 | After Annie: A Novel
Release Date: March 1, 2012An irresistible tale about love and the theater, After Annie is an astonishing first novel. Herbie Aaron is one half of a celebrity marriage. He and Annie have been famous, nobodies, and mingled with the rich and crazy. Through it all, they've been passionate lovers and fast friends. But when Annie dies of cancer, Herbie is lost.If you think this is going to be a tragic tale about grief, think again. Herbie is too cantankerous, sly, and charming to keel over. Enter Olive, a beautiful bartender who just might be a great actress; Candy, Herbie and Annie's neurotic da...
 |  | Julia's Hope (The Wortham Family Series #1)
Publication Date: September 1, 2002Like countless others in 1931, Samuel Wortham lost his job. And he lost his wife's inheritance, their home, and much of his self-respect. Samuel, his wife, Julia, and their two young children hitchhike from Pennsylvania to Illinois in hope of work. Caught on the road by a sudden storm, the Worthams take shelter in an abandoned farmhouse out of desperation.Feeling oddly at home, Julia insists on finding the owner of the property, despite Samuel's objections, and asks for permission to stay. The owner is Emma Graham, a woman in her eighties who longs for home...
|  | Devil's Wake: A Novel
Release Date: July 31, 2012What happens when an unprecedented infection sweeps the world, leaving the earth on the brink of the Apocalypse? But this infection goes far beyond disease. Beyond even the nightmare images of walking dead or flesh-eating ghouls. The infected are turning into creatures unlike anything ever dreamed of . . . more complex, more mysterious, and more deadly. Trapped in the northwestern United States as winter begins to fall, Terry and Kendra have only one choice: they and their friends must cross a thousand miles of no-man’s-land in a rickety school bus, battling ...
|  | The Cleft: A Novel
Release Date: January 29, 2008From Doris Lessing, "one of the most important writers of the past hundred years" (Times of London), comes a brilliant, darkly provocative alternative history of humankind’s beginnings.In the last years of his life, a Roman senator embarks on one final epic endeavor, a retelling of the history of human creation. The story he relates is the little-known saga of the Clefts, an ancient community of women with no knowledge of nor need for men. Childbirth was controlled through the cycles of the moon, and only female offspring were born—until the una...
|  | Blue's Bayou: A Michel Doucette & Sassy Jones Mystery
Publication Date: September 20, 2011When his cousin Verle is accused of murder, private investigator Michel Doucette heads to the small town of Bayou Proche to help prove Verle’s innocence. In the process, he uncovers a blackmail plot against one of Verle’s closest friends, and an apparent conspiracy to gain control of the mineral rights to Verle’s land in the Atchafalaya Basin. He is also forced to finally confront painful memories from his own childhood."Blue’s Bayou" is the fourth novel featuring detectives Michel Doucette and Sassy Jones. The second, "Echoes,"...
|  | Outlaws of Poplar Creek / Bowdrie Follows a Cold Trail / His Brother's Debt
Release Date: February 12, 2008Outlaws of Poplar CreekFew travelers happen by Lee’s Canyon. But when Texas Ranger Chick Bowdrie suddenly appears at Moby Fosdick’s door looking for Shad Tucker, slowly brewing trouble begins boiling over fast. Before the sun sets, bullets are flying. And by the time it rises again, Bowdrie's badly outnumbered, sixteen-year-old Lily Fosdick is trapped in a cave with a cold-hearted killer, and it's high time for nineteen-year-old Jerry Fosdick to decide which side of the law he's one.Bowdrie Follows a Cold TrailWhen Texas Ranger Chick Bowdrie rides...
|  | The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: May 11, 2007| Series: Penguin Classics Unrivaled in its range and intensity, the poetry of World War I continues to have a powerful effect on readers. This newly edited anthology reflects the diverse experiences of those who lived through the war, bringing together the words of poets, soldiers, and civilians affected by the conflict. Here are famous verses by Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, and Wilfred Owen; poetry by women writing from the home front; and the anonymous lyrics of soldiers? songs. Arranged thematically, the selections take the reader through the war?s stages, ...
|  | Weaving Ourselves into the Land: Charles Godfrey Leland, "Indians", and the Study (Native American Religions)
Publication Date: July 24, 1997| Series: Native American Religions It is now over half a millennium since the first sustained contact between the peoples or Europe and North America, yet Native Americans and especially their religious traditions still fascinate those who are not Native. In Weaving Ourselves into the Land, Thomas Parkhill argues that this fascination draws much more on a stereotype of the "Indian' than on the lives and history of actual Native Americans. This stereotype, whether used approvingly or disparagingly, has informed the work of authors writing about Native American ...
|  | Beowulf CD
Release Date: September 25, 2007 It's never been easy to be a hero. When Beowulf arrives at Hrothgar's hall, he discovers that the hall is beset by Grendel, an evil creature that kills and pillages with impunity. Beowulf, in heroic fashion, bests Grendel in combat, then follows Grendel back to his lair to finish the job. But Beowulf couldn't have counted on meeting Grendel's mother. And then, later, there's this dragon. But why are you reading about it? This story was meant to be told, to be repeated aloud. Listen as J.B. Bessinger, Jr. reads Beowulf and many other Old English poems, i...
|  | Walking the Black Cat
Publication Date: October 17, 1996Hamlet’s ghost wandering the halls of a Vegas motel, a street corner ventriloquist using passersby as dummies, and Jesus panhandling in a weed-infested Eden are just a few of the startling conceits Simic unleashes in this collection. “Few contemporary poets have been as influential-or inimitable-as Charles Simic” (New York Times Book Review). ...
|  | Chugoku shisen (Gendai kyoyo bunko) (Japanese Edition)
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|  | Romance Without Tears
Publication Date: January 2003A first-time collection of the best romance comics of the 1950s.Four genres dominated American comic books in the 1940s and '50s: superheroes, funny animals, horror, and... romance. This revisionist collection of romance comics stories from the '50s challenges the cliché of the "tear-stained face" that later dominated the genre and became widely known and vilified as a tiresome icon of moral uplift.These bright, naturalistic tales (originally published by Archer St. John and written by unrecognized comics master Dana Dutch) are about high school girls who m...
|  | Sympathy For The Devil
Publication Date: September 2, 2012Continually at odds with the brass of the LAPD and the paparazzi, Mitch Ryan has a gift for giving himself powerful adversaries. After pulling himself off a barstool to discover a gorgeous reality-TV star bleeding-out in a back alley, the ex-cop puts himself square in the sights of an internationally feared Colombian street gang, an insanely hot Voodoo priestess, and a culture sick with celebrity. It's pop-culture flash meets suspenseful sexy noir, in a cynicalcontemporary tale, filled with ripping repartee and Old Testament consequences."(while re...
| | HIS LAST BOW: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes
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|  | Football (Ultimate 10)
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|  | Wrestling in Action (Sports in Action)
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|  | Top 10 American Men Sprinters (Sports Top 10)
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|  | Time & Money Bingo
Release Date: September 3, 2008| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up Two great games in one! These fun, Bingo games support NCTM standards and each side of the double-sided answer mat features a different skill. Time is shown in digital and analog formats! Perfect for use with the entire class or just small-group instruction, they include 36 double-sided game cards, 720 tokens, 100 calling cards, a double-sided answer mat, and a game guide. ...
|  | Sportworks: More than 50 Fun Games and Activities that Explore the Science of Sports
Publication Date: January 21, 1989Why does a curveball curve? What makes a good football helmet? How do figure skaters spin so fast, and don't they get dizzy? You’ll find answers to these sports mysteries and more in Sportworks.In these fun-filled pages, the world-famous Ontario Science Centre museum reveals the science behind your favorite sport. Try their exciting activities, and you’ll actually see calories burning, test how basketballs bounce, and measure your lung capacity. You’ll discover how to warm up before you exercise, and why that’s good for your heart...
|  | No Perfect People, Please! Poems
Publication Date: November 30, 2007This is an illustrated collection of humorous poems about 26 children and their not-so-perfect personalities. Each kid has a funny tongue-twisting name that begins with a letter of the alphabet and reflects a personality trait. From Adam Amazola to Zippy Zelda Zimmerman, children will see themselves in the characters in this book and laugh at how friends and family hilariously cope with their behavior. An Audio CD comes with the book containing eleven poems performed by the author. Asitimbay s funny accents and sound effects will have both younger and older...
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