 | Against the Gates of Hell: A Crack House Exodus
Release Date: August 19, 2011| Series: Crack House Exodus He had always looked down on those who partook and pedaled drugs whichclaimed the lives of many in the streets. Now Kerby Wilson finds himself heldcaptive by his own pride and going down a very desperate path of his own. Distraught over the death of his parents and, the murder of a fellow policeofficer, Kerby alienates those closest to him, pushing them away-his wife, brother,police force buddies and old friends. As the bottom falls out of his life and darknessconsumes his soul, he sells all that he holds dea...
 |  | 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....
|  | Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: A Novel
Release Date: May 3, 2011 When mother and daughter Vivi and Siddalee Walker get into a savage fight over a New York Times article that refers to Vivi as a “tap-dancing child abuser,” the fallout is felt from Louisiana to New York to Seattle. A successful theater director, Siddalee panics and postpones her upcoming wedding—so Vivi’s intrepid gang of lifelong girlfriends, the Ya-Yas, sashay in and conspire to bring everyone back together.In 1932, Vivi and the Ya-Yas were disqualified from a Shirley Temple Look-Alike Contest for unladylike behavior. Sixty years later, they...
|  | The Prairie Romance Collection: 12 Complete Stories
Publication Date: May 1, 2009Relive history on the American Great Plains as penned by twelve different multi-published authors. Follow pioneers, immigrants, and orphans through their adventures, heartaches, challenges, victories, and romances. You are sure to find more than one favorite among twelve stories in this unique collection to warm your heart and inspire your faith. ...
|  | Soldier's Aim (Cyberquest)
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|  | Rivington Street: A NOVEL
Publication Date: September 12, 2001This sprawling historical novel follows the fortunes of four enterprising, courageous Jewish women on New York's Lower East Side. Hannah Levy masterminds her family's escape, despite her radical husband's objections, from czarist Russia after the Kishinev pogroms; elder daughter Sarah becomes a union organizer and a socialist while the younger Ruby rises to the top of the fashion design world; their friend Rachel abandons her ultra-Orthodox background to go to work for the Jewish Daily Forward. Through their lives, loves, and convictions, Meredith Tax draw...
|  | Material Girl (Urban Books)
Release Date: August 31, 2010| Series: Urban Books Dylan Monroe is the kind of chick females love to hate, but children and dogs mysteriously adore. She’s a material girl, living in a material world filled with diamonds, furs, limousines, celebrities, and private planes. To the world, she has it all, but behind closed doors, she has nothing. Almost bankrupt, she finds solace with State, a wealthy entrepreneur with a heart of steel, the man who breaks her heart time and time again. When State leaves her heart in shambles, she turns to Angel, her best friend’s brother. She’...
|  | A Year for Kristine: Rites of Passage (Volume 3)
Publication Date: August 17, 2012Part 3 of 3: Rites of Passage - As Kristine's winter drifts into spring, she recovers from her traumatic childhood and begins to yearn for the rites of passage into adulthood. Lingering anger and self-doubt plague her as she struggles through intrinsic lessons of her life – the importance of friendship, shouldering the burden of her father's legacy, and the meaning of true love. But it is not until a series of dramatic events changes everything that Kristine is forced to learn perhaps the hardest lesson of all – how to let go. "A Year for Kristi...
|  | Pintora de Shangai, La (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: November 15, 2008Desde las aguas pantanosas del Yangtsé y los desaseados cuartos interiores del Salón del Esplendor Eterno hasta el estridente encanto del Shangai anterior a la guerra y el París bohemio de los años veinte, para volver de nuevo a una China desgarrada por la guerra civil y los albores de la revolución, esta novela cuenta la historia de Pan Yuliang, una de las más talentosas y provocadoras figuras del arte chino del siglo XX. / Jennifer Cody Epstein's epic brings to life the woman behind the lush, Cezannesque nude self-portraits, ...
|  | The Dixon Cornbelt League and Other Baseball Stories
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| | The Agreeable World of Wallace Arnold
Publication Date: October 1991A selection in volume form of the best of Wallace Arnold's humorous pieces and reviews from "The Spectator", "Punch", "The Literary Review", "Tatler", and "Antique" magazines. Some previously unpublished pieces have also been included. ...
| | Comedy and conscience after the restoration, (Columbia university studies in English and comparative literature)
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|  | Bento's Sketchbook
Release Date: November 8, 2011Bento's Sketchbook is an exploration of the practice of drawing, as well as a meditation on how we perceive and seek to explore our ever-changing relationship with the world around us. ...
|  | The Night Before
Release Date: March 1, 2003Caitlyn Montgomery Bandeaux wakes up one Savannah morning with a pounding headache -- and covered in blood, the news of her estranged husband's brutal murder a cruel taunt in her ears. Now the police want answers, and Caitlyn finds she has none.The only person Caitlyn can turn to is her reclusive twin sister Kelly. Only Kelly knows about all the troubles that run through the Montgomery family...and about the recurring blackouts...the plantation home with its dark secrets and tangled lies...and the sins that haunt Caitlyn in horrifying, fragmented memories. But now ...
|  | Janelle's Time
Publication Date: July 11, 2012‘JANELLE’S TIME,’ SET IN 1830’s NEW HAMPSHIRE Janelle’s Time is the epic story of the great love between a New Hampshire farmer’s daughter, Janelle LeDuc, and the son of an English Duke, Richard Grayson.From her father’s death in a logging accident to barely surviving the birth of twin daughters, Janelle makes it difficult for Richard to protect her, but not on purpose. Unaware of Janelle’s maternal-line powers, the couple accidentally time-travels to 14th century England, meeting Richard’s ancestor...
|  | Cardboard
Publication Date: August 1, 2012| Age Level: 10 and up When cardboard creatures come magically to life, a boy must save his town from disaster.Cam's down-and-out father gives him a cardboard box for his birthday and he knows it's the worst present ever. So to make the best of a bad situation, they bend the cardboard into a man-and to their astonishment, it comes magically to life. But the neighborhood bully, Marcus, warps the powerful cardboard into his own evil creations that threaten to destroy them all! ...
|  | Alaskan Ice Climbing (US) (Footprint Reading Library: Level 1)
Publication Date: September 8, 2008| ISBN-10: 1424043956 | ISBN-13: 978-1424043958| Edition: 1 Many people visit Alaska to see the beautiful national parks. One group of visitors wants to fly into a national park and go skiing. However, the weather turns bad. Will the visitors be able to get to the park? What will they do there? ...
|  | Adventures and Accidents
Publication Date: December 22, 1994| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up 10 Illustrations by the Author.Partial Contents: A Yachting Adventure and its Lesson; Jokilobovu; A Story of the Matabele Rising; The Sport of Rajahs; A Lion Hunt; Bluffing in Mafeking; Bush Strategy; Hadj Ano; An Ambuscade; An Elephant Hunt; The Value of Skirt-Dancing; When I was a Spy; The Bravest Man I Ever Saw; The Cannibal of the Sea; Canoe Traveling in Canada; A Scouting Thrill; Gooming; Alone in the Andies. ...
|  | Only You/Solo Tu (Spanish and English Edition)
Publication Date: March 8, 2004| Grade Level: P and up With tender illustrations and prose as warm as a parent’s embrace, this love poem from a baby bear to his mother celebrates the simple activities—such as reading, playing, and eating together—that are so important to a growing child's development. Now available in a Spanish-English edition, Only You also includes a note from esteemed pediatrician and author Perri Klass. ...
| | The Iliad
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