 | Hard Eight (A Stephanie Plum Novel) (Stephanie Plum Novels)
Release Date: June 18, 2002| Series: Stephanie Plum Novels The #1 bestselling phenomenon continues in the eighth Stephanie Plum novel. The stakes get higher, the crimes get nastier, the chases get faster, and the men get hotter.This time Stephanie, Morelli, Ranger. Lula, Valerie, and Grandma Mazur are strapped in for the ride of their lives. Stephanie is hired to find a missing child. But things aren't always as they seem and Stephanie must determine if she's working for the right side of the law. Plus, there's the Morelli question: can a Jersey girl keep her head on straight when more than ...
 |  | Incidents in the Rue Laugier
Release Date: January 13, 1996Demure Maud Gonthier from Dijon expects the usual uneventful summer vacation at her aunt's country home, but when the charming, sensuous, rich David Tyler arrives, Maud falls madly in love. Crafted with Brookner's unmistakable and elegant prose, this superb novel explores responsibility and the results of sexual passion and betrayal. ...
|  | My Sister Dilly
Publication Date: September 24, 2008Hannah Williams couldn't get out of her small hometown fast enough, preferring the faster pace, trendy lifestyle and beauty of California's Pacific Ocean coast. Only when her younger sister, Dilly, makes a desperate choice and commits the unthinkable does Hannah realize she never should have left her behind in rural Illinois. Hannah returns home to make up for letting Dilly down, leaving the one man she's ever loved in California. But Dilly is a changed woman, and when Hannah's plans don't go as expected, the bonds of sisterhood are tested like never befor...
|  | The Kingdom of This World: A Novel
Release Date: May 16, 2006A few years after its liberation from the brutality of French colonial rule in 1803, Haiti endured a period of even greater brutality under the reign of King Henri-Christophe, who was born a slave in Grenada but rose to become the first black king in the Western Hemisphere. In prose of often dreamlike coloration and intensity, Alejo Carpentier records the destruction of the black regime—built on the same corruption and contempt for human life that brought down the French while embodying the same hollow grandeur of false elegance, attained only through slave l...
|  | New America: A Novel
Publication Date: February 10, 2009Russia might want its territory back. Should New America, the fledgling Christian nation on Siberia's east coast, pursue a defense treaty with its decadent mother country? Sent to the United States on a mission for a New American presidential candidate, a young lawyer confronts a dilemma. A woman whose life as an abortion survivor is endangered by the Fugitive Fetus Law pleads for his help. There's only one way he can rescue her, and that way will jeopardize his relationship with his New American girlfriend. Advance through time to the closing decades of th...
|  | Dying to Retire (Murder She Wrote, No. 21)
Release Date: April 6, 2004Jessica Fletcher is in a Florida retirement community for the funeral of a dear old friend whose heart gave out-only to discover that the woman's death from natural causes may have been artificially induced.With the help of a feisty group of young-in-spirit retirees, Jessica must track down the clues and find out who prescribed the fatal treatment... ...
|  | Hanging Offense
Publication Date: April 2, 2009Mandy Barnes, her trust betrayed by her husband Jay, needs a summer away to think about her marriage. She opts for a seasonal job at Bryce Canyon National Park in remote southern Utah and there meets Jo Reynolds, a lesbian park ranger from California . She is attracted to Jo, but uncertain of her own sexuality. On a hike into the wilderness, Mandy chances upon some vintage coins in a rusted can and is then plagued by violent dreams of a murder from the past. Are the coins connected to the dreams? Will deciphering the mystery of the past help her unravel the tan...
|  | La vuelta al mundo en la "Numancia" / Return to the World in "Numancia" (Episodios Nacionales: Cuarta Serie / National Events: Fourth Series) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Chinese Theatre and the Actor in Performance (Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre)
Publication Date: December 14, 2006| Series: Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre This work gives an "inside" view of Chinese theater and the actor in performance for the first time. It challenges Western theater artists such as Brecht, Grotowski, Barba and Schechner, who have extracted from Chinese theater elements that might enrich their own theaters. It is based on personal observations of and dialogue with Chinese actors, experiences that were impossible before 1980.Riley's study is well illustrated with photographs and diagrams and is accessible to anyone interested in theater, even thos...
|  | Paradise Regained In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version
Publication Date: June 15, 2012| ISBN-10: 1477671900 | ISBN-13: 978-1477671900John Milton put a twist on the story of Adam and Eve--in the process he created what some have called one of the greatest literary works in the English Language. "Paradise Regained" is Milton's lesser read, but equally great, follow-up. BookCaps puts a fresh spin on Milton?s classic by using language modern readers won't struggle to make sense of. The original English text is also presented in the book, along with a comparable version of both text. We all need refreshers every now and then. Whether you are a st...
|  | Dictionary of Literary Biography: Russian Poets of the Soviet Era
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|  | Two Poets: Fremantle Poets 2
Publication Date: November 1, 2011| ISBN-10: 1921696605 | ISBN-13: 978-1921696602Written in a variety of free and traditional forms—including haiku, tanka, choka, and villanelle—this exciting collection contains the work of two award-winning Western Australian poets, Andrew Lansdown and Kevin Gillam. Dealing with a variety of subjects relating to nature, family, and the human condition, this compilation offers insight into the state of poetry in contemporary Western Australia. ...
|  | The Kingdom of Sicily, 1100-1250: A Literary History (The Middle Ages Series)
Publication Date: August 25, 2005| ISBN-10: 0812238850 | ISBN-13: 978-0812238853When Muslim invaders conquered Sicily in the ninth century, they took control of a weakened Greek state in cultural decadence. When, two centuries later, the Normans seized control of the island, they found a Muslim state just entering its cultural prime. Rather than replace the practices and idioms of the vanquished people with their own, the Normans in Sicily adopted and adapted the Greco-Arabic culture that had developed on the island. Yet less than a hundred years later, the cultural and linguistic mix ha...
|  | Wrestling With Love
Publication Date: February 14, 2011383 PagesHot new M/M author, D. H. Starr delivers his latest tale of love, sexual exploration and the challenges of relationship. The road of love is fraught with difficulty, even when you're sure that man is your soul-mate.Derek Thompson and Scott Thayer met in high school. Facing challenges and overcoming obstacles that would make lesser young men fold, they now have the chance to forge a life together. As they enter college, they finally have the time and space to discover each other sexually and give their virginity to each other. However, in spite of t...
|  | Night Tales: Night Shield & Night Moves: Night Shield\Night Moves
Publication Date: September 1, 2005| Series: Night Tales The night is filled with mystery, danger . . . and romance. Here is the last Night Tales book, reissued for the first time, plus a bonus classic tale of passion and peril by the incomparable mistress of romantic suspense, #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora RobertsNight Shield -- She was too much of a cop not to be suspicious of a shady character like Jonah Blackhawk . . . and too much of a woman not to be drawn into him. So working undercover in Jonah's club was getting extremely complicated. For despite Allison Fletcher's deter...
|  | Good Night, Little Dragons (Little Golden Book)
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|  | We Love Baseball! (Pictureback(R))
Release Date: February 25, 2003| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | The Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children's Poems
Publication Date: March 22, 2001| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up American children's poetry began with Native American cradle songs, moved on to a rhymed alphabet, blossomed in the 19th century with "A Visit from St. Nicholas," expanded widely in the 20th century, and continues with vigor into the new millennium. Some of the best of these poems, however, have been neglected or forgotten. This collection, edited by acclaimed children's author and poet Donald Hall, returns to us the forgotten treasures of American children's poetry. Featuring some of the best of children's book il...
|  | Moonlight Stories From West Africa
Publication Date: May 8, 2008Mr. Oni, a seventy-eight-year-old retired schoolteacher, is a naturalized American citizen. He spends his retirement by volunteering in elementary schools and telling folk tales from the Yoruba community. In Yoruba culture, adults tell folk tales to young people, especially during the full moon. Under moonlight, adults and children sit in open village squares and tell stories. The high point of the storytelling is when the storyteller and listeners reason together to find some lessons from the stories. This is the informal way that morals, principles, and life le...
|  | My Chanukah Playbook
Release Date: October 20, 2009| Age Level: 3 and up Celebrate Chanukah by learning about the holiday's traditions and foods. With eight play pieces that can be used on every page and a full-size menorah at the very end, this interactive book is sure to light up your holiday fun! ...
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