| The Big Bear Publication Date: January 1, 2003A challenging murder case tries a Mexican-American attorney's practice in this legal thriller"I didnt kill her," the accused says. Gabby Garcia has heard it all before. "Everything from outright lies to minimization, omissions and simple denials." Garcia has all the cases he can handle, but a new case is about to grab his attention. In physician Dr. Alan Newsome, a man accused of killing his wife, Garcia sees the ultimate challenge in his long struggle for recognition and worth.Gabby Garcia has clawed his way out of a farm to work to become a lawyer for...
| | The Magic Tower and Other One-Act Plays Publication Date: April 25, 2011A wonderful collection of never-before-collected one-acts: "The peak of my virtuosity was in the one- act plays. Some of which are like firecrackers in a rope" (Tennessee Williams).Here are portraits of American life during the Great Depression and after, populated by a hopelessly hopeful chorus girl, a munitions manufacturer ensnared in a love triangle, an overconfident mob dandy, a poor couple who quarrel to vanquish despair, a young "spinster" enthralled by the impulse of rebellion, and, in "The Magic Tower," a passionate artis...
| | O Street Publication Date: April 2, 2007Powerful stories of a woman caught in the long shadow cast by the love of her motherThe tightly linked stories of Corrina Wycoff's gripping debut collection follow the life of Elizabeth Dinard. Raised in poverty by a schizophrenic single mother who self-medicates with heroin, Elizabeth experiences a childhood fraught with emotional and financial insecurity, as well as darker exploitations.Now living a fragmented and desperate adulthood, she continually attempts to outrun her brutal past but proves unable to let go of her love for the charismatic, lawless mother...
| | The Golden Child of Slaine Publication Date: October 1, 2005The Planet Slaine lies in the insidious grip of the Worm, a creature of ancient and sinister origin. Its only desire is to prevent the birth of the mysterious Golden Child and maintain its stranglehold on a planet that it has defiled for centuries. To live and pursue its cravings it needs a human host, but not many men have been able to endure its thirst for death and destruction until it finds Marik.Marik the pirate is the scourge of Slaine, and a wanted man across the whole planet. His name is a by-word for everything that civilization fears and hates. But ...
| | Climax: An Erotic Thriller and a Sizzling Romance by DeGroot, Jacqueline published by 1st Book Library [ Paperback ] ...
| | Blue Boy Release Date: April 28, 2009Meet Kiran Sharma: lover of music, dance, and all things sensual; son of immigrants, social outcast, spiritual seeker. A boy who doesn't quite understand his lot-until he realizes he's a god...As an only son, Kiran has obligations-to excel in his studies, to honor the deities, to find a nice Indian girl, and, above all, to make his mother and father proud-standard stuff for a boy of his background. If only Kiran had anything in common with the other Indian kids besides the color of his skin. They reject him at every turn, and his cretinous public schoolmates are n...
| | Wags at the World Cup Release Date: October 26, 2010Tracie Martin is the true queen of the Wagsand this is going to be her year. The fight may be on for England to regain their rightful place in the history books. But Tracie knows that the true battle of the World Cup will be fought in Gucci and in the pages of her favorite tabloids. Only with Tracie’s knack of ending up in the papers for all the wrong reasons, she finds herself getting more column inches than the England captain as she becomes the only person who can save England’s dreams of World Cup triumph. But can she warn off the evil cr...
| | The Wizard of Oz (Puffin Classics) Release Date: May 10, 2012 ...
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| | At First Sight Publication Date: May 21, 2000At First Sight, a selection on recent love poems, explores the seemingly transparent line between poetry and prose. Available here is an intimate window into the lives of paintings and people seen through forms ranging from Haiku to traditional French prose-poetry. ...
| | The History of the Book in the West: 17001800 (The History of the Book in the West: a Library of Critical Essays) Publication Date: April 1, 2010| ISBN-10: 0754627683 | ISBN-13: 978-0754627685Influenced by Enlightenment principles and commercial transformations, the history of the book in the eighteenth century witnessed not only the final decades of the hand-press era but also developments and practices that pointed to its future: 'the foundations of modern copyright; a rapid growth in the publication, circulation, and reading of periodicals; the promotion of niche marketing; alterations to distribution networks; and, the emergence of the publisher as a central figure in the book trade, to name a f...
| | Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting Publication Date: October 15, 2012The zany, the cute, and the interesting saturate postmodern culture. They dominate the look of its art and commodities as well as our discourse about the ambivalent feelings these objects often inspire. In this radiant study, Sianne Ngai offers a theory of the aesthetic categories that most people use to process the hypercommodified, mass-mediated, performance-driven world of late capitalism, treating them with the same seriousness philosophers have reserved for analysis of the beautiful and the sublime.Ngai explores how each of these aesthetic categories ex...
| | Pieces Of Dreams (Arabesque) Publication Date: September 1, 2009| Series: Arabesque Tragedy brought Maxine Sherman and Quinten Parker together years ago, but another woman stole him away from her. For as long as Maxine could remember, her nights were filled with dreams of his return. That was then. Now Quinn is back after another tragedy occurs in his life, and he wants things the way they were. But Maxine has a new life, a new man…and a secret that binds her and Quinn forever.Common sense tells Maxine she shouldn't put her heart in the hands of the man who once left it broken in pieces—and risk losing the ...
| | Birds of a Feather (Maisie Dobbs, Book 2) Release Date: August 2, 2005| Age Level: 18 and up | Grade Level: 12 and up Jacqueline Winspear’s marvelous and inspired debut, Maisie Dobbs, won her fans from coast to coast and raised her intuitive, intelligent, and resourceful heroine to the ranks of literature’s favorite sleuths. Birds of a Feather finds Maisie Dobbs on another dangerously intriguing adventure in London "between the wars." It is the spring of 1930, and Maisie has been hired to find a runaway heiress. But what seems a simple case at the outset soon becomes increasingly complicated when three of the heiress&rsq...
| | The Detective and The Woman: A Novel of Sherlock Holmes Publication Date: April 16, 2012Irene Adler, American opera singer and the one woman who outsmarted Sherlock Holmes, finds herself a widow at thirty-two, wealthy but emotionally broken. At the same time, Sherlock Holmes finds himself unable to return to England after faking his death at Reichenbach Falls and is drawn into an investigation of two men with designs on a woman they call Miss A, who is none other than Irene Adler herself. The Detective and The Woman throw their lot in together to uncover a dangerous plot with implications that stretch across the Atlantic. In the process, they mee...
| | Pok Release Date: June 5, 2012| Age Level: 9 and up...
| | The Girl Who Married the Moon: Tales from Native North America Publication Date: April 3, 2006| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up This collection of traditional stories explores the significance of a young girl's rite of passage into womanhood. Each of these stories originated in the oral tradition and have been carefully researched. Joseph Bruchac, author of the best-selling Keeper's of the Earth series, and noted storyteller, has been entrusted with stories from elders of other native nations which ensures that the stories collected in The Girl Who Married the Moon are authentic. ...
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| | We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball Release Date: January 8, 2008| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up “We are the ship; all else the sea.”—Rube Foster, founder of the Negro National League The story of Negro League baseball is the story of gifted athletes and determined owners; of racial discrimination and international sportsmanship; of fortunes won and lost; of triumphs and defeats on and off the field. It is a perfect mirror for the social and political history of black America in the first half of the twentieth century. But most of all, the story of the Negro Leagues is about hundre...
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