 | The Perfect Christmas
Publication Date: December 1, 2010For Cassie Beaumont, it’s meeting her perfect match. Cassie, at thirty-three, wants a husband and kids, and so far, nothing’s worked. Not blind dates, not the Internet and certainly not leaving love to chance.What’s left? A professional matchmaker. He’s Simon Dodson, and he’s very choosy about the clients he takes on. Cassie finds Simon a difficult, acerbic know-it-all, and she’s astonished when he accepts her as a client. Claiming he has her perfect mate in mind, Simon assigns her three tasks to complete before she ...
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|  | GhosTV: a PsyCop Novel
Publication Date: April 28, 2011For the past dozen years, Victor Bayne has solved numerous murders by interrogating witnesses only he can see-dead witnesses. But when his best friend Lisa goes missing from the sunny California campus of PsyTrain, the last thing he wants to find there is her spirit.Disappearing without a trace in a school full of psychics? That's some trick. But somehow both Lisa and her roommate have vanished into thin air. A group of fanatics called Five Faith has been sniffing around, and Lisa's email is compromised.Time is running out, and with no ghosts to cross-examine,...
|  | Asterisk
Publication Date: August 7, 2006Find out how complex science like dark matter will affect America's most beloved pastime. Find out how the game will be played in 2086 and how the Red Sox will fare as knowledge and progress rocket humankind into the future. ...
|  | THE FINAL STRIKE The End of Big League Baseball
Publication Date: May 18, 2011The Final Strike deals with yet another confrontation between the union and club owners of Big League Baseball. The owners have decided to close down the league permanently. Carolina Cobras' batboy Billy Bevens pleads with his team not to go on strike and then goes into a coma. The players take another vote and decide not to strike to fulfill Billy's wish. Then club owner Thadius Throckmeyer announces he will open the ball park free to the publicthe day after the strike begins and pay the players one day's salary to take batting practice and go into the stands t...
|  | Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaits (Canongate Classic)
Publication Date: January 1, 2001| Series: Canongate Classic The Three Estaitis was first performed in the mid-sixteenth century to an audience of royalty and commoners alike. With its high style and penetrating political satire, it pressed for reform in Church and State and even in kingship itself with a hilarious masque of vice and corruption in high places. ...
|  | Madame Bovary
Release Date: September 23, 2010A literary event: one of the most celebrated novels ever written, in a magnificent new translation.Seven years ago, the incomparable Lydia Davis brought us an award- winning, rapturously reviewed new translation of Marcel Proust's Swann's Way that was hailed as "clear and true to the music of the original" (Los Angeles Times) and "a work of creation in its own right" (Claire Messud, Newsday). Now she turns her gifts to the book that defined the novel as an art form. When Emma Rouault marries dull, provincial doctor Charles Bovary, her dreams of an elegant an...
|  | Instruments of Darkness (Harvest Book)
Publication Date: July 1, 2003| Series: Harvest Book From the author of the national bestseller A Small Death in Lisbon and The Company of Strangers comes Wilson's compelling first novel, never before available in the United States. Bruce Medway's existence as a fixer and troubleshooter had been tough, but never life-threatening until he crossed paths with the mighty Madame Severnou. His life becomes even more complicated by his search for a missing fellow expat, Steven Kershaw. Against a backdrop of political disruption and endemic official corruption, Medway pursues the elusive phantom of ...
| | Clive Barker's Short Stories: Imagination As Metaphor in the Books of Blood and Other Works
Publication Date: August 1994| ISBN-10: 0899509843 | ISBN-13: 978-0899509846Unlike other horror fiction and fantasy writers, Clive Barker is true to the literary heritage of the genre. Though aware of the importance of entertainment in his writing, he embraces the traditional formulas of horror fiction and builds upon them, all the while alluding to the works of Dante, Poe, Mary Shelley, and others.The complexity of Barker's writing is best evidenced in the six volumes Books ofBlood. Many of these short stories are entertaining "hair raisers"; yet they do not revel in gratuitous violence...
|  | A Celestial Omnibus: Short Fiction on Faith
Release Date: September 1, 1998Short Fiction on FaithLuminous fiction on themes of faith and meaning from favorite writers, including Sandra Cisneros, Andre Dubus, Louise Erdrich, Stephen King, Flannery O'Connor, Philip Roth, E. M. Forster and others. ...
|  | The Execution of Mayor Yin, and Other Stories from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (Chinese Literature in Translation)
Release Date: July 21, 2004| ISBN-10: 0253216907 | ISBN-13: 978-0253216908| Edition: Revised Praise for the first edition:"... in the great tradition of Orwell and Solzhenitsyn; its true subject is the survival—and sometimes the defeat—of the human spirit in its lonely quest for integrity." —Time"The almost childlike directness of Chen's tales... is captured in the very lightly revised translations of this new edition... Highly recommended." —ChoiceA classic of modern world literature, this collection of stories provides a vivid and poignant eyewitness view of...
|  | Carnival on the Page: Popular Print Media in Antebellum America
Release Date: March 1, 2000| ISBN-10: 0807848328 | ISBN-13: 978-0807848326In the decades before the Civil War, American society witnessed the emergence of a new form of print culture, as penny papers, mammoth weeklies, giftbooks, fashion magazines, and other ephemeral printed materials brought exuberance and theatricality to public culture and made the practice of reading more controversial. For a short yet pivotal period, argues Isabelle Lehuu, the world of print was turned upside down. Unlike the printed works of the eighteenth century, produced to educate and refine, the new media aim...
|  | Secrets of a Summer Night (The Wallflowers, Book 1)
Release Date: October 26, 2004Four young ladies enter London society with one common goal: they must use their feminine wit and wiles to find a husband.So a daring husband-hunting scheme is born. Annabelle Peyton, determined to save her family from disaster, decides to use her beauty and wit to tempt a suitable nobleman into making an offer of marriage. But Annabelle's most intriguing—and persistent—admirer, wealthy, powerful Simon Hunt, has made it clear that while he will introduce her to irresistible pleasure he will not offer marriage. Annabelle is determined to resist his ...
|  | Not Wicked Enough (Reforming the Scoundrels)
Release Date: February 7, 2012| Series: Reforming the Scoundrels (Book 1) When Lily Wellston heads to the Bitterward Estate to comfort her widowed friend Eugenia she certainly does not have romance in mind. In fact the playful but level-headed Lily is amused to no end when, en route, a gypsy gifts her with a beautiful medallion, claiming it will ensnare the romantic desires of a stranger.But Fate has other plans in the form of Eugenia's ruggedly handsome brother, the Duke of Mountjoy. One day at Bitterward and Lily can't deny the sizzling attraction between her and the roguish duke. Not...
|  | A Cold Creek Reunion (Harlequin Special Edition)
Publication Date: March 20, 2012| Series: Harlequin Special Edition (Book 2179) He was the one you called when you needed rescuing…But who was Taft Bowman going to call when he needed help? Because ten years ago Laura Pendleton, the love of his life, had left town without a word, then or since. Now she was back, with a new last name–and two adorable, high-needs little ones in tow. Well, Taft had been stupid enough to let her go once before…he wasn't about to make the same mistake again. He'd never stopped loving her–and one look at those adorable little faces and ...
|  | Shadows over Cypress Swamp
Release Date: October 1, 1993Returning to her ancestral home in Florida, Gail Brenwaithe begins writing a book about her family's history, but someone, fearful that the Brenwaithe secrets will be unearthed, begins threatening Gail. Original. ...
|  | Dragon Strike: The Millennium War
Publication Date: 1997paperback ...
|  | The Last Casualty
Publication Date: December 10, 2003When Boston Tribune reporter Chris Parsons writes a story reuniting an ex-POW with his former torturer, he uncovers a decades-old betrayal powerful men in our government will do anything - even commit murder - to keep secret. ...
|  | The Dragon New Year: A Chinese Legend (Chinese Legends Trilogy)
Publication Date: September 1, 1999| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
| | The Three Little Pigs (Fairy Tale Theater Books)
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