 | The Family Corleone
Release Date: May 8, 2012New York, 1933. The city and the nation are in the depths of the Great Depression. The crime families of New York have prospered in this time, but with the coming end of Prohibition, a battle is looming that will determine which organizations will rise and which will face a violent end.For Vito Corleone, nothing is more important that his family's future. While his youngest children, Michael, Fredo, and Connie, are in school, unaware of their father's true occupation, and his adopted son Tom Hagen is a college student, he worries most about Sonny, his eldest child. V...
 |  | The Soldier's Wife: A Novel
Release Date: June 5, 2012WHAT HAPPENS WHEN LOVE AND DUTY COLLIDE? DAN RILEY IS A MAJOR IN THE BRITISH ARMY. After a six-month tour of duty in Afghanistan, he is coming home to the wife and young daughters he adores. He’s up for promotion and his ex-Army grandfather and father couldn’t be prouder. The Rileys are united in support of Dan’s passion for his career. But are they really? His wife, Alexa, has been offered a good teaching job she can’t take because the Army may move the family at any time. Her daughter Isabel hates her boarding school—the only good edu...
|  | The Sinner (Jane Rizzoli, Book 3)
Release Date: August 3, 2004Not even the icy temperatures of a typical New England winter can match the bone-chilling scene of carnage discovered at the chapel of Our Lady of Divine Light. Within the cloistered convent lie two nuns–one dead, one critically injured–victims of an unspeakably savage attacker. The brutal crime appears to be without motive, but medical examiner Maura Isles’s autopsy of the dead woman yields a shocking surprise: Twenty-year-old Sister Camille gave birth before she was murdered. Then another body is found, mutilated beyond recognition. Together, I...
|  | More Than Mortal
Publication Date: April 15, 2002Victor Renquist, centuries-old nosferatu leader, is called to England. Some archaeologists are excavating a burial mound, but what they will uncover is no Saxon warrior but the being once known as the Merlin. And he's not the kindly old duffer of The Sword in the Stone. ...
|  | The Moreau Factor
Release Date: February 1, 2000THE EVOLUTION OF TERRORA hard-living reporter long past his Pulitzer Prize-winning prime, Chuck Vallone is about to meet a renowned geneticist who needs to clear his conscience. But when Vallone arrives at their rendezvous, he finds the D.C. hotel swarming with government agents. The scientist's room is now a grisly slaughterhouse splattered with blood--but no sign of a body.Vallone knows he has the story of the century, especially when he receives a mysterious package filled with a computer disk and strange samples of DNA. Now he's determined to uncover the tru...
|  | The Platypus Ploy: A Kylie Kendall Mystery (An Alyson Mystery)
Publication Date: December 15, 2007| Series: An Alyson Mystery Stone the crows—Aussie Kylie Kendall returns! Kylie’s relationship with paramour Ariana Creeling has reached a new level—until she disappears. There’s no sign of violence, no ransom demand—she simply vanishes. Kylie is distraught, not knowing whether she’s alive or dead. Convinced there’s a link to the prestigious Clarice Turner Evenstar Home, where aged show business stars fade not-so-gently away, Kylie disguises herself as a volunteer and finds herself on the trail of the culprit...
|  | The Falling Woman
Publication Date: May 1, 2003One woman's journey into the heart's landscape is mirrored by a haunting desert odyssey in this novel told in three voices—Stella, Estella, and Estelle. The narration follows Stella from birth to age 29 as she confronts epilepsy, death, and lesbianism; Estella as she confronts the Australian desert and the metaphoric edge of her consciousness with her lover Olga; and Estelle, the timeless, mythical voice of women in different cultures and times sharing their stories that range from the mundane to the frightening. The final chapter draws all three voices toge...
|  | The Collected Jorkens Volume 3
Publication Date: April 15, 2005The third in a three-volume set collecting all of Lord Dunsany's club stories, as told by Jorkens. Long unavailable, and essential reading for all fans of classic fantasy. Introduction by Pulitzer-winning critic Michael Dirda of the Washington Post. ...
|  | Caesar and Cleopatra (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: June 27, 2006| Series: Penguin Classics Caesar and Cleopatra satirizes Shakespeare's use of history and comments wryly on the politics of Shaw's own time, but the undertone of melancholy makes it one of his most affecting plays....
|  | The Bronzes of Grand Juction
Release Date: July 6, 2006The five Bronzes of Grand Junction are ordinary people instantly bronzed, like baby shoes, right in front of reliable witnesses, cause unknown. Could be the work of God, aliens, an artist, a magician. The bronzes cause quite a stir in town. And tourists arrive by the busload to see and talk about them. The result is an extended colloquy that is much more about us- America and Americans - than about the "bestatued" ones. ...
|  | Strange Beauty: Ecocritical Approaches to Early Medieval Landscape (New Middle Ages)
Release Date: September 15, 2009| ISBN-10: 0230606644 | ISBN-13: 978-0230606647Strange Beauty brings the developing discipline of environmental literary criticism to bear on narratives of nature and the Otherworld from early cultures around the Irish Sea. Reflecting on an Otherworld associated with human experience, Siewers uses texts such as the Ulster Cycle and the Mabinogi to relate views of nature, symbolism and language. This book uncovers early syntheses of Christian and indigenous Insular cultures which express an integration of the spiritual and physical landscapes that are margi...
|  | A Change of Heart (Signet Regency Romance)
Release Date: November 1, 1995| Series: Signet Regency Romance Fearing that her lack of beauty will prevent her from ever marrying, Lady Mary Haviland contents herself with male friendships and is shocked when local gossip credits her with capturing the heart of the Marquess of Pemberton....
|  | Adrenaline
Publication Date: January 1, 2012"If you knew this was our final day together, what would you say to me?""Anything but good-bye. I can't ever say good-bye to you."ADRENALINESam Capra is living the life of his dreams. He's a brilliant young CIA agent, stationed in London. His wife Lucy is seven months pregnant with their first child. They have a wonderful home, and are deeply in love. They have everything they could hope for...until they lose it all in one horrifying moment.On a bright, sunny day, Sam receives a call from Lucy while he's at work. She tells him to leave the building immediatel...
|  | The Innocent: A Novel
Release Date: December 29, 1998Leonard Marnham is assigned to a British-American surveillance team in Cold War Berlin. His intelligence work—tunneling under a Russian communications center to tap the phone lines to Moscow—offers him a welcome opportunity to begin shedding his own unwanted innocence, even if he is only a bit player in a grim international comedy of errors. Leonard's relationship with Maria Eckdorf, an enigmatic and beautiful West Berliner, likewise promises to loosen the bonds of his ordinary life. But the promise turns to horror in the course of one terrible even...
|  | All Our Yesterdays
Release Date: December 1, 1995They were the Sheridan men, ruled by passion, betrayed by love, heirs to a legacy of violence and forbidden desire. Gus, Boston's top homicide cop: he knew equally well the backroom politics of City Hall and the private passions of the very rich, a man haunted by the wanton courage and perilous obsessions he inherited from his father... Conn, the patriarch, a lawless cop who spawned a circle of vengeance and betrayal that would span half a century... and Chris, Gus's beloved son, a Harvard lawyer and criminologist, fated to risk everything to break th...
|  | Fangbone! Third-Grade Barbarian
Release Date: January 5, 2012| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Aladdin and Other Tales from the Arabian Nights (Puffin Classics)
Publication Date: April 1, 1997| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Musicians of Bremen/Los Musicos de Bremen
Publication Date: August 2005| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Retold in both Spanish and English, the universally loved story The Musicians of Bremen will delight early readers and older learners alike. The striking illustrations give a new look to this classic tale and the bilingual text makes it perfect for both home and classroom libraries. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Sopa de nino (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: March 6, 2004| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up When Giant wakes up with a big, hurting head and a sore, raspy throat, he finds the cure is a bowl of Boy Soup! Giant captures five boys and Kate, who all protest his plan. But Kate soon comes up with her own remedy and convinces the Giant that the soup should be made, not of boys, but by boys! ...
|  | Christmas at Grandma's
Publication Date: January 27, 2006| Grade Level: P and up Who doesn't remember the holiday sights and sounds and smells of Grandma's house? The living room aglow with a tree that touches the ceiling, the clatter of silverware and kitchen pans, the banter of relatives, and especially Grandma's bright face Donald Davis captures these memories and more and relays them through the eyes of a child. ...
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