| By Blood: A Novel Release Date: February 28, 2012The award-winning writer returns with a major, absorbing, atmospheric novel that takes on the most dramatic and profoundly personal subject matterSan Francisco in the 1970s. Free love has given way to radical feminism, psychedelic ecstasy to hard-edged gloom. The Zodiac Killer stalks the streets. A disgraced professor takes an office in a downtown tower to plot his return. But the walls are thin and he’s distracted by voices from next door—his neighbor is a psychologist, and one of her patients dislikes the hum of the white-noise machine. And so he ...
| | Mrs. Kimble: A Novel (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) Release Date: May 3, 2011| Series: Harper Perennial Modern ClassicsA chameleon, an enigma, all things to all womena lifeline to which powerful needs and nameless longings may be attachedKen Kimble is revealed through the eyes of the women he seduces: Birdie, his first wife, struggling to hold herself together after his desertion; his second wife, Joan, a lonely, tragic heiress who sees her unknowable husband as her last chance for happiness; and Dinah, a beautiful but damaged woman half his age....
| | Love In The Lineup (Arabesque) Publication Date: August 1, 2006| Series: Arabesque Roshawn Bradsher finds that a midlife change is exactly what she needs after her divorce. Amicable with her ex-husband and peacefully co-parenting, Roshawn decides that a complete change of scene is required to ignite passion in her life. When Angel Rios steps into her office, she is determined not to be swept away by this baseball player's considerable charms
. Angel Rios finds that his new home in Arizona provides all the challenges he can manage, at the moment. Yet, as an unmarried, ruggedly handsome athlete, Angel is decidedly a pr...
| | A Season of Joy (Work and the Glory) Publication Date: December 1994| Series: Work and the Glory Volume 5 is a season of rejuvenation for the Mormons as, after the horrors of the Missouri persecutions, they find refuge across the Mississippi River in Illinois, where they establish the city of Nauvoo.Despite ongoing trials, they feel that God has granted them this season of relief, hope and joy. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
| | The Classic Fairy Tales Publication Date: November 13, 1980This volume contains twenty-four of the best known fairy tales in the English language, presented here in the exact words of their first English publication or of the earliest surviving text. Including "Sleeping Beauty," "Bluebeard," "Cinderella," "Thumbelina," and "Hansel and Gretel," as well as many others, this collection provides a historical introduction for each tale and a general Introduction which traces the history of fairy tales collected in Asia and Europe long before they appeared in English. ...
| | Pygmalion Publication Date: March 1, 1988| ISBN-10: 088411452X | ISBN-13: 978-0884114529A rousing success on the London and New York stages, a popular film, and a great musical hit (My Fair Lady), this brilliantly written play, with its irresistible theme of the emerging butterfly, is one of the most acclaimed comedies in the English language. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
| | Kleos in a Minor Key: The Homeric Education of a Little Prince (Hellenic Studies) Publication Date: June 6, 2011| Series: Hellenic Studies (Book 45) As scholars have remarked, the word kleos in the Iliad and the Odyssey alike refers to something more substantive and complex than “fame” or “glory.” Kleos distinctly supposes an oral narrative—principally an “oral history,” a “life story” or ultimately an “oral tradition.” When broken down into its twin constituents, “words” and “actions” or “deeds,” a hero’s kleos serves to define him as a fully gend...
| | Fresh Horses Publication Date: October 15, 2001Poetry. Rooted in a lifetime of working with his hands -- from building grain elevators with a crew of Lakota Sioux, to re-foresting clearcuts with a cooperative of artists -- Gary Lemons's many lives fall together seamlessly in his poems. Evoking the Pacific Northwest to Costa Rica, the Black Hills to Vietnam, FRESH HORSES resonates with compassion for both reader and subject. This writing comprises a spiritual practice made from the act of witness. "I admire his deep engagement with this country's history, and the sophistication of his ear. His gifts are m...
| | Radio Tooth (Award Series) Publication Date: April 1, 1997| Series: Award Series These are bold poems, rugged and good, hard the way diamonds should be, but the way coconuts are as well.These works both sustain and delight, but what I am sayings most is they crack open, and constantly.Past the tired cemetery where the three year oldAsks what's that little city made of teethThese poems surprise and push, line by line. -- Alberto Rios, judgeThe Four Way Books Award Series ...
| | Aloe: And Other Poems Publication Date: September 1, 2009| ISBN-10: 1869404416 | ISBN-13: 978-1869404413Divided into four distinct sections, this collection of poetry draws inspiration from the natural world while dissecting the concepts of loss, hesitancy, generation, and repetition. Exploring how everything may be turned into words, this intriguing anthology also demonstrates how those words themselves may enact life. Additional voices and stories are used to convey psychological and physical suffering—utilizing the characters of the Furies, Sylvia Plath, and Medea—as well as the trauma and de...
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| | Citizen Critics: LITERARY PUBLIC SPHERES (History of Communication) Publication Date: February 2, 2000| ISBN-10: 025206867X | ISBN-13: 978-0252068676In this revealing study of the links among literature, rhetoric, and democracy, Rosa A. Eberly explores the public debate generated by amateur and professional readers about four controversial literary works: two that were censored in the United States and two that created conflict because they were not censored. In "Citizen Critics", Eberly compares the outrage sparked by the publication of James Joyce's "Ulysses" and Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer" with the relative quiescence that greeted the much more ...
| | Reading Promise: 3,218 Nights of Reading with My Father Publication Date: June 1, 2011When Alice was nine years old, she and her father - a beloved school librarian - made a promise to read aloud together for 100 consecutive nights. Upon reaching their goal, they celebrated over pancakes, but it was clear that neither wanted to let go of what had become their reading ritual. They decided to continue what became known as The Streak for as long as they possibly could. From L. Frank Baum to Dickens to J.K. Rowling to Shakespeare, Alice's father read to her every night without fail until the day she entered college, a remarkable eight years later. In...
| | Siren Enslaved [Texas Sirens 3] (Siren Publishing Menage Everlasting) Publication Date: March 9, 2011| Series: Texas Sirens [Siren Menage Everlasting: Erotic Cowboy Menage a Trois Romance, M/M/F, BDSM, sex toys] Julian Lodge has everything a man could want. He's rich, successful and owns the most exclusive BDSM club in Dallas. But something is missing. Finn Taylor has worked his way up in the world from humble beginnings in Willow Fork, Texas. The only thing he still loves in his hometown is Danielle Bay. He never told her he was actually bisexual, and he never confessed his love for her. Now she's getting married, and Finn is sure he's lost his chance with th...
| | Lover Eternal (Black Dagger Brotherhood, Book 2) Release Date: March 7, 2006Within the brotherhood, Rhage is the vampire with the strongest appetites. He’s the best fighter, the quickest to act on his impulses, and the most voracious lover—for inside him burns a ferocious curse cast by the Scribe Virgin. Possessed by this dark side, Rhage fears the times when his inner dragon is unleashed, making him a danger to everyone around him. Mary Luce, a survivor of many hardships, is unwittingly thrown into the vampire world and reliant on Rhage’s protection. With a life-threatening curse of her own, Mary is not looking for lov...
| | Two French Marriages: Volume 2. Madame de Beaupré Release Date: July 12, 2001This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1868 edition by Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig. ...
| | Some Buried Caesar: A Nero Wolfe Mystery ...
| | Transformers Dark of the Moon: The Lost Autobot (Passport to Reading Level 2) Release Date: May 17, 2011| Grade Level: P and up...
| | Baboushka: A Christmas Folktale from Russia (Christmas & Hanukkah) Release Date: October 1, 2001| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
| | Star Status (Girls Only!, Book 8) Release Date: May 1, 2002| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Manda Garcia throws herself wholeheartedly into preparation for the Dressel Hills Downhill Classic, sacrificing her friendship with Girls Only club members and even daily time with God in an attempt to reach the number-one spot. Yet when she attains the coveted prize, Manda's fifteen minutes of fame leave her feeling empty and out of sync with God--especially with big family changes on the horizon. Will Manda recover from her obsession with winning? And will her friends still be there for her when she needs them most? ...
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