 | Downtown Owl: A Novel
Release Date: June 23, 2009New York Times bestselling author and “oneofAmerica’stop cultural critics” (Entertainment Weekly) Chuck Klosterman’s debut novel brilliantly captures the charm and dread of small town life—now available in trade paperback. Somewhere in rural North Dakota, there is a fictional town called Owl. They don’t have cable. They don’t really have pop culture, but they do have grain prices and alcoholism. People work hard and then they die. But that’s not nearly as awful as it sounds; in fact, sometimes it’s perfect. Mitc...
 |  | An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English
Publication Date: January 15, 1998| ISBN-10: 0195412826 | ISBN-13: 978-0195412826| Edition: 2 This second edition of the now standard survey of writing in English by Canadian native people brings together a broad range of works, from traditional songs and historical documents to short stories, plays, poems, and essays.The new edition includes fourteen new writers. ...
|  | The Space Between Us: A Novel (P.S.)
Release Date: February 6, 2007 Poignant, evocative, and unforgettable, The Space Between Us is an intimate portrait of a distant yet familiar world. Set in modern-day India, it is the story of two compelling and achingly real women: Sera Dubash, an upper-middle-class Parsi housewife whose opulent surroundings hide the shame and disappointment of her abusive marriage, and Bhima, a stoic illiterate hardened by a life of despair and loss, who has worked in the Dubash household for more than twenty years. A powerful and perceptive literary masterwork, author Thrity Umrigar's extraordinary novel ...
|  | Rest in Peace (Hometown Mysteries)
Publication Date: April 1, 2011| Series: Hometown Mysteries Ride along on a hair-raising adventure with Victoria Storm and her cohorts as they comb Cedar Chapel for clues to a murder. When the local pet store owner is found dead, the coroner deems it due to a fall. But Victoria, her fiancé Benjamin, and the residents of Cedar Chapel Lodge, a senior boardinghouse, think it’s murder. As they begin to uncover evidence, things go from bad to worse and their friend Miss Aggie disappears, leaving her blood-stained clothing behind. Will Victoria catch the killer or be the next victim?(...
|  | False Memory
Publication Date: August 3, 2000Martie is an ordinary woman with an ordinary life until one morning she develops a terrifying phobia: autophobia, fear of oneself. As Martie's condition worsens, her husband Dusty is determined to learn what triggered her illness and so encounters Dr Mark Ahriman, a leading psychiatrist, who runs a local support group for sufferers. Dusty's suspicion is aroused when he discovers that two of Mark's patients have recently committed suicide. It becomes apparent to Dusty that Mark, although a doctor, is not a healer. As Dusty comes ever closer to the truth, he too...
|  | Broken Land, a Brooklyn Tale
Publication Date: May 18, 2012ABOUT THE BOOK: Existential noir with a pop-cultural slant, Broken Land, a Brooklyn Tale chronicles the urban exploits of wanna-be sleuth and slapstick film buff, Salvatore Massimo Lunezzi.Prompted by an enigmatic phone call from a writer-friend claiming to be dead, Lunezzi launches an investigation that leads him to Ghostwriters, Inc., a company selling inspiration to struggling writers through the medium of "ghosting."From Buster Keaton to Arthur Rimbaud; a boozy dwarf to a mysterious femme fatale; hip hop to the madness of art; Lunezzi is drawn deeper and dee...
|  | The First Counsel
Release Date: September 25, 2012John F. Kennedy, Jr., was Lark. Amy Carter was Dynamo. Chelsea Clinton was Energy. Meet Shadow. Shadow is the Secret Service code name for First Daughter Nora Hartson. And when White House lawyer Michael Garrick begins dating the irresistible Nora, he's instantly spellbound, just like everyone else in her world. Then, late one night, the two witness something they were never meant to see. Now, in a world where everyone watches your every move, Michael is suddenly ensnared in someone's secret agenda. Trusting no one, not even Nora, he finds himself fighting for...
|  | The Time of the Singing
Publication Date: November 11, 2011Raised by devout parents, Israfel Vacek is a teenager before he realizes he may be turning into someone his parents would shun. When he confesses his fears to his brother, Michael suggests Raf might be able to save himself if he joins the clergy.Though Raf is well-suited to the clerical life, enjoying the piety of his parishioners, his homosexual desires don't go away. Still, Raf is able to repress them, until one young churchmen decides he wants Raf for himself. Nate Mulligan is a bundle of contradictions, a devout believer who insists their love can't b...
|  | Mothers and Sons: Stories
Release Date: January 1, 2008Each of the nine stories in this beautifully written, intensely intimate collection centers on a transformative moment that alters the delicate balance of power between mother and son, or changes the way they perceive one another. With exquisite grace and eloquence, Tóibín writes of men and women bound by convention, by unspoken emotions, by the stronghold of the past. Many are trapped in lives they would not choose again, if they ever chose at all. A man buries his mother and converts his grief to desire in one night. A famous singer captivates an au...
|  | El cuento hispánico: A Graded Literary Anthology
Publication Date: January 17, 2007| ISBN-10: 0073513113 | ISBN-13: 978-0073513119| Edition: 7 A highly successful short fiction collection, El cuento hispánico introduces the Intermediate Spanish student to major Hispanic writers from both Spain and Spanish America including, among others, Ana María Matute, Horacio Quiroga, Julio Cortázar, and Jorge Luis Borges. The short works in this anthology are intended to be read in one sitting. A wide variety of language developmental exercises, such as vocabulary and strategy building, accompany the readings. ...
|  | Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
Release Date: April 1, 1997At the beginning of this century, a young German poet returned from a journey to Russia, where he had immersed himself in the spirituality he discovered there. He "received" a series of poems about which he did not speak for a long time - he considered them sacred, and different from anything else he ever had done and ever would do again. This poet saw the coming darkness of the century, and saw the struggle we would have in our relationship to the divine. The poet was Rainer Maria Rilke, and these love poems to God make up his Book of Hours. ...
|  | Rilke's Russia: A Cultural Encounter (SRLT)
Publication Date: January 30, 1997| Series: SRLT GRAT BOOK. ...
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|  | The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction, Shorter Eleventh Edition
Publication Date: December 19, 2003| ISBN-10: 0393978079 | ISBN-13: 978-0393978070| Edition: 11 will ship immediately ...
|  | Birdbaths and Paper Cranes
Release Date: August 1, 2002Syndicated columnist Randall's writing style is intensely personal and unmistakably authentic, as if she were writing a letter to a trusted friend. She shares stories of how her blind brother once tried to drive a car; her sister lost a wig on a bumper car ride; her husband coached basketball while battling cancer; and her oldest child grew up to be "not a real doctor, but play one on TV." In Randall's hands, even stories about ordinary things-from a broken birdbath to a rusty porch swing to a thousand paper cranes—all shine with extraordinary meaning and gr...
|  | Olhos verdes (Portuguese Edition)
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|  | One Fearful Yellow Eye (A Travis McGee Novel)
Release Date: February 26, 1996"To diggers a thousand yeasrs from now...the works of John D. MacDonald would be a treasure on the order of the tomb of Tutankhamen."Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.How to you extort $600,000 from a dying man? Someone had done it very quietly and skilfully to the husband of Travis McGee's ex-girlfriend. McGee flies to Chicago to help untangle the mess and discovers that although Dr. Fortner Geis had led an exemplary life, there were those who'd take advantage of one "indiscretion" and bring down the whole family. McGee also discovers he likes a few member...
|  | The Triggerman: The First Volume of John Ragusa's Mafia Secrets (New Crime Series)
Publication Date: August 1994| Series: New Crime Series mass market paperback ...
|  | Classic Christmas Crime
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|  | Isis & Osiris: To the Ends of the Earth (Graphic Myths & Legends)
Publication Date: October 1, 2007| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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