 | Isn't It Romantic?: An Entertainment
Release Date: January 6, 2004 Touring America was Natalie's idea. But she had not planned on being accompanied on a cross-country bus by her playboy fiancé, Pierre. Nor had they anticipated being stranded in Seldom, Nebraska, population 395. But that is exactly what happens to this French couple, and they quickly find themselves being taken in by the obliging citizens of Seldom: Natalie by Mrs. Christiansen, a retired high school teacher who runs a rooming house for women, and Pierre by Owen, a gas station owner and ambitious winemaker in an unlikely part of the world. And here, als...
 |  | The Norton Anthology of American Literature (Seventh Edition)(Vol. A)
Publication Date: April 19, 2007| ISBN-10: 0393927393 | ISBN-13: 978-0393927399| Edition: Seventh Edition Firmly grounded in the core strengths that havemade it the best-selling undergraduate survey in the field, The Norton Anthology of AmericanLiterature has been revitalized in this SeventhEdition through the collaboration between threenew period editors and five seasoned ones.Under Nina Baym’s direction, the editors haveconsidered afresh each selection and all theapparatus to make the anthology an even betterteaching tool. ...
|  | Geek Love: A Novel
Release Date: June 11, 2002Geek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out–with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes–to breed their own exhibit of human oddities.There’s Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan . . . Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins . . . albino hunchback Oly, and the outwardly normal Chick, whose mysterious gifts make him the family’s most precious–and dangerous–asset. As the Binewskis take their act across the ba...
|  | Final Awakening
Publication Date: April 4, 2011Andre, a once decorated war hero turned career criminal takes part in an above top secret government experiment along with twelve other prison inmates shortly before the known world comes to a virtual end. They are awakened one thousand years later into a world far different from which they left. Andre finds himself in a battle for a new life in this new world against the worst enemy mankind has ever faced. Full of twists and turns Final Awakening delivers excitement, suspense, and a jaw dropping wow. ...
|  | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: And a Man Called Horse, the Hanging Tree, and Lost Sister
Publication Date: March 15, 2005The Western Writer's of America ranked these four stories as the best short stories of the 20th century, but they have never been collected in one book until now. This edition is destined to earn a place in every western library! ...
|  | The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes
Publication Date: 1976Here are the original Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle as they first appeared in the famed British magazine The Strand. This periodical was the literary sensation of its time, especially with the publication of the novel The Hound of the Baskervilles (which appears in its entirety in this volume), when eager readers lined up outside the magazine's London offices, waiting for each installment as it came off press. This edition contains 37 short stories, reproduced in complete facsimile (published in individual volumes as "The Advent...
|  | Scaffolding; New and Selected Poems
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|  | Quan Liao shi hua (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | The Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature
Publication Date: July 1, 1981In his Preface to The Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature, James Twitchell writes that he is not interested in the current generation of vampires, which hefinds "rude, boring and hopelessly adolescent.However, they have not always been this way.In fact, a century ago they were often quite sophisticated, used by artists varied as Blake, Poe, Coleridge, the Brontes, Shelley, and Keats, to explain aspects of interpersonal relations.However vulgar the vampire has since become, it is important to remember that along with the Frankenstein m...
|  | The mystery of the twisted spire
Publication Date: March 31, 2011A beautiful woman. A dashing young man. A story about the importance of time set in the distant future, the present and the past, linked with a simple but thought provoking plot. The characters reflect us all and the subject is about . . . well everything, in this surreal story. Read the book and find the clues to solve the mystery of the twisted spire. ...
|  | Hot Sites: Paper-Surf the Superhighway
Publication Date: May 1998Brought together for the first time, here are the hottest examples of graphic design created specifically for the computer screen. The book is divided into Web sites and CD-ROMs and cover a wide range of retail categories--from computer products, interactive encyclopedias, and encoded music disks to fashion, entertainment, current affairs, big business, and much more. 350 color illustrations. ...
|  | The Various Haunts of Men (Simon Serrailler Mystery)
Release Date: April 1, 2008| Series: Simon Serrailler Mystery When Susan Hill first introduced us to the city of Lafferton, to its meticulously crafted cast of characters, and to its chief police inspector Simon Serrailler, readers went wild. When it was released in hardcover, The Various Haunts of Men was named a BookSense Pick and was immediately on the must-read list of every mystery fan. Now out in paperback, Hill's intricate and pulse-pounding novel will reach an even wider audience. As the story begins, a lonely woman vanishes while out on her morning run. Then a 22-year-old girl never...
|  | Death Plays Poker: A Clare Vengel Undercover Novel
Publication Date: October 1, 2011| Series: A Clare Vengel Undercover Novel When poker players at a major, televised tournament begin turning up strangled in their hotel rooms, cop Clare Vengel must once again go undercover to befriend the suspects and find the killer in their midst. Though Clare hates her shallow cover character Tiffany, a trust-fund princess who thinks the poker tour is a better idea than college, posing helps her infiltrate the inner circle quickly. Her flashy new wardrobe also attracts the attentions of Noah, a dark stranger who’s at the game for hidden reasons of h...
|  | Sherlock Holmes and the Hammerford Will (Sherlock Holmes Mysteries (Breese))
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|  | Snarked Vol. 2: Ships and Sealing Wax
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|  | Mother Goose Manners
Release Date: April 28, 2008| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up If Jack Sprat and his wife had better table manners, maybe they would have used knives and forks instead of licking the platter clean. And the littlest pig would have been more helpful if he'd helped carry his brother's packages instead of crying wee-wee-wee all the way home. Whimsical illustrations and gatefolds offer both an introduction to good manners and a rousing good time. ...
|  | Jacksonville Jaguars 101: My First Team-board-book
Publication Date: September 30, 2012Jacksonville Jaguars 101 is required reading for every Jaguars fan! From the antics of Jaxon de Ville and the Colts rivalry to the thrills of the AFC Playoff games, you'll share all the memories with the next generation. Enjoy all the traditions of your favorite team, learn the basics about playing football and share the excitement of the NFL! Officially licensed by the NFL. ...
|  | Swing!: A Scanimation Picture Book
Publication Date: October 15, 2008| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Published last fall, Gallop! introduced the amazing technology called Scanimation and took the children’s book world by storm. It became an instant bestseller—#1 on The New York Timeschildren's list.Now Swing! does for kids what Gallop! does for animals—a boy rides a bike, a girl kicks her soccer ball, a swimmer cuts through the water, and a skater pirouettes on ice. The effect is joyous, magical, mesmerizing, and taps into the the endless fascination that children find in watching other ch...
|  | Good Books, Good Times! (Trophy Picture Books)
Release Date: January 26, 2000| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | The Millennium Stones
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