| Queen Takes King Publication Date: July 13, 2010Jacks Power: The prodigal son, heir to millions, built his own Manhattan real estate empire and revels in seeing his moniker on glittering skyscrapers around the city. Here’s a man who always loved to see his name in ink. Until now.Cynthia Hunsaker Power: The epitome of elegance and society, the former prima ballerina met a struggling painter, fell in love, and only later learned she’d won the Power lottery.The morning after the Power silver anniversary gala at the Waldorf, Jacks appears twice in the New York Post—once gallantly dancing with h...
| | Summer Nights (Fool's Gold, Book 8) Release Date: June 26, 2012| Series: Fool's Gold (Book 8) Horse whisperer Shane Stryker is done with passion. This time around, he's determined to meet someone who will be content with the quiet life of a rancher's wife. And the fiery, pint-size redhead who dazzles him at the local bar definitely does not fit the bill.Small-town librarian Annabelle Weiss has always seen herself as more of a sweetheart than a siren, so she can't understand why Shane keeps pushing her away. Shane has formed the totally wrong impression of her but only he can help her with a special event for the ne...
| | Good Girls Gone Bad: A Novel Release Date: October 21, 2003Janey Febre is obsessed with her old boyfriend and decides to get some help, but when her new friends from the support group suggest a plot to get back at her ex, she finds herself neck deep in trouble. By the author of Hunger Point. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 35,000 first printing. ...
| | By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness Release Date: May 23, 2006 From Paulo Coelho, author of the international bestseller The Alchemist, comes a poignant, richly poetic story that reflects the depth of love and life. Rarely does adolescent love reach its full potential, but what happens when two young lovers reunite after eleven years? Time has transformed Pilar into a strong and independent woman, while her devoted childhood friend has grown into a handsome and charismatic spiritual leader. She has learned well how to bury her feelings . . . and he has turned to religion as a refuge from his raging inner conflicts. Now the...
| | Brides of Lehigh Canal Omnibus Publication Date: May 1, 2012| Series: Brides of Lehigh CanalRelive bygone canal days with the Brides of Lehigh Canal! For artistic Kelly, life is a daily drudge of driving her father’s mules along the canal. Can a general store owner prove he’s not like Kelly’s father and just right for her? Betsy reluctantly returns to small-town Walnutport, Pennsylvania, only to butt heads with the new pastor. Will the two find enough common ground to stand on—and build new love? Widow Sarah dreams of a life without locks and gates. But when a canal captain and a blacksmith both ...
| | Luther: The Calling Release Date: September 4, 2012A brilliant crime novel and prequel to the acclaimed BBC series by the show’s creator and sole writer Meet Detective Chief Inspector John Luther. He’s a murder detective with an extraordinary case-clearance rate. He’s obsessive, instinctive, and intense. Nobody who ever stood at his side has a bad word to say about him. And yet there are rumors that Luther is bad—not corrupt, not on the take, but tormented. After years of chasing the most depraved criminals in London’s gritty underworld, he seethes with a hidden fury that at times ...
| | Noah: A Novel of the Boom Times (Seagull Books - The Swiss List) Publication Date: June 15, 2012| Series: Seagull Books - The Swiss List As the current global recession stubbornly persists and financialexperts around the world struggle to prevent further financial collapse,everyone has a theory about how to save the economy. But perhaps noidea that has been proffered is as radical or as unique as what HugoLoetscher imagines in his novel Noah. In this book, firstpublished in German in 1967, the eponymous Old Testament hero fuels hislocal economy with a prescient plan to build the Ark. Though no onearound him seriously believes in the coming flood, eve...
| | Diversite: La Nouvelle Francophone: An Intermediate Reader and Francophone Anthology, 2nd Edition Publication Date: November 5, 1999| ISBN-10: 0395909333 | ISBN-13: 978-0395909331| Edition: 2nd This intermediate- to advanced-level reader contains fifteen unabridged short stories about women protagonists. Cultural, geographical, and historical information heightens students' awareness of each of the countries represented. Updated author profiles written in English help students place the stories within a literary and cultural context. ...
| | The Vinland Sagas. The Norse Discovery of America. ...
| | To Hear the Rain: Selected Haiku of Peggy Lyles Publication Date: December 15, 2002A Goodrich Haiku Masters edition featuring outstanding English-language haiku poets, To Hear the Rain: Selected Haiku of Peggy Lyles collects 148 of Lyles' best haiku from over 25 years work. The book also includes a preface on haiku poetics from Peggy Lyles, an introduction by Christopher Herold and an interview with the poet by Lidonna Beer. ...
| | Book of Haikus, Volume IV ...
| | Woe is Me Publication Date: June 1, 1999Woe Is Me is an imagery filled poetical walk down life'sdreary roads with an occassional glance at the sunshine as it appearsthrough the clouds. This leisurely stroll will open your mind toissues of race, sex, love, abuse and despair. An exploration of life'srealities, Woe Is Me is a passport into the mind of the depresssed anddowntrodden. ...
| | A Good Handful: Great New Zealand Poems About Sex Publication Date: April 1, 2008This poetry anthology was conceived as something of a stunt to heighten the visibility of New Zealand writers. All the contributors are New Zealanders, and all of the more than 100 poems address the topic of sex—not love, just sex. The result is a collection that tackles sex from every angle, including the comic in Karl Stead's "The Clodian Songbook," the confessional in Rachel McAlpine's "A Frightened Poem about My Breasts," the metaphysical in James K. Baxter's "On the Death of Her Body," and the just plain ...
| | Livres et bibliotheques: XIIIe-XVe siecle (Cahiers de Fanjeaux) (French Edition) ...
| | Panic Spring: a Romance (E L S Monograph Series) Publication Date: July 1, 2008| ISBN-10: 1550583816 | ISBN-13: 978-1550583816First published in 1937, two years after Durrell took up residence on the Greek island Kerkyra, Panic Spring broke with the realist tradition in 1930s novels and shows the young author s first attempts to extend High Modernist innovations in rural and personal landscapes. Cubist, surrealist, and imagist techniques merge with rural life and the peasant village that an international group of expatriates are led to by a curiously Pan-like boatman. Unavailable for seven decades, this new edition of Panic Spring show...
| | The Love Scrolls: Casanova Publication Date: July 2, 2008It's not what you think. You may have heard Casanova's legend, but have you heard his heart? Could you read between the lines of the playwright who wrote the play Casanova and why he assumes that role of his character given the power of Cupid's bow and arrow? But he is just like you and I. After all, we all use the power of the bow and arrow in some form, whether through beauty, power, or wit. And we use that power to some extent to shapes love's stage. Admittedly, some are better than others. And of course, our intentions are good. Well, at least we try most of...
| | Prescription for Genocide: The B12-A Syndrome Release Date: April 6, 2009A U.S.-educated Middle East terrorist leader and his sleeper cell conspirators plot to unleash a biological Armageddon on the United States. Two U.S. forensic teaching pathologists are paid huge sums of money to help carry out the plan. An African-American star football player suddenly collapses on the practice field. Brought to the ER of a south Louisiana hospital, he unexpectedly suffers cardiac arrest and dies from a virulent form of pneumonia. That makes him the tenth such African-American athlete to die during the past year from similar medical pro...
| | Oh! Release Date: October 28, 1999| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up The snow falls all night. Everything is white. And everyone wants to play. You can play, too! Come and join the squirrel, the rabbit, the cat, the dog, and all the children. You don't even need your snowsuit! ...
| | How to be a Princess in 7 Days or Less Release Date: October 13, 2005| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
| | The Frogs Wore Red Suspenders Release Date: February 19, 2002Jack Prelutsky is the undisputed master of hilarious verse for the youngest child. And Petra Mathers, has no equal when it comes to bringing anything with fur or feathers uproariously to life. Put the two of them together -and you have a modern classic.Here are poems about people and animals, set in such far-flung places as Minot, Minneapolis, Tuscaloosa, Tucumcari, and the Grand Canyon. Impossible to read only once (and memorized by the third reading), these exuberant poems and irresistible pictures will be loved by children from Miami to Seattle. --This text ...
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