 | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories (Penguin Classics)
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 |  | Swimming to Cambodia
Publication Date: April 1, 2005“It took courage to do what Spalding did—courage to make theatre so naked and unadorned, to expose himself in this way and fight the demons in public. In doing so, he entered our hearts—my heart—because he made his struggle my struggle. His life became my life.”—Eric Bogosian“Virtuosic. A master writer, reporter, comic and playwright. Spalding Gray is a sit-down monologist with the soul of a stand-up comedian. A contemporary Gulliver, he travels the globe in search of experience and finds the ridiculous.”—Th...
|  | All for One: A Novel (The Four Lindas)
Publication Date: March 1, 2011| Series: The Four Lindas (Book 3) Brimming with heart, humor, and a bit of mystery, this third book in Melody Carlson’s lively new Boomer series packs a poignant punch! Life is heating up for the four Lindas—and it’s not just hot flashes! Abby’s losing sleep over her husband’s health and neglecting her bed-and-breakfast dreams. Caroline may have waited too long to put her Alzheimer’s-afflicted mom in a care facility. Marley’s hard-won independence is threatened by her grown son’s neediness. And Janie’s...
|  | True Light (Restoration Series #3)
Release Date: July 3, 2007Now eight months into a global blackout, the residents of Oak Hollow are coping with the deep winter nights. But the struggle to survive can bring out the worst in a person---or a community. A teenager has been shot and the suspect sits in jail. As the son of a convicted murderer, Mark Green already has one strike against him. Now he faces the wrath of all Oak Hollow---except for one person. Deni Branning has known Mark since high school and is convinced that he is no killer. When Mark finds himself at large with a host of other prisoners released upon the unsuspect...
|  | The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Poetry of 1991 (The 1992 Rhysling Anthology)
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|  | Devi!: A Fable
Publication Date: February 15, 2012In Devi! A Fable, Joshua and Catherine Maxwell introduce us to Devi, a 3 ½ foot, pink and purple polka-dotted demon.When Hell proves to be too much for him, Devi leaves for the surface.Enter the Charity family, who are determined to welcome Devi into their home with open arms.In his quest to understand humanity, Devi begins to learn just what it is that make people so special. ...
|  | A Guide for Grown-ups: Essential Wisdom from the Collected Works of Antoine de Saint-Exupry
Publication Date: May 1, 2002“One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.”For more than sixty years, this insight from The Little Prince has been quoted in more than 130 languages by fans around the world. Now, for the first time, quotations from the collected works and letters of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry are presented in a charming gift edition. Six chapters--“Happiness,” “Friendship,” “Responsibility,” “Fortitude,” “Love,” and “What Is Essential”--offer inspirational and...
|  | When the Women Come Out to Dance: Stories
Release Date: January 6, 2004 Elmore Leonard, a literary icon praised by The New York Times Book Review as "the greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever," has captured the imagination of millions of readers with his more than three dozen books. In this short fiction collection, Leonard demonstrates the superb characterizations, dead-on dialogue, vivid atmosphere, and driving plots that have made him a household name -- and once again illustrates that the line between the law and the lawbreakers is not as firm as we might think. Federal marshal Karen Sisco, from the bestselling nov...
|  | My Grandfather's Book: Generations of an American Family (Michigan And The Great Lakes)
Publication Date: September 30, 2002| Series: Michigan And The Great Lakes On Gary Gildner’s eleventh birthday, his Polish grandfather Steve Szostak was buried. Just before the undertaker closed the coffin, Gildner’s grandmother Nelly quietly placed the book she’d found her husband holding at his death in the casket. “Always this Korzeniowski—even on his last day—and why?” Nelly asked her grandson almost two decades later. It was in this moment—discovering his grandfather’s devotion to Joseph Conrad—that Gil...
|  | Prussian Nights: A Poem
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| | The bookman's manual;: A guide to literature,
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| | Antecedents Du Surrealisme (French Edition)
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|  | Dangerous Pleasure
Release Date: July 5, 2011Abram Mustafa faces the test of his life and his heart when his terrorist father kidnaps Paige Galbraithe, the one woman who has always been able to touch Abram’s soul. With Paige’s life now in danger, Abram knows that his plans for escape from the only home he has ever known have suddenly become more imperative than ever. Paige has always wondered if the dark, cool and mysterious Abram el Hamid Mustafa is hiding a wicked side. . . . a wicked side that will allow her to explore the kind of...
|  | G Is for Games (Erotic Alphabet)
Publication Date: July 28, 2007| Series: Erotic Alphabet Feeling lucky? Games of skill and games of chance are rife with sexual possibilities. The back-and-forth pull of competition, the clever feint that lets your opponent think he’s got the upper hand, the thrill of risking everything on a sudden, bold gambit, the visceral charge of raking in a pile of chips, and then, of course, there’s something to be said for cheating… From light-hearted party games to devilishly simple competitions, here are stories for readers who love to play. ...
|  | Crime Classics: The Mystery Story from Poe to the Present
Release Date: November 1, 1991Spellbinding worksby such maters as Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan doyle, Dashiell Hammet, Dorothy Sayers and Agatha Christie, as well as delightful gems from less familiar writers such as Cornell Woolrich and intriguing tales by authors not usually associated with mytery writing - Flannery O'Connor, Jorge Luis Borges and William Faulkner. Burns and Sullivan introduce the anthology by tracing the history of the genre and providing a biography of each author. ...
|  | The Inspector Barlach Mysteries: The Judge and His Hangman and Suspicion
Publication Date: November 1, 2006This volume offers bracing new translations of two precursors to the modern detective novel by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, whose genre-bending mysteries recall the work of Alain Robbe-Grillet and anticipate the postmodern fictions of Paul Auster and other contemporary neo-noir novelists. Both mysteries follow Inspector Barlach as he moves through worlds in which the distinction between crime and justice seems to have vanished. In The Judge and His Hangman, Barlach forgoes the arrest of a murderer in order to manipulate him into killing another, more elusive c...
|  | The Shadows in the Street: A Chief Superintendent Simon Serailler Mystery (Chief Superintendent Simon Serrailler Mysteries)
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|  | Good Boy, Fergus!
Publication Date: February 1, 2006| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up Meet Fergus, the canine star of the upcoming book from Caldecott Honor artist David Shannon. Much like Shannon's beloved characters, David and Alice, the adorable Fergus is always getting in trouble!Follow Fergus as he experiences the perfect doggy day--well, except for his bath, of course!From chasing cats and motorcycles to being scratched on his favorite "tickle spot," David Shannon's newest sweet and silly character will inspire young readers to laugh out loud at his mischievous antics. Fans of Shannon's prev...
| | Dragonflight (Super Sound Buys)
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|  | The Elves and the Shoemaker (Once Upon a Time)
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