 | The Year of the Gadfly
Release Date: May 8, 2012“Do you know what it took for Socrates’ enemies to make him stop pursuing the truth?”“Hemlock.”Storied, fiercely competitive Mariana Academy was founded with a serious honor code; its reputation has been unsullied for decades. Now a long-dormant secret society, Prisom's Party, threatens its placid halls with vigilante justice, exposing students and teachers alike for even the most minor infraction.Iris Dupont, a budding journalist whose only confidant is the chain-smoking specter of Edward R. Murrow, feels sure she can break into the ran...
 |  | Love Finds You in North Pole, Alaska
Publication Date: August 28, 2009| Series: Love Finds You A former Marine is no match for the spunky Sam Sinclair. Bryce Stone has returned to his hometown of North Pole, Alaska and he’s not very happy about it. “The Town Where It’s Christmas All Year Long” does not appeal to the self-admitted scrooge. What’s worse, Bryce must postpone his dream of opening a furniture shop when his Aunt Olive retires and leaves him to manage the family’s cluttered Christmas boutique. Bryce hires a petite and inexperienced young woman to run the store, figuring that if she fails,...
|  | Our Father
Publication Date: January 1994The author of The Women's Room presents the story of a father and his four daughters, born to different mothers and living very different lives until their father's stroke forces them into a reconciliation. 100,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. BOMC Alt. ...
|  | The Darkness and the Night: Blood and Coffee
Publication Date: May 7, 2009After vacation plans go awry, Karen finds herself alone in a large house, in the middle of nowhere. That night, in an encounter both sexual and surreal, Karen falls victim to a vampire attack. The act leaves her struggling to cling to her humanity while sexually imprinted to a monster.Karen escapes, only to delve head first into a dark odyssey that will shatter her previous thoughts on reality and redefine what it means to love. ...
|  | The Little Stranger
Release Date: May 4, 2010The New York Times bestseller and Booker Prize contender that "delivers...a ghost story that creeps up your spine" (Seattle Times). One post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once impressive and handsome, is now in decline. Its owners-mother, son, and daughter-are struggling to keep pace with a changing society, as well as with conflicts of their own. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life? Little do...
|  | The Thunder: A Novel on John Knox
Publication Date: June 5, 2012Francis looked at Master Knox's still form and bit his lower lip. "Either they'll hang us all on the spot . . ." He paused. "Or enslave us in the galleys of the French." . . .I at first felt grateful that they did not hang us. There were a number of times in the nineteen months that followed, however, when I wondered if hanging would have been far better.John Knox, the Thundering Scot, lives a life of adventure and danger in turbulent, corrupt sixteenth-century Scotland. Finding himself a wanted man, Knox is besieged in a castle by French soldier...
|  | Don Quijote de la Mancha ( Editorial Punto de Lectura ) Tapa Dura
Publication Date: October 1, 2008After having compiled the core of the 400th anniversary edition sponsored by the Real Academia Espanola, the text and notes of Don Quixote come now in this revised and augmented version; also in the care of Francisco Rico. The text became complete after an examination of all significant editions, old and modern, using the most rigorous philological methods. Notes clarify doubts that a modern reader could raise. They have been worded to provide maximum clarity and a streamlined reading.The appendix, located at the end of the volume, includes maps, diagrams a...
|  | Kiss Me Quick
Publication Date: December 1, 2006Tim’s own life is in chaos, but he’s paid for his qualifications as a life coach, and he’s going to use them. When his new, and only, client tells him she’s had a windfall, he believes he really could turn his—and, of course, her—life around. But he doesn’t know that there’s more to Debbie than the scruffy, overweight drudge she appears to be. Journalists have to find a story somewhere, and Debbie’s found hers among the eccentric residents of the little seaside town of Shelcombe. ...
|  | Baudelaire and the symbolists,: Five essays
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|  | The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Ultimate Reading List
Release Date: July 3, 2007| Series: The Complete Idiot's Guide Great reads for busy people.This is a guide to help busy people find great reads in fiction and non-fiction. Filled with recommendations of popular, entertaining reading, this book covers mystery and suspense, romance, women’s fiction and chick lit, westerns, science fiction, such nonfiction topics as animals, art, biography, memoirs, business, true crime, and more. Plus, each entry includes a summary of the book, its significance, and a critique/observation/comment. ...
|  | Love Stories (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
Release Date: January 13, 2009| Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets A new anthology of literary love stories—the third collection in the appealing Pocket Classics format—perfect for Valentine’s Day.Here are nineteen stories from a rich array of writers, and here is every kind of romantic entanglement: from the raw, erotic passion of D. H. Lawrence and Colette to the wickedly cynical comedy of Dorothy Parker and Roald Dahl, from the yearnings of unrequited romantic illusions in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Winter Dreams” to the agonizing madness of jealousy i...
|  | The Former Fiance
Publication Date: April 2003Guarded against fervent suitors by the handsome Earl of Rosegoode, Robinson Hollister, Lady Madeline Dalton might just let her own guard down... --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Strictly Murder!: A Writer's Guide to Criminal Homicide
Publication Date: March 1998Provides film, TV, and fiction writers with essential information on all aspects of murder and its investigation and prosecution, including: types of murders; methods; motives; criminal profiles; police investigative tools and procedures; medical examiner and crime lab tools and procedures; criminal court procedures; and much more. Unique to this book is the inclusion of a copy of an actual Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department 'murder book' -- a law enforcement agency's complete paper trail that follows a murder from the time it is first reported through the ar...
|  | Magic Tree House Boxed Set, Books 13-16: Vacation Under the Volcano, Day of the Dragon King, Viking Ships at Sunrise, and Hour of the Olympics
Release Date: May 27, 2008| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | The Skull Talks Back: And Other Haunting Tales
Release Date: July 27, 2004| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Do you dare to cross paths with ... An enchantress who can slip in and out of her skin, A man more evil than the devil, A skull who talks back, A pair of creepy feet that can walk on their own? Spooky, chilling, and fantastical, this collection of six scary tales will send shivers up your spine! The stories in the skull talks back have been selected from Every Tongue Got To Confess, Zora Neale Hurston's third volume of folklore. Through Joyce Carol Thomas's carefully adapted text and Leonard Jenkins's arresting illustra...
|  | Talent Show Mix-Up (Zoobles!)
Release Date: February 16, 2012| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Playoff Dreams (The All-Star Sports Story Series)
Publication Date: August 1, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Kitty Cat, Kitty Cat, Are You Waking Up? (Broad Buddies) (Board Buddies)
Publication Date: September 1, 2011| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: Pre K and up...
|  | Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two
Release Date: July 6, 2006| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue....
|  | It's So Amazing!: A Book about Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies, and Families (The Family Library)
Release Date: July 22, 2004| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
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