 | Deadpool Corps - Volume 2: You Say You Want a Revolution
Publication Date: December 14, 2011| Series: Deadpool Corps (Book 2) How many Deadpools does it take to destroy an alien world? Fresh from inexplicably saving the galaxy, the Deadpool Corps is offered a mission by the Omega Confederation to squash a rebellion by the Krook people that is derailing the company's mining operation. Naturally, the Confederation is a little miffed upon learning the Corps has changed sides! Deadpool tries to modernize the Krook society so the people can defend themselves from invasion, at the same time attempting to win Princess Teela's affections. But her father, ...
 |  | A Summer in Sonoma
Release Date: June 29, 2010They've been best friends since seventh grade. But this summer, teetering on the threshold of thirty, four women are going to need each other more than ever.Cassie has sworn off romance after yet another bad date. Yet deep down, she's still looking for Mr. Forever. A long-haired biker doesn't figure into her plans, so where's the harm in touring the back roads of Sonoma on a Harley with Walt Arneson?Julie married her high school sweetheart—who can get her pregnant with a mere glance—too young and now wonders how her life became all about leaky faucets a...
|  | Cassandra at the Wedding (New York Review Books Classics)
Release Date: August 21, 2012| Series: New York Review Books Classics Cassandra Edwards is a graduate student at Berkeley: gay, brilliant, nerve-racked, miserable. At the beginning of this novel, she drives back to her family ranch in the foothills of the Sierras to attend the wedding of her identical twin, Judith, to a nice young doctor from Connecticut. Cassandra, however, is hell-bent on sabotaging the wedding. Dorothy Baker’s entrancing tragicomic novella follows an unpredictable course of events in which her heroine appears variously as conniving, self-aware, pitiful, frenz...
|  | Vicious Cycle (Intervention, Book 2)
Release Date: February 22, 2011When fifteen-year-old Lance Covington finds an abandoned baby in the backseat of a car, he knows she's the newborn daughter of a meth addict he's been trying to help. But when police arrest him for kidnapping, Lance is thrust into a criminal world of baby trafficking and drug abuse. His mother, Barbara, looks for help from Kent Harlan---the man whom she secretly, reluctantly loves and who once helped rescue her daughter from a mess of her own. Kent flies to her aid and begins the impossible work of getting Lance out of trouble, protecting a baby who has no home...
|  | The Arcanum
Release Date: June 28, 2005It is 1919 and the Great War has come to a close. But in the shadows of the world’s major cities, the killing has just begun. In this perilous time, as the division between order and chaos grows increasingly slim, a select group of visionaries have taken it upon themselves to ensure the safety of humanity. They are known as the Arcanum.In London’s stormy Hyde Park, Konstantin Duvall, the Arcanum’s founder, has been killed in a suspicious accident. Dismayed, the group’s longest-lived member, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, determines to avenge Duvall...
|  | All Eve's Hallows: A City Knights Novel
Publication Date: July 21, 2005Dragons, giants and goblins are all around us, magically hidden within human society as they and a whole bestiary of fantastic creatures have been for a thousand years. But when conflicts with humanity arise, someone has to keep the peace between the supernatural beings and the unsuspecting mortals who long ago drove everything magical into hiding—and then forgot about them. The City Knights is the thousand-year-old top-secret organization charged with protecting humanity from these mystic entities and vice Versa. ...
|  | Death on the Learning Curve: The Making of a Surgeon
Publication Date: January 1, 2010A hospital operating room may not be as safe as you think it is. Hiding among the sterile scrubs and gleaming instruments of an operating room is a whole lot of high drama: split-second life-and-death decisions.deep questions of ethics.roaring personality conflicts.the glory of saving a life-and the horror when a simple procedure goes terribly wrong.Renowned surgeon Pierce Scranton, Jr., kept a detailed diary of his internship year at a busy California teaching hospital. This book is a vivid, fictionalized memoir of that year in the trenches. Through the inte...
|  | From the Barber's Chair 50th & France Ave
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|  | Preacher's Pursuit (The First Mountain Man)
Release Date: January 1, 2009| Series: The First Mountain Man The mountains are brimming with the lure of fortunes - from gold to a booming fur trade. A man at home in this once pristine wilderness, Preacher knows there is no turning back civilization now. What he doesn't know is that beyond the plans of some men is a deadly enemy with far more dangerous designs...With vengeance-hungry criminals shadowing his every move, Preacher meets a beautiful woman working to bring a rail line to a remote settlement. And while Preacher is distracted by both the beauty and by beastly outlaws, Indians att...
|  | Death in the Afternoon
Release Date: July 6, 1999Still considered one of the best books ever written about bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon is an impassioned look at the sport by one of its true aficionados. It reflects Hemingway's conviction that bullfighting was more than mere sport and reveals a rich source of inspiration for his art. The unrivaled drama of bullfighting, with its rigorous combination of athleticism and artistry, and its requisite display of grace under pressure, ignited Hemingway's imagination. Here he describes and explains the technical aspects of this dangerous ritual and "the emotional ...
|  | The Selected Poems of D. H. Lawrence (Poetry Library, Penguin)
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|  | Perfumed Garden
Publication Date: January 24, 2003The great English explorer and author Richard F. Burton offers this translation of a work on sexuality, female sexuality in particular.Selected contents: Concerning women who deserve to be praised; About women who are to be held in contempt; Concerning everything that is favorable to the act of coition; Suindry names given to the sexual part of man; Sundry names given to the sexual organs of women; On the deceits and treacheries of women; Description of the uterus of sterile women, and treatment of the same; Prescriptions for increasing the dimensions of sma...
|  | An African Epiphany
Publication Date: July 1, 2011Following in the footsteps of Ghanaian poets, such as Kwesi Brew, Kofi Awoonor and Kofi Anyidoho, Prince Kwasi Mensah delivers in An African Epiphany, a post-modern poetic take on all things African. The poems are fresh and irreverent yet mature and proud, at the same time. The poet, in his celebration of culture, questions it where it stands in the way of progress. ...
| | Mason Locke Weems,: His works and ways. In three volumes. [I] A bibliography left unfinished by Paul Leicester Ford. [II-III. Letters 1784-1825]
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|  | The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series: Volume 1: 4 March 1809 to 15 November 1809
Publication Date: January 4, 2005| ISBN-10: 0691121214 | ISBN-13: 978-0691121215This volume inaugurates the definitive edition of papers from Thomas Jefferson's retirement. As the volume opens, a new president is installed and Jefferson is anticipating his return to Virginia, where he will pursue a fascinating range of personal and intellectual activities. He prepares for his final departure from Washington by settling accounts and borrowing to pay his creditors. At Monticello he tells of his efforts to restore order at his mismanaged mill complex, breed merino sheep, and otherwise resum...
|  | The Total Brain Workout
Publication Date: March 1, 2009Did you know that different parts of your brain control different functions, and that with exercise, you can make each part of your brain stronger?In The Total Brain Workout you'll find 450 fun, challenging and absorbing puzzles designed to specifically target the core parts of your brain that control language, logic, memory, reasoning and visual perception. Each set of puzzles ranges from easy to challenging, and is presented with information on the area of your brain being targeted and the functions it controls, so you can customize your own workout to the sp...
|  | McKettrick's Choice (Hqn)
Release Date: November 23, 2010| Series: Hqn When news arrived that there was trouble back in Texas, Holt McKettrick left a mail-order bride and his family on the spot. And he never looked back. He just prayed he'd be in time to save the man who had raised him as a son and keep his best friend from the gallows. He knew he'd encounter rustlers, scoundrels and thieves, but he'd never expected to find a woman like Lorelei Fellows.Setting fire to her wedding dress in the town square probably wasn't the best way to stand her ground. But Lorelei had had enough. She was sick of men and their scheme...
|  | Fox on the Rhine
Publication Date: June 10, 2000The Führer is dead ... but the war still goes on!Backed by a cadre of SS officers, Himmler seizes control of the Reich and instigates a plan to change the course of the war.First, an armistice with Russia.Second, the mass production of jet fighters.And third, the appointment of legendary "Desert Fox" Erwin Rommel to the European theater, leading to a very different Battle of the Bulge where he must confront "Blood n Guts" George Patton in a campaign that will determine the fate of Europe . . . and possibly the entire free world. ...
|  | The One-Armed Bandit (A Lucky Luke Adventure)
Publication Date: June 16, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Spider-Man: The Lizard's Legacy
Release Date: April 21, 2009| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
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