 | Wishin' and Hopin': A Christmas Story
Release Date: November 10, 2009With his latest story, WISHIN′ AND HOPIN′, Wally Lamb takes a turn toward the lighthearted and laugh-provoking. In a vein similar to Jean Shepherd′s A Christmas Story and David Sedaris′s The Santaland Diaries, Lamb′s holiday tale focuses on a feisty parochial school fifth grader named Felix Funicello--a distant cousin of the iconic Annette! Both poignant and hilarious, WISHIN′ AND HOPIN′ transports us back to October, November, and December of 1964, when LBJ and Lady Bird were in ...
 |  | Free-Range Chickens
Release Date: May 12, 2009After a riotous debut collection, Ant Farm, Simon Rich returns to mine more comedy from our hopelessly terrifying world. In the nostalgic opening chapter, Rich recalls his fear of the Tooth Fairy (“Is there a face fairy?”) and his initial reaction to the “Got-your-nose” game (“Please just kill me. Better to die than to live the rest of my life as a monster”). He gets inside the heads of two firehouse Dalmatians who can’t understand their masters’ compulsion to drive off to horrible fires every day (“What...
|  | The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou
Release Date: September 13, 1994For the first time, the complete collection of Maya Angelou's published poems-including "On the Pulse of Morning"-in a permanent collectible, handsome hardcover edition. ...
|  | Nine Months
Release Date: August 21, 2012A bold, unapologetic first novel about a pregnant mother and wife who abandons her family in search of an identity that is hers alone. "Deliciously, dangerously rogue." —Marcy Dermansky, author of Bad MarieSonia, a young Brooklyn mother shaken by her unexpected (third) pregnancy, abandons her husband and kids and takes off on a cross-country odyssey in search of an identity separate from her family. She does everything a pregnant woman shouldn't do—engaging in casual sex and smoking weed—as she retraces her past and attempts to reclaim her...
|  | Brazofuerte/ Strong Arm: Cienfuegos V/Hundred Fires V (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Twenty Years After (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: April 15, 2009| Series: Oxford World's Classics Twenty Years After (1845), the sequel to The Three Musketeers, is a supreme creation of suspense and heroic adventure.Two decades have passed since the musketeers triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady. Time has weakened their resolve, and dispersed their loyalties. But treasons and strategems still cry out for justice: civil war endangers the throne of France, while in England Cromwell threatens to send Charles I to the scaffold. Dumas brings his immortal quartet out of retirement to cross swords with time, the malevole...
|  | The Sleep-Over Artist: Fiction
Publication Date: May 2001"In the same way Salinger carved out the niche of male adolescence ....Beller approaches that mutable boy-to-man territory."—San Francisco ChronicleWriting with the sparkling wit and insight of his highly praised debut, Seduction Theory ("Brilliantly captures the great expectations and recurring ambivalence of youth."—The New York Times), Thomas Beller continues to plumb the adventures of his hero, Alex Fader, a youthful existentialist and sensualist with an insatiable appetite for trouble. The Sleep-Over Artist is an account of critical stages in Alex...
|  | The Unnatural Aging of Cheese: From Partying to Parenthood
Publication Date: August 20, 2011The Unnatural Aging of Cheese is a collection of absolutely true humorous short stories that recount the painfully slow maturation process of one New Jersey slacker (nicknamed Cheese ) as he transitions from wild party animal to mild-mannered parent and bumbling homeowner. The book begins just after Cheese gets expelled from an expensive boarding school and goes to live with his single, airline pilot father on the Jersey Shore. You ll draw countless parallels to your own life as he drinks up the Christmas tree fund, burns a couple cars, flunks out of two coll...
|  | Afterlife Love: a Novel
Publication Date: February 2003| Series: Afterlife Love, 1 What is life like after physical death? Within these pages find yourself enthralled by an epic account that reveals in intimate detail the previously hidden answers to this question. Unmask the mysteries of our universe while enjoying a gripping chronicle of love and adventure. Afterlife Love is a unique expression of a deep and loving romance in which you can further recognize and understand the nature of the human soul and its relationship to all else. The author acknowledges that the story is mainly true. Some readers are asking "...
|  | Lazarus Laughed: A Play for Imaginative Theatre
Publication Date: January 1, 2011Lazarus Laughed, sub-titled "A Play for Imaginative Theatre", is O'Neill's imaginative speculation as to the remained of Lazarus' life after he was raised from the dead. ...
|  | Plays 1: Small Towns & Sea: Horseplay, Flipside, Trick of the Light (No. 1)
Publication Date: April 28, 2006| ISBN-10: 0864734948 | ISBN-13: 978-0864734945Each of these three plays takes as its kernel a news story from the past that captured the imagination of New Zealanders. In Horseplay novelist Ronald Hugh Morrieson and poet James K. Baxter meet and share the stage with the rear end of a horse, while in Flipside four sailors confront the elements for 119 days, adrift on the overturned boat Rose-Noëlle. Finally, Trick of the Light revisits the infamous Crewe murders when a brother and sister bring their mother's ashes to a motel room that hasn't been open...
|  | Anglo-Saxon and Norse Poems: Edited and Translated (Classic Reprint)
Publication Date: July 26, 2012A nglo-S axon poetry which have come down to us; yet with one or two exceptions they have received comparatively little attention from English scholars. The Norse pieces which follow, are still less known in this country. They have all been translated into English before one of them the Darraarlj6) as far back as 1768; but most of these translations are in verse. Prose translations and commentaries are few in number, and are now practically inaccessible to the majority of students. Almost all the poems, both English and Norse, may be, and frequently are, descri...
|  | Complaintes Prem Poeme (Poesie/Gallimard) (French Edition)
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|  | The Cowboy
Release Date: February 8, 2000Joan Johnston transports us to rugged present-day Texas—a place of wide-open prairies and unbridled ambitions—where two ranching families, the Blackthornes and the Creeds, are locked in a bitter century-old feud. Here, Johnston brings to life a breathtaking love story—between the Blackthornes' oldest son and the Creeds' beautiful daughter—a magnificent novel of passion, vengeance, and star-crossed love.Trace Blackthorne was taught from the cradle to take what he wanted. And he wanted Callie Creed. Eleven years ago, the feud between th...
|  | Texas Splendor (Zebra Historical Romance)
Release Date: February 27, 2008| Series: Zebra Historical Romance He Claimed Her Body...Though an Easterner born and bred, Trista Sinclair fell in love with the rugged Texas terrain the moment she arrived to join her fiance. But the warnings she has heard around the ranch come to life when she is captured by a blue-eyed Comanche warrior...a man whose sensual touch is far more dangerous than his brute strength.But Wanted Her Heart And Soul...Lance Barrett has never been tempted to take a captive until he sees a beautiful woman with hair like spun gold taming a magnificent stallion. Trista is ...
|  | A Civil Action
Publication Date: June 1998| ISBN-10: 0786214538 | ISBN-13: 978-0786214532| Edition: Lrg NonfictionLarge Print Edition*A New York Times Bestseller*Rated Best Book of the Year by Entertainment Weekly*Soon to be a Disney movieA page-turner. So rich and vivid that it becomes a good deal more than a simple, interesting case study.New York TimesTwo of the nations largest corporations stood accused of the deaths of children in the small town of Woburn, Massachusetts in the sort of case that rings alarms in corporate boardrooms all across America. In an epic nine-year struggle, powerful and wel...
|  | Oath of Office
Release Date: February 14, 2012Michael Palmer, the New York Times bestselling author of A Heartbeat Away and The Last Surgeon brings us a shocking new thriller at the crossroads of politics and medicine. What if a well respected doctor inexplicably goes on a murderous rampage? When Dr. John Meacham goes on a shooting spree the office, his business partner, staff, and two patients are killed in the bloodbath. Then Meacham turns the gun on himself.The blame falls on Dr. Lou Welcome. Welcome worked with Meacham years before as a counselor after John's medical li...
|  | The Devil's Bones: A Body Farm Novel
Release Date: January 27, 2009| Series: Body FarmA burned car sits on a Tennessee hilltop, a woman's lifeless, charred body seated inside. Forensic anthropologist Bill Brockton's job is to discover the truth hidden in the fire-desecrated corpse. Was the woman's death accidental . . . or was she incinerated to cover up her murder? But his research into the effect of flame on flesh and bone is about to collide with reality like a lit match meeting spilled gasoline. The arrival of a mysterious package—a set of suspiciously unnatural cremated remains—is pulling Brockton toward a ...
|  | Murder Must Advertise: A BBC Full-Cast Radio Drama (BBC Audio Crime)
Publication Date: August 10, 2010| Series: BBC Audio Crime The elegant, intelligent amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey is one of detective literature's most popular creations. Ian Carmichael is the personification of Dorothy L. Sayers' charming investigator in this BBC Radio full-cast dramatization.When copywriter Victor Dean falls to his death on the stairs of Pym's Advertising Agency, no one seems to mind. That is, until Lord Peter joins the firm incognito as Dean's replacement and starts asking questions which lead him into a network of blackmailers, drug pushers, and one of the most deadly...
|  | The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 26: The Haunting of Sherlock Holmes and the Baconian Cipher
Publication Date: December 1, 1994| Series: New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Book 26) The haunting of Sherlock HolmesExactly as broadcast on May 20, 1946"It's the first time in my career that i've ever had a ghost for a client!" exclaims Sherlock Holmes. On a holiday in a small Balkan country, Holmes and Watson observe the execution of the beautiful opera singer, Lilly Rhena, who was accused of spying. Yet shortly after her demise, she visits the detective and his companion in their hotel suite. Can Holmes and Watson unravel the mystery without putting their own lives in peril?THE BA...
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