 | When the Thrill Is Gone: A Leonid McGill Mystery
Release Date: January 3, 2012| Series: Leonid mcgill mystery (Book 3) Leonid McGill can't say no to the beautiful woman who walks into hisoffice with a stack of cash and a story. She's married to a rich artcollector. Now she fears for her life. Leonid knows better than to believeher, but he can't afford to turn her away, even if he knows this woman'stale will bring him straight to death's door. ...
 |  | The Constant Travellers
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|  | Damage (Triple Crown Publications Presents)
Publication Date: June 15, 2011| Series: Triple Crown Publications Presents Longtime girlfriends Spen, Chatt and Tader live it up diva style as they love and support each other in their happiness. But when the men in their respective lives reveal shocking secrets and hidden agendas, the thread of friendship between them is suddenly pulled thin. Things get even worse when an old childhood playmate shows up looking to further ruin the girls' lives for her personal gain. Spen's fairytale world grows cold, Chatt finds herself hopelessly blackmailed and Tader becomes increasingly addicted to maki...
|  | Satin Nights
Publication Date: August 7, 2006Regina Harris has been through it all, orphaned at 13 and forced to use street wits to survive. Now living in Harlem with her four-year-old daughter, she thinks her life has finally stabilizedbut where theres Regina, theres always drama. She runs into a former boyfriend and, against her better judgment and the advice of friends, she resumes their steamy affair. Sparks fly when her U.S. Congressman ex-hubby decides he wants her back and her boyfriend decides he wont let her go. Life is no less dramatic for her three best friendsYvonne cant tear herself from a l...
|  | Lily in Bloom
Publication Date: May 1, 2008Stunning older woman. Mysterious younger man.A garden of infinite possibilities .The terms of fifty-year-old Lily McVay's divorce settlement are quirky at best: live in her ex-husband's ancestral mausoleum of a house, restore her dead ex-mother-in-law's renowned garden, and host the small Gulf Coast town's overblown annual soiree. Lily needs help in the worst way.Aided and abetted by her "I'll help bury the body, no questions asked" friends, an octogenarian neighbor with a sixth sense, and a gardening genius named Will, Lily sets out to lay old ghosts to rest and...
|  | Oxygen - Writers Journey Edition
Publication Date: October 1, 2011Valkerie Jansen is tough, beautiful, and has an uncanny knack for survival. But that doesn't explain why NASA picks her to be part of a two man, two woman crew to Mars-or does it? Bob Kaganovski, the ship's mechanic, is paid to be paranoid-and he's good at it. After a teeth-rattling launch, Bob realizes that his paranoia hasn't prepared him for this trip. He can deal with a banged-up ship, but how's he going to survive the next five months with HER just a flimsy partition away? Halfway to the Red Planet, an explosion leaves the crew w...
|  | Lincoln's Better Angel
Publication Date: November 8, 2007Lincoln s Better Angel was inspired by an event the author read about in the Washington Post. The story he creates reflects on the personal impact of war and historical perspective.A walk with President Abraham Lincoln and Vietnam Veteran Charles Huggins through Washington D.C., on a hot Fourth of July night, becomes a walk through history. Layering time, grief, humor and fantasy, Selby presents a story that is both moving and engaging. ...
|  | The Scarlet Lion (William Marshal, Book 2)
Release Date: March 1, 2010The Legend of the Greatest Knight Lives On William Marshal's skill with a sword and loyalty to his word have earned him the company of kings, the lands of a magnate, and the hand of Isabelle de Clare, one of England's wealthiest heiresses. But he is thrust back into the chaos of court when King Richard dies. Vindictive King John clashes with William, claims the family lands for the Crown-and takes two of the Marshal sons hostage. The conflict between obeying his king and rebelling over the royal injustices threatens the very heart of William and Isabelle's family. ...
|  | The Cure for Remembering: A Dr. Nora Sternberg Mystery
Release Date: January 1, 2007Bewildered patients…Missing narcotics….Dying colleagues…...And a shocking family secret.Just another day at the office for Dr. Nora Sternberg.When her great aunt, a retired nurse, dies unexpectedly after routine surgery, Dr. Nora Sternberg turns sleuth. Amid a brewing scandal over missing narcotics, she uncovers a sinister plot involving retired doctors and nurses—and a secret that will change her family forever.As Nora collects her clues, we meet the Sternbergs, Nora’s “stoic” (i.e. repressed) family; her colleagu...
|  | On the Cutting Edge
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|  | A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library)
Release Date: June 4, 2002| Series: Modern Library In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys—best friends—are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the other boy’s mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn’t believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God’s instrument. What happens to Owen, after that 1953 foul ball, is extraordinary and terrifying.A Prayer for Owen Meany was first published in 1989. This Modern Library edition includes a new Introduction by the author. ...
|  | O'Flaherty, V.C (Players Press Shaw Collection)
Publication Date: November 2001| ISBN-10: 0887343503 | ISBN-13: 978-0887343506O'FLAHERTY. If you'd been brought up by my mother, sir, you'd know better than to joke about her. What I'm telling you is the truth; and I wouldn't tell it to you if I could see my way to get out of the fix I'll be in when my mother comes here this day to see her boy in his glory, and she after thinking all the time it was against the English I was fighting. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition....
|  | Plays and Poems (Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture, and Thought Translation Series)
Publication Date: April 2001| Series: Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture, and Thought Translation Series The well-known painter, Oskar Kokoschka, also produced a considerable and significant body of literary work: plays, a few poems, essays and autobiographical stories. The present volume contains all his plays ( some in more than one version) and the poems, plus one short prose passage. All the pieces in this collection, apart from the play Comenius, were written in the period 1907-1918. The plays, despite Kokoschkas dislike of the term, reflect the style of Expressionism current in Ge...
|  | Red Demon (Oberon Modern Plays)
Publication Date: September 1, 2003| Series: Oberon Modern Plays In a land far away a stranger is washed up near an isolated fishing village. Unable to understand his language or why he looks so different, the villagers decide he is a demon and must be destroyed. Only one woman, also an outcast, befriends him. Shot through with wit, ingenuity and sly humour, it reveals the conflict between compassion and suspicion in a closed community. ...
| | Collected Poems of Thomas MacGreevy: An Annotated Edition
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|  | Cultural Politics: Class, Gender, Race And The Postmodern World
Publication Date: January 17, 1995| ISBN-10: 0631162283 | ISBN-13: 978-0631162285| Edition: 1 Glenn Jordan and Chris Weedon look at the role of culture in reproducing and contesting social relations of class, gender and race. They focus on relationships between culture, subjectivity, and power, in what is the first comprehensive introduction to contemporary cultural politics.* Whose culture shall be the official one and whose shall be subordinated?* What cultures shall be regarded as worthy of display and which shall be hidden?* Whose history shall be remembered and whose forgotten?* Wha...
|  | Between North and South: The Letters of Emily Wharton Sinkler, 1842-1865
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|  | The Wedding Deception (Zebra Historical Romance)
Release Date: June 7, 2005| Series: Zebra Historical Romance Marriages come in all shapes and sizes, particularly marriages of convenience. Take Claire Barrington's situation: she needed protection from the advances of a local squire, while her dashing new husband Jay needed a wife to shield him from busybody matchmakers. It's a perfect plan...until it goes perfectly awry. For when Claire makes an unexpected visit to her husband's London home, the man she meets is not the man she married - although the brooding look-alike is just as attractive, if not more so...A stunned Jasper Barrington gr...
|  | Pok
Publication Date: June 7, 2011| Age Level: 9 and up Reads R to L (Japanese Style). PokÉmon—Not Just for Video Games! All your favorite PokÉmon game characters jump out of the screen into the pages of this action-packed manga! ...
|  | Unwitting Wisdom: An Anthology of Aesop's Fables
Publication Date: August 5, 2004| Grade Level: P and up For over 2,500 years the simple stories and wry humor of Aesop's fables have entertained children and adults alike. Their lessons have seeped into the very fabric of our language, as evidenced by expressions such as "sour grapes" and "a wolf in sheep's clothing."Through the centuries many artists have risen to the challenge of interpreting their favorite tales. In this magnificent edition, award-winning illustrator Helen Ward has chosen a dozen of her favorite fables, painstakingly creating with words and breathtaking watercolors a da...
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