 | Knit Two
Publication Date: November 25, 2008The Sequel to the Beloved #1 New York Times Bestseller The Friday Night Knitting ClubThe sequel to the number-one New York Times bestseller The Friday Night Knitting Club, KNIT TWO returns to Walker and Daughter, the Manhattan knitting store founded by Georgia Walker and her young daughter, Dakota. Dakota is now an eighteen-year-old freshman at NYU, running the little yarn shop part-time with help from the members of the Friday Night Knitting Club.Drawn together by the sense of family the club has created, the knitters rely on one another as they strugg...
 |  | Chasing Lilacs: A Novel
Publication Date: June 17, 2010It is the summer of 1958, and life in the small Texas community of Graham Camp should be simple and carefree. But not for twelve-year-old Sammie Tucker. Sammie has plenty of questions about her mother's "nerve" problems. About shock treatments. About whether her mother loves her.When her mother commits suicide and a not-so-favorite aunt arrives, Sammie has to choose who to trust with her deepest fears: Her best friend who has an opinion about everything, the mysterious kid from California whose own troubles plague him, or her round-faced neighbor with gentle ad...
|  | Blue Truth: Bleed Through
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|  | Vampire A Hunger Like Fire (1) (Vampire the Requiem)
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|  | Wingfield's Hope: More Letters from Wingfield Farm
Publication Date: September 1, 2008In Letters from Wingfield’s Farm, Dan Needles told the story of former executive Walt Wingfield, who chronicles the ups and downs of his first three seasons struggling to make ends meet on a farm in Persephone Township, a small community populated by eccentric philosophers, wily survivors, rascals, cranks, and modest heroes. Now, Wingfield’s Hope finds Walt in his fourth season as he faces an uncertain future. The voices of the old rural community are slipping away. Can they be preserved or will they be lost forever?...
|  | Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Methuen Drama)
Publication Date: October 16, 2003| Series: Methuen Drama In its first two years of production, Dario Fo's controversial farce, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, was seen by over half a million people. It has since been performed all over the world and is widely recognised as a classic of modern drama. A sharp and hilarious satire on political corruption, it concerns the case of an anarchist railway worker who, in 1969, 'fell' to his death from a police headquarters window.This version of the play was premiered in London in 2003.Commentary and notes by Joseph Farrell. ...
|  | Malentendu Camus (Folio Theatre) (French Edition)
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|  | Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories. Revised and Updated with four new stories.
Publication Date: May 10, 2001Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories brings together fifteen stories that span Hisaye Yamamoto's forty-year career. It was her first book to be published in the United States. Yamamoto's themes include the cultural conflicts between the first generation, the Issei and their children, the Nisei; coping with prejudice; and the World War II internment of Japanese Americans. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | The Well of Mystery
Publication Date: September 15, 2012These fifty-three poems recapture the feeling of world where every spring, rock, and tree contained a divine spirit, and the very air itself breathed mystery. This volume meditates on some of the greatest mysteries of life, including the nature of suffering, the striving for a flourishing human life, and the essential place that beauty has in our lives to make us seek, and eventually find, meaning. They carry the reader on a journey into lyricism and contemplation with few comfortable answers and many beautiful questions. It is a powerful, life-affirming c...
|  | Trusting Your Life to Water and Eternity: Twenty Poems of Olav H. Hauge
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|  | Rhapsody in Plain Yellow: Poems
Publication Date: July 2003A fusion of east and west, high culture, popularculture, and ancient Chinese history mark thisdistinguished collection.Marilyn Chin, with her multilayered,multidimensional, intercultural singing,elegizes the loss of her mother and maternalgrandmother and tries to unravel thecomplexities of her family's past. She tells of the trials of immigration, of exile, of thwartedinterracial love, and of social injustice. Somepoems recall the Confucian "Book ofSongs," while others echo the AfricanAmerican blues tradition and Western railroadballads. The title poem re...
|  | South African Poets on Poetry
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|  | The Sidney Family Romance: Mary Wroth, William Herbert, and the Early Modern Construction of Gender
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|  | Sensus Spiritualis: Studies in Medieval Significs and the Philology of Culture
Publication Date: December 1, 2005| ISBN-10: 0226620891 | ISBN-13: 978-0226620893| Edition: 1 Of the major figures in medieval studies, there are few whose influence is greater and for whom admiration is more widespread than Friedrich Ohly (1914-96). This book represents the long-awaited English-language edition of Ohly's most important writings.Drawn from the entire career of this great medievalist, who, more clearly and in greater detail than anyone before him, articulated the singularly allegorical mentality of the Middle Ages, the essays in this collection show the tendency of mediev...
|  | On The Pleasure of Hating
Release Date: September 6, 2005| Series: Penguin Great Ideas Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
|  | Letters to the Baumgartners
Publication Date: December 5, 2011FROM BESTSELLING & AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR SELENA KITTHALF A MILLION NAUGHTY BOOKS SOLD IN 2011GUARANTEED QUALITY - THIS KITTY'S CREAM RISES TO THE TOP!Danielle Stuart is spending a year abroad studying in Venice, but while she loves the romance of the language and the beauty of country, she finds herself more and more confused by her growing feelings for a gondolier named Nico and her now ex-husband, Mason, who has shown up on her doorstep looking to reconcile. Desperate Dani writes to the Baumgartners in hopes her former lovers might help her clarify her ...
|  | Lessons from a Scandalous Bride: Forgotten Princesses
Release Date: July 31, 2012| Series: Forgotten PrincessesA life can change in an instant . . . No one knows this better than Miss Cleopatra Hadley, who went from poverty to plenty when she discovered one of England's richest men was her true father who wanted her to share his wealth . . . if she married into the upper echelons of Society. A high price to pay for someone whose mother taught her just how dangerous a marriage could be. An imposing yet impoverished Scots nobleman, Lord Logan McKinney knows he must wed some vapid title-hunter with a substantial dowry in order to restore his...
|  | Holmes and Watson
Publication Date: April 27, 2001Exploring the friendship of the inscrutable sleuth Sherlock Holmes and his redoubtable companion, Doctor Watson-a bond that survived forty-six years-this scrupulously researched biography constructs the fascinating story of their relationship, for the most part from evidence in the massive canon of Arthur Conan Doyle. Speculative only when precise data is wanting, the book examines the personalities of its principals, traces the development of their partnership in crime detection, and considers such disputed aspects as the possible homosexual implications of t...
|  | Tomorrow Girls: Behind the Gates
Publication Date: May 1, 2011| Age Level: 10 and up In a terrifying future world, four girls must depend on each other if they want to survive.Louisa is nervous about being sent away to a boarding school -- but she’s excited, too. And she has her best friend, Maddie, to keep her company. The girls have to pretend to be twin sisters, which Louisa thinks just adds to the adventure!Country Manor School isn’t all excitement, though. Louisa isn’t sure how she feels about her new roommates: athletic but snobby Rosie and everything’s-a-conspiracy Evelyn. Even Maddie seems di...
|  | Jane and the Dragon
Release Date: February 13, 2007| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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