| Maya Angelou: Poems Release Date: January 1, 1996Tenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness, sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart and celebrates life as only she has discovered it. In this moving volume of poetry, we hear the multi-faceted voice of one of the most powerful and vibrant writers of our time. ...
| | Ludlow Fair and Home Free! - Acting Edition ...
| | Must Love Dogs Release Date: June 29, 2004Claire Cook's beguilingly original Ready to Fall struck a vibrant chord with its "perky take on midlife angst" (Publishers Weekly). In Must Love Dogs she gives us a contemporary Everywoman in a big rollicking south-of-Boston Irish family-a zany novel with the flavor of Nora Ephron, Susan Isaacs, and Jeanne Ray's Julie and Romeo. Forty-year-old Sarah Hurlihy, a divorced preschool teacher whose life is her classroom, is about to meet her first date in more than a decade. It was the "Loves Dogs" that hooked her in the personal ad, and now she is scanning her neighborh...
| | Rabbit Is Rich Release Date: August 27, 1996Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award The hero of John Updike’s Rabbit, Run, ten years after the events of Rabbit Redux, has come to enjoy considerable prosperity as the chief sales representative of Springer Motors, a Toyota agency in Brewer, Pennsylvania. The time is 1979: Skylab is falling, gas lines are lengthening, and double-digit inflation coincides with a deflation of national self-confidence. Nevertheless, Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom feels in good shape, ready to enjoy life ...
| | Chocolate Covered Forbidden Fruit Release Date: August 1, 2006Thalia, a 25 yr. old wild girl gone good, moves back to her old neighborhood after a failed engagement and manages to catch the eye of the towns most wanted man
the middle aged, incredibly sexy, single, devoted, and charismatic Reverend of Mount Pleasant. To add insult to injury Rev. Isaac Flack happens to be the father of, Madison, her best friend since Junior High, who isnt trying to deal with her father dating anyone after her mothers death. Since Thalia was a teenager visiting his house to do math homework with his daughter she was intr...
| | ANGELS IN VIETNAM Publication Date: March 15, 2010It is 1967 and Charlie Armfield is just a few weeks away from the world championship surfing competition when his life is turned upside down and he finds himself, instead, preparing for battle on the front lines in Vietnam. In his struggle to survive, Charlie turns to techniques that made him a champion at home. As his experiences damage his heart and his spirit, he tries to understand the war and his part in it.Charlie's homecoming does little to ease the conflict in his soul so he undertakes a journey to redemption and awareness that leads him from one coast...
| | On an Irish Island Release Date: February 7, 2012On an Irish Island is a love letter to a vanished way of life, in which Robert Kanigel, the highly praised author of The Man Who Knew Infinity and The One Best Way, tells the story of the Great Blasket, a wildly beautiful island off the west coast of Ireland, renowned during the early twentieth century for the rich communal life of its residents and the unadulterated Irish they spoke. With the Irish language vanishing all through the rest of Ireland, the Great Blasket became a magnet for scholars and writers drawn there during the Gaelic renaissance—and th...
| | Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings (Penguin Classics) Release Date: September 1, 1999| Series: Penguin Classics A new translation of the six Meditations and accompanying selections from the Objections and Replies, which constitute a definitive statement of the foundations of Descartes' philosophy.Also includes relevant correspondence form the period and extracts from his other metaphysical treatises. ...
| | Popularizing Pennsylvania: Henry W. Shoemaker and the Progressive Uses of Folklore and History Publication Date: February 1, 1996Few regions have had as energetic and influential a promoter as Henry W. Shoemaker (1880-1958), who devoted his life's work to preserving Pennsylvania's cultural and natural heritage. His memory lives on in the legends he helped promote, such as that of the Indian princess 'Nita-Nee,' for whom Central Pennsylvania's Nittany Mountain is supposedly named. He was also instrumental in creating Pennsylvania's noted system of parks and forests and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. In his own day, Shoemaker was a controversial figure, talked about ...
| | PETER PAN OR THE BOY WHO WOULD NOT GROW UP ...
| | The Form of the City Changes Faster, Alas, than the Human Heart (French Literature Series) Publication Date: June 1, 2006| Series: French Literature Series A sometimes mocking, sometimes poignant tribute to the City of Light.An homage and response to many of France’s best-known poets, including Charles Baudelaire and Raymond Queneau, this collection moves through the streets of Paris, commenting on its inhabitants, its writers, its monumental past, and all its possible futures. Alternating between honesty and evasion, erudition and lightheartedness, constraint and freedom, The Form of a City Changes Faster, Alas, Than the Human Heart explores a Paris that’s no longer...
| | Cat Haiku [Paperback] ...
| | Rhymes and Verses: Collected Poems for Children (An Owlet book) Publication Date: August 1988 ...
| | The Maine Poems Publication Date: September 15, 1999| ISBN-10: 0942396839 | ISBN-13: 978-0942396836| Edition: First Edition The collected Maine poems by the author Leo Connellan. ...
| | "Profit and Delight": Printed Miscellanies in England, 1640-1682 Publication Date: April 2004The first sustained study of seventeenth-century printed miscellanies. ...
| | Masculine Style: The American West and Literary Modernism (Global Masculinities) Release Date: October 11, 2011| Series: Global Masculinities In Masculine Style: The American West and Literary Modernism, Daniel Worden argues for the importance of “cowboy masculinity,” as dramatized in late nineteenth-century dime novels, to the writings of Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, Nat Love, Theodore Roosevelt, John Steinbeck, and Owen Wister. Masculine Style presents a groundbreaking account of masculine self-fashioning in American literature and positions the American West as central to modernism....
| | The Mile High Club: Plane Sex Stories Publication Date: April 7, 2009Rachel Kramer Bussel’s newest collection brings to life the popular fantasy of having sex on an airplane, from commercial jets to private planes and even aboard Air Force One. Couples and strangers alike manage to find ways to surreptitiously get each other off as they fly the friendly skies, spicing up their sex lives with a dash of exhibitionism, excitement, and danger. In these steamy stories, readers encounter seductions by strangers, naughty flight attendants and perverted pilots, a screen star who’s hot-to-trot, a female flying instructor wh...
| | The History of St. Giles and St. James: Volume 2 Release Date: July 12, 2001This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1852 edition by Bernh. Tauchnitz Jun., Leipzig. ...
| | The Bay of Noon: A Novel Publication Date: October 1, 2003Long out of print, Shirley Hazzard's classic novel of love and memoryA young Englishwoman working in Naples, Jenny comes to Italy fleeing a history that threatened to undo her. Alone in the fabulously ruined city, she idly follows up a letter of introduction from an acquaintance and so changes her life forever. Through the letter, she meets Giocanda, a beautiful and gifted writer, and Gianni, a famous Roman film director and Giocanda’s lover. At work she encounters Justin, a Scotsman whose inscrutability Jenny finds mysteriously attractive. As she becom...
| | Mike Hammer: Lady, Go Die! Release Date: May 8, 2012| Series: Mike Hammer When Hammer and Velda go on vacation to a Long Island beach town, Hammer becomes embroiled in the mystery of a missing well-known New York party girl who lives nearby. When the woman turns up naked - and dead - astride the statue of a horse in the town square, Hammer feels compelled to investigate.Mickey Spillane's lost 1940s Mike Hammer novel, written between I, the Jury and My Gun Is Quickand never before published! Completed by Spillane's friend and literary executor Max Allan Collins,Lady, Go Die is finally making its way...
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