 | Crackhead II: A Novel
Release Date: March 20, 2012In Crackhead, the infamous South Bronx Bitches (SBB) grew envious of the well-to-do Laci Johnson. Dink, the drug dealer boyfriend of one of the SBB, fell in love with Laci, which surely did not help her cause. So the SBB had to teach her a lesson—ultimately, the beautiful and promising Laci became addicted to crack. Laci is now recovering from her addiction. She and Dink are adjusting to life as college students at Boston University. But with Laci fighting the demons of her past and Dink struggling to adapt to the legit life away from his former drug empire,...
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|  | Trion Rising (The Shadowside Trilogy, Book 1)
Release Date: April 13, 2013What would it be like if Jesus had come to another planet? Oriannon is living the good life on the bright side of Corista, a small planet circling three suns. But things get crazy for the teen when a new music teacher arrives at her school with strange songs and even stranger ideas. Soon Oriannon is pressured to spy on her teacher, Jesmet, by using her powers to record everything she sees and hears. Could Jesmet really be a faithbreaker, like Oriannon's friend Margus says? She's not so sure, but her life is turned upside-down when she loses her way on the dark sid...
|  | Damaged in Service
Publication Date: July 26, 2011At what point does PTSD slowly begin to erode judgment, behavior, or confidence? For special agent Zeke Cabot those questions are still lurking beneath her consciousness. A head injury from a car accident, working months undercover, and the death of a close friend has pushed her to the limits of her resilient best. Zeke escapes to the southwest mountains of New Mexico with the hope of mending the tattered pieces. Haunted by death and failure, she holds tight to the belief that fresh air, sunshine, and plenty of rest will bring her back. What she doesn‘t ...
|  | Fast Ships, Black Sails
Publication Date: November 4, 2008Do you love the sound of a peg leg stomping across a quarterdeck? Or maybe you prefer a parrot on your arm, a strong wind at your back? Adventure, treasure, intrigue, humor, romance, danger - and, yes, plunder! Oh, the Devil does love a pirate - and so do readers everywhere! Swashbuckling from the past into the future and space itself, Fast Ships, Black Sails, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, presents an incredibly entertaining volume of original stories guaranteed to make you walk and talk like a pirate. ...
|  | A Curable Romantic
Publication Date: September 7, 2010As far as romance goes, Dr. Jakob Sammelsohn is fairly incurable. Twice married, once divorced, once widowed—all by the tender age of twelve— he finally flees his small village and his pious, vengeful father. A lovelorn candide, young Dr. Sammelsohn wanders optimistically through history—pursued by the amorous ghost of his dead wife. Arriving in Vienna in 1890, a chance encounter with Sigmund Freud leads our hero into the arms of Emma Eckstein, one of Freud’s most famous patients. Later he romances the beautiful and wealthy Lo&...
|  | The Complete Father Brown Stories (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: July 31, 2012| Series: Penguin Classics Shabby and lumbering, with a face like a Norfolk dumpling, Father Brown makes for an improbable super-sleuth. But his innocence is the secret of his success: refusing the scientific method of detection, he adopts instead an approach of simple sympathy, interpreting each crime as a work of art, and each criminal as a man no worse than himself. This complete edition brings together all of the "Father Brown" stories, including two not previously available in Penguin: "The Donnington Affair", in which Chesterton rises to the challenge of solv...
|  | Children's Folklore: A Source Book
Publication Date: March 1, 1999A collection of original essays by scholars from a variety of fields-- including American studies, folklore, anthropology, psychology, sociology, and education -- this book moves beyond traditional social-science views of child development. It reveals the complexity and artistry of interactions among children, challenging stereotypes of simple childhood innocence and conventional explanations of development that privilege sober and sensible adult outcomes. Instead, the play and lore of children is shown to be often disruptive, wayward, and irrational. ...
|  | Baudelaire et Hoffmann: Affinités et Influences
Publication Date: November 1, 1981This is a comparative study of the work and thought of the German Romantic writer E. T. A. Hoffmann and the French poet Charles Baudelaire. Hoffmann was introduced into France in 1829 and Baudelaire could have read his work in the numerous translations that were published in the following decades. This 1979 book attempts to explain Baudelaire's fascination with Hoffmann's combination of humour and the fantastic, showing the extent to which the two men shared very similar views about art in particular and the world in general. Although earlier critics had ref...
|  | Poetic Voices: Discourse Linguistics and the Poetic Text
Publication Date: July 30, 1994| ISBN-10: 0817307265 | ISBN-13: 978-0817307264 Poems written in the first person, poems that contain passages of conversation or dialogue, and narrative poems all rely on their readers’ capacity to process discourse. Discourse features in the texts of those poems—features such as temporal and spatial reference, narrative “framing”, and the strategic use of direct speech—inevitably affect the way readers receive the central themes. Recent developments in linguistic theory, including developments that address disc...
|  | Noah (Nightwalkers, Book 5)
Release Date: September 1, 2008As Demon King, Noah is dedicated to protecting his kind from their human and Nightwalker enemies. Yet for six months he has struggled with vivid dreams that threaten his very sanity. Every night he's tormented by images of a woman both achingly real and tantalisingly beyond his grasp. And his bone-deep need leaves him no choice but to force her to leave the life she's known and enter a world beyond her imagining.Every day, Kestra risks her life in perilous missions that veer just shy of the law, but she instinctively knows that the imposingly sensual figure bef...
|  | Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great: Great Businessmen - Vol. 11
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|  | Well-Schooled in Murder (Inspector Lynley Mysteries, No. 3)
Release Date: June 1, 1991When thirteen-year-old Matthew Whately goes missing from Bredgar Chambers, a prestigious public school in the heart of West Sussex, aristocratic Inspector Thomas Lynley receives a call for help from the lad's housemaster, who also happens to be an old school chum.Thus, the inspector, his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, and forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James find themselves once again outside their jurisdiction and deeply involved in the search for a child—and then, tragically, for a child killer.Questioning prefects, teachers, and pupils c...
|  | Disney Fairies Graphic Novel #3: Tinker Bell and the Day of the Dragon (Disney Fairies (Quality Papercutz))
Release Date: October 26, 2010| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose (Classic Seuss)
Release Date: September 12, 1948| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | Football: Skills of the Game Hb
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|  | Boy Wonders
Release Date: June 28, 2011| Age Level: 4 and up Have you ever wondered, pondered, quizzically thought? Have questions and queries made you distraught? If you have the need to inquire, Then you might require A book such as this. (It’s not to be missed) Pull up a chair, throw your hand in the air He’ll answer your questions …and answer with flare! For all those "why why why" kid out there, Calef Brown has a few questions of hi...
|  | Stories from the Growing Years (Grandma's Attic)
Publication Date: September 2003| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | Mr. Putter & Tabby Stir the Soup
Publication Date: September 1, 2004| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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