 | Miss Evers' Boys
Publication Date: January 1998A two act play for 6 men and 1 woman. From the publisher's synopsis: "In an effort to get medical help for Alabama tenant farmers, their nurse, Miss Evers, convinces them to join a government study to treat venereal disease. When the money runs out, Nurse Evers is faced with a difficult decision: to tell the men that they are no longer being treated and that they are now part of a research study to see what uncreated syphilis will do to them, or follow the lead of the doctor she respects and the tenets of the nursing profession." ...
 |  | Change Baby
Release Date: September 9, 2004An award-winning writer's debut novel about a young woman's return to her Southern roots and to the secrets of who she is.Avie Goss is a change baby-a baby born late in her mother's life, almost a generation after the births of her two siblings. When her mother nearly dies in a house fire, Avie returns home to the South she abandoned after college. There, she tends to her ailing mother and begins to unravel the story of who she is-and to uncover a different picture of a way of life that has all but vanished. Slowly, as she makes sense of her family's legacy, ...
|  | Sins of My Mother
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|  | End of the Age: Book One - The Ascendant
Publication Date: June 9, 2010| Series: End of the Age In 953YOL Paul Watanabe turned 21. After graduating from High School and completing his Universal Service requirement he was ready to attain the status of full citizen of the Empire. Paul ascended from minor status and gained the rights and responsibilities of a citizen. From this time on Lord Emmanuel's Government would hold him fully responsible for his behavior and decisions. Almost a thousand years before the world was almost destroyed by war and natural disasters. Then someone came from space claiming to be God, accompanied by immor...
|  | The Man with the Hole in his Head
Publication Date: August 1, 2012For comics superstar Kevin Woolridge comes the epic mystery-thriller "The Man with the Hole in his Head!" Enter a world where the super-powered and the supernatural meet in surprising ways as told through the witty and satirical pen of Kevin Woolridge! A must for readers of "The Da Vinci Code" and fans of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Momento!" ...
|  | I, Che Guevara
Publication Date: January 2000Sometime during the summer of 1999 a mysterious elderly stranger appears in rural towns around Cuba, quietly advocating a new kind of politics he calls "the true republic." Old-timers begin to suspect that the stranger, who calls himself Ernesto Blanco, may actually be the martyr Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Shortly thereafter, Fidel Castro steps down from power in exchange for a commitment from the United States to recognize Cuba and lift the embargo. Diplomatic recognition, in turn, is conditioned upon free elections.Two traditional parties are formed: One is a succ...
|  | The New Yankee Workshop
Publication Date: March 1989The companion volume to the PBS series scheduled to launch in February hosted by Norm Abram, the master carpenter known to millions of viewers as the how-to guru of "This Old House." Thirteen projects of graduated difficulty are presented. 148 photos and 84 drawings. Advertising in builders' magazines. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Going Down and Moving On
Publication Date: July 28, 2012GOING DOWN AND MOVING ON combines narrative, emails, and photographs, to give an Augusten Burroughs meets David LaChapelle-esque account of how one native New Yorker's world comes undone and regenerates during the time period surrounding 9/11. Having just broken up with a drug-addled boyfriend as Summer 2001 begins, Josh Conti thinks the rest of the year will be easy. He works blocks from the WTC, photographs the terrorist attacks on his city as he runs for his life, and documents the pre-9/11 joviality and post-9/11 uncertainty through emails and narrative.Imm...
|  | What I Did Wrong: A Novel
Release Date: March 23, 2006When John Weir’s debut novel, The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket, was published in the late 1980s, it was immediately recognized by critics across the country as one of the most perceptive, unsentimental, and beautifully written accounts of the political and emotional consequences of AIDS on both individuals and a community. In What I Did Wrong, his long-awaited second novel, Weir has written another powerfully moving—and often disarmingly funny—book about loss, character, and sexuality in the post-AIDS era, a survivor’s tale in a...
|  | Book of Irish Ballads: 2nd
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|  | Reading Books: Essays on the Material Text and Literature in America (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book)
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|  | Beyond Romantic Ecocriticism: Toward Urbanatural Roosting (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters)
Release Date: August 7, 2012| ISBN-10: 1137033991 | ISBN-13: 978-1137033994| Edition: Reprint Charting a pervasive paradigm shift,Ashton Nichols chronicles the revolutionary turn away from the view of "Nature" as static and separate from humans as it moved towardsthe Romantic "nature" characterized by dynamic links among all living things.Engaging Romantic and Victorian thinkers, as well as contemporary scholarship, this bookdraws new conclusions abouttwenty-first century ideas of nature.. ...
|  | Marvelous Encounters: Surrealist Responses To Film, Art, Poetry, And Architecture
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|  | Gertrude Stein: Woman Without Qualities
Publication Date: January 30, 2006| ISBN-10: 0754652343 | ISBN-13: 978-0754652342In her provocative study of Gertrude Stein, G.F. Mitrano argues that Stein's particular take on modernity has special relevance for today. Tracing what she describes as Stein's deeply modernist story of transformation from a nineteenth-century American woman to the disquieting muse of avant-garde culture portrayed in Picasso's famous portrait, Mitrano illuminates Stein's immense appetite for life, her love of thinking, and her craving for recognition. Her approach is innovative, combining the exegetical, the...
|  | Angel's Peak (Virgin River Novels)
Release Date: January 26, 2010| Series: Virgin River Novels Four years ago, Air Force sweethearts Franci Duncan and Sean Riordan reached an impasse. She wanted marriage and a family. He didn't. But a chance meeting proves that the bitter breakup hasn't cooled their sizzling chemistry.Sean has settled down in spite of himself—he's not the cocky young fighter pilot he was when Franci left, and he wants them to try again. After all, they have a history…but that's not all they share.Franci's secret reason for walking away when Sean refused to commit is now three and a half: a redhea...
| | Promises from the Past
Publication Date: November 1995Searching for her missing father with nothing more than a few vague memories to guide her, Maggie Westshire is swept into the past, where she meets the handsome Shea Younger, who tempts her to abandon her quest....
|  | The First Law (Dismas Hardy, Book 8)
Release Date: January 6, 2004Prodded by his father, Glitsky asks the new homicide lieutenant about the case, but the brass tells him in no uncertain terms to stay out of it. Guided by the Patrol Special — a private police force supervised by the SFPD that is a holdover from San Francisco's vigilante past-the police have already targeted their prime suspect: John Holiday, proprietor of a run-down local bar, and a friend and client of Dismas Hardy.While Dismas Hardy has built a solid legal practice and a happy family, John Holiday has not followed the same path. Despite this, Hardy has r...
|  | Time's Witness
Release Date: April 1, 2002Street-smart and straightforward police chief Cuddy Mangum and his refined homicide detective Justin Savile V are determined to keep their town's cultural, political and racial divisions stable...even peaceful. But when a young black activist is murdered while in the process of fighting for his brother's freedom from death row, the lines keeping Hillston, North Carolina, in balance start to crumble.Thrust into a dirty political campaign and torn between his morals and his love for the wealthy and beautiful wife of an up-and-coming politician, Cuddy must uncover the...
|  | Skippyjon Jones, Lost in Spice
Release Date: September 22, 2009| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Magical Creatures (Glitter Tattoos)
Release Date: October 4, 1999| Age Level: 3 and up...
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