 | Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories: And Other Disasters
Release Date: October 1, 1982A bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana, reissued in a strikingly designed trade paperback edition.Before Garrison Keillor and Spalding Gray there was Jean Shepherd: a master monologist and writer who spun the materials of his all-American childhood into immensely resonant--and utterly hilarious--works of comic art. Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories is a universal (and achingly funny) orchestration of Midwestern puberty rites, from the gut-wrenching playground antics of one Delbert Bumpus, to the supernal glow surrounding unapproachable hi...
 |  | Twelfth Prophecy (A. D. Chronicles)
Publication Date: January 20, 2012| Series: A. D. Chronicles (Book 12) She is a singer of sweet songs . . . and a sinner. A searcher for truth . . . and an outcast. Life is fraught with danger in the village of Sychar in the first century A.D. But for Abigail, the Samaritan woman, the danger lies not as much from the ever-present Roman soldiers but from the rabbi and the people of Sychar. A woman of renowned beauty, whose reputation was tarnished at an early age, Abigail is pregnant . . . and the father is not her elderly husband, Zakane. While protecting her lover's name, believing he will ...
|  | Dead Run
Publication Date: November 15, 2011"I'm in trouble, Liz. I've uncovered something.…They're watching.…"That panicked message on her answering machine is the last time Liz Ames hears from her sister Rachel, pastor of Paradise Christian Church in Key West, Florida.Compelled to uncover the truth about her sister's disappearance, she heads to Key West. Within hours of her arrival a successful banker jumps to his death. Then a teenage girl whom Rachel was counseling is found brutally murdered. The ritualistic style of the killing is hauntingly similar to that used...
|  | The Prince and the Pauper (Barnes & Noble Classics)
Publication Date: November 25, 2004The Prince and the Pauper, by Mark Twain, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, hist...
|  | Heart of Darkness & Selections from The Congo Diary
Release Date: August 10, 1999| Series: Modern Library Classics Introduction by Caryl PhillipsCommentary by H. L. Mencken, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Lionel Trilling, Chinua Achebe, and Philip GourevitchOriginally published in 1902, Heart of Darkness remains one of this century’s most enduring works of fiction. Written several years after Joseph Conrad’s grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo, the novel is a complex meditation on colonialism, evil, and the thin line between civilization and barbarity. This edition contains selections from C...
|  | Scenes from Classic Plays: 468 B.C. to 1970 A.D. (Scene Study Series)
Publication Date: March 1994| ISBN-10: 1880399369 | ISBN-13: 978-1880399361| Edition: 1st A collection of classic plays from 468B.C. to 1970 A.D.Plays in this volume include: Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus, The Clouds by Aristophanes, The Malcontent by John Marston, The Alchemist by Ben Jonson, Ghosts by Henry Ibsen, and many more! ...
|  | Essays on Departure: New and Selected Poems 1980-2005
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|  | Happiness and Discontent (Great Books Foundation 50th Anniversary Series)
Publication Date: July 1998| ISBN-10: 1880323826 | ISBN-13: 978-1880323823| Edition: 1ST A Great Books Foundation anthology for book discussiongroups, including questions for discussion. Since 1947, thepublications and shared inquiry method of the Great Books Foundationhave helped people around the world organize and maintain thrivingbook discussion groups. Over the years, countless people have attestedthat the intellectual exchange fostered by their Great Books groupshas been one of the most meaningful experiences of their lives. Thisis one of nine volumes in the Great Books Foundation'...
|  | Success Secrets of Sherlock Holmes: Life Lessons from the Master Detective
Release Date: November 1, 2011Genius. Renaissance man. Iconoclast. Master of detection.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle funneled much of his real-life genius-and thebrilliance of others around him-into Sherlock Holmes, creating acharacter greater than the sum of his parts. In this quirky andintriguing look at the traits that made Sherlock Holmes successful,David Acord explores how to unleash our own genius.Not only does Acord give unique insights into the character ofSherlock Holmes and his creator, but you'll also discover:How to cultivate a passion for definite and exact knowledge thatwill help you ...
|  | Vivir para contarla (Spanish Edition)
Release Date: November 4, 2003Pocos libros han despertado tanta expectación en todo el mundo como la autobiografía de Gabriel García Márquez, autor de Cien años de soledad y ganador del Premio Nobel de Literatura. En sus memorias, García Márquez nos habla de su infancia y primera juventud en Colombia, ofreciéndonos una crónica de los años que modelaron su imaginación y que, andando el tiempo, cristalizarían en algunos de los relatos y novelas más importantes del siglo XX. En sus páginas el lector se encontrará con epi...
|  | The Odyssey, Books 13-24 (Oxford Classical Texts: Homeri Opera, Vol. 4)
Publication Date: February 22, 1922| ISBN-10: 0198145322 | ISBN-13: 978-0198145325| Edition: 2 By its evocation of a real or imaged heroic age, its contrasts of character and its variety of adventure, above all by its sheer narrative power, the Odyssey has won and preserved its place among the greatest tales in the world. It tells of Odysseus' adventurous wanderings as he returns from the long war at Troy to his home in the Greek island of Ithaca, where his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus have been waiting for him for twenty years. He meets a one-eyed giant, Polyphemus the Cyclops; ...
|  | Trial By Fire: The Firefighters of Station Five
Release Date: August 5, 2008| Series: FIREFIGHTERS OF STATION FIVE Dont get burned... Lieutenant Howard ?Six- Pack? Paxton loves three things: being a firefighter, riding his Harley, and his bachelorhood. That is, until the curvaceous Kat McKenna falls into his arms at the scene of a fire?and melts the six-foot-six tower of bronze muscle? But just as passion ignites between them?and they explore new heights of ecstasy?a ruthless arsonist with a deadly secret and a thirst for vengeance becomes their worst nightmare. ...
|  | The Sherrilyn Kenyon Dark-Hunter Boxed Set, No. 1: Night Embrace / Dance with the Devil / Night Pleasures
Release Date: October 3, 2006Kenyon's bestselling backlist heats up the night and is now available in a sizzling boxed set. The Sherrilyn Kenyon Dark-Hunter Boxed Set #1 contains one copy each of Night Embrace, Dance with the Devil and Night Pleasures. ...
|  | Paragon Walk: A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel (Mortalis)
Release Date: May 26, 2009| Series: Mortalis In the posh London street of Paragon Walk, an unspeakable crime is committed: A young woman is brutally raped and murdered.Once again, that incomparable team of sleuths Inspector Thomas Pitt and his young wife, Charlotte, set themselves against a vicious murderer. As the elegant masks of the wellborn suspects slip, it becomes appallingly clear that something ugly lurks behind the handsome façades of Paragon Walk–something that may lead to more scandal, and more murder. ...
|  | The Adventures of sherlock Holmes
Publication Date: 1950This book is a by The Limited Editions Club for The George Macy Companies.The stories included in this book are:A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Adventures of Sherlock Homes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Homes ...
|  | 3rd Degree (Women's Murder Club)
Publication Date: January 1, 2005| Series: Women's Murder Club The Women's Murder Club returns in a shockingly suspenseful thriller. Plunging into a burning town house, Detective Lindsay Boxer discovers three dead bodies...and a mysterious message at the scene. When more corpses turn up, Lindsay asks her friends Claire Washburn of the medical examiner's office, Assistant D.A. Jill Bernhardt, and San Francisco Chronicle reporter Cindy Thomas to help her find a murderer who vows to kill every three days. Even more terrifying, he has targeted one of the four friends. Which one will it be? ...
|  | The Familiars #2: Secrets of the Crown
Release Date: June 5, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Jimmy Coates: Assassin?
Release Date: May 24, 2005| Age Level: 10 and upHere's the good news: Jimmy Coates isn't an ordinary kid. He just found out that he can outrun, outjump, and outfight almost anybody, even adults. Here's the bad news: Somebody is after him. Now Jimmy is on the run, chased by not one but many men in black suits. Jimmy doesn't have time to wonder why they want him, or what the mysterious green stripe on their cars -- and helicopters -- represents. If he doesn't keep moving, they'll catch him. Jimmy Coates is going to need every last bit of his superpowers to save himself in this action-p...
|  | DONNY THE DINOSAUR'S FUN DAY AT SCHOOL (A Rhyming Children's Picture Book) BACK TO SCHOOL FUN
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