 | Mockingbird Wish Me Luck
Release Date: May 31, 2002 Mockingbird Wish Me Luck captures glimpses of Charles Bukowski's view on life through his poignant poetry: the pain, the hate, the love, and the beauty. He writes of lechery and pain while finding still being able to find its beauty....
 |  | Good Graces
Release Date: May 1, 2012To this day, my sister insists it was nothing more than the unrelenting heat that drove us to do what we did that summer, but that's just Troo yanking my chain the way she always has. Deep down, she knows as well as I do that it wasn't anything as mundane as the weather. It was the hand of the Almighty that shoved us off the straight and narrow path... Whistling in the Dark--a national bestseller--captivated readers with the story of ten-year-old Sally O'Malley and her sister, Troo, during Milwaukee's summer of 1959. Now it's one year later, and Sally, who made ...
|  | The Liberation of Jerusalem (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: June 24, 2009| Series: Oxford World's Classics In The Liberation of Jerusalem (1581), Torquato Tasso set out to write an epic to rival the Iliad and the Aeneid. Unlike his predecessors, he took his subject not from myth but from history: the Christian capture of Jerusalem during the First Crusade. The siege of the city is played out alongside a magical romance of love and sacrifice, in which the Christian knight Rinaldo succumbs to the charms of the pagan sorceress Armida, and the warrior maiden Clorinda inspires a fatal passion in the Christian Tancred. Tasso's masterpiece...
|  | The Mysterious Stranger (Literary Classics)
Publication Date: September 1995| Series: Literary Classics In his last years, Mark Twain had become a respected literary figure whose opinions were widely sought by the press. He had also suffered a series of painful physical, economic, and emotional losses. "The Mysterious Stranger", published posthumously in 1916 and belonging to Twain's 'dark' period, belies the popular image of the affable American humorist. In this anti-religious tale, Twain denies the existence of a benign Providence, a soul, an afterlife, and even reality itself. As the Stranger in the story asserts, 'nothing exists;...
|  | Collected Poems Of Muriel Rukeyser
Publication Date: April 22, 2005Muriel Rukeyser held a visionary belief in the human capacity to create social change through language. She earned an international reputation as a powerful voice against enforced silences of all kind, against the violence of war, poverty, and racism. Her eloquent poetry of witness-of the Scottsboro Nine, the Spanish Civil War, the poisoning of the Gauley Bridge laborers-split the darkness covering a shameful world.In addition to the complete texts of her twelve previously published books, this volume also features new poems discovered by the editors; Rukeyser...
|  | The Rapids of a Great River: The Penguin Book of Tamil Poetry
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|  | Sheng Tang shi (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | Sweet Justice: A Last Chance Rescue Novel
Release Date: September 6, 2011| Series: A Last Chance Rescue Honor Stone is a young, idealistic FBI agent when her path collides with Seth Cavanaugh. For a girl who has never walked on the wild side, the dark and dangerous Seth is a temptation she can’t refuse. But then Seth walks out the door and out of her life. Five years later, Honor is an operative with the elite Last Chance Rescue organization and Seth is a desperate ex-cop searching for his missing niece—one of many young women who have mysteriously vanished from college campuses. Going undercover, Honor will attract th...
|  | Mystified
Publication Date: June 11, 2011Tokoda's rock 'n roll lifestyle comes to an abrupt halt when he is called back home. He climbs on his Harley and heads back to Spirit Island where Native American legends are known to come to life. Nara is intent on preserving her Ojibwa heritage, and couldn't be happier about her former crush coming back to the Island, and is even happier when the sexy musician finds his way into her bed.The rekindled lovers are thrown back in time, but in opposite directions. Tokoda and Nara must overcome the barbaric Sioux tribe to find one another and look for a way to retu...
|  | The Zenith Angle
Release Date: April 27, 2004Like his peers William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, bestselling author Bruce Sterling writes cutting-edge speculative fiction firmly rooted in today’s reality. Now in The Zenith Angle, he has created a timely thriller about an information-age security expert caught up in America’s escalating war on terror.Infowar. Cybercombat. Digital security and techno-terror. It’s how nations and networks secretly battle, now and into the future. And for Derek “Van” Vandeveer, pioneering computer wizard, a new cyberwarrior career begins on the fatef...
|  | Lord Edgware Dies: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
Release Date: August 30, 2011| Series: Hercule PoirotWhen Lord Edgware is found murdered the police are baffled. His estranged actress wife was seen visiting him just before his death and Hercule Poirot himself heard her brag of her plan to “get rid” of him. But how could she have stabbed Lord Edgware in his library at exactly the same time she was seen dining with friends? It’s a case that almost proves to be too much for the great Poirot....
|  | Axel Crochet: Musicologist-at-Large Quarter Note Tales #3
Publication Date: October 12, 2011| Series: Quarter Note Tales Axel Crochet, peripatetic professor of music history, nurtures a youthful enthusiasm that he passes on to his students. His passion for music is obvious- and his disdain for university politics is evident as his work leads him from college to college. Abby Fox, a music major at an exclusive women's college where Axel temporarily teaches, commits suicide after her father dies. But after Axel's other students persuade him that Abby would not have taken her own life, Axel begins an investigation that soon implies she may have been m...
| | The Italian Secretary: A Further Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
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|  | Skeleton Man (Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Novels)(Large Print)
Release Date: November 23, 2004| Series: Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Novels This book comes from a "New York Times" Bestselling author. Certain that the simpleminded kid nailed for a robbery is innocent, Former Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant, Joe Leaphorn, comes out of retirement to try to prove the wrongly accused boy's innocence. To do that he needs to find the remains of one of the 172 people, whose bodies were scattered among the cliffs of the Grand Canyon in an epic airline disaster fifty years in the past. But Joe Leaphorn isn't the only person hoping to unearth the secrets of the Skeleton ...
|  | Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute: Lunch Lady #1
Release Date: July 28, 2009| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | The Girl with the Silver Eyes
Release Date: March 22, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up Katie Welker is used to being alone. She would much rather read a book than deal with other people. Other people don’t have silver eyes—and other people can’t make things happen just by thinking about them.Katie has a hard time making friends because of her telekinetic powers—the people around her just don’t understand. Katie knows she’s different, but she would never try to hurt anyone. When she finds herself in trouble, Katie seeks out other kids who have silver eyes like hers. But can her newfound friend...
|  | The Sword in the Tree (Trophy Chapter Book)
Release Date: May 3, 2000| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Snowmen All Year
Release Date: November 11, 2010| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up In this lighthearted, funny follow-up to the previous Snowmen bestsellers, our young narrator dreams of a non-melting snowman friend who joins him for all of the year's events. They ride a roller coaster together, dive into a swimming pool in the summer, watch the Fourth of July fireworks, and trick-or-treat on Halloween. It's hilarious, happy wish fulfillment that kids will adore. As Kirkus said of the first book, "It would be difficult not to fall in love with this rollicking flight of imagination." ...
| | All for Pie, Pie for All
Release Date: August 8, 2006| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up In this merry, multi-species story cooked up with folksy warmth and humor, everybody gets a piece of the pie — and then some.Grandma Cat makes a delicious apple pie, and there's plenty for everyone — and even a piece left over. Grandma Mouse finds a piece of apple pie, and there's plenty for everyone — and even crumbs left over. Grandma Ant spies some crumbs of apple pie, and there's plenty for everyone. But what's left over after cats, mice, and ants have had their fill? Little readers will eat up th...
|  | Black Beauty Treasury of Illustrated Classic Jacketed Hardcover
Publication Date: July 29, 2010While Living at Squire Gordon's country estate, the spirited young horse, Black Beauty, is well taken care of and happy. But when the squire is forced to sell his horses, Black Beauty's life changes as he is passed form one cruel master to another. After much hardship and perserverance, Black Beauty finally finds a home full of love and kindness.This easy to read adaptation of the classic novel is guaranteed to hook beginning readers not yet ready to tackle the original. ...
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