 | The Inn at Lake Devine
Release Date: April 27, 1999It's 1962 and all across America barriers are collapsing. But when Natalie Marx's mother inquires about summer accommodations in Vermont, she gets the following reply: The Inn at Lake Devine is a family-owned resort, which has been in continuous operation since 1922. Our guests who feel most comfortable here, and return year after year, are Gentiles. For twelve-year-old Natalie, who has a stubborn sense of justice, the words are not a rebuff but an infuriating, irresistible challenge. In this beguiling novel, Elinor Lipman charts her heroine's fixation with a smal...
 |  | The White Album: Essays (FSG Classics)
Release Date: November 10, 2009| Series: FSG Classics First published in 1979, The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era—including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall—through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision, The White Album is a central text of American reportage and a classic of American autobiography. ...
|  | Imagine Us (Kimani Romance)
Publication Date: April 19, 2011| Series: Kimani Romance (Book 236) Neveah Symon has achieved success beyond anything the Houston native could have imagined. And when Xavier Mayne taps the world-famous artist to design a mural for his family-owned community center, her fame comes full circle. Except Neveah shares a stormy history with the former bad boy. Can she resist the suave and seductive entrepreneur's sensual assault…and protect her heart this time around?This up-from-the-street brother has never been able to stay away from the ambitious Texas beauty. Th irteen years apart has onl...
|  | Remember to Wave
Publication Date: January 12, 2010Poetry. "Kaia Sand's REMEMBER TO WAVE maps the temporal palimpsests and traumatic political history of Portland, Oregon. Sand writes the seen and unseen city in the spirit of William Carlos Williams's Paterson, Charles Olson's Gloucester, or Barbara Jane Reyes's San Francisco. She reads the geography of Portland for its displacements, exclusions, migrations, disappearances, ruins, and hauntings. Sand asks: 'Do we need our ruins visible?' The answer resonates throughout REMEMBER TO WAVE as poetry creates a deeply felt awareness of past and present injustices....
|  | Sin - Acting Edition
Publication Date: October 1, 1997| ISBN-10: 0822215616 | ISBN-13: 978-0822215615Featuring Steve Carell, Sin is a contemporary morality play about a helicopter traffic reporter who is trying to keep herself above life's messiness. Her soon-to-be-ex-husband is a charming alcoholic, her roommate is a glutton, she's trapped daily in a helicopter with an envious coworker, and her blind dates are disasters. It takes her dying brother to make her see that pride is the deadliest of sins, and it takes an Act of God to bring her back down to Earth.A full-cast performance featuring: Steve Carell, K...
|  | Mr. Monk in Outer Space
Release Date: June 3, 2008| Series: Monk An all-new novel starring the obsessively beloved TV detective who has no patience for the crooked... --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade
Release Date: August 17, 2010Drawn from the secret, never-before-seen diaries, journals, and sexual records of the novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M. Steward, Secret Historian is a sensational reconstruction of one of the more extraordinary hidden lives of the twentieth century. An intimate friend of Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and Thornton Wilder, Steward maintained a secret sex life from childhood on, and documented these experiences in brilliantly vivid (and often very funny) detail.After leaving the world of academe to become Phil Sparrow, a tattoo artist on Chi...
|  | Ghost Rider: Trail of Tears
Publication Date: October 10, 2007Here it is ? the prequel to Garth Ennis and Clayton Crain's smash hit Ghost Rider: Road to Damnation! Travis Parham thought he'd seen hell. As a lieutenant in the Confederate Army, he stood neck-deep in muck and blood, surrounded by the whistle of hot shrapnel and men's screams. Two years later, Parham has carved a new life for himself, doing his best to forget the depravity that lurks in the pits of men's souls. Now, Parham's tranquil world is about to be rudely interrupted. Up from the depths comes a force of nature that transcends his wildest dreams - a f...
|  | Love is Like a Simile: and other profound advice from the underqualified
Publication Date: June 9, 2012Once upon a time there lived a pulchritudinous girl. The most pulchritudinous girl in the whole world. That girl was me. Well, it still is. To this day, (the present) I remain pulchritudinous, like a dove resting gently on a cloud around four in the afternoon. I'm here to tell you my tales of woe and glamour. Before you read, here are some questions you should ponder: Would I fall in love? And if I fell in love, would I have enough gumption to hold on to such a love? Don't you wish you could be as pulchritudinous as me? Would my story end happily ever after? (Fe...
|  | I Was on the Wrong Bear
Publication Date: January 1, 1992| ISBN-10: 0912678844 | ISBN-13: 978-0912678849| Edition: 1st Young Adult. Folklore. Oral History. Edited by his friend Vaugh Ward, Harvey Carr's tales establish him as the representative northern woodsman. Ranging from Hello, I'm Harvey Carr through Real Bears and Not Real Bears to So Long, Etc. These short pieces are charming stories, deceptively sophisticated in their earthy simplicity. If I'd kept on tellin' the truth, I'd never have gotten into these thing! You get in the right group and everyone adds something ... If people laugh, they're not mad, t...
| | The dark comedy: The development of modern comic tragedy
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| | Comportamiento Etico De LA Poesia De Antonio Machado (Spanish Edition)
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|  | The German Lunatic
Publication Date: May 4, 2000"A nonstop commentary on everything from movies, to politics, to aging parents. The individual poems feel open, unpredictable, [showing] a keen moral sense in face of an ambiguous, absurd world."--Gardner McFall, AMERICAN BOOK REVIEW"Splendid contemporary examples of...streetwise, urban poetry...a joyous celebration of city life..."--Joel Lewis, FORWARD ...
|  | Tangled in Wisteria
Publication Date: January 2, 2008Absolutely! J. Andrew Lockhart tells us in Tangled in Wisteria how this happened in his life. This story of his amazing victory is followed by a collection of his modern English versions of the Japanese poems of tanka, haiku, and senryu. Movingly written, these short poems reveal the beauty of the seasons of nature and of life. ...
| | Li bie ji (Zhongguo gu dian shi ci lei bian) (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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| | Indianapolis booksellers and their literary background, 1822-1860,: And a glimpse of the "old book" trade of Indianapolis,
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|  | Cognition and Eros: A Critique of the Kantian Paradigm
Publication Date: March 1, 1993"In her interesting and provocative book, Robin May Schott focuses our attention on two central themes emerging from the context of an examination of sexual relations in which philosophy has operated. First, she asks the reader to wonder about the philosophical significance of the historical absence of women from philosophy, and, second, to consider the social implications of a philosophy constructed on this basis. Her conclusions are to see the suppression of the erotic theme of human existence from philosophical contemplation to be an expression of a philosop...
|  | Monsieur Ibrahim ET Les Fleurs Du Coran (French Edition)
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|  | A Vampire Trilogy: Isle of the Undead Book III (A Vampire Trilogy, Book III)
Publication Date: May 4, 2012| Series: A Vampire Trilogy, Book III Eight years have passed since Galian McDermot moved to Ireland to take his place in the Celtic world as the Tribunal Judicial Officer and King. The unlikely union of Galian and Delbeth has survived all attempts to destroy them. Together, they now live in a converted castle on the Isle of Man that holds their growing family of blended vampires-each with his or her own special faerie gift. Galian and Delbeth now have proof that it was Delbeth's former boyfriend, Johan, who assassinated the old Tribunal. Worse yet, before his de...
|  | Marvels
Publication Date: January 6, 2010| Grade Level: 4 and up Welcome to New York. Here, burning figures roam the streets, men in brightly colored costumes scale the glass and concrete walls, and creatures from space threaten to devour our world. This is the Marvel Universe, where the ordinary and fantastic interact daily. This is the world of MARVELS. Collecting MARVELS #0-4. ...
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