 | Rocket Writes a Story
Release Date: July 24, 2012| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up A #1 New York Times BestsellerThis irresistible sequel to the New York Times bestselling How Rocket Learned to Read is "a perfect choice to inspire new readers and writers," according to a starred review from Kirkus Reviews.Rocket loves books and he wants to make his own, but he can't think of a story. Encouraged by the little yellow bird to look closely at the world around him for inspiration, Rocket sets out on a journey. Along the way he discovers small details that he has never noticed before, a timid baby owl who b...
 |  | The Lies We Tell for Love - Part 3/The Love, Lies & Lust Series
Publication Date: February 7, 2012| Series: Love, Lies & Lust SeriesWhat would you do for love? How would you handle the discovery that your marriage was built on lies?Damon Whitmore is a true go-getter who will stop at nothing to get what he desires. His wife Octavia was no exception. When Damon first saw Octavia he knew he had to have her. He went through great lengths until his mission was accomplished. Now, two years later, he and Octavia share a wonderful and lavish life together. Damon exceeded all of Octavia s expectations while managing to keep his secrets of deceit and manipulat...
|  | Inheritance (Bluestreak)
Release Date: November 15, 1999| Series: Bluestreak Characters leap off the pages and into our hearts. . . . Ganesan crafts her work with such a gracefully light touch that readers leave the book with the sense of having just experienced something exquisitely fine. -Joan Hinkemeyer, Rocky Mountain NewsInheritance is a gracefully wrought novel centering on the emotional awakening of Sonil, a fifteen-year-old girl living with her aunts in India. Overcome by a lingering illness, she travels to the mythic island of Pi to recover under the care of her beloved grandmother. In this lush Arcadian sp...
|  | The Witch Is Dead (Ophelia & Abby Mysteries, No. 5)
Release Date: August 28, 2007 Life is busier than ever for witch Ophelia Jensen. In addition to her day job at the library, she—with the help of her grandmother Abby—is preparing to officially adopt Tink, the young medium she's taken under her wing. So when Ophelia's elderly Aunt Dot, eager for adventure, wants to investigate the murder of a funeral director in the neighboring town, Ophelia tries to say no. But then Tink's dog pulls a skull out of the woods—a skull that may belong to a murder victim. Finding mysterious bones in the woods isn't the only strange thing that'...
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|  | Grief and English Renaissance Elegy
Publication Date: December 14, 2006For most of the sixteenth century, English poets were clearly anxious about the grief expressed in their funeral poems and often rebuked themselves for indulging in it, but towards the end of the century this defensiveness about mourning became less pressing and persistent. The shift is part of a wider cultural change which has escaped recognition: the emergence of a more compassionate attitude towards the process of mourning. In charting the development of elegy this book analyses poems by Surrey, Spenser, Jonson, Henry King and Milton, and also surveys a ...
|  | Mimekor Yisrael: Classical Jewish Folktales
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|  | XXX Porn for Women: Hotter, Hunkier, and More Helpful Around the House!
Publication Date: September 1, 2008Porn for Women (over 100,000 copies sold in its first six months!) and Porn for New Moms left women begging for more. To satisfy, the Cambridge Women's Pornography Collective has upped the ante with this "unrated" edition, showcasing men who are hotter, hunkier, and even more helpful around the house. In these 40 ultra-steamyphotos and fantasies, women will find their deepest desires fulfilled: "Honey, I paid off our mortgage!" and "I just booked you two weeks at Canyon Ranch spa!". This collection makes another sizzling addition to our hugely successful li...
|  | Antologia del cuento latinoamericanaodel siglo xxi. Las horas y las hordas (La Creacion Literaria) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: June 1, 2007| ISBN-10: 968232081X | ISBN-13: 978-9682320811| Edition: 1. ed Julio Ortega nos ofrece en esta obra una antologia futura; es decir, en el paso lleno de incertidumbre del siglo XX al XXI, Ortega antologa el genero cuentistico latinoamericano del siglo entrante y apuesta por estos cuentistas y por sus respectivos cuentos, no como promesa sino como realidad contante y sonante; nos brinda la seductora posibilidad de verificar, en plazo considerablemente menor, la manera en que se va cumpliendo su arriesgada profecia. ...
|  | Blake. Wordsworth. Religion. (New Directions in Religion & Literature)
Publication Date: March 17, 2011| ISBN-10: 082642502X | ISBN-13: 978-0826425027| Edition: 1 <br />> ...
|  | Old Books, Rare Friends: Two Literary Sleuths and Their Shared Passion
Release Date: June 1, 1998Louisa May Alcott once wrote that she had taken her pen for a bridegroom. Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern, friends and business partners for fifty years, have in many ways taken up their pens and passion for literature much in the same way. The "Holmes & Watson" of the rare book business, Rostenberg and Stern are renowned for unlocking the hidden secret of Louisa May Alcott's life when they discovered her pseudonym, A.M. Barnard, along with her anonymously published "blood and thunder" stories on subjects like transvestitism, hashish smoking, and feminism.Old B...
|  | Realism and Power: Postmodern British Fiction
Publication Date: March 28, 1990An examination of how postmodern novels, such as "Midnight's Children" and "Flaubert's Parrot" both challenge realist literary conventions, and call into question the ideology behind them. This book should be of interest to students and lecturers of literature, cultural studies and postmodernism. ...
|  | Four Victorian Poets: A Study of Clough
Publication Date: April 20, 2010This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works world...
|  | The Long and Short of It: From Aphorism to Novel
Publication Date: April 4, 2012Brevity may be the soul of wit, but it is also much more.In this exploration of the shortest literary works—wise sayings, proverbs, witticisms, sardonic observations about human nature, pithy evocations of mystery, terse statements regarding ultimate questions—Gary Saul Morson argues passionately for the importance of these short genres not only to scholars but also to general readers.We are fascinated by how brief works evoke a powerful sense of life in a few words, which is why we browse quotation anthologies and love to repeat our favorites. Argu...
|  | The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 (The Fear and Loathing Letters, Vol. 1)
Release Date: April 7, 1998Here, for the first time, is the private and most intimate correspondence of one of America's most influential and incisive journalists--Hunter S. Thompson. In letters to a Who's Who of luminaries from Norman Mailer to Charles Kuralt, Tom Wolfe to Lyndon Johnson, William Styron to Joan Baez--not to mention his mother, the NRA, and a chain of newspaper editors--Thompson vividly catches the tenor of the times in 1960s America and channels it all through his own razor-sharp perspective. Passionate in their admiration, merciless in their scorn, and never anything less ...
|  | La semiotica del texto / The Semiotics of The Text: Ejercicios Practicos (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Edge of Forever: Edge of Forever\A Natural Father (Bestselling Author Collection)
Release Date: May 29, 2012| Series: Bestselling Author Collection HOME SWEET HOME River Glen was at the edge of nowhere-a tiny, sleepy town nestled on the shores of the Potomac. It was perfect for Dana Brantley, who, after a rocky couple of years, was looking for a peaceful place to start over. But the townspeople had other ideas for the new librarian. They thought she was perfect for their most eligible bachelor, Nick Verone. So did Nick's ten-year-old son, Tony. And so did Nick, himself. He was intrigued by the mysterious Dana, and determined to find a way through her reserve. B...
|  | Life Sentences LP: A Novel
Release Date: April 14, 2009 Author Cassandra Fallows has achieved remarkable success by baring her life on the page. Her two widely popular memoirs continue to sell briskly, acclaimed for their brutal, unexpurgated candor about friends, family, lovers—and herself. But now, after a singularly unsuccessful stab at fiction, Cassandra believes she may have found the story that will enable her triumphant return to nonfiction. When Cassandra was a girl, growing up in a racially diverse middle-class neighborhood in Baltimore, her best friends were all black: elegant, privileged Donna; shar...
|  | The Devil DeVere: Volume 1
Publication Date: August 1, 2012What happens when a struggling actress and a grieving widower come together in a night of unbridled debauchery orchestrated by a bored and machinating rake? In A Wild Night's Bride, Phoebe Scott, alias Kitty Willis, is a lonely lady, down on her luck. Sir Edward Chambers is steadfast, respectable, and avowed to a life of celibacy. Devil in disguise, Viscount Ludovic DeVere, is the machinating rake hell-bent to return his best friend, Ned, to the land of the living. But with the devil in charge...there will surely be hell to pay. In The Virgin Huntress, despera...
|  | Thirty Nights with a Highland Husband (The Daughters of the Glen, Book 1)
Release Date: June 26, 2007SCOTLAND, 1272. Connor MacKiernan, a descendant of the Fae Prince, is a warrior who lives only for honor and duty. Though he's vowed never to marry, that's exactly what he must do to save his sister. Enter a little Faerie magic, and the search for a bride is on. DENVER, 2007. Caitlyn Coryell is having a really bad day -- she just discovered her fiancé with another woman! Imagine her surprise when she puts on some sexy lingerie and an antique pendant and Connor appears in her bedroom, begging for her help. He offers a simple yet outrageous adventure: travel to ...
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