 | Fault Lines: A Memoir (2nd Edition) (The Cross-Cultural Memoir Series)
Publication Date: October 1, 2003| Series: The Cross-Cultural Memoir Series Passionate, fierce, and lyrical, Meena Alexander’s memoir traces her evolution as a postcolonial writer from a privileged childhood in India to a turbulent adolescence in the Sudan and then to England and New York City. In this tenth-anniversary edition of Fault Lines, this Alexander challenges the assumptions of life as a South Asian American woman writer in a post-9-11 world. With poetic insight and an honesty that will galvanize readers—both familiar and new—Alexander reveals her difficult rec...
 |  | Unnatural Acts (Stone Barrington)
Release Date: April 17, 2012| Series: Stone Barrington Stuart Woods is in top form…and so is his perennially popular hero, Stone Barrington!When a hedge fund billionaire hires Stone Barrington to talk some sense into his wayward son, it seems like an easy enough job; no one knows the hidden sins and temptations of the ultra-wealthy better than Stone. But as Stone and his erstwhile protégé, Herbie Fisher, probe deeper into the case—and an old one comes back to haunt him---he realizes that even he may have underestimated just how far some people will go to cove...
|  | The Ladies Auxiliary (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Release Date: September 5, 2000| Series: Ballantine Reader's Circle When free-spirited Batsheva moves into the close-knit Orthodox community of Memphis, Tennessee, the already precarious relationship between the Ladies Auxiliary and their teenage daughters is shaken to the core. In this extraordinary novel, Tova Mirvis takes us into the fascinating and insular world of the Memphis Orthodox Jews, one ripe with tradition and contradiction. Warm and wise, enchanting and funny, The Ladies Auxiliary brilliantly illuminates the timeless struggle between mothers and daughters, family and self, reli...
|  | Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin
Release Date: April 18, 2013P.G. Wodehouse is recognized as the greatest English comic writer of the twentieth century, rightly admired throughout the world and translated into more than thirty languages. Launched on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death, this series presents each Overlook Wodehouse as the finest edition of the master's work ever published -- beautifully designed and faithful to the original. This season, Overlook is pleased to offer the latest two hilarious novels, Mike and Psmith and Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin. ...
|  | Wild Grows the Heather in Devon (Secrets of Heathersleigh Hall)
Publication Date: April 1998| Series: Secrets of Heathersleigh Hall (Book 1) Journey across the ocean and back across the decades to stately and graceful early twentieth-century England in bestselling author Michael Phillips' new series THE SECRETS OF HEATHERSLEIGH HALL. In the rich tradition of George MacDonald and the Stonewycke novels, Phillips captures all the beauty and tranquility of another age. Wild Grows the Heather in Devon is the first book in this timeless and thoughtful tale of one family's journey toward faith. On the windswept downs of Devonshire looms Heathersleigh Hall, the ...
|  | Slow Moving Dreams
Publication Date: August 25, 2011Tom Hardy’s new novel, Slow Moving Dreams, tells the story of Tom Carter, a city man who is forced by the death of a cousin to return to his rural roots in West Texas. Hardy takes his readers along two journeys in this novel: the first is the physical journey that Tom takes as he drives to the funeral in Alpine, and the second is an exploration of Tom’s life as a child growing up in the country that the adult Tom is now passing through. But not all of those memories are happy ones, as Tom and his cousins soon find out. The funeral starts t...
|  | El pibe que arruinaba las fotos / The Boy Who Ruined All The Photos (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: September 2009Desde su más tierna y rolliza infancia, el gordito Casciari arruinaba las fotos. Todas las fotos. Nunca descubrió por qué hacía aquellas muecas espantosas, pero tampoco era capaz de evitarlas. Le pasó durante años y lo sufrió en silencio hasta hoy, que se atreve a contarlo en una novela. Su familia nunca supo qué hacer con él. Como prueba permanecen en su casa de juventud cantidad de fotos, en las que aparece inmortalizado con esa cara de idiota.Con el tiempo las cosas cambiaron. Ya no le decían el gordito, sin...
|  | La conspiracion de los alquimistas/ The Conspiracy of the Alchemists (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Mein Rant: A Summary in Light Verse of Mein Kampf
Publication Date: August 24, 2009When Germany invaded Poland on 1st September 1939, to reclaim the land they 'lost' after World War One, many feared that Britain would not honour the pledges of support to Poland they had given throughout 1939. Britain stood alone. France feared a major war, and would not help. The USA would not support Britain. Suddenly Adolf Hitler, with whom Prime Minister Chamberlain had negotiated 'peace in our time', and whom the Defence Secretary had called 'most sincere', was revealed for what he was. As impossible as it might seem to us today, within six months of de...
|  | Old Jewish Folk Music: The Collections and Writings of Moshe Beregovski (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, & Art)
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|  | Plays from African Tales: One-Act, Royalty-Free Dramatizations for Young People, from Stories and Folktales of Africa
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|  | Coca-Cola Lessons
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|  | Red Phoenix: Dark Heavens Book Two
Release Date: September 27, 2011| Series: Dark Heavens (Book 2)Immortals, martial arts, gods, and demons The intrigue deepens as the demon threat closes around mortals and gods alike . . . When Emma Donahoe took the position of nanny to John Chen’s daughter Simone, she never expected to be caring for the child of a Chinese god, and she didn’t expect that demons would want him dead. Nor has moving from nanny to partner in his heavenly realm made Emma’s life any easier. Now a powerful race of demons has been created to hunt her and her family from Hong Kong to Europe. And ...
|  | When Valentines Collide (Kimani Romance)
Publication Date: February 2, 2007| Series: Kimani Romance Second chance for romance When it came to revitalizing relationships, Dr. Chante Valentine and Dr. Michael Valentine knew all the right moves -- except when it came to mending their own volatile vows. Since divorce would jeopardize their respective careers, the love gurus reluctantly agreed to a two-week "sex-therapy" retreat. Getting more from the seminar than they bargained for, Chante suddenly found herself appreciating her husband's strong, lean physique for the first time in years, and Michael couldn't deny his more than platoni...
|  | If Fried Chicken Could Fly (Country Cooking School Mystery)
Release Date: January 3, 2012| Series: Country Cooking School Mystery (Book 1) At Gram's Country Cooking School, Betts and Gram are helping studentsprepare the perfect dishes for the Southern Missouri Show-Down, thecook-off that draws the first of the summer visitors. Everything isgoing smoothly until they discover the body of local theater ownerEverett Morningside in the school's supply closet, and Everett's widowpoints an accusatory finger at Gram. Now, Betts has to dig deep intoBroken Rope's history to find the modern-day killer-before the lastpiece of chicken is served... ...
|  | Train Stickers (Dover Little Activity Books Stickers)
Publication Date: June 8, 1998| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | El senor de los ladrones / The Thief Lord (La Isla Del Tiempo) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: October 1, 2002| Age Level: 9 and up...
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|  | Mysteries in Our National Parks: Escape From Fear: A Mystery in Virgin Islands National Park
Release Date: October 14, 2008| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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