 | All the other voices: An annotated bibliography of fiction by African, Asian and Latin American women
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 | To the Birdhouse
Release Date: February 1, 2011Newlywed Alice Brody appears to have the perfect life. The one fly in the ointment is her mother’s detestable boyfriend, Louie Scifo: champion of incredibly bad taste and a bona fide stalker. After Alice’s mother cuts him loose, Louie’s determination to win back her love casts Alice’s whole family into disarray. So Alice embarks on a mission to rid her mother of Louie once and for all, in this rambunctious comedy of manners that is at once “dizzying, hilarious, authentic, and original” (Washington Post Book World). ...
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 | The House
Publication Date: August 1, 2007TWO OF EDWARD LEE'S MOST INFAMOUS NOVELLAS IN ONE BOOK!THE PIG: You know, the traditional tale of a man with big city dreams and how one wrong deal can put you in the woods filming porn with junkie whores, sexual freaks, psycho mobsters and, oh yeah...a pig.THE HOUSE: Thirty years ago a lot of very bad things happened in the way out in the woods. Things that scarred this house forever. Now Melvin is there to investigate the so-called haunted house. He doesn't believe. But he soon will as his dreams smash head first into the memories of a man sentenced to film ...
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 | Blockade Billy
Release Date: May 25, 2010From New York Times bestselling author Stephen King comes the haunting story of Blockade Billy, the greatest Major League baseball player to be erased from the game. Even the most die-hard baseball fans don’t know the true story of William “Blockade Billy” Blakely. He may have been the greatest player the game has ever seen, but today no one remembers his name. He was the first--and only--player to have his existence completely removed from the record books. Even his team is long forgotten, barely a footnote in the game’s ...
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 | Saberjet Onyx: Deceptions Have Consequences
Publication Date: January 27, 2012When it becomes clear that the Supreme Court may finally be ready to accept jurisdiction over a case directly calling into question the constitutional eligibility of President Boalt, his administration initiates the F-86 Project, code-named Saberjet Onyx. The object is to proffer as genuine a counterfeit federal document to ensure the Supreme Court will affirm Boalt's eligibility. The counterfeit document, a long lost, purportedly "newly-discovered" final essay in the series of The Federalist Papers -- Federalist 86 -- is offered up as proof that the Foundin...
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 | Captain Antifer
Publication Date: June 1, 2001Captain Antifer's father had befriended an Egyptian prisoner at Jaff [Jaffa], Kamylk Pasha, and many years after he received a mysterious document naming latitude 24 degrees 59 minutes north, and saying that the longitude would follow later. It never did; but Antifer succeeded in discovering it, and had a series of most exciting adventures in searching for the wealth which was to be found on the spot indicated. ...
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 | The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
Release Date: February 6, 2007 Seven Spiritual Masterworks by C. S. Lewis This classic collection includes C. S. Lewis's most important spiritual works:Mere Christianity The Screwtape Letters The Great Divorce The Problem of Pain Miracles A Grief Observed The Abolition of Man ...
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 | Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex)
Publication Date: June 11, 2010The story of Oedipus the King (or Oedipus Rex), is a Theban play written by Sophocles, one of the three ancient Greek Tragedians whose work as survived. In the story of Oedipus Rex, Laius, King of Thebes, finds an oracle foretelling that the child born to him by his queen Jocasta would slay his father and wed his mother. So when in time a son (Oedipus) was born the infant's feet were riveted together and he was left to die on Mount Cithaeron. But a shepherd found Oedipus and tended him, and delivered him to another shepherd who took him to his master, the King ...
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 | Dom Casmurro: A Novel
Release Date: September 15, 2009| ISBN-10: 0374523037 | ISBN-13: 978-0374523039| Edition: Reprint Bento Santiago, the wildly unreliable narrator of Dom Casmurro, believes that he has been cuckolded—he suspects that his wife has cheated on him with his best friend and that her child is not his. Has Capitú, his love since childhood, really been unfaithful to him? Or is the evidence of her betrayal merely the product of a paranoid mind? First published in 1900, Dom Casmurro, widely considered Machado de Assis’s greatest novel and a classic of Brazilian literature, is a bril...
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 | Peter Pan (Acting Edition)
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 | Gothic Motifs in the Fiction of William Gibson (Postmodern Studies 36)
Publication Date: June 1, 2004| ISBN-10: 9042017619 | ISBN-13: 978-9042017610Gibson’s startingly new form of science fiction opens inner vistas through his sense of how technological development increasingly removes the boundaries between the realms of the imagined and the real. This important new study focuses on the visual elements in Gibson’s work, suggesting how his extraordinary mindscapes are locatable in terms of both gothic and the graphic novel traditions in a subtle interweaving of physical and virtual space that creates new forms of spatial being. Gibson describes th...
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 | The House of Haunted Dreams
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 | A Guilty Thing Surprised (Chief Inspector Wexford Mysteries)
Release Date: August 12, 1987Elizabeth Nightingale found peace and tranquility on her nightly walks through the rich, dense forests surrounding Myfleet Manor. But the peace she treasured was shattered one night when she found death waiting in the woods. Chief Inspector Wexford and his colleague Inspector Burden find a most unsavory case on their hands -- and must use all their wit and wisdom to solve it . . . ...
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 | Bitter Instinct
Release Date: May 1, 2001In his acclaimed Instinct novels, Robert W. Walker has given readers new reasons to be afraid of the shadows-and the strangers who inhabit them.In his latest, he pits the FBI's Dr. Coran against a serial killer with a passion for poetry-and the need to carve it into his victims' flesh. But the most baffling part of the crimes, is that each victim has been willing to die for the madman's art. ...
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 | A Treasury of Sherlock Holmes
Publication Date: 1955Hardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in good all round condition. ...
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 | Full Court Flash (Sports Illustrated Kids Graphic Novels)
Publication Date: January 2, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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 | Dear Dragon Goes to the Market (New Dear Dragon)
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 | Werewolf Versus Dragon (Awfully Beastly Business)
Publication Date: April 1, 2012| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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| Unlucky Charms (The Cold Cereal Saga)
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 | Cycling in Action (Sports in Action)
Publication Date: March 15, 2002| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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