 | My Point...and I Do Have One
Release Date: September 1, 1995The personal story of Ellen DeGeneres, the star of ABC's comedy series, Ellen, offers insight into her simple observations on life, her outrageous dreams, and her strange-but-true experiences. 350,000 first printing. $350,000 ad/promo. ...
 |  | We'll Always Have Parrots (Meg Langslow Mysteries)
Release Date: February 1, 2005| Series: Meg Langslow Mysteries (Book 5) Meg Langslow knew the fan convention for her actor-boyfriend's hit television series was going to be the ultimate in weird. But she came along because she figured Michael could use an occasional dose of sanity-and because it was an inspired place to sell her hand-crafted weapons. And so far, she was dealing pretty well with the costumed fans camped outside, the batch of escaped parrots and monkeys frolicking throughout the hotel...and the minefield of egos lurking behind the show's success.But soon after Meg goes head-to...
|  | The Italian Duke's Virgin Mistress (Romance Large Print)
Publication Date: August 15, 2010| Series: Romance Large Print Charley would do anything to keep her wages coming in and support her impoverished sisters and nephews--even if that meant working in Italy for the demanding and commanding Duke Raphael Della Striozzi.... Raphael couldn't understand why a woman like Charley dressed in dime-store clothes.It was going to be straight off to a designer boutique for her! But it was in Raphael's bedroom that Charlotte's complete transformation took place--from shy, dowdy virgin to confident, beautiful...mistress! --This text refers to an out of print o...
|  | Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
Publication Date: January 19, 2012| ISBN-10: 1619492792 | ISBN-13: 978-1619492790This is Twain s recounting of the life of Joan of Arc, a historical figure with whom the author was deeply fascinated. While Twain s take on the martyr has been dismissed by some critics as heavily romanticized, he considered it to be his finest work. The last of his novels to be completed, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc is an excellent read for anyone hoping to experience Twain at the height of his maturity. ...
|  | Night Street
Publication Date: May 18, 2012Night Street is the passionate story of a young painter, Clarice Beckett, who defies society’s strict conventions and indifferent art critics alike and leads an intense private and professional life. With her extraordinary talent for making simple city and seascapes haunting and mysteriously revelatory, Clarice paints prolifically and lives largely, overcoming the seemingly confined existence. Inspired by the art and life of the Victorian artist Clarice Beckett ?1935), Night Street is the story of a painter who, having remained unmarried by choice...
|  | The Complete Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
Publication Date: July 4, 2012Ulysses S. Grant s autobiography recounts the campaigns and battles in which he participated during the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War. Omitting detailed discussion of his childhood and presidency, Grant focuses most of his attention on his military career. This is a straight-forward, clearly-written memoir by one of the men responsible for the Union Army s victory. ...
|  | Tales of the Yanomami: Daily Life in the Venezuelan Forest (Canto original series)
Publication Date: June 28, 1991| ISBN-10: 0521406722 | ISBN-13: 978-0521406727The Yanomami Indians, living in the depths of the Venezuelan forest, are one of the most interesting of the world's tribal peoples. Jacques Lizot lived among them for over fifteen years and has written an account which allows them to speak for themselves, in stories told by Yanomami individuals. The tales are revealing in the insights they provide into the Indians' daily experience; their shamanism, magic and sorcery; and conflict and alliance with other villages. The result is a richly evocative and intimate a...
|  | Great Smoky Mountain Stories
Publication Date: January 1, 2000This book is the fourth in a series about the Smoky Mountain “west-of-the-Ridge” section of Western North Carolina—its history, people, customs, traditions, and folklore—with a strong emphasis on Haywood County. ...
|  | Being Human
Publication Date: March 1, 2011"Being Human" is the third book in the "Staying Alive" poetry trilogy. "Staying Alive" and its sequel "Being Alive" have introduced many thousands of new readers to contemporary poetry. "Being Human" is a companion volume to those two books - a world poetry anthology offering an even broader, international selection of 'real poems for unreal times'. The range of poetry here complements that of the first two anthologies: hundreds of thoughtful and passionate poems about living in the modern world; poems that touch the hear...
|  | The golden garden of the poets
Publication Date: 1914Publisher: London : Hodder ...
|  | Fragmented Melodies
Publication Date: November 12, 2007"Fragmented Melodies is a seminal, introspective work of exceptional freshness and contemplative diction transmitted in an enriched style that immediately grasps the reader's attention. Between Part I (Medusa's Spell) and Part IV (Homebound) the reader is instantly immersed into a multifaceted poetic universe that is both enigmatic and mystifying, reminiscent of Jared Angira's Silent Voices. Wakai's personae are inimitable and diverse, oftentimes imbued with passionate sensuality, despondent lives, and brutal nostalgia-the nostalgia of prison walls, defeate...
| | Han Shan in English
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|  | Theory's Empire: An Anthology of Dissent
Publication Date: April 20, 2005| ISBN-10: 0231134177 | ISBN-13: 978-0231134170Not too long ago, literary theorists were writing about the death of the novel and the death of the author; today many are talking about the death of Theory. Theory, as the many theoretical ism's (among them postcolonialism, postmodernism, and New Historicism) are now known, once seemed so exciting but has become ossified and insular. This iconoclastic collection is an excellent companion to current anthologies of literary theory, which have embraced an uncritical stance toward Theory and its practitioners. Wr...
|  | Air Time (Charlotte Mcnally)
Publication Date: September 1, 2009| Series: Charlotte Mcnally When savvy TV reporter Charlotte McNally enters the glamorous world of high fashion, she soon discovers that when the purses are fake—the danger is real. And no one can be trusted!Now Charlotte can't tell the real from the fake as she goes undercover to bring the couture counterfeiters to justice—and in her struggle to answer an all-important, life-changing question from a certain handsome professor… The one thing Charlotte knows for sure is that the wrong choice could be the last decision she ever makes! ...
|  | Spy Sinker
Publication Date: September 1990The third novel in Deighton's "Hook, Line and Sinker" trilogy. Spanning a ten year period (1977-87), Deighton solves the mystery of Fiona's defection - was she a Soviet spy or wasn't she? He also retells some of the events from the "Game, Set and Match", trilogy from Fiona's point of view. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition....
|  | Internal Disorder
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|  | Back of Beyond
Release Date: June 26, 2012In bestselling author C.J. Box's Back of Beyond, Cody Hoyt, although a brilliant cop, is an alcoholic struggling with two months of sobriety when his friend Hank Winters turns up dead in a remote mountain cabin. At first it looks like the suicide of a man who’s fallen off the wagon, but Cody knows Hank better than that. As Cody digs deeper into the case, all roads lead to foul play. After years of bad behavior with his department, Cody in no position to be investigating a homicide. But he will stop at nothing to find out who murdered Hank. And...
|  | Frozen Stiff (Mattie Winston Mysteries)
Release Date: August 7, 2012| Series: Mattie Winston Mysteries Mattie Winston knows everyone in the charmingly small town of Sorenson, Wisconsin - except the latest body discovered in a desolate field. If a woman this attractive had moved into town, the news would have surely hit the gossip mill in record time. So who was the murdered femme fatale? Whose knife was left planted in her chest? The mystery deepens when detective Steven Hurley takes one look at the body and turns as white as the newly fallen snow...and excuses himself from the case. It'll take all of Mattie's forensic skills to u...
|  | Kaput and Zosky
Release Date: April 1, 2008| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Would-be world conquerors Kaput and Zosky are at the pinnacle of their careers. So why does victory always slip from their grasp? On one planet the natives surrender to Kaput and Zosky without a fight – where’s the fun in that? On another, Kaput finds that he’s won the lottery – and the prize is invested by well-meaning people against his will until he learns he now rules their planet. He doesn’t even have to shoot anyone first! Mayhem and hilarity abounds...
|  | The Beginning (Animorphs, No 54)
Publication Date: June 1, 2001| Age Level: 9 and up...
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