 | The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book) Teacher's Edition: A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
Publication Date: September 25, 2006For everyone who was too cheap to buy the hardcover, the blockbuster, award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller is now in trade paperback-with a new introduction, fully updated, and with equally unsettling nude photos of the newest Supreme Court justices, and a text corrected by the most reputable college professor we could find/afford.Including:Historical inaccuracies, gross distortions, complete fabrications-corrected by real-life bearded college professor. ...
 |  | Abe Gilman's Ending
Publication Date: January 1, 2010Recently widowed, confined to a wheelchair, and placed in an elderly-care facility, Abe Gilman wants no part in any of the activities of the other residents, preferring to live out his life in cynical near-isolation.But among those activities is a collective oral history project that two of the members, Samuel Hersh and Hannah Cohen, are attempting to turn into a book.The two of them fall in love while writing the intriguing story-within-a-story about the young man Elie Wasserman, whose father has disappeared during WWII.Is he alive or dead? Is he a hero or s...
|  | Mirror Image
Release Date: November 3, 1998To look at one was to see the other. For family, even the girls' own father, it was a constant guessing game. For strangers, the surprise was overwhelming. And for the twins Olivia and Victoria Henderson, two remarkable young women coming of age at the turn of the century, their bond was mysterious, marvelous, and often playful--a secret realm only they inhabited.Olivia and Victoria were the beloved daughters of a man who never fully recovered from his wife's death bearing them in 1893. Shy, serious Olivia, born eleven minutes before her sister, had taken over t...
|  | Black Beetles in Amber
Publication Date: May 1, 2008Death-poet Pickering sat at his desk, Wrapped in appropriate gloom; His posture was pensive and picturesque, Like a raven charming a tomb. -- "The Obituarian" Best known for his tales of bleak reality and dark imagination, Ambrose Bierce also gave expression to his sardonic, epigrammatic wit in verse form. Black Beetles in Amber collects his finest forays into versification. Some are barbed and venomous, while others are simply entertaining sallies upon the entertaining foibles of his day -- as in "The Oleomargarine Man," 'On the Wedding of an Aeronaut," or "Judg...
|  | Dolphin Key
Publication Date: November 4, 1999Dolphins are magical creatures: they comfort the heartbroken, rescue the lost, even heal the sick. At the Hope Key Dolphin Assisted Therapy center in Florida dolphins use their healing powers to help autistic children communicate and to soothe other troubled people. But what if you don't want help? What if you've gone so far down the wrong path that you can't go back?Katy Grant can't see any way back from the path her life has taken. And she doesn't really care. Working at Hope Key keeps her out of jail. And it just might give her the chance at revenge she w...
|  | Tokyo Vanilla
Publication Date: March 6, 2003Taking place during the height of the giddy "bubble" years of Japan's economic prosperity, Tokyo Vanilla is an atmospheric novel of sexual repression and the price it demands. College student Fumio awakens to his own sexual nature in a traditional society where homosexuality is still seen as best hidden away. Introduced by his straight fellow-student Tatsuya to the "host clubs" where good money is to be made, he is torn between his unrequited passion for his schoolfriend and the comfortable life of a kept boy he is offered by a rich professor. When the professo...
|  | Der rote Baron (German Edition)
Publication Date: April 11, 2008Ein Buch zu Mythos und Wirklichkeit des"roten Kampffliegers" ...
|  | The Man from Skibbereen
Release Date: June 1, 1983Crispin Mayo was a reckless young brawler who’d left his tiny fishing village for the vast American frontier. Headed west to join a railroad construction crew, he came upon an isolated station—and a mystery. The shack was abandoned, but fresh blood spattered the floor, and the telegraph was clicking away unattended. When Mayo stepped inside and put a hand on the telegraph key, he had no way of knowing the course of his life would change forever—and that he would become entangled with a band of Civil War veterans with a score to settle against th...
|  | Tiger in the Kitchen (Short Story Index Reprint Series)
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|  | The Norse Goddess
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|  | The Two Foscari: An Historical Tragedy (Classic Reprint)
Publication Date: June 10, 2012In publishing the Tragedies of Sardanapalus and of TT ie Two Foscan I have only to repeat that they were not composed with the most remote view to the stage. On the attempt made by theM anagers in a former instance, the public opinion has been already expressed. With regard to my own private feelings, as it seems that they are to stand for pothing, I shall say nothing. For the historical foundation of the compositions in question, the reader is referred to theN otes. The Author has in one instance attempted to preserve, and in the other to approach the unities;...
|  | Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes
Publication Date: January 1, 2011Since its original publication by Little, Brown and Company in 1942, Edith Hamilton's Mythology has sold millions of copies throughout the world and established itself as a perennial bestseller in its various available formats: hardcover, trade paperback,mass market paperback, and e-book. Mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern reader the Greek, Roman, and Norse myths and legends that are the keystone of Western culture - the stories of gods and heroes that have inspired human creativity from antiquity to the present. ...
|  | The Pursuit(By Request 3's)
Publication Date: February 1, 2003| Series: By Request 3's Marriage was a matter of a small fortune . . .There had to be a way to marry off the three goddaughters from hell! Nancy Leeward cared deeply for her goddaughters, but how had those three foolish girls repaid her love? Maxie was living with a married man, Darcy was a single mom, and Polly was being paid to bear some selfish man's child. Nancy was determined to force them into happiness . . . by stipulating in her will that her millions would only be bequeathed to each of them if they married within a year, and stayed married for six ...
|  | The Campaign of Fear
Publication Date: May 3, 2010The newly formed U.S. Department of Advanced Technology, working in cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security, has stepped up emphasis on advancing bomb detection. Why? To counteract the growing terrorist threat by elusive al Qaeda operatives around the world.Renowned scientist Bradford Tully, striving tirelessly alongside his brilliant and beautiful partner, Zenica Lang, hopes to develop the ultimate defense against the radical framework of jihad, its Campaign of Fear. They will stop at nothing until they have bestowed a greated sense of security upon...
|  | Quilt by Association (A Harriet Truman/Loose Threads Mystery)
Publication Date: December 28, 2010| Series: A Harriet Truman/Loose Threads Mystery An African woman with a blue-eyed baby arrives in Foggy Point looking for Aiden Jalbert. Within days, she's been murdered, and so is the man who claimed to be her husband.As if that weren't enough, the supposedly African toddler Loose Thread DeAnn and her husband adopted turns out to be from Samoa, and the social worker who helmed the deal has gone missing.Who was Neelie Obote, really, and who wanted her dead? What did Rodney Miller learn that earned him the same fate? And what part does Joseph Marsden play?H...
|  | Santa Clawed (Mrs. Murphy Mysteries)
Release Date: November 4, 2008| Series: Mrs. Murphy Mysteries New York Times bestselling authors Rita Mae Brown and her feline partner, Sneaky Pie Brown, are back for the holidays in a new mystery featuring Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen, the sleuthing cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and corgi Tee Tucker. Can they save the season from a killjoy who’s decided to gift the festive little town…with murder? As Harry well knows, there’s hardly a place on earth cozier than Crozet, Virginia, at Christmastime. The snowflakes drifting lazily down, the soft glow of the win...
|  | Strange Spirits of St. Ignace (Michigan Chillers, 6)
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|  | WNBA Superstars: Leslie, Lobo & Swoopes
Publication Date: February 1, 1998| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Stock Cars (Motorsports (Amicus))
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|  | Sarah On Ice: A Skater's Story
Publication Date: October 29, 2002| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Sarah Glasgow's figure skating career is about to take off! With an unexpected win in her local competition, she finds herself in the Finals of the California State Championships. But why won't Sarah's best friend Alexis be in competition, too? And Sarah's cute classmate, Tom Kelleher wants a ticket to the finals! What happened at Pontillo's Pizzeria?These and more mysteries are solved when you take a trip with Sarah On Ice. ...
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