 | The Next American Essay
Publication Date: February 28, 2002In this singular collection, John D'Agata takes a literary tour of lyric essays written by the masters of the craft. Beginning with 1975 and John McPhee's ingenious piece, "The Search for Marvin Gardens," D'Agata selects an example of creative nonfiction for each subsequent year. These essays are unrestrained, elusive, explosive, mysterious—a personal lingual playground. They encompass and illuminate culture, myth, history, romance, and sex. Each essay is a world of its own, a world so distinctive it resists definition. Contributors include:Sherman A...
 |  | Interviews with Writers of the Post-Colonial World
Publication Date: August 1, 1992This book of interviews conducted by Jussawalla and Dasenbrock is the first to feature third-world authors discussing their works and their careers. These are joined by three Chicano writers from the U.S. All fourteen included here write in English, a language they have chosen for their creative expression, and all write their novels at a time when codes of the colonial past are targets of revisionism. In this fascinating collection of fourteen interviews (eleven previously unpublished) the interviewers speak with leading writers from Kenya, Nigeria, Somalia, ...
|  | Three Weddings and a Bar Mitzvah (86 Bloomberg Place Series #4)
Publication Date: September 1, 2009In the final installment in the 86 Bloomberg Place series, Melody Carlson follows the girls in a crazed competition for bridesmaids, wedding locations, and showers. Newly engaged Lelani has returned from Maui to Bloomberg Place and is trying to book her wedding date. Unfortunately there are scheduling conflicts for that same weekend. For starters, Megan and Marcus have a family wedding commitment. Anna and Edmond have promised to attend his younger stepbrother’s Bar Mitzvah and, to everyone’s surprise, Kendall has just accepted her “Mau...
|  | Angelina's Secret
Publication Date: February 1, 2012As a child, Angelina spent years in counseling learning that Josie, her imaginary friend, wasn't real, but it turns out her childhood friend wasn't imaginary after all.Now Angelina has to accept she's either (A) crazy or (B) able to see ghosts. Wanting to believe in her sanity, she chooses (B) and welcomes Josie back into her life. But even Josie can't help her deal with Shelly, the spirit of a confused teenager, and things go very, very wrong.When Angelina finds herself in a psychiatric hospital, she faces a choice: she can spend the rest of her life preten...
|  | Burning Water (Tor Horror)
Release Date: December 23, 2004| Series: Tor Horror A sexy witch who writes romances and a police detective who sees more than mortal man team up to battle an ancient Aztec god!Dallas Police Detective Mark Valdez isn't just any cop, he's a psychic who knows that the cattle mutilations and torture murders he's been investigating are somehow tied together.He also knows that his meager psychic abilities aren't enough to identify the killers, much less stop them.Luckily, Mark has an ace up his sleeve:an attractive young romance novelist who happens to be a practicing witch.And not just any witch...
|  | Haunted House of the Vampire
Release Date: October 22, 2004The first book in the Coopersville Creepers Series...Kenny Odom is a quiet, teenaged boy growing up in a small American town in the 1970s. But a discovery of something unexpected in his house changes his life from typical to terrifying, while also revealing horrid secrets about the history of both his home and his town... ...
|  | Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Objective (Jason Bourne, Book 8)
Publication Date: May 1, 2011Facing down mercenaries in Africa, Jason Bourne witnesses the death of an art dealer named Tracy Atherton. Her killing dredges up snatches of Bourne's impaired memory, in particular the murder of a young woman on Bali who entrusted him with a strangely engraved ring-an artifact of such powerful significance that people have killed to obtain it. Now he's determined to find the ring's owner and purpose. But Bourne never knows what terrible acts he'll discover he committed when he digs into the past.The trail will lead him through layers of conspiracy to a...
|  | Put a Lid on It
Publication Date: March 1, 2003Facing life without parole, career thief Francis Meehan awaits sentencing in Manhattan when he's approached with an offer he can't refuse: all charges will be dropped if he steals an incriminating videotape that could cost the President of the United States his reelection. ...
|  | Boystown 4: A Time for Secrets A Nick Nowak Novel
Publication Date: April 6, 2012| Series: Boystown In the first full-length novel of the Boystown series, it's late summer 1982 and private detective Nick Nowak is asked to find a retired gentleman's long lost lover. Instead, he finds himself embroiled in a decades old murder connected to the man who wants to be Chicago's next mayor. Meanwhile, an ambitious young reporter develops a friendship with Nick's lover Bert, making Nick wonder exactly where their relationship may be heading. ...
|  | Equus (Penguin Plays)
Release Date: October 2, 1984In "Equus," which took critics and public alike by storm and has gone on to become a modern classic, Peter Shaffer depicts the story of a deranged youth who blinds six horses with a spike. Through a psychiatrist's analysis of the events, Shaffer creates a chilling portrait of how materialism and convenience have killed our capacity for worship and passion and, consequently, our capacity for pain. Rarely has a playwrite created an atmosphere and situation that so harshly pinpoint the spiritual and mental decay of modern man. ...
|  | FO PLAYS 2 (Contemporary Dramatists) (v. 2)
Publication Date: November 3, 1997| ISBN-10: 0413680207 | ISBN-13: 978-0413680204Dario Fo is Italy's leading contemporary playwright and performer, renowned throughout the world for his dazzling radical satiresCan't Pay Won't Pay is set in Milan, but "the problems are desperately familiar…Fo-faced farce wears a broad smile and proceeds at breathtaking speed" (Michael Coveney, Financial Times); Elizabeth "It portrays our last Tudor monarch in Fo's characteristically rollicking vein…A triumph for Gillian Hanna as translator" (Marin Hoyle, Financial Times); The Open Couple and...
|  | Otros Seres: Other Beings (Spanish and English Edition)
Publication Date: December 5, 2006The reader will find in this anthology a diversity representative of the new Hispanic sensibility being formed in the three Americas. Spanish has become an extensively used language, crossing frontiers with workers that migrate through regions, helping to unite these beings separated by nationalities but who are brothers because of common feelings and the same cultural and linguistic heritage. The poetry in this book performs a reparative role, trying to come closer to another being, the spirit of creativity, and make it more a part of the poetic self. It do...
|  | Expanding the American Mind: Books and the Popularization of Knowledge
Publication Date: May 31, 2010Over the past fifty years, knowledge of the natural world, history, and human behavior has expanded dramatically. What has been learned in the academy has become part of political discourse, sermons, and everyday conversation. The dominant medium for transferring knowledge from universities to the public is popularization books of serious nonfiction that make complex ideas and information accessible to nonexperts. Such writers as Carl Sagan, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Hawking, Daniel Boorstin, and Robert Coles have attracted hundreds of thousands of readers. As ...
|  | Never Romance a Rake
Release Date: July 22, 2008| Series: Never (Book 3)In this sizzling third book in New York Times bestselling author Liz Carlyle's compelling historical trilogy, a cynical rake joins a sinister game of cards with dangerously seductive stakes. If he wins this hand...Shunning the glittering elite of high society Kieran, Baron Rothewell, prefers the dangerous pursuits of London's demimonde. Hardened by a tormented past, he cares little for anyone or anything. So how can he resist the wager proposed by the dissolute Comte de Valigny? A hand of cards for the possession of the comte's exquisi...
|  | The Greatest Possible Mischief (Zebra Regency Romance)
Release Date: October 1, 2003| Series: Zebra Regency Romance In Jo Ann Ferguson's newest tale of Regency romance and adventure, the intrepid Lady Priscilla Flanders and her dashing admirer, Sir Neville Hathaway, attend a soiree in Bath, where they find themselves at the center of a very dangerous liaison. ...
|  | ACT Normal: A Stan Turner Mystery (Stan Turner Mysteries)
Publication Date: September 1, 2007| Series: Stan Turner Mysteries (Book 8) In this 8th episode of the Stan Turner Mystery series Dallas attorney Stan Turner struggles to keep his practice going in the wake of the tragic loss of his son and his rapidly disintegrating marriage. Stan, who has been recruited by the CIA for its ultra top secret Tarizon Repopulation project, gets his first assignment to defend a woman accused of murdering her children and alien husband. The alien husband, however, is not from Mexico but Tarizon, a planet in another solar system. Stan must not only prove his clien...
|  | Uncommon Clay
Publication Date: May 22, 2001| Series: Deborah Knott Mysteries Judge Deborah Knott of Seagrove, North Carolina, must unearth a local family's tragic past to find a vengeful killer in the eighth installment of the award-winning mystery series by Maron. ...
|  | A Dying Light in Corduba (Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries)
Publication Date: March 1, 1999| Series: Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries Marcus Didius Falco is ready to make new contacts and start a new career, and a dinner for the Society of Olive Oil Producers of Baetica seems like the perfect opportunity. But when two dinner guests are found beaten--one dead--Falco knows he cannot rest until he solves at least one more mystery. ...
|  | Son of Stone: A Stone Barrington Novel
Release Date: March 27, 2012| Series: Stone Barrington Stone Barrington knows everything there is to know about the cityhe loves, but he's about to learn something new about himself... ...
|  | Doctor Bird
Publication Date: November 1, 2007Doctor Bird, a real life creature as well as the national bird of Jamaica, takes on the character of a sage who can help all the other animals with their daily problems.These well-crafted stories are loosely based on true happenings, as well as mythological events on the island of Jamaica.These are three West Indian tales, the moral equivalent of Anansi stories, presented in luscious color and all of which show that Doctor Bird is a "very upful fellow" and one who looks up at things and not down. ...
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