 | Too Much of a Good Thing
Release Date: February 1, 2005In the sequel to the enormously successful Casting the First Stone, Kimberla Lawson Roby brings back a character readers love to hate. Curtis Black might be a man of the cloth, but with his irresistible looks, seductive charm, and charismatic personality, he's particularly beloved by his female parishioners––and almost every other woman he's ever met. The trouble is, Curtis is married. At first he tries to resist temptation, but not for long. His insatiable appetite for women quickly gets the best of him. Eventually, the women in Curtis's life find...
 |  | Moth to a Flame
Release Date: January 1, 2012In the little city of Flint, MI, the good die young and the people left standing are the grimiest of characters. With reign over the city's drug trade, Benjamin Atkins made sure that his precious daughter, Raven, was secluded from the grit that the city had to offer. But when Raven's young heart gets claimed by Mizan, a stick-up kid in search of a come-up, there's nothing Benjamin can do about losing her to the streets. She chooses love over loyalty and runs off with Mizan, but her new role as wifey soon proves to be more than she can handle.Puppy love always fee...
|  | The Frontiersmen
Release Date: November 1, 1984Driven from their homeland, the Indians fought bitterly to keep a final stronghold east of the Mississippi. Savage cunning, strength, skill, and knowledge of the wilderness were their weapons, and the Indians used them mercilessly. But they couldn't foresee the white men who would come later, men who loved the land as much as they did, who wanted it for their own. Men who learned the Indian tricks and matched brutality for brutality. ...
|  | Sisterhood Everlasting
Release Date: March 6, 2012NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Four friends One sisterhood Ten years later, the story continuesOn the cusp of turning thirty, Tibby, Lena, Carmen, and Bridget are now living separate lives, out on their own. Yet despite having jobs and men that they love, each knows that something is missing: the closeness that once sustained them. Carmen is a successful actress in New York, engaged to be married, but misses her friends. Lena finds solace in her art, teaching in Rhode Island, but still thinks of Kostos and the road she didn’t take. Bridget lives with her long...
|  | The Bachelorette Party
Release Date: February 7, 2006After being left at the altar by her soap star fiancé, L.A. high school teacher Zadie Roberts wants nothing to do with love and romance. Still, with the help of her best buddy, Grey, she may somehow overcome the wedding that wasn't. That is, until Grey gets engaged to Zadie's prim and proper cousin Helen, and Zadie is dragged back into wedding festivity hell. The coup de grâce is Helen's bachelorette party, thrown by her clique of prissy friends and certain to be a day of torture. But when the Pinor Grigio goes down and the sweater sets come off, thing...
|  | Angel & Faith Volume 1: Live Through This
Publication Date: July 3, 2012| Series: Angel & Faith (Book 1) The supernatural world is reeling after the loss of magic in the bestselling series Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8, a prelude to the events that shape Angel & Faith.Angel has made bad choices in his life. Most recently? While possessed, he killed Giles. However, he believes he's found a way to make amends, by bringing the Watcher back from the grave! Cue Faith - rebel Slayer, and Angel's only ally - who only supports this harebrained scheme in order to keep her friend from catatonia. New threats emerge as this unlikely duo str...
|  | Dakota Divided
Publication Date: May 25, 2011Fifteen-year-old Dakota Lester has never been accused of being popular, having friends or even being remotely attractive. Convinced that by becoming a sarcastic, obnoxious cut-up he can win friends and maybe even climb out of Infinity High School’s social septic tank, Dakota adopts the persona of “Lester the Jester” to mask the hurt of being unaccepted both at school and by a father who walked out on him when he was younger. Skinny as a rail and as athletic as a lima bean, Dakota wants nothing more than to break into student government, if o...
|  | Night Shift (Signet)
Release Date: February 1, 1979| Series: Signet From the depths of darkness, where hideous rats defend their empire, to dizzying heights, where a beautiful girl hangs by a hair above a hellish fate, this chilling collection of twenty short stories will plunge readers into the subterranean labyrinth of the most spine-tingling, eerie imagination of our time. ...
|  | Complete Poems (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Release Date: January 1, 1994| Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics This collection includes all the poems from the incomplete "Collected Poems" of 1929 and from the separate smaller volumes issued during Lawrence's lifetime; uncollected poems; an appendix of juvenilia and another containing variants and early drafts; and all Lawrence's critical introductions to his poems. It also includes full textual and explanatory notes. ...
|  | Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure": A Collection of Critical Essays (20th Century Interpretations)
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|  | The Origin of Species and Other Poems (The Americas Series)
Release Date: April 10, 2011| ISBN-10: 0896726894 | ISBN-13: 978-0896726895| Edition: 1 Ernesto Cardenal, widely acknowledged as Latin America's greatest living poet, continues to craft works of striking beauty, as demonstrated in this collection’s title poem, an exquisite meditation on Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. Among the twenty new poems included here are many appearing for the first time in English, some for the first time anywhere. Cardenal has also added new cantigas, or cantos, to supplement his book-length masterpiece, Cosmic Canticle. “There is order ...
|  | Cherry Blossoms. Japanese Haiku Series III. Translations Of Basho, Buson, Issa, Shiki & Others
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|  | Smiles in Pathos and Other Poems
Publication Date: November 15, 2011Smiles in Pathos and Other Poems is a collection of selected poems by KhaingaO'Okwemba. The poet stands on the opposite ends of his contemporaries because ofhis faith and reverence in the traditional forms of poetry.He is intimately Augustan incraft and romantic in idealizing the poetic forms. The poems are written in threemodels divided into separate books, with each book sub-themed. In Book One we have the celebratory short poems calledPoems of Homagewhich areinspired by the poet's admiration of canonical African writers: Chinua Achebe, WoleSoyi...
|  | An Introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis in Education
Publication Date: January 23, 2004| ISBN-10: 0805848185 | ISBN-13: 978-0805848182This landmark text is the first introduction to concepts and issues in critical discourse analysis for educational researchers. The central premise is that critical discourse analysis must be conducted "systematically," which means conducting inquiry into the ways in which language form and function correlate with social practices. Bringing together the work of New Literacy Studies, situated literacy, critical discourse theory and analysis with theories of learning, the text is distinctive in providing not j...
|  | Hardboiled Cthulhu: Two-Fisted Tales of Tentacled Terror
Release Date: July 15, 2006Hard-hitting and hard-edged, these stories take Lovecraftian Mythos to places where only the toughest P.I.s, gangsters, and creatures dwell. Venturing into the urban sprawl and the dark places of the world, this anthology of more than 20 tales blends the hardboiled genre with the Lovecraftian....
|  | Mystified
Publication Date: June 11, 2011Tokoda's rock 'n roll lifestyle comes to an abrupt halt when he is called back home. He climbs on his Harley and heads back to Spirit Island where Native American legends are known to come to life. Nara is intent on preserving her Ojibwa heritage, and couldn't be happier about her former crush coming back to the Island, and is even happier when the sexy musician finds his way into her bed.The rekindled lovers are thrown back in time, but in opposite directions. Tokoda and Nara must overcome the barbaric Sioux tribe to find one another and look for a way to retu...
|  | The Brass Verdict (A Lincoln Lawyer Novel)
Publication Date: September 9, 2010| Series: A Lincoln Lawyer Novel Things are finally looking up for defense attorney Mickey Haller. After two years of wrong turns, Haller is back in the courtroom. When Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent is murdered, Haller inherits his biggest case yet: the defense of Walter Elliott, a prominent studio executive accused of murdering his wife and her lover. But as Haller prepares for the case that could launch him into the big time, he learns that Vincent's killer may be coming for him next.Enter Harry Bosch. Determined to find Vincent's killer, he is not oppos...
|  | Salvation of a Saint
Release Date: October 2, 2012From the author of the internationally bestselling, award-winning The Devotion of Suspect X comes the latest novel featuring “Detective Galileo” In 2011, The Devotion of Suspect X was a hit with critics and readers alike. The first major English language publication from the most popular bestselling writer in Japan, it was acclaimed as “stunning,” “brilliant,” and “ingenious.” Now physics professor Manabu Yukawa—Detective Galileo—returns in a new case of impossible murder, where instincts cla...
|  | Catwings (A Catwings Tale)
Publication Date: May 1, 2003| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Mrs. Jane Tabby cannot explain why all four of her kittens were born with wings. But when life on the city streets becomes too dangerous, it is clear that her dream for her children might some day come true. They can fly away from the city slums of their birth. And one day, they do. But not even their mother could have foreseen the hazards of country living. ...
|  | Echoes of the Elders: The Stories and Paintings of Chief Lelooska with CD
Publication Date: September 17, 1997| Age Level: 6 and up This collection of five tales represents the first written record of Chief Lelooska's tellings of the ancient myths and legends that have been a part of the oral tradition of the Northwest Coast Indians for centuries. These often humorous, sometimes frightening stories teach us that we should treat the oceans, the land, and its creatures with the utmost respect and reverence.The stories here are written as they were recounted by Chief Lelooska, and one can even read along as he retells the tales on a CD that is packaged in an envelope...
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