 | Pakistani Americans (We Are America)
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 |  | One Summer: Two Novels
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|  | Escaping the Cataclysm: A Novel about the Origin of Geological Formations (Origins Trilogy)
Publication Date: March 15, 2011| Series: Origins Trilogy (Book 3) Having travelled over four thousand years into the past, Rebecca Evans, her husband Jeffrey, and their companions find themselves stranded by a malfunctioning time machine just days before the greatest catastrophe in the history of the earth, the worldwide Flood!Accompanied by a technologically-enhanced language specialist; a mysterious, wolf-like giant; a hovering utility droid; and several others, Rebecca and Jeffrey fight against the odds to save their relationship, their lives, and their souls.The travelers are caught i...
|  | The Space Between
Publication Date: November 3, 2000When the United States Navy uncovers a mysterious porthole in the waters off the coast of Africa, it looks to astrophysicist Vander Case for answers, not only because of his scientific expertise, but because of the strange connection between the porthole and Alana Barsett, his dead lover. Though he initially refuses to cooperate, unwilling to open the locked doors of his bitter past, Van soon finds himself a prisoner aboard the USS Johanna and halfway around the world. The porthole is discovered to be a transportation gateway connecting the world of the livi...
| | Shudder Again: 22 Tales of Sex and Horror
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|  | The Reverse of the Medal
Publication Date: July 17, 1992| Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels (Book 11) "An overwhelming, outstanding novel...!"—Irish TimesCaptain Jack Aubrey, R. N., ashore after a successful cruise, is persuaded by a casual acquaintance to make certain investments in the City. This innocent decision ensnares him in the London criminal underground and in government espionage—the province of his friend Stephen Maturin. Is Aubrey's humiliation and the threatened ruin of his career a deliberate plot? This dark tale is a fitting backdrop to the brilliant characterization and sparkling dialogue ...
|  | Shane
Release Date: September 1, 1983He rode into our valley in the summer of ’89, a slim man, dressed in black. “Call me Shane,” he said. He never told us more.There was a deadly calm in the valley that summer, a slow, climbing tension that seemed to focus on Shane.“There’s something about him,” Mother said. “Something . . . dangerous . . .”“He’s dangerous all right,” Father said, “but not to us.”“He’s like one of these here slow burning fuses,” the mule skinner said.“Quiet . . . so quiet you for...
|  | Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories
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|  | Her Royal Spyness (Thorndike Core)
Publication Date: November 2007| Series: Thorndike Core The Agatha Award winner debuts a 1930s London mystery series, featuring a penniless twenty-something member of the extended royal family. Her ridiculously long name is Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, daughter to the Duke of Atholt and Rannoch. And she is flat broke. As the thirty-fourth in line for the throne, she has been taught only a few things, among them, the perfect curtsey. But when her brother cuts off her allowance, she leaves Scotland, and her fiancŽ Fish-Face, for London, where she has: a) worked behind a cosm...
| | Senecan tragedy
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|  | Concentric Penumbras of the Heart: in the fierce funhouse of poetry with ayaz daryl nielsen
Publication Date: June 30, 2012Some of the images within Concentric Penumbras of the Heart are recognizable by most of us - an older sister leaving home, a marriage proposal refused, a great-grandmother’s long lost eyelash.Others, however, are much less recognizable (for some of us) - a peregrine’s yearning, an alley rat mourning, a bear in heavy fur keeping a promise - and, throughout this collection is the interwoven presence of long sad sighs from our harbingers.Come, join me within this sigh upon an out breath - it includes ill-lit rooms, hidden melodies, daydreams of wild ...
|  | Salvador Dali's Literary Self-Portrait: Approaches to a Surrealist Autobiography
Publication Date: August 1, 2009This book remedies decades of critical neglect that has deprived the fields of art and literary criticism of one of the most important autobiographical and surrealist works of the twentieth century. It reveals the origins of the text, its relation to and role within Dalí's corpus, as well as its reception, provocative power, and lasting popular success. The study examines the literary contexts and sources of the text as well as its structural and narrative devices, and reveals its complex parodic mechanics that caricaturize the Freudian self. In addition,...
|  | The Woman in White (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: April 29, 2003| ISBN-10: 0141439610 | ISBN-13: 978-0141439617| Edition: Reissue Generally considered the first English sensation novel, The Woman in White features the remarkable heroine Marian Halcombe and her sleuthing partner, drawing master Walter Hartright, pitted against the diabolical team of Count Fosco and Sir Percival Glyde. A gripping tale of murder, intrigue, madness, and mistaken identity, Collins's psychological thriller has never been out of print in the 140 years since its publication. ...
|  | Dark Summer
Release Date: April 21, 2009Devon Brady is a devoted veterinarian working in a makeshift hospital on a remote search and rescue mission. When a man arrives with his wounded black Lab named Ned, Devon has no idea that she’s about to be plunged into a whirlwind of terror and destruction…Jude Marrock is out for revenge—and he has no choice but to involve Devon in a high-stakes cat-and-mouse game with an escalating body count. She doesn’t trust Jude one bit… but when the shots start flying and friends start falling, Devon finds herself with nowhere else to run. And ...
|  | One Little Sin
Release Date: September 27, 2005National bestselling author Liz Carlyle presents her most tempting romance to date -- a sinfully sensual tug-of-war between heavenly desires and earthly delights....He was a scoundrel, a scamp, and a hopeless skirt-chaser. So it shouldn't have been so surprising when Sir Alasdair awoke after a night of debauchery to see a young lass on his doorstep...with a baby in her arms.She was beautiful, brazen, and utterly bankrupt. So it shouldn't have been so shocking when Miss Hamilton accepted the rogue's scandalous proposal to move in with him...and become the b...
|  | The Wedding Bargain
Release Date: December 8, 1999| Series: Avon Romantic TreasureLondon's most scandalous beauty, Pandora Effington, intends to marry a hero—not one of those boring, run-of-the-mill bachelor lords who leave her cold. No, the husband she desires must be someone special, someone whose touch sends delicious shivers down her spine, and who will do absolutely everything in his power to win her love. Someone like . . . Maximillian Wells. The dashing Earl of Trent cannot believe his ears . . . or his eyes. Here before him stands beautiful Pandora Effington, and the fiery, unattainable heire...
|  | Guardian of the Night (Harlequin Nocturne)
Publication Date: May 22, 2012| Series: Harlequin Nocturne (Book 137) The Guardian. An immortal with incredible strength, created centuries ago to protect the purity of the vampire bloodline and fight those who would abuse its power. As one of the seven Blood Knights, Mason LanVal spent lifetimes honoring his vows without wavering. That all changed the night he found Faith.Faith James will do anything to save her missing sister. Even if it means risking her own life. She sought Mason for help. Instead she found more questions, and the key to unlocking her own latent powers. She is a woman an...
|  | Pirates
Release Date: April 1, 1996New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller writes the kind of high-spirited, totally absorbing novels that captivate us right to the last line.Known for her fast-paced stories and delightful Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy blend of wit and sexual tension, she creates characters who "walk right off the pages and into your heart" (Rendezvous).Now Linda Lael Miller sweeps readers away -- and through time itself -- when a thoroughly modern woman encounters a dangerous, dashing eighteenth-century buccaneer. The result is a sensuous, joyous, utterly heartwar...
|  | The Deception at Lyme: Or, The Peril of Persuasion (Mr. and Mrs. Darcy Mystery)
Release Date: August 7, 2012| Series: Mr. and Mrs. Darcy Mystery In Jane Austen’s Persuasion, the Cobb—Lyme’s famous seawall—proved dangerous to a careless young woman. Now it proves deadly.Following their recent intrigue at Highbury, Fitzwilliam and Elizabeth Darcy visit the seaside village of Lyme on holiday. Family business also draws them there, to receive the personal effects of Mr. Darcy’s late cousin, a naval lieutenant who died in action.Their retreat turns tragic when they come upon a body lying at the base of the Cobb. The victim is Mrs. Clay, a w...
|  | Katie, the Kitten Fairy (Rainbow Magic, Pet Fairies, No. 1)
Publication Date: March 1, 2008| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Jack Frost has stolen the Pet Fairies' magical pets!Can Rachel and Kirsty help find them?Or will the pets be lost forever?The Pet Fairies have one of the most important jobs in Fairyland!They work with their special pets to make sure that all animals find safe homes.But now Jack Frost has stolen the magical pets!Could they be lost forever?Katie the Kitten Fairy's kitten, Shimmer, is missing.Can Rachel and Kirsty get Shimmer back to Fairyland in purr-fect condition?Find the magical pet in each book and help keep all ...
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