 | James Baldwin : Collected Essays : Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays (Library of America)
Release Date: February 1, 1998| Series: Library of America (Book 98) "Collected Essays" is the most comprehensive gathering of Baldwin's nonfiction ever published. The collection confirms his as a uniquely prophetic voice in American letters. Included are such famous essays as "The Harlem Ghetto", "Everybody's Protest Novel", Many Thousands Gone", and "Stranger in the Village" . ...
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 | God Ain't Through Yet
Publication Date: June 1, 2010From New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe comes a poignant and passionate new novel featuring lifelong friends Annette Goode Davis and Rhoda O'Toole–two women whose best intentions don't always yield the best results. This time around, Annette is devastated when one of her greatest fears comes true--and there may be nothing she can do about it...Even though her life has its ups and downs, Annette Goode Davis feels lucky to have a family who loves her and friends she can count on.Most of all, Annette is grateful that her husband Pee Wee took her b...
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 | True Believers: A Novel
Release Date: July 10, 2012In True Believers, Kurt Andersen—the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Heyday and Turn of the Century—delivers his most powerful and moving novel yet. Dazzling in its wit and effervescent insight, this kaleidoscopic tour de force of cultural observation and seductive storytelling alternates between the present and the 1960s—and indelibly captures the enduring impact of that time on the ways we live now.Karen Hollander is a celebrated attorney who recently removed herself from consideration for appointment to the U.S. Su...
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 | In Sheep's Clothing (Mission: Russia #1) (Steeple Hill Women's Fiction #25)
Publication Date: September 1, 2005- Susan is a Christy Award winner for her Tyndale title Tying The Knot and is a bestselling author in the CBA romance market.- This is the first book in a series that will depict life as a missionary in Russia.- In Sheep's Clothing is best described as a woman-in-jeopardy story, but it is also laced with thriller elements.- A former missionary with her family in Khabarovsk, Russia, Susan draws on her experiences there to create suspenseful, true-to-life novels. ...
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 | Come Out Tonight
Publication Date: July 6, 2000It's a hot, hot night.Too hot to be making love unless your romance is young, like Sherry and Duane's.It's their first time but there's just one problem - they have no condoms.Of course they could wait until tomorrow...Duane remembers the all-night Speed-D-Mart.In the usual circumstances, it's not a place anyone would want to visit at night.But these aren't usual circumstances.Duane throws on his clothes - the store is just ten minutes down the block. Now Sherry is waiting. Ten minutes has gone, so has twenty.She's not worried - what's another few minutes? Then ...
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 | Wisdom from the Western Isles: The Making of a Mystic
Publication Date: July 25, 2008Using the form of a novel it shows how under the guidance of a Hermit a young man in danger of taking his own life is taught how to develop and deepen his prayer life to the point of mystical union. ...
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 | The Terrible Twos
Publication Date: September 1, 1999The Terrible Twos is a wickedly funny, sharp-edged fictional assault on all those sulky, spoiled naysayers needing instant gratification--Americans. Ishmael Reed's sixth novel depicts a zany, bizarre, and all-too-believable future where mankind's fate depends upon a jolly old gent named St. Nicholas and a Risto-rasta dwarf named Black Peter, who together wreak mischievous havoc on Wall Street and in the Oval Office. This offbeat, on-target social critique makes marvelous fun of everything that is American, from commercialism to Congress, Santa Claus to reli...
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 | La Vida Es Sueno / Life is a Dream (Cervantes & Co. Spanish Classics) (Spanish Edition)
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 | Dramas Navidenos Para Jovenes y Adultos (Spanish Edition)
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 | Instructor's Manual to Accompany Sound & Sense: An Introduction to Poetry
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 | Written at Imperial Command: Panegyric Poetry in Early Medieval China (S U N Y Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy)
Publication Date: March 6, 2008| ISBN-10: 0791473694 | ISBN-13: 978-0791473696Explores both the literary features and historical context of poetry written for imperial rulers during China's early medieval period. ...
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 | Heroes and Hero Worship
Publication Date: December 3, 2009| ISBN-10: 1117623769 | ISBN-13: 978-1117623764This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. ...
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 | Scotsmen Prefer Blondes: Muses of Mayfair #2
Publication Date: April 7, 2012She never wanted marriage... When a friend is forced to consider a marriage of convenience, Lady Amelia Staunton is determined to rescue her. But her plans trap her in an illicit seduction, and Amelia must marry him herself. Malcolm's all-consuming kisses and devilish humor might make up for her lost freedom, but she believes he will force her to abandon the Gothic romances she yearns to write. Since she can't escape him, she must distract him from her secret... He isn't looking for love... A powerful autocrat with a well-hidden rebellious streak, Malcolm MacCa...
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 | The Jewel That Was Ours
Release Date: February 22, 1993"Superbly clue-laden...A complex and satisfying puzzle."THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBEThe case seems so simple, Inspector Morse deemed it beneath his notice. A wealthy, elderly American tourist has a heart attack in her room at Oxford's luxurious Randolph Hotel. Missing from the scene is the lady's handbag, which contained the Wolvercote Tongue, a priceless jewel that her late husband had bequeathed to the Ashmolean Museum just across the street. Morse proceeds to spend a great deal of time thinking--and drinking--in the hotel's bar, certain the solution is ...
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 | Crime And Puzzlement: 24 Solve-them-yourself Picture Mysteries (Bk.1)
Publication Date: October 1, 2003| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Eli P. Harvard was found dead inside his ski lodge, a revolver in his hand and a bullet in his brain. He'd broken up with Sally the night before. Had despondency driven him to suicide? Or had the vengeful Sally done him in? The clues are in the picture; it's up to you, the closet detective, to find out who killed Harvard and why.Read the StoryPonder the pictureSeize pencil in fistAnd solve it yourself!With Lawrence Treat as your escort you'll discover detecting powers you never dreamed you had. Who stole the Van ...
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 | The Matzo Ball Boy
Release Date: February 3, 2005| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up On the morning of the Passover seder, a lonely bubbe decides to make a matzo ball boy to keep herself company. Soon delicious smells waft from the bubbling pot, and when she lifts the lid to see if the matzo ball boy is done, out he jumps. "Oy!" she cries. "And where do you think you're going?" "I'm off to see the world, bubbe," replies the matzo ball boy. "Run, run, as fast as you can. You can't catch me. I'm the matzo ball man!" Before long a yenta and her children, a rabbi, and a fox are all on a mad chase to catc...
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 | Skateboarding (Diary of a Sports Freak)
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 | Baby Mickey's Book of Shapes (First Little Golden Book, Disney Babies)
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 | Loose Leashes
Release Date: January 13, 2009| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up Sixteen kid-friendly rhymes accompany funny photographic portraits of dogs in this delightful picture book. A salty dog’s lament of traveling the world is perfectly captured in ballad form; a finicky Yorkie expresses her bathing preferences in common meter; while a Paul Bunyan-esque golden lab celebrates the outdoors in haiku form. This collection of canine poems and photos will enchant dog lovers of all ages. ...
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 | No End of Nonsense
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