 | Platitudes (Northeastern Library of Black Literature)
Publication Date: October 2, 2003| Series: Northeastern Library of Black Literature Trey Ellis's uproariously funny debut novel Platitudes, first published in 1988, takes on conflicts within the African American literary community. Dewayne Wellington, a failing black experimental novelist, and Isshee Ayam, a radical feminist author, collaborate on Dewayne's latest sexist comedy. Alternately telling the story about the coming of age of Earle and Dorothy-two black middle-class teenagers, sex-starved in New York City-the battling writers sneak ever, and dangerously, closer to reconciling their ...
 |  | The God Patent
Publication Date: December 16, 2009Sex, drugs, and quantum physics collide with artificial intelligence, faith and free will in this perspective-altering story.The memo said they'd get bonuses for submitting patents, so why not? Money came easily during the dot-com boom. Concealed in engineering jargon, Ryan McNear submits a patent for the soul disguised as a software algorithm and his best friend Foster Reed rewrites Genesis and calls it a "power generator." A few years later, amid the fallout of a ruptured technology bubble, his career ruined and family shredded, a desperate Ryan discovers...
|  | Act of Grace
Publication Date: March 1, 2011Why would Grace Johnson, a bright, African-American high school senior, save the life of a Ku Klux Klansman named Jonathan Gilmore?That question hovers over Grace's hometown of Vigilant, Michigan, and few people, black or white, understand her actions-especially since rumor has it that many years ago, a member of the Gilmore family murdered several African-American residents. And if Grace had her way, she would not reveal the circumstances that led her to make what some deem to be a foolish sacrifice and an act of treason against her race.The decision to remain...
|  | Hell on Earth
Release Date: May 1, 2001A MAN. A DEMON. AN ANGEL.WILL THEY SAVE THE WORLD . . .OR DESTROY IT?In a Greenwich Village townhouse, a mysterious man named Colin, an orphan raised by sorcerers skilled in dark magic, awakens to find the talisman known as the Trine missing from its place of safekeeping--and an angel named Zoel impatiently ringing his doorbell.In the death chamber of the Oregon Federal Penitentiary, Liz Russell, author of a bestseller on the serial killer called the Maneater, watches her subject receive the lethal injection that will end his life. But the Maneater has sworn that she...
|  | Fallen Star
Release Date: April 25, 2006Lyrical genius and self-proclaimed thug, Blayze, is the newest rhyme-master to step on to the hip-hop scene. His smooth flow, undeniable good looks and sick lyrics shoots him pass the industry's reigning rap stars as he heads for the number one spot. But his overnight success quickly goes to his head and gives him the illusion that he's invincible. His delusions of grandeur get him into trouble with the law repeatedl, but his well-paid attorneys and superstar status has a way of making that trouble disappear. And although he thinks he is untouchable, Blayze soon f...
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|  | The Art of Making Tea (A Missouri poets chapbook)
Publication Date: June 18, 1998| Series: A Missouri poets chapbook Elizabeth Jones Hanley's deceptively simple poems collect images, echoes, and memories of a family of three generations together and their quiet life in a small town in Missouri. ...
|  | Romantic Communist: The Life and Work of Nazim Hikmet
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|  | Master Tung
Publication Date: April 15, 1994| ISBN-10: 0231101198 | ISBN-13: 978-0231101196 0 This twelfth century masterpiece suffered virtual oblivion from the late fourteenth century until 1912, when it was rediscovered by the great sinologist Wang Kuo-wei who helped restore it to its preeminent position in Chinese literature. Comprising 184 prose passages and 5,263 lines of verse to be narrated and sung by a performing singer-storyteller, it is an elaboration of the T'ang dynasty love story,The Story of Ying-ying, by Yuan Chen (779-831). ...
| | Idylls of the Marketplace: Oscar Wilde and the Victorian Public
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|  | Damaged
Publication Date: June 1, 2010Haunted by the death of her sister and wounded by her ex-fiancé's accusations, Kate Lange throws herself into her new career at a high-powered law firm.When the grandmother of a lonely private school student seeks her counsel, Kate thinks it's just another custody case. But then the teen is brutally murdered. And it isn't only Kate who wonders if her legal advice led to the girl's death.Put on notice by Randall Barrett, the firm's charismatic managing partner, Kate must fight for her career, for her reputation—and for redemption.Unwilling to live wit...
|  | Dance of Death (Pendergast, Book 6)
Release Date: June 14, 2005Two brothers.One,top FBI Agent, Aloysius Pendergast. The other, Diogenes, a brilliant and twisted criminal.An undying hatred between them.Now, a perfect crime.And the ultimate challenged: Stop me if you can. ...
|  | Buried Prey
Release Date: May 1, 2012| Series: Prey For twenty-five years the unsolved kidnapping of two young girls has haunted Minneapolis homicide detective Lucas Davenport. Today, the bodies have been found. Today, he returns to a crime—and a nightmare—darker than any before. ...
|  | Fright (Hard Case Crime)
Release Date: March 29, 2011| Series: Hard Case Crime A man. A woman. A kiss in the dark. That is how it begins. But before his nightmare ends, Prescott Marshall will learn that kisses and darkness can both hide evil intent – and that the worst darkness of all may be lurking inside him. Lost for more than half a century and never before published under Cornell Woolrich’s real name, FRIGHT is a breathtaking noir crime novel worthy of the writer who has been called “the Hitchcock of the written word” and “one of the giants of mystery fiction.” ...
|  | Where's the Harm? (Five Star First Edition Mystery)
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|  | Sabotaged (The Missing, Book 3)
Release Date: August 23, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up After helping Chip and Alex survive 15th century London, Jonah and Katherine are summoned to help another missing child, Andrea, face her fate. Andrea is really Virginia Dare, from the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Jonah and Katherine are confident in their ability to help Andrea fix history, but when their journey goes dangerously awry, they realize that they may be in over their head. They've landed in the wrong time period. Andrea doesn't seem that interested in leaving the past. And even worse, it appears that someone has deliberately sabotage...
|  | Queen Idia: Queens of Africa Book 5
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|  | Karen's Swim Meet (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #110)
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|  | Barbie in a Mermaid Tale: A Storybook (Barbie) (Pictureback(R))
Release Date: January 5, 2010| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | How to Draw Sports Things (Doodle Books)
Publication Date: January 1, 2008| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
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