 | Monkey Hunting (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Release Date: April 27, 2004| Series: Ballantine Reader's Circle In this deeply stirring novel, acclaimed author Cristina García follows one extraordinary family through four generations, from China to Cuba to America. Wonderfully evocative of time and place, rendered in the lyrical prose that is García’s hallmark, Monkey Hunting is an emotionally resonant tale of immigration, assimilation, and the prevailing integrity of self. ...
 |  | The Madeleine Poems (Poetry By Individual Poets)
Publication Date: November 1, 2010| Series: Poetry By Individual Poets Commenting on the fears and aspirations of contemporary citizens, this poetry collection speaks with an elegantly lyrical voice that is simultaneously knowing and naïve. Written in spare phrasal passages, these poems have an ephemeral musicality. The verses create images for the reader that are quick, fleeting flickers—like viewing a painting with flashbulbs. Reflecting on human relationships, these poems show them to be like an empty harbor into which ships carrying unexpected cargo sail....
|  | The Farmer's Daughter
Publication Date: February 1, 2010The three stories in The Farmer's Daughter are as different as they are unforgettable. Written in the voice of a home-schooled fifteen-year-old girl in rural Montana, the title novella is an uncompromising, beautiful tale of an extraordinary character whose youth intersects with unexpected brutality and of the reserves she must draw on to make herself whole. In another story, Harrison's beloved recurring character, Brown Dog, still looking for love, escapes from Canada back to the States on the tour bus of an Indian rock band called Thunderskins. And in the ...
|  | Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Movie Tie-In): A Novel
Release Date: November 1, 2011New York Times bestsellerA Best Book of the YearLos Angeles Times, Washington Post Book World, Chicago Tribune, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Rocky Mountain News“Energetic, inventive, and ambitious . . . an uplifting myth born of the sorrows of 9/11.” —Boston GlobeJonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent history.Nine-year-old Oskar Schell has embarked on an urgent, secret...
|  | Quo Vadis
Publication Date: September 12, 2006Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916) won the 1905 Nobel Prize in Literature.A brilliant Polish writer and patriot, he is possibly best known abroad for his monumental historical epic Quo Vadis that portrays the vibrant and dissonant combination of cruel excesses and decadence of Rome during the reign of the corrupt Emperor Nero and the high faith of the emerging era of early Christianity.Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero, is a love story of Marcus Vinicius, a passionate young Roman tribune, and Lygia Callina, a beautiful and gentle Christian maiden of...
|  | The Girl with the Sturgeon Tattoo: A Parody
Release Date: August 30, 2011Arguably the funniest novel to emerge from Northern Europe since the Black DeathA reindeer strangler has struck again; the world’s leading authority on Baltic sturgeon has been filleted, and the head of Sweden’s only unpublished thriller writer has been discovered some meters from his body. Just a typical day in Stockholm’s crime log? Or are the murders the works of a single killer? Chief Inspector Svenjamin Bubbles has a suspect: Lizzy Salamander, Scandinavia’s most heavily tattooed girl-sociopath and hacker extraordinaire.Mikael Blom...
|  | Spring Snow: The Sea of Fertility, 1
Release Date: April 14, 1990The first novel of Mishima's landmark tetralogy, The Sea of fertilitySpring Snow is set in Tokyo in 1912, when the hermetic world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders -- rich provincial families unburdened by tradition, whose money and vitality make them formidable contenders for social and political power.Among this rising new elite are the ambitious Matsugae, whose son has been raised in a family of the waning aristocracy, the elegant and attenuated Ayakura. Coming of age, he is caught up in the tensions between old and ne...
|  | Te Kaihau/the Windeater
Publication Date: February 1987This is a collection of experimental short stories from the New Zealand author of The Bone People. The stories are full of Hulme's sense of the beauty of New Zealand, along with her awareness of human alienation from the environment. From the environmental point of view, the story that most stood out for me was: One Whale Singing - a pregnant woman in a boat, a pregnant whale in the water. The woman argues with her pompous partner about whether humans are really superior to other creatures. She feels that our ability to make artifacts, rather than indicating su...
|  | The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Release Date: November 13, 1982"DOUGLAS ADAMS IS A TERRIFIC SATIRIST."--The Washington Post Book WorldFacing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to have a craving for tea. It could only happen to the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his curious comrades in arms as they hurtle across space powered by pure improbability--and desperately in search of a place to eat.Among Arthur's motley shipmates are Ford Prefect, a longtime friend and expert contributor to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the three-armed, two-headed ex-preside...
|  | The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland
Publication Date: July 1, 2010The witchcraft confessions given by Isobel Gowdie (in Auldearn, Scotland in 1662)are widely celebrated as the most extraordinary on record in Britain. Their descriptive power, vivid imagery, and contentious subject matter have attracted considerable interest on both academic and popular levels. This book,written by Emma Wilby, author of the critically acclaimed Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits, provides the first full-length examination of the confessions and the life and character of the woman behind them. The author's discovery of the original trial records, ...
|  | Culture and the King: The Social Implications of the Arthurian Legend (Suny Series, Medieval Studies)
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|  | Eve of Samhain (The Hanaford Park Series, 1)
Publication Date: 2010As a college senior and server at Hanaford Park's hottest nightclub, twenty-one year old Ryann Pierce's plan was simple: work hard, make lots of money, and avoid the ass-grabbers at all costs. What she never planned for was Quinn Donegan... the living, breathing advertisement for sinful behavior that waltzed into her life. With an angelic face, a hard body and a butt-load of charm, Quinn had a way with the ladies...a lot of ladies. Cursed with a deadly, addictive touch, his trail of indiscretion blazed across five hundred years. Tired and jaded, Ryann is a shocking reve...
|  | How I Got These Scars
Publication Date: October 12, 2011Garrison Keillor said, "It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars." This quotation sums up my newest collection of poetry. Everyone has some type of scars in their lives that they must deal with, whether it's from relationships, family, love, children, or just life in general. Scars connect us all and make us real. I hope this book helps you embrace the scars from your past, present, and future. It helped me with mine. ...
|  | Mathematics and Other Poems
Publication Date: August 29, 1997The first from the pen of prize-winning poet and novelist William Wall, this collection of poems won several prizes in his native Ireland. Containing moving elegies and loves poems, and some interesting and light-hearted games with scientific concepts, the collection was very well received on publication."This is an accomplished collection, marked by its intellectual and emotional range, and a corresponding control of form and language." Poetry Ireland --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | Silent but for the Word: Tudor Women As Patrons, Translators, and Writers of Religious Works
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|  | Deutsch: Schritt Fur Schritt (German Edition)
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|  | Ritual in Death (In Death Series)
Release Date: November 4, 2008| Series: In Death Series When a high-society party is crashed by a naked, knife-wielding, blood-covered man who "thinks" he might have killed someone, Eve Dallas must track down the crime, and the criminals. Everything points to Satanic ritual, but Eve doesn't believe in devil worship... ...
|  | The Rest Falls Away (Gardella Vampire Chronicles, Book 1)
Release Date: January 2, 2007In every generation, a Gardella is called to accept the family legacy of vampire slaying, and this time, Victoria Gardella Grantworth is chosen, on the eve of her debut, to carry the stake. But as she moves between the crush of ballrooms and dangerous, moonlit streets, Victoria's heart is torn between London's most eligible bachelor, the Marquess of Rockley, and her enigmatic ally, Sebastian Vioget. And when she comes face to face with the most powerful vampire in history, Victoria must ultimately make the choice between duty and love. ...
|  | Redemption
Release Date: March 4, 2008Praised for embracing the power of love and forgiveness in her award-winning novels, Jacquelin Thomas now explores the rewards of Redemption as a woman's desperate choices threaten to destroy her. She's Marin Alexander, a beautiful actress who's forfeiting her career for a marriage to televangelist Warner Brice. But will the lure of the spotlight and the wayward gratifications of fame be too desirable to leave behind? ...
|  | Krötenmord (German Edition)
Publication Date: December 6, 2011Felix Büschelberger, Hauptkommissar bei der Frankfurter Mordkommission, wird eines Abends zusammen mit anderen Mitgliedern einer Umweltschutzgruppe beim Krötensammeln beinahe überfahren. Am nächsten Morgen wird der Raser tot im Osthafen aufgefunden. Selbstmord? Mord?Schnell stoßen Felix und sein italienischer Kollege Emilio mit ihrem Team auf unlautere Machenschaften, die bis in höchste politische Kreise reichen könnten. Verzwickte Spuren führen die teetrinkenden Ermittler von Deutschland über Italien bis nach Ken...
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