 | Three Comedies
Release Date: February 1, 2000(Applause Books). Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman inebriated America during the Prohibition Twenties, then made everyone forget the Depression in the Thiries via gales of sophisticated laughter. The dynamic playwriting duo created three smash hits together:The Royal Family(1927) *Dinner at Eight(1932) * andStage Door(1936. All three plays were promptly made by Hollywood into equally famous filmsDinner at Eightwith Jean Harlow;Stage Doorwith a young Katharine Hepburn and Lucille Ball; and theRoyal Family of Broadwaywith Frederic March. ...
 |  | The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Publication Date: April 14, 2008A NATIONAL BESTSELLERAt a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful encounter . . .Changez is living an immigrant’s dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped up by the elite valuation firm of Underwood Samson. He thrives on the energy of New York, and his budding romance with elegant, beautiful Erica promises entry into Manhattan society at the same exalted level once occupied by his own ...
|  | Spit Toon's Saloon: Rinnce and Spit Toon, Proprietors. Sad Songs and Funny Tales on Tap
Publication Date: July 6, 2010Call him Spit; everyone does, except his mother who still calls him Salvatore. Salvatore Spittell Toon, D.M.D., is a dentist who wants to stop swimming upstream in saliva and to get out of the mouth and into the world. His dreams take him to a special place. Located in a nondescript neighborhood on the other side of town, it gives no signs of warmth or welcome. Peeling paint creates the illusion of a pockmarked exterior, and the unlit neon sign in the window pushes you away, rather than drawing you in. It is the kind of place you discover serendipitously, stumbl...
|  | Deadfall (A John Hutchinson Novel)
Publication Date: August 5, 2008Deep in the isolated Northwest Territories, four friends are on the trip of a lifetime. Dropped by helicopter into the remote Canadian wilderness, Hutch, Terry, Phil, and David are looking to escape the events of a tumultuous year--a bitter divorce, bankruptcy, depression, and job loss--for two weeks of hunting, fishing, and camping. Armed only with a bow and arrow and the basics for survival, they've chosen a place far from civilization, a retreat from their turbulent lives. But they quickly discover that another group has targeted the remote region and the s...
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|  | Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter)
Release Date: October 1, 1993| Series: Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Anita Blake (known by the vampires she kills as The Executioner)is hired by the most powerful vampire in town to find out who has beenmurdering vampires....
|  | Baby Doll
Release Date: May 27, 2008Breana "Baby Doll" Winbush grew up in the fast streets of Brownsville, Brooklyn. She is stunningly beautiful, a fighter by nature, and like most people in her neighborhood, her ultimate dream is to become rich. Her ambitious quest for money knows no boundaries. During an after-school fight with jealous high school foes, Baby Doll's life takes a turn when she meets Big Daddy Blue, a reformed gangster who turned his ill-gotten gains into legitimate business enterprises. Ironically it's Baby Doll's relationship with Big Daddy Blue that totally changes her perception an...
|  | Wilde Stories 2012: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction
Publication Date: July 13, 2012Prepare to skew your view of the world: where jinni in the clouds of a future Tel Aviv aren't spirits but powerful computer programs; where a suburban garden hiding unrecognizable bones; to a planet colony that outlaws color; or the night when a lonely lab tech finds a spambot flirting with him. The latest volume in the acclaimed Wilde Stories series has tales of hitchhikers on the run, dragons in the sky, swordsmen drawing their blades. These are stories fantastic and strange, otherworldly and eerie, but all feature gay men struggling with memories or lovers o...
|  | Heroes: A Novel
Publication Date: March 1, 2004Albert Biederman, pushing forty, is a sportswriter in River City, Iowa, where college basketball carries the town through the cold winter months. The River State University team has been newly energized by a junior-college transfer who is from Chicago's South Side. Belvyn Menkus is a blond-Afroed point guard who takes the game to a higher level--"the first player," Al says, "to stir my imagination in eighteen years of covering River State basketball." Researching Menkus's background, Al discovers forged transcriptions and recruiting violations. Breaking the sto...
|  | Slocum #400: Slocum and the Canyon Courtesans
Release Date: May 29, 2012| Series: Slocum (Book 400) KIDNAPPED BY KIOWAThere’s only one thing more vicious than the west Texas wind as it blows through Palo Duro Canyon—and that’s a band of bloodthirsty Kiowa. Answering a woman’s call for help, Slocum comes across the scene of a brutal ambush. Two men are dead, and three women have been abducted. Turns out the Indians are working with a scoundrel named Scudder, who aims to turn the women into prostitutes. There’s only one man who can save the ladies from a fate worse than death—and his name is John Sloc...
|  | From the Sands to the Mountain: A Study of Change and Persistence in a Southern Paiute Community
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|  | Euripides and the Instruction of the Athenians
Publication Date: September 15, 1997| ISBN-10: 0472084437 | ISBN-13: 978-0472084432Political by its very nature, Greek tragedy reflects on how life should be lived in the polis, and especially the polis that was democratic Athens. Instructional as well, drama frequently concerns itself with the audience's moral education. Euripides and the Instruction of the Athenians draws on these political and didactic functions of tragedy for a close analysis of five plays: Alcestis, Hippolytus, Hecuba, Heracles, and Trojan Women. Clearly written and persuasively argued, this volume addresses itself ...
|  | Models of the Universe : An Anthology of the Prose Poem
Publication Date: March 10, 1995Here at last is a comprehensive anthology of one of the world's most fascinating literary hybrids. This strange sub-genre encompasses the history of modern poetry, from its beginnings in romanticism (Bertrand, Turgenev, Baudelaire), its adolescence in Symbolism (Mallarme, Rimbaud, Trakl), its maturity in high modernism (Stein, Williams, Kafka, Montale, Follain, Char, Vallejo, H.D., and others), and its middle age in post-modernism (Cortazar, Bishop, Ashbery, Simic, Edson, Bly...) up to the present. ...
|  | The Canal Bed
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|  | Tozan renku sho honbun to sosakuin (Japanese Edition)
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|  | LA Banks Vampire Huntress: Dawn and Darkness SC
Publication Date: June 7, 2011| Series: L. a. Banks' Vampire Huntress Follow the famed Neterus and the Neteru Guardian Team from the epic 12-novel Vampire Huntress Legend series as they take the fight against evil beyond the Armageddon. In the Dawn and Darkness graphic novel (collecting the four-issue series), the team is still searching for the wounded Anti-Christ while trying to avoid the wrath of Lucifer. Complicating matters, several members of the team are pregnant with the next generation of Warriors of Light, and the darkness wants them and their unborn wiped off the face of the plane...
|  | Jessica (Springwater Seasons)
Publication Date: April 1, 1999| Series: Springwater Seasons Strong-minded spinster Jessica Barnes is summoned to Springwater by her ailing brother Michael to help him run his newspaper. This is the fifth title in an interconnected series that culminates with "A Springwater Christmas", a full-length novel that will be published in November 1999. ...
|  | Down Here: A Burke Novel
Release Date: April 12, 2005For years Burke has harbored an outlaw's hard love for Wolfe, the beautiful, driven former sex-crimes prosecutor who was fired for refusing to "go along to get along." So when Wolfe is arrested for the attempted murder of John Anson Wychek, a vicious rapist she once prosecuted, Burke deals himself in. That means putting together a distrustful alliance between his underground "family of choice," Wolfe's private network, and a rogue NYPD detective who has his own stake in the outcome.Burke knows that Wolfe’s alleged "victim,"...
|  | The Sherlock Holmes Cartoon Book
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|  | Grandfather Tales
Publication Date: August 25, 2003| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up The only people who can tell these stories better than Richard Chase are the folks in North Carolina and Virginia who told them to him. These stories have been handed down for generations and have been enjoyed by grownups and children alike. ...
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