 | The Saturday Wife
Release Date: August 7, 2007With more than half a million copies of her novels sold, Naomi Ragen has connected with the hearts of readers as well as reviewers who have met her work with unanimous praise. In The Saturday Wife, Ragen utilizes her fluid writing style--rich with charm and detail--to break new ground as she harnesses satire to expose a world filled with contradiction.Beautiful, blonde, materialistc Delilah Levy steps into a life she could have never imagined when in a moment of panic she decides to marry a sincere Rabbinical student. But the reality of becoming a paragon of virtu...
 |  | Famous Americans (Yale Series of Younger Poets)
Publication Date: March 11, 2003| Series: Yale Series of Younger Poets (Book 97) This year's winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Loren Goodman's Famous Americans. Hilarious, eclectic, and bizarre, this collection takes the reader on a rollercoaster of a ride through the absurdities of American pop culture. Employing a variety of forms (from epistolary to script to interview and beyond), this work proves to be as much about exploring frameworks as it is about examining the lives of famous and not-so-famous Americans. Goodman questions our concept of what it means to be a...
|  | Book of Comfort (Blocks)
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|  | Marrying Up: A Right Royal Romantic Comedy
Release Date: August 1, 2012"A brilliantly juicy Cinderella tale."—Heat Beautiful but broke student Polly and scheming social climber Alexa may have grown up in the same place, but they couldn't be more different. Polly's just fallen for Max, a handsome country vet. But Alexa can't be bothered with love—any guy with a pedigree will do, mind you, as long as he comes with a title, a mansion, and a family tiara.Alexa wiggles her way into friendship with Florrie, a clueless aristocrat who could support entire countries with her spare change. Suddenly the grandest doors swing open...
|  | Eggshell Days
Publication Date: August 8, 2003Emmy, Niall, and Sita and Jonathan miss their train back to London from a Somerset wedding, escaping Britain's worst rail crash in sixty years. Upon reflection of their mortality, the friends reevaluate their lives, and come to a decision. They will all, along with Emmy's daughter Lila, Niall's girlfriend Kat, and Sita and Jonathan's children Jay and Asha, move into the ramshackle manor house Emmy recently inherited in Cornwall. In the idyllic setting, they hope to simplify their lives.As renovation of the house begins, a closely-guarded secret threatens to be...
|  | Juana Ines De La Cruz And Theology
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|  | Cuts Like a Knife
Publication Date: April 3, 2012"An intense, eerie, funny and suspenseful thriller ... M.K. Gilroy's debut is a sure-fire winner." - USA TODAY DetectiveKristen Conner goes undercover to find a serial killer who selects his victims - all successful young professional women - in the most unlikely of places - only to find herself as his next favorite target. When Leslie Reed is found dead in her fashionable townhome, a red flag goes up in Washington, D.C. The FBI knows an elusive "organized killer" on a decade-long crime spree is at work again. The problem is the F...
|  | Murderer in the Mikdash
Release Date: June 21, 2005Rachel Tucker, an ABC News anchorwoman temporarily living in Israel, has just had a baby and lost her best friend to sudden respiratory distress.Her attempts to find the real cause of that friend's death force her to confront uncomfortable truths about the Messianic society that Israel has become, about herself, and about how she can or cannot find her place in that world. ...
|  | Sara Came Back
Publication Date: April 25, 2012Austin Edmund can't sleep. He's haunted by nightmares of a man in a dark hat and a little girl, calling him home. His daughter refers to the dark figure in his dreams as "the boogeyman" and she's seen the little girl, too. Austin wonders how that could be possible-are people capable of sharing the same dream? -but he's distracted when he receives an invite to head home to Alabama to help his parents fix up the old family cabin. Austin takes his wife, Paige, and their daughter, Beth Ann, back home to Decatur, where they get the chance to rekindle their connecti...
|  | Mark Rowland - A Tale Of The Sea
Publication Date: July 8, 2008Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ...
|  | Dreams and Baseball (All Nine Innings)
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|  | The Book of Shrigley
Publication Date: August 11, 2005Pop artist David Shrigley's work is immediate, sometimes rude, and very funny, "like a psychotic version of Matt Groening's 'Life in Hell' cartoons" (The Guardian). His darkly brilliant, addictively hilarious scrawls from the subconscious have already made him a star in the UK, with a growing legion of fans around the globe. The Book of Shrigley is the most extensiveand the first widely availableshowcase of his edgy but accessible off-kilter vision. Here are bad-tempered pets, strange attractions, work, S-E-X, knitting, wrestling, and a host of other everyday...
|  | A World of Their Own Making: Myth, Ritual and the Quest for Family Values
Publication Date: July 1996| ISBN-10: 0465054145 | ISBN-13: 978-0465054145| Edition: 1st An account of America's most cherished family rituals cites the traditions associated with important events and holidays, noting the negative impact of commercialism and chronicling a shift from celebratory practices to high-cost social expectations. ...
|  | SELECTIONS FROM VIRGIL'S AENEID BOOKS I, IV, VI (Bks. 1, 4 & 6)
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|  | From Nothing to Oblivion
Publication Date: April 26, 2011A young man searching for knowledge is about to go on an unexpected, life changing journey. After being whisked away to another place and time he finds himself in a strange mystical world inhabited by magical beings and deadly creatures. In this world full of stories and legends he will fulfill his destiny and try to save a future race, not only from a great ball of fire in the sky, which threatens them from above but from an unseen terror from the past that haunts them and wishes to consume their very soul. Caught up inside a war, in which there seems no way ...
|  | Fatal Error: A Novel
Release Date: December 27, 2011New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance delivers another pulse-pounding tale of suspense where no one is safe from a . . .FATAL ERROR. Ali Reynolds begins the summer thinking her most difficult challenge will be surviving a six-week- long course as the lone forty-something female at the Arizona Police Academy—not to mention taking over the 6:00 AM shift at her family’s restaurant while her parents enjoy a long overdue Caribbean cruise. However, when Brenda Riley, a colleague from Ali’s old news broadcasting days in California, shows up in...
|  | Boom!
Release Date: May 11, 2010| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up An explosive, highly charged, and hilarious middle-grade adventure from Mark Haddon, acclaimed author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.From the moment that Jim and his best friend, Charlie, bug the staff room and overhear two of their teachers speaking to each other in a secret language, they know there's an adventure on its way.But what does "spudvetch" actually mean, and why do Mr. Kidd's eyes flicker with fluorescent blue light when Charlie says it to him? Perhaps Kidd and Pearce are bank robbers ...
|  | El pequeno dragon Coco y la momia / The little dragon Coco and the mummy (El Pequeno Dragon Coco / the Little Dragon Coco) (Spanish Edition)
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| | More Celtic Tales
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|  | BMX Racing (Action Sports (Capstone))
Publication Date: December 1995| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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