 | The Pioneers (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: June 6, 1988| Series: Penguin Classics In this classic novel, James Fenimore Cooper portrays life in a new settlement on New York's Lake Otsego in the closing years of the eighteenth century. He describes the year's cycle: the turkey shoot at Christmas, the tapping of maple trees, fishing for bass in the evening, the marshalling of the militia. But Cooper is also concerned with exploring the development of the cultural and philosophical underpinnings of the American experience. He writes of the conflicts within the settlement itself, focusing primarily on the contrast between t...
 |  | Cantos de Adolescencia: Songs of Youth (1932-1937) (Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage)
Publication Date: September 30, 2007| Series: Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage "Stop, Time, your fast race; / turn back to my lost infancy." With the final poem of this collection, Upon Turning Twenty One, famed Chicano folklorist Américo Paredes closes a chapter in his life--one written during his formative years from 1932 to 1937--as he grew from a seventeen-year-old boy to a twenty-one-year-old man. In doing so, the renowned writer looks "toward the unknown future maze." Originally published in 1937 by Librería Española in San Antonio, Texas, t...
|  | How to Eat a Cupcake: A Novel
Release Date: March 13, 2012Free-spirited Annie Quintana and sophisticated Julia St. Clair come from two different worlds. Yet, as the daughter of the St. Clairs' housekeeper, Annie grew up in Julia's San Francisco mansion and they forged a bond that only two little girls oblivious to class differences could—until a life-altering betrayal destroyed their friendship. A decade later, Annie bakes to fill the void left in her heart by her mother's death, and a painful secret jeopardizes Julia's engagement to the man she loves. A chance reunion prompts the unlikely duo to open a cupcakery, b...
|  | Real Vampires Hate Skinny Jeans
Release Date: April 3, 2012| Series: Real Vampires Someone is eating for two... Full-figured vampire Glory St. Clair thinks things are finally goingher way. She's no longer possessed by a demon, the legions of hellaren't on her tail, and her love life is heating up since she managedto reconnect with her maker-and longtime lover-Jeremy Blade.When a pregnant demon shows up on her doorstep, Glory knows thateverything is about to go to hell. Alesa is claiming that the babyshe's carrying is Rafe's, conceived while she was inhabiting Glory'sbody. A clever trap? Or could it be true?Booties and bibs...
|  | What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Publication Date: September 1991FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. --This text refers to the School & Library Binding edition....
|  | Emigrants: The Emigrant Novels Book 1 (The Emigrant Novels / Vilhelm Moberg, Book 1)
Publication Date: September 1, 1995| Series: The Emigrant Novels / Vilhelm Moberg, Book 1 (Book 1) Book One introduces Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson, their 3 young children, and 11 others who make up a resolute party of Swedes fleeing the poverty, religious persecution, and social oppression of Smaland in 1850. ...
|  | Mixed Messages
Release Date: March 1, 2006On the surface Kailah Carter is a loyal and trusted friend, hardworking financial consultant, and devoted daughter. At least that’s what her best friend Mona Richards always thought. That is until she discovers Kailah’s been sleeping with her man. Kailah believes Keith Terrence to be her Prince Charming. His smooth talk and fat bank account sweeps Kailah off her designer heels, and she happily assumes the role of respective wife --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Tyrant Banderas (New York Review Books Classics)
Release Date: August 14, 2012| Series: New York Review Books Classics An NYRB Classics OriginalThe first great twentieth-century novel of dictatorship, and the avowed inspiration for García Márquez’s The Autumn of the Patriarch and Roa Bastos’s I, the Supreme, Tyrant Banderas is a dark and dazzling portrayal of a mythical Latin American republic in the grip of a monster. Ramón del Valle-Inclán, one of the masters of Spanish modernism, combines the splintered points of view of a cubist painting with the campy excesses of 19th-century serial fiction to p...
|  | Resident Evil: The Umbrella Conspiracy
Release Date: September 18, 2012| Series: Resident Evil (Book 1) Raccoon City: a remote mountain community suddenly besieged by a rash of grisly murders. At the epicenter, a dark secluded mansion belonging to the mysterious Umbrella Corporation. Deployed to investigate the strange goings-on is the Special Tactics and Rescue Squad (S.T.A.R.S.) but what unfolds as the team penetrate the mansion's long-locked doors is terror beyond their worst nightmares. ...
|  | A Private HopeA Trilogy by R. B. Phillips
Publication Date: February 14, 2011Residents of Baylor, a northern Michigan town, are not only questioning who Kat Emmons is, but how is the 18-year-old high school senior able to find and print news before it's published in the local newspaper? Kat's previous articles lead to a state attorney general's investigation into Chief Wayne Crawford's police department, and now the Baylor board of education and its controversial new superintendent, Thomas Pyles, are in Kat's journalistic crosshairs.Her articles begin a process that will unravel the town's mysteries and expose a nefarious internatio...
|  | Angels on Toast
Release Date: June 1, 1998Everyone in Dawn Powell's New York satire Angels on Toast is on the make: Lou Donovan, the entrepeneur who ricochets frantically between his well-connected current wife, his disreputable ex, and his dangerously greedy mistress; Trina Kameray, the exotic adventuress whose job title is as phony as her accent; T.V. Truesdale, the man with the aristocratic manner, the fourteen-dollar suit, and the hyperactive eye for the main chance. A dizzyingly fast-paced and deliriously entertaining novel. ...
|  | Shakespeare: A Very Short Introduction
Publication Date: May 16, 2002A clear introduction to Shakespeare's plays, this volume examines them in detail and shows how Shakespeare dramatized moral and intellectual issues in such a way that his audience became dazzlingly aware of an imaginative dimension to daily life. Germaine Greer argues that as long as Shakespeare's work remains central to English cultural life, it will retain the values which make it unique in the world. ...
|  | Mother's & Father's Day Program Builder No. 10: Creative Resources for Program Directors (Mother's Day & Father's Day Program Builder)
Release Date: December 1, 2005| Series: Mother's Day & Father's Day Program Builder (Book 10) (Lillenas Publications). Here's a resource that helps you create fun programs to celebrate moms and dads. Simple rhyming recitations for kids, short scenes, plays and program ideas for a variety of ages is what's inside. Use for worship services, an evening performance, or a special banquet. Explore the possibilities with this easy-to-use book. ...
|  | The Fallen Angel: Chastity, Class and Women's Reading 1835-1880
Publication Date: January 1, 1981| ISBN-10: 0879721553 | ISBN-13: 978-0879721558| Edition: 1st This book discusses the figure of the unchaste woman in a wide range of fiction written between 1835 and 1880; serious novels by Dickens, Mrs. Gaskell, Meredith, and George Eliot; popular novels that provided light reading for middle-class women (including books by Dinah Craik, Rhoda Broughton, and Ouida); sensational fiction; propaganda for social reform; and stories in cheap periodicals such as the Family Herald and the London Journal, which reached a different and far wider audience than eit...
|  | In Search of Sunjata: The Mande Oral Epic as History, Literature, and Performance
Release Date: November 22, 1999The Sunjata epic, which celebrates the founder of the 13th century Mali empire, is Âthe most famous African epic. The pathbreaking essays by well known scholars in this watershed volume examine Sunjata from a variety of perspectives. ...
|  | The Old Man And The Sea (Cliffs Notes)
Publication Date: December 19, 2000| Series: Dummies Trade The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.In CliffsNotes on The Old Man and the Sea, you explore Hemingway's short masterpiece about Santiago, an old man who conquers a magnificent fish, endures its heartbreaking loss, and rises gallantly above his defeat.This study guide takes you along on Santiago's...
|  | One Second After
Release Date: April 26, 2011New York Times best selling author William R. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real...a story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war that will send America back to the Dark Ages...A war based upon a weapon, an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP). A weapon that may already be in the hands of our enemies. Months before publication, One Second After has already been cited on the floor of Congress a...
|  | The Seance
Publication Date: March 1, 2010A chill falls over Christina Hardy's housewarming party when talk turns to a recent murder that has all the hallmarks of the so-called "Interstate Killer" murders from fifteen years before. To lighten the mood, the guests drag out an old Ouija board for a little spooky fun…and that's when things become truly terrifying.Summoned by the Ouija board, the restless spirit of Beau Kidd, the lead detective—and chief suspect—on the original case, seeks Christina's help: the latest killing isn't a copycat crime, and he wants his name cleared. B...
|  | The Black Lyon: The Magnificent Love Story of a Fearless Lord and the Woman Who Tamed Him
Release Date: September 27, 2011 A Classic Love Story of a Fearless Lord and the Woman Who Tamed Him Darkly handsome and rich beyond imagining, the bold English conqueror was called “the Black Lyon” for his lionlike ferocity. He had no match among enemies, or women . . . until he met Lyonene, the green-eyed beauty whose fiery spirit equaled his own. Through a whirlwind romance and stormy marriage, she endured every peril to be by his side, until vicious lies and jealousy drove her into danger. Now only the fierce Black Lyon can save her—for he alone has the courage to dest...
|  | Second Time Around
Publication Date: October 20, 2009Love's more comfortable the second time around. Just as wonderful with both feet on the ground . . . Winds of Destiny - Sitting alone in a bar on her fortieth birthday wasn't something Katherine Armand had ever planned. With her marriage over, better to pay attention to her career.A big-shot developer was flying into her sleepy, coastal fishing village to discuss building a resort.Katherine was a top-notch negotiator for her law firm.Anderson was eager for the land.This should be as smooth as sailing gentle Gulf waters. Except Anderson sent his top man to br...
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