 | Simpatico
Release Date: April 30, 1996Set within the netherworld of thoroughbred racing, this hair-raisingly funny new play by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of True West explores the classical themes of memory, loyalty, and restitution. Simpatico launches readers into regions where high society meets the low life, and where, as one of the main characters observes, "someone is cutting someone else's throat." ...
 |  | Writing Ulster No.5
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|  | The Quakers of New Garden (Romancing America)
Publication Date: April 1, 2012| Series: Romancing AmericaJoin four Quaker women on a journey through the trials of faith and love. Ruth Payne’s bridegroom has cold feet. . .for the second time. Will their third try be the charm? Things get complicated for Underground Railroad worker Deborah Wall when she meets a bounty hunter head-on. Will love have them seeing eye-to-eye? Leah hopes to turn a marriage of convenience into a marriage of love. But will letters be a firm enough foundation? Christian Jaidon Taylor wants to win the heart of Quaker Catherine Wall. But will religion make t...
|  | 1876: A Novel
Release Date: February 15, 2000Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of its most worldly, knowing, and ironic observers.The centennial of the United States was celebrated with great fanfare--fireworks, exhibitions, pious calls to patriotism, and perhaps the most underhanded political machination in the coun...
|  | Saturday
Release Date: March 22, 2005From the pen of a master — the #1 bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Atonement — comes an astonishing novel that captures the fine balance of happiness and the unforeseen threats that can destroy it. A brilliant, thrilling page-turner that will keep readers on the edge of their seats.Saturday is a masterful novel set within a single day in February 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man — a successful neurosurgeon, happily married to a newspaper lawyer, and enjoying good relations with his children. Henry wakes to the comfort of hi...
|  | The Collapse
Publication Date: January 20, 2006A group of friends have their lives turned into turmoil as the North Koreans, and Chinese send teams of special operations units inside U.S. borders.Chinese and North Korean sleeper teams have also been activated in the U.S. The clandestine teams use biological, chemical and explosive attacks that send the U.S. population into panic and fear. They follow up with conventional attacks, on dams, power stations, rail lines, fuel depots, and nuclear reactors to send the country over the edge. The rest of the world isn''t far behind as it is plunged into war and c...
|  | The Wives of Bath: A Novel
Release Date: April 26, 2005 From the bestselling author of Azur Like it and Farm Fatale comes adomestic comedy set in the world of coupledom and new parenthood Bath, England—the swanky town once home to ancient Roman spas and Jane Austenheroines—is the setting for this brilliant new novel.Birthing class brings together twosets of expectant parents, who couldn’t be more different. Hugo and his spoiled wifeAmanda plan to throw money at the problems of parenthood, making use of privatehospitals and nurses, while environmentally friendly Jake and Alice have arranged ahome-deliv...
|  | The Best Plays of 1997-1998 (Theater Yearbook: Best Plays (Otis Guernsey Burns Mantle))
Publication Date: December 1998| Series: Best Plays Theater Yearbook The New York season reviewed by David Lefkowitz and Mel Gussow -Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway programs and statistics.Cast, credits of new plays from around the country.A season of Al Hirschfeld drawings and Photographs of the year's highlights.Featuring scenes from the prizewinning plays: The Lion King, Art, Ragtime, Pride's Crossing, The Beauty Queen of Leenane and Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde ...
|  | Insomnie Et Autres Poe (Poesie/Gallimard) (French Edition)
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|  | Classical Mythology
Publication Date: July 20, 2006| ISBN-10: 0195308050 | ISBN-13: 978-0195308051| Edition: 8 Building on the best-selling tradition of previous editions, Classical Mythology, Eighth Edition, is the most comprehensive survey of classical mythology available in one volume. Featuring the authors' clear and extensive translations of original sources, it brings to life the myths and legends of Greece and Rome in a lucid and engaging style. The text contains a wide variety of faithfully translated passages from Greek and Latin sources, including Homer, Hesiod, all the Homeric Hymns, Pindar, Aesc...
|  | English Literature of the Victorian Period
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|  | Irish Dreams: Irish Rebel\Sullivan's Woman (Emerald Legacy)
Release Date: August 30, 2011| Series: Emerald Legacy Irish RebelFrom the moment she met him, Keeley Grant knew there was something wild about Brian Donnelly. He dared to ignore everything that said a poor Irish rogue shouldn't touch her, and battered down every wall she threw at him. But a wild thing by nature cannot be contained, not by convention or fences or even by love. Could she give him everything if he was just going to walk away?Sullivan's WomanColin Sullivan had a vision—the painting of his career, with Cassidy St. John as his model. She would be a challenge to paint, with he...
|  | The Last Viking
Release Date: July 26, 2011 He wore nothing but a leather tunic, spoke in an ancient tongue . . . and he was standing in Professor Meredith Foster's living room. The medieval historian told herself he was part of a practical joke, but with his wide gold belt, callused hands, and the rabbit roasting in her fireplace, the brawny stranger seemed so . . . authentic. Suddenly Meredith was mesmerized by his bronzed, muscular form, and her body surrendered to the fantasy that Geirolf Ericsson really was a Viking from a thousand years ago, sent only to pleasure her. But as she tried to teach him...
|  | Hollywood Nocturnes
Release Date: June 12, 2007Dig it. A famous musician-cum-draft dodger is plotting the perfect celebrity snatch–his own. An ex-con raging on revenge in High Darktown becomes a cop's worst nightmare.While chasing kidnappers, two cops stumble on an okie town as bloody as the O.K. Corral. A strongarm for Howard Hughes and mobster Mickey Cohen finds himself playing both ends against the middle, all for a murderously magnificent moll. This is L.A., Ellroy style–corrupt cops, goons with guns, rattling roadsters–and all in the staccato rhythm of the streets. Hollywood Nocturnes sho...
|  | Beautiful Ghosts
Release Date: March 10, 2005In an earlier time, Shan Tao Yun was an Inspector stationed in Beijing.But he lost his position, his family and his freedom when he ran afoul of a powerful figure high in the Chinese government.Released unofficially from the work camp to which he'd been sentenced, Shan has been living in remote mountains of Tibet with a group of outlawed Buddhist monks. Without status, official identity, or the freedom to return to his former home in Beijing, Shan finds himself in the midst of a baffling series of events.During a ceremony meant to rededicate an ancient and long de...
|  | Sailor Moon Supers, Vol. 3
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|  | Wisdom Tales from Around the World (World Storytelling from August House)
Publication Date: December 15, 2005| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | My Nursery Rhymes Collection
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|  | Most Wanted
Release Date: November 23, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and upWhile making his daily deliveries, a baker’s son suddenly finds himself holding a stallion’s golden lead. Soon the boy discovers that this isn’t just any horse, it’s the most powerful creature in all of Rome.What will the mad emperor do if he finds the boy with his prized horse? Cut off his head? Or worse? ...
|  | THE DAY I TURNED INTO A DUCK
Publication Date: June 18, 2012AN ABSENT MINDED PROFESSOR TURNS INTO A DUCK AFTER A LAB ACCIDENT THAT TURNS HIM INTO A DUCK, BUT THEN REALIZES THAT IT IS HIS PRESENT FORM THAT ALLOWS HIM TO RESCUE THE ONE HE LOVES ...
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