 | Vigil: A Novel (Wsp Readers Club)
Release Date: July 21, 2009| Series: Wsp Readers Club When a nanny from war-torn El Salvador moves in with a wealthy American family, the result is an inspiring story about the power of love to cross cultural boundaries.Cecilia Samartin’s most impressive work yet, Vigil is told from the perspective of Ana, a middle aged woman who is waiting at the deathbed of her husband as he loses his battle against cancer. While she waits, she thinks back on her life and the incredible journey that brought her from war-torn El Salvador, to a convent in the U.S., and finally to a wealthy California e...
 |  | Ghetto Re'sume' part 2
Publication Date: December 16, 2010After serving sixty months of hard time for defending his mother s honor, DeQuan Goldie Walker is released back into society and the one thing he knows how to work well...the streets. After a joyous welcome home, Goldie reacquaints himself with the hood and studies how the environment has changed. With the memory of his dear friend Snake s last words Never underestimate your enemies and a determined mind, Goldie sets out to build an impressive Ghetto Resume. However, unbeknownst to him, a murderous stalker is lurking in his shadow; one who Goldie doesn t re...
|  | American Stories
Publication Date: April 15, 2000| Series: Modern Asian Literature Series Nagai Kafu is one of the greatest modern Japanese writers, but until now his classic collection,American Stories, based on his sojourn from Japan to Washington State, Michigan, and New York City in the early years of the twentieth century, has never been available in English. Here, with a detailed and insightful introduction, is an elegant translation of Kafu's perceptive and lyrical account.Like de Tocqueville a century before, Kafu casts a fresh, keen eye on vibrant and varied America -- world fairs, concert halls, an...
|  | Heavenstone Secrets (Heavenstone Series)
Release Date: December 29, 2009| Series: Heavenstone Series SECRETS ARE AT HOME HERE . . . The Heavenstone sisters live with their mother and father in a grand old mansion in bluegrass Kentucky. Semantha, the younger and prettier one, is afraid of so many things— darkness, strange noises, mysterious whispers in the night. But nothing frightens her more than her sister, Cassie. She is older and wiser, and always telling Semantha what to do, what to wear, and how to behave around those wicked boys at school. Semantha has her eye on one special guy—but Cassie has other plans for her...
|  | Alex and the Archangel
Publication Date: November 11, 2005Alex's life is far from perfect: Mum thinks he doesn't realise how unhappy she's been since her boyfriend left, but he knows she cries late at night when she thinks no one can hear. Alex is powerless to help his mum until one day the voice of Archangel Michael answers his desperate plea for help! By teaching Alex to tune himself in to the universal energies, Archangel Michael shows Alex that he is a Child of the Universe who can even visualise Archangel Michael and enlist his healing powers. Who knows? Maybe between them they'll manage to make Mum smile aga...
|  | The Secret of Lighthouse Pointe
Publication Date: May 10, 2011From the moment she stepped foot in the ominous and towering Gerard House, Constance Beechum sensed an evil chill that was far more deadly than the frigid blasts that had buffeted her on her way to Castine, Maine.She couldn’t turn back. She had left nothing behind, not even a life-line. Her uncle had found her a job caring for the old and dying Lady Elizabeth Gerard. Although she hadn’t an ounce of experience in nursing or caring for the ill, Constance had no choice but to accept the offer. She was penniless.Once she meets Lady Gerard’s two ...
|  | A Damned Fine War
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|  | Surviving Sting
Publication Date: October 1, 2001A crazy week of sex, violence and betrayal gives a hilarious new twist of realism to this intelligent evocation of growing up fast in "the ugliest town in the country"Ace Face wannabe Dave "Mac" McVane think he's got it made. At the Friday night disco luscious Joolz—the most shaggable girl in Walsall—invites him to her home on the notorious Jerome K. Jerome estate. But will the woman of his dreams and a "real" saddlemaker's job in the Happy Stallion make Mac the man he wants to be? Take a cast list that includes demented Billy-Bob and his twizzler p...
|  | Romeo y Julieta (Letras mayusculas)
Publication Date: September 1, 2007| Series: Letras mayusculas Depicting the beauty of the written word, the handsome books in this series present an assortment of universal literature from the drama of Shakespeare to the words of many well-known authors from the first half of the 20th century. Demostrando la belleza del arte de las letras, los libros elegantes en esta colección reúnen a los grandes clásicos de la literatura, desde el drama de Shakespeare hasta los autores más representativos de la literatura de la primera mitad del siglo XX....
|  | Trojan Women (Exile Classics series)
Publication Date: September 1, 2009| Series: Exile Classics series With a stunning command of the Greek language and a mastery of poetic nuance, this translation of Euripides' play breathes unparalleled life into an ancient masterpiece. Using vocabulary that gives the sense that the play was written with an appreciation of and application to the 20th and 21st centuries, this adaptation goes beyond the timeless plot of the consequences of war and the fate of both the victors and the losers and focuses on the modern-day issues of feminism and women's rights. Also included in this volume are tw...
|  | Essaying Montaigne: A Study of the Renaissance Institution of Writing and Reading (The International Library of Phenomenology and Moral Sciences)
Publication Date: March 25, 1982| ISBN-10: 0710009372 | ISBN-13: 978-0710009371John O'Neill reads Montaigne's Essays from their central principle of friendship as a communicative and pedagogical practice operative in society, literature and politics. The friendship between Montaigne and La Boetie was ruled neither by plenitude nor lack but by a capacity for recognition and transitivity. As an essayist Montaigne is an exemplary practitioner of a technique of difference and recognition that puts all certainties of history, philosophy and culture in the balance of weighted comparison. The e...
|  | In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (Sexual Cultures)
Release Date: January 1, 2005| ISBN-10: 0814735851 | ISBN-13: 978-0814735855| Edition: First Edition In her first book since the critically acclaimed Female Masculinity, Judith Halberstam examines the significance of the transgender body in a provocative collection of essays on queer time and space. She presents a series of case studies focused on the meanings of masculinity in its dominant and alternative forms’especially female and trans-masculinities as they exist within subcultures, and are appropriated within mainstream culture.In a Queer Time and Place opens with a probing an...
|  | Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe
Release Date: January 6, 2009Compiled by multi-award winning editor, Ellen Datlow, this collection commemorates the second centenary of Edgar Allan Poe's birth. It features Poe-inspired tales by some of the finest talents in the field, including Kim Newman, Pat Cadigan, Sharyn McCrumb, Lucius Shepard, Laird Barron, Suzy McKee Charnas and others. This all-star line-up has several Hugo, Edgar, Tiptree and British Fantasy Award winners. ...
|  | Gasping in the Shadows
Publication Date: September 7, 2012Take a step beyond the shades and into the shadows.Pretty Kaylee St. Claire takes a harrowing journey into the shadowy world of dangerous lust.. and lustful danger.But her own life may not be the only one at stake.A chilling tale of erotica, depravity and desperation. ...
|  | One Christmas Wish (Harlequin Historical, No. 531)
Publication Date: October 1, 2000Timeless stories by three of Harlequin Historicals bestselling authorsJudith Stacy"Christmas Wishes" On the brink of losing her job, a young woman strikes a deal with a handsome carpenter who is desperate to know what his daughter wants for Christmas.Carolyn Davidson"Wish Upon a Star" A child s Christmas wish for a mother sends his father on a determined quest for the nanny he has come to love as much as his son has.Theresa Michaels"More Than a Miracle" A single father finds not only his lost child but a whole new family when he comes upon the woman and her d...
|  | Task Force
Publication Date: October 1992Forbidden to fire their weapons, a group of naval F-16 aviators faces the high-tech mercenary air force of a powerful Mexican drug lord in the skies over California....
|  | TORN BRANCH (Scribner Crime Classic : An Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Mystery)
Publication Date: November 1, 1986| Series: Scribner Crime Classic : An Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Mystery Collier 1st edition paperback, fine ...
|  | Great Classic Stories 3: 20 Unabridged Classics (A CSA Word Classic)
Publication Date: April 1, 2009| Series: A CSA Word Classic The short story represents the perfect diversion for the busy modern reader—long enough to engage, but short enough to be portable to almost any setting from beach to bus ride. In this audio collection, a group of British readers breathe new life into 20 masterpieces of the form. There's something here for every taste and mood, from a prime example of F. Scott Fitzgerald's satirical "Pat Hobby" stories based on his Hollywood experiences, to gripping thrillers from the pen of Arthur Conan Doyle and Arnold Bennett. Writers includ...
|  | Junie B., First Grader: Turkeys We Have Loved and Eaten (and Other Thankful Stuff) (Junie B. Jones, No. 28)
Release Date: August 7, 2012| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | Baseball's Top 100: The Game's Greatest Records
Publication Date: March 30, 2010| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Baseball's Top 100 is the ultimate collection of achievements on the diamond. From the most grand slams in a career to the most consecutive stolen bases — the best of the best is all here. Sports writer and trivia master Kerry Banks has scoured all the record books and selected the top 100 of Major League Baseball’s most fantastic feats. Many significant records belong to the most familiar names in baseball — home-run king Barry Bonds, slugging champ Babe Ruth, hit machine Joe DiMaggio — but Ba...
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