 | The Lost Wife
Release Date: September 6, 2011A rapturous new novel of first love in a time of war-from thecelebrated author of The Last Van Gogh. In pre-war Prague, the dreams of two young lovers are shattered whenthey are separated by the Nazi invasion. Then, decades later, thousandsof miles away in New York, there's an inescapable glance of recognitionbetween two strangers. Providence is giving Lenka and Josef one morechance. From the glamorous ease of life in Prague before theOccupation, to the horrors of Nazi Europe, The Lost Wifeexplores the power of first love, the resilience of the human spirit- an...
 |  | Horror Movie Freak
Publication Date: August 11, 2010You'll scream with delight while reading this fun and engaging book that discusses fright flicks all horror fans need to see to ascend to the level of a true Horror Freak —from classics (Dracula and Psycho) to modern movies (Drag Me to Hell) and lesser-known gems (Dog Soldiers). Movies are divided into various categories including Asian horror, beginners, homicidal slashers, supernatural thrillers, and zombie invasion. Features more than 130 movies, 250+ photos of movie stills and posters, and a chapter on remakes and reimaginings. The book also includes...
|  | Sic Semper Tyrannis: A Novel of Liberty and the American Future
Publication Date: May 15, 2010In the style of Ayn Rand, Robert Heinlein, and Harry Turtledove, Branaugh writes passionately about individual rights vs. collective interests. Set in the near future, after the collapse of the U.S. federal government leads to a system of warring city-states, the story follows the interconnected lives of six major characters from various social strata and locales. Branaugh explores issues of freedom, liberty, faith, trust and revolution in a world organized around collectivist notions of security and material wealth. ...
|  | Obsidian Alliances (Star Trek Mirror Universe, Bk. II)
Release Date: March 20, 2007Some say the line between good and evil is narrower than we imagine -- a divide as subtle as a mirror, and perhaps just as deep. To peer into its black, reflective glass is to know the dark potential we each possess, and we cross that obsidian boundary at our peril . . . into a world where we no longer recognize who we are or what we believed ourselves capable of. In the late twenty-fourth century, decades after the fall of the once-mighty Terran Empire, the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance dominates the worlds that, in another reality, made up the United Federation of...
|  | Month of Sundays
Publication Date: September 18, 2012Conservative accountant Rachel Bauer is recovering from the abrupt end of a long-term relationship when she’s tossed into the dating pool against her will. Expecting to meet friends for drinks, she finds herself in the middle of a blind date with Griffin Sutton, the sexy celebrity chef with a reputation for being easy on the eyes but hard on the heart. Rachel isn’t interested in becoming the latest notch on Griffin’s well-worn bedpost so she rebuffs her advances. Griffin, who hasn’t met a woman she couldn’t seduce, decides the...
|  | A Frozen Echo (Echo Branson Investigations)
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|  | Getting Over It
Release Date: April 24, 2001Helen Bradshaw isn't exactly living out her dreams. She's a lowly assistant editor at GirlTime magazine, she drives an ancient Toyota, and she has a history of choosing men who fall several thousand feet below acceptable boyfriend standard. Not to mention that she shares an apartment with a scruffy , tactless roommate, her best girlfriends are a little too perfect, and the most affectionate male in her life—her cat, Fatboy—occasionally pees in her underwear draw.Then Helen gets the telephone call she least expects: Her father has had a massive heart ...
|  | The Lays of Beleriand (The History of Middle-Earth, Vol. 3)
Release Date: August 29, 1994"The power of Tolkien's central characters . . . shines through." Library Journal.A treasure trove of lore for old and new friends of Middle-earth. Enter now, reader, and learn of the hero of the Lay of Leithian. Hear as well of the early years of Turin the Tall, as he journeys through darkness on his quest to find his father. Read of his rescue by Beleg the Brave, and of the dark destiny that haunts their friendship! Only the genius of Tolkien could create a fantasy more real than reality, a reality more fantastic than fantasy! ...
|  | The Duchess of Malfi (Drama Classics)
Publication Date: April 1, 1997| Series: Drama Classics The best-known of the Jacobean tragedies; an exemplary model of the "tragedy of blood." ...
|  | Relatively Speaking
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|  | The First Poets: Lives of the Ancient Greek Poets
Release Date: March 22, 2005When Michael Schmidt’s last book, Lives of the Poets, was published, Mark Strand called it “a tour de force, an astonishing view of the whole of poetry in English, a superb read.” Now Schmidt brings the same erudition, insight, and élan to The First Poets—the story of the ancient Greeks whose work continues to influence poetry in our own time.Poetry takes its bearings from the brilliant constellation of early and classical Greek poets, who have long been overshadowed by the great Greek dramatists. In The First Poets, Schmidt rescue...
|  | Festivals and Flowers
Publication Date: July 17, 2006Classic Burmese literature abounds with poems and verses that have to do with the seasons, and this book is a celebration of the Burmese seasons, or months, their poets, flowers and the festivals and cycle of monthly activities throughout the Burmese year. Each month is described through its poem, illustrated with the flower for each month, followed by an introduction to the festivals, myths, religious customs, agricultural and other activities associated with each season. ...
|  | How to Read Montaigne
Publication Date: August 6, 2007| Series: How to Read Montaigne (1533-92) is commonly regarded as an early modern sceptic, standing at the threshold of a new secular way of thinking. He is also known for his ground-breaking exploration of the 'subject' or the 'self'. Terence Cave discusses these and other key aspects of the "Essais" (Montaigne's major work) not as philosophical themes but as features in the mapping of a mental landscape: the project of the "Essais" is cognitive rather than philosophical. Similarly, he reads the "Essais" not as 'essays' in the literary sense but as 'trials' o...
|  | The Paul Goodman Reader
Publication Date: February 24, 2011A one-man think tank, Paul Goodman wrote more than 30 books, most of them before his decade of fame as a social critic in the 1960s. Goodman in those earlier days thought of himself mostly as an old-fashioned man of letters, and to do justice to his wide-ranging interests and growing activism, this compendium provides excerpts that span his entire career, from the bestselling Growing Up Absurd to landmark books on anarchism, community planning, education, poetics, and psychotherapy. Goodman's fiction and poetry are represented by The Emp...
|  | Brown-Eyed Girl
Release Date: April 1, 2000NOTHING IS AS IT APPEARS...IN THIS TWISTING NOVEL FROM THE NATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF DEAD EVENA fashion magazine features editor, Leah McDevitt is haunted by the memory of her cherished younger sister, Melissa, who vanished years ago. Missy, whose extraordinary eyes -- one blue, one brown -- may have lured her abductor to her....When Leah receives a letter from death row inmate Raymond Lambert, she eagerly agrees to pay him the long-standing reward for information about Melissa -- even if it means coming face-to-face with a notorious serial killer.But befo...
|  | Island Castaways, A Tale of Adventure, Intrigue, & a Dead Body
Publication Date: October 3, 2011Three couples embark on a once in a lifetime opportunity. Casting their work-a-day world aside, they launch their yearlong journey to an island off the coast of Belize. They envision living in an island paradise, but like castaways, their journey is filled with challenges, near-death experiences, and underwater surprises. Sheer survival becomes their priority, as they brace for a hurricane and come face-to-face with looters and modern day pirates. ...
|  | The Pact: A Love Story (P.S.)
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|  | Children of the Storm: An Amelia Peabody Novel of Suspense (Amelia Peabody Mysteries)
Release Date: August 30, 2011| Series: Amelia Peabody MysteriesThe Great War has ended at last. No longer must archaeologist Amelia Peabody and her husband, Emerson, the distinguished Egyptologist, fear for the life of their daring son, Ramses, now free from his dangerous wartime obligations to British Intelligence. But in the aftermath of conflict, evil still casts a cold shadow over violence-scarred Egypt. The theft of valuable antiquities from the home of a friend causes great concern in the Emerson household. Ramses’s strange encounter with a woman costumed in the veil and gold cr...
|  | An English Murder
Publication Date: March 1992A classic detective story from one of the best-loved Golden Age crime writers, Cyril Hare, originally published in 1951.The setting of An English Murder seems, at first, to be a very conventional one. A group of family and friends come together for Christmas at a country house, Warbeck Hall. The house is owned by Lord Warbeck, a dying and impoverished peer who wants to be among loved ones for what he thinks will be his last Christmas. The holiday decorations are up and snow is falling fast outside. The guests range from the Lord's difficult son to a visiting Czech...
|  | American Tall Tales (Puffin Books)
Release Date: October 28, 1976| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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