 | The Secret Keeper: A Novel
Release Date: October 16, 2012From the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of The Distant Hours, The Forgotten Garden, and The House at Riverton, a spellbinding new novel filled with mystery, thievery, murder, and enduring love. During a summer party at the family farm in the English countryside, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson has escaped to her childhood tree house and is happily dreaming of the future. She spies a stranger coming up the long road to the farm and watches as her mother speaks to him. Before the afternoon is over, Laurel will witness a shocking crime. A cr...
 |  | Plays Pleasant (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: August 26, 2003| Series: Penguin Classics Plays Pleasant (1898) comprises four comedies intended to amuse audiences but also to provoke them. Arms and the Man, set in the Balkan mountains, satirizes the romantic view ofwar and military heroism. Candida presents the complicated relationship between a vicar, his wife, and her young admirer. You Never Can Tell is a light, witty look at an aging suffragette and her family. The Man of Destiny features Napoleon Bonaparte at odds with English mores. ...
|  | Margaret Cho (Asian Americans of Achievement)
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|  | All the Pretty Hearses: A Bed-and-Breakfast Mystery (Bed-and-Breakfast Mysteries)
Release Date: May 29, 2012| Series: Bed-and-Breakfast MysteriesThere's no "fun" in "fund-raiser" for Judith McMonigle Flynn when she donates an overnight stay at Hillside Manor, dinner included, to the parish school's annual auction—especially when the winning bid goes to the persnickety Paine family. She'll have her hands full sorting through the painfully picky Paines' endless allergies and aversions. Then hubby Joe lands in jail after his latest surveillance job abruptly ends with an insurance fraud suspect being blown away by a .38 Smith & Wesson . . . that just happens to bel...
|  | The Unfolding (Stories from McKenzie Street #1)
Publication Date: October 1, 2003Annie Hamilton doesn't expect her life to change dramatically when she opens her modest home to a rootless and pregnant neighbor. But when the young woman abandons her newborn son, Annie summons her courage and decides to raise the baby as her own. All is well--until the day the birth mother returns to claim her child. Distraught, Annie searches for answers--and finds them in the most unlikely places. Can this path of darkness be the way that God unfolds His plan for her? This deeply moving story will open readers' eyes to the power of redeeming love--and the...
|  | Dragon Wytch (Sisters of the Moon, Book 4)
Release Date: July 1, 2008The D?Artigo sisters are half-human, half-Fae operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. Camille is doing her best to juggle magic, men, and the demonic war into which they?ve been thrust?until she discovers a secret that could change all their lives. ...
|  | Breeding Ground
Publication Date: January 1, 1990Deep in the dirty sewers of London there is a BreedingGround ...The slugs have come back ... slowly... silently... they slither alongdank, fetid tunnels into the city in search of human flesh. Theirinsatiable need knows no bounds.But now they bring a new horror - a plague which spreads insanity anddeath, transforming its victims into grotesque, crazed killers.Caught in this maelstrom of horror is Dr. Alan Finch - the only mancapable of destroying the Breeding Ground forever... ...
|  | A Game of Thrones: The Story Continues (A Song of Ice and Fire) (5 Volumes)
Publication Date: May 1, 2012| Series: A Song of Ice and Fire HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series has set the benchmark for contemporary epic fantasy. Labelled by Time magazine as one of the top 100 most influential people in the world, Martin has conjured a world as complex and vibrant as that of J.R.R. Tolkien, populated by a huge cast of fascinating, complex characters, and boasting a history that stretche...
|  | House of Dolls Pb
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|  | If It Ain't Baroque: More Music History As It Ought To Be Taught
Publication Date: October 1, 1992Many entertaining (and entirely true!) facts await your discovery as bestselling author David W. Barber takes you on another delightful romp through the pages of music history - as it ought to be taught. ...
|  | Japanese Plays: Classic Noh, Kyogen and Kabuki Works (Tuttle Classics)
Publication Date: March 10, 2010| Series: Tuttle Classics Nothing reflects the beauty of life as much as Japanese theater. It is here that reality is held suspended and emptiness can fill the mind through words, music, dance, and mysticism. A.L. Sadler translates the mysteries of Noh, Kyogen, and Kabuki in his groundbreaking book, Japanese Plays. A seminal classic, it provides a cross section of Japanese theater that gives the reader a sampler of its beauty and power. ...
|  | Selected Stories
Release Date: November 11, 1997Spanning almost thirty years and settings that range from big cities to small towns and farmsteads of rural Canada, this magnificent collection brings together twenty-eight stories by a writer of unparalleled wit, generosity, and emotional power. In her Selected Stories, Alice Munro makes lives that seem small unfold until they are revealed to be as spacious as prairies and locates the moments of love and betrayal, desire and forgiveness, that change those lives forever. To read these stories--about a traveling salesman and his children on an impromptu journey;...
|  | The Thirty-Six Immortal Women Poets
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|  | Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia?
Publication Date: February 2, 2004No wonder the peasants Dislike a wet spring-tide: The peasant needs greatly A spring warm and early. This year, though he howl Like a wolf, I'm afraid. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
|  | As Good As Mango
Publication Date: February 8, 2012As Good as Mango is a journey told in the sensual language of blues and jazz. It moves from the landscape of colonial Africa into the colonial American South, and into the present. The hauntings of the past come alive with echoes of unclaimed history. The poems in this collection simultaneously affirm and inspect black identity — and identity in general. These are the poems of the bitter/sweet taste on the tongues of exiles searching for home. ...
|  | Whose Body? with eBook (Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries (Audio))
Publication Date: March 9, 2009| Series: Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries (Audio) The stark naked body was lying in the tub. Not unusual for a proper bath, but highly irregular for murder-especially with a pair of gold pince-nez deliberately perched before the sightless eyes. What's more, the face appeared to have been shaved after death. The police assumed that the victim was a prominent financier, but Lord Peter Wimsey, who dabbled in mystery detection as a hobby, knew better. In this, his first murder case, Lord Peter untangles the ghastly mystery of the corpse in the bath.First published in 1...
|  | The Mystery Fancier (Vol. 4 No. 4)July/August 1980
Publication Date: August 23, 2010The Mystery Fancier, Volume 4 Number 4, July/August, 1980, contains: "Little Old Men With Whom I'm Only Slightly Acquainted," by Ellen Nehr, "The Dilemma of Datcher," by E. F. Bleiler, "Spy Series Characters in Hardback, Part III," by Barry Van Tilburg, "Leslie Charteris and the Saint: Five Decades of Partnership," by Jan Alexandersson and Iwan Hedman, and "The Great Merlini," by Fred Dueren. ...
|  | THE DRAGON OF THE NORTH BOOK : THE BEST 63 STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS - ILLUSTRATED FANTASY CLASSICS for 4 - 12 Years Old (Perfect Bedtime Story)
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|  | Hydroplane Boats (Wild Rides)
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|  | Designed by God So I Must Be Special (Afro American Version)
Publication Date: April 1991| Age Level: 4 and up "Designed by God so I Must Be Special" is written in verse: this collection of poems is intended to be read to young children. ...
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