 | The Best American Essays 2007
Publication Date: October 10, 2007| Series: Best American Essays The twenty-two essays in this powerful collection -- perhaps the most diverse in the entire series -- come from a wide variety of periodicals, ranging from n + 1 and PMS to the New Republic and The New Yorker, and showcase a remarkable range of forms. Read on for narrative -- in first and third person -- opinion, memoir, argument, the essay-review, confession, reportage, even a dispatch from Iraq. The philosopher Peter Singer makes a case for philanthropy; the poet Molly Peacock constructs a mosaic tribute to a little-known but...
 |  | Happy Birthday Jesus
Publication Date: March 1994From Publishers Weekly (Starred Review):"Few readers will be able to forget the chilling experience of a forlorn hero who's destined to take his place next to Bigger Thomas in the honor roll of seminal characters in American literature." ...
|  | The Other Side of Dare (Blessed Trinity)
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|  | The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Volume 15 (Mammoth Books)
Publication Date: October 15, 2004| Series: Mammoth Books (Book 15) This edition of The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror comes with another generous sampling of the past year's best horror fiction, earning acclamations from the likes of Kirkus Reviews and Publishers Weekly. With contributions from such favorites as Ramsey Campbell and Kim Newman, along with the talented likes of Neil Gaiman, China Mieville, Graham Joyce, Paul McCauley, Stephen Gallagher, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Jay Russell, Glen Hirshberg and many more, the hair-raising tales in this edition hold nightmares for travelers in alien...
|  | A Changed Man: A Novel
Release Date: March 1, 2005What is charismatic Holocaust survivor Meyer Maslow to think when a rough-looking young neo-Nazi named Vincent Nolan walks into the Manhattan office of Maslow's human rights foundation and declares that he wants to "save guys like me from becoming guys like me"? As Vincent gradually turns into the sort of person who might actually be able to do this, he also transforms those around him: Meyer Maslow, who fears heroism has become a desk job; the foundation's dedicated fund-raiser, Bonnie Kalen, an appealingly vulnerable divorced single mother; and even Bonnie's teen...
|  | Todos juntos y muertos (All Together Dead, Spanish Edition) (Sookie Stackhouse)
Publication Date: September 30, 2011| Series: Sookie Stackhouse (Book 7) Betrayed by her longtime vampire love, Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse must now not only deal with a possible new man in her life, the oh-so-handsome shapeshifter Quinn, but also contend with a long-planned vampire summit. With her power base weakened by hurricane damage to New Orleans, the local vampire queen is vulnerable to those hungry for a takeover. Soon, Sookie must decide what side she'll stand with. And her choice may mean the difference between survival and all-out catastrophe.Spanish Descripti...
|  | Gente como uno (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: September 6, 2011Don Manuel Raed Bucareli es un empresario exitoso. Sus negocios abarcan desde la construccion de casas de interes social hasta los menus clubs. Hombre cinico, practico, astuto, amigo de funcionarios publicos y banqueros. Aficionado a las mujeres hermosas y al whisky. A pesar de su origen humilde se las arreglo para casarse con una millonaria aristocratica y racista, Macarena de Otranto y Santiago Calimaya. Entre los dos construyeron un pequeno imperio cuya corte esta compuesta por los criados y los hijos. Los miembros de esta conspicua familia mexicana ocup...
|  | Antolog
Publication Date: February 17, 2000| Series: Coleccion Testimonios La obra poética de Carrera Andrade (1903-1978), un ecuatoriano universal, constituye uno de los trabajos más sensibles de la lengua española en el siglo XX. Se manifiestan en ella la plasticidad, la palabra sutil y minuciosa, como características fundamentales de un trabajo con resonancias visuales para el habitante de cualquier lugar de la tierra. Su poética supone un descubrimiento sucesivo de la claridad, la unidad y la consistencia de un mundo que toma forma de manera progresiva. ...
|  | When Wizards Rule (Wizard Twins, Book 2)
Publication Date: February 28, 2006Book 2 in the Wizard Twins series.Desperate to avoid a Joining with the wickedly handsome Sashtain Twins, Marina escapes them at every turn. Relentless, they plague her days and torment her dreams wickedly erotic dreams that make her body pulse with the promise of dark desires revealed and a sexual heat that will send her up in flames.But when the hated Seculars gain in strength and dark magic weaves an insidious, invisible threat to all she holds dear, she discovers there is more to be gained by aligning her magick with the Sashtain Wizards than she though...
|  | Opal Fire: A Stacy Justice Mystery
Publication Date: June 28, 2011This is book one of the Stacy Justice mystery series--laugh out loud crime fiction with a paranormal twist.Stacy Justice did not expect to be set on fire that night, but being raised by witches prepares one for life's little surprises. When her cousin is accused of arson, Stacy is determined to clear her family name--until something cryptic is discovered in the rubble that changes everything. Now, someone wants her dead and she finds herself dodging angry motorists, exploding chickens and a very creepy man lurking in the shadows. As she begins to dig up the pas...
|  | Time After Time
Publication Date: February 17, 2011Kelly Brennan, a beautiful young widow, arrives at the door wearing a horrible lime green silk and organza bridesmaid's dress. She seems confused and talks about strange devices like "telephones" and "cabs"--things that don't yet exist in this post-Civil War New Orleans. You see, Kelly has traveled backward through time to an era of gentile southern manners and a calm pace of life she had only dreamed of in her modern, hectic world. Adding to Kelly's confusion is the uncanny resemblance of her charming gentleman host, Daniel Gilmore, to her late husband Mic...
|  | The Man of the Forest (MP3 CD)
Publication Date: July 2002In this 1920 Best-seller, Milt Dale, a lone camper, overhears a conversation that persuades him to leave his forest paradise to save a young woman from certain doom. ...
|  | To Kill a Saint
Publication Date: March 15, 2010A corpse on an altar. A witness who isn't talking. An ancient vow of secrecy. It's 2 A.M. when County Prosecutor Peter Saul arrives at the scene of a grisly murder at St. Andrew's Church in Cleveland, Ohio. Reverend Howard Jamison is covered with the victim's blood, and there's a Satanic Bible on his desk. Attorney Hunter St. James has spent his career fighting the shameful specter of his father's legacy. Now he's assigned a pro-bono case he's sure he can't win. The charge is first-degree murder, and the arraignment is in two days. Worse, the client's a holy-r...
|  | The Tristan Betrayal
Release Date: December 1, 2009Moscow-a city under siege by hardcore Communists threatening to plunge the country back into Stalinist darkness. Into the heart of the firestorm, American ambassador Stephen Metcalf has been summoned to find the one man who controls the levers of power in absolute secrecy-an official known only as the Dirizhor. His support of the bloody coup will bring the entire world to the brink of nuclear war. Metcalfe is the only man with the cunning to reach him and to convince him to resist. It's up to Metcalf to change the course of history. He's done it before.For Metca...
|  | Payment in Kind: A J.P. Beaumont Novel
Release Date: December 27, 2011| Series: J. P. BeaumontA riveting novel of dark secrets and murderous rage featuring Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont from the New York Times bestselling author of Betrayal of Trust In death, they were entwined like lovers—a man and a woman hideously slaughtered, then stuffed into a closet in the Seattle School District building. But what appears a cut-and-dried crime of passion, complete with an ideal prime suspect, goes deeper than investigating detective J.P. Beaumont could ever have imagined. For an accused betrayed husband is keeping something sho...
|  | The Becket Factor (Felony & Mayhem Mysteries) (Myst of Canterbury Cathedral)
Publication Date: January 15, 2008| Series: Myst of Canterbury Cathedral (Book 1) After years in government service, Richard Harrison is hoping for a quiet retirement in Canterbury, where he does volunteer work for the Cathedral and tends to his beloved disabled wife. Fate, though, has other plans for Harrison, which begin with a mysterious death, move on to blackmail in the secretive world of church politics, and explode into a media circus when workmen uncover a tomb that may be the final resting place of Thomas a Becket -- the notorious 12th-century Archbishop of Canterbury, otherwise kno...
|  | The Cat Who Dropped A Bombshell (Cat Who...)
Publication Date: January 10, 2006The residents of Pickax are about to celebrate the 150th anniversary of its founding. But in the midst of all the preparations, Qwill has to take time out to deal with Koko's strange new habit of dropping from balconies and landing in the oddest of places-and a couple that has mysteriously gone missing. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition....
|  | Titanic #1: Unsinkable
Publication Date: May 1, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | How to Draw Insects (Dover How to Draw)
Publication Date: November 18, 2009| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Frog and Fly
Release Date: March 15, 2012| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up Six slurpy stories, two comical combatants, and one laugh-out-loud picture book Frog and Fly are constant companions. There is only one problem . . . Frog thinks Fly is delicious! This leads to a never-ending battle of wits with laugh-out- loud consequences. Told in six short comic stripstyle chapters, Frog and Fly will delight kids and leave them begging for yet another slurpy story. ...
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