 | Peachtree Road
Release Date: March 18, 2008 Headstrong, independent, and devastatingly beautiful Lucy Bondurant Chastain Venable will never become the demure Southern lady her family requires—while her older cousin, Sheppard Gibbs Bondurant III, is too shy and bookish, a far cry from the suave, gregarious Southern gentleman he's expected to be. In the Bondurants' sprawling home on Atlanta's Peachtree Road, these two will be united by a fierce tainted love—and torn apart by a smoldering rage fanned by the cruelty of years and the unbending demands of privilege. A masterful tale of love, hate, ...
 |  | The Summer Book (New York Review Books Classics)
Release Date: May 20, 2008| Series: New York Review Books Classics In The Summer Book Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer—its sunlight and storms—into twenty-two crystalline vignettes. This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia’s grandmother, nearing the end of hers, as they spend the summer on a tiny unspoiled island in the Gulf of Finland. The grandmother is unsentimental and wise, if a little cranky; Sophia is impetuous and volatile, but she tends to her grandmother with the care of a new parent. Togethe...
|  | Whores on the Hill: A Novel
Release Date: May 10, 2005The girls of Sacred Heart Holy Angels eye the good dancers at the all-ages club Metropolis. They waste afternoons at the mall, check out parties on the lake, burn through candid, casual sex.Everybody calls them the Whores on the Hill, but they don't care.It is the mid-'80s and they go to the last all-girls' school in Milwaukee, where innocence is scarce and happiness is something to grabbed at in the backseat of a fast car.Meet exuberant, uninhibited Astrid, her nervy, troubled friend Juli and Thisbe, the shy, ascetic newcomer. They are fifteen years old. And they b...
|  | Child Left Behind
Publication Date: June 3, 2009Harley Justin Butler is a cool East Bay detective with a reputation for getting results in spite of his ADD. He didn't seem like he'd have much to gain by going undercover as a teacher at LBJ High, a tough school in the Iron Triangle section of Richmond to investigate the Alma Vargas murder. But something in Harley's core told him it was the right thing to do. You see Alma, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, was a stellar student at LBJ High. Alive, she was looked to up to by her peers but considered an annoyance by administrators, disappointed that she advertise...
|  | Oryx and Crake
Release Date: March 30, 2004Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey–with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake–through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled...
|  | Politicizing Magic: An Anthology of Russian and Soviet Fairy Tales
Publication Date: October 25, 2005A compendium of folkloric, literary, and critical texts that show how the Russian fairy tale acquired political and historical meanings during the Soviet eraWe were born to make fairy tales come true. As one of Stalinism's more memorable slogans, this one suggests that the fairy tale figured in Soviet culture as far more than a category of children's literature. How much more-and how cannily Russian fairy tales reflect and interpret Soviet culture, especially in its utopian ambitions-becomes clear for the first time in Politicizing Magic, a compendium of fol...
|  | Poema del Mio Cid / The Poem of the Cid (Libro de Bolsillo.) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Shi di cun zai: Xian dai shi ping lun ji (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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| | Der Lesezirkel Hottingen (German Edition)
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|  | On the Shoulders of Giants: A Shandean Postscript
Publication Date: May 15, 1993| ISBN-10: 0226520862 | ISBN-13: 978-0226520865With playfulness and a large dose of wit, Robert Merton traces the origin of Newton's aphorism, "If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Using as a model the discursive and digressive style of Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Merton presents a whimsical yet scholarly work which deals with the questions of creativity, tradition, plagiarism, the transmission of knowledge, and the concept of progress."This book is the delightful apotheosis of donmanship: Merton parodies scholarliness while b...
|  | The Bedeviled Bride: The Wetherby Brides, Book 4
Publication Date: March 26, 2012Lady Elizabeth Wetherby, formerly Crawley, has married the wrong man, after being duped by his identical twin brother. Now, to escape scandal, she and her new husband have taken refuge at Dunbocan, their Scottish estate. Having been a highly popular and active member of the ton, she worries that being stranded in the Highlands will be a horrible bore. But how can one be bored when a ghost haunts one’s home? Michael Wetherby has been in love with Elizabeth Crawley, now Wetherby, since the day he met her. So, when his identical twin brother suggested they...
|  | Moment of Truth
Release Date: February 6, 2001When attorney Jack Newlin discovers his wife dead in their home, he's convinced he knows who killed her—and is equally determined to hide the truth. He decides to frame himself for murder, and to seal his fate he hires the most inexperienced lawyer he can find: a reluctant rookie by the name of Mary DiNunzio from the hot Philadelphia firm of Rosato & Associates. But hiring Mary may turn out to be his biggest mistake. She doubts Jack's confession, and her ethics and instincts tell her she can't defend a man who wants to convict himself. Smarter, gutsier, an...
|  | The Pegasus Project
Publication Date: August 2002?Heads up, Alpha Lead!One of these bandits just fired a heat-seeker!?Gus rolled, corkscrewing into a 30-degree dive, plugged in the afterburners.?Stay clear, Alpha Two.?Michelle was aboard that Antonov, and the missile?s infra-red sensor was homing on one of its three operating turbo-props.He had to decoy that missile with something even hotter?the F-24's afterburners.He dipped in behind the Antonov, then pulled up to the left. ?Alpha Lead, that heater?s chasing you now!?Gus was too busy to reply.He killed both burners, pulled the throttles back to idle, and togg...
|  | The Song Is You: A Novel
Release Date: February 19, 2008On October 7, 1949, dark-haired starlet Jean Spangler kissed her five-year-old daughter good-bye and left for a night shoot at a Hollywood studio. "Wish me luck," she said as she crossed her fingers, winked, and walked away. She was never seen again. The only clues left behind: a purse with a broken strap found in a nearby park, a cryptic note, and rumors about mobster boyfriends and ill-fated romances with movie stars. Drawing on this true-life missing person case, Megan Abbott's The Song Is You tells the story of Gil "Hop" Hopkins, a smooth-talking Hollywood ...
|  | White Heat (P.I. Duke Rogers Series - Book 1)
Publication Date: April 26, 2012WARNING: WHITE HEAT is NOT for the easily intimidated! It depicts realistic violence, racism, adult situations and contains offensive language, Don't read this book if you can't handle it.5 stars: Explosive, Visual, Dynamite and Totally Noir White Heat...explodes on the page.Days before the verdict is read in the Rodney King Case in Los Angeles back in the 1992, a weasely little man walks into private detective Duke Rogers office and asks him to locate an old friend, Teddie Matson. The guy is white and Teddie is black, and Los Angeles is just about ...
|  | Hist Secretes de She Hol (Folio Policier) (French Edition)
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|  | Twisted Tales II: Phonics Comics, Vol. 7, Issue 2
Publication Date: April 6, 2009| Grade Level: 1 and up It's phonics! It's comics! It's awesome! Perfect for early and developing readers, each paperback includes three exciting, easy-to-read stories! Exhilarating adventures, daring heroes, magic, time travel and much, much more! Each cool 24-page comic book feature three exciting, phonetically decodable stories. Developed and leveled with the help of reading specialists, these 6" x 9" paperbacks are easy to read and hard to put down! Fountas and Pinnell Guided Reading leveled! . Think you know how the story goes? Think again! Find out what R...
|  | Pretty Salma: A Little Red Riding Hood Story from Africa
Publication Date: April 15, 2007| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: K and up When Granny asks Pretty Salma to go to the market one day, she warns her not to talk to strangers. But cunning Mr. Dog tricks Salma, and before she knows it, he’s wearing her stripy ntama, her pretty white beads, and her yellow sandals. And he’s on his way to Granny’s house! African culture and flavor infuse this inventive retelling of a favorite fairy tale, and the vibrant lively illustrations bring it to life. The result is a story that combines new and old and spans cultures as successfully as ...
|  | Numbers 1-30 Write & Wipe Flash Cards (Kumon Flash Cards)
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|  | The People of Russia and Their Food (Multicultural Cookbooks)
Publication Date: September 1, 1996| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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