 | Don Quixote
Release Date: April 26, 2005Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece. Widely regarded as one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the adventures of the self-created knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain. You haven't experienced Don Quixote in English until you've read this masterful translation.This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more. ...
 |  | Prima Donna
Publication Date: November 1, 2011Prima Donna On the outside, McKinley appears to have it all-a fly crib, a closet full of clothes, money to blow and a man who is every woman's wet dream. However, lonely nights and broken promises are her reality. The only thing McKinley wants more than the air she breathes is Jamil. But Jamil's harboring a secret that's destined to destroy everything and push McKinley into another man's arms. Prima Donna is National Best-Selling Author Keisha Ervin's highly anticipated sequel to her hit novel, Finding Forever. *********** The Way It Is In the streets, where...
|  | The Ladies Auxiliary: A Novel
Publication Date: October 17, 1999In this remarkable and assured debut, Tova Mirvis tells the story of the close-knit, carefully structured world of the Orthodox community in Memphis, Tennessee, a world that unravels when Batsheva, newly widowed and a convert to Judaism, and her five-year-old daughter, Ayala, move in.Batsheva is free-spirited and artistic, and at first the women of the ladies auxiliary discover in her a passion for the traditions and rituals of Judaism which have become stale and routine to them. But when Batsheva becomes close with the restless high-school girls she teaches...
|  | Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010
Publication Date: May 16, 2012| ISBN-10: 0393342786 | ISBN-13: 978-0393342789| Edition: 1 “Rich’s poetry itself is a mirror, reflecting the truths about humanity this discerning poet has come to understand.”—Booklist“Rich is one of the greatest American poets of the past half century . . . attested to both by the extraordinary power of her poems and by the laurels she’s racked up. . . . The events of our blood-dimmed decade have afforded Rich a subject for some of her strongest material.”—Sara Marcus, San Francisco Chronicle ...
|  | Lonestar Homecoming (Lonestar, Book 3)
Publication Date: April 13, 2010For most, it's the safest place on earth. For Gracie, it's the last place she wants to be...and the one place she must return. With nothing but five dollars and the wedding dress she's wearing, Gracie Lister flees with her daughter by train to West Texas, to the town she ran away from so long ago. There they find refuge in the home of Michael Wayne--devoted single father, seasoned soldier--who gives Gracie a job caring for his two children and the hiding place she needs from her former fiancé. Michael and Gracie aren't looking for love, but it finds ...
|  | Bottom Dwellers
Publication Date: April 7, 2011After suffering a stroke, forty-eight year old, karate black belt Patrick Dylan is scuba diving in Lake Lanier for exercise and therapy. He encounters green skinned mutant people with gills who have been living there for more than fifty years, since the lake was created. While diving, Patrick also meets beautiful Park Ranger Trudy Price who soon becomes his fiancée.Just as with all people, there are good and bad among the bottom dwellers of Lake Lanier.Patrick battles with the bad and is surprised by the good.Thinking that they have left subterranean...
|  | L'ultima crociera (Italian Edition)
Publication Date: March 22, 2012Il primo imbarco di un uomo con l’acqua alla gola, un uomo disposto ad accettare qualsiasi lavoro: si imbarcherà come marinaio sul “Titanic”, il lussuoso yacht di un avaro e intrallazzatore miliardario che deve ospitare note personalità per una crociera ai caraibi. Ma le persone a bordo sono lo specchio esatto della società italiana. Il racconto è la metafora di una società avviata a grandi passi verso il disastro: la nave Italia. Riusciremo a salvarci? Duro e impietoso, il romanzo si snoda tra vizi ormai irrecuper...
|  | The Bambino Secret
Publication Date: April 2, 2008A phone call is directed to rookie attorney Darwin Barney. But this story has little to do with sports. Babe Ruth lived in a flamboyant time. Besides flirting with danger, he overindulged in promiscuity and infidelity throughout several turbulent marriages. He was involved with mobsters and was accused of murder. But America loved him for his heroic achievements. Why did he live in constant fear, and how did he escape the scrutiny of the media? ...
|  | The Heath Anthology of American Literature: Volume A: Beginnings to 1800
Publication Date: August 1, 2008| ISBN-10: 0618897992 | ISBN-13: 978-0618897995| Edition: 6 Unrivaled diversity and teachability have made The Heath Anthology a best-selling text. In presenting a more inclusive canon of American literature, The Heath Anthology changed the way American literature is taught. The Sixth Edition continues to balance the traditional, leading names in American literature with lesser-known writers and have built upon the anthology's other strengths: its apparatus and its ancillaries. ...
|  | If Minds Had Toes: A Novel
Release Date: March 6, 2007Fifteen-year-old Ben Warner is dizzy with boredom working at his local fish and chips shop. One evening, a young woman saunters in and, between mouthfuls of chips, invites him to visit her in the World of Ideas. Ben is excited, but suspicious. The World of Ideas is the philosopher's quarter of the afterlife, and adorable Lila has been residing there for thirty years, but being dead is just the start of her problems. Lila's boss, Socrates, President of the World of Ideas for the last 2,109 years, has made a bet with his rival, Wittgenstein, that philosophy can...
|  | First Cuckoo: Letters to the Times, 1900-1980
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|  | Birds and Other Stories (Virago Modern Classics)
Publication Date: July 12, 2003| Series: Virago Modern Classics How long he fought with them in the darkness he could not tell, but at last the beating of the wings about him lessened and then withdrew ...' A classic of alienation and horror, 'The Birds' was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a sense of dislocation and mock man's sense of dominance over the natural world. The mountain paradise of 'Monte Verita' promises immortality, but at a terrible price; a neglected wife haunts her husband in the form of an apple tree;...
|  | LATINO POETRY SE 94C (GLOBE LATINO POETRY)
Publication Date: January 1, 1994| ISBN-10: 0835907260 | ISBN-13: 978-0835907262| Edition: 1st Latino Poetry & African American Poetry A study of art and culture through poetry Invite your students to experience the richness, diversity, and appeal of Latino and African American poetry and cultures in these two soft cover collections. Illustrations—created by high school students inspired by the poets’ writings—accompany the text. Discussion questions following each selection encourage students to explore themes and build critical thinking skills. Biographical sketches o...
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|  | Samuel Johnson (The Oxford Authors)
Publication Date: September 6, 1984| ISBN-10: 0192813404 | ISBN-13: 978-0192813404| Edition: Edition Unstated This edition presents not only familiar pieces like Rasselas, "The Vanity of Human Wishes," the Prefaces to Shakespeare and the Dictionary, many Rambler and Idler essays, and biographical and critical works, but also a substantial sampling of lesserknown prose, poetry, letters, and journals. ...
| | David Gascoyne, ou, L'urgence de l'inexprime ; suivi de notes sur les Collected poems et du scenario inedit d'un film surrealiste (French Edition)
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|  | The Complete "Omaha" the Cat Dancer: Volume 1
Publication Date: October 1, 2005| Series: Omaha the Cat Dancer (Book 1) The best-selling classic of erotic comics that made the bridge from the undergrounds to today is back in a complete reprint of the full extent of the spicy saga with an all-new final story in the making with script by James Vance which will be pre-serialized in Sizzle magazine. Omaha is remarkable in that it blends intelligent and captivating story with well-rounded funny animal characters as well as totally guilt-free joyously rendered sex! This volume brings back the very first stories of the ground-breaking series. L...
|  | A Deadly Brew (Matthew Bartholomew Chronicles)
Publication Date: June 1, 1999| Series: Matthew Bartholomew Chronicles (Book 4) In the winter of 1353, torrential rains are spreading fever to the poor and making travel especially hazardous along the town’s outlaw-infested roads. Then three members of the University die by drinking poisoned wine. College physician Matthew Bartholomew would rather not get involved in the investigation, but when his life is threatened, he stumbles on criminal activities that implicate friends, relatives, and colleagues—a deadly brew of evil intent. ...
|  | Tara and Her Talking Kitten Meet the Naughty Dragon: and Other Stories (Tara and Ash-ting)
Publication Date: April 1, 2012| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Rebound (Lorimer Sports Stories)
Release Date: September 1, 2011| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
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