 | Waterloo: A Novel
Release Date: November 14, 2006Nick Lasseter is in a slump--as a reporter for the Waterloo Weekly, and in every other part of his life as well. When he grudgingly agrees to write a piece about a rising female Republican legislator, he stumbles onto a political fight in which the good guys and bad guys start to seem interchangeable. And not even the deceased can be relied upon to stick to their stories when Nick gets involved with a political insider. As they search the dim depths of a civic past that's anything but dead and buried, they find that some things never change--things like the mor...
 |  | Little Girls: A Short Story Novella
Publication Date: March 1, 2012"It had been a little over two days since fifteen-year-old Shanice had seen real sunlight, or another person. Despondent, she sat silent on the basement floor, her jeans soiled with the red sediment from the brick walls that lined the damp basement."The place is Oakland. The year is 2004. Little Girls: A Short Story Novella is a collection of linked short stories that focus on a group of characters whose connection to each other is the sex trade in the Oakland Bay Area.More than a collection about prostitutes or prostitution, Little Girls examines the complexit...
|  | The Bed Book
Release Date: May 3, 1989Describes various beds that are much more interesting than beds for sleeping, such as a jet-propelled bed, snack bed, pocket-size bed, and bounceable bed. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Women and Other Animals: Stories
Publication Date: November 1999"These women of Michigan's lower peninsula may live without automotive safety belts or televisions or the right kind of love, but they are able to trust their instincts and are ultimately drawn to whatever can save them."--BOOK JACKET. "In "Sleeping Sickness" a twelve-year-old girl copes with the sexually charged atmosphere created by her mother's new boyfriend. In "Bringing Home the Bones" a woman must lose her leg before she can come to terms with her estranged daughters. In "Running" the narrator obsesses about the mating habits of birds and the promiscuity ...
|  | Spur Of The Moment
Release Date: March 1, 2006You never know when the right guy will come along...At least, Ana Jacobs has a sense of humour. Between the constant struggle with her incredible shrinking wardrobe and her ever expanding waistline, her boss the Big Weasel, and her current unrequited love, she needs every laugh she can get. Especially when it comes to Jason Hess. He's the gorgeous, green-eyed reason she joined the improv comedy group Iron Pyrits - and he's also one of her six housemates. Jason is everything Ana has always wanted in a man, he's sweet, responsible, funny, and beautiful to look at. In...
|  | Forever (Firstborn)
Publication Date: September 29, 2011| Series: Firstborn (Book 5) A fresh, new look for the bestselling Firstborn series—the second installment in the continuing Baxter Family Drama from America’s number one inspirational novelist, Karen Kingsbury. Revisit the Baxter family in all their life-changing events, or share the series with someone who hasn’t discovered it yet.Katy Hart is thrilled about her future with Hollywood’s Dayne Matthews. But as she plans a wedding and looks for a house on the shores of Lake Monroe, she receives tragic news. Now she and the Baxter...
|  | Breach of Trust (Call of Duty Series, Book 1)
Publication Date: February 19, 20092010 Christy Award winner! 2010 Inspirational Readers Choice Award winner!Paige Rogers is a former CIA agent who lost all she treasured seven years ago when her entire team was killed in a covert mission. She blames their leader—Daniel Keary—whom Paige believes betrayed them. Disillusioned and afraid for her life, she disappeared and started a new life as a small-town librarian. But when Keary announces his candidacy for governor of her state, he comes after Paige to ensure that she won't ruin his bid for office. He threatens everything she ho...
|  | A Killer Among Us (Women of Justice)
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|  | Robert Bloch: Appreciations of the Master
Publication Date: October 1995A collection of essays, personal reminiscences, and reflections on the work of the horror writer by John Carpenter, Stephen King, Peter Straub, and others whom he influenced includes selections of Bloch's own work. ...
|  | The Greatest Horse Stories Ever Told: Thirty Unforgettable Horse Tales
Publication Date: May 1, 2004| Series: Greatest Throughout recorded history, the horse has played many roles in human life. He has been man's partner in war, his servant in work, his teammate in sports, his inspiration in art. So it is only natural that literature includes many masterpieces about horses and horsemanship.The Greatest Horse Stories Ever Told gathers together the best of the equestrian genre. It includes stories and articles by Pulitzer Prize-winners Red Smith, Maxine Kumin, and Jane Smiley, and tales by jockey-turned-mystery novelist Dick Francis and veterinarian-turned-writer...
|  | Literature for Adventures in the Human Spirit, Vol. I
Publication Date: September 30, 1994| ISBN-10: 0131412515 | ISBN-13: 978-0131412514| Edition: 1st This is a chronologically developed anthology ofmajor works of literature, philosophy and major religious traditions. This book features complete works or majorexcerpts.It ensures accurate yet reader accessible translations.Volume I covers Antiquity through Middle Ages.Volume II coversRenaissance through the 20th Century. ...
|  | Seneca: A Critical Bibliography, 1900-1980 : Scholarship on His Life, Thought, Prose, and Influence
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|  | Spain: A Traveler's Literary Companion (Traveler's Literary Companions)
Publication Date: March 1, 2003| Series: Traveler's Literary Companions Explore Spain's rich literary landscape with some of the country's best contemporary writers. Arranged geographically, these thirty stories — many of which appear in English for the first time — transport the reader through Spain's many enchanting regions: experience a bull-run with Juan Goytisolo in Albacete, join Bernardo Atxaga in a Basque village, travel to the misty woods of Galicia with Manuel Rivas, and reminisce nostalgically with Julio Llamazares over black-and-white photos of his childhood Spain. Cont...
|  | Metamorphoses
Publication Date: April 1, 2010| ISBN-10: 0714543314 | ISBN-13: 978-0714543314One of the greatest and most influential texts of antiquity, the Metamorphoses is universally regarded as Ovid’s highest poetical achievement. Divided into 15 books dealing with the creation of the world, earth, its phenomena, and a host of Greek myths and legends, Ovid’s book has ingrained itself into the collective mind of Western culture, sparking an infinite number of imitations and spin-off works to the present day. Rolfe Humphries’s faithful blank-verse translation of the origina...
|  | Speak to the Hills: An Anthology of Twentieth Century British and Irish Mountain Poetry
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|  | Grandmother Remembers: A Written Heirloom for My Grandchild
Publication Date: April 1, 1983Twenty years and 1.6 million copies later, this beautiful keepsake book is still a beloved family treasure. This charming album offers an appealing and accessible means for grandmothers to record family history, important events, and favorite anecdotes for their grandchildren. The lovingly illustrated four-color pages include places to write down favorite recipes, unforgettable family celebrations and traditions, and other memories that every grandmother loves to pass down. Inspirational poems and intriguing questions invite grandmothers to share fascinating fa...
|  | History of the Book in Canada, Volume 3: 1918 - 1980
Publication Date: February 10, 2007The History of the Book in Canada is one of this country's great scholarly achievements, with three volumes spanning topics from Aboriginal communication systems established prior to European contact to the arrival of multinational publishing companies. Each volume observes developments in the realms of writing, publishing, dissemination, and reading, illustrating the process of a fledgling nation coming into its own. The third and final volume follows book history and print culture from the end of the First World War to 1980, discussing the influences on t...
|  | The Business of Pleasure
Publication Date: January 3, 2011If one call could set you on a trail to the heart of your darkest fantasy, would you make it? Charlotte does, and her bold decision propels her into a world where no desire is too outrageous, decadent or extravagant to be satisfied - for a price. Her own fantasy life merges with reality when she is hired to work for the shadowy organisation she first encountered as a client. She organises an array of wild set pieces involving banquets, film productions, mansions full of pleasure slaves, as well as thoroughly researching those requests that chime with her own ...
|  | Endless Road and Other Stories (Five Star First Edition Mystery)
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|  | La Pequena Dragona (Guapas, Listas y Valientes) (Spanish Edition)
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