 | Me and Jezebel: When Bette Davis Came for Dinner -- And Stayed ... And Stayed ... And Stayed ... And ...
Release Date: May 1, 1992A star-struck fan recounts the story of how her dream came true when Bette Davis came to dinner and had to stay in her suburban home for four weeks due to a hotel strike in Manhattan....
 |  | The Plague of Doves: A Novel (P.S.)
Release Date: May 12, 2009| Series: P.S.The unsolved murder of a farm family still haunts the white small town of Pluto, North Dakota, generations after the vengeance exacted and the distortions of fact transformed the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation. Part Ojibwe, part white, Evelina Harp is an ambitious young girl prone to falling hopelessly in love. Mooshum, Evelina's grandfather, is a repository of family and tribal history with an all-too-intimate knowledge of the violent past. And Judge Antone Bazil Coutts, who bears witness, understands the weight of historical inj...
|  | Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter
Release Date: April 7, 1997Written as a letter from a Zimbabwean mother to her daughter, a student at Harvard, J. Nozipo Maraire evokes the moving story of a mother reaching out to her daughter to share the lessons life has taught her and bring the two closer than ever before. Interweaving history and memories, disappointments and dreams, Zenzele tells the tales of Zimbabwe's struggle for independence and the men and women who shaped it: Zenzele's father, an outspoken activist lawyer; her aunt, a schoolteacher by day and secret guerrilla fighter by night; and her cousin, a maid and a spy.Ric...
|  | Summer Visitors
Publication Date: December 1, 2002Never before in hardcover...; Madge was four years old when she first saw the Cornish sea and fell in love with it, and it was there that her family grew and suffered and loved. It was there she and her mother went to recover from a heartrending family tragedy - there she was forced reluctantly into marriage - there she fell into a wild and passionate wartime love. And it was there she saw her children grow and love and cope with the secret legacies the years had left them, until finally they became more than just summer visitors. ...
|  | Threshold (Fire of Heaven Trilogy, Book 2)
Publication Date: October 10, 1997From the realms of science, the paranormal, and Bible prophecy emerges a novel for our times: fast-paced, carefully researched . . . with a warning none can ignore.Some say Brandon Martus has a mysterious ability to see into the future, to experience what scientists refer to as a “higher dimension.” Others insist he is simply a troubled Generation-X member plagued by the accidental death of his little sister. It isn’t until he teams up with Sarah Weintraub, the ambitious but haunted neurobiologist, that a far deeper secret unfolds.Utiliz...
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|  | Dawn (Cutler Family)
Publication Date: November 1, 1990| Series: Cutler Family (Book 1) In her fine new Virginia school, Dawn Longchamp feels happy and safe. But nothing is what it seems... Now Dawn and her older brother Jimmy have a chance for a decent, respectable life, and Dawn's secret, precious hope to study singing can come true. Philip Cutler, the handsomest boy in school, sets Dawn's heart on fire. She is deeply devoted to her brooding brother; but with Philip, she imagines a lovely dream of romance... Then Dawn's mother suddenly dies, and her entire world begins to crumble. After a terrible new shock, s...
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|  | Ralph Compton The Ghost of Apache Creek (Ralph Compton Western Series)
Release Date: November 1, 2011| Series: Ralph Compton Western Series The only folk left behind in Apache Creek are ghosts, includingMarshall Sam Pace. Three years of solitude have turned Sam into aphantom, but when a woman on the run stumbles into town, the formerlawman must protect her and make use of gunslinger skills long out ofpractice... ...
|  | The Highwayman
Publication Date: June 25, 1987Winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal 1982. The magic of Alfred Noyes's classic poem is captured in Charles Keeping's illustrations. ...
|  | Sacred Mysteries: Myths About Couples in Quest
Publication Date: April 1, 2003We should remember that for the ancients, the underworld was both infernal and Elysian;it was a dual realm, part hell, and part heaven.Like marriage.Like any relationship that lasts longer than three months.Sacred Mysteries explores the wonderful treasury of myths and folktales about marriage bequeathed to us by our ancestors, and which we must pass on to our descendants. What we see in the magic mirror of these myths is that deeper part of ourselves created by the marriage relationship.Sacred Mysteries retells and analyzes those myths and tales of marriage and...
|  | The Bakkhai
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|  | The Selected Poems of Frank O'Hara
Release Date: February 12, 1974The overall arrangement of the poems is chronological. There is a brief chronology of O'Hara's short life and an index of titles. ...
|  | Pow Wow Cafe
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|  | Early Soviet Postmodernism (Slavische Literaturen, Bd. 12)
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|  | Lesbian Scandal and the Culture of Modernism
Publication Date: September 10, 2012Before lesbianism became a specific identity category in the West, its mere suggestion functioned as a powerful source of scandal in early twentieth-century British and Anglo-American culture. Reconsidering notions of the "invisible" or "apparitional" lesbian, Jodie Medd argues that lesbianism's representational instability, and the scandals it generated, rendered it an influential force within modern politics, law, art, and the literature of modernist writers like James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and Virginia Woolf. Medd's analysis draws on legal proceedings and ...
|  | Scandal at the Cahill Saloon (Harlequin Historical)
Publication Date: December 20, 2011| Series: Harlequin Historical (Book 1071) Leanna Cahill: Guardian Angel or Scarlet Woman?Leanna Cahill, once the pretty, spoiled darling of Cahill Crossing, is coming home to a very different sort of welcome. As an unwed, single mother with a band of former ladies-of-the-night in tow, her reputation is in tatters!Cleve Holden, itinerant gambler and inveterate charmer, seems intent on seducing Leanna. But he has come to town for one reason and one reason only: to take back his abandoned nephew from the scarlet woman pretending to be his mother…. --This...
|  | Roaring Thunder: A Novel of the Jet Age
Release Date: February 2, 2010The story of the jet age of aviation revolves around remarkable geniuses--including Sir Frank Whittle, the British inventor of the jet engine; Hans von Ohain, a German jet engine designer who comes to work for the U.S.; famed aeronautical engineer Kelly Johnson; the daring test pilot Tex Johnston, and many more--brilliant men who conceived these early extraordinary airplanes and had the courage to fly them to new horizons.Roaring Thunder blends real life adventures of the industry giants with the fictional Vance Shannon and his aviation family. Shannon, a protot...
|  | Vikings (Stories from Ancient Civilizations)
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|  | Pig Gets Lost (Farmyard Tales Sticker Storybooks)
Publication Date: March 1999| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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