 | All Woman and Springtime
Publication Date: May 1, 2012Before she met Il-sun in an orphanage, Gi was a hollow husk of a girl, broken from growing up in one of North Korea’s forced-labor camps. A mathematical genius, she has learned to cope with pain by retreating into a realm of numbers and calculations, an escape from both the past and present. Gi becomes enamored of the brash and radiant Il-sun, a friend she describes as “all woman and springtime.” But Il-sun’s pursuit of a better life imperils both girls when her suitor spirits them across the Demilitarized Zone and sells them as sex worker...
 |  | My Liar: A Novel
Release Date: February 19, 2008Rachel Cline’s debut novel, What to Keep, was praised as “striking . . . lovely” (Entertainment Weekly), “tangibly real” (Los Angeles Times), and “eminently readable” (Salon). Set in 1990s Hollywood, My Liar portrays the complex connection between two talented women, each striving to realize her own vision of success in work and in love.Annabeth Jensen, thirty-three, is a film editor. A native Minnesotan, she is most comfortable playing nice and working behind the scenes, even after ten years in Los Angeles. Then...
|  | God of a Thousand Names
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|  | The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume 3: Century #1 1910
Publication Date: May 12, 2009The new volume detailing the exploits of Miss Wilhelmina Murray and her extraordinary colleagues, Century is a 240-page epic spanning almost a hundred years. Divided into three 80-page chapters - each a self-contained narrative to avoid frustrating cliff-hanger delays between episodes - this monumental tale takes place in three distinct eras, building to an apocalyptic conclusion occurring in our own, current, twenty-first century. Chapter one is set against the backdrop of London, 1910, twelve years after the failed Martian invasion and nine years since England...
|  | The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin
Publication Date: June 1983Today we find him in a high-level physics report, illustrating phenomena that can't be described in ordinary technical terms.He appears in psychology textbooks, illuminating the workings of the mind in a way no straightforward explanation can.In three definitive volumes (The Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin, The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin, and The Subtleties of the Inimitable Mulla Nasrudin) Idries Shah takes us to the very heart of this mysterious mentor, the Mulla Nasrudin.Skillful contemporary retellings of hundreds of collected sto...
|  | The Servant of Two Masters - Acting Edition
Publication Date: January 1, 2002"First I've got no master, then all of a sudden I've got two!...I can't wait on both of them....Wait a minute....Get two pay packets, and eat and drink for two? Why not?" Carlo Goldoni's crafty servant who turns somersaults to please both his masters and serve himself is one of the great classic commedia dell'arte plays of world drama. This new adaptation by Dorothy Louise captures the remarkable pace of the story in fresh dialogue that is attuned to contemporary American audiences. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
|  | Heavy Hitters: Christian Drama Book (Lillenas Drama)
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|  | Fukuro-zoshi (Shin Nihon koten bungaku taikei) (Japanese Edition)
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|  | Chu ci xuan =: Chu ci xuan (Zhongguo shi ge bao ku) (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | Publishing Pioneers
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|  | The Dictionary of Classical Mythology
Publication Date: September 4, 1996| ISBN-10: 0631201025 | ISBN-13: 978-0631201021The Dictionary of Classical Mythology is a unique companion to the ancient Greek and Roman myths and legends. ...
|  | Reframing Latin America: A Cultural Theory Reading of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Publication Date: September 1, 2007| ISBN-10: 0292717504 | ISBN-13: 978-0292717503Providing an extensive introduction to cultural studies in general, regardless of chronological or geographic focus, and presenting provocative, essential readings from Latin American writers of the last two centuries, Reframing Latin America brings much-needed accessibility to the concepts of cultural studies and postmodernism.From Saussure to semiotics, the authors begin by demystifying terminology, then guide readers through five identity constructs, including nation, race, and gender. The readings that ...
|  | The Perfect Husband
Release Date: December 1, 1997What would you do if the man of your dreams hides the soul of a killer?Jim Beckett was everything she'd ever dreamed of...But two years after Tess married the decorated cop and bore his child, she helped put him behind bars for savagely murdering ten women. Even locked up in a maximum security prison, he vowed he would come after her and make her pay. Now the cunning killer has escaped—and the most dangerous game of all begins....After a lifetime of fear, Tess will do something she's never done before. She's going to learn to protect her daughter and fight...
|  | Voices Carry
Release Date: January 30, 2001FBI agent Genna Snow's successful career cannot fully erase the heartache of a shattered childhood. After breaking the silence surrounding the abusive acts of a summer camp counselor, young Genna was abandoned by her family even as justice was being served in the courtroom. Years later, Genna was forced to relive the pain of abandonment when the man she loved, special agent John Mancini, walked out of her life without explanation.Now, having returned from his own private hell, John is determined to win Genna back. Even as she struggles to keep their relationsh...
|  | A Hire Love
Release Date: October 1, 2009In Candice Dow's witty, sexy novel, a young woman finds that tragic beginnings can lead to happy endings--with a few surprises along the way...Fatima Mayo had it all--a gorgeous, loving husband; a creative job as a romance editor; and a fabulous home in New York City. Then her husband died suddenly of a heart attack. Now, after three years on her own, she's decided to plunge back into the dating pool. But when dating services leave her high and dry, her friend Mya jokes that Fatima will only find the perfect guy if she writes a script and hires an actor to play t...
|  | Silicon Sunset : Where the Information Highway Really Leads
Publication Date: September 1, 1998Take a journey to the furthest limits of cyberspace.It is the year 2077 and datapervades.There are no plants or animals in the cities, food grows only on orbiting satellites, andsex has been forgotten.All day long, day after day, humans process their burgeoning data via"PIFFEN meters" implanted in their brains.A worldwide bioelectronic net called the Neural Weblinks the tiny meters.But Kale Keeler--a 26 year-old, female Web reporter--has glimpsed theways of the old-time.While attending a rare physical briefing with Mr. Clyde Trivers, the CEO ofthe "Public N...
| | The Spy Who Loved Me
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|  | Death Masks (The Dresden Files, Book 5)
Release Date: August 5, 2003| Series: Dresden Files (Book 5) Harry Dresden, Chicago's only practising professional wizard, should be happy that business is pretty good for a change. But now he's getting more than he bargained for: A duel with the Red Court of Vampires' champion, who must kill Harry to end the war between vampires and wizards ...Professional hit men using Harry for target practice ...The missing Shroud of Turin ...A handless and headless corpse the Chicago police need identified ...Not to mention the return of Harry's ex-girlfriend Susan, who's still struggling with her semi-...
|  | Owen (Caldecott Honor Book)
Release Date: September 15, 1993| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Pollyworld! Extreme Scavenger Hunt (Polly Pocket)
Release Date: August 8, 2006| Age Level: 4 and up...
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