 | Catching Fire (Hunger Games)
Publication Date: March 26, 2012| Series: The Hunger Games (Book 2) Suzanne Collins continues the amazing story of Katniss Everdeen in the phenomenal Hunger Games trilogy.Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life of safety and plenty. But there are rumors of rebellion among the subjects, and Katniss and Peeta, to their horror, are the faces of th...
 |  | Dive Deeper: Journeys with Moby-Dick
Publication Date: August 1, 2012Herman Melville's epic tale of obsession has all the ingredients of a first rate drama--fascinating characters in solitude and society, battles between good and evil, a thrilling chase to the death--and yet its allusions, digressions, and sheer scope can prove daunting to even the most intrepid reader. George Cotkin's Dive Deeper provides both a guide to the novel and a record of its dazzling cultural train. It supplies easy-to-follow plot points for each of the novel's 135 sections before taking up a salient phrase, image, or idea in each for further explorat...
|  | Lost Letters of Pergamum, The: A Story from the New Testament World
Publication Date: December 1, 2002Transported two thousand years into the past, readers are introduced to Antipas, a Roman civic leader who has encountered the writings of the biblical author Luke. Luke's history sparks Antipas's interest, and they begin corresponding. As Antipas tells Luke of his reactions to the writing and of his meetings with local Christians, it becomes evident that he is changing his mind about them and Jesus. Finally, a gladiatorial contest in Pergamum forces difficult decisions on the local Christians and on Antipas.While the account is fictional, the author is a res...
|  | His Watchful Eye (Songs in the Night Series, Book 2)
Release Date: November 1, 2002Konrad Reichmann, an outstanding product of Hitler’s youth movement, becomes disillusioned as the reality of the Russian front bears no resemblance to the "glory" of the Third Reich. Even lower than his unit’s morale are supplies and fuel as Russia’s winter is unleashed against them. When the slaughter of innocents opens his eyes to the true nature of the Reich, Konrad embarks upon a bold and dangerous plan to change the course of history. Can he avoid the trap set for him? ...
|  | Tales of Witchcraft
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|  | The Grass Is Singing: A Novel (P.S.)
Release Date: September 16, 2008| ISBN-10: 0061673749 | ISBN-13: 978-0061673740Set in Southern Rhodesia under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is at once a riveting chronicle of human disintegration, a beautifully understated social critique, and a brilliant depiction of the quiet horror of one woman's struggleagainst a ruthless fate. Mary Turner is a self-confident, independent young woman who becomes the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectual, unsuccessful farmer. Little by little the ennui of years on the farm works its slow poison. Mary's despair progresses until the fat...
|  | The Last Templar
Release Date: October 5, 2010Four masked horsemen, dressed as Templar Knights, emerge from Central Park and ride up to the Metropolitan Museum. They don't stop at the steps, but steer the horses through the crowds gathered for the gala opening of a major exhibition of Vatican treasures and storm into the museum, scattering the great and the good of Manhattan society. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Bond Girls
Publication Date: October 18, 2010Witness the Good, the Bad, and the Dangerous. Bond Girls features a glittering procession of unforgettable women Bond has encountered. Includes spectacular movie images capturing classic Bond moments and enhanced with memorable script quotations and fascinating props.007 [Gun Logo] and related James Bond Trademarks © 1962-2010 Danjaq, LLC and United Artists Corporation. All rights reserved. 007 [Gun Logo] and related James Bond Trademarks are trademarks of Danjaq, LLC, licensed by EON Productions Limited. ...
|  | Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
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|  | Trespassing: A Novel
Release Date: October 20, 2005Back in Karachi for his father's funeral, Daanish, a young Pakistani changed by his years at an American university, is entranced by Dia, a fiercely independent heiress to a silk factory in the countryside. Their illicit affair will forever rupture two households and three families, destroying a stable present built on the repression of a bloody past.In this sweeping novel of modern Pakistan, Uzma Aslam Khan takes us from the stifling demands of tradition and family to the daily oppression of routine political violence, from the gorgeous sensual vistas of the si...
|  | All's Well That Ends Well (Shakespeare, William, Works.)
Publication Date: April 1999| Series: Shakespeare, William, Works. "All's Well That Ends Well" is one of Shakespeare's most poetic and subtle comedies. When the clever and appealing Helena cures the ailing king of France of an illness, she asks for the hand of Bertram (a proper young Englishman) in return. Her efforts to win Bertram's love are rendered with wit and verve by a distinguished cast, including Claire Bloom, John Stride, Dame Flora Robson, Eric Portman and Jack MacGowan. This performance brings to life this surprisingly modern play. ...
|  | Jesus Out to Sea: Stories
Publication Date: June 5, 2007This powerful new collection of James Lee Burke's short fiction ranges across landscapes that he has made his own, from rural Louisiana and Mississippi to war-torn Vietnam and a New Orleans ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. Told with his trademark blend of lyrical prose and hard-eyed realism, they bring a host of extraordinary characters to vivid life: soldiers and prostitutes, nuns and children, musicians and gangsters, all the while movingly exploring 'the near certainty of tragedy to come and the smoldering embers of possibility in the ashes of blighted lives' (B...
| | Evolution of the Arthurian Romance
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|  | Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism (Historical Materialism Book Series)
Publication Date: August 21, 2012| ISBN-10: 1608462331 | ISBN-13: 978-1608462339| Edition: Reprint Drawing on folklore, literature and popular culture, this book links tales of monstrosity fromEngland to recent vampire- and zombie-fables from sub-Saharan Africa, and it connects these to Marx’s persistent use of monster-metaphors in his descriptions of capitalism. Reading across these tales of the grotesque, McNally offers a novel account of the cultural economy of the global market-system. ...
|  | Love Me with Fury
Publication Date: April 2004Vowing to avenge his brother's murder, bounty hunter Jess Wilder rescues the woman he believes is responsible and takes her captive, only to discover that his need for justice and vengeance is being transformed into passionate love. Original." ...
|  | Paragon Walk: A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel (Mortalis)
Release Date: May 26, 2009| Series: Mortalis In the posh London street of Paragon Walk, an unspeakable crime is committed: A young woman is brutally raped and murdered.Once again, that incomparable team of sleuths Inspector Thomas Pitt and his young wife, Charlotte, set themselves against a vicious murderer. As the elegant masks of the wellborn suspects slip, it becomes appallingly clear that something ugly lurks behind the handsome façades of Paragon Walk–something that may lead to more scandal, and more murder. ...
|  | World's Shortest Stories Of Love And Death
Publication Date: March 22, 2000Building on the enormously successful World's Shortest Stories, here's an all-new collection of super-short fiction-each story a mere 55 words long! With nearly 150 contributors, including Charles Schulz and Fannie Flagg, these stories offer love, betrayal, passion, and death-in less time than it takes to count the words in this blurb! ...
|  | DK Readers: Wolverine: The Story of Wolverine
Publication Date: March 16, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Ballpark Mysteries #7: The San Francisco Splash (A Stepping Stone Book(TM))
Release Date: May 28, 2013| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | Critical Companion to J.K. Rowling: A Literary Reference to Her Life and Work
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