 | Alice K's Guide to Life: One Woman's Quest for Survival, Sanity, and the Perfect NewShoes
Release Date: October 1, 1994Find out what thousands of Boston Phoenix readers already know: Alice K. (not her real initial) is the smartest, funniest, best friend you never had! Join her in this fresh and hilarious trek across the landmines of our confounding '90s as she searches for fulfillment amongst life's limitless colorful accesories. ...
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 | Hungry Woman in Paris
Publication Date: March 9, 2009A journalist and activist, Canela believes passion is essential to life; but lately passion seems to be in short supply. It has disappeared from her relationship with her fiancé, who is more interested in controlling her than encouraging her. It's absent from her work, where censorship and politics keep important stories from being published. And while her family is full of outspoken individuals, the only one Canela can truly call passionate is her cousin and best friend Luna, who just took her own life.Canela can't recover from Luna's death. She is haun...
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 | Mending Fences
Publication Date: January 1, 2010For ten years Emily Dobbs and Marcie Carter have been the closest of friends. They've raised their kids together, shared joy and heartache, exchanged neighborhood gossip over tea. But when Marcie's son, now a college freshman sports star, is arrested for date rape, the bond between the families could be shattered forever.As the Carters try to deal with the unthinkable, Emily discovers her daughter has been hiding a terrible secret…a secret that threatens the futures of both families. Recently divorced, Emily struggles to keep it all together—to s...
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 | Love Letters from Vampires
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 | Mahu Blood
Publication Date: February 27, 2011Two-time Lambda Literary Award finalist Neil Plakcy returns to the Hawaiian Islands with a new mystery about blood ties in a state torn by ethnic tension. Openly gay Honolulu homicide detective Kimo Kanapa'aka must investigate a series of murders that threaten his own family as well as the citizens he struggles to protect.Billions of dollars are at stake in a fight over who the land of the Aloha State really belongs to. Is it the United States-- or the indigenous people of the islands, many of whom feel their sovereign kingdom was overthrown by American bus...
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 | Conquest
Publication Date: June 14, 2011What Jude Jaeger seeks is simple. What she needs is complicated. Woman. She has one a night at Conquest, sometimes two. And she gives them what no one else can or will. Pleasure. But outside the club, Jude isn’t interested in women, keeping them at arm’s length. That is until she’s meets Mary, a woman who responds to her touch like none of the others. When Mary shows up at the college where Jude teaches, all the emotions Jude thought she could live without come rushing back stronger than ever.Mary Brunelle is a socially awkward loner who go...
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 | Hot Money
Release Date: July 6, 2010New York Times bestselling Grand Master of Crime Fiction Fabulously wealthy gold trader Malcolm Pembroke has in his possession something the whole world wants-and anyone could kill for. In fact, even Malcolm's closest kin are moving in a little too close. ...
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 | Hunger: A Novel
Release Date: February 19, 2008A true classic of modern literature that has been described as “one of the most disturbing novels in existence” (Time Out), Hunger is the story of a Norwegian artist who wanders the streets, struggling on the edge of starvation. As hunger overtakes him, he slides inexorably into paranoia and despair. The descent into madness is recounted by the unnamed narrator in increasingly urgent and disjointed prose, as he loses his grip on reality. ...
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 | The 42nd Parallel: Volume One of the U.S.A. Trilogy
Publication Date: May 25, 2000| Series: U.S.A. Trilogy (Book 1) With his U.S.A. trilogy, comprising THE 42nd PARALLEL, 1919, and THE BIG MONEY, John Dos Passos is said by many to have written the great American novel. While Fitzgerald and Hemingway were cultivating what Edmund Wilson once called their "own little corners," John Dos Passos was taking on the world. Counted as one of the best novels of the twentieth century by the Modern Library and by some of the finest writers working today, U.S.A. is a grand, kaleidoscopic portrait of a nation, buzzing with history and life on every page. Th...
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 | The Return of the Soldier
Publication Date: October 21, 2010The Return of the Soldier is a novel by English novelist Rebecca West regarding Captain Chris Baldry, a soldier whose reintegration to the British mainstream society is not easy, after he returns home during The First World War. ...
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 | Turning for Home
Publication Date: May 19, 2003A cantankerous, elegant old woman sits in her beautiful Somerset house while her family secretly plots to evict her. In the garden is her one remaining racehorce, prematurely retired, and in London the man she probably should have married – who is still her dearest friend.Onto this scene comes Maeve Delaney. Sole applicant for the job of companion to Lady Pamela, streetwise and outrageous, Maeve bursts into the old house like a firecracker.As open warfare settles into a wary true between the two women, Maeve sets her heart on bringing the great racehorce,...
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 | Christmas Program Builder No. 46: Collection of Graded Resources for the Creative Program Planner
Release Date: December 1, 1993| Series: Christmas Program Builder (Book 46) (Lillenas Publications). Sometimes planning a Christmas program can be difficult. Paul M. Miller has compiled a helpful resource that makes planning a Christmas program a little easier. Included in this book are recitations, songs and a few Christmas sketches. The sketches are short and easy to perform. No. 46 features the sketch entitled "It's the Best We Have," where a family learns that helping out and giving your best at Christmas has many rewards. ...
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 | "Hidden Secrets Of A Christian Woman"
Publication Date: September 30, 2011"Your appeared Image is not your identity; for it is what's inside you that shows your character and brings you reality." Samantha D. Williams "Hidden Secrets Of A Christian Woman" is about a young woman you was raised in church but has experience some of life's most detrimental events. The Young lady does not know how to deal with them so she turned from God and lost her identity even the more. She then came in contact with an old lady who tried to encourage her and after the lady's consistency the girl began her transitional stage that led to her deliver...
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 | The Roman Mistress: Ancient and Modern Representations
Publication Date: December 7, 2007| ISBN-10: 0199228337 | ISBN-13: 978-0199228331From Latin love poetry's dominating and enslaving beloveds, to modern popular culture's infamous Cleopatras and Messalinas, representations of the Roman mistress (or the mistress of Romans) have brought into question both ancient and modern genders and political systems. The Roman Mistress makes an important and original contribution simultaneously to feminist scholarship on antiquity, the classical tradition, and cultural studies. ...
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 | Rita and Julia
Publication Date: September 30, 2008An extraordinary collection of poetry that takes the reader from the depths of despair through outrage, to transcendent joy. In this searingly intense collection of poems, Baca inhabits the subjects of his poems and makes them sing. ...
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 | Smoke Encrypted Whispers
Publication Date: July 1, 2004| ISBN-10: 0702234710 | ISBN-13: 978-0702234712These poems pulse with the language and images of a mangrove-lined river city, the beckoning highway, the just-glimpsed muse, the tug of childhood and restless ancestors.For the first time Samuel Wagan Watson's poetry has been collected into this stunning volume, which includes a final section of all new work. ...
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 | The Dark One (The Wild Wulfs of London)
Release Date: November 1, 2005Rosalind Rutherford knows full well the scandal she courts when she attempts to seduce the notorious Armond Wulf--in fact, she's counting on it as a means to escape her sadistic stepbrother's control. Unfortunately, Lord Wulf's better instincts prevail...although not before he gives Rosalind a tantalizing taste of what she's missing. And when the opportunity arises to rescue Armond from a grim fate while changing her own, Rosalind knows she must seize it... Armond can no more ignore the Rutherford woman than his ancestor could resist the temptress who curse...
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 | Goosebumps HorrorLand: Welcome to HorrorLand: A Survival Guide
Release Date: October 12, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up...
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 | King Midas (Little Golden Book)
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 | Bunbun at Bedtime
Publication Date: March 23, 2006| Age Level: 2 and up Benny and Bibi are going to bed, but Bunbun wants to play with his friend Paco, until he hears a noise that sends him scampering upstairs to bed. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
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