 | Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine: A Novel
Publication Date: May 17, 2008"Brilliant....[The Vietnam era] isvividly captured by Ann Hood."—New YorkTimes Book ReviewIn 1969, as Peter, Paul and Mary croon on theradio and poster paints are splashing the latest antiwar slogans, three friends find love.Suzanne, a poet, lives in a Maine beach houseawaiting the birth of a child she will callSparrow. Claudia, who weds a farmer duringcollege, plans to raise three strong sons.Elizabeth and her husband marry, organizeprotests, and try to rear two children withtheir hippy values. By 1985, things havechanged: Suzanne, now with an MBA, calls...
 |  | A History of Silence
Release Date: September 15, 1998As powerful as Laura and Robbie Heath's love for one another is, the sisters cannot break the silence that masks a terrifying but unconfirmed memory from their childhood, a silence that distorts their adult lives. Like a moth drawn to flame, Laura, a nightclub singer, exposes herself to sexual abuse to reenact her suffering. Robbie, a physiotherapist, offers her healing gifts to her patients, but armors herself against all emotional entanglements, cementing over her feelings and sexual desires to cut off any possibility of being hurt again.Overwhelmed by the c...
|  | The Dream Catcher: A Father and Son Story
Publication Date: May 13, 2004Are you searching foranswers?¿ Have you wondered about the meaningof life?¿ What is the secret to finding success, happiness, and contentment?¿ In an age where illuminationabounds and knowledge has never been greater or more accessible, there hasnever been a more intelligent and enlightened generation than this one.¿ But, we've lost sight of what's reallyimportant, because our priorities are out of alignment.¿ We're blinded by a blizzard of informationand confused by the plethora of distractions and choices available to us.¿ As a re...
|  | If You Could See Me Now
Publication Date: December 28, 2010This ghost story was a classic when it was first released, and its reputation has only grown over the years. Now it has been republished in hardcover, with a suite of handsome full-color, full-page photographs by J.K. Potter, who has given us these haunting compositions that perfectly complement the understated beauty of Peter Straub's prose. Elegantly typeset and handsomely bound, this new edition is limited to three hundred copies, each one signed by Peter Straub, Thomas Tessier, and J.K. Potter. The book also features a lengthy interview with Straub and ...
|  | Whores on the Hill: A Novel
Release Date: May 10, 2005The girls of Sacred Heart Holy Angels eye the good dancers at the all-ages club Metropolis. They waste afternoons at the mall, check out parties on the lake, burn through candid, casual sex.Everybody calls them the Whores on the Hill, but they don't care.It is the mid-'80s and they go to the last all-girls' school in Milwaukee, where innocence is scarce and happiness is something to grabbed at in the backseat of a fast car.Meet exuberant, uninhibited Astrid, her nervy, troubled friend Juli and Thisbe, the shy, ascetic newcomer. They are fifteen years old. And they b...
|  | The God Complex
Publication Date: June 23, 2011SYNOPSIS:Inspired by actual events, The God Complex takes readers on a thrill ride through Chinese medicine. Discover the secrets of the Orient as you embark on a 'factional' adventure pitting Eastern medicine against its critics in the West. Each clue brings you one step closer to solving the mystery and uncovering an ancient secret that connects Chinese medicine to martial arts. EXCERPT:Gripping his newspaper firmly, Paul's eyes were unable to focus on the words in front of him. He repeatedly turned to his carry-on bag, rummaging through it as if...
|  | Scarlet Masquerade
Publication Date: April 1, 2011What do you say to the woman you thought died over a century ago? Will time heal all wounds or does it just allow them to fester and grow? A.J. Locke has lived over two centuries and works like a demon, both figuratively and literally. As the owner of a successful pharmaceutical company that specializes in blood research, she has changed the way she can live her life. Wanting for nothing, she has smartly compartmentalized her life so that when she needs to, she can pick up and start all over again, which happens every twenty years or so. Love is not an emotion ...
|  | Eureka Street: A Novel of Ireland Like No Other
Publication Date: September 4, 1997Chuckie Lurgan and Jake Jackson, a Protestant and aCatholic--friends and allies in a world of troubles--are equallymystified when ""OTG"" begins to appear on Belfast's walls in the formof graffiti, in this novel of Northern Ireland. Tour." ...
|  | The Importance of Being Earnest: A Reader's Companion (Twayne's Masterwork Studies)
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|  | Sanskrit Poetry from Vidyakara's Treasury
Publication Date: May 5, 2000| ISBN-10: 0674788656 | ISBN-13: 978-0674788657| Edition: 2nd In this rich collection of Sanskrit verse, the late Daniel Ingalls provides English readers with a wide variety of poetry from the vast anthology of an eleventh-century Buddhist scholar. Although the style of poetry presented here originated in royal courts, Ingalls shows how it was adapted to all aspects of life, and came to address issues as diverse as love, sex, heroes, nature and peace. More than thirty years after its original publication, Sanskrit Poetry continues to be the main resource for ...
|  | Theocritus' Pastoral Analogies: The Formation of a Genre (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)
Publication Date: September 15, 1991| Series: Wisconsin Studies in Classics In a book as beautifully written as the poetry it celebrates, Kathryn Gutzwiller uses the famous Idylls of Theocritus to show us the formative processes at work in the creation of a literary genre—the pastoral—and how the very structure of a genre both shapes and limits judgments about it. Gutzwiller argues that Theocritus' position as first pastoralist has haunted critical assessments of him. Was he merely a beginner, whose simple descriptions of country life were reworked by V...
|  | The Knight without the Sword: A Social Landscape of Malorian Chivalry (Arthurian Studies)
Publication Date: December 7, 2000| Series: Arthurian Studies (Book 46) The question of how far the society in which Malory lived reflects that depicted in the Morte Darthur has always been hotly debated. While many critics have considered it a work of anachronistic escapism, more recently it has been argued that the romanticised world of chivalry and the reality of the gentry community revealed in contemporary letter collections represent complementary but irreconcilable aspects of fifteenth-century aristocratic life. This book challenges both assumptions, arguing that behind the chivalric ...
|  | Come a Little Closer (The Tucker Family Series)
Publication Date: June 26, 2012| Series: The Tucker Family Series America's Heartland, 1946. World War II has ended, and everyone is pursuing peacetime's bright promise with fresh energy and hope. Newly-arrived in a small Wisconsin town, Christina Tucker now dares to chase her long-cherished dreams: put her wartime nursing skills to use and reconnect with country life. But helping a shell-shocked veteran recover soon tests her determination and disturbs town memories best left buried. She has no choice but to turn to her patient's seemingly-irresponsible brother, Tyler Sutter. A restless ex-...
|  | Homecourt Advantage
Release Date: April 27, 2004The sports pages trumpet the exploits of the superstar players of the New York Flyers basketball team -- while the gossip columns hint of their infidelities and steamy off-court activities. And in the shadows behind the bright spotlights, the wives and girlfriends struggle to keep the insanity at bay and their relationships alive in a world of fame, big money, shady dealings, and easy sex. Now, with the playoffs looming and the team's future in jeopardy, the temptations to sin are even stronger than ever. And before the season's out, the women behind "the great me...
|  | A Walk in the Dark (Guido Guerrieri)
Publication Date: March 15, 2011| Series: Guido Guerrieri "Carofiglio writes crisp, ironical novels that are as much love stories and philosophical treatises as they are legal thrillers."—The New Yorker"Part legal thriller, part insight into a man fighting his own demons. Every character in Carofiglio's fiction has a story to tell and they are always worth hearing. As the author himself is an anti-mafia prosecutor, this powerfully affecting novel benefits from veracity as well as tight writing."—Daily Mail"A novel as much about human nature and the passage of time as it is about la...
|  | Pok
Release Date: July 5, 2011| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | Halloween Mice!
Publication Date: August 18, 1997| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Mice whirling in the moonlight, having a party on Halloween night, are threatened by an approaching cat until they come up with an ingenious trick to scare him off. ...
|  | Greenwitch (The Dark is Rising Sequence)
Release Date: October 1, 2000| Age Level: 8 and up Simon, Jane, and Barney, enlisted by their mysterious great-uncle, arrive in a small coastal town to recover a priceless golden grail stolen by the forces of evil -- Dark. They are not at first aware of the strange powers of another boy brought to help, Will Stanton -- nor of the sinister significance of the Greenwitch, an image of leaves and branches that for centuries has been cast into the sea for good luck in fishing and harvest.Their search for the grail sets into motion a series of distubing, sometimes dangerous events that, at their...
|  | The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins (Classic Seuss)
Release Date: December 9, 1989| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | San Diego Chargers (NFL Today (Creative Education Hardcover))
Publication Date: January 2000| Age Level: 9 and up...
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