 | Daddy's Boy: A Son's Shocking Account of Life with a Famous Father
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 |  | Skin Tight
Release Date: September 11, 1989"Good, mean fun...A twisting, high-speed ride on a roller coaster without brakes."SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLESomebody wants Mick Stranahan dead, and the list of possible players is long: the plastic surgeon with the extremely shaky hands, the sleazy lawyer who advertises, the TV host whose taste for sensationalism is exceeded only by his vanity, and the hit man whose skin problems could fill a comprehensive (if bizarre) medical textbook.The whole thing is downright harrowing. It's Hiaasen at his best. And his best is very, very good.A Selection of the Li...
|  | Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women
Release Date: January 19, 1995"Hirshfield's current collection brings together . . . an astonishing array of women writers from the 22nd century BC poet Enheduanna to Nelly Sachs and Anna Akhmatova."--Library Journal ...
|  | Never Let Me Go
Release Date: March 14, 2006From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day comes a devastating new novel of innocence, knowledge, and loss. As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just ...
|  | Child of the Promise
Publication Date: June 2000Child of Promise ...
|  | Speak Texan in 30 Minutes or Less
Publication Date: June 20, 2009In a parody of Berlitz phrasebooks, veteran Lone Star journalist Lou Hudson has spilled the beans on how best to wrap one’s tongue around Texaspeak so that even recovering Yankees can make their way in this whole other country. <P>Finally there's hope for that brother-in-law from Hoboken and your banker from Duluth. Folks like them will be able to make themselves understood to Texans without having to revert to notepads and hand gestures. <P>Speak Texan not only is a pronunciation guide but also a handy work that provides numerous insights ...
|  | Untitled
Publication Date: June 7, 2012Who desires to lead a normal life?Not Aiden.Born and raised in an affluent community, where his entire life was drawn out for him, Aiden decides to give up everything that his parents planned for him and pursue his own destiny.When the belief that talent will take him further than "the right thing" ever will overshadows anything else, Aiden starts out on a journey of discovery to places only the music can take him. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | The Wandering Hill (The Berrybender Narratives, Vol. 2)
Release Date: August 2, 2005In The Wandering Hill, Larry McMurtry continues the story of Tasmin Berrybender and her eccentric family in the still unexplored Wild West of the 1830s. Their journey is one of exploration, beset by difficulties, tragedies, the desertion of trusted servants, and the increasing hardships of day-to-day survival in a land where nothing can be taken for granted. By now, Tasmin is married to the elusive young mountain man Jim Snow (the "Sin Killer").On his part, Jim is about to discover that in taking the outspoken, tough-minded, stubbornly practical young aristocrat...
|  | Sun Dancing: Life in a Medieval Irish Monastery and How Celtic Spirituality Influenced the World
Publication Date: March 11, 1999Visible on a clear day off the west coast of Ireland, the Skellig Islands, a cluster of cruel rocks, rise spectacularly from the Atlantic Ocean. A sanctuary to birds and seals today, for over six hundred years during the middle ages it was a center for a particularly intense form of monastic life, one that acclaimed writer Geoffrey Moorhouse explores with utmost fascination, scholarship, and imagination in Sun Dancing.A must read for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of Celtic spirituality, Moorhouse's lively narrative is a superbly imagined account of the...
|  | Yoruba Proverbs
Publication Date: May 1, 2008“The leopard’s stealthy gait is not a result of cowardice; it is simply stalking a prey.” (Do not mistake people’s gentle nature for spinelessness.) “The rabbit that eats yams and enjoys them will return for more.” (People remember good experiences and seek their repetition.) “The chicken sweats, but its down prevents us from knowing.” (Everybody has his or her problems, although strangers may not guess.) “The mouth does not say, ‘I ate once before.’” (Hunger is not something one assuages onc...
|  | Singing to the Goddess: Poems to Kali and Uma from Bengal
Publication Date: March 1, 2001This vibrant collection presents 145 brief Bengali lyric poems dedicated to the Hindu goddesses Kali and Uma. These poems--many of which are presented here for the first time in English translation--were written from the early eighteenth century up to the contemporary period. They represent the unique Bengali tradition of goddess worship (Saktism) as it developed over this period. Included are forty poems by the most famous of all Sakta poets, Ramprasad Sen (c.1718-1775) and ten lyrics by the renowned 20th-century poet Kaji Najrul Islam. McDermott's lucid intro...
|  | Night Mail: Selected Poems
Publication Date: July 31, 1992Novica Tadic', born in 1949, has lived most of his life in Belgrade.One of the most respected Yugoslavian poets of his generation, Tadic "weaves poetry whose images are visible and abstract.A labyrinth of masterful short poems." (World Literature Today) Here masterfully translated by Yugoslavian-born poet Charles Simic. ...
|  | Erotographic Metafiction: Aesthetic Strategies and Ethical Statements in John Hawkes's Sex Trilogy (Gothenburg Studies in English, 78)
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|  | The Letters of Mina Harker (Library of American Fiction)
Publication Date: September 27, 2004| Series: Library of American Fiction In Dodie Bellamy's imagined "sequel" to Bram Stoker's fin de siècle masterpiece Dracula, Van Helsing's plain Jane secretarial adjunct, Mina Harker, is recast as a sexual, independent woman living in San Francisco in the 1980s. The vampire Mina Harker, who possesses the body of author Dodie Bellamy, confesses the most intimate details of her relationships with four vastly different men through past letters. Simultaneously, a plague is let loose in San Francisco-the plague of AIDS.Bigger-than...
|  | The Darkest Lie (Hqn)
Release Date: June 29, 2010| Series: Hqn Forced to his knees in agony whenever he speaks the truth, Gideon can recognize any lie—until he captures Scarlet, a demon-possessed immortal who claims to be his long-lost wife. He doesn't remember the beautiful female, much less wedding—or bedding—her. But he wants to…almost as much as he wants her.But Scarlet is keeper of Nightmares, too dangerous to roam free. A future with her might mean ultimate ruin. Especially as Gideon's enemies draw closer—and the truth threatens to destroy all he's come to love…. ...
|  | How the Dead Dream
Publication Date: September 15, 2009As a wealthy, young real-estate developer in Los Angeles, T. lives an isolated life. He has always kept his distance from people — from his doting mother to his crass fraternity brothers — but remains unaware of his loneliness until one night, while driving to Las Vegas, he hits a coyote on the highway. The experience unnerves him and inspires a transformation that leads T. to question his business pursuits for the first time in his life, to take a chance at falling in love, and finally to begin breaking into zoos across the country, where he f...
|  | Out of Sight, Out of Time (Gallagher Girls)
Publication Date: April 1, 2012| Series: Gallagher Girls (Book 5) Normal. I liked the sound of that. Sure, as the daughter of two secret agents, I didn't really know what normal meant, but that didn't matter. Normal was my new mission.Cammie wakes up in an Alpine convent having lost her memory of the whole summer. She and her friends must travel to the other side of the world, trying to piece together the clues that Cammie left behind. But there are people hunting Cammie - people who will stop at nothing to protect their secrets ... ...
|  | The Big Kitty (A Sunny & Shadow Mystery)
Release Date: May 1, 2012| Series: A Sunny & Shadow Mystery Did curiosity kill the cat lady? Sunny Coolidge left her New York City newspaper job to go back to Maine and take care of her ailing father. But there’s not much excitement—or interesting work—in Kittery Harbor. So when Ada Spruance, the town’s elderly cat lady, asks for help finding her supposedly-winning lottery ticket, Sunny agrees. But when she arrives at Ada’s, with a stray tomcat named Shadow tagging along, they discover the poor woman dead at the bottom of her stairs. Was it an accident&mdas...
|  | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Publication Date: 1965Great book ...
|  | A Lucky Luke Adventure : Ghost Town (Lucky Luke)
Publication Date: May 1, 2009| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up As he roams with his horse Jolly Jumper, always seeking new adventures, Lucky Luke meets two suspicious characters, Denver Miles and Colorado Bill. Together they arrive on the outskirts of a deserted city, Gold Hill, which counts only one inhabitant. The old man, Powell, is the sole survivor of a gold rush that he has not given up on, despite years without success... ...
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