 | The Republican Playbook
Publication Date: October 3, 2006Scandals. Lies. A breathtaking disregard for federal laws. How on earth do the Republicans keep winning Easy: They've got a Playbook After the 2004 presidential debates, eagle-eyed observers hypothesized about the rectangular bulge tucked inside George W.'s suit jacket, visible in images shown around the world. Was it a radio receiver, allowing Karl Rove to feed the president complete sentences hed never form on his own Perhaps it was a remote-control device that enabled Dick Cheney to operate W. like a robot. Nah. The real explanation was much simpler, and y...
 |  | The Black Hills
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|  | Native Speaker
Release Date: March 1, 1996In Native Speaker, author Chang-rae Lee introduces readers to Henry Park.Park has spent his entire life trying to become a true American—a native speaker. But even as the essence of his adopted country continues to elude him, his Korean heritage seems to drift further and further away.Park's harsh Korean upbringing has taught him to hide his emotions, to remember everything he learns, and most of all to feel an overwhelming sense of alienation.In other words, it has shaped him as a natural spy. But the very attributes that help him to excel in his profession pu...
|  | How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater
Release Date: August 2, 2005A deliciously funny romp of a novel about one overly theatrical and sexually confused New Jersey teenager’s larcenous quest for his acting school tuition.It’s 1983 in Wallingford, New Jersey, a sleepy bedroom community outside of Manhattan. Seventeen-year-old Edward Zanni, a feckless Ferris Bueller–type, is Peter Panning his way through a carefree summer of magic and mischief. The fun comes to a halt, however, when Edward’s father remarries and refuses to pay for Edward to study acting at Juilliard.Edward’s truly in a bind. He’s...
|  | City Girl
Publication Date: December 3, 1998A friendly blonde 'made for loving', a quiet brown-eyed girl of no confidence, and a sexy redhead with wanderlust: Devlin, Caroline and Maggie. Their staunch three-way friendship is born while housesharing and during their twenty-something years it's the only certainty. That, and their status-symbol membership of Dublin's most exclusive health centre for high-profile women: City Girl. For Caroline, life's great purpose is not to be left on the shelf and so she considers resorting to St Jude - the patron saint of hopeless cases. But then God sends her Devlin ...
|  | The Ewe Lamb
Publication Date: July 1, 1999Judith and Alice have built a lifelong friendship. Two very different women living totally separate lives, they have always found each other when it matters most. When her father dies, high-flying Judith turns to home-girl Alice for help. ...
|  | Anathema
Publication Date: May 12, 2009When Hannah refuses to forgive a terrible sin she becomes anathema--shunned. But the real question is, can she forgive herself? Visitors come to Parke County, Indiana to enjoy the lush farms, to buy the Amish quilts, and to experience the peaceful ways of the Amish families who live there. But when a double murder rocks this quiet community, the Amish residents resolve to forgive even this unfathomable offense. Hannah, however, finds forgiveness out of reach--both for the murderer and for herself. She harbors a secret shame: while the crime was committed in her ...
|  | Confirming Justice
Publication Date: September 1, 2009Washington D.C. Insiders Release New Thriller Involving Supreme Court Nominee. All eyes are on Federal judge Dwight Pendergast, rumored to be in line for nomination to the Supreme Court, who is presiding over a bribery case involving a cabinet secretary's son. When the key prosecurtion witness disappears, FBI agent Griff Topping races against time to find him, and the agent risks everything to save the case while the Dwght's enemies seek to expose his family secrets. The world watches as events threaten the powerful position and those who covet it. Confirmi...
|  | The Prime Minister (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: June 4, 2011| Series: Oxford World's Classics Despite his mysterious antecedents, an unscrupulous financial speculator, Ferdinand Lopez, aspires to marry into respectability and wealth and join the ranks of British society. One of the nineteenth century's most memorable outsiders, Lopez's story is set against that of the ultimate insider, Plantagenet Palliser, Duke of Omnium, who reluctantly accepts the highest office of state, becoming "the greatest man in the greatest country in the world." The Prime Minister is the fifth in Trollope's six-volume Palliser series and a won...
|  | Rumors of Peace: A Novel (P.S.)
Release Date: April 5, 2011| Series: P.S.To ten-year-old Suse Hansen, the fighting in Europe seems far away from the blue skies and quiet streets of her Bay Area home in Mendoza, California—despite newspaper war photographs and the tense radio broadcasts. But Pearl Harbor changes everything. Caught up in the fear and uncertainty of air raid drills, draft calls, and the mysterious departure of her Japanese and Italian neighbors, Suse becomes obsessed with the war. As Mendoza and the rest of America adjust to their new lives, Suse, too, will face challenges of her own as she begins to...
|  | Song of the Orange Moons
Publication Date: November 16, 2010A mosaic of stories that follow the intertwined lives of three girls coming of age. Two young girls from Jewish and Christian families and their elderly widow next door try to find happiness in a seemingly cruel world. In spite of their different cultural and economic backgrounds, Rebecka, Helen, and Adelle all share the delicate and self-conscious journey to womanhood. All three search for love and meaning in a variety of places a charismatic church, a Depression-era orphanage, a moonlit Savannah park, an orthodox Jewish boarding school and end up finding ...
|  | Cerddi R.Williams Parry: Y Casgliad Cyflawn (Welsh Edition)
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|  | Marina Tsvetayeva: A Critical Biography
Publication Date: October 10, 1995As Razumovsky explains in her introduction to this most comprehensive study: ""Its aim is to acquaint lovers of lyric poetry with the poetry of Marina Tsvetayeva, to tell them about her life and work, and to draw their attention to the tragic fate, not only of Tsvetayeva, but also of her entire generation. ...
| | John Donne: Selections from Divine Poems, Sermons, Devotions, and Prayers (Classics of Western Spirituality)
Publication Date: July 1990| Series: Classics of Western Spirituality The poetry of John Donne is one of the enduring treasures bequeathed to posterity by early seventeenth-century England. The keen wit and refined sensibilities of the Renaissance poet made his metaphysical musings classics of English literature. Yet, as was the case with his contemporary, George Herbert, it was the religious impulse that ran most strongly in his life. It led him, after a career as an aspirant at the court of James I, to take holy orders in the Anglican church at the age of 43. The skill and passion that had...
|  | Essential Dickinson CD
Release Date: June 27, 2006| ISBN-10: 0061124214 | ISBN-13: 978-0061124211| Edition: UnabridgedKnown as "The Myth of Amherst" for her withdrawal from society while still a young woman, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) had an inner life that was deeply emotional and intense. She knew rapture and despair, pondered the wonder of God and the meaning of death. She broke tradition and was criticized for her seminal experiments with unorthodox phrasing, rhyme and broken meter, within concise verse forms, thus becoming an innovator and forerunner of modern poets. This collection of Emily Dickinso...
|  | Missing Persons (Alan Gregory)
Release Date: March 7, 2006| Series: Alan Gregory Psychologist Alan Gregory’s friend and fellow therapist Hannah Grant has died suddenly and mysteriously. The police are baffled, leaving another unsolved homicide in Boulder, Colorado. Only Alan can decipher Hannah’s clues—a quest that will take him to Las Vegas and lead him to question the integrity of those closest to him.But while Alan tracks a missing patient of Hannah’s, the answers to both cases may be locked inside the mind of a client he has been treating for schizoid personality disorder. Running a maze of dil...
|  | Dead Before Dark
Release Date: April 28, 2009When The Sun Goes Down...The Night Watchman is ready to kill - again. After thirty-five years in prison, he is free to commit the same twisted atrocities that once made him as notorious as the Zodiac Killer and Jack the Ripper. Now, at last, his moment has come...The Nightmare Begins...For renowned psychic Lucinda Sloan, fame is a double-edged sword. Through her television appearances, she helps police capture America's most elusive serial killers. Unfortunately, she also catches the eye of the Night Watchman. Once this madman learns that Lucinda 'sees' murders af...
|  | Don't Ever Get Old
Release Date: May 22, 2012When Buck Schatz, senior citizen and retired Memphis cop, learns that an old adversary may have escaped Germany with a fortune in stolen gold, Buck decides to hunt down the fugitive and claim the loot. But a lot of people want a piece of the stolen treasure, and Buck’s investigation quickly attracts unfriendly attention from a very motley (and murderous) crew in Daniel Friedman's Don't Ever Get Old. ...
| | Striding Folly Hb
Publication Date: April 18, 1991Three long stories featuring Lord Peter Wimsey after his courtship of and marriage to Harriet Vane. The author also wrote "Unnatural Death", "Gaudy Night", "The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club", "Have his Carcase", "Hangman's Holiday" and "Murder Must Advertise". ...
|  | Scooby-Doo! and the Snow Monster
Publication Date: January 1, 1999| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up Beginning readers will love keeping up with Scooby-Doo as he slips and slides through a mystery at the haunted Big Pine Ski Lodge. ...
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