 | A Man Without a Country
Release Date: January 16, 2007NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“[This] may be as close as Vonnegut ever comes to a memoir.” –Los Angeles Times“Like [that of] his literary ancestor Mark Twain, [Kurt Vonnegut’s] crankiness is good-humored and sharp-witted. . . . [Reading A Man Without a Country is] like sitting down on the couch for a long chat with an old friend.” –The New York Times Book ReviewIn a volume that is penetrating, introspective, incisive, and laugh-out-loud funny, one of the great men of letters of this age–or any age–holds forth on l...
 |  | Grown Folks Business: A Novel
Release Date: May 17, 2005Sheridan's husband wanted to stop living a lie, but how was she going to live her life knowing the truth?"There's no other way to say this. I'm in love with someone else." With these words, Sheridan Hart's life as she knows it comes to a crashing halt. She thought she was living every woman's dream: for the past seventeen years of marriage, Quentin had been a model husband, father, and business partner. But for all those years, he'd been hiding a secret from her. In fact, he had kept his secret from everyone. His startling confession is a lifelong attraction to me...
|  | Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children (Yesterday's Classics)
Publication Date: November 12, 2006Adaptation of the story of Robinson Crusoe for children. Relates how the shipwrecked sailor makes a new life for himself on the island, crafting shelter, food, and clothing for himself from the few tools he rescued from the ship and what he is able to find on the island. Living on the island for over twenty years before he is finally rescued, he reinvents almost everything necessary for daily sustenance. Suitable for ages 8 and up. ...
|  | The Contest: A Stepper's Dream or Nightmare
Publication Date: September 10, 2008Gregory B. Dickerson was born in 1960 in West Brighton, a district of New York City's borough of Staten Island. He is a graduate of Susan E. Wagner High School and the College of Staten Island, majoring in Business Management. An employee of the Mass Transit Authority (MTA) for the past 25 years, he currently resides in Staten Island. The Contest is his second narrative. ...
|  | Vienna Waltz
Release Date: March 29, 2011Nothing is fair in love and war...Europe's elite have gathered at the glittering Congress of Vienna--princes, ambassadors, the Russian tsar--all negotiating the fate of the continent by day and pursuing pleasure by night.Until Princess Tatiana, the most beautiful and talked about woman in Vienna, is found murdered during an ill-timed rendezvous with three of her most powerful conquests...Suzanne Rannoch has tried to ignore rumors that her new husband, Malcolm, has also been tempted by Tatiana.As a protégé of France's Prince Talleyrand and attaché fo...
|  | The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Release Date: September 2, 2008Renee is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building, home to members of the great and the good. Over the years she has maintained her carefully constructed persona as someone reliable but totally uncultivated, in keeping, she feels, with society's expectations of what a concierge should be. But beneath this facade lies the real Renee: passionate about culture and the arts, and more knowledgeable in many ways than her employers with their outwardly successful but emotionally void lives. Down in her lodge, apart from weekly visits by her one friend Manu...
|  | Chase in Shadow
Publication Date: February 24, 2012Chase Summers: Golden boy. Beautiful girlfriend, good friends, and a promising future. Nobody knows the real Chase. Chase Summers has a razor blade to his wrist and the smell of his lover's goodbye clinging to his skin. He has a door in his heart so frightening he'd rather die than open it, and the lies he's used to block it shut are thinning with every forbidden touch. Chase has spent his entire life unraveling, and his decision to set his sexuality free in secret has only torn his mind apart faster. Chase has one chance for true love and salvation. He may...
|  | The Columbia River (A Rivers West Novel)
Release Date: December 1, 1995Seeking his fortune in the fur trade, Jared Flynn, a man running from his tragic past, is accompanied by the slave girl, Swan, and pursued by his brother, Malcolm, who has been hired to kill him....
|  | Essays on French Comic Drama from the 1640s to the 1780s (French Studies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, V. 7)
Publication Date: July 27, 2000| ISBN-10: 3906758397 | ISBN-13: 978-3906758398This is a rich collection of essays on French comic drama of the period from the renewal of comic drama in the 1640s to the eve of the French Revolution. The book offers exciting new studies of individual works and authors, while giving full consideration to broader issues. Major authors (such as Moliere, Marivaux and Beaumarchais) are treated alongside authors who, while famous in their day and instrumental in the development of the genre, have lesser reputations today. The collection reveals the continuities,...
|  | Cardenio or the Second Maiden's Tragedy
Publication Date: November 1994Recently identified by one of the world's leading handwriting experts, Shakespeare's lost masterpiece, coauthored with John Fletcher, involves a character from Don Quixote and features love gone awry, seduction, grave robbery, madness, ghosts, and murder. Original. IP....
|  | Sparkling Necklace
Publication Date: March 25, 2010A compendium of favorite poems by Vi Khue, translated from Vietnamese to English by Tam-Anh Chu, Ph.D.Vi Khue's poems make up an oral historical record of a woman living through the Vietnam War having arrived in the US as a refugee. Contributions from various authors including Prof. Huynh Thong Sanh of Yale University, a McArthur Award winner and author/painter Vo Dinh. ...
|  | The Pursuit of Happiness
Publication Date: March 15, 2012The Pursuit of Happiness collects shorter poems written during and after the composition of Crab & Winkle, and concludes with 'The Nathan Papers', an earlier and longer work written in Australia. The poems address the state of the art and the state of the nation, investigating the spaces left for pleasure in this new dark age. As anthropological investigations, they shift from Robert Creeley, burgers and South African wine on Charing Cross Road to images of Santa Claus in Anglo-Greek Paphos and Japanese tourist signs in the Bronte country. ...
|  | Daddies: Gay Erotic Stories
Publication Date: April 7, 2009One of the most powerful icons for gay men is the hunky, rough-hewn, authoritative daddy figure, who can offer hot kisses, warm embraces, and a firm hand with equal intensity. This collection of erotic stories reveals the unique sexual and emotional bonds between these older daddies and younger gay men: from twinks hankering for silver foxes to men with the meat of years on their bones mentoring spunky lads just coming out. Everything goes in these stories, from the sexually playful to the wistfully romantic, to hardcore S/M, to role playing, to extreme kink. W...
|  | The Ninth Step
Release Date: September 4, 2012Is it true what they say? That we’re only as sick as our worst secret? Because Helen Patrice has one. Last night, she murdered a stranger…Helen is a recovering alcoholic struggling through a twelve-step program. Now it’s time to make amends for a crime she got away with—a hit and run accident that killed the wife of school teacher Edgar Woolrich. It’s time to face the consequences. When she finally gathers the courage to meet him, the ninth step begins with a lie—the first of many as their relationship grows, and Helen kno...
|  | Detroit Breakdown
Release Date: September 4, 2012Will Anderson and Elizabeth Hume are called to the vast Eloise Insane Asylum outside of Detroit, where Elizabeth’s cousin Robbie is a patient and now a murder suspect. The victim, like three others before him at the asylum in recent months, was killed with the infamous “Punjab lasso,” the murder weapon of the Phantom of the Opera.Certain of Robbie’s innocence, they begin an investigation with the help of Detective Riordan. Will has himself committed to the asylum to investigate from the inside, and Elizabeth volunteers at Eloise and...
|  | The Big Gamble
Release Date: August 5, 2003Michael McGarrity's acclaimed Santa Fe police chief, Kevin Kerney is back-with his estranged son. Two bodies have been found in a burned building. One is a missing person from Kerney's cold case files. The other is a more recent homicide. Both will lead father and son into a vast network of crime...and the darkest places of the soul....
|  | Hans Andersen's Stories - Illustrated By Jennie Harbour
Publication Date: May 6, 2010| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Many of the earliest children's books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pook Press are working to republish these classic works in affordable, high quality, colour editions, using the original text and artwork so these works can delight another generation of children. ...
|  | The Adventures of Rama: With illustrations from a 16th-century Mughal manuscript
Publication Date: March 16, 2011| Age Level: 3 and up Classic Indian folk tale brought to life with an exciting new story and wonderful illustrations ...
| | Football (Success in)
Publication Date: June 17, 1982 ...
|  | Chicken Socks Pop Bead Critters Activity Book
Publication Date: May 15, 2005| Age Level: 4 and up...
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