 | The Right Address: A Novel
Release Date: March 15, 2005The Right Address sears through the upper crust of New York’s glittering Park Avenue scene to dish the dirt on the ladies who lunch, the gents who club, and the desperate climbers who will stop at nothing to join the backstabbing, champagne-sipping, socialite-eat-socialite stratosphere. When Melanie Sartomsky, wily Floridian flight attendant, snares billionaire divorcée Arthur “the coffin king” Korn, she is catapulted into the crème de la crème of Park Avenue society, where hiring the wrong decorator is tantamount to social suicide...
 |  | Karma III (Triple Crown Publications Presents)
Publication Date: February 15, 2011| Series: Triple Crown Publications Presents In the third installment of Sabrina Eubanks' fiery bestselling Karma series, life has been a little rough for narcotics detective Lucas Cain.After his perfect love Justine is tragically taken away from him by a devious femme fatale, Lucas and his trusty partner Noah are assigned to take down the notorious Trinidad brothers. While Lucas attempts to reclaim his life with Nichole, a fellow detective with an unhinged ex-boyfriend - the crooked cop Keith Childs - Noah is gravely wounded in a fight to bring down the Dr...
|  | Caspian Rain
Publication Date: December 30, 2008From the best-selling author of Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith, a stirring, lyrical tale that offers American readers a unique insight into the inner workings of Iranian society.In the decade before the Islamic Revolution, Iran is a country at the brink of explosion. Twelve-year-old Yaas is born in Tehran, into an already divided family: Her father is the son of wealthy Iranian Jews who are integrated into the country s upper-class, mostly Muslim, elite; her mother was raised in the slums of South Tehran, one street away from the old Jewish ghetto.Yaas sp...
|  | Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open: Poems
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|  | Scent of the River
Release Date: July 6, 2006In 1838, an army of 7,000 soldiers came to the Cherokee Nation to evict the Cherokees from their homeland. One family, led by a man named Tsali, refused to go. ...
|  | The Outsider
Release Date: September 1, 1987The seminal work on alienation, creativity, and the modern mind-set."An exhaustive, luminously intelligent study...a real contribution to our understanding of our deepest predicament."—Philip Toynbee. ...
|  | ADVENTURES IN READING VOLUME 3 POETRY DRAMA AND THE EPIC
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|  | Der rasende Roland: Teil 2 (German Edition)
Release Date: October 23, 2001This edition is published in several volumes, sold separately. ...
|  | Getting Books to Children: An Exploration of Publisher-Market Relations (Ala Studies in Librarianship)
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|  | A Hand to Turn the Time: The Menippean Satires of Thomas Pynchon
Publication Date: February 1990A study of the major fiction of Thomas Pynchon in three contexts: Menippean satire, post-modernism, and American writing. The critical genealogy of the term satire is discussed and Pynchon’s V., The Crying of Lot 49, and Gravity’s Rainbow are analyzed. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition....
|  | Cartas de relacion (Clasicos Castalia) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: May 10, 1993| ISBN-10: 8470396706 | ISBN-13: 978-8470396700| Edition: 1 Edition Las Cartas de relacion son largos informes oficiales dirigidos al emperador Carlos V para que este sancionara la legalidad de la empresa conquistadora, tratando de ganar la partida contra Velazquez, quien igualmente se dirigia al monarca denunciando la rebeldia de Cortes. Cortes debia asimismo dar puntual descripcion de las nuevas tierras y de sus habitantes, asi como explicar las alianzas, guerras y demas sucesos politicos y militares de la campana conquistadora. Las cinco relaciones fueron...
|  | Moral Tales and Meditations: Technological Parables and Refractions
Publication Date: September 2002Provocative essays and short tales that explore the effect of technology and new media on our everyday lives.Novelist, cyber-theorist, and widely acclaimed hypertext fiction writer Michael Joyce weaves an evocative and provocative set of brief essays and short parable-like fictions into a compelling collection of meditations on how technology and new media affect our culture and everyday lives. Taken together, these pieces present a writer's reflections on a life of sudden changes at the edge of an uncertain future. They continue Joyce's effort to construct wh...
|  | Service of All the Dead
Release Date: September 1, 1996"[MORSE IS] THE MOST PRICKLY, CONCEITED, AND GENUINELY BRILLIANT DETECTIVE SINCE HERCULE POIROT."--The New York Times Book ReviewThis time Inspector Morse brings the imposition on himself. He could have been vacationing in Greece instead of investigating a murder that the police have long since written off. But he finds the crime--the brutal killing of a suburban churchwarden--fascinating. In fact, he uncovers not one murder but two, for the fatal fall of St. Frideswides vicar from the church tower Morse reckons to be murder as well. And as he digs in...
|  | The Man Who Hated Banks and Other Stories
Publication Date: September 30, 1997Published in honour of the fiftieth anniversary ofMichael Gilbert's first book, The Man Who Hated Banks and OtherMysteries gather together eighteen previously uncollected storiesabout Gilbert's most popular sleuths: seven about Inspector Hazlerigg,five about solicitor Henry Montacute Bohun, three about former copperBill Mercer, and three about Inspector Patrick Petrella.Gilbert's tales range from Scotland Yard police procedurals to classiccountry-house mysteries, action-packed thrillers, and tales of theseamy side of London life.In all of them, Gilbert dis...
|  | The Elf Vampire Series and Eunice Nereid of the Forest: Combo
Publication Date: August 7, 2012"The Elf Vampire: Love, War and Sorrow" Book 1 Being an elf can be fun except when you are royalty. My tribe calls me Princess Vellandra; I am 17th years old. I will stop aging when I turn 20, and die on my 300th birthday. I live in an invisible Kingdom in one of Russia’s Siberian pine forests. My ancestors named it 'Ninaly'. My enemies killed my parents, and I made an extreme decision to avenge them. Pay a vampire to turn me into a fearless half-elf, half-vampire Princess. Will elf Prince 'Areek' accept my dark-half? Was becoming a vampire the right de...
|  | A Day at the Seashore (Little Golden Book)
Release Date: May 11, 2010| Age Level: 2 and up...
|  | Red Hat! Green Hat! (Road to Reading)
Release Date: August 1, 2000| Age Level: 4 and up...
|  | Bye, Mis' Lela
Publication Date: April 14, 1998| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Sugar Plum, an African American preschooler, must come to terms with the death of her elderly babysitter. ...
|  | Biggles and the Secret Mission (Red Fox older fiction)
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|  | How I Survived the Oregon Trail (Time Travellers)
Release Date: October 25, 1999| Age Level: 9 and up...
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