 | The Hundred Brothers
Release Date: January 28, 1997A comic novel by the critically acclaimed author of Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World. Doug and 98 of his 99 brothers (George has run off with embezzled funds and a girl named Jane) gather in the huge family library for dinner, drinking, and some late-night football. Throughout the evening, the chaos grows into a complex web of conflicting memories, hurt feelings, rivalries, alliances, and shared awareness. 208 pp. Author tour. National publicity. Print ads. 20,000 print. ...
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 | What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy
Release Date: March 24, 2009"Gregory Maguire does for the dark and stormy night what he did for witches in Wicked." — The New York Times Book ReviewA terrible storm is raging, and Dinah is huddled by candlelight with her brother, sister, and cousin Gage, who is telling a very unusual tale. It’s thestory of What-the-Dickens, a newly hatched orphan creature who finds he has an attraction to teeth, a crush on a cat named McCavity, and a penchant for getting into trouble. One day he happens upon a feisty girl skibberee working as an Agent of Change — trading coins for...
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 | Marcus In Iraq
Publication Date: September 26, 2011A short story by women's fiction bestselling author Sonia Rumzi. A good man can stray. A good woman can stay faithful and caring despite it all. A war separates a couple who are in love. Will she wait for his return? Will he come home to an empty house? The story of courage and love. ...
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 | Wasting the dawn: Special ed. reprinting issues 1 to 3, compring ch. 1 to 6
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 | The Rebel Doctor's Bride (Harlequin Medical Romance)
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 | Powder and Patch
Release Date: January 1, 2010"Georgette Heyer is unbeatable!" —SUNDAY TELEGRAPH For her, he would do anything… Plainspoken country gentleman Philip Jettan won't bother with a powdered wig, high heels, and fashionable lace cuffs, until he discovers that his lovely neighbor is enamored with a sophisticated man-about-town… But what is it that she really wants? Cleone Charteris sends her suitor Philip away to get some town polish, and he comes back with powder, patches, and all the manners of a seasoned rake. Does Cleone now have exactly the kind of man she's always wanted, ...
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 | Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The Reason Behind the Rhyme
Publication Date: August 17, 2006 Was Little Jack Horner a squatter? "Baa Baa Black Sheep" a bleat about taxation? What did Jackand Jill do on that hill? Who was Mary? And why was she contrary?This witty and ingenious book delves into the hidden meanings of forty of the most innocuous- sounding nursery rhymes, uncovering a seething subtext of sexual innuendo, religious hatred, andpolitical subversion. Heavy Words Lightly Thrown provides a fascinating history lesson,teases out some alarming Freudian interpretations, and makes astonishing connections tocontemporary popular culture. Striking ...
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 | Myth, Legend, and Romance: An Encyclopaedia of Irish Folk Tradition
Publication Date: April 1991The works of Joseph Campbell, his highly acclaimed PBS interview with Bill Moyers, and the steadily expanding awareness of and interest in Jungian psychology have all contributed to an explosion in demand for scholarly yet accessible works on mythology and folklore. This first volume in a series on world mythologies will claim a place in the first ranks of the literature of lore. 100 illustrations. ...
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 | Archestratus: Fragments from the Life of Luxury
Release Date: June 7, 2011| ISBN-10: 1903018625 | ISBN-13: 978-1903018620| Edition: Revised The big fact about Archestratus is that the fragments that survive constitute the earliest written culinary text to come down to us from the classical world (pedants might argue that the Babylonian and Egyptian materials are earlier but they in no way resemble a book.) This remarkable and almost unique work was written in the 4th century BC by the poet Archestratus, from Gela, a Greek colony in Sicily. The complete text has long since vanished but these fragments or quotations enshrined in a much ...
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 | The Damp in Things (Peepal Tree)
Publication Date: June 1, 2009| ISBN-10: 1845230833 | ISBN-13: 978-1845230838Sparkling with sharp wit and off-kilter humor, this emotional collection shows a distinctly contemporary and urban Jamaica through the eyes of a surrealist whose sharp imagery and precise language expose the absurdities and contradictions of society. Written in a distinctly female voice that is modern and experimental, these poems explore a wide range of subjects, from the erotic to the ironic, with sophistication and imagination. ...
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 | Expert Modernists, Matricide and Modern Culture: Woolf, Forster, Joyce
Release Date: October 21, 2004This book links the leading innovators of modernism to the cult of the modern expert. In historicizing modernism as a distinct mode of knowledge that competes with other forms of expertise from law to psychology, Lois Cucullu shows how three modernist experts--Woolf, Forster, and Joyce--used technical innovations in the novel to replace reigning Victorian beliefs about marriage, procreation and the family. Modernist narratives of consciousness and bodies convert the gendered domestic sphere into an aesthetic one that grants cultural reproduction and a modern cul...
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 | Another Summer: A Novel
Release Date: April 27, 2010 Weaving together love and laughter, heartache and hope, promise and passion, Another Summer returns to the world of The Beach House with new stories entwined in a powerful emotional journey. A twentieth high school reunion reunites lovers who must learn to trust again. Teenagers from opposite worlds discover that having a chip on their shoulder only makes it harder to get through doors. An ambitious corporate attorney finds herself falling for the man she has vowed to destroy in the courtroom. A young family, reeling from a devastating loss, meets a mysterious ...
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 | SOLOMON'S KEY THE CODIS PROJECT: A CONSPIRACY THRILLER
Publication Date: May 1, 2007| Series: Solomon's Key An ancient secret society. The Vatican. The lost tomb of Jesus--the King of Kings And an ancient scroll that unlocks the secret of the Goddess . CODIS-the FBI's Combined DNA Index System-has found a match. A link between the past and present. Between a royal bloodline and the world's foremost terrorist. On the anniversary of their downfall at the hands of the papacy, the Knights Templar vow revenge. The ultimate spies and the ultimate threat: Reunited lovers brought together by fate, Italian-born OSI agent Nick Rossi and beautiful Mossad a...
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 | Mrs. Jeffries & the Mistletoe Mix-Up (A Victorian Mystery)
Release Date: November 6, 2012| Series: A Victorian Mystery KISS OF DEATH Moments after a high tea is interrupted by a fire in the servants’ hall, art collector Daniel McCourt is found sprawled on the floor of his study under a bundle of mistletoe, his throat slit by the bloody sword lying next to his body. Could the killer be a disgruntled lover, sending a message by murdering McCourt under the mistletoe? Could it be one of his fellow collectors, pointedly using one of McCourt’s own acquisitions to kill him? Inspector Witherspoon is determined to solve the case—p...
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 | The Brain Spiders (Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear, Book 7)
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 | La Batalla del Laberinto = The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson y Los Dioses del Olimpo) (Spanish Edition)
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 | Old Granny Fox
Publication Date: July 1, 2011"I never yet saw a young Fox who didn't think he knew all there is to know -- and you're just like the rest!"Old Granny Fox says this to Reddy Fox, who thinks it will be as easy as pie to steal Farmer Brown's chickens by daylight and then elude Bowser the Hound.But in this entertaining tale of the winter woods, it turns out even wise Old Granny Fox can be caught napping! ...
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 | Jimmie Johnson 48 (Nascar Drivers Coloring/Sticker Book)
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 | Motorcycle Races (Motorcycle Mania)
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 | Hide-And-Seek with Leo: A Hand-Puppet Book with Toy
Publication Date: September 2001| Age Level: 4 and up What does a monster do when he has the hiccups during a gameof hide-and-seek? He tries to find someone who can scare him out ofthem! Parents and children can use the built-in hand puppet to bringLeo the monster to life and act out the story. ...
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