 | Bad Habits: Confessions of a Recovering Catholic
Release Date: October 2, 2012Dearest Reader,By now you might be wondering: Jenny McCarthy has more to say?! After six New York Times bestsellers, I've talked about pregnancy, autism, and motherhood. I hope you've enjoyed it. I hope it's made you laugh and cry and all those things that bestselling books about such topics are supposed to do.But this book is about something entirely new--a subject that has pervaded my life since birth and confused the f*ck out of me for about the same time: Catholicism. As I enter into adulthood (play along, thanks), I think I may have finally figured out this ...
 |  | A Fraction of the Whole
Release Date: September 23, 2008Meet the Deans“The fact is, the whole of Australia despises my father more than any other man, just as they adore my uncle more than any other man. I might as well set the story straight about both of them . . .”Heroes or Criminals?Crackpots or Visionaries?Families or Enemies?“. . . Anyway, you know how it is. Every family has a story like this one.”Most of his life, Jasper Dean couldn’t decide whether to pity, hate, love, or murder his certifiably paranoid father, Martin, a man who overanalyzed anything and everything and imparte...
|  | The Pirates! In an Adventure with Communists: A Novel (Vintage)
Release Date: July 8, 2008| Series: Vintage London, 1840: Wagner's latest opera plays to packed houses while disgruntled workers gather in crowded pubs to eat ice cream and plan the downfall of the bourgeoisie. Meanwhile, the Pirate Captain finds himself incarcerated at Scotland Yard, in a case of mistaken identity.Discovering that his doppelgänger is none other than Karl Marx, the Captain and his crew are unwittingly caught up in a sinister plot that involves intellectual giants, enormous beards, and a quest to discover whether ham might really be the opium of the people.Includes, at n...
|  | Brittan (The Debutantes, Book 3)
Publication Date: August 1, 2008Award–winning author Debra White Smith (more than 1 million books in print) wraps up her exciting mystery–romance trilogy. The Debutantes are three southern amateur sleuths whose faith, intelligence, and skills help them solve crimes...and get out of trouble.When Brittan Shay meets Jose Herrera, she’s found love for the first time. Even when she and her friends, Lorna and Heather, investigate a money laundering scheme and discover Jose’s mother might be involved, Brittan’s sure her new boyfriend isn’t part of theplot. ...
|  | Mandie and the Schoolhouse's Secret (Mandie, Book 26)
Release Date: June 1, 1996| Age Level: 8 and up Mrs. Taft's modernization of the schoolhouse leaves holes all over the building. Mandie and Celia hear strange noises in their room and wonder what secrets the walls were hiding. Ages 8-13. Mandie book 26. ...
|  | Gahan Wilson's the Ultimate Haunted House
Publication Date: September 1996Contains thirteen stories by some of the most popular contemporary horror writers, including T. E. D. Klein, Nancy A. Collins, Kathe Koja, Christopher Golden, Gregory Nicoll, David Aaron Clark, and others....
|  | The Plains of Passage (Earth's Children, Book Four)
Release Date: June 25, 2002| Series: Earth's Children Jean M. Auel’s enthralling Earth’s Children® series has become a literary phenomenon, beloved by readers around the world.In a brilliant novel as vividly authentic and entertaining as those that came before, Jean M. Auel returns us to the earliest days of humankind and to the captivating adventures of the courageous woman called Ayla.With her companion, Jondalar, Ayla sets out on her most dangerous and daring journey--away from the welcoming hearths of the Mammoth Hunters and into the unknown. Their odyssey spans a beau...
|  | The Sicilian
Release Date: May 1, 2001After Mario Puzo wrote his internationally acclaimed The Godfather, he has often been imitated but never equaled. Puzo's classic novel, The Sicilian, stands as a cornerstone of his work--a lushly romantic, unforgettable tale of bloodshed, justice, and treachery. . . .The year is 1950. Michael Corleone is nearing the end of his exile in Sicily. The Godfather has commanded Michael to bring a young Sicilian bandit named Salvatore Guiliano back with him to America. But Guiliano is a man entwined in a bloody web of violence and vendettas. In Sicily, Guiliano is a modern d...
|  | The Soul of Hattie Taylor
Publication Date: May 17, 2012A journey of self discovery that leads to expected results and unexpected realities for Taylor Alexander. The past of Hattie Taylor is seen by the lens of a new generation as the American Century serves as a backdrop. The collision of generational sins and religion and race drive this tale of a gay Southerner who searches for his soul. ...
|  | The Opposite of Chaos: Fiction and sports psychology for use in learning gymnastics or other sports or musical instruments or art, but also life
Publication Date: April 27, 2008Fiction and sports psychology for use in learning gymnastics or other sports or musical instruments or art, but also life. ...
|  | What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal: A Novel
Publication Date: June 1, 2003 Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Now the Major Motion Picture Notes on a Scandal Schoolteacher Barbara Covett has led a solitary life until Sheba Hart, the new art teacher at St. George's, befriends her. But even as their relationship develops, so too does another: Sheba has begun an illicit affair with an underage male student. When the scandal turns into a media circus, Barbara decides to write an account in her friend's defense--and ends up revealing not only Sheba's secrets, but also her own. ...
|  | A Kind of Loving: Play
Publication Date: December 1992When young Vic Brown embarks on a sexual liaison with Ingrid - a girl with whom he is infatuated but does not love - he gets caught out. For this is not a fairy tale, but a world of struggle and compromise, where Vic must come to terms the hard way with adult life and his feelings for the beautiful but demanding Ingrid. A Kind of Loving is rightly regarded as a classic of post-war literature, and is as hard-hitting and as touching today as when it was first published in the 1960s. A novel immortalized first as a film and then as a highly acclaimed TV series is ...
|  | Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt (Arena Books)
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|  | Don Juan: Or, the Continuum of the Libido
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|  | This Fish Is Loaded! The Book of Surreal and Bizarre Humour
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|  | A Dangerous Love (Swanlea Spinsters, Book 1)
Release Date: November 7, 2000He was playing a dangerous masquerade...Griff Knighton′s found the perfect way to avoid being trapped into marriage with one of the Earl of Swanlea′s daughters: he′ll swap identities with his man of affairs during their next visit to Swan Park, and be free to pursue his own desires! After all, he′s not about to marry some homely spinster just to claim his rightful title. But Griff didn′t reckon on the brazen, voluptuous Rosalind, who could tempt even a saint into sinning, and Griff is no saint. She was determined...
|  | The Bay of Noon: A Novel
Publication Date: October 1, 2003Long out of print, Shirley Hazzard's classic novel of love and memoryA young Englishwoman working in Naples, Jenny comes to Italy fleeing a history that threatened to undo her. Alone in the fabulously ruined city, she idly follows up a letter of introduction from an acquaintance and so changes her life forever. Through the letter, she meets Giocanda, a beautiful and gifted writer, and Gianni, a famous Roman film director and Giocanda’s lover. At work she encounters Justin, a Scotsman whose inscrutability Jenny finds mysteriously attractive. As she becom...
|  | Your Republic Is Calling You
Publication Date: September 28, 2010A foreign film importer, Gi-yeong is a family man with a wife and daughter. An aficionado of Heineken, soccer, and sushi, he is also a North Korean spy who has been living among his enemies for twenty-one years. Suddenly he receives a mysterious email, a directive seemingly from the home office. He has one day to return to headquarters. He hasn’t heard from anyone in over ten years. Why is he being called back now? Is this message really from Pyongyang? Is he returning to receive new orders or to be executed for a lack of diligence? Has someone ...
|  | Bartimaeus 3-book boxed set (Bartimaeus Trilogy)
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|  | The Action Bible New Testament: God's Redemptive Story (Picture Bible)
Publication Date: March 1, 2012| Age Level: 9 and up...
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