 | The Uncoupling
Publication Date: April 5, 2011From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Ten-Year Nap, a funny, provocative, revealing novel about female desire. When the elliptical new drama teacher at Stellar Plains High School chooses for the school play Lysistrata-the comedy by Aristophanes in which women stop having sex with men in order to end a war-a strange spell seems to be cast over the school. Or, at least, over the women. One by one throughout the high school community, perfectly healthy, normal women and teenage girls turn away from their husbands and boyfriends in the bedroom, for re...
 |  | The Beekeeper's Apprentice: Or On the Segregation of the Queen/A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes (Mary Russell Novels)
Release Date: October 2, 2007| Series: Mary Russell Novels (Book 1) An Agatha Award Best Novel Nominee Named One of the Century's Best 100 Mysteries by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association From New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King comes the book that introduced us to the ingenious Mary Russell–Sherlock Holmes mysteries In 1915, Sherlock Holmes is retired and quietly engaged in the study of honeybees when a young woman literally stumbles into him on the Sussex Downs. Fifteen years old, gawky, egotistical, and recently orphaned, the young Mary ...
|  | The Savage Game of Lord Zarak (Seven Sleepers: The Lost Chronicles #2)
Release Date: February 7, 2000The Seven Sleepers are confronted by an evil king involved in a deadlygame of cat and mouse. He punishes perceived wrongdoers by giving them a no-winchoice: be imprisoned in a dungeon for life or take a chance at freedom by escapingfrom his estate past his savage hunting dogs.The game is deadly. The enemy evendeadlier. The Dark Lord has gained a foothold at the highest level. Pride has seepedinto the heart of the king and it is destroying his entire kingdom and all its people.Comealong on the adventures of the Seven Sleepers in the Lost Chronicles Series. TheSav...
|  | Down Home And Deadly: Sleuthing Sisters Mystery (Heartsong Presents Mysteries)
Publication Date: October 28, 2008 DEATH FOR DESSERT—When Jenna Stafford quits her dead-end job to help her sister Carly open a diner, she may havejumped from the frying pan into the fi re. Even though business is really cooking, last time the sisters checked, murder was NOT on the menu. So who’s the dead guy out back? And why are there more police offi cers on the scene than there are paying customers? Can Jenna and Carly sort out their scrambled love lives and still find the missing ingredient in time to solve the crime before their goose is cooked? ...
|  | Careless Talk
Publication Date: July 14, 2008Young Morley Charles worries that he's just not clever enough for the city's art school. He frets about his cap badge, the drawing competition and his father's conduct in Holland during World War Two. But the fibs he tells to advance himself in the eyes of friends, family and the local priest bring all manner of trouble. Here is Morley Charles again, the inventive and sexually curious hero of The Pig Bin, but now he has artistic ambitions and anxieties about links between his family and the Blackshirts. Careless Talk is a glorious comedy of misunderstandings se...
|  | Ghost Ship of Diamond Shoals: The Mystery of the Carroll A. Deering
Release Date: April 6, 2005In the misty dawn of January 31, 1921, a Coast Guardsman on watch at the Cape Hatteras Life-Saving Station sighted a mighty five-masted schooner, all sails set, wrecked on the treacherous Diamond Shoals. Rescuers rushed to the ship, but when they arrived they found the Carroll A. Deering deserted, with no trace of the captain, Willis B. Wormell, or the crew. When, several months later, a bottle was found on a nearby beach, purportedly containing a note from a crew member who ascribed the schooner's fate to its capture by pirates, a sensational panic in internationa...
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|  | The Mysterious Hualien (Green Integer)
Publication Date: September 1, 2001| Series: Green Integer (Book 103) Chen I-chih's poetry has garnered numerous awards in his home country of Taiwan. Combining classical elements of Chinese poetry with modern images and subjects, his poems, even by their titles ("Alzheimerian Love," "Black Hole," "I Think and I Worry," and "Journal of an Exterrestrial") reveal contemporary themes, which he often treats in traditional perspectives. The Tawianese Literature Series, edited by University of Southern California professor Dominic Cheung, has published to date two other volumes: Erotic Recipes by ...
|  | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems
Publication Date: 1978This reproduction was printed from a digital file created at the Library of Congress as part of an extensive scanning effort started with a generous donation from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.The Library is pleased to offer much of its public domain holdings free of charge online and at a modest price in this printed format.Seeing these older volumes from our collections rediscovered by new generations of readers renews our own passion for books and scholarship. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | The Collected Poems and Selected Prose (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre Imprint Series)
Publication Date: August 2002| Series: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre Imprint Series Stanley Burnshaw began to publish poems in the 1920s and founded his own verse journal in 1925. After serving as co-editor and drama critic of the New Masses weekly (1934-1936), he entered book publishing, directing the Dryden Press until 1958, when he joined Henry Holt. The first of his nineteen earlier works, Andre Spire and His Poetry, appeared in 1934 and the last in 1990, A Stanley Burnshaw Reader, with an introduction by Denis Donoghue. The present volume-the definitive Burnshaw collection-off...
|  | Les mots et les livres: Etudes d'histoire culturelle (French Edition)
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|  | Catilina; Iugurtha; Historiarum Fragmenta Selecta; Appendix Sallustiana (Oxford Classical Texts)
Publication Date: July 25, 1991| ISBN-10: 0198146671 | ISBN-13: 978-0198146674This first new edition of Sallust in over thirty years is based on a fresh study and collation of the manuscripts as well as careful consideration of the indirect tradition. Besides the well-known Catiline and Jugurtha, the volume contains more than seventy of the longer or more interesting fragments of the Histories and also the spurious Epistulae ad Caesarem and Invectivae. ...
|  | Men Out of Uniform: Three Novellas of Erotic Surrender
Release Date: October 4, 2011The hottest thing about a man in uniform is imagining him out of it... They may enforce the rules, but when men in uniform are off duty and under the covers, they're experts at breaking them. In this searingly sexy anthology, popular authors Maya Banks, Sylvia Day, and Karin Tabke present men in uniform-unzipped... ...
|  | Ultimate Weapon
Release Date: March 29, 2011Covert operations are what Val Janos is all about. The man is mysterious and sinister, and lethally hot. Only Tamara can understand the strange intensity that drives him to win at all costs - and only she can match it. Val has one weak spot: Imre, the frail old man who befriended him when he was a scared, hungry kid abandoned on the streets of Budapest. But Daddy Novak knows about Imre, and Imre's head is on the block if Val doesn't deliver Tam up to Novak's tender mercies...A white-hot passion explodes when Tam and Val get too close. They both have too much to be...
|  | Seduced by Blood (Hqn)
Publication Date: July 24, 2012| Series: Hqn Deep within the forests of the Pacific Northwest, the battle for supremacy rages on between two vampire coalitions:Guardian enforcers sworn to protect humanity, and Darkbloods, rogues who kill like their ancient ancestors…Hot-blooded and hard-edged, Tristan Santiago has an uncanny ability to see beneath the surface—a skill that serves him well as the Guardians' region commander. But when a deadly plot against his fellow vampires is uncovered, he must turn to the one woman he can't read: the beautiful yet mysterious Roxanne Reynol...
|  | Talk of the Ton (Berkley Sensation)
Release Date: June 2, 2009| Series: Berkley Sensation Four novellas of tantalizing tittle-tattle in Regency England. In the salons of the ton, no tidbit is more delicious than a rumor of amour-the more outrageous the better. Rakes and rogues, ladies of high station and low morals are choice fodder for the gossips of society. ...
|  | Essential Thor, Vol. 4 (Marvel Essentials)
Publication Date: June 24, 2009| Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Rumble Meets Sylvia And Sally Swan (Read-It! Readers)
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|  | Jeff Gordon: Racing's Brightest Star (Heroes of Racing)
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|  | Lavender's Blue: A Book of Nursery Rhymes
Publication Date: March 17, 2005| Age Level: 9 and up A definitive collection of nursery rhymes, beautifully designed and illustrated by the influential artist Harold Jones. This facsimile has been lovingly produced to recreate the look and feel of the first editions of this much-loved book. ...
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