 | The Siege of Salt Cove: A Novel
Publication Date: May 30, 2005"A gloriously strange book, both whimsical and brooding."—Jeremy Jackson, PeopleThe Commonwealth of Massachusetts has decided to replace Salt Cove's signature wooden bridge with a concrete monstrosity. The authorities are unreasoning and unyielding. The town decides on secession. Jessica Stoddard is a quirky seventy-two-year-old who is determined to keep a record of the event for posterity. She has a passion for the truth, but her account is not entirely reliable, because she also has a passion for the rebellion's ringleader who is...well, a much younger ...
 |  | The Charming Quirks of Others: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (7) (Isabel Dalhousie Mysteries)
Release Date: November 1, 2011| Series: Isabel Dalhousie Mysteries In this latest and most felicitous addition to the Isabel Dalhousie series, our inquisitive heroine comes to see that there are very few of us who are not flawed . . . herself included. Isabel has been asked to discreetly investigate the candidates for the position of headmaster at a local boys’ school. The board has three final candidates but has received an anonymous letter alleging that one of them is not suitable.What she discovers about the candidates is surprising, but what she discovers about herself and ab...
|  | The old maid: (The 'fifties) (Her Old New York)
Publication Date: 1924| Edition: First Edition Originally serialized in The Red Book Magazine in 1922, The Old Maid is an examination of class and society as only Edith Wharton could undertake. The story follows the life of Tina, a young woman caught between the mother who adopted her—the beautiful, upstanding Delia—and her true mother, her plain, unmarried “aunt” Charlotte, who gave Tina up to provide her with a socially acceptable life. The three women live quietly together until Tina’s wedding day, when Delia’s and Charlotte’s hidden jealou...
|  | Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of Latter-Day Saints 1830-1900
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|  | Equestra
Release Date: July 20, 2007The crown prince of the Caballians (what we know to be Centaurs) is only a youth. When his father (the king) is murdered, he tries to get on with his life as the new king. He patches his life over with new Caballian friends, and tries to do his best in his new role, earning praise from his people. But when the time comes for him to be married, his beloved becomes the victim of a freak accident in which her leg breaks, a type of fracture that has always been a deadly injury. Can her life be saved? Cleverly interwoven throughout are the stories of the Master Shoemake...
|  | Ghost Stories and Mysteries
Publication Date: November 30, 2011Mystery and supernatural fiction by writer many consider the greatest ghost story writer of all time. "The Room in the Dragon Volant" (the finest historical mystery of the Victorian era) and "The Evil Guest"; also "The Murdered Cousin," the first sealed-room story known. Most stories unavailable elsewhere. ...
|  | The Aide
Release Date: July 5, 2005Navy SEAL Ash Roberts has taken up a new position at the Pentagon as aide to Vice Admiral Brooks Garrett, assistant principal to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He sees and hears all. But what he's just discovered about his new boss is a secret too dangerous not to expose-one that threatens the security of America, and the future of the brave men and women who fight in her name. ...
|  | Stinger
Publication Date: July 2000FBI Agent Robert Cavanaugh has been transferred from the organized crime unit to the slow-paced field office for southern Maryland, where the biggest federal crime is the condition of the roads.But things take an unpleasant turn when a nurse at a local hospital notices a sudden increase in the incidence of fatal strokes among otherwise healthy black adults. The trail leads to a new strain of malaria that causes rapid blood clotting in people with sickle-cell trait, who begin to die.It's an unlikely natural mutation, yet there's no hard evidence of human interventio...
|  | The Scourge of God
Release Date: January 31, 2006For fans of the movie Gladiator comes this bloody account of the clashing of civilizations, as Attila the Hun, "The Scourge of God," struggles to overthrow the Roman Empire.The Roman Empire is weakening. In 367 AD, approximately eight years after the great battle at Hadrian's Wall, Roman garrisons begin to hear rumors of barbarian tribes massing to the north. By 449 AD, Attila, the ruler of the Huns, has become the continent's most powerful monarch, his reputation in battle earning him the title "The Scourge of God." Anticipating an imminent attack by the Huns...
| | Tang shi da ke nan (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | Like a Hole in the Head
Publication Date: April 1, 1999Jill, a part-time bookseller with a biting wit, gets her hands on a rare, first-edition novel by Jack London -- courtesy of a suspicious-looking dwarf. Soon, a polite assassin arrives, with the dwarf in tow, demanding the book back. But Jill has already unloaded the valuable tome, and, as she values her life, immediately sets off to recover it. As an outrageous cast of thugs, sycophants, and central casting rejects join in the chase for the elusive volume and the special secret it contains, Jill finds herself cheated, kidnapped, drugged, tortured, and even forc...
|  | Private Theatricals: The Lives of the Victorians (Loeb Classical Library)
Publication Date: March 1, 1990| Series: Loeb Classical Library "Everyman" as actor on life's stage has been a recurrent theme in popular literature--epecially persuasive in these times of powerful electronic media, celebrity hype, and professional image-makers--but the great Victorians exuded sincerity. Nina Auerbach reminds us that all lives can be subversive performances. Charting the notable impact of the theater and theatricality on the Victorian imagination, she provocatively reexamines the concept of sincerity and authenticity as literary ideal.In novels, popular fiction, and biograph...
|  | Lace
Release Date: August 7, 2007"Which one of you bitches is my mother?" Four elegant, successful, and sophisticated women in their forties are called to New York's Pierre Hotel to meet Lili -- a beautiful, young, and notoriously temperamental Hollywood movie star. None of the women knows exactly why she is there; each has a reason to hate Lili and each of them is astonished to see the others. They are old friends who share a guilty secret and who have for years been doing their best to keep that secret quiet. Their lives are changed forever, however, when Lili suddenly confronts them. When th...
|  | The Gemini Agenda (Winston Churchill Thrillers)
Publication Date: January 31, 2012| Series: Winston Churchill Thrillers A string of strange deaths in 1932 leads Bourke Cockran, Jr., and his lover Mattie McGary to uncover a plot by Nazi scientists to conduct lethal experiments on American twins in order to create a master race. They confront an international conspiracy connecting Wall Street to Washington, DC; from Long Island's fabled Gold Coast to the marble corridors of the Barlow Palace in Munich, headquarters of the fast-rising Nazi Party; and finally to a sinister clinic hidden deep in the Bavarian Forest. The Gemini Agenda is a hist...
|  | The Rose of the World (Hawkenlye)
Publication Date: March 1, 2012| Series: Hawkenlye The new novel in the ever-popular ‘Hawkenlye’ series - Autumn, 1210. A year ago, King John was excommunicated – and now his men have come to Hawkenlye Abbey to take it over. Abbess Caliste, Helewise’s successor, worries how she is to feed the nuns under her care, let alone conduct her usual good works. Meanwhile, Helewise has moved into Hawkenlye Manor with Josse, and their lives are full of family and warmth. But after a visit to St Edmund’s Chapel, Helewise’s eleven-year-old granddaughter, Rosamund, goes...
|  | Whitby Series Pb Book 3 (Whitby Book Three)
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|  | The Teeny-Tiny Woman
Publication Date: September 17, 1984| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up A droll rendition of the old English ghost story about the teeny-tiny woman who found a teeny-tiny bone in the teeny-tiny churchyard. ...
| | Larry Bird (Sports Shots Collector's Book No. 8)
Publication Date: April 1992 ...
|  | Football Facts (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)
Publication Date: August 1, 2007FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. ...
|  | Beach Is to Fun: A Book of Relationships
Publication Date: June 1, 2004| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and upGull is to skyas shell is to sand.Child is to familyas finger is to hand.Here's a book that makes learning about analogies as much fun as going to the beach A trip to the beach-and all the excitement that surrounds it-unfolds in this cheerful picture book chock-full of engaging wordplay and sensory detail. The rhythmic text explores the concept of analogies in an accessible, immediate way. Children can begin to make their own associations and pairings as they long for a day by the sea! ...
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