 | The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction (Second Edition)
Publication Date: October 17, 1997| ISBN-10: 0393968332 | ISBN-13: 978-0393968330| Edition: Second Edition In this Second Edition of The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction,master teachers and writers R.V. Cassill and Joyce Carol Oates haverefreshed and updated the acclaimed original volume, celebrating notonly the enduring literary genre but also that genre's continuingenergy and success.Sixteen new writers have been added, includingCharles Baxter, Ron Carlson, Sandra Cisneros, and Jamaica Kincaid,among others, as have useful biographical notes and bibliographies forall authors in ...
 |  | The Book of Want: A Novel
Publication Date: April 15, 2011When Moses descended Mount Sinai carrying the Ten Commandments, he never could have foreseen how one family in Los Angeles in the early twenty-first century would struggle to live by them. Conchita, a voluptuous, headstrong single woman of a certain age, sees nothing wrong with enjoying the company of handsome—and usually much younger—men . . . that is, until she encounters a widower with unusual gifts and begins to think about what she really wants out of life. Julieta, Conchita’s younger sister, walks a more traditional path, but she and her...
|  | American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition: A Novel
Release Date: June 21, 2011 First published in 2001, American Gods became an instant classic—an intellectual and artistic benchmark from the multiple-award-winning master of innovative fiction, Neil Gaiman. Now discover the mystery and magic of American Gods in this tenth anniversary edition. Newly updated and expanded with the author’s preferred text, this commemorative volume is a true celebration of a modern masterpiece by the one, the only, Neil Gaiman. A storm is coming . . . Locked behind bars for three years, Shadow did his time, quietly waiting for the magic day when he...
|  | Down by the River (Grace Valley Trilogy)
Publication Date: January 1, 2010| Series: Grace Valley Trilogy June Hudson is the town's doctor, a caring, capable woman who now has a bit of explaining to do. People are beginning to notice the bloom in her cheeks—and the swell of her belly. Happily, DEA agent Jim Post is back in June's arms for good, newly retired from undercover work and ready for new beginnings here in Grace Valley.Expecting the unexpected is a way of life in Grace Valley, and the community is overflowing with gossip right now. Who is the secret paramour June's aunt Myrna is hiding? Does the town's poker-playing p...
|  | The Gospel According to Satan
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|  | The Angel Chronicles, Volume 2
Publication Date: December 1, 1998| Series: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Angel Chronicles (Book 2) The course of love in Sunnydale never runs smoothly, especially for Buffy Summers the Vampire Slayer and her boyfriend, Angel the Vampire. They're going through the usual early stages of a romantic relationship--dressing to impress, going on coffee dates, and saving the world.When Buffy tries to be more like the girls from Angel's distant past, she succeeds a little too well--becoming helpless in the face of real evil.Carrer week at school finds her future as the Slayer--and all the relationship ba...
|  | Witness: The Black Volume
Publication Date: June 2006We've been here before.or at least we think we have. There's a new sheriff in town. Meet Arthur Gillis, the guy you should have crossed the street to avoid. News reporter, voyeur, rapist and murderer. He's an equal opportunity kinda of guy. The worst kind of bad there is, a man who has found he has a taste for dark things and the balls to enjoy it. In a place somewhere between heaven and hell there is an opening being thrust ever wider. Witness has found a kindred spirit. God help us. ...
|  | The Walking Dead, Vol. 14: No Way Out
Release Date: June 21, 2011As the Eisner Award-winning series continues, no one in The Community is safe from what happens within its walls! ...
|  | The Dark Rose (Morland Dynasty)
Publication Date: July 1, 2010| Series: Morland Dynasty (Book 2) "The yardstick by which all historical novels are measured."* In Cynthia Harrod-Eagles's worldwide bestsellers, the majestic sweep of English history is richly and movingly portrayed through the fictional lives of the Morland family. It is 1501, and Paul, great-grandson of Eleanor Morland, has inherited the estate and has a son to follow him. But he fathers an illegitimate boy by his beloved mistress, and bitter jealously between the half-brothers causes a destructive rift that threatens to destroy them all.Paul's niece Nanet...
|  | Treasury of Chinese Folk Tales: Beloved Myths and Legends from the Middle Kingdom
Publication Date: December 15, 2008| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Everyone is interested in China these days, and that includes kids. Tuttle Publishing's Treasury of Chinese Folk Tales is a wonderful collection of seven classic Chinese stories that make for great reading adventures. From the stories of Pan Gu and Nu Wo, creators of the world, to Bai Su-Tzin, a snake who took on human form and found true love, this mesmerizing book includes myths of creation, mortality and love.More than just a storybook, Treasury of Chinese Folk Tales also explores the historical impact and ro...
|  | Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales (Oddly Modern Fairy Tales)
Publication Date: March 2, 2009| ISBN-10: 0691139679 | ISBN-13: 978-0691139678Kurt Schwitters revolutionized the art world in the 1920s with his Dadaist Merz collages, theater performances, and poetry. But at the same time he was also writing extraordinary fairy tales that were turning the genre upside down and inside out. Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales is the first collection of these subversive, little-known stories in any language and the first time all but a few of them have appeared in English. Translated and introduced by Jack Zipes, one of the world's leading authorities on...
|  | Abstruser Musings
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|  | The successful bookshop, a manual of practice information,
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|  | English Heritage (Beowulf, Chaucer, Homer, Macbeth, Canterbury Tales, Robin Hood, Sonnets, the Great Lover, Poems, Anglo-saxen, Middle-english, Elizabethian, Puritan, Classical, Romantic, Victorian & the Early 20th Century Periods & so Much More!)
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|  | Dictee
Publication Date: September 14, 2009Dictée is the best-known work of the versatile and important Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. A classic work of autobiography that transcends the self, Dictée is the story of several women: the Korean revolutionary Yu Guan Soon, Joan of Arc, Demeter and Persephone, Cha's mother Hyung Soon Huo (a Korean born in Manchuria to first-generation Korean exiles), and Cha herself. The elements that unite these women are suffering and the transcendence of suffering. The book is divided into nine parts structured around the Greek Muses. Cha...
|  | Darkness Becomes Her
Release Date: May 29, 2012 They live ordinary lives, but they are extraordinary. They are the Offspring, children of a mysterious experiment gone awry—and they are in terrible danger. Power Junkie: Lachlan McLeod spent wild years astrally projecting himself into other times and places. But he doesn't get out much anymore—not after the fatal mistake that cost him a precious loved one. Pixie Fugitive: Jessie isn't having a bad day. She's having a bad lifetime. After the terrifying act of supernatural violence that destroyed her family, she's been on the run for years. But now her...
|  | Beloved Vampire (Vampire Queen)
Release Date: August 4, 2009| Series: Vampire Queen Fourth in the "darkly rich"(TwoLips Reviews) Vampire Queen series. Escaping the depraved servitude of a vampire master she killed, Jessica has found her way, with three nomadic guides, to the sun-baked desolation of the Sahara-only to slowly perish. Then she hears the tale of Farida, an enigmatic beauty lost as well to the Sahara three centuries ago, whose ancient desire for the legendary vampire Lord Mason is stirring the same desires in Jessica. But the more Jessica's fatal curiosity reveals of Farida, the closer she gets to Lord Mason's ...
|  | Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 9: Freefall #12 Jeanty Cover
Publication Date: 2012By working for Deepscan-the company that recruits Slayers as bodyguards-Buffy thought she would disengage herself from the world of demons and garner a more significant income, to boot. While the income may get her closer to paying off pesky student loans, the demony population is closer to her than ever, thanks to her first client. Buffy, under the tutelage of a disgruntled and heartbroken Kennedy, has her work cut out for her and is forced to call on the honorable Eldre Koh for help, culminating in a little demon-on-demon violence. ...
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|  | Track and Field: An Introduction to Track & Field (Compete Like a Champion)
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