 | The Bear Went Over the Mountain: A Novel (Owl Book)
Publication Date: November 15, 1997| Series: Owl Book William Kotzwinkle, the esteemed author of The Fan Man and E.T.: The Extraterrestrial, is in top comic form in this outrageous and uproarious parable featring Hal Jam—a big black bear who finds a manuscript under a tree in the Maine woods, dons a suit and a tie, and heads off to the big city to seek his fame and fortune. What follows is a riotous magical romp with the buoyant Hal Jam as he leaves the quiet, nurturing world of the forest for the glittering and corrupt world of humans. New York and Hollywood and all that lies between ...
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|  | Confessio Amantis (Middle English Texts)
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|  | Borne in Blood: A Novel of the Count Saint-Germain
Release Date: December 10, 2007| Series: Count Saint-Germain The year is 1817. In Switzerland, the Count Saint-Germain leads a comfortable life with his paramour Hero whose husband died fighting Napoleon. Saint-Germain's loving kindness cannot keep Hero from missing her children who are being raised by their hard-hearted grandfather. The Count has become intrigued by the work of an Austrian noble investigating the properties of blood, a subject always of key interest to a vampire. But when the noble's beautiful ward fixates sexually on the Count, ...
|  | Subtle Bodies: A Fantasia on Voice, History and Rene Crevel
Publication Date: August 1, 2010It is Paris, 1935, and the poet Rene Crevel has turned on the gas stove in his apartment. As death fills the rooms, Crevel dwells on past events that changed his life and ended the peace among the Surrealists. Years earlier, Crevel enacted seances for Andre Breton and his guests. At first, these performances were fraudulent, but soon Crevel found himself overcome with lapses in memory and time. Portents made during the seances came to pass as Breton's friends fell under a morbid influence. While in a trance, Crevel felt his sense of self expand to new levels, ...
|  | A Modern Utopia (Forgotten Books)
Publication Date: May 7, 2008A Modern Utopia was a book written by the famous science fiction author H.G. Wells in 1905. It looks at Wells's ideal world - a one state world, run by a benign dictatorship of well educated and humanistic people. (Quote from wikipedia.org)About the AuthorHerbert George Wells (1866 - 1946)Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 - August 13, 1946), better known as H. G. Wells, was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The First Men in the Moon and The Island of Doctor Moreau. He...
|  | Blood Brothers (Modern Classics)
Publication Date: May 10, 2001| Series: Modern Classics A Liverpudlian West Side Story: twin brothers are separated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them both. She gives one of them away to wealthy Mrs Lyons and they grow up as friends in ignorance of their fraternity until the inevitable quarrel unleashes a blood-bath. 'Willy Russell is less concerned with political tub-thumping than with weaving a close-knit story about the working of fate and destiny … it carries one along with it in almost unreserved enjoyment" GuardianOne of the longest-running and most suc...
|  | This: Prose and Poetry of Dancing Emptiness
Publication Date: January 2000This 136-page introduction is a selection of poetryand prose from The Truth Isa 560 page volume of"satsangs," or truths, from renowned Indian guru Sri H. W. L.Poonja distills the essence of Poonja's teachings in a shorter,more portable collection. ...
|  | Heartbreak Creek (A Runaway Brides Novel)
Release Date: July 5, 2011| Series: A Runaway Brides Novel First in a wonderful new historical series starring four unlikely brides who make their way West.Edwina Ladoux hoped becoming a mail-order bride would be her way to a better life, but as soon as she arrives in Breakheart, Colorado, and meets Declan Brodie and his four rambunctious children, she realizes she's made a mistake. Luckily, Edwina and Declan agreed on a three- month courtship period, which should give them time to get the proxy marriage annulled. Except that as the weeks pass, thoughts of annulment turn into hopes for a r...
|  | A Twist In Time
Release Date: March 2, 2010An expert in Leonardo DaVinci’s works, Lucy Rossano recognizes the centuries-old time machine the moment she sees it in a Stanford lab. Fascinated in spite of the danger, she uses her knowledge to briefly go back in time—landing in the middle of a fierce battle in ninth-century Britain. And when she returns to modern-day San Francisco, she brings something back with her: a seductive, fiercely intelligent Viking named Galen…The presence of this enigmatic, devastatingly sexy stranger is just one of the new complications in Lucy’s life. There a...
|  | Ranges
Publication Date: August 27, 2008Ranges is a collection of four stories that span space and time, from the Old West to modern times, and it's all about the back of beyond. BA Tortuga, Julia Talbot, Dallas Coleman and Chris Owen all create small town boys with big time loves, men who know how to work the land, and work each other over. Cabin fever, by BA Tortuga, is set in the late eighteen hundreds, and features Horace, a big mountain man who's more sophisticated than he seems, and Walker, a young man on the run from the law. In the snowy winter mountain season, Horace teaches Walker all he ...
|  | A Bitter Truth: A Bess Crawford Mystery
Release Date: May 1, 2012| Series: Bess Crawford Mystery While attempting to help a woman in distress, World War I battlefield nurse Bess Crawford learns a bitter truth, that no good deed goes unpunished. Returning to her London flat from the front lines in France for a well-earned Christmas leave, Bess Crawford comes upon a bruised and shivering woman huddled in the doorway. Propelled by pity, Bess takes her in. Yet despite the ill effects of a concussion suffered during a quarrel with her husband that erupted into violence, the woman decides to return home, and asks Bess to travel with her...
|  | Sherlock Holmes: His Last Bow: A Complete & Unabridged Reading by Derek Jacobi
Publication Date: February 28, 2012| Series: Sherlock Holmes Sir Derek Jacobi’s gripping, suspenseful and hugely entertaining reading brings the stories of Holmes and Watson to life. This edition includes: The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge, The Adventure of the Cardboard Box, The Adventure of the Red Circle, The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans, The Adventure of the Dying Detective, The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax, The Adventure of the Devil's Foot and His Last Bow. ...
|  | Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines: (Historical Guides to the World's Periodicals and Newspapers)
Publication Date: December 28, 1983| ISBN-10: 0313233101 | ISBN-13: 978-0313233104| Edition: First Edition "Cook's accounts of periodicals are consistently informative, clear, and penetrating: his sensitivity to much of what he discusses, is, at times, positively uncanny." Reference Books Bulletin ...
|  | A-Rod: American Hero: An Unauthorized Biography
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|  | Los Angeles Lakers (NBA Champions)
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|  | Swim to Win (Lorimer Sports Stories)
Release Date: September 1, 2011| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Snowboarding (First Book)
Publication Date: September 1989| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | I Love You As Much...
Release Date: April 23, 1998| Age Level: 2 and up | Grade Level: P and up Celebrate Mother's Day every day. This celebration of the bond between mothers and their babies can be shared at naptime or bedtime or whenever it is time to say "I love you.""Written in quatrains that break into couplets across each double page, this lullaby rhyme catalogues various animals and their offspring, describing each mother's testament of love." School Library Journal."The light-drenched, golden-toned pictures exert a quietly hypnotic effect on both reader and listener, aided by the lullaby's sonorous repeti...
|  | Treasures from Grandma's Attic (Grandma's Attic Series)
Publication Date: August 1, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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