service to Children
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