 | Contemporary American Poetry: Behind the Scenes
Publication Date: October 17, 2002| ISBN-10: 0321095782 | ISBN-13: 978-0321095787| Edition: 1stContemporary American Poetry is an anthology featuring generous poetry selections from highly-respected and up-and-coming writers, chosen and commented upon by the writers themselves. In straightforward, conversational language, each poet provides original commentary that reveals the aesthetic and artistic choices they made in their creation. Along with advice and exercises on the craft of poetry-writing, these master poets provide the "inside scoop" on serious poetic issues such as voice...
 |  | The Love Season
Release Date: May 22, 2012It’s a hot August Saturday on Nantucket Island. Over the course of the next 24 hours, two lives will be transformed forever.Marguerite Beale, former chef of culinary hot spot Les Parapluies, has been out of the public eye for over a decade. This all changes with a phone call from Marguerite’s goddaughter, Renata Knox. Marguerite has not seen Renata since the death of Renata’s mother, Candace Harris Knox, fourteen years earlier. And now that Renata is on Nantucket visiting the family of her new fiancé, she takes the opportunity, against her fat...
|  | While My Sister Sleeps
Release Date: February 17, 2009Following the success of The Secret Between Us, a book the Boston Globe hailed as “one of her best,” Barbara Delinsky returns with another moving and deeply satisfying novel, this one about the unique and emotionally complex world of siblings.Molly and Robin Snow are sisters, and like all sisters they share a deep bond that sustains them through good times and bad. Their careers are flourishing—Molly is a horticulturist and Robin is a world-class runner—and they are in the prime of their lives. So when Molly receives the news that Robin ...
|  | Beside Still Waters: A Big Sky Novel
Publication Date: April 15, 2011| Series: Big Sky Raised among the Amish of Indiana, 18-year-old Marianna Sommer plans to get baptized into the church, marry Aaron Zook, and set up life in the only community she has ever known. But when her older brother chooses the world’s path following his rumschpringe, and a younger sibling begins showing interest in Englisch ways, Marianna’s parents move the family to Montana.Although she is also in her rumschpringe years and not obligated to move, Marianna makes the journey to dutifully help her mother who is expecting another child. Surpri...
|  | Under a Gothic Sun
Publication Date: June 25, 2006How does a woman cope with psychic torture? A man gives a woman his love. A man gives a woman his pain. But how can Alma cope with a man who lives between life and death? She herself walks like a ghost. One world drifts into another. The dead become animate. The countries of the world merge. The past and present are one. Horror upon horror. Demons walk. Can it be that she will follow her king and embrace the world of the dead?A white house in the Dublin mountains, small and insignificant. A Nile cruise, a non-descript summer sojourn. Life with a lover in a far ...
|  | The Rembrandt Affair (Gabriel Allon)
Release Date: July 20, 2010| Series: Gabriel Allon "Of those writing spy novels today, Daniel Silva is quite simply the best." -The Kansas City Star "The perfect book for fans of well-crafted thrillers ... the kind of page- turner that captures the reader from the opening chapter and doesn't let go." -The Associated PressGabriel Allon, master art restorer and assassin, returns in a spellbinding new novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. Over the course of a brilliant career, Daniel Silva has established himself as "the gold standard" of thriller writers (Dallas Morning ...
|  | Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics
Release Date: March 4, 2008| ISBN-10: 0374531080 | ISBN-13: 978-0374531089| Edition: Reprint “A necessary read for those looking to expand their understanding of both bisexuality and the contributions of Third Wave feminism.”—Rebecca Walker, Bookforum “Revealing, smart, titillating . . . Look Both Ways [cuts] straight to the heart of many young women’s fraught relationship to both feminism and their own femininity.” —Jessica Clark, In These Times“Baumgardner's voice remains as compelling as ever, not only because she writes wit...
|  | The Hunted (Tom Clancy's Endwar #2)
Release Date: February 1, 2011She's known as the Snow Maiden-an operative of a secret group dedicated to world domination. To get their hands on her, U.S. Special Forces Captain Alexander Brent and his team will have to outmaneuver a terrorist faction bent on wiping her off the face of the earth. ...
|  | Rain Falls Like Mercy: A Novel
Release Date: August 14, 2012Set against the sweeping backdrop of World War II, Rain Falls Like Mercy is the gripping story of a family and a country touched by the epic violence of war, the random violence of crime, and the intimate violence of the heart. IN THE TRADITION OF true crime narratives such as In Cold Blood, acclaimed author Jack Todd's new novel grips the reader from the first page; and as it spans continents and generations of one family, its taut and shocking undercurrent of fury builds to a stunning crescendo. Rain Falls Like Mercy opens with the investigation of a young girl...
|  | No Te Bebas El Agua/ Don't Drink the Water (Fabula / Fables) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Beowulf: A Prose Translation Penguin Classics
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|  | Required Reading: Why Our American Classics Matter Now
Publication Date: September 1997In his deeply felt new book, the author of the highly acclaimed Death of Satan shows why classic American writers remain indispensable in our age of uncertainty over what constitutes our common heritage. In superb chapters touching on Thoreau, Melville, Wharton, Richard Wright, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, and others, Delbanco shows how each writer has enlarged the expressive range of the American language, as well as our imagined sense of American possibilities. ...
|  | Ostliche Spiegel: Ansichten vom Orient im Zeitalter seiner Entdeckung durch den deutschen Leser, 1800-1850 (Germanistische Texte und Studien) (German Edition)
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|  | Odin Stone
Publication Date: April 12, 2006Compelled by her gift of 'sight' to search for a link to the past, Anna crosses paths with Simon, a man with a dark and tortured past who is as much of an enigma to her as the visions that haunt her. Certain that she is way out of her league with a man as handsome, wealthy, and worldly as Simon Weston, as a moth to the flame, she is drawn to him irresistibly. But is it benign fate that draws her to him? Or a dark cycle of love, passion, betrayal, and devastating loss that can never be broken?Rating: Contains graphic sexual content, explicit language, and graph...
|  | Dictionary of Literary Biography: Vol. 226 American Hard Boiled Crime Writers
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|  | The Mystery Fancier (Vol. 3 No. 4)
Publication Date: September 3, 2010The Mystery Fancier, July/August 1979, Volume 3 Number 4, contains: "Little Old Ladies I Have Known and Loved," by Ellen Nehr, "Tension and Duality: Daphne Du Marier's 'Don't Look Now'," by Jane S. Bakerman, "His Own Desert," by Everett F. Bleiler, "The History and Activities of Mystery Fans in Sweden (and Scandinavia)," by Iwan Hedman, "The Crime Novels of Harold R. Daniels," by George Kelley, "The Curmudgeon in the Corner, Grumblings," by William Loeser and "The Nero Wolfe Saga, Part XIV," by Guy M. Townsend. ...
|  | The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare
Release Date: June 1, 1988| Series: Cat Who... There's something rotten in the small town of Pickax--at least to the sensitive noses of newspaperman Jim Qwilleran and his Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum. An accident has claimed the life of the local paper's eccentric publisher, but to Qwilleran and his feline friends it smells like murder. They soon sniff out a shocking secret, but Koko's snooping into an unusual edition of Shakespeare may prove CATastrophic...because somewhere in Pickax a lady loves not wisely but too well, a widow is scandalously merry, and a stranger has a lean and hungry l...
| | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: a Definitive Text, Corrected and Edited By Edgar W. Smith, with an Introduction By Vincent Starrett, and Illustrated with a Selective Collation of the original(s).
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| | The Complete Sherlock Holmes : All Four Novels, All Fifty-six Adventures
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|  | His Last Bow a Reminiscence of Sherlock Holmes Book of the Month Club Selection
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