 | Holy Rollers
Publication Date: July 6, 2010Looking for Love . . . Lifelong friends Coco, Nita, and Tia have spent years looking for love in the arms of flashy pro athletes, hoping to land a baller but ending up with a stream of failed relationships. The beautiful and demure Coco has endured years of physical abuse from her boyfriend, Sonny, while Tia, a single mother, has dated her fair share of cheaters and yearns for a stable companion who will be a father figure to her son. And feisty, seductive Nita is tired of being the million-dollar mistress and wants to settle down—if she can find someone w...
 |  | Deadpool Max: Nutjob
Publication Date: December 28, 2011| Series: Deadpool Max It's Deadpool uncensored! Government agent Wade Wilson is too valuable an assassin for the brass not to take advantage of, but the unstable killer needs the guidance of a steady hand to be effective. It's Bob's job to make sure Deadpool completes his missions - by any means necessary. Unfortunately, Deadpool considers him something of a sidekick, and it's always the sidekick who takes one for the team. And Bob's got the bruises and mental scars to prove it. Bob manages to keep Wade focused on the likes of Hammerhead, Baron Zemo and th...
|  | So Far Away: A Novel
Publication Date: May 29, 2012Thirteen-year-old Natalie Gallagher is trying to escape: from her parents' ugly divorce, and from the vicious cyber-bullying of her former best friend. Adrift, confused, she is a girl trying to find her way in a world that seems to either neglect or despise her. Her salvation arrives in an unlikely form: Bridget O'Connell, an Irish maid working for a wealthy Boston family. The catch? Bridget lives only in the pages of a dusty old 1920s diary Natalie unearthed in her mother's basement. But the life she describes is as troubling - and mysterious - as the one Natal...
|  | Triptych and Iphigenia: Two Plays
Publication Date: February 18, 2005With searing acuity, renowned Irish novelist Edna O'Brien presents three women—a mistress, wife, and daughter—who expose their passions for the same man and confront the ways that love can simultaneously liberate and entrap. This lyrical and captivating drama weaves together their stories to construct the portrait of a man through their eyes. Triptych is a powerful work that explores sex, marriage, and predatory relationships. ...
|  | Eggshell Days
Publication Date: August 8, 2003Emmy, Niall, and Sita and Jonathan miss their train back to London from a Somerset wedding, escaping Britain's worst rail crash in sixty years. Upon reflection of their mortality, the friends reevaluate their lives, and come to a decision. They will all, along with Emmy's daughter Lila, Niall's girlfriend Kat, and Sita and Jonathan's children Jay and Asha, move into the ramshackle manor house Emmy recently inherited in Cornwall. In the idyllic setting, they hope to simplify their lives.As renovation of the house begins, a closely-guarded secret threatens to be...
|  | Prairie Rose (A Town Called Hope)
Publication Date: April 16, 2009| Series: A Town Called Hope (Book 1) Hope and love blossom on the untamed prairie as a young woman searching for a place to call home happens upon a Kansas homestead during the 1860s . . . A Town Called Hope, the inspiring series set in post Civil War Kansas, is the creation of best-selling romance writer Catherine Palmer. In the fast-paced Prairie Rose, impulsive nineteen-year-old Rosie Mills takes a job caring for the young son of widowed homesteader Seth Hunter in order to escape the orphanage in which she was raised. Rosie's naive view of love and her und...
|  | The English Patient
Release Date: November 30, 1993With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II.The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last surviving patient. Caravaggio, the thief, tries to reimagine who he is, now that his hands are hopelessly maimed. The Indian sapper Kip searches for hidden bombs in a landscape where nothing is safe but himself. And at the center of his labyrinth lies the English patient, nameless and hideously burned, a man w...
|  | The Wild Girl: The Notebooks of Ned Giles, 1932
Release Date: April 5, 2006Now in paperback, a stirring historical novel from the author of One Thousand White WomenWhen Ned Giles is orphaned as a teenager, he heads West hoping to leave his troubles behind. He joins the 1932 Great Apache Expedition on their search for a young boy, the son of a wealthy Mexican landowner, who was kidnapped by wild Apaches. But the expedition's goal is complicated when they encounter a wild Apache girl in a Mexican jail cell, victim of a Mexican massacre of her tribe that has left her orphaned and unwilling to eat or speak. As he and the expedition make their...
|  | My Weird Life
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|  | Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels
Publication Date: September 1, 2003| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up With a wealth of details about Jane Austen's life and times, this volume brings to life the world of her novels. Austen scholar Deirdre Le Faye first gives an overview of the period, from foreign affairs to social ranks, from fashion to sanitation. She goes on to consider each novel individually. ...
|  | A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare Library)
Publication Date: January 2000| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Poetics, Plays and Performances: The Politics of Modern Indian Theatre (Oxford India Paperbacks)
Publication Date: May 15, 2008| ISBN-10: 0195695054 | ISBN-13: 978-0195695052This book addresses the political and aesthetic concerns of modern Indian theatre, tracing its genealogies, and looking in particular at its appropriation of "folk" theatre, as it sought to constitute itself anew after independence. Vasudha Dalmia delves into the past, to the plays of Bharatendu Harishchandra in 1870s Banaras, and to Jayshankar Prasad and Mohan Rakesh, landmark figures in the history of modern Indian drama. Dalmia then focuses on the intense urban interaction with folk theatre forms, their polit...
|  | Buson, Issa sono shuhen (Japanese Edition)
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|  | Once in Every Life
Release Date: December 23, 1992Tess Gregory's brilliant career as a research scientist hides her longings for husband and child. Though deaf, she is a free spirit -- a woman full of life and love. She is struck down all too soon.But for Tess, a new life begins at her death, in post-Civil War America. She is now Amarylis Rafferty, wife and mother of three -- and she can hear. Shocked and disoriented by her new surroundings, she is drawn into the savage heartache burdening the family, especially her husband, Jack, a man who fears himself capable of anything. ...
|  | Crimson Shadows
Publication Date: February 1, 2003The chilling follow-up to "Crimson Kiss" and "Crimson Night" introduces the twin children of immortal Meghann O'Neill by the vampire Simon Baldevar. Separated at their birth, the mortal Elizabeth and her vampire brother, Mikal, become reunited by blood. Original. ...
|  | Bones (Alex Delaware, No. 23)
Release Date: February 24, 2009When it comes to writing deftly layered, tightly coiled novels of suspense, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman reigns supreme as “master of the psychological thriller” (People). Now, Kellerman has worked his magic again in this chilling new masterpiece.The anonymous caller has an ominous tone and an unnerving message about something “real dead . . . buried in your marsh.” The eco-volunteer on the other end of the phone thinks it’s a prank, but when a young woman’s body turns up in L.A.’s Bird Marsh ...
|  | Fly Guy #3: Shoo, Fly Guy!
Publication Date: September 1, 2006| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Henry and the Paper Route(Henry Huggins)
Release Date: September 2, 1990| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up Henry Huggins can't wait until he turns eleven years old, so he can have a paper route like his friend Scooter McCarthy. Henry wants to prove to the route manager that he is responsible enough to handle the job right now. First he thinks of giving away free kittens with newspaper subscriptions, and then his advertising scheme helps his class win the newspaper drive. But he still doesn't have a paper route. Will Ramona Quimby, making a real pest of herself, help Henry get the job he wants so much? ...
| | Track Trucks! (High Interest Books)
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|  | Roller Hockey Blues (Lorimer Sports Stories)
Release Date: January 1, 1997| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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