 | Island of the Sequined Love Nun
Release Date: May 25, 2004Take a wonderfully crazed excursion into the demented heart of a tropical paradise—a world of cargo cults, cannibals, mad scientists, ninjas, and talking fruit bats. Our bumbling hero is Tucker Case, a hopeless geek trapped in a cool guy's body, who makes a living as a pilot for the Mary Jean Cosmetics Corporation. But when he demolishes his boss's pink plane during a drunken airborne liaison, Tuck must run for his life from Mary Jean's goons. Now there's only one employment opportunity left for him: piloting shady secret missions for an unscrupulous medical ...
 |  | Writing Our Way Home
Release Date: November 3, 1992These stories highlight the extraordinary range of American Jewish fiction today and constitute "a glorious collection, as notable for its variety as it is for its common threads of brilliant and passionate writing" (Hilda Wolitzer). Features Saul Bellow, Cynthia Ozick, Philip Roth, Joanna Spiro, Mark Helprin, E.L. Doctorow, Grace Paley, and 17 others. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | En el camino (Compactos Anagrama) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: November 15, 2005| Series: Compactos Anagrama (Book 10) Este libro fue la Biblia y el manifiesto de la generacion beat y se ha convertido en una novela de culto y en un clasico de la literatura norteamericana. Se narran aqui los viajes enloquecidos, a bordo de Cadillacs prestados y Dodges desvencijados, de un mitico hipster y un narrador. Esta es la cronica de unos protagonistas que fueron en la vida real: Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg y William Burroughs. ...
|  | The Complete McAuslan
Publication Date: August 1, 2009George MacDonald Fraser's hilarious stories of the most disastrous soldier in the British Army are collected together for the first time in one volume. Private McAuslan, J., the Dirtiest Soldier in the World (alias the Tartan Caliban, or the Highland Division's answer to the Pekin Man) first demonstrated his unfitness for service in The General Danced at Dawn. He continued his disorderly advance, losing, soiling or destroying his equipment, through the pages of McAuslan in the Rough. The final volume, The Sheikh and the Dustbin, pursues the career of the great...
|  | One Better
Publication Date: September 1997With the raw, vivid energy that made her first novel, "Knowing", a national bestseller, Rosalyn McMillan tells the funny, poignant story of Spice Witherspoon, a prosperous African-American restaurateur living in Detroit, and her two daughters, Mink and Sterling. ...
|  | Blue Institution
Publication Date: April 19, 2004Scott Porter, institutionalized at the age of twenty in a state institution for the developmentally delayed. Ironically, Scott is not developmentally delayed. He suffers from a hereditary neurological disease, Huntington's chorea, which Scott admits is "one of Mother Nature's cruelest jokes."Huntington's has rendered Scott virtually unable to do anything for himself, including communicating verbally. The only communication he has is the subtle vibrations in a person's being, that only a handful of the more sensitive care-givers, where he now lives, understand....
|  | Three Women
Publication Date: July 20, 2006One of the best novels to come out of the golden age of lesbian pulps, this 1958 classic returns to delight a new generation of readers.Phil Carlson’s marriage proposal is 18-year-old Paula’s ticket out of the tenement and dingy life with her alcoholic father. But the dream dissolves the moment Paula meets Byrne, Phil’s wealthy aunt. Byrne, an artist who lives in Greenwich Village, is bewitched by Paula’s crush on her and daringly allows it to blossom, despite the dark secret that forever ties her to another woman....
|  | Standards Left Ragged (A Fairaday and Marlborough Novel)
Publication Date: February 15, 2006| ISBN-10: 0972630384 | ISBN-13: 978-0972630382Yankee privateer Captain Phillip Fairaday and Royal Navy Lieutenant Eliot Marlborough return in this sea adventure of 1776. As the conflict in the Chesapeake Bay grows more savage, so, too, does the conflict between these former friends. While Fairaday raids Tory commerce Marlborough joins the ship's company of HMS Roebuck 44 in order to intercept and destroy the inshore Rebel threat. When they meet in ship to ship action off the North Carolina coast only one will retain his command; for the other, an uncer...
|  | Into the Storm (Destroyermen)
Release Date: June 3, 2008| Series: Destroyermen (Book 1) Pressed into service when World War II breaks out in the Pacific, the US Walker—a Great War-era destroyer—finds itself retreating from pursuing Japanese battleships. Its captain, Lieutenant Commander Matthew Patrick Reddy, desperately leads the Walker into a squall, hoping it will give them cover—only to emerge into an alternate world. A world where two species have evolved: the cat-like Lemurians and the reptilian Griks—and they are at war.With its power and weaponry, the Walker’s very existence cou...
|  | Carribbean Discourse: Selected Essays (Caribbean and African Literature)
Publication Date: September 30, 1999| ISBN-10: 081391373X | ISBN-13: 978-0813913735Selected essays from the rich and complex collection of Edouard Glissant, one of the most prominent writers and intellectuals of the Caribbean, examine the psychological, sociological, and philosophical implications of cultural dependency. ...
|  | A Robin Came Singing
Publication Date: December 10, 2003Writing inspirational poetry has been a life-changing experience for Kay Hoffman. Like many others, she finds that God speaks to her through poetry, whether it be her own or other's writing. Many of the poems in this book were inspired by small comforts and delights from God. At the lowest points in her life, she found that God lifted her spirit through poetry. Out of her heart, Kay has been able to express what others may feel but are unable to say. ...
|  | Discover Early Music (Discover (Naxos))
Publication Date: October 1, 2007| Series: Discover (Naxos) The Middle Ages began with the collapse of the Roman world. This left a military and political system in ruins but a cultural world-view largely intact. Artistically rich and varied in themselves, the medieval centuries also sparked both the artistic Renaissance and the religious Reformation that followed. Rich but musically lost? Buildings and statues endure, but how can we ever really know about early music and what the Medieval and Renaissance world sounded like? From the evidence that remains, modern performers have embarked on ...
|  | Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism: The Haunting Interval (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature)
Publication Date: May 9, 2012| ISBN-10: 0415509661 | ISBN-13: 978-0415509664| Edition: 1 This book resituates the ghost story as a matter of literary hospitality and as part of a vital prehistory of modernism, seeing it not as a quaint neo-gothic ornament, but as a powerful literary response to the technological and psychological disturbances that marked the end of the Victorian era. Linking little-studied authors like M. R. James and May Sinclair to such canonical figures as Dickens, Henry James, Woolf, and Joyce, Thurston argues that the literary ghost should be seen as no mere relic o...
| | Modern Retellings of Chivalric Texts
Publication Date: January 1999| ISBN-10: 1840146125 | ISBN-13: 978-1840146127The ten essays in this collection identify and examine reworkings of identifiable source texts from the medieval and renaissance periods, addressing how misreading or rereading of chivalric conventions affects the retelling. ...
|  | The Book of Abigail & John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family 1762-1784
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|  | Mountain Fury (Five Star Romance)
Publication Date: January 2000| Series: Five Star Romance While Meg Kincaid, on the run from an abusive marriage, is forced to seek shelter with her family's sworn enemy, Jim Kincaid enters a troubled and volatile manhood in the Rockies.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Suspicion of Vengeance
Release Date: January 7, 2003Twelve years ago, the brutal murder of a young wife and mother rocked the quiet coastal town of Stuart, Florida-and a local troublemaker was sentenced to death for the crime. Now, new evidence has come to light, and Miami attorney Gail Conner agrees to take the case-against the wishes of her fiancé, top criminal defense lawyer Anthony Quintana. One look at the trial transcript convinces Gail that her client was wrongfully convicted. But to save his life, she'll have to push the law to the breaking point. ...
|  | Icefire
Publication Date: May 1, 1999"The most destructive natural disaster in history isn't "natural...."THE PLACE Antarctica. The Ross Ice Shelf. A floating slab of solid ice the size of France, more than 3,000 feet thick.THE EVENTOn Thanksgiving weekend, six precisely placed nuclear warheads buried 2,000 feet beneath the ice detonate in sequence, shearing the Ross Shelf from the underwater rises that anchor it.The nuclear shock wave drives the shelf into the Pacific at 500 miles per hour, creating an initial wall of water 1,400 feel high. Unseen, unsuspected, unstoppable, the displacement wave fo...
|  | The Singing Wire: Lucky Luke Vol. 35
Publication Date: September 16, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
| ![A Giant Problem [With Earbuds] (Playaway Children)](https://imageproxy.pixnet.cc/imgproxy?url=https://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41p22hpMhaL._SL500_SS500_.jpg&width=150 "A Giant Problem [With Earbuds] (Playaway Children)") | A Giant Problem [With Earbuds] (Playaway Children)
Publication Date: December 1, 2008| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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