 | Swim against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go With the Flow
Publication Date: December 31, 2008America’s most irascible and hilarious curmudgeon turns a kind and benevolent eye toward brave, hardy, and hardworking souls around the country who have found ways to break free from corporate tentacles; redefine success in business, politics, and life in general; and blaze new pathways toward a richer and happier way of life, from the farmers’ cooperative that said “NO!” to Wal-Mart and thrived to the economists who got into the coffee business by accident and turned the entire industry on its ear. ...
 |  | Lightningbolt
Publication Date: April 1994Growing up as a mixed-blood native American on a reservation in the 1960s, Lightningbolt learns about the ancient Discipline of the Flower Soldiers from Estcheemah, the powerful Zero Chief. Simultaneous. ...
|  | The House on Sugar Plum Lane (Center Point Premier Fiction (Large Print))
Publication Date: May 1, 2010| Series: Center Point Premier Fiction (Large Print) The beautiful Victorian house that Amy Masterson decides to rent, fully furnished, is more than just a place to start over with her young daughter. When Amy learns that the three-story house on Sugar Plum Lane belonged to her great-grandmother, Eleanor Rucker, who Amy's mother had been searching for until her recent death, she hopes she can find a window into the past her mother never found. As Amy settles into Fairbrook, she's stunned to learn that Ellie Rucker still lives on Sugar Plum Lane, cared for by Amy'...
|  | God for President: A Parable About the Power of Love
Publication Date: June 1, 2008The fate of the world is at stake, so God is running for president in Lisa Venable s delightful parable. Sarah Rose, a disillusioned American activist, has retreated from Washington politics to her hometown in Minnesota to work for a friend at the Heavenly Hair Salon. Sarah has essentially given up on God, but one day is provoked by a conversation between customers at the salon about the state of the world and she begins to wonder what God would do as president of the free world. Sarah exclaims, Imagine it...people would think twice before they act. Laws would b...
|  | The Power of One: A Novel
Release Date: September 29, 1996“The Power of One has everything: suspense, the exotic, violence; mysticism, psychology and magic; schoolboy adventures, drama.”–The New York Times“Unabashedly uplifting . . . asserts forcefully what all of us would like to believe: that the individual, armed with the spirit of independence–‘the power of one’–can prevail.”–Cleveland Plain DealerIn 1939, as Hitler casts his enormous, cruel shadow across the world, the seeds of apartheid take root in South Africa. There, a boy called Peekay is...
|  | The Map and the Territory
Release Date: January 3, 2012The most celebrated and controversial French novelist of our time now delivers his magnum opus—about art and money, love and friendship and death, fathers and sons. The Map and the Territory is the story of an artist, Jed Martin, and his family and lovers and friends, the arc of his entire history rendered with sharp humor and powerful compassion. His earliest photographs, of countless industrial objects, were followed by a surprisingly successful series featuring Michelin road maps, which also happened to bring him the love of his life, Olga, a beau...
|  | An Assembly Such as This: A Novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman
Release Date: May 30, 2006| Series: Fitzwilliam Darcy Gentleman (Book 1) "She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me."So begins the timeless romance of Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. Jane Austen's classic novel is beloved by millions, but little is revealed in the book about the mysterious and handsome hero, Mr. Darcy. And so the question has long remained: Who is Fitzwilliam Darcy? In An Assembly Such as This, Pamela Aidan finally answers that long-standing question. In this first book of her Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman trilogy, she reintroduces...
|  | Fortune's Deadly Descent (Fortune Series)
Release Date: September 18, 2012| Series: Fortune Series Memories of her dire past fade as Celia Hagen enjoys life in Switzerland as a best-sellingauthor, surrounded by an extended family, her beloved Benicio, and their imaginative youngson Benny. But when Benny disappears from a train during an unexpected stop in the FrenchProvencal countryside, Celia suspects her past may not be buried after all. With Benny gone,she quickly realizes her life wasn’t nearly as idyllic as she believed. Infuriated by theunorthodox search efforts of Interpol and the French police, Celia, along with her o...
|  | Sexile
Release Date: January 27, 2009There's a voyeur in each of us—and Teresa Knight is no exceptionSomebody’s shadowing Teresa Knight, watching the part-time investigator’s every move. And she’s about to find out why: tapped for an undercover assignment that takes her into the steamy world of erotic films, Teresa lands a job at Silky Pictures—and within weeks she’s directing the action, conjuring her own wildest fantasies onto film. But her employer is dabbling in something far beyond hard-core porn. And when the case culminates in murder, Teresa is at th...
|  | Cyrano de Bergerac: by Edmund Rostand translated by Anthony Burgess
Release Date: February 1, 2000(Applause Books). This acclaimed adaptation for the stage has garnered such reviews as: "Emotional depth Rostand himself would surely have envied...Burgess' extravagant verse keeps its contours, yet trips off the tongue almost as though it were contemporary speech." London Times . Performance rights available from Applause. ...
|  | A Fatal Grace (An Inspector Armand Gamache -Three Pines Mystery #2)
Release Date: April 26, 2007No one liked CC de Poitiers. Not her quiet, ineffectual husband. Not the pallid, spineless photographer she'd been cheating on him with. Not even her tremendously fat, silent eleven-year-old daughter Crie, dubbed "Brie" by her hateful classmates. And certainly none of the residents of Three Pines, a tiny village south of Montreal, each of whom CC had recently managed to offend with one callous and insensitive act or another. And therein lies the challenge for the brilliant inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec, called once again from his headq...
|  | Why the French Love Jerry Lewis: From Cabaret to Early Cinema
Publication Date: April 1, 2002Vividly bringing to light the tradition of physical comedy in the French cabaret, café-concert, and early French film comedy, this book answers the perplexing question, “Why do the French love Jerry Lewis?” The extraordinary emphasis on nervous pathology in the Parisian café-concert, where the genres of the Epileptic Singer and the Idiot Comic took center stage, and where popular comic monologues and songs included “Man with a Tic” and “I’m Neurasthenic,” points to a fascinating intersection between medicine and ...
|  | History of the Harlequinade
Publication Date: June 1968| ISBN-10: 0405089120 | ISBN-13: 978-0405089121| Edition: Reprint This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of th...
|  | Love Is Murder (Thriller Anthologies)
Release Date: May 29, 2012| Series: Thriller Anthologies Prepare for heart-racing suspense in this original collection by thirty of the hottest bestselling authors and new voices writing romance suspense today. Go on vacation with Allison Brennan's Lucy Kincaid, where she saves a man from drowning, only to discover he is in far greater danger on land. Meet Roxanne St. Claire's "bullet catcher"-bodyguard Donovan Rush-who may have met his match in the sexually charged "Diamond Drop." Debut author William Simon shows us what happens when the granddaughter of the president of the Unit...
|  | White Album (Inanna Poetry & Fiction)
Publication Date: January 1, 2009| Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Poetry. Art. Artwork by Suzanne Northcott. Beginning in the 1950s, WHITE ALBUM charts the life of a young woman born in India, growing up in Canada during an era of explosive change, both cultural and political. Set to the music of the last half-century, WHITE ALBUM poses provocative questions: What is an identity? How does the noise of history-the chanting crowds, the gunshots, the guitar feedback-soundtrack our sense of self? Blurring together diverse media, WHITE ALBUM blends the words of award-winning poet Rishma Dunlop w...
| | Critical Essays on Ronald Firbank, English Novelist, 1886-1926 (Mellen Studies in Literature. English and American Studies, V. 38)
Publication Date: February 2004| ISBN-10: 0773465553 | ISBN-13: 978-0773465558This international collection of critical essays addresses Firbank's fiction from a variety of perspectives. The essays cover the full range of Firbank's fictional output and include pieces on Vainglory, Odette D'Antrevernes, Inclinations, Sorrow in Sunlight, The Flower Beneath the Foot and Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli. The minor writings are also addressed. The collection seeks to establish Firbank as a novelist who is more important to the development of literary modernism than his curren...
|  | Dear Diary
Publication Date: September 10, 2012Lydia Mancuso, an odd name for an African American woman in the 1970's, was beginning a new life for herself in the Air Force. After leaving the nuns from a small parish in Las Vegas, she had a rough childhood. Once she went into the state system of foster care, her life became a nightmare. On the bus ride to the base, she began the first entry in her diary. It was the beginning of her new life including college with her future looking much better. With full attention to her writing, she didn't notice the young man taking a special interest in her. His nam...
|  | The Templar Cross (Thorndike Core)
Publication Date: June 2, 2010| Series: Thorndike Core Retired Army Ranger John Holliday has reluctantly settled into his teaching position at West Point, when young Israeli archaeologist Rafi Wanounou comes to him with desperate news. Holliday's niece and Rafi's fiancée, Peggy, has been kidnapped while photographing the excavation of an ancient tomb in Egypt. Her captors are murderous fanatics known as the Brotherhood of the Temple of Isis, and their search for her will lead into the heart of a conspiracy . . . ...
|  | Cop Hater (87th Precinct)
Release Date: May 8, 2012| Series: 87th Precinct As a cop with the city’s famed 87th Precinct, Steve Carella has seen it all. Or so he thinks. Because nothing can prepare him for the sight that greets him on a sweltering July night: fellow detective Mike Reardon’s dead body splayed across the sidewalk, his face blown away by a .45. Days later, Reardon’s partner is found dead, a .45-caliber bullet buried deep in his chest. Only a fool would call it a coincidence, and Carella’s no fool. He chalks the whole ugly mess up to a grudge killing…until a third murder...
|  | The Legend of Zelda: The War of the Triforce (Clean Version)
Publication Date: June 20, 2012Link and Zelda have just signed up as the newest recruits for the Castle Guard.But little did either of them know how much they would be needed.When an ancient and destructive power has awakened, it's up to them to save the kingdom.They will travel the land, make unlikely allies, fall in love, and decipher a hidden prophecy that could mean life or death for the world. (Cleaned-up version) ...
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