| Left for Dead: A Novel (Ali Reynolds) Release Date: February 7, 2012| Series: Ali Reynolds Ali Reynolds investigates two shocking cases of victims brutally left for dead in New York Times bestselling J.A. Jance’s latest mystery-thriller. When Santa Cruz County deputy sheriff Jose Reyes, Ali’s classmate from the Arizona Police Academy, is gunned down and left to die, he is at first assumed to be an innocent victim of the drug wars escalating across the border. But the crime scene investigation shows there’s much more to it than that, and soon he and his pregnant wife, Teresa, both fall under suspicion of wrongdo...
| | Midnight Sun (Northern Lights Series #3) Release Date: March 14, 2000KAATJE JANSSEN--Desperate to know if her missing husband still lives, Kaatje hires the rugged, yet tenderhearted James Walker to guide her through the perils of the Alaskan wilderness. What she finally discovers, however, is far from what she expected--and could well place her in the greatest danger of her life.ELSA RAMSTAD--As captain of the Majestic and mother of Kristian and Eve, Elsa has sought to ease the ache of her lonely heart. Forever changed by loss, she accepts her fate of solitude. But when an old friend rekindles the spark of romance within her, will ...
| | Haunted Houses: Chilling Tales from 24 American Homes, Third Edition Publication Date: August 1, 1998| Series: Haunted Ghostwriter Nancy Roberts spins fascinating tales about 24 haunted houses all over America. ...
| | From Russia with Love (James Bond) Release Date: October 16, 2012| Series: James Bond (Book 5) James Bond is marked for death by the Soviet counterintelligenceagency SMERSH in Ian Fleming’s masterful spy thriller, and the novelthat President John F. Kennedy named one of his favorite books of alltime. SMERSH stands for “Death to Spies” and there’s no secret agent they’dlike to disgrace and destroy more than 007, James Bond. But ensnaringthe British Secret Service’s most lethal operative will require a lureso tempting even he can’t resist. Enter Tatiana Romanova, a ravishingRussi...
| | She's the One Publication Date: June 20, 2007Career Cop, Laurel Waxman, wasn't looking for love but the sparks fly when she meets fellow officer, Nicole Burke. Both women feel the pull but are determined to ignore the growing attraction.Nicole's almost obsessive resolve not to date anyone she works with is a roadblock that Laurel finds almost impossible to overcome. She is determined to convince Nicole that She's the One. ...
| | In Cold Blood Release Date: February 1, 1994| Series: Vintage International National Bestseller On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutterfamily were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from theirfaces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture,trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishingempathy. In Cold Blood is a work that transcends its moment, yielding poign...
| | La dama boba (Biblioteca Universitaria de Bolsillo) (Spanish Edition) Publication Date: November 22, 2006| Series: Biblioteca Universitaria de Bolsillo Como lo ha señalado repetidamente la crítica, esta comedia trata acerca de la fuerza transformadora que tiene el amor en la vida humana. Esto se inscribe dentro de la visión neoplatónica que concibe que el amor es el principio que anima el universo entero y establece un vínculo que crea la armonía entre todas las cosas.Se pone en escena el poder que tiene tal sentimiento para cambiar al ser humano y ayudarlo a mejorar. Paralelamente, al tiempo que el amor eleva el espíritu y l...
| | Rowling Revisited: Return Trips to Harry, Fantastic Beasts, Quidditch, & Beedle the Bard Publication Date: October 31, 2010Dr. James W. Thomas is the author of Repotting Harry Potter: A Professor's Guide for the Serious Re-Reader. Readers of that book will find in Rowling Revisited additional insights as Professor Thomas revisits the seven Potter books. Once again, he focuses on humor, puns, foreshadowing, and literary parallels and echoes in Harry's saga, in addition to re-examiningsome of his previous conclusions.Rowling Revisited also provides readers with insight to and analysis of Rowling's three ancillary books, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Quidditch Through th...
| | Bacchae (Dover Thrift Editions) Publication Date: April 22, 1997| ISBN-10: 048629580X | ISBN-13: 978-0486295800Classic Greek tragedy concerns the catastrophe that ensues when the King of Thebes imprisons Dionysus and attempts to suppress his cult. Full of striking scenes, frenzied emotion, and choral songs of great power and beauty, the play is a fine example of Euripides' ability to exploit Greek myth to probe human psychology. ...
| | Ecology and the End of Postmodernism (Postmodern Encounters) Publication Date: August 7, 1997| ISBN-10: 1840462795 | ISBN-13: 978-1840462791In 1979 Jean-Francois Lyotard claimed to have laid the 'grand narrative' to rest. Yet the ecological disasters of recent years Myerson argues, herald a return of the big story, and in a new way are a legitmation, after all, of science. Once again, the minutiae of the everyday are simultaneously part of the bigger picture... ...
| | Victorian Jewelry, Identity, and the Novel Publication Date: June 1, 2011In this study of Victorian jewels and their representation, Jean Arnold explores the role material objects play in the cultural cohesion of the West. Diamonds and other gems, Arnold argues, symbolized the most closely held beliefs of the Victorians and thus can be considered 'prisms of culture.' Mined in the far reaches of the empire, they traversed geographical space and cultural boundaries, representing monetary value and evoking empire, class lineage, class membership, gender relations, and aesthetics. Arnold analyzes the many roles material objects fill in W...
| | Seurat: Drawings and Paintings Publication Date: June 1, 2001Georges Seurat, painter of Sunday on the Island of La Grande Jatte, had a meteoric career that ended in 1891 with his death at age 31. In this generously illustrated book, the leading specialist on Seurat examines the entire range of the artist's work, focusing on individual paintings and drawings and interpreting the personal and social meanings of their subjects. Robert L. Herbert examines closely Seurat's early oil panels of rural and suburban settings, early drawings of Parisians at work and leisure, and later canvases and drawings of cafe-concerts and circu...
| | Madre mia, que estas en los infiernos / Oh My Mother, Who art in Hell (Nuevos Tiempos / New Times) (Spanish Edition) ...
| | When Pleasure Rules Release Date: September 28, 2010Seven innocents have been brutally murdered in Los Angeles, yet the Shadow Alliance has no suspects and no leads. As the body count mounts, the age-old feud between vampires and werewolves threatens to explode. Lissa Monroe—a strong-willed, ravishing succubus who entices men to surrender their souls—agrees to go undercover for the Alliance. Her mission: infiltrate the mind of werewolf leader Vincent Rand, a ferociously alluring enemy who exerts a powerful hold over her. As the City of Angels teeters on the brink of apocalypse, these two adversari...
| | Man She Married (By Request) Publication Date: April 1, 1999| Series: By Request An incredible value-packed three-in-one collection, these stories delve into the lives of three special women and their extraordinary journeys to find true love. ...
| | Life Sentence Release Date: February 24, 2003In Life Sentence, Ellis brings us a second legal thriller, again evocatively set in an unnamed Chicago, in a Byzantine world of big-city politics full of payback and promise, ambition and disgrace. Jon Soliday is legal counsel to a powerful politician-also his childhood best friend-who is running for governor. The two have shared political success and undying loyalty. They also share a dark secret from the summer of 1979: a party that resulted in the death of a teenage girl.Soliday was implicated but, through his friend's political connections, escaped legal tr...
| | Laughing Gas: The Best of Maxine Publication Date: June 1, 2002Laughing Gas is a collection of Marian Henley's Maxine!, a weekly comic strip in syndication since 1981. Maxine is a ponytailed pundit who, as one editor observed, "always has her mouth open." Maxine offers an opinion on everything that matters most: love, religion, politics, philosophy, and of course, bad hair. ...
| | Fast Break (Lorimer Sports Stories) Release Date: September 1, 2011| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
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| | Barbie: School Days (Barbie) (Step into Reading) Release Date: July 13, 2004| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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