 | The Knight in Rusty Armor
Publication Date: May 1987While searching for a way to remove the armor that has become stuck on him, a knight finally discovers the true qualities of knighthood. ...
 |  | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: A Novel (P.S.)
Release Date: February 10, 2009| Series: P.S.At the staid Marcia Blaine School for Girls, in Edinburgh, Scotland, teacher extraordinaire Miss Jean Brodie is unmistakably, and outspokenly, in her prime. She is passionate in the application of her unorthodox teaching methods, in her attraction to the married art master, Teddy Lloyd, in her affair with the bachelor music master, Gordon Lowther, and—most important—in her dedication to "her girls," the students she selects to be her crème de la crème. Fanatically devoted, each member of the Brodie set—Eunice, Jenny, ...
|  | Ghost Stories of Colorado
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|  | Anno Dracula (Anno Dracula 1)
Release Date: May 24, 2011| Series: Anno Dracula 1 "Kim Newman's Anno Dracula is back in print, and we must celebrate. It was the first mash-up of literature, history and vampires, and now, in a world in which vampires are everywhere, it's still the best, and its bite is just as sharp. Compulsory reading, commentary, and mindgame: glorious." - Neil Gaiman"Politics, horror, and romance are woven together in this brilliantly imagined and realized novel. Newman's prose is a delight, his attention to detail is spellbinding." - Time Out“Stephen King assumes we hate vampires; Anne ...
|  | A Letter of Mary: A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes (Mary Russell Novels)
Release Date: October 30, 2007| Series: Mary Russell Novels (Book 3) The third book in the Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes series. It is 1923. Mary Russell Holmes and her husband, the retired Sherlock Holmes, are enjoying the summer together on their Sussex estate when they are visited by an old friend, Miss Dorothy Ruskin, an archeologist just returned from Palestine. She leaves in their protection an ancient manuscript which seems to hint at the possibility that Mary Magdalene was an apostle--an artifact certain to stir up a storm of biblical proportions in the Christian establishment. W...
|  | Wake Me Up Inside
Publication Date: August 15, 2012A Mates Series Story Zev Hassick is surprised and confused when he finds himself attracted to his best friend. His very human, very male best friend. Zev is the son of the pack Alpha, regarded as the strongest wolf in generations, born to lead. And everyone knows a male shifter has to mate with a female of his own kind to keep his humanity. So shifters can't be gay, right? Jonah Marvel wants a relationship with Zev, his best friend, the man he has loved since childhood. It wasn’t easy to maintain that relationship over years spent living apart while Jo...
|  | Putting on the Ritz
Release Date: November 1, 1992The witty duo from Blue Heaven invade the entourage of a tasteless real estate/media magnate, attempt to turn his talentless wife into a chanteuse, and vie for the affections of a suave magazine editor, in this deftly delicious comedy of bad manners, financial skullduggery, and romantic infighting....
|  | Bell Ringing in the Empty Sky: The Best of the Sun (The Best of the Sun, V. <1)
Publication Date: January 1985| ISBN-10: 0917320247 | ISBN-13: 978-0917320248No missing pages, Water Damage, or stains. Spine shows creasing. This is a readable copy. ...
|  | Original Cyn
Release Date: April 26, 2005From the acclaimed author of Breakfast at Stephanie’s comes a hilarious new novel about falling in love, breaking the rules, and other sinful pleasures.A junior copywriter at a London ad agency, Cynthia Fishbein is the original good girl. She works hard, never complains, and takes care of everyone around her. Even Cyn’s therapist tells her she’s too nice. But all that’s about to change when a catty co-worker steals one of her ideas. So Cyn goes her one better: She steals the woman’s identity.Suddenly she’s breaking out of ...
|  | Mythical Trickster Figures: Contours, Contexts, and Criticisms
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|  | An alphabet book of haiku and tanka
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|  | Zadie Smith's White Teeth (Barnes & Noble Reader's Companion)
Publication Date: May 23, 2003| Series: Barnes & Noble Reader's Companion Twenty-four-year-old Zadie Smith burst into the public eye with this debut novel, which shows blazing flashes of wit and precocious insight. Here's the full, inside story behind this remarkable work:Where did Smith get the idea for the story?What does the novel say about history and how it affects ordinary people? Can we ever really escape the past?How has Smith reacted to becoming such a media sensation? ...
|  | Hildegard of Bingen's Unknown Language: An Edition, Translation, and Discussion (New Middle Ages)
Release Date: December 10, 2007| ISBN-10: 1403976732 | ISBN-13: 978-1403976734| Edition: 1st The Lingua Ignota, "brought forth" by the twelfth-century German nun Hildegard of Bingen, provides 1012 neologisms for praise of Church and new expression of the things of her world. Noting her visionary metaphors, her music, and various medieval linguistic philosophies, Higley examines how the "Unknown Language" makes arid signifiers green again. This text, however, is too often seen in too narrow a context: glossolalia, angelic language, secret code. Higley provides an edition and English trans...
|  | Hiss and Hers: An Agatha Raisin Mystery
Release Date: September 18, 2012| Series: Agatha Raisin Mystery (Book 23) If only the bossy, beloved Agatha Raisin were as lucky at finding the right man as she is at catching killers in M. C. Beaton's New York Times bestselling mystery series Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of everyone's favorite sleuth, M. C. Beaton's Agatha Raisin is as feisty as ever—armed with her famous wit and biting sense of humor. This time, though, there's some biting of a whole other sort going on. Agatha has fallen head over heels in love—again. This time, she has her eye on the local ...
|  | Biting the Bride
Release Date: December 1, 2010Sunni Marquette has always been a little different. There's the whole mind-reading thing, for a start, which comes in useful for a criminal defense attorney. Except that lately, Sunni keeps encountering people who are immune to her gift. Like Jacob Eddington, the star witness in her latest case. And her best friend Isabel's new fiance, Richard Lazarus, who's as sinister as Jacob is attractive. Not that Sunni intends to interfere - until she learns that Richard is a vampire who's made a centuries-long career of marrying wealthy women, then killing them for their ...
|  | They Never Die Quietly
Release Date: February 16, 2010They Never Die Quietly tells the story of homicide Detective Sami Rizzo, whois assigned to head a task force investigating serial killings in San Diego. Simon,the highly intelligent, cunning, and deceptively charming villain, redefines thedepths of human evil. He believes God has given him absolute authority to purify hisunholy victims through a ritual that ends in a grisly crucifixion. Driven by warpedreligious beliefs and guided by his dead mother, very much alive in his subconscious,Simon abducts “chosen ones” and holds them captive in a Room o...
|  | Breakaway
Publication Date: June 1997| Age Level: 10 and up Dreaming of becoming a professional athlete, Luke struggles withthe disadvantages of being the son of a single mother and wishes forthe father he never knew before learning his father's secret andbefriending a strong-willed classmate." ...
|  | Life is a Bowl Full of Cherries
Publication Date: May 1, 2011| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Life is a Bowl Full of Cherries show children the magic of idioms – words that separately have one meaning, but together take on something entirely different. Children are curious about words, especially phrases that make them laugh (“Couch potato!”), sound silly (“Eat your words”) or trigger images that tickle a child’s sense of the absurd (“Pie in the sky”). Life is a Bowl Full of Cherries uses outlandish illustrations of what the words describe literally. The ...
|  | The History of the Toronto Blue Jays (Baseball: The Great American Game)
Publication Date: January 2002| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Don Quixote and the Windmills
Publication Date: April 2, 2004| Age Level: 5 and up A self-proclaimed knightSeñor Quexada has read so many books about knights in shining armor that he thinks he is one. He gives himself a name more fitting for a knight -- Don Quixote -- and sets off one evening with his squire. At dawn they come across what Don Quixote recognizes as an army of monstrous giants. "Master!" cries Sancho Panza. "They are only windmills!" But Don Quixote knows what he has to do . . . Don Quixote is the creation of the Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Eric A. Kimmel skillfully and cleverly cryst...
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