 | Rebecca Horowiitz: A Puerto Rican Sex Freak
Publication Date: July 2008What happens when a beautiful young Jewishgirl from Manhattan falls helplessly in love with aLatino Casanova whose mother insists that before thetwo can be married the bride-to-be must first convertto Puerto Rican? This is the story of how RebeccaHorowitz becomes Zoraida Delgado; and how, underthe influence of that bastard boyfriend of hers, CharlieMaisonet, she manages to dismantle--and to discoversurprising facets of--her own identity. Edgardo VegaYunqué's newest novel is a delicious tribute to thefoibles of ethnic love. ...
 |  | Madame X (Poets, Penguin)
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|  | Dark Predator (Carpathian)
Release Date: September 25, 2012| Series: Carpathian Christine Feehan delivers the most startling novel yet in her “must-read” series (Night Owl Reviews) as an immortal male comes to the end of a long and violent journey—to reach a far more dangerous and inescapable threat…As brutal as the undead he hunted, executioner Zacarias De La Cruz’s savage journey is over. After a thousand years in a gray world, he has accomplished everything he set out to do. His brothers are safeguarded, and each has a woman who completes him. But with his centuries as a killing mac...
|  | We Are Oblivion
Publication Date: April 28, 2011Stephen Mansfield, an amnesiac former boxer, is desperately trying to put the pieces of his past back together. Along with his girlfriend, a pregnant prostitute named Fancy, he decides to leave his dilapidated New York apartment in search of anything that will help him remember who he is.Their world is changed almost immediately, however, when robbed by a band of marauders just outside of Cleveland. Forced to do what they must to survive, they find themselves on a violent, cross-country crime spree.While on the road and eluding a nationwide manhunt, Mansfield ...
|  | Dark Fire
Release Date: December 27, 2005From the acclaimed author of Dissolution comes a new sixteenth-century thriller featuring hunchback lawyer Matthew Shardlake. In 1540, during the reign of Henry VIII, Shardlake is asked to help a young girl accused of murder. She refuses to speak in her defense even when threatened with torture. But just when the case seems lost, Thomas Cromwell, the king’s feared vicar general, offers Shardlake two more weeks to prove his client’s innocence. In exchange, Shardlake must find a lost cache of "Dark Fire," a legendary weapon of mass destruction. What e...
|  | The Vagrants: A Novel
Release Date: February 16, 2010Shortlisted for the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary AwardIn luminous prose, award-winning author Yiyun Li weaves together the lives of unforgettable characters who are forced to make moral choices, and choices for survival, in China in the late 1970s. As morning dawns on the provincial city of Muddy River, a spirited young woman, Gu Shan, once a devoted follower of Chairman Mao, has renounced her faith in Communism. Now a political prisoner, she is to be executed for her dissent. While Gu Shan’s distraught mother makes bold decisions, her f...
|  | Outside the Box
Publication Date: August 21, 2011Teenager Reid Anderson knows there’s something wrong with society, otherwise he wouldn’t feel so alienated. He has a problem with authority but can’t decide: “am I antisocial or does society suck?” So he goes through life pretending he doesn’t care.A new Wii console and simulation game show up in his rec room, and Reid is just bored enough to try them out. When a demon from inside the game threatens him in reality, Reid is plunged into a world of troubled teens he didn’t know existed. The demon’s challen...
|  | Boy On A Pony
Publication Date: September 15, 2001A provocative story of love and sexual awakening, Boy On A Pony raises the controversial issue of privileged sexual abuse within our health care system. ...
|  | Voices of the Ancestors: African Myth (Myth and Mankind)
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|  | The Art of Dying: Poems
Publication Date: October 1999In this collection of ninety new poems, Red Hawk touches raw nerves in a spectrum of vital subjects -- from children, nature and family, to God, politics and death. Whether he is telling a funny story about himself, or indicting Western civilisation, from its blindness and cruelty, Red Hawk's words are always precise, often ruthless, and ultimately compassionate. Unlike so many contemporary poets whose work is lost on the ordinary reader, Red Hawk's poetry is written for everyone. ...
|  | Teaching the Epic
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|  | Contemporary American Poetry Sixth Edition
Publication Date: January 1, 1996This highly respected anthology presents the work of 66 poets who have "shaped the contours and direction of the mainstream of American poetry" from 1955 to the present. The alphabetically arranged collection provides a generous sampling of each poet with a photo, biographical sketches, and bibliographies.Editor Michael Waters continues the careful selection process as A. Poulin's literary executor. Dr. Waters is a prolific poet, whose works have appeared in the Antioch Review and the Yale Review. He has won two Pushcart Prizes and several fellowships, includ...
|  | Blue Shadow Behind Everything Dazzling (The Hollyridge Press Chapbook Series)
Publication Date: April 6, 2009Poems of India in all their attention to sensuous detail, vibrancy and celebration. ...
|  | The Book of Peace: By Christine de Pizan (Penn State Romance Studies)
Publication Date: July 21, 2004| Series: Penn State Romance Studies Christine de Pizan, one of the earliest known women authors, wrote the Livre de paix (Book of Peace) between 1412 and 1414, a period of severe corruption and civil unrest in her native France. The book offered Pizan a platform from which to expound her views on contemporary politics and to put forth a strict moral code to which she believed all governments should aspire. The text's intended recipient was the dauphin, Louis of Guyenne; Christine felt that Louis had the political and social influence to fill a void left by yea...
|  | Los Cinco Lenguajes del Amor para Solteros (The Five Love Languages for Singles, Spanish edition)
Publication Date: March 20, 2006Tu puedes conocer el gozo del amor incondicional! Tienes un anhelo dado por Dios de amor total e incondicional. Sin embargo, nunca seras capaz de expresarlo, ni de recibirlo, a menos que aprendas a hablar el adecuado lenguaje del amor. Descubre como las diversas personalidades expresan amor de maneras diferentes. ...
|  | Kiss Of Darkness
Publication Date: September 1, 2006The woods have always been full of whispers in Transylvania, of terrors that go back centuries to the legendary Vlad Dracul himself. Ignoring their professor's grave warning--beware those who would prey upon the innocent--several visiting students travel into the forest…and disappear. Now their professor, Bryan McAllister, believes that a dark cult is at work--and that their next gathering will happen in America.When psychologist Jessica Fraser is approached by Bryan for her assistance, she is hesitant. Something about Bryan unnerves Jessica deeply, ye...
|  | Dorothy L. Sayers: Five Classic Radio Dramas Featuring Lord Peter Wimsey
Publication Date: December 20, 2011Experience eight of Sayers' classic Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries as lively full-cast radio dramas! This gift collection includes Gaudy Night, The Nine Tailors, Murder Must Advertise, Busman’s Honeymoon, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, Five Red Herrings, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death. ...
|  | LEGO Bionicle: Desert of Danger (Level 3)
Publication Date: April 15, 2009| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Getorix: The Eagle and The Bull
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|  | One Direction Test Your Super-Fan Status: 100% Unofficial
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