 | 2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America
Release Date: April 10, 2012Is this what the future holds?June 12, 2030 started out like any other day in memory—and by then, memories were long. Since cancer had been cured fifteen years earlier, America’s population was aging rapidly. That sounds like good news, but consider this: millions of baby boomers, with a big natural predator picked off, were sucking dry benefits and resources that were never meant to hold them into their eighties and beyond. Young people around the country simmered with resentment toward “the olds” and anger at the treadmi...
 |  | Poems and Tales of War and Brentford Memories
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|  | Family Catastrophe: A Modernist Novel (Fiction from Modern China)
Publication Date: May 1, 1995| ISBN-10: 0824817109 | ISBN-13: 978-0824817107Wang Wen-hsing caused a sensation in Taiwan in 1972 withpublication of Family Catastrophe, his first full-length novel. Many criticswere outraged, called it socially irresponsible, morally corrupt, andstylistically irrational, but the novel weathered its controversial reception tobecome what is now widely regarded as a masterpiece in modern Chinese fictionand the benchmark of Taiwan's Modernist movement.Often described as Joycean, Family Catastrophe is significant for its stylisticand linguistic experimentation a...
|  | The Bridal Swap (Love Inspired Historical)
Publication Date: March 6, 2012| Series: Love Inspired Historical HERE COMES THE…BRIDE? The heiress Josh O’Malley has courted by mail is on her way to Gatlinburg, Tennessee, to become his wife. His dreams are coming true, and together, they’ll create the family he’s always wanted. But when the stagecoach arrives, it’s not his intended who exits, but her sister, Kate! She came to end her sister’s engagement, but with her duty completed, Kate Morgan is in no hurry to leave. She can’t help but like the beautiful mountain town…and her siste...
|  | Colorado Crimes: Recipe for Murder / Baker's Fatal Dozen / Chef's Deadly Dish (Cozy Crumb Mystery Series, America Loves a Mystery)
Publication Date: January 1, 2010Laugh and cry along with Chef Pricilla Crumb as the guest list at her son’s Colorado mountain hunting lodge quickly turns into a suspect list for murder. Then Pricilla’s favorite baker ends up dead with Pricilla caught in a sticky scandal. Finally one of Pricilla’s former culinary students is arrested for murder and in need of her help. And along the way, rejoice as love blooms for Pricilla in a second-chance romance. ...
|  | The Case of the Bouncing Grandma (A Bouncing Grandma Mystery, Book 1)
Publication Date: October 1, 2008Reduced to watching new neighbors move in as a form of amusement, Glory Harper is stuck in a wheelchair with a broken leg, bored and itching for excitement. She just doesn’t expect it to come in the form of a foot dangling from the end of a carpet as it’s carried into her new neighbor’s house. The problem is getting someone to believe her. When the police recognize Glory as the woman whose skateboarding accident resulted in a multi-car pile-up, her believability quotient lowers even more. Then Glory realizes Detective Rick Spencer is more inter...
|  | Full Court Press
Release Date: November 12, 2001This season, the coolest guy in basketball isn't a guy. From the author of the "boisterous, bawdy, sharp-witted" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) national bestseller comes another deliciously wicked tale of contemporary professional sports. "Truly hip, uproariously funny and, my god, it might even be true," wrote Elmore Leonard. "Bump and Run places Lupica high up among the funniest guys writing fiction." And now Lupica proves it again. This is what happens when the desperate golden-boy owner of the worst pro basketball team in the world and his equally desperate go...
|  | Free Will Flux
Publication Date: December 7, 2009A worldwide earthquake. A planet in chaos. Reality's fabric - space, time, matter - unraveling. Into this, a man without a past awakens.A catastrophic earthquake has struck the entire world. As the survivors stagger toward an impossible recovery, they discover matters are worse than they realized. It appears the fabric of reality is fraying at the seams. The laws of space, time, and matter are breaking down.Some people adapt; some don't. Some fall prey to newly existent fates worse than death. Whether or not the world can survive such flux is anyone's guess....
|  | Virgin River: A Barnaby Skye Novel (Barnaby Skye Novels)
Release Date: September 1, 2009| Series: Barnaby Skye Novels This is the sixteenth novel in Richard S. Wheeler’s long-running series about Barnaby Skye, the British seaman who carves out an amazing life for himself in the North American Wilderness, along with his wives and his ugly, cantankerous horse, Jawbone. In Virgin River, the famed mountain man and his two wives, Victoria of the Crows and Mary of the Shoshones, take a party of tubercular young people to the southwestern desert where they hope to be healed. Their destination is the Virgin River, where the mild, dry cli...
|  | The Best American Short Plays 2000-2001
Release Date: September 1, 2002| Series: Best American Short Plays (Best American Short Plays). For over 60 years, The Best American Short Plays series has set the standard for excellence in one-act plays. In this latest edition, we are pleased to present a group of fresh-voiced, cutting-edge plays for the new millenium. Among the twelve plays included are Sheri Wilner's poignant Relative Strangers, which chronicles a young woman's yearning for the mother she never knew; Gary Sunshine's lyrical Al Takes a Bride, in which two young southern women fantasize about marrying each other; Rosemary ...
|  | Coriolanus (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
Publication Date: February 26, 2010| Series: The New Cambridge Shakespeare This generously annotated updated edition of Coriolanus provides a thorough reconsideration of Shakespeare's remarkable, and probably his last, tragedy. A substantial introduction situates the play within its contemporary social and political contexts - dearth, riots, the struggle over authority between James I and his first parliament, the travails of Essex and Ralegh - and pays particular attention to Shakespeare's shaping of his primary source in Plutarch's Lives. It presents a fresh account of how the protagonist'...
|  | The 20th Century in Poetry
Publication Date: August 1, 2012| ISBN-10: 1605983640 | ISBN-13: 978-1605983646| Edition: 1 The history of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of the greatest poets of our time.This groundbreaking anthology presents in chronological order over four hundred poems written during the twentieth century. The authors, both published poets themselves, give an overview of each period of history, while notes to the poems place each one in its historical context and trace the century's poetic development. Concise biographies for each poet complete the anthology.By organizing the poems i...
| | A History of Ottoman Poetry II: 1450-1520
Publication Date: July 2002| ISBN-10: 0718903951 | ISBN-13: 978-0718903954| Edition: REP The History of Ottoman Poetry is the most important fruit of E.J.W. Gibb's long devotion to Turkish literature. Only one volume had appeared in print by the time of his early death in 1901 but the remainder were almost complete and was seen through the press by E.G. Browne. It was designed to give the English reader a clear account of the subject. The first volume includes discussions of themes, verse forms and rhetoric and also of the earliest West-Turkish poetry up to 1450. The story is then carrie...
| | Anthony Cronin's Personal Anthology
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|  | It All Begins: Poems from Postliberation South Africa
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|  | Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing, Compact Interactive Edition (6th Edition)
Publication Date: August 22, 2009| ISBN-10: 0205686095 | ISBN-13: 978-0205686094| Edition: 6 Literature, Compact Interactive Edition comes automatically with MyLiteratureLab, Longman's multimedia website. MyLiteratureLab screen icons are found in the margins throughout the book. An icon next to an author's name indicates that further resources about that author are available on MyLiteratureLab. Literature is written in an engaging style that reflects the warm personal voice of X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. Some of the changes to the new edition...
|  | Highlander's Curse
Release Date: March 29, 2011When COLIN MACALISTER is cursed by the Faerie Queen and ends up in the bed of a twenty-first-century woman—who also happens to be the most beautiful creature he’s ever laid eyes on—he’s torn between anger and lust. Colin is determined to see Scotland free of English control and must return to the fourteenth century, yet he cannot forget the woman who haunts his dreams and stirs him with scorching desire. ABIGAIL PORTER can’t believe her luck. After making a wish to find her soul mate, she wakes up to find a gorgeous man in her be...
| | Mother Goose Treasury
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|  | The Everything Kids' Soccer Book: Rules, Techniques, and More About Your Favorite Sport! (Everything Kids Series)
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|  | Who's Who?
Release Date: August 7, 2012| Age Level: 1 and up Over in these pages where it's hard to tell who's who, live six pairs of twins who are the best at what they do. "Laugh!" say the twins. "We laugh!" So will you.And you'll giggle as you read while you try to tell who's who....
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