| The Pulse: A Novel of Surviving the Collapse of the Grid Publication Date: July 10, 2012THE END OF THE ELECTRIC AGEAs massive solar flares bombard the Earth, an intense electromagnetic pulse instantly destroys the power grid throughout North America. Within hours, desperate citizens panic and anarchy descends. Surrounded by chaos, Casey Drager, a student at Tulane University, must save herself from the havoc in the streets of New Orleans. Casey and two of her friends evacuate the city and travel north, where they end up in the dangerous backwaters of Mississippi, forced to use their survival skills to seek refuge and fight for their lives.Meanwhil...
| | Leave it to Psmith (Wodehouse, P. G. Collector's Wodehouse.) Release Date: September 15, 2003A full cast of Wodehouse creations--including tyrannical relatives, beastly acquaintances, demon children, and literary fatheads--return for further near catastrophes and sparkling comedy Overlook is proud to present four more antic selections from comic genius, P.G. Wodehouse. A Damsel in Distress is an early novel about Belpher Castle, the idyllic home of the aristocratic Marshmoreton family and a precursor to the Blandings series. Leave it to Psmith is a comedy adventure involving crime and gunplay, all set into motion by an umbrella in the Drones Club and ...
| | Little Women (Radio Theatre) Publication Date: April 1, 2004| Series: Radio Theatre Combining the stellar script adaptation skills of award-winning writers Paul McCusker and Philip Glassborrow with the beloved novel by Louisa May Alcott, Radio Theatre's Little Women will captivate listeners with its poignant story and top-notch cast. Through trial, illness, poverty, disappointment, and sacrifice, four sisters place family above all else, reinforcing the qualities of honesty, contentment, and joy. ...
| | The Call of the Wild (Dover Thrift Editions) Publication Date: July 1, 1990| Series: Dover Thrift Editions A classic novel of adventure, drawn from London's own experiences as a Klondike adventurer, relating the story of a heroic dog, who, caught in the brutal life of the Alaska Gold Rush, ultimately faces a choice between living in man's world and returning to nature. Note. ...
| | Anita's Legacy Publication Date: August 8, 2000This book is a fictional dramatization of a metaphysicaland spiritual journey. It is an inquiry into The Question: Why isthere something instead of nothing? The provocative, humorous, andinspirational story unifies philosophy, religion, and science in amanner that grips the reader from start to finish. By offering freshand unusual patterns of thought, the author shows that religion andscience do have a common meeting ground. An absolute must for anyonewho turns to fiction for an answer to the riddle of life. ...
| | Looking Backward: 2000 - 1887 (Broadview Literary Texts) Publication Date: January 2, 2003| ISBN-10: 1551114062 | ISBN-13: 978-1551114064Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (1888) is one of the most influential utopian novels in English. The narrative follows Julian West, who goes to sleep in Boston in 1887 and wakes in the year 2000 to find that the era of competitive capitalism is long over, replaced by an era of co-operation. Wealth is produced by an "industrial army" and every citizen receives the same wage. This edition contains a rich selection of appendices, including excerpts from Bellamy's Equality and other writings; ...
| | Echoes of the Past Publication Date: May 2, 2011Recently widowed, Katherine Chambers takes her young son to visit her husband's family when disaster strikes. The ship they are sailing on runs into a severe storm off Robin Hood's Bay on the Yorkshire Coast. Among the bodies on the beach, a survivor is found. Identified as Katherine from the engraving on the bracelet she wears on her wrist, she has no knowledge of who she is or where she is from. Dr. Bennett, the local doctor in Robin Hood's Bay, is called in but though he can treat Katherine's cuts and physical ailments, there is little he can do to heal the ga...
| | Ein frohes Farbenspiel (German Edition) Release Date: November 18, 2011Dieses Werk ist Teil der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS. Der Verlag tredition aus Hamburg veröffentlicht in der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS Werke aus mehr als zwei Jahrtausenden. Diese waren zu einem Großteil vergriffen oder nur noch antiquarisch erhältlich. Mit der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS verfolgt tredition das Ziel, tausende Klassiker der Weltliteratur verschiedener Sprachen wieder als gedruckte Bücher zu verlegen – und das weltweit! Die Buchreihe dient zur Bewahrung der Literatur und Förderung der Kultur. Sie trägt so...
| | Sexile Release Date: January 27, 2009There's a voyeur in each of us—and Teresa Knight is no exceptionSomebody’s shadowing Teresa Knight, watching the part-time investigator’s every move. And she’s about to find out why: tapped for an undercover assignment that takes her into the steamy world of erotic films, Teresa lands a job at Silky Pictures—and within weeks she’s directing the action, conjuring her own wildest fantasies onto film. But her employer is dabbling in something far beyond hard-core porn. And when the case culminates in murder, Teresa is at th...
| | Memoirs from the House of the Dead (Oxford World's Classics) Publication Date: August 1, 2008| Series: Oxford World's Classics In this almost documentary account of his own experiences of penal servitude in Serbia, Dostoevsky describes the physical and mental suffering of the convicts, the squalor and the degradation, in relentless detail. The inticate procedure whereby the men strip for the bath without removing their ten-pound leg-fetters is an extraordinary tour de force, compared by Turgenev to passages from Dante's Inferno. Terror and resignation - the rampages of a pyschopath, the brief serence interlude of Christmas Day - are evoked by Dostoevs...
| | Dialect Monologues vol. II Publication Date: November 1993| Series: Dialect Monologues (Book 1) Book and Tape. Listen to the tape while following the text and learn the dialects and speeches. A must package for every actor and actress seriously pursuing their craft. ...
| | Twist of Fate [Damaged Heroes 5] (BookStrand Publishing Romance) Publication Date: January 17, 2012| Series: Damaged Heroes [BookStrand Western Romance, time travel] What happens when happily ever after meets reality? Susan and James Williams are drifting apart. After a devastating loss, their lives are thrown into further turmoil when a mysterious stone at a museum hurtles them back to the Old West. Their supernatural experience only intensifies the chasm between them, and when James realizes where they are, in a moment of anger, he pronounces that they were never married. They go their separate ways, unsure of what this new world holds in store. James s...
| | The Rake and the Recluse : REDUX Publication Date: May 31, 2012A woman out of time.A man stifled by propriety.A nemesis determined to take her away. A brother to the rescue.How will a powerful Duke deal with a woman who doesn't know her place? How will a woman used to the 21st century survive in time where she is considered property? THE RAKE AND THE RECLUSEPart ONE brings Francine to the world of the Duke of Roxleigh, clashing worlds in first installment of the completely revised novel, with all new material.Part TWO of TRATR Francine finds her footing, discovers secrets about her elusive host, and learns more about hersel...
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| | About Face (Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries) Release Date: March 30, 2010| Series: Commissario Guido Brunetti MysteriesThe eighteenth enthralling installment of "one of the most exquisite and subtle detective series ever" (The Washington Post)The Publication of each Commissario Brunetti mystery is an event anticipated by Donna Leon's many readers. In About Face, she returns with a dazzling mystery that puts Brunetti's own family at risk. Soon after meeting Franca Marinello, the wife of a wealthy Venetian businessman, Brunetti comes across her name in his investigation of a trucking company owner found murdered in his offices....
| | The Drowned Vault: Ashtown Burials #2 Release Date: September 11, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
| | The Popularity Papers: Research for the Social Improvement and General Betterment of Lydia Goldblatt and Julie Graham-Chang Publication Date: December 19, 2011| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
| | Mystery at Blackbeard's Cove Publication Date: October 15, 2004| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
| | My Rainbow Fish Book Box Publication Date: October 28, 2011| Age Level: 2 and up...
| | Curious George at the Aquarium/Jorge el curioso visita el acuario (bilingual edition) (English and Spanish Edition) Publication Date: May 3, 2010| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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