 | A Total Waste of Makeup
Release Date: December 27, 2005Charlize "Charlie" Edwards certainly knows, in theory, what it takes to lead a successful and happy life. She owns a nice house in Silverlake, LA's trendiest neighborhood. She has glamorous and loyal friends who accompany her to the hottest clubs in town. And she works as the personal assistant to Drew Stanton, Hollywood's sexiest movie star. But she's also turning 30, chronically single, and faced with serving as maid of honor at her younger sister's wedding. Charlie finds herself struggling to juggle the chaos of wedding planning (while wondering if she'll ev...
 |  | The Best of Archy and Mehitabel (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
Release Date: October 25, 2011| Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets A selection of the best of the hilarious free-verse poems by the irreverent cockroach poet Archy and his alley-cat pal Mehitabel.Don Marquis’s famous fictional insect appeared in his newspaper columns from 1916 into the 1930s, and he has delighted generations of readers ever since. A poet in a former life, Archy was reincarnated as a bug who expresses himself by diving headfirst onto a typewriter. His sidekick Mehitabel is a streetwise feline who claims to have been Cleopatra in a previous life. As E. B. White wrot...
|  | Hilda and Pearl
Publication Date: February 1995Frances, a lonely adolescent, never questions the closeness of her mother, Hilda, and her aunt Pearl, but there are many unanswered questions and unexplained tensions, and her everyday world is gradually touched by tragedy as the past is revealed. ...
|  | Never on a Sundae
Release Date: October 5, 2004An irresistible look at three women on the verge of happily ever after--from three hot new voices in fiction.It's the best spot in Manhattan for a sinfully delicious ice cream sundae. And it's where three young women come to soothe their troubles and treat themselves to a little taste of heaven. Lucky in friendship, not always so lucky in love, these women know that just a few spoonfuls of ice cream can sweeten everything from a date gone sour to a workday from hell. But before they can say "extra whipped cream," they're going to discover that there's more to l...
|  | Mysterious Signal (Riverboat Adventures, Book 5)
Publication Date: February 1998| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Danger lurks in the nighttime shadows!When they learn that they are being watched, Jordan and his daddy need to leave Springfield, Illinois, at once. With the crooked Dexter behind bars, Libby, Caleb, Peter, and Jordan make plans to take the stolen money to its rightful owners. Then Dexter escapes! If he recognizes Libby, Jordan and Peter will be in great danger. A disguise is the only answer, but that requires a sacrifice Libby isn't sure she's willing to make.Arriving in a strange city, Libby and her friends look ...
|  | The refuge of night: A modern vampire myth with a bonus tale of Renaissance terror
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|  | My Sweet Audrina
Release Date: May 24, 2011Audrina wanted to be as good as her sister. Her sister was so special, so perfect -- and dead. Now she will come face to face with the dangerous, terrifying secret that everyone knows. Everyone except... Sweet Audrina. ...
|  | Command: A Kydd Sea Adventure (Kydd Sea Adventures)
Publication Date: March 1, 2008| Series: Kydd Sea Adventures In this seventh book of the series, Thomas Kydd is master of his own brig-sloop Teazer and must race the clock to make her battle-ready to defend Malta against Barbary pirates and the French who are frantically trying to rescue the remnants of their army in the Levant. Suddenly, peace is declared and the young captain finds himself ashore. To make ends meet, he agrees to transport convicts to Australia. Little does he know that his friend Renzi, weakened by illness and embittered with the service, is also bound ...
|  | John Keats and the Culture of Dissent
Publication Date: April 10, 1997| ISBN-10: 0198183968 | ISBN-13: 978-0198183969This book overturns received ideas about Keats as a poet of "beauty" and "sensuousness," highlighting the little studied political perspectives of his works. Roe sets out to recover the vivacious, pugnacious voices of Keats's poetry, and traces the complex ways in which his poems responded to and addressed their contemporary world. The book also offers new research about Keats's early life that opens valuable and often provocative new perspectives on his poetry. ...
|  | Journey of Decision: A Way of the Cross (Advent/Christmas)
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|  | Hymns to The Beloved: The Poetry, Prayers and Wisdom of the World's Great Mystics
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|  | Der Kinoerzaehler (Fiction, Poetry & Drama) (German Edition)
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| | Borrowed Water American Haiku
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|  | Wild Dogs Under My Skirt
Publication Date: April 1, 2005| ISBN-10: 0864734743 | ISBN-13: 978-0864734747This vivacious collection of poetry charts the author's experience with the sometimes painful intersection of New Zealand and Samoan cultures in her life. Alive with the energy and rhythm of performance poetry and oral traditions, these poems reshape common understanding of New Zealand culture. ...
| | Nature poetry, Chinese and English: An address given at Cornell University, March 16, 1965
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|  | The Business of Literary Circles in Nineteenth-Century America (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters)
Release Date: February 1, 2011| Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters The Business of Literary Circles in Nineteenth-Century America explores the economics of professional authorship—the contiguity between business practice and aesthetic principle—in the most significant literary circles of the American nineteenth century, from Irving’s Knickerbockers, Emerson’s Transcendentalists, and Garrison’s abolitionists to Robert Bonner’s New York Ledger popular fiction writers, and George Fitzhugh’s proslavery pundits. Casting these cohorts...
|  | Cultivating Victorians: Liberal Culture and the Aesthetic
Publication Date: December 24, 2003| ISBN-10: 0812237544 | ISBN-13: 978-0812237542In this provocative and historically detailed reading of the relations between Victorian liberalism and aestheticism, David Wayne Thomas challenges current critical assumptions concerning modern liberal agency and aesthetic experience more generally. Through meticulous examinations of literature, visual arts, popular culture, and politics, Cultivating Victorians shows how a mid-Victorian liberal discourse of individual "many-sidedness"—understood as a cultivated disposition toward self-criticism and o...
|  | Pleating for Mercy (Magical Dressmaking Mystery, Book 1)
Release Date: August 2, 2011When her great-grandmother passes away, Harlow Jane Cassidy leaves her job as a Manhattan fashion designer and moves back to Bliss, Texas. But when she opens a dressmaking boutique in the turn-of-the-century farmhouse she inherited, Harlow senses an inexplicable "presence". Her old friend Josie orders a gown for her upcoming wedding, but when Josie's boss turns up dead, Harlow has to find the killer-with a little help from beyond. ...
|  | The Evidence Exposed
Publication Date: November 1999This text contains three tales: "The Evidence Exposed", a course brings together a group of enthusiasts; "I, Richard", Malcolm Cousins has spent years in pursuit of a letter, but will he kill for it?; and "The Surprise of His Life", Douglas Armstrong has his first consultation with Thistle McCloud. ...
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