 | Clearly, I Didn't Think This Through: The Story of One Tall Girl's Impulsive, Ill-Conceived, and Borderline Irresponsible Life Decisions
Release Date: November 6, 2012In Her Defense, It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time... Although Anna Goldfarb is very tall, she can't seem to grow up. While her friends lead lives seemingly plucked out of the pages of an Ikea catalog, she is still trying to figure out where she’ll score this week’s beer money. Maturity used to be something she aspired to, but as a woman in her early thirties, it is finally time for her to take a good hard look in the mirror and ask herself, “Is adulthood really for me?” Clearly, I Didn't Think this Through chronicles Anna's hilarious...
 |  | Winesburg, Ohio (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: August 1, 2008| Series: Oxford World's Classics Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a cycle of short stories concerning life in a small town at the end of the nineteenth century. At the center is George Willard, a young reporter who becomes the confidant of the town's solitary figures. Anderson's stories influenced countless American writers including Hemingway, Faulkner, Updike, Oates and Carver. This new edition corrects errors made in earlier editions and takes into account major criticism and textual scholarship of the last several decades.About t...
|  | Bless Me, Ultima/Special Illustrated Edition
Publication Date: April 1994| ISBN-10: 0446517836 | ISBN-13: 978-0446517836A new hardcover edition of the classic Chicano coming-of-agenovel chronicles the story of an alienated New Mexico boy who seeks ananswer to his questions about life in his relationship with Ultima, amagical healer. By the author of Lord of the Dawn....
|  | Nightshade (Discarded Heroes Series, Book 1)
Publication Date: July 1, 2010Soldiers all across the globe are returning home to their families after brutal tours of duty. They are discharged from the service. . .and on their own. Meet Max Jacobs, one of these discarded heroes, as he faces a wall of failure—in his career, his friendships, and his marriage. Failing again—this time to end his life—he is offered a thread of hope. Are covert government operations the answer for him, or will they only bring more danger and dissension upon his broken family? (20100302) ...
|  | The Sabastian Cane Chronicles Book II (Bk. II)
Publication Date: December 2002The Sabastian Cane Chronicles Book II, is the second of three books dedicated to the adventures of Lord Sabastian Cane. Book II takes you on a breathless journey of mystery, romance, intrigue, and eroticism. From the deep jungles of Venezuela, where the young Sabastian Cane studies to become a shaman, to the far reaches of the Universe where he and his several wives encounter the unthinkable. Far beyond the imagination of the reader, this novel will take you to the Court of the Emperor of the Pleiades and into the bowels of the Beast. Cane and his wives take on...
|  | End of Watch
Publication Date: July 31, 2006Francis M. Franco. Shot for three bucks and change. The only witness, his ten-year old daughter. Thirty-five years later, that daughter is LAPD Lieutenant L.A. Franco. Tired of running, Frank realizes its time to either face the past or die by its long hand. In an effort to quiet her demons she returns home, to New York’s Lower East Side. But the journey intended to rest old ghosts only resurrects them. While visiting her mother’s grave Frank is stunned to discover a lead in her father’s long-unsolved murder. Aided by NYPD Detective Annie Silvest...
|  | Big Al's Baseball
Publication Date: May 1, 2008Big Al's Baseball is an American story that weaves baseball with major events as they occurred in the 20th century.Growing up in New York, Big Al becomes involved with baseball at a local park. He later works for minor leagues in the East and in the Midwest during World War II.Young characters bring the next generation into the story and make their mark during the Civil Rights and Vietnam periods.A timeless tale, Big Al's Baseball appeals not only to baseball fans of the Great Game, but to all ages and generations. ...
|  | Wuthering Heights
Publication Date: May 28, 2012| ISBN-10: 1612930662 | ISBN-13: 978-1612930664This is a beautifully designed, 6"x9" large edition of Emily Bront's classic WUTHERING HEIGHTS. ...
|  | Troilus and Cressida (3rd Series)
Publication Date: June 25, 1998| ISBN-10: 0174435371 | ISBN-13: 978-0174435372| Edition: 3rd This edition of Troilus and Cressida provide s a clear and authoritative text, detailed notes and comment ary on the same pages as the text and an in-depth survey of critical approaches to the play. ' ...
|  | Divan-I Kebir Meter 10: Bahr-I Munsarih (Divan-I Kebir, 1)
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|  | Vergilius Redivivus: Studies In Joseph Addison's Latin Poetry (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society)
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|  | Three Regrets and a Hymn to Beauty
Publication Date: September 28, 2006This collection of poetry features five extended poems that explore the concept of beauty and the nature of language, discussing serious philosophical ideas with zest, energy, wit, and humor. A unique volume featuring remembered and misremembered song lyrics from John Lennon, Lou Reed, Johnny Cash, Emmylou Harris, Gram Parsons, Ryan Adams, and Courtney Love, among others, it also includes fragments from philosophers and poets of the sublime, especially William Wordsworth and John Ruskin, and from religious texts such as the Bible and the Tao-Te C...
|  | Vargas Llosa Among the Postmodernists
Publication Date: January 20, 1994 Mario Vargas Llosa is one of the world’s most respected and widely read living writers. His work is marked by technical sophistication and by its alliance with a variety of trends in modern culture. To date little criticism of his work has made use of the important developments in literary theory in the past two decades. This book does so, analyzing Vargas Llosa’s place in modern and postmodern criticism. ...
|  | Magic Tree House #34: Season of the Sandstorms (A Stepping Stone Book(TM))
Release Date: December 26, 2006| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Daemon Hall
Release Date: July 20, 2010| Age Level: 10 and up Is winning a writing contest worth risking your life?Nothing exciting ever happens in the town of Maplewood—that is, until famous thriller writer Ian Tremblin holds a short-story writing contest with a prize that seems to be the opportunity of a lifetime: five finalists will get to spend the evening with Tremblin himself in the haunted mansion Daemon Hall, and the winner of the best short story will see publication. Wade Reilly and the other finalists could never have imagined what they find lurking in the shadow...
|  | Koi and the Kola Nuts : A Tale from Liberia
Publication Date: January 1, 2003| Age Level: 4 and up When Koi, the yongest son of Chief Ogumefu, learns that his only inheritance is a scraggly kola tree, he decides to travel the world. With only a sack of kola nuts on his back, Koi sets out on a wonderful journey in search of his own fortune, and learns a lesson: Do good and good will come back to you. ...
|  | The Jumblies
Publication Date: March 31, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Edward Lear (English, 1812-1888) was a highly respected painter by trade, but today he is perhaps best known for his nonsense poems. His 'The Jumblies' had great appeal for Edward Gorey, because, as Gorey said, it 'was taught to me by my grandfather when I was four or five, and it has always been one of my favorites. Since Lear himself made only one small drawing for it, it occurred to me that I might illustrate the whole poem.' Gorey was so taken with Lear's words that he dedicated his drawings to Foss, Mr. Lear's...
|  | Just Stupid! (Andy Griffiths' Just! Series)
Publication Date: July 1, 2004| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | THE WINTER'S TALE - BAMBILL - APRIL 1994
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|  | The Girl with the Golden Bouffant: An Original Jane Bond Parody
Release Date: May 4, 2004Another hilarious Bond parody in the shape of THE GIRL WITH THE GOLDEN BOUFFANT. James Bond′s out of commission and his sister Jane must step once more into his shoes, his smoking jacket, and his girlfriend′s bedroom... When James Bond lands in hospital as the result of a nasty facial burn - while lighting a bird′s cigarette, his hair pomade explodes -- Jane Bond, his lesbian twin sister and occasional impersonator, once again dons suit and scars to masquerade as her infamous brother. Her destination: the annual spy...
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