 | The Good Daughter (A Brennan Sisters Novel)
Release Date: February 5, 2013| Series: A Brennan Sisters Novel Love was given to all, except herself . . . Kit Brennan has always been the most grounded of her sisters. A Catholic school English teacher for seventeen years and a constant giver, her decisions have been sound—just not very satisfying. Her fortieth birthday is right around the corner, causing Kit to consider some wilder notions, like skipping right past the love and marriage to raising a child all by herself . . . A girls’ weekend away is just the reprieve Kit needs from scho...
 |  | Holiday Buzz (Coffee House Mystery)
Release Date: December 4, 2012| Series: Coffee House Mystery Cleo Coyle writes "a foodie's delight...and a satisfyingly rich mystery" (Kirkus), and now the national bestselling author of A BREW TO A KILL serves up a yuletide treat in her new Coffeehouse Mystery HOLIDAY BUZZ. Holiday time is party time in New York City, but after a sparkling winter bash ends with a murder, Village Blend coffeehouse manager Clare Cosi vows to put the killer on ice... At the Great New York Cookie Swap, pastry chefs bake up their very best for charity. Clare is in charge of the beverage...
|  | These I Know by Heart
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|  | Tulip Fever
Release Date: April 10, 2001A tale of art, beauty, lust, greed, deception and retribution -- set in a refined society ablaze with tulip fever.In 1630s Amsterdam, tulipomania has seized the populace. Everywhere men are seduced by the fantastic exotic flower. But for wealthy merchant Cornelis Sandvoort, it is his young and beautiful wife, Sophia, who stirs his soul. She is the prize he desires, the woman he hopes will bring him the joy that not even his considerable fortune can buy. Cornelis yearns for an heir, but so far he and Sophia have failed to produce one. In a bid for immortality, he c...
|  | The Great Bordello. A Story of the Theatre
Publication Date: July 15, 2011Published here for the first time, "The Great Bordello, A Story of the Theatre" (edited and with an afterword by Jack F. Sharrar) is by Jazz-Age playwright Avery Hopwood (1882-1928). Hopwood was the most successful playwright of his day, with four hits on Broadway at the same time in 1920. Set in the early decades of the twentieth century, "The Great Bordello" is a roman à clef that tells the story of aspiring playwright Edwin Endsleigh (Hopwood's counterpart), who, upon graduation from the University of Michigan, heads for Broadway to earn...
|  | Collected Poems
Publication Date: October 17, 1983Poems with drawings spanning the artists lifetime. ...
|  | The Germanic Hero: Politics and Pragmatism in Early Medieval Poetry
Publication Date: August 2, 2003| ISBN-10: 1852851430 | ISBN-13: 978-1852851439| Edition: 1 In The Germanic Hero Brian Murdoch looks at the role the warrior-hero plays within a set of predetermined political and social constraints. the hero is not a sword-wielding barbarian, bent only upon establishing his own fame; such fame-seekers (including some famous medieval literary figures) might even fall outside the definition of the Germanic hero, the real value of whose deeds are given meaning only within the political construct. Individual prowess is not enough. The hero must conquer the bl...
| | The Knot of Artifice: A Poetic of the French Lyric in the Early 17th Century
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|  | Oz: The Hundredth Anniversary Celebration
Release Date: October 3, 2000| Age Level: 1 and up Can it really be one hundred years ago that a little girl from Kansas rode a tornado to a wondrous land called Oz? The adventures of Dorothy and her friends have enthralled generations of readers over the last century. Now, in Oz: The Hundredth Anniversary Celebration, thirty beloved children's book authors and artists pay tribute to the enchanted land that has done so much to nourish our imaginations, to make us laugh, and to inspire us.In words and images, these great storytellers and illustrators pay homage to an American classic. From ...
|  | Hydrogen and the Noble Gases (True Books: Elements)
Publication Date: March 1, 2005| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Romantic Narrative: Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft
Publication Date: November 5, 2010| ISBN-10: 0801897211 | ISBN-13: 978-0801897214| Edition: 1 Often identified with its lyric poetry, Romanticism has come to be dismissed by historicists as an ineffectual idealism. By focusing on Romantic narrative, noted humanist Tilottama Rajan takes issue with this identification, as well as with the equation of narrative itself with the governmental apparatus of the Novel. Exploring the role of narrativity in the works of Romantic writers, Rajan also reflects on larger disciplinary issues such as the role of poetry versus prose in an emergent moderni...
|  | The Book of Awesome: Snow Days, Bakery Air, Finding Money in Your Pocket, and Other Simple, Brilliant Things
Release Date: April 15, 2010The author behind 1000awesomethings.com celebrates the good things in life- by the sheer power of their awesomeness.Based on the award-winning blog 1000awesomethings.com, The Book of Awesome is a high five for humanity and a big celebration of life's little moments and the underappreciated, simple things that make us happy, from popping bubble wrap to hitting a bunch of green lights in a row, to waking up thinking it's Monday and realizing it's Saturday. With wise, witty observations from writer Neil Pasricha, this treasure trove is filled with smile-inducing mu...
|  | African Love Stories: An Anthology
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|  | Soldier Boy: The Civil War Letters of Charles O. Musser, 29th Iowa
Publication Date: March 1, 2008Blood and anger, bragging and pain, are all part of this young Iowa soldier's vigorous words about war and soldiering. A twenty-year-old farmer from Council Bluffs, Charles O. Musser was one of the 76,000 Iowans who enlisted to wear the blue uniform. He was a prolific writer, penning at least 130 letters home during his term of service with the 29th Iowa Volunteer Infantry.Soldier Boy makes a significant contribution to the literature of the common soldier in the Civil War. Moreover, it takes a rare look at the Trans-Mississippi theater, which has traditionally...
|  | Epistolary Practices: Letter Writing in America before Telecommunications
Release Date: October 28, 1998Letters have long been read as primary sources for biography and history, but their performative, fictive, and textual dimensions have only recently attracted serious notice. In this book, William Merrill Decker examines the place of the personal letter in American popular and literary culture from the colonial to the postmodern period.After offering an overview of the genre, Decker explores epistolary practices that coincide with American experiences of space, settlement, separation, and reunion. He discusses letters written by such well-known and well-educated...
|  | Degree of Guilt/The Final Judgement
Release Date: August 6, 2002Here collected for the first time, complete in one volume, are two courtroom novels by The New York Times best-selling author, Richard North Paterson. Recognized internationally for the expertise and authenticity of the legal aspects of his novels, Patterson is also famous for imaginative plot twists, detailed characterizations and page-turning narratives. These two stories weave complex motives, cold-blooded murder, the drama of men and women under pressure, and courtroom dynamics to tell explosive tales of human excess, betrayal and emotional truth. ...
|  | The Pact: A Love Story (P.S.)
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|  | We Must Have Certainty: Four Essays on the Detective Story
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|  | The Fourth Man
Release Date: March 3, 2009Award-winning author Kjell Ola Dahl has attained cult status in his home country of Norway with his sharp, riveting bestsellers. Over the last decade he has found audiences in ten other countries and finally, with his gripping and intelligent novel, The Fourth Man, the master of Norwegian crime writing is crossing the Atlantic.In the course of a routine police raid, Detective Inspector Frank Frølich of the Oslo Police saves the life of Elizabeth Faremo, a dark-haired beauty with mysterious eyes who was inadvertently caught in the crossfire. Some weeks later, F...
|  | Winny de Puh (Winnie the Pooh in Spanish) (Spanish Edition)
Release Date: May 1, 2000| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up This classic of children's literature is now available in a Spanish-language edition. Winny de Puh is the translation of the complete text of the original Winnie-the-Pooh, with all of Ernest H. Shepard's delightful illustrations. Here are Pooh, Piglet, and Eeyore (in this book Puh, Porquete, and Iiyoo) and all the others in the stories that have charmed and entranced fans of the Best Bear in All the World for generations. ...
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