 | Rules of Civility: A Novel
Release Date: June 26, 2012The New York Times bestselling novel that "enchants on first reading and only improves on the second" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) This sophisticated and entertaining first novel presents the story of a young woman whose life is on the brink of transformation.On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar when Tinker Grey, a handsome banker, happens to sit down at the neighboring table. This chance encounter and its startling consequences propel Katey on a year-long journey into the upper echelo...
 |  | VANISHED (The Snowbird Jones Mysteries)
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|  | 'Salem's Lot
Release Date: December 27, 2011Ben Mears has returned to Jerusalem's Lot in the hopes that living in an old mansion, long the subject of town lore, will help him cast out his own devils and provide inspiration for his new book. But when two young boys venture into the woods and only one comes out alive, Mears begins to realize that there may be something sinister at work and that his hometown is under siege by forces of darkness far beyond his control. ...
|  | Chaucer's Pilgrims: The Allegory
Publication Date: October 2000A demonstration that Chaucers pilgrims all correspond to heavenly bodies in the night sky--the signs of the zodiac and all of the then-known moveable stars, or planets--and reflect, in their name and their appearance, the characters after whom the stars are named. ...
|  | Child 44
Publication Date: December 13, 2011In a country ruled by fear, no one is innocent.Stalin's Soviet Union is an official paradise, where citizens live free from crime and fear only one thing: the all-powerful state. Defending this system is idealistic security officer Leo Demidov, a war hero who believes in the iron fist of the law. But when a murderer starts to kill at will and Leo dares to investigate, the State's obedient servant finds himself demoted and exiled. Now, with only his wife at his side, Leo must fight to uncover shocking truths about a killer-and a country where "crime" doesn't...
|  | El vampiro de la colonia Roma / The vampire of the Roma neighborhood: Las aventuras, desventuras y suenos de Adonis Garcia / The Adventures, Misadventures and Dreams of Adonis Garcia (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Dead Head
Release Date: February 6, 2007Brain Surgery or Murder? When brain surgeon Russell Lawton is abducted at gunpoint by terrorists, he's sure there's a mistake: how could he be useful to them? To his horror, he learns they have kidnapped his only child, eight-year old Angela. Unless Russell does what they want, they will bury her alive. To buy time Russell agrees, and is immediately confronted with a seemingly impossible surgical problem. He must develop an innovative computer that can manipulate a robot by using brain activity. And fast, or his daughter dies. Why? When Russell ...
|  | A Betrothal
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|  | A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: September 30, 2003| Age Level: 18 and up | Grade Level: 12 and up...
|  | An Empty Park: Poems And Projections
Publication Date: July 21, 2003In An Empty Park, Gary Graham presents the reader with keen insights about everyday life that are often buried in the hurried pace of life.There's an empty park. Crowded by neighborhoods of multicolored occupants. Old cars and old people. Birds and city sounds singing.There's a spirit of life and death. Of security and fear. Of "What am I doing here?"Visit An Empty Park and take a fresh look at the profound events of life. ...
|  | The Specular Moment: Goethe's Early Lyric and the Beginnings of Romanticism (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
Publication Date: October 1, 1996| Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics In this book, the author has three aims: (1) to elaborate an interpretation of Goethe's lyric poetry adequate to the intricacies of its subject matter; (2) to demonstrate the significance of that poetry to the development of European Romanticism; (3) to establish a method of inquiry that weaves together the major strands of theoretical reflection in modern literary studies. Remarkably enough, no study of Goethe's early lyric poetry has been published in English in the last fifty years. But the reading of this poetry the...
| | Arthurian Romances (Everyman's Library, #698)
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|  | Medieval Romance (Norton Library, N703)
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|  | Red Hot Reunion
Release Date: March 20, 2007 The last time Jason saw Emma Holden, she crushed his heart. As college students, they were opposites in every way except for their thrilling, unpredictable passion. But deep down Emma was very proper, and in their senior year she blindsided Jason by dumping him for a wealthy jock and a dull, safe life. Now it's ten years later, and if living well is the best revenge, Jason has done so in spades--he's a hunky celebrity chef with a hit TV show and all the women he wants. But he's interested in only one woman--Emma. And at their college reunion, he cooks up a wicked...
| | J. D. Robb In Death Collection 2: Vengeance in Death, Holiday in Death, Conspiracy in Death, Loyalty in Death, Witness in Death
Publication Date: September 4, 2012Vengeance in Death: He is an expert with the latest technology . . . a madman with the mind of a genius and the heart of a killer. He quietly stalks his prey. Then he haunts the police with cryptic riddles about the crimes he is about to commit - always solved moments too late to save the victims' lives. Police lieutenant Eve Dallas found the first victim butchered in his own home. The second lost his life in a vacant luxury apartment. The two men had little in common. Both suffered unspeakable torture before their deaths. And both had ties to an ugly secre...
|  | Stargazer
Publication Date: January 1998For Lonewolf, the old ways are the only ways--until a mysterious force pulls the Navajo stargazer 150 into the future. His enemy Kit Carson is dead, his fellow Navajo are settled on reservations and a beautiful woman--Officer Willow Becenti, a half-Navajo member of the tribal police, has a gun pointed at him. And to Willow, the new ways are the best ways, offering her people a chance at a decent life, free from superstitions that have long held them back. Can the power of love defeat time? . ...
|  | Black Elephants: A Memoir
Publication Date: October 1, 2011An aspiring writer and reporter, Karol Nielsen went trekking through the Peruvian Andes at the height of the Shining Path terror, looking for adventure and a good story. She found Aviv, an Israeli traveler fresh out of his mandatory military service—a war-weary veteran of the first intifada—dreaming about peace. Black Elephants follows this idealistic pair as they explore the Americas, until Aviv, inexorably drawn to his homeland, asks Karol to come with him to Israel. There, the couple’s lovingly laid plans—for Aviv to attend universi...
|  | The First Law (Dismas Hardy, Book 8)
Release Date: January 6, 2004Prodded by his father, Glitsky asks the new homicide lieutenant about the case, but the brass tells him in no uncertain terms to stay out of it. Guided by the Patrol Special — a private police force supervised by the SFPD that is a holdover from San Francisco's vigilante past-the police have already targeted their prime suspect: John Holiday, proprietor of a run-down local bar, and a friend and client of Dismas Hardy.While Dismas Hardy has built a solid legal practice and a happy family, John Holiday has not followed the same path. Despite this, Hardy has r...
|  | Terminal Ambition: A Maggie Mahoney Novel
Publication Date: March 24, 2012 Maggie Mahoney wants justice for women at her law firm. The firm chairman wants to be Attorney General. Only one can win in this legal thriller. Sweeny, Owens & Boyle sits at the top of Wall Street law firms. Brilliant and beautiful, Maggie Mahoney became a partner and the trophy wife of its managing at...
|  | With Child
Release Date: March 31, 1997Adrift in mist-shrouded San Francisco mornings and alcohol-fogged nights, homicide detective Kate Martinelli can't escape the void left by her departed lover, who has gone off to rethink their relationship. But when twelve-year-old Jules Cameron comes to Kate for a professional consultation, Kate's not sure she's that desperate for distraction.Jules is worried about her friend Dio, a homeless boy she met in a park. Dio has disappeared without a word of farewell, and Jules wants Kate to find him Reluctant as she is, Kate can't say no--and soon...
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