 | Like the First Time
Publication Date: May 1, 2004THE GOOD SISTER.Claire Bennet has lost her job for the second time in as many years due to downsizing. She doesn't know what she's going to do since her checking account has almost been stripped bare and her older brother is always a day late and a dollar short.With no man in her life, her parents' home is all she has and she's going to lose that unless she can think of something quick.THE GOOD LOVER.Fashionable and trendy Brooke Dunlap has also been downsized, but she's not worried because she expects her wealthy boyfriend to propose any day now.Unfortunately, R...
 |  | 'Til Death: A Novel
Release Date: September 7, 2010“ I couldn’t care less what anybody thinks of me. They don’t pay my bills. And there’s nothing wrong with using what your mama gave you to get exactly what you want . . .”Celess knew she had to stop living the fast life and settle down, maybe even start a family—if she could find a man who could get past her secret. But you know what they say: Once you go bad, you can never go back. And if beauty is pain, Celess has suffered more than most and she knows how to use her looks to her advantage. She hooks up with well-connected M...
|  | Hopes Promise (Sierra Chronicles V2)
Publication Date: August 3, 2010| Series: Sierra Chronicles (Book 2) Jake Bennett is finally wed to the love of his life, Jessica Hale-but he isn't convinced she won't leave him. Life is a constant struggle for the Bennetts as they battle drought and live in fear of raids on Southerners, and he is not sure that Jess knew what she was getting herself into when she married him. Jess, however, despairs for another reason-she is unable to conceive a child. While trying to prove their unconditional love for each other, the Bennetts are devastated to discover that a former friend of Jess's parents...
|  | When the Almond Tree Blossoms
Publication Date: March 9, 1995David Aikman, former senior foreign correspondent for Time magazine, produces the scenario for a potential international war game in When the Almond Tree Blossoms. In this book the world's most powerful nation is controlled by a radical, collectivist regime bent on maintaining control despite a growing nuclear threat from the resistance. Aikman addresses world politics, secret agendas and ultimately biblical prophecy in this thriller. ...
|  | Pyramid Scheme (Matterhorn the Brave Series #3)
Publication Date: July 20, 2007| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Matterhorn and his friends are transported to ancientEgypt by a mysterious stranger ...
|  | Dreamcatcher
Publication Date: June 6, 2002Once upon a time, in the haunted city of Derry (site of IT and INSOMNIA), four young boys did a brave thing; something that changed them in ways they hardly understand. A quarter-century later, the boys are men who still get together once a year, to go hunting in the north woods of Maine. But this time a man comes stumbling into their camp, lost, disoriented and muttering about lights in the sky. Before long, these old friends will be plunged into the most remarkable events of their lives and a terrible struggle with a creature from another world. Their only cha...
|  | Flesh
Publication Date: March 15, 1990No one in town has ever seen anything like it; a slimy, mobile tube of glistening yellow flesh with dull, staring eyes and an obscene, probing mouth. But the real horror is not what it looks like, or what it does when it invades your flesh - but what it makes you do to others. ...
|  | Necromancies and Netherworlds: Uncanny Stories
Publication Date: August 1, 1999Darrell Schweitzer, author of The Mask of the Sorcerer and editor of Weird Tales collaborates with macabre artist-writer Jason Van Hollander on a series of remarkable fantasies, variously grotesque, horrific, ethereal, and darkly comic. Several of these form a cycle set in as-yet undiscovered countries where the common men have thrown down the gods and decadent nobles reach new heights of ecstasy and terror with the drug hanquil. You'll also encounter a wrenching yet romantic ghost story set in the American Southwest, an intimately personal tale of the Cthulhu...
|  | Leonora (Spanish Edition) (Seix Barral Premio Biblioteca Breve)
Publication Date: April 5, 2011| Series: Seix Barral Premio Biblioteca Breve Esta novela cuenta la historia de una mujer indomable, un espiritu rebelde. Destinar a crecer como la rica heredera de un magnate de la industria textil, desde pequena supo que era diferente, que su capacidad de ver lo que otros no veian, de conectar con los animales, la convertia en especial. Desafio las convenciones sociales, a sus padres y maestros, y rompio cualquier atadura religiosa o ideologica para conquistar su derecho a ser una mujer libre, personal y artisticamente. Leonora Carrington es hoy una leyenda, ...
|  | Bankroll Squad *Official*
Publication Date: May 22, 2012*An Award Winning Urban Novel* *Read the book that sparked a bidding war with some of the top urban publishing companies!* ~Blood is thicker than water, but money is thicker than blood in this juicy page turner! The college educated, street certified members of the crew find themselves learning the ultimate lesson! The Bankroll Squad rules the under world with an iron fist. The women in the squad are willing to ride or die for their principles and everything that they stand for. When their leader; Malcom Powers, switches up on them and marries a white woman...
|  | A Busy Day
Publication Date: September 1984A Busy Day is a love story, as well as a witty and wonderfully observed satire on class and greed by the most popular woman writer of her time. The scene is London in the summer of 1800. In the course of just one busy day, we are gleefully tumbled into a world of frustrated love, mistaken identity, snobbery, and downright vulgar bad manners.--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
|  | Zigger Zagger, Mooney & His Carav (Penguin Plays)
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|  | Rakugo: Performing Comedy and Cultural Heritage in Contemporary Tokyo
Publication Date: February 15, 2008An introduction to the theatrical art of comic storytelling that originated in the Edo period, Rakugo sheds light on Japanese culture as a whole: its aesthetics, social relations, and learning styles. Enriched with personal anecdotes, Rakugo explicates the art's contemporary performance culture: the image, training and techniques of the storytellers, the venues where they perform, and the role of the audience in sustaining the art. Laurie Brau inquires into how this comic art form participates in the discourse of heritage, serving as a symbol of the Edo cul...
|  | AmeRican
Publication Date: March 1, 2003Driving Nuyorican poet’s collection explores the ethnic experience in the U.S.In Tato Laviera’s third collection, poems celebrate the array of stripes and colors making up the American people. In the beginning section, "Ethnic Tributes," Laviera crafts poems with titles like, "arab", "black," "chinese," "greek," "jamaican," "spanish," " and "mundo-world." In "Boricua," he fashions a timely plea for an end to prejudice, saying that for Puerto Ricans "... color is generally color blind/with us, that’s our contribution, all/the colors are tied/to ou...
|  | Philippe Soupault uber Max Beckmann: Beckmann und der Surrealismus (Rombach Wissenschaft) (German Edition)
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|  | Aproximaciones al estudio de la literatura hispanica, sexta edicion (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: October 5, 2007| ISBN-10: 0073513156 | ISBN-13: 978-0073513157| Edition: 6 More than just an anthology of Spanish and Spanish American literature, Aproximaciones is also an introduction to literary analysis. Organized by genres (prose, poetry, drama, and the essay), it provides a rich and diverse array of reading selections. Each section is accompanied by an introduction and exercises. For the Introduction to or Survey of Peninsular and Latin American Literature courses. ...
|  | The Sex Chronicles : Shattering the Myth
Release Date: May 21, 2002| Series: Sex Chronicles 1 From a bold and captivating voice comes a collection of stories that probes women's darkest passions and pushes the boundaries of erotic fiction. Sometimes romantic, sometimes raw, Zane appeals to men and women alike with these tales of intoxicating sensuality.THE Sex CHRONICLES SHATTERING THE MYTHAnyone who thinks that men are by nature more sexual than women or that African-American women are especially inhibited hasn't read Zane. Here, she presents an erotic read in three parts: Wild, Wilder, and Off Da Damn Hook. With a unique abil...
|  | Tease Me
Release Date: April 6, 2010The "edgy and erotic" (Shannon McKenna, New York Times bestselling author of Tasting Fear) author of Tie Me Down and Full exposure offers another steamy novel of sex, lies, and sultry games.Burned once too often, true crime writer Lacey Richards has sworn off love. Instead, she explores her deepest desires through her anonymous- and very provocative-blog. Anonymous, that is, until her dark and ultrasexy neighbor discovers her dirty secret. Stockbrocker-turned-carpenter Byron Hawthorne gave up life in the fast lane, hoping to start over in a new city. When he lear...
|  | Head Rush (Disillusionist Trilogy)
Publication Date: September 4, 2012| Series: Disillusionist Trilogy Justine Jones faces her ultimate enemy: herself. Book Three in The Disillusionist Trilogy In an attempt to put her unhappy past behind her, Justine Jones throws herself into nursing school and planning her wedding to Otto Sanchez, the man of her dreams. But something is off. Random details aren’t adding up…and is it her imagination, or are her friends and fiancé keeping secrets from her? And what’s with the strange sense of unease, and her odd new headaches? Justine tries to stay upbeat as Midcity cowers under ma...
|  | An Ensuing Evil and Others: Fourteen Historical Mysteries
Release Date: December 27, 2005Peter Tremayne is one of the best loved writers of historical mysteries, his novels and stories published in over a dozen countries around the world. An Ensuing Evil collects for the first time fourteen of his historical mysteries ranging in time and place from 7th-century Ireland (featuring his best known sleuth, Fidelma of Cashel) and 8th-century Scotland (featuring the real-life Macbeth) to the recent history of Victorian England and beyond. These fourteen tales of murder, mayhem and mystery each display Tremayne's usual mix of compelling hist...
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