 | View Park
Release Date: May 1, 2009Welcome to the scandalous, glamorous, intriguing world of one of the country's wealthiest and most powerful African-American families...Los Angeles-based cosmetics tycoon Steven Chase has come a long way from his humble beginnings. Steven's family, including socialite wife, Janet, and four grown children, live a life of privilege in exclusive View Park. But when Steven wants to expand his empire by adding a chain of hair salons, one woman stands in his way. Once Steven realizes he can't seduce her with money, he tries a different approach: his handsome attorney son, ...
 |  | Twenty One-Act Plays from Twenty Years of the Humana Festival: 1975-1995 (Contemporary Playwrights Series)
Publication Date: December 1995| ISBN-10: 1880399989 | ISBN-13: 978-1880399989| Edition: 1st 20 One-Act Plays chosen from 20 years of the Humana Festival. This collection includes work by : Jane Anderson, Lanford Wilson, Neal Bell, Kevin Kling, Marion McClinton and Jeffrey Sweet. ...
|  | Birds of Paradise: A Novel
Publication Date: May 7, 2012“A full-course meal, a rich, complex and memorable storythat will leave you lingering gratefully at [Abu-Jaber’s] table.”—Ron Charles, Washington PostAt thirteen, Felice Muir ran away from home to punish herself for some horrible thing she had done—leaving a hole in the hearts of her pastry-chef mother, her real estate attorney father, and her foodie-entrepreneurial brother. After five years of scrounging for food, drugs, and shelter on Miami Beach, Felice is now turning eighteen, and she and the family she left behind must reckon wi...
|  | 26a: A Novel
Release Date: September 6, 2005A hauntingly beautiful, wickedly funny, and devastatingly moving novel of innocence and dreams that announces the arrival of a major new talent to the literary sceneIn the attic room at 26 Waifer Avenue, identical twins Georgia and Bessi Hunter share nectarines and forge their identities, while escaping from the sadness and danger that inhabit the floors below. But innocence lasts for only so long—and dreams, no matter how vivid and powerful, cannot slow the relentless incursion of the real world. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | London Refrain (Zion Covenant)
Publication Date: July 1, 2005| Series: Zion Covenant (Book 7) This description covers #7 London Refrain, #8 Paris Encore, and #9 Dunkirk Crescendo. These three additions to the Zion Covenant series are “director's cuts.” They include portions of the Thoene classic The Twilight of Courage and thrilling, never-before-published scenes with the characters you've come to know and love. Readers will finally know the fates of Jacob and Lori Kalner from Warsaw Requiem and meet for the first time David Meyer from The Zion Chronicles, plus Madame Rose Smith and Jerome Jardin from The Zi...
|  | Helena (Loyola Classics)
Publication Date: March 1, 2005| Series: Loyola Classics“In Helena, the play of words and the fireworks, the exquisite descriptionsof landscapes, and even the finished portraits of the heroine, her husband, andher son, are always subordinate to the author’s broad vision of the mixedanguish and hope with which the world of Constantine’s time wasfilled.” —New York Herald Tribune“[Helena] may be read on two levels of appreciation: As brightentertainment, or as deceptively profound commentary. On both levels it’s asuperlatively well done book.&r...
|  | The 12th Demon: Vampyre Majick
Publication Date: June 1, 2008| Series: Vampyre Majick After defeating the thirteenth demon, Jonathan Steel and Josh Knight return to Dallas, Texas, to finish up Josh's family affairs. When they arrive, a mysterious assassin named Raven surfaces from Steel's murky, dangerous past. At the same time, Rudolph Wulf, the twelfth demon, has arrived from Romania with plans to fulfill a two-thousand-year-old promise to unleash an army of demonic creatures-creatures that will inhabit the bodies of his "vampyre" army. When Wulf kidnaps Josh, Steel must find them in time to save Josh from a violent dea...
|  | Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction
Publication Date: February 26, 2009Sixteen of Mexico's finest fiction writers born after 1945 are collected in this compelling bilingual anthology, offering a glimpse of the rich tapestry of Mexican fiction, from small-town dramas to tales of urban savagery. Many of these writers, and most of these stories, have never before appeared in English. Readers will meet an embalmed man positioned in front of the TV, a mariachi singer suffering from mediocrity, a man's lifelong imaginary friend, and the town prostitute whose funeral draws a crowd from the highest rungs of the social ladder.The write...
|  | Lamb
Release Date: September 13, 2011Winner of the 2011 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel PrizeLamb traces the self-discovery of David Lamb, a narcissistic middle aged man with a tendency toward dishonesty, in the weeks following the disintegration of his marriage and the death of his father. Hoping to regain some faith in his own goodness, he turns his attention to Tommie, an awkward and unpopular eleven-year-old girl. Lamb is convinced that he can help her avoid a destiny of apathy and emptiness, and even comes to believe that his devotion to Tommie is in her best interest. But when Lamb decides to a...
|  | Closer: A Novel (Cooper, Dennis)
Publication Date: January 18, 1994| Series: Cooper, Dennis Physically beautiful and strangely passive, George Miles becomes the object of his friends’ passions and, one after another, they ransack him for love or anything else they can trust in the vacuum of middle America. What they find assaults the senses as it engages the mind, in a novel that explores the limits of experience. ...
|  | Flight Dreams (Mark Manning Mystery)
Release Date: June 16, 2000Struggling to come to terms with his own homosexuality, investigative journalist Mark Manning sets out to find missing Chicago socialite Helena Carter, who vanished seven years ago and is about to be declared legally dead, with the bulk of her fortune going to the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Studies in Islamic Poetry
Publication Date: February 17, 2011Two essays on Persian and Arabic poetic literature, which form the first part of a collection of essays by Nicholson. This volume was written during the First World War and originally published in 1921. The second volume Studies in Islamic Mysticism was reissued in the Cambridge University Press Library Collections series in 1967. The essays contain full quotation in translation and the original texts appear in an appendix. ...
|  | An Introduction to the French Poets
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|  | A Plea for Eros: Essays
Release Date: December 27, 2005From the author of the international bestseller What I Loved, a provocative collection of autobiographical and critical essays about writing and writers.Whether her subject is growing up in Minnesota, cross-dressing, or the novel, Hustvedt's nonfiction, like her fiction, defies easy categorization, elegantly combining intellect, emotion, wit, and passion. With a light touch and consummate clarity, she undresses the cultural prejudices that veil both literature and life and explores the multiple personalities that inevitably inhabit a writer's mind. Is it possib...
|  | Kiss Me Forever
Release Date: May 1, 2010If there is one thing Dixie LePage does not need in her life, it's complications. And the man sitting across the table from her in a crowded English pub is a major complication. For starters, there's the broad shoulders. The slightly amused smirk. That smoldering look that makes it impossible to concentrate. No doubt about it, the guy is hot and sexy. Of course, there is one wee little problem: He claims to be a vampire named Christopher Marlowe, as in The Christopher Marlowe, famous playwright, contemporary of Will Shakespeare. Amend that to hot, sexy, and totally i...
|  | The Duckling Gets a Cookie!? (Pigeon)
Release Date: April 3, 2012| Age Level: 2 and up...
|  | Lance Armstrong (Benchmark All-Stars)
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|  | Colorful File Folder Games, Grade PK: Skill-Building Center Activities for Language Arts and Math (Colorful Game Books)
Release Date: January 1, 2006| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | The Cat Who Wouldn't Come Inside: Based on A True Story
Publication Date: September 25, 2006All tigers and tabbies, calicos and strays, kittens and cats, needlove. And trust. They want things just so. And, sometimes, they donot want to come inside. But a little patience and a little attentioncan make all the difference . . .Here's a loving tribute to feline companionship, sure to warmhuman and kitty hearts—because cat company is worth waiting for! ...
|  | 38 Ways to Entertain Your Grandparents
Publication Date: September 7, 2002| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up The essential home entertainment guide for kids and grandparents!Sarah doesn't want her grandparents to get bored during their visit, so she and her brother and sister make sure they are always entertained with fun games, creative crafts, delicious food, and lots more!This unique storybook contains -- you guessed it! -- 38 different fun-filled activities for children and adults to share. When the characters in the story do something really fun that you'd like to try, simple step-by-step instructions and recipes ...
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