 | TWISTED TIMES: A Call Back to Eden
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 |  | Madam President
Publication Date: November 2001It's the year 2020 and history has been made by Devlyn Marlowe--the first woman to win the U.S. Presidency. When it comes time to select a biographer to chronicle her historic term in office, Devlyn breaks with tradition and chooses a writer based on very personal reasons. She wants Lauren Strayer, a young author whose writing has always captivated her. There's only one problem--Lauren isn't interested in the job.Despite Lauren's reservations, the persuasive Commander-in-Chief is able to sway the author's opinion with the promise of true editorial freedom--a bi...
|  | Ben, in the World: The Sequel to "the Fifth Child"
Publication Date: November 2000A sequel to one of Lessing's most celebrated novels, The Fifth Child.Many will recall the powerful impact The Fifth Child, Doris Lessing's 1988 novel, made on publication. Its account of idyllic marital and parental bliss irredeemably shattered by the arrival of the feral fifth child of the Lovatts made for unnerving and compulsive reading. That child, Ben, now grown to legal maturity, and is the central character of this sequel, which picks up the fable at the end of the childhood where the first book ended and takes our primal, misunderstood, maladjusted teen...
|  | Brain and Body (A&B Crime)
Publication Date: June 2000| Series: A&B Crime Jip is seventeen, on the verge of coming out to his parents, looking forward to his adult life. But his world is blown apart in the space of minutes one night, when he is the victim of an horrific attack in a public toilet.When Jip comes out of a coma, he has lost his memory. With a shattered brain and shattered body, he is unable to remember anything of the attack, unable to remember his life before the attack-he cannot even recognize his own family. To encourage him to rebuild his body, his mother takes him to the local gym where he meets Kasp...
|  | The World in the Evening
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|  | Jim Kane
Publication Date: October 29, 2007The story of an American cowboy doing his job in Mexico. ...
|  | Long Way to Texas: Three Novels by Elmer Kelton
Release Date: September 27, 2011In Joe Pepper, the title character, while awaiting a hangman’s noose, tells the story of how he discovered a propensity for violence while seeking revenge. The irony is that Joe’s keen sense of justice puts him on he wrong side of the law.Long Way to Texas, taking place just after the Civil War battle of Glorieta Pass in New Mexico, is the story of Lt. David Buckalew, whose remnant of Confederate riflemen is under siege and low on rations and water. Complicating matters is the young officer’s self-doubt and fear of failure.Thomas Canfield of ...
|  | The Lower River
Release Date: May 22, 2012Ellis Hock never believed that he would return to Africa. He runs an old-fashioned menswear store in a small town in Massachusetts but still dreams of his Eden, the four years he spent in Malawi with the Peace Corps, cut short when he had to return to take over the family business. When his wife leaves him, and he is on his own, he realizes that there is one place for him to go: back to his village in Malawi, on the remote Lower River, where he can be happy again.Arriving at the dusty village, he finds it transformed: the school he built is a ruin, the church and cl...
|  | Strengleikar E
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...
|  | Esli ty nosish nachalo vremen v ushakh--: Avangardnaia poeziia 80-kh-nachala 90-kh godov : bibliograficheskii ocherk (Protsess osmysleniia) (Russian Edition)
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|  | The Great Age of Chinese Poetry: The High T'Ang
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| | Light and Longing: Silva and Dar
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|  | Hippocrates Vol. VI (Loeb Classical Library)
Publication Date: January 1, 1988| ISBN-10: 0674995228 | ISBN-13: 978-0674995222Hippocrates, said to have been born in Cos in or before 460 BCE, learned medicine and philosophy; travelled widely as a medical doctor and teacher; was consulted by King Perdiccas of Macedon and Artaxerxes of Persia; and died perhaps at Larissa. Apparently he rejected superstition in favour of inductive reasoning and the study of real medicine as subject to natural laws, in general and in individual people as patients for treatment by medicines and surgery. Of the roughly 70 works in the 'Hippocratic Collecti...
|  | A Miracle in Music
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|  | The Wicked (Vampire Huntress Legend)
Release Date: February 6, 2007| Series: Vampire Huntress Legend Damali and Carlos have finally tied the knot, but there is no happily ever after on the horizon. Cain, the son of Eve and the new chairman of the Vampire Council is amassing an army of creatures like no one has ever seen before. But while a band of human scientists are conducting secret experiments they open the dimension that holds Cain and he is released into the human world, bigger and badder than ever. Her family slaughtered, Damali heads for hell to serve justice and faces off with a nemisis the likes of which she has never...
|  | Ms Holmes of Baker Street: The Truth About Sherlock
Publication Date: June 8, 2004Sherlock Holmes strides into our imagination, deerstalker hat jauntily set on his head, pipe protruding from his mouth, and a formidable intellect from which he painstakingly masters the mysteries he investigates. Yet the qualities that set Holmes apart as a masterful sleuth are rather commonplace—perhaps even universal—in any woman. In a deep investigation of the literature of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, C. Alan Bradley and William A.S. Sarjeant uncover the surprising truth about Sherlock Holmes. ...
|  | Batman Classic: Reptile Rampage (I Can Read Book 2)
Release Date: April 17, 2012| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Grampa's Zombie BBQ (Wiley and Grampa's Creature Features, No. 2)
Publication Date: July 12, 2006| Grade Level: 1 and up...
| | In the Water ... on the Water (Safety Town)
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|  | My Mom Is Trying to Ruin My Life
Release Date: March 24, 2009| Age Level: 4 and up Everyone has only nice things to say about my mom. Everyone likes her. She looks nice. She bakes great cookies and makes me feel better when I have a bad day. But would a really nice mom do embarrassing things like kiss me in public and tell loud jokes that no one thinks are funny? Well, my mom does those terrible things and worse - that's why I am sure that I have the most embarrassing mom in the world and that my mom is trying to ruin my life... Or is she? ...
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