 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.)
Release Date: May 30, 2006| Series: P.S.The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century, Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a poignant and moving tale filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter and heartache, crowded with life and people and incident. The story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet formative years in the slums of Williamsburg has enchanted and inspired millions of readers for more than sixty years. By turns overwhelming, sublime, heartbreaking, and uplifting, the daily experiences of the un...
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|  | The Eyes of the Dragon
Release Date: December 8, 1987A tale of archetypal heroes and sweeping adventures, of dragons and princes and evil wizards, here is epic fantasy as only Stephen King could envision it. ...
|  | Behold a Pale Horse
Publication Date: March 15, 2001Two men were in Texas the day Kennedy was shot.One was Rupert Justice Tolliver, a poor preacher who boasted that he would one day be President.The other was Cobra, the Rhodesian assassin who, forty years later, would be hired to take Tolliver's life.In between is the story of the millennium: how a man came to power by urging the people of America to take up arms in a Holy War and the variable that Cobra wasn't counting one: Clarissa, the beautiful and ruthless First Lady. A woman who plays both sides of the conflict, and if she had her way, the next millennium...
|  | Address Unknown
Release Date: April 1, 2001A rediscovered classic, originally published in 1938 --and now an international bestseller.AddressUnknownWhen it first appeared in Story magazine in 1938, Address Unknown became an immediate social phenomenon and literary sensation. Published in book form a year later and banned in Nazi Germany, it garnered high praise in the United States and much of Europe.A series of fictional letters between a Jewish art dealer living in San Francisco and his former business partner, who has returned to Germany, Address Unknown is a haunting tale of enormous and endur...
|  | Hazard of Huntress (The Phillip Hazard Novels)
Publication Date: February 1, 2004| Series: The Phillip Hazard Novels (Book 4) The Crimean War rages on, and determined to break the stalemate, the British decide to send a spy into Odessa. And who better for this perilous mission than Captain Phillip Hazard, newly promoted to command of the steam-powered Huntress and fluent in Russian? Hazard bravely takes on the task, but saddled with a surly first lieutenant whose previous captain died mysteriously and with his crew plagued by an unknown illness, Hazard soon finds he must depend on his own resourcefulness to survive. ...
|  | Lord of the Dawn: Quetzalcoatl and the Tree of Life
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|  | Scenes for Actors and Voices
Publication Date: June 26, 2003Daws Butler was the Master of Voice. He spoke the words for most of the classic Hanna-Barbera characters: Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Quickdraw McGraw, Elroy Jetson, and a hundred others. He also originated the vocal character of Cap'n Crunch and other famous Jay Ward cartoon characters. His significant work with Stan Freberg in the 1950s on The Stan Freberg Show and multi-million-selling records such as St. George and the Dragonet are still held in reverence today. He also ran a voice acting workshop for years. This is his book of scenes, exercises and advic...
|  | Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: Stories
Publication Date: May 28, 1999David Foster Wallace made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near. The series of stories from which this exuberantly acclaimed book takes its title is a sequence of imagined interviews with men on the subject of their relations with women. These portraits of men at their most self-justifying, loquacious, and benighted explore poignantly and hilariously the agonies of sexual connections. ...
|  | Vergil: A Legamus Transitional Reader (Legamus Transitional Reader Series)
Publication Date: June 1, 2004| ISBN-10: 0865165785 | ISBN-13: 978-0865165786This reader contains selections (about 200 lines) from Vergil's Aeneid, Books I, II, and IV, designed for students moving from elementary or intermediate Latin into reading the authentic Latin of Vergil. Passages are accompanied by pre-reading materials, grammatical exercises, complete vocabulary, notes designed for reading comprehension, and other reading aides. Introductory materials and illustrations are included.Special FeaturesPre-reading materials for each passage of Latin, designed to help the student...
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|  | Ipomadon (Early English Text Society Original Series)
Publication Date: January 1, 2001| ISBN-10: 0197223192 | ISBN-13: 978-0197223192This is the fullest English version of Hue de Rotelande's twelfth-century Anglo-Norman romance, Ipomédon. It includes a full comparison of the different versions, explanatory notes, and glossary. ...
|  | American Noir: 11 Classic Crime Novels of the 1930s, 40s, & 50s (Library of America)
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|  | LA Novela De Mi Vida/the Story of My Life (Coleccion Andanzas, 470) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | The Vampire Dimitri (Regency Draculia)
Publication Date: May 22, 2012| Series: Regency Draculia www.ColleenGleason.comRegency London loves a society wedding-even if there are vampires on the guest list. Dimitri, also known as the Earl of Corvindale, should be delighted that the headstrong Maia Woodmore is getting married. His mortal ward and houseguest has annoyed-and bewitched-the Dracule nobleman too long, and denying his animal cravings grows more excruciating by the day. Miss Woodmore's family has a rather...complicated history with the immortals. Marriage will give her safety, respectability and everything else a p...
|  | The Brethren
Release Date: December 27, 2005They call themselves the Brethren: three disgraced former judges doing time in a Florida federal prison. One was sent up for tax evasion. Another, for skimming bingo profits. And the third, for a career-ending drunken joyride. Meeting daily in the prison law library, taking exercise walks in their boxer shorts, these judges-turned-felons can reminisce about old court cases, dispense a little jailhouse justice, and contemplate where their lives went wrong.Or they can use their time in prison to get very rich -- very fast. And so they sit, sprawled in the prison ...
|  | Strange but True: A Novel (P.S.)
Release Date: June 14, 2005| Series: P.S. After a mysterious fall from his Manhattan apartment, Philip Chase has moved home with his mother, Charlene, a bitter woman who has never fully accepted the death ofher younger son, Ronnie, five years earlier. Numb from watching too much TV and trading snipes with his mother, Philip is in stasis. But everything changes one winter night when Ronnie's high school girlfriend shows up on their doorstep to deliver the news that she is pregnant ... and the father, she claims, is Ronnie. So begins the startling tale as Philip and his mother confront Melissa...
|  | A Judgement in Stone
Release Date: January 4, 2000| Series: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard What on earth could have provoked a modern day St. Valentine's Day massacre?On Valentine's Day, four members of the Coverdale family--George, Jacqueline, Melinda and Giles--were murdered in the space of 15 minutes. Their housekeeper, Eunice Parchman, shot them, one by one, in the blue light of a televised performance of Don Giovanni. When Detective Chief Superintendent William Vetch arrests Miss Parchman two weeks later, he discovers a second tragedy: the key to the Valentine's Day massacre hidden within a private humiliation ...
|  | The Coliseum Con (Geronimo Stilton #3)
Release Date: November 24, 2009| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up The Pirate Cats are up to no good again! This time, Bonzo and company travel to Rome, Italy in the year 80 AD to the opening of the Colosseum, Rome’s largest amphitheater. The evil felines want the world to think it was they who designed the Coliseum, and infiltrate the Senate by posing as nobility. Geronimo and friends must hop into their speedy time machine and expose the cats’ wily plot, all the while taking in historical landmarks and breathtaking moments of history. ...
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