 | The Diaries of Adam and Eve
Release Date: January 15, 2002The most complete edition of Twain's two stories, it uses Mark Twain's preferred text and includes passages not previously included--and not available in any other version. The editor's afterword tells how Twain came to write the "Diaries," which are recognized today as his most personal works of fiction. ...
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Release Date: July 27, 2010From Ken Follett—the #1 name in electrifying international suspense—comes a remarkable novel of intrigue and doomsday possibilities.The world's balance of power is about to shift dangerously as the ultimate weapon nears completion in a secret facility in the heart of the desert. Across the globe, operatives from the great nations set a deadly game in motion, covertly maneuvering pawns and kings to achieve a frightening advantage—while terrorists and their hunters prepare for the contest's final, bloody moves. And one man—a razor-sharp mast...
|  | This Game Has No Loyalty II- Hustle for Life
Publication Date: July 30, 2010In Part one Junior learned the hustling game was something he couldn't take for granted; now in Part two he finds himself trying to recover from the destroyed friendships, partnerships and relationships. He's faced with a possible life term in prison if he's convicted for the unsolved murders in Baptiste and while he is trying to stay free from the penal system his relationship with his girlfriend Shondra is in total chaos because of the lies about his continuous involvement with his mistress Muffin. His once flourishing drug business has dwindled down to nothi...
|  | The Damascened Blade (Joe Sandilands Murder Mysteries)
Release Date: August 30, 2005| Series: Joe Sandilands Murder Mysteries In her acclaimed mysteries set in the age of the British Raj, Barbara Cleverly brilliantly captures a fascinating collision of cultures against a backdrop of jasmine-scented nights and neatly trimmed English gardens. In her gripping new novel, the author of The Last Kashmiri Rose and Ragtime in Simla transports us to the remote and exotic setting of India’s North-West Frontier, where a group of travelers is swept into a spellbinding drama of kidnapping, vengeance, and murder.Scotland Yard Detective Joe Sandilands h...
|  | Female Ruins
Release Date: September 4, 2001"Geoff Nicholson's twelfth novel is an elegantly constructed and often funny story rendered with wry, surgical precision." (Matthew Klam, The New York Times Book Review) "Deliciously cynical and witty. A clever and original novel of deception, failures, and hope."(Washington Times)Female Ruins is the story of Christopher Howell, a cult architect who allegedly built just one building-reputedly a wild, willful amalgam of styles ranging from 11th-century Norman to 20th-century Neutra. When Howell's daughter-and keeper of his flame-Kelly, and a Howell groupie named...
|  | Baking Cakes in Kigali: A Novel
Release Date: August 18, 2009Once in a great while a debut novelist comes along who dazzles us with rare eloquence and humanity, who takes us to bold new places and into previously unimaginable lives. Gaile Parkin is just such a talent—and Baking Cakes in Kilgali is just such a novel. This gloriously written tale—set in modern-day Rwanda—introduces one of the most singular and engaging characters in recent fiction: Angel Tungaraza—mother, cake baker, keeper of secrets—a woman living on the edge of chaos, finding ways to transform lives, weave magic, and create h...
|  | Tea Leaf Reading
Publication Date: October 8, 1999If you see an airplane in your cup, you may be going on a long journey ... if you see a hat, expect added responsibilities at work. What if you see a pig or a snake? Reading tea leaves is a skill that is easy to learn and master. Simply refer to the extensive, illustrated glossary of more than 400 symbols. Find out about the different "zones" of the teacup, and how you can determine what's in store for you in the next 12 months. You can also use the tea leaves to answer specific questions. ...
|  | One Hundred More Poems from the Japanese (New Directions Books)
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|  | 2000 Bayt min al-Shi'r al-Arabi: From Emri al Qays To Nizar Qabbani (Arabic Edition)
Publication Date: July 31, 2009This collection was made through the years from so many resources. The best Arabic poetry from Emri al-Qays to Nizar Qabbani. [pre-Islamic to modern age]. It includes Jahili, Islamic, Umayyad, Andalusi, Abbasids, and Modern Poetry. The collection is good for "Munatharat al-Shi'r" turnament, made easy and possible for busy readers. The poetry (Buhur) as well as Emri' al-Qays Mu'allaqa with comments are included. Plus some of the author's own poetry. ...
|  | Modern Irish Poetry: A New Alhambra
Publication Date: July 12, 2001| ISBN-10: 0198187378 | ISBN-13: 978-0198187370Modern Irish Poetry: A New Alhambra introduces four leading modern Irish-language poets: Seán Ó Riordáin, Cathal Ó Searcaigh, Máirtín Ó Direáin, and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill. This critical study provides an in-depth analysis (in English) of their work in its own international context. ...
|  | Politiques De L'Ecriture, Bataille/Derrida: Le Sens Du Sacre Dans LA Pensee Francaise Du Surrealisme a Nos Jours (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures) (French Edition)
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|  | Structures of the Jazz Age: Mass Culture, Progressive Education, and Racial Discourse in American Modernism (The Haymarket Series)
Publication Date: December 1998| ISBN-10: 1859842003 | ISBN-13: 978-1859842003| Edition: 1st Publ. by Verso 1998 Structures of the Jazz Age charts the 1920s cultural landscape populated by critical intellectuals like H.L. Mencken and Irving Babbitt, and by major imaginative writers like Dos Passos, Cather and Dreiser. Looking beyond the mainstream to more marginal schools of thought, including progressive educational philosophy, the critique of mass culture, and the cult of primitivism - exemplified in less canonized figures like Anzia Yezierska, Harry Leon Wilson and DuBose Heyward. He ...
|  | Forbidden Embers: A Dragon's Heat Novel
Release Date: October 4, 2011| Series: Dragons Heat Novel (Book 3) Erotic fantasy so hot it breathes fire. Desperate to save his clan from deadly biological warfare,Dragonstar sentry Logan Kelly infiltrates the dangerous Wyvermoon clan- by posing as a rogue dragon. But his plan is compromised when he fallsfor Cecily, the Wyvermoon queen... ...
|  | Married By Midnight: A Pembroke Palace Novella
Publication Date: July 13, 2012| Series: Pembroke Palace From USA Today bestselling author Julianne MacLean comes a passionate and emotional tale of a most unexpected love… AN UNATTAINABLE ROGUE… For seven years, Lord Garrett Sinclair-- the ruggedly handsome illegitimate son of the Duke of Pembroke--has been traveling abroad with no intention of ever returning home to Pembroke Palace… until his father commands that he must marry by Christmas in order to thwart a family curse or lose his inheritance forever.Haunted by a tragic accident that has hardened his soul, Garrett ...
|  | In the Forest: A Novel
Publication Date: April 17, 2003In the Forest returns to the countryside of western Ireland, the vivid backdrop of Edna O'Brien's best-selling Wild Decembers. Here O'Brien unravels a classic confrontation of evil and innocence centering on the young, troubled Michael O'Kane, christened by his neighbors "the Kindershrek," someone of whom small children are afraid. O'Kane loses his mother as a boy and by age ten is incarcerated in a juvenile detention center, an experience that leaves him scarred from abuse and worse, with the killing instinct buried within. A story based on actual events, In ...
|  | Let's Swim! (Pebble Plus: Sports and Activities)
Publication Date: January 1, 2006| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Hay luz en el desvan (Escritura Desatada) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: June 30, 2006| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | CROW
Publication Date: April 1, 2010This collection of children's poems shows another side of Steven Cope, a playful side, a joyous side that offsets the deep seriousness of much of his other work. Both elementary and middle-school-age youth will enjoy the provocative nature of these poems. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition....
|  | A Bundle of Nerves (Puffin Plus)
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|  | Hello Kitty, Hello Numbers! Board Book
Publication Date: September 22, 2004| Grade Level: P and up Have fun with numbers in this sturdy board book. One hostess, four ice cream cones, eight lemonades - Hello Kitty is preparing for a party, and tiny tots can help her keep track of things in this board book that encourages them to learn to count. Hello one! Hello two! Hello numbers! ...
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