 | High Five (Stephanie Plum, No. 5) (Stephanie Plum Novels)
Publication Date: July 16, 1999| Series: Stephanie Plum Novels Out of bail skippers and rent money, Stephanie throws caution to the wind and follows in the entrepreneurial bootsteps of Super Bounty Hunter, Ranger, engaging in morally correct and marginally legal enterprises. So, a scumball blows himself to smithereens on her first day of policing a crack house and the sheik she was chauffeuring stole the limo. But hey, nobody's perfect! Anyway, Stephanie has other things on her mind. Her mother wants her to find Uncle Fred who's missing after arguing with his garbage company; homicidal rapis...
 |  | Calligraphy of the Witch
Publication Date: September 30, 2012Born of a Spaniard and a mixed-race woman, young Concepcion Benavidez was apprenticed as a scribe to a convent. At nineteen, she escapes and is captured in the siege of Vera Cruz in 1683. She unexpectedly becomes the property of the Dutch pirate Laurens-Cornille de Graffe, who rapes her repeatedly on the long, deadly journey to the Massachusetts Bay Colony where he will sell his cargo. Realizing the young mestiza has fine penmanship, the pirate promptly sells her when they reach the cold New England coast. Concepcion is thrust into a strange world where sh...
|  | The Night Strangers: A Novel
Release Date: April 24, 2012From the bestselling author of The Double Bind, Skeletons at the Feast, and Secrets of Eden, comes a riveting and dramatic ghost story. In a dusty corner of a basement in a rambling Victorian house in northern New Hampshire, a door has long been sealed shut with 39 six-inch-long carriage bolts. The home's new owners are Chip and Emily Linton and their twin ten-year-old daughters. Together they hope to rebuild their lives there after Chip, an airline pilot, has to ditch his 70-seat regiona...
|  | Las cosas que no nos dijimos (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 2010Cuatro días antes de su boda, Julia recibe una llamada del secretario personal de Anthony Walsh, su padre. Walsh es un brillante hombre de negocios, pero siempre ha sido para Julia un padre ausente, y ahora llevan más de un año sin verse. Como Julia imaginaba, su padre no podrá asistir a la boda. Pero esta vez tiene una excusa incontestable: su padre ha muerto. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | The Time Keeper
Publication Date: October 15, 2005Perhaps in the final days of our life we are granted the wisdom to see all that could have been, and all that should have been. The price is dear for such wisdom.Diagnosed with terminal cancer at the age of thirty eight, Linda Wails has only one dying wish—to make amends with her seventeen year old son Corey. For years they have struggled with one another, but the time is now or never to learn anew what it means to be a mother and what it takes to be a son.Such irony, that a woman should find her true beginning at the end of her life. Such justice, that...
|  | Early Dreams
Publication Date: April 2004Early Dreams is a reprint of the classic 19th century base ball narrative featuring Earl "Ducker" Draves, a fictional yet all-too-real young player who recounts the remarkable 1884 base ball season and his whirlwind rookie campaign in Cincinnati. Early Dreams is crammed with insightful comments on base ball's pioneers, box scores, and Draves’ surprising reactions to the drinking, gambling, and whoring activities that were central to early base ball. Early Dreams manages to cover nearly every nuance of the era, including evolving game strategy, financial squab...
|  | Dickinson: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
Release Date: November 2, 1993| Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Dickinson contains poems from The Poet's Art, The Works of Love, and Death and Resurrection, as well as an index of first lines. ...
|  | Blue Ridge Music Trails: Finding a Place in the Circle
Publication Date: June 30, 2003The Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and Virginia are the heart of a region where traditional music and dance are celebrated as nowhere else in America. This book is a comprehensive traveler's guide to discovering the many places where this unique music-making legacy thrives. The book leads readers to more than 160 venues and events filled with bluegrass and string band music, ballad singing, fiddling, shape-note singing, gospel music, clogging, and other traditional forms of music and dance. Vivid descriptions bring the mountain music scene to life in al...
|  | Sophocles' Antigone
Publication Date: December 31, 1996Brendan Kennelly's new version...is probably the most substantial Irish drama since W. B. Yeats was writing ....This is, of course, a political tragedy. Antigone, in deciding to bury her disgraced dead brother, is playing true to the laws of the gods and to the instincts of the family. But she is playing against the man-made law of Creon, who believes, as he must, that civil law and order must be the saving of society in Thebes"" -Irish Times. ...
|  | Beyond the Walls: Selected Poems
Publication Date: June 2004Nâzim Hikmet's poetry combines passion and simplicity with sophistication, producing work of enduring significance. He was both a superb narrative and lyric poet; his immense and continuing popularity in Turkey testifies to his common touch. This extensive selection ranges from his epic poem 'Sheikh Bedreddin' to the moving prison poems addressed to his wife. The book is introduced by the leading expert on Turkish literature, Talât Sait Halman, former Professor of Turkish Literature at Princeton and New York Universities and currently at Bil...
|  | Jonathan Ive: Designer of the iPod (Innovators (Kidhaven))
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|  | Japan in Traditional and Postmodern Perspectives
Release Date: July 1, 1995| ISBN-10: 0791424707 | ISBN-13: 978-0791424704In this book, each of the chapters offers an analysis of the origins and development of an important aspect of Japanese culture, including religion (Pure Land Buddhism and Zen, Shinto and folk religions, Confucianism and Tokugawa era ideology), philosophy (classical Buddhism and the contemporary Kyoto School), literature and the arts (medieval poetry and drama, modern fiction and films), and social behavior (family system, feminism, nationalism, and economic growth). The central, underlying theme is the uniqueness a...
|  | Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps (American Lives)
Publication Date: March 1, 2004| Series: American Lives Ted Kooser describes with exquisite detail and humor the place he calls home in the rolling hills of southeastern Nebraska—an area known as the Bohemian Alps. Nothing is too big or too small for his attention. Memories of his grandmother’s cooking are juxtaposed with reflections about the old-fashioned outhouse on his property. When casting his eye on social progress, Kooser reminds us that the closing of local schools, thoughtless county weed control, and irresponsible housing development destroy more than just the view.In ...
|  | A Crimson Warning: A Lady Emily Mystery (Lady Emily Mysteries)
Release Date: August 7, 2012| Series: Lady Emily Mysteries (Book 6) Secrets prove deadly in this new novel from Tasha Alexander featuring Lady Emily Hargreaves. Some very prominent people in London are waking up to find their doorsteps smeared with red paint, the precursor to the revelation of a dark secret – and worse – by someone who enjoys destroying livesNewly returned to her home in Mayfair, Lady Emily Hargreaves is looking forward to enjoying the delights of the season. The delights, that is, as defined by her own eccentricities—reading The Aeneid, waltzing with her d...
|  | The Millennial Detective: Essays on Trends in Crime Fiction, Film and Television, 1990-2010
Publication Date: September 19, 2011International in scope and varied in its theoretical approaches, this collection of ten new critical essays examines the prevailing trends in recent crime fiction. Of particular interest are shifting, and increasingly globalized, conceptions of crime, as well as the genre's response to technological, legal, and social changes at the end of the 20th century. Employing critical tools new to crime-fiction studies, the essays also gesture toward a future for genre scholarship. ...
|  | Love and Night: Unknown Stories by Cornell Woolrich
Publication Date: September 17, 2011Francis M. Nevins describes the 11 crime novels written in the 1940s by Cornell Woolrich as "the finest group of suspense novels ever written." Before he became famous for classics such as Deadline at Dawn, Woolrich was already developing his themes in sharply observed stories of romance and mischief. Here, collected for the first time, are 15 page-turners by a master craftsman. With an Introduction and notes by two-time Edgar-winner Nevins. ...
|  | Gulliver's Travels (Classic Starts)
Publication Date: March 28, 2006| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up Through the eyes of Lemuel Gulliver, Swift’s unforgettable satire takes readers into worlds formerly unimagined. Visit four strange and remarkable lands: Lilliput, where Gulliver seems a giant among a race of tiny people; Brobdingnag, the opposite, where the natives are giants and Gulliver puny; the ruined yet magical country of Laputa; and the home of the Houyhnhnms, gentle horses far superior to the ugly humanoid Yahoos who share their universe. ...
|  | Dark Graphic Tales by Edgar Allan Poe: The Gold Bug / the System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether / the Fall of the House of Usher (Dark Graphic Novels)
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|  | Indestructibles: Humpty, Dumpty
Publication Date: August 5, 2010| Age Level: 2 and up...
|  | The Young Man And The Sea
Publication Date: May 1, 2005| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 07 and up A story of determination and survival from the acclaimed author of FREAK THE MIGHTY. "This thrilling and elegant book ... will hold the interest of even the most stalwart landlubber." -- PWTwelve-year-old Skiff Beaman's mom just died, and his fisherman dad is too depressed to drag himself off the couch and go to work. So these days Skiff has to take care of everything himself.But when his dad's boat sinks, Skiff discovers it will cost thousands to buy a new engine. Skiff's lobster traps won't earn him enough, but the...
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