 | The Eyes of Darkness
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 | | Oath of Office
Release Date: December 24, 2012Oath of OfficeMichael PalmerWhen Dr. John Meacham goes on a shooting spree the office, his business partner, staff, and two patients are killed in the bloodbath. Then Meacham turns the gun on himself.The blame falls on Dr. Lou Welcome. Welcome worked with Meacham years before as a counselor after John's medical license had been revoked for drug addiction. Lou knew that John was an excellent doctor and deserved to be practicing medicine and fought hard for his license to be restored. After hearing the news of the violent outburst, Lou is ...
|  | Hopscotch (Pantheon Modern Writers Series)
Release Date: February 12, 1987| Series: Pantheon Modern Writers Series Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves "the Club." A child's death and La Maga's disappearance put an end to his life of empty pleasures and intellectual acrobatics, and prompt Oliveira to return to Buenos Aires, where he works by turns as a salesman, a keeper of a circus cat which can truly count, and an attendant in an insane asylum. Hopscotch is the dazzling, free-wheeling account of Oliveira's a...
|  | The Ring of Bells
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|  | Winter Count
Release Date: November 2, 1999"Perfectly crafted. . . . [These] stories expand of their own accord, lingering in the mind the way intense light lingers in the retina." --Los Angeles Times"Animals and landscapes have not had this weight, this precision, in American fiction since Hemingway's young heroes were fishing the streams of upper Michigan and Spain." --San Francisco ChronicleA flock of great blue herons descending through a snowstorm to the streets of New York. . . . A river in Nebraska disappearing mysteriously. . . . A ghostly herd of buffalo that sings a song of death. . ...
|  | Poems To Live By in Uncertain Times
Release Date: November 21, 2001The week after the attack on the World Trade Center, Joan Murray read her poem about it, "Survivors--Found," on National Public Radio.Thousands heard her poem and were so moved that they contacted her to ask for copies. In the wake of our nation's tragedy, poetry has taken on a new relevance in people's lives. As Dinitia Smith noted in The New York Times, "In the weeks since the terrorist attacks, people have been consoling themselves-and one another-with poetry in an almost unprecedented way."Poems to Live By features sixty of the finest poems by an internatio...
|  | Little Songs of the Geisha
Publication Date: November 2000A fascinating look into the world of the Geisha through the 400-year-old art of Ko-Uta, the traditional song form sung to three-stringed shamisen music. A vivid evocation of the romanticism of feudal Japan. ...
|  | Information: 20 Years of Joda
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|  | Euro-haiku: A Bi-lingual Anthology
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|  | Mystery of the Black Tower (Gothic Classics)
Publication Date: July 14, 2005| Series: Gothic Classics Set in the violent times of Edward III, when England is at war against the Scots and the French, The Mystery of the Black Tower is the story of young Leonard, who longs to escape the anonymity of his peasant's life.Seeking to win fame and renown, Leonard enlists in England's army, where he earns knighthood and the favour of the King.But when his true love, the beauteous Emma, is kidnapped and imprisoned in the haunted Black Tower, Leonard must save her.Aided by his loyal but cowardly squire Owen, Leonard will face a series of adventure...
|  | In the Lies of the Beholder
Publication Date: February 17, 2012In a small, southern town, an innocent family is slaughtered in their home while they sleep.John Keene, the town’s prosecutor, is determined to bring the killer to justice, and at the same time, silence the demons that haunt his past.Unfortunately, the killer is represented by Nolan Getty, a whiskey drinking Public Defender who has a score to settle with Keene.With neither side willing to disclose their secrets, each lawyer must find a way to overcome the shocking surprises revealed at trial.But in their quest to defeat each other, rather than search...
|  | A Good Hanging
Release Date: December 7, 2010Twelve remarkable, gritty stories starring Detective Inspector John Rebus in his home city of Edinburgh, as only Ian Rankin can portray it: not just the tearooms and cobbled streets of the tourist brochures, but a modern urban metropolis with a full range of criminals and their victims--blackmailers, peeping Toms, and more than one kind of murderer. It's a city like any other, a city that gives birth to crimes of passion, accidents, and long-hidden jealousy, and a city in which criminal minds find it all too easy to fade into the shadows. As dedicated readers of...
|  | The Coral Thief: A Novel
Release Date: September 15, 2009Paris, 1815. Napoleon has just surrendered at Waterloo and is on his way to the island of St. Helena to begin his exile. Meanwhile, Daniel Connor, a young medical student from Edinburgh, has just arrived in Paris to study anatomy at the Jardin des Plantes–only to realize that his letters of introduction and a gift of precious coral specimens, on which his tenure with the legendary Dr. Cuvier depends, have been stolen by the beautiful woman with whom he shared a stagecoach.In the fervor and tumult of post revolutionary Paris, nothing is quite as it seems....
|  | Picnic at Mudsock Meadow
Release Date: May 28, 2009| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up It?s time for the annual Halloween picnic. But the kids are worried about the ghost of Titus Dinworthy. Except William, who?s pretty sure old Titus is just swamp gas; it?s Hester Bledden he?s worried about. Every time William is about to win a contest, Hester shows up, sticks out her tongue, and shouts, ?Peeee youuuuu!? But when something eerie rises out of the swamp, William gets a chance to show both Titus and Hester what a boy from Mudsock Meadow is made of. ...
|  | Beyond! HC (Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars)
Publication Date: February 28, 2007| Grade Level: 4 and up An indescribably powerful being gathers nine of Marvel's most mismatched super-beings for purposes beyond their comprehension. Can Spider-Man, Gravity, Venom, Henry Pym, the Wasp, Medusa, Kraven, Firebird and the Hood keep from killing each other before they must face the dangers of their destination, the deadly artifical planet known as Battleworld? Collects Beyond! #1-6. ...
|  | Swimming with Sharks / Track Attack (Gym Shorts)
Release Date: April 13, 2010| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Detroit Red Wings (Stanley Cup Champions)
Publication Date: August 2003| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | The Good Housekeeping Illustrated Children's Cookbook
Publication Date: August 28, 2002| Age Level: 8 and up Look, mom and dad: we cooked it ourselves! Children will love preparing--and muching--these yummy treats. 50 safe-to-make, delicious Good Housekeeping Institute-tested recipes will lure budding chefs into the kitchen and start them off on a lifetime of good cooking. Some basic instructions--and every technique is clearly shown here--and they're ready to begin. What better way for a kid to start the day than with their own home-baked Blueberry Corn Muffins, hearty Tex-Mex eggs wrapped in a tortilla, or Overnight French Toast fragrant with...
| | After Olympic Glory
Publication Date: January 1, 1978Biographies of ten Olympic gold medalists: Micki King, Muhammad Ali, Bob Mathias, Donna de Varona, Jesse Owens, Tenley Albright, Vince Matthews, Benjamin Spock, Nell Jackson, and Bill Bradley. ...
|  | Rainy Rainy Saturday (Greenwillow Read-Alone)
Release Date: September 1, 1980| Age Level: 6 and up...
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