 | Monsters of the Ray
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 |  | Cry down the lonely night: A Gold medal original (Gold medal book)
Publication Date: 1954| Series: Gold medal book Vintage paperback original. "A tender, yet frightening novel of a woman's hunger for love." ...
|  | Answered Prayers
Release Date: September 30, 2003Danielle Steel’s 56th bestselling novel is about family and friendship, about onewoman’s struggle to break free from the past—and the man who helps her triumph. Andmost of all, it is about daring to believe in...Answered Prayers.On the outside,Faith Madison is the very picture of a sophisticated New Yorker. Slim, blond, stylish,Faith has a life many would envy. Overcoming a childhood marked by tragedy, marriedto a successful investment banker and having raised two grown daughters, Faith hasenjoyed her role as mother and wife, and the good l...
|  | Vital Parts
Publication Date: June 13, 2000"Nancy Fisher is breathing hotly down the neck of Robin Cook, and if he doesn't look out, she'll leave him standing." Stuart Woods When a supermodel receives a mysterious gift promising eternal health and beauty, she enters a dangerous spiral of disovery leading to a remote town in Spain, where a brilliant doctor produces miracles at a terrifying cost. ...
|  | Mommy, Mama, and Me
Release Date: June 9, 2009| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Rhythmic text and illustrations with universal appeal show a toddler spending the day with its mommies. From hide-and-seek to dress-up, then bath time and a kiss goodnight, there's no limit to what a loving family can do together.Shares the loving bond between same-sex parents and their children. ...
|  | Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology
Publication Date: October 11, 1989| ISBN-10: 0313258902 | ISBN-13: 978-0313258909Prior to 1500 A.D. the Polynesians were the most widely spread people on earth, having settled an area of the Pacific, the Polynesian Triangle, twice the size of the United States. In this first reference guide to the mythology of these Vikings of the Pacific, Craig reviews Polynesian legends, stories, gods, goddesses, and heroes in hundreds of alphabetical entries that succinctly describe both characters and events. His wide-ranging and thorough introduction sets the subject in its geographic, historical, a...
|  | Funny Words in Plautine Comedy
Publication Date: December 9, 2009Plautus, Rome's earliest extant poet, was acclaimed by ancient critics above all for his mastery of language and his felicitous jokes; and yet in modern times relatively little attention has been devoted to elucidating these elements fully. In Funny Words in Plautine Comedy, Michael Fontaine reassesses some of the premises and nature of Plautus' comedies. Mixing textual and literary criticism, Fontaine argues that many of Plautus' jokes and puns were misunderstood already in antiquity, and that with them the names and identities of some familiar characters w...
|  | City Culture and the Madrigal at Venice
Publication Date: July 14, 1995Martha Feldman's exploration of sixteenth-century Venetian madrigals centers on the importance to the Venetians of Ciceronian rhetorical norms, which emphasized decorum through adherence to distinct stylistic levels. She shows that Venice easily adapted these norms to its long-standing mythologies of equilibrium, justice, peace, and good judgment. Feldman explains how Venetian literary theorists conceived variety as a device for tempering linguistic extremes and thereby maintaining moderation. She further shows how the complexity of sacred polyphony was adapted...
|  | The Greyfriar (Vampire Empire, Book 1)
Publication Date: November 18, 2010| Series: Vampire Empire (Book 1) In the year 1870, a horrible plague of vampires swept over the northern regions of the world. Millions of humans were killed outright. Millions more died of disease and famine due to the havoc that followed. Within two years, once great cities were shrouded by the grey empire of the vampire clans. Human refugees fled south to the tropics because vampires could not tolerate the constant heat there. They brought technology and a feverish drive to reestablish their shattered societies of steam and iron amid the mosques of Alex...
|  | Darkness Descending: A Novel of the Vampire Armageddon
Release Date: August 2, 2011| Series: Vampire Armageddon Fallen angels in the form of vampires are infecting humans one by one, creating an army fit for Armageddon. Jesse Burke, driven by vengeance to destroy the vampiric angels, has been protecting New Orleans from the onslaught, unaware that she has a much greater destiny awaiting her in the face of the oncoming apocalypse... ...
|  | Elvene
Publication Date: September 1, 2010Elvene, a solo Space Corps agent, is on a reconnaissance mission when she is ambushed by space marauders: militaristic robotic drones, designed to hunt and kill. She escapes by taking refuge on an uncharted planet, where she discovers the Kiri, an unknown tribe living a subsistence life on an ocean archipelago. They have no knowledge of her world nor her of theirs; but they readily adopt her and give her the title of Ocean Woman. Elvene responds in kind, temporarily forgetting the tribulations of her own world. Inevitably, however, her past catches up with ...
|  | Thunder Mountain Brides:The Outlaw Schoolteacher-Edith
Publication Date: December 8, 2010| ISBN-10: 1453848908 | ISBN-13: 978-1453848906Thunder Mountain Brides:The Outlaw Schoolteacher-Edith is the first of a ten-book western romance series set in 1880's Thunder Mountain, Colorado.The hero is Zachary Scalen, and the heroine is Edith Baumgarten. Thunder Mountain Was Edith's Plan To Escape The Outlaw Benton Gang.Her Love For Zachary Stood To Ruin Everything. ...
|  | Suspicion of Malice: A Gail Connor and Anthony Quintana Novel
Release Date: August 1, 2001The critics call Barbara Parker's work "top-drawer suspense" (The New York Times Book Review) and proclaim her to be "one of the genre's most accomplished performers" (The San Diego Union-Tribune). Now, in her most intense, unforgettable novel to date, Parker reunites Gail Connor and Anthony Quintana for a shocking case that exposes the underbelly of sleek Miami--a case that could bring them closer together, or destroy everything they hold dear.A brutal murder takes place in the shadows of an exclusive party on the Miami waterfront. The victim is the heir to a yac...
|  | Killer Instinct
Release Date: May 29, 2007<DIV><DIV><DIV>Jason Steadman is a thirty-year-old sales exec for a major electronics company in Boston. He s witty and well-liked but, to the chagrin of his ambitious wife, it looks like Jason s career has hit a ceiling. He lacks the one thing that could help him get ahead: the KILLER INSTINCT All that changes when Jason meets Kurt Semko, a former Special Forces officer just back from Iraq. Looking for a decent pitcher for the company softball team, Jason gets Kurt, who was once drafted by the majors, a job in Corporate Security. Soon,...
|  | Clockers: A Novel
Release Date: March 4, 2008Novelist and Academy Award–nominated screenwriter Richard Price's bestselling second novel offers "an unforgettable picture of inner-city decay and despair" (USA Today) At once an intense mystery and a revealing study of two men, a veteran homicide detective and an innercity crack dealer, on opposite sides of an endless war. Clockers is "powerful . . . harrowing . . . remarkable" (The New York Times Book Review). ...
|  | A Fine Dark Line
Publication Date: October 1, 2003It is the summer of 1958 in Dewmont, Texas, a town the great American postwar boom passed by. The kids listen idly to rockabilly on the radio and waste their weekends at the Dairy Queen. And an undetected menace simmers under the heat that clings to the skin like molasses... For thirteen-year-old Stanley Mitchell, the end of innocence comes with his discovery of the mysterious long-ago demise of two very different young women. In his quest to unravel the truth about their tragic fates, Stanley finds a protector in Buster Lighthorse Smith, a black, retired Ind...
|  | Imperial Assassin (Imperial Trilogy)
Publication Date: November 1, 2006| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Fairy Tale Magic: Pull the Tabs! Change the Pictures! (Large Format Magic Windows Books)
Release Date: January 18, 2005| Age Level: 4 and up...
|  | Bobo'S Magic Wishes - Pbk
Publication Date: August 1, 1996| Age Level: 5 and up...
|  | Libros para contar (Audio)(Serie Cuentos para todo el ano) (Libros Para Contar / Stories for the Telling) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: October 28, 2008| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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