 | Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life (Black Women Writers Series)
Release Date: October 31, 1986| Series: Black Women Writers Series (Book 716) Like One of the Family, which provides historical context for Kathryn Stockett's novel, The Help, is comprised of a series of conversations between Mildred, a blackdomestic, and her friend Marge. They create a vibrant picture of thelife of a black working woman in New York in the 1950s.Rippling withsatire and humor, Mildred’s outspoken accounts capture vividly her whiteemployers’ complacency and condescension—and startled reactions to amaid who speaks her mind. As Mildred declares to a patroniz...
 |  | Drakkynn
Release Date: November 16, 2006An entire unit of soldiers is massacred except for one man, Colonel Connor Allan, who is quickly overwhelmed with new abilities and unusual strength. While he contemplates his possible immortality he must find the men who are responsible for the theft of aprototype weapon with immeasurable power. With so much against him, he must follow the advice of an old friend and only learns how crucial his mission is when it is almost too late. ...
|  | King Solomon's Mines (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: January 29, 2008| Series: Penguin Classics The first great "Lost World" action-adventure-a precursor to Indiana Jones H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines has entertained generations of readers since its first publication in 1885. Following a mysterious map of dubious reliability, a small group of men trek into southern Africa in search of a lost friend-and a lost treasure, the fabled mines of King Solomon. Led by the English adventurer and fortune hunter Allan Quartermain, they discover a frozen corpse, survive untold dangers in remote mountains and deserts, and encounter t...
|  | Survived by her Longtime Companion
Publication Date: January 1, 2012Hired to work on a biography of the late film star, Daphne DeMonet, Bailey Hampton arrives to conduct an interview with Eleanor Burnett, Daphne's "longtime companion." To Bailey's dismay, she learns Eleanor has set up a co-interview with Bailey's ex-partner, Chelsea Parker. Estranged for eleven months, the two women hide their painful memories and strain to be civil to one another. Eleanor startles them by insisting that they take turns reading aloud from Eleanor's diaries of her life with Daphne DeMonet. Only after the diaries are read in her presence will E...
|  | Tropic of Capricorn
Publication Date: June 4, 2012Tropic of Capricorn is a semi-autobiographical novel by Henry Miller, first published in Paris in 1938. The novel was subsequently banned in the United States until a 1961 Justice Department ruling declared that its contents were not obscene. It was also banned in Turkey. It is a sequel to Miller's 1934 work, the Tropic of Cancer.The novel is set in 1920s New York, where the narrator 'Henry V. Miller' works in the personnel division of the 'Cosmodemonic' telegraph company. Although the narrator's experiences closely parallel Miller's own time in New York working...
|  | Winona's Web (Thorndike Senior Lifestyle)
Publication Date: February 1998| Series: Thorndike Senior Lifestyle Timeless Lakota wisdom and a midlife romance are at the center of this novel of love and empowerment. Dr. Meggie O'Connor, a New York psychologist, seeks a simpler life and moves to a peninsula off Lake Michigan. The quiet of her new life is soon disturbed, however, by the arrival of a most unusual patient--Winona Pathfinder, an elderly Sioux medicine woman. ...
|  | Longarm Double #1: Deputy U.S. Marshal
Release Date: July 29, 2008| Series: Longarm Double (Book 1) Double-barreled action—the first two Longarms in one volume.Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long always gets his man—and his woman—in the two tales that started the series: Longarm and Longarm on the Border. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | First French Reader: A Beginner's Dual-Language Book (Dover Dual Language French)
Publication Date: February 4, 2008| ISBN-10: 0486461785 | ISBN-13: 978-0486461786| Edition: Bilingual This excellent anthology introduces newcomers to 50 great writers. Beginners can get their first taste of Voltaire, Rousseau, Balzac, Baudelaire, and Proust with passages from The Red and the Black, Les Misérables, Madame Bovary, and other classics. Original French text plus English translation on facing pages. Introduction, new English translations, and notes by Stanley Appelbaum. ...
|  | Description of word of the "Pir" in Hafiz's Ghazals (Volume 1)
Publication Date: October 8, 2007If we except "Pir", in its meaning as aged, the person who is more than sixty years old, Pir in Iran's literature means a sage and wise man, who is well aware of social norms, behaviors and science; that has vast knowledge about different humanistic matters, and is respectful in the society at the given time.In Iran's literature, we have also a very peculiar meaning for the word of Pir; the Pir-i Tarighat, a man who in Mystic way of thinking transcends to the leader of Mystics, who is called also Ghotb/ Guide/ Murshid; the person who has reached to the top of...
|  | Love and Logic: The Evolution of Blake's Thought
Publication Date: September 1, 1992A fresh and readable explanation of Blake's major work that explores the relationship between love and logic in his writing ...
|  | When I Was Cool: My Life at the Jack Kerouac School
Release Date: February 3, 2004As a restless kid on Long Island, Sam Kashner lapped up the beauty and madness of the Beats, living vicariously through the novels, poems, and stories of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs. Their words were revolutionary, and they turned their very lives into art. Kashner didn't want to just study the Beats, he wanted to be one of them. So when he heard that Ginsberg had founded an unconventional writing program in Boulder, Colorado, he convinced his parents that college could wait, and became the first certificate student of the Jack Kerouac Sc...
|  | Rousseau's Political Writings: Discourse on Inequality, Discourse on Political Economy,On Social Contract (Norton Critical Editions)
Publication Date: October 17, 1987| ISBN-10: 0393956512 | ISBN-13: 978-0393956511| Edition: First Edition This Norton Critical Edition includes the three most important of Rousseau’s political writings: Discourse on Inequality, Discourse on Political Economy, and On Social Contract.Each piece is fully annotated. Backgrounds includes a sketch of Rousseau’s life, selections from his Confessions, and comments on Rousseau’s work and character from such illustrious contemporaries and early critics as Voltaire, Hume, Boswell and Johnson, Paine, Kant, and Proudhon. Commenta...
|  | Bodyguard: Shifters Unbound
Publication Date: December 2, 2011Elizabeth Chapman is saved from an armed robber by a giant Kodiak bear who shifts into a large, well-muscled, and fully naked human male. But when it's revealed that the robber is the brother of a dangerous criminal, Elizabeth finds herself the target of a vendetta. Ronan, the Bear Shifter, takes her to Shiftertown for safety, where Elizabeth learns that the mateless Ronan, alone in the world, takes care of Shifters who have also been left on their own. Having grown up in foster care, Elizabeth can only admire how protective Ronan is. But Ronan will only let...
|  | Blood of the Wolf
Release Date: December 20, 2002Out of the darkness I will come, ripping and tearing flesh. Blood of the Wolf is a full-on horror, in the true sense.What if you found out you had a half brother? What if he wanted to kill you? What if he was a werewolf? What if you were a full blood but didn't know it? --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
|  | Implied Consent
Publication Date: September 1, 2008Renowned trial lawyer and award-winning author Cody Fowler Davis follows up his debut novel Green 61 with this new legal thriller which once again pits optimistic, good-natured attorney Anderson Parker against the ruthless Justin Cartwright III. This time around, Justin enlists the help of an attractive paralegal named Nicole to infiltrate Anderson's firm and wreak havoc on his personal and professional life. While his marriage and career are being threatened by Justin and Nicole's ruthless tactics, Anderson's legal team dedicates themselves to several thou...
|  | Tower: A Novel
Publication Date: September 7, 2009Born into a rough Brooklyn neighborhood, outsiders in their own families, Nick and Todd forge a lifelong bond that persists in the face of crushing loss, blood, and betrayal. Low-level wiseguys with little ambition and even less of a future, the friends become major players in the potential destruction of an international crime syndicate that stretches from the cargo area at Kennedy Airport to the streets of New York, Belfast, and Boston to the alleyways of Mexican border towns. Their paths are littered with the bodies of undercover cops, snitches, lovers, ...
|  | Creature Teacher (Goosebumps Series 2000, No 3)
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|  | The Odyssey for Boys and Girls (Yesterday's Classics)
Publication Date: March 3, 2006Lively retelling of Homer's Odyssey, telling of the wanderings of Ulysses and his adventures with the giant Cyclops and the enchantress Circe as he makes his way home to his beloved Ithaca. There, after slaying the suitors who have been wooing his wife Penelope, he is reunited with his family after twenty long years. Suitable for ages 8 and up. ...
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|  | Monster Poems
Publication Date: November 18, 2004| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up This is a collection of poems about one of children's favourite subjects - monsters. Korky Paul's lively illustrations to life this popular poetry book. John Foster and Korky Paul's poetry partnership began over 10 years ago, with the publication of "Dragon Poems". The combination of John's inspired and witty selection of poems, with Korky's crazily imaginative and anarchic illustrations, has proved exceptionally popular. "If this combination of verse and illustration doesn't make you laugh out loud, then you mu...
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