 | Inseparable (Arabesque)
Release Date: April 26, 2011| Series: Arabesque Living under Reese Madaris's roof makes LaKenna James the envy of every woman in town. But Reese's offer of a place to stay is strictly platonic—just until Kenna's new condo is completed. He has no idea that his best friend has been attracted to him since college, and Kenna plans to keep it that way.Ever since his cousin Blade got married, Reese has become Houston's most eligible bachelor—and a magnet for gold diggers. Reese turns to his temporary roommate for dating advice, and suddenly sees Kenna for the beautiful, voluptuous woman ...
 |  | Life After Victoria (1837-1901) (Anthology Quad)
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|  | Contours Of The Heart (Asian American Writers Worksh)
Publication Date: March 19, 1998| Series: Asian American Writers Worksh This book comes at a critical time in the history of South Asians in North America. As the number of South Asian immigrants increases in the United States and Canada, a familiar tension has been the immigrant conflict between home as a physical site in North America and home as an emotional concept tied to the ancestral country, and the second generation's questioning of both notions. This anthology critically explores this familiar tension and the concept of "home." It focuses on the transformative experiences that lead...
|  | Summer of the Midnight Sun (Alaskan Quest #1)
Publication Date: March 1, 2006Alaskan Quest Book 1 - The Barringer family is happy in the Alaskan Territory. Confronted by an old flame, Leah realizes her feelings never went away and she is whisked away on an unforgettable journey. From bestselling author Tracie Peterson. ...
|  | Rebel
Publication Date: October 11, 2011Rebel is the story of Jess Evans, a rebellious eleven year-old boy, who is tortured by a dark secret of his past.Orphaned at an early age, Jess is destined for rejection and neglect, but when a young couple agrees to foster him temporarily, Jess is invigorated with hope.B.J. and Cathy Cole welcome Jess into their home and attempt to provide him with love and security, but Jess remains timid and closed off.As the story unfolds, Jess slowly begins to trust and love B.J. and Cathy, causing Jess to question if he can ever come to terms with the secret haunting h...
|  | Roller Coaster
Publication Date: January 17, 2012Two very different reasons brought Laura Izmani and Helen Baynor to the Beach Boardwalk for a symbolic ride on the biggest wooden roller coaster on the west coast. They part strangers, but only after sharing an experience that shifted both of their lives onto new tracks.Their paths cross again decades later when Laura interviews with Helen to become the private chef for the Baynor household. Given what Laura revealed during that fateful coaster ride, she’s relieved that Helen seems to have forgotten her.Fiercely protective of her children, Helen—n...
|  | A Clockwork Orange
Publication Date: November 1986The only American edition of the cultclassic novel.A vicious fifteen-year-old "droog" isthe central character of this 1963 classic,whose stark terror was captured in StanleyKubrick's magnificent film of the same title.In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of thefuture, where criminals take over after dark,the story is told by the central character,Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang thatbrilliantly renders his and his friends' social pathology. A Clockwork Orange is a frighteningfable about good and evil, and the meaning ofhuman freed...
|  | Mr. Darcy's Dream: A Novel
Publication Date: February 3, 2009From the author of Mr. Darcy's Daughters, the delightful escapades of the Darcy family continue with an enchanting story set at Pride and Prejudice's Pemberley.When Phoebe, a young niece of Pride and Prejudice's Mr. Darcy, is shattered by an unhappy romance, she retreats to Pemberley and is joined by kind-hearted Louisa Bingley, unmarried after three London seasons. Once the young ladies are situated in the house, several handsome strangers also arrive -- all hopeful of winning the girls' hearts. As preparations for the ball which Mr. and Mrs. Darcy are to g...
|  | The Terrible but Unfinished Story of Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia (European Women Writers)
Publication Date: January 1, 1994| Series: European Women Writers No contemporary French feminist has made a bigger impact in America than Hélène Cixous. Brilliant, bold, and combative, author of numerous novels and a gargantuan study of James Joyce, and sponsor of a series of notorious seminars at the University of Paris about women's writing, she has exploited the roles of femme fatale and maitresse d'education in a career that has been spectacularly defiant and productive.Sihanouk is one of Cixous's most ambitious projects: the dramatic portrayal of the conflicts between ol...
|  | The Collected Stories of Richard Yates
Publication Date: May 3, 2002The literary event of 2001 is now the paperback event of 2002: The Collected Stories of Richard Yates gathers the late author's powerful and peerless short fiction in one comprehensive volume. Praised by such authors as Michael Chabon, Stewart O'Nan, Robert Stone, and Richard Russo, and universally acclaimed in reviews across the country, The Collected Stories is the crowning jewel in what has been the rediscovery of one of our greatest American writers. ...
|  | The Yellow Heart (A Kagean Book) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 2002| Series: A Kagean Book In the introduction to this bilingual volume, the translator reminds us: "Neruda spent the last forty years of his life making himself dangerous with his poetry... He came to see poetry as a moral act, with personal and communal responsibilities." But here, Neruda is at his playful and irreverent best. Whether writing a celebration, allegory, lament or self-parody, the poet declares the strong sense of an improvisational spirit. Highlighted as "Essential" by Library Journal. ...
|  | Early Irish Verse
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|  | Romances of the White Man's Burden: Race, Empire, and the Plantation in American Literature, 1880-1936
Publication Date: May 6, 2011"Take up the white man's burden!" So wrote the English writer Rudyard Kipling in 1899, in a poem aimed at Americans at a time when colonial ambitions were particularly high. The poem proved especially popular among white southern men, who saw in its vision of America's imperial future an image that appeared to reflect and even redeem the South's plantation past.Romances of the White Man's Burden takes on works in American literature in which the proverbial "old plantation" is made to seem not a relic but a harbinger, a sign that the South had arrived at a multira...
|  | Locuela (Biblioteca portatil) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: November 1, 2009| Series: Biblioteca portatil (Book 33) The plot of this detective novel is interrupted by the arrival of a true mystery. Beyond the silence that unites and separates Carlos and Elisa, beyond the game that keeps the albino girls Alicia and Violeta from pleasant summer evenings, beyond the destiny of Neutria—a city that disappears with childhood and resurfaces with desire—, and beyond a Chilean literary movement that could be the last vanguard while at the same time being the greatest falsehood, questions arise concerning who truly writes for whom i...
|  | Greenery: Ecocritical Readings of Late Medieval English Literature (Manchester Medieval Literature)
Release Date: January 18, 2011| ISBN-10: 0719072492 | ISBN-13: 978-0719072499Humankind has always been fascinated by the world in which it finds itself, and puzzled by its relations to it. Today that fascination is often expressed in what is now called "green" terms, reflecting concerns about the non-human natural world, puzzlement about how we relate to it, and anxiety about what we, as humans, are doing to it. So called green or eco-criticism acknowledges this concern. Greenery reaches back and offers new readings of English texts, both known and unfamiliar, informed by eco-critic...
|  | Rode Hard, Put Up Wet (Rough Riders)
Publication Date: August 1, 2008| Series: Rough Riders (Book 2) Workin up a hot, sticky sweat is pure pleasure with a hard-ridin cowboyor two. Struggling stock contractor Gemma Jansen swallows her pride and tracks down circuit rider Cash Big Crow to offer him a job managing her ranch. Cash agrees on one condition: theirs wont be strictly a working relationship. Shes the boss during the day, but once shes corralled in the bedroom, Cash calls the shots. Despite concerns about their age difference, Gemma consents. Cash suspects the sexy widow hides an untapped wild streak. He intends to loosen ...
|  | A Fire in the Blood (Leisure historical romance)
Publication Date: January 2000| Series: Leisure historical romance When half-breed Jess Robbins rides into Cheyenne to chase down a gang of cattle thieves, he is sure of three things: The townsfolk will openly scorn him; the women will secretly want him; and the rustlers will definitely fear him. What he doesn't count on is a flame-haired spitfire named Lissa Jacobson, who has her own manhunt in mind. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | China Dome
Release Date: December 1, 2001In 1997, Hong Kong is ready to become the center of international commerce with the opening of the China Dome, the first supersonic airport, but a master terrorist is determined to prevent it, and only one man can stop him. Original. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | The making of Sherlock Holmes: An investigation into the forensic methods of the world's first consulting detective in the year 1881
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|  | Star Wars: Battles for the Galaxy
Publication Date: April 18, 2011| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
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