 | The Milagro Beanfield War
Publication Date: February 1994Joe Mondragon, thirty-six, is a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble, who slammed his battered pickup to a stop one day, tugged on his gumboots, and marched into an arid patch of ground. Then, illegally, he tapped into the main irrigation channel. And so began John Nichols' classic tale of the little guy against the big guy -- THE MILAGRO BEANFIELD WAR. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
 |  | October (Quarternote Chapbook Series)
Publication Date: April 1, 2004| Series: Quarternote Chapbook Series (Book 3) The third annual edition of Sarabande’s Quarternote Chapbook Series."Identifying with the season of autumn, the dark of it, the barren, irreversible future of it, and the beauty of it, which is not seen as redemptive, the voice of Louise Glück is starker, more direct, more emotionally charged than it has ever been. October is a masterpiece."—Mark StrandLouise Glück is the author of nine books of poetry. Her many honors include a National Book Critics Circle Award, a Bobbitt National Poetry P...
|  | The Geometry of Sisters: A Novel
Release Date: March 23, 2010New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice explores the complex emotional equations of love and loyalty that hold together three pairs of remarkable sisters, in an unforgettable story of loss, redemption, and forgiveness The storm off Mackinac Island that engulfed Maura Shaw’s husband and elder daughter,Carrie, also swept away the illusion of her life as the perfect midwestern wife and mother. Now, after years away, Maura has returned to Rhode Island to teach English at the fabled Newport Academy and to seek a new beginning. Newport has never failed...
|  | Women on the Rocks: A Tale of Two Convicts
Publication Date: January 1, 2003| ISBN-10: 0702233625 | ISBN-13: 978-0702233623| Edition: First Edition In 1820 Mary Jones is wrongly convicted of a crime committed by her best friend. From their first encounter as domestic servants in Kent, the two women were unlikely friends, opposite in every way – Mary trusting, generous and kind, and Maria ruthless, manipulative and feisty. But their lives are changed forever when Mary is transported from the tranquility of rural England to the alien environment of colonial Australia. The two friends’ destines entwine through England, N...
|  | Thoughts of a Blind Beggar: Reflections from a Journey to God
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|  | Be Still, My Love
Publication Date: April 22, 2012After suffering personal loss, medium Tess Schafer's beliefs are thrown into question and her communications with "the other side" severed. Devastated by what has happened, she is unable to move on with her life until she takes a healing vacation on the coast of Maine. Even before she arrives at the resort, which is believed to be haunted by lovers Nathan and Abigail, her spiritual connections begin to return and Tess soon finds herself in the middle of much more than a tragic love story. Personal fears, skeptics, an overwhelming sense of menace and a distract...
|  | The Infection
Publication Date: August 30, 2011Five ordinary people must pay the price of survival at the end of the world.Amysterious virus suddenly strikes down millions. Three days later, its victims awake with a single purpose: spread the Infection. As the world lurches toward the apocalypse, some of the Infected continue to change, transforming into horrific monsters. In one American city, a small group struggles to survive. Sarge, a tank commander hardened by years of fighting in Afghanistan. Wendy, a cop still fighting for law and order in a lawless land. Ethan, a teacher searching for his lost fam...
|  | Labeled
Publication Date: November 16, 2010"For a narrative of adolescent despair and bravado, a passing parade of weird people and recitation of bizarre drug trips, Labeled works. It’s not The Catcher in the Rye, but there is something here. I think it’s an unmistakable honesty coupled with a struggle to understand what life is all about. No answers, but good questions."Sharon Dirlam (author of Two Years Beyond Siberia) ...
|  | In Every Port
Publication Date: December 1, 2003Jessica has it all. An expensive condo in the city of dreams, San Francisco. A high-powered, prestigious career as a management consultant that takes her all over the country... To passionate Roberta, in Chicago. To delicious Marilyn, in San Antonio. To all those cities and all those willing women Jessica has recorded in her well-used little black book.Sex with these women doesn't really mean a thing, Jessica tells herself. It's all just good times. Because she is not really a lesbian. No, of course not. Her sexual adventures are merely keeping her occupied ...
|  | Splattered Blood
Publication Date: January 28, 2012THE CHIEF OF INTERNAL SECURITY for New England's professional basketball team, the Highlanders, is found dead in his office, with a suicide note and conflicting evidence of foul play. Refusing to believe he would have had reason to kill himself, and frustrated with the slowness of the police force's progress on the case, Johnny's widow, Roseanne, and best friend, Randy, launch a renegade investigation of their own. Aided by Roseanne's brother Graham, a fiercely protective loose cannon, they dig up evidence that Johnny, just previous to the date of his death,...
|  | Cry of the Owl
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|  | Morning's Gate
Publication Date: February 1992Sixty years after Liam Elliott's and Georgina Duncan's separation, Zoe Clifford, an Elliott descendant, and her cousin Stephen piece together the clues to their ancestor's love affair. By the author of Louisa Elliott. 100,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. ...
|  | The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry
Publication Date: May 26, 1986Taking the death of Yeats in 1939 as its starting point, this anthology features selections from the work of ten Irish poets, including Patrick Kavanagh, Louis MacNeice, Thomas Kinsella, John Montague, Seamus Heaney, and Michael Longley. ...
|  | The Wadsworth Anthology of Drama, Brief Edition
Publication Date: January 1, 2010| ISBN-10: 1428288155 | ISBN-13: 978-1428288157| Edition: 6 THE WADSWORTH ANTHOLOGY OF DRAMA, BRIEF EDITION offers you a bold and most distinguished introduction to drama packed with exciting plays usefully situated within their historical and cultural contexts. ...
|  | Screwjack: A Short Story
Release Date: December 13, 2000Hunter S. Thompson's legions of fans have waited a decade for this book.They will not be disappointed. His notoriousScrewjack is as salacious, unsettling, and brutally lyrical as it has been rumored to be since the private printing in 1991 of three hundred fine collectors' copies and twenty-six leather-bound presentation copies. Only the first of the three pieces included here -- "Mescalito," published in Thompson's 1990 collection Songs of the Doomed -- has been available to the public, making the trade edition of Screwjack a major publishing event."We l...
|  | Collected Narrative and Lyrical Poetry
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|  | VICTORIAN SENSATIONS: ESSAYS ON A SCANDALOUS GENRE
Publication Date: October 15, 2006Wildly popular with Victorian readers, sensation fiction was condemned by most critics for scandalous content and formal features that deviated from respectable Victorian realism. Victorian Sensations is the first collection to examine sensation fiction as a whole, showing it to push genre boundaries and resist easy classification. Comprehensive in scope, this collection includes twenty original essays employing various critical approaches to cover a range of topics that will interest many readers. In addition to well-known novels such as The Woman in White ...
|  | Kids' Letters to Harry Potter From Around The World
Publication Date: September 17, 2002| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up With the phenomenally successful film Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, the bespectacled boy wizard's popularity shows no signs of slowing. Here is a charmer of a book for everyone who has ever read and loved a Harry Potter book. Now available in paperback, this is a collection of warm and amusing letters in which kids from all over the world express their admiration and affection for the imaginative, resourceful Harry. In addition to a generous sampling of children's enthusiastic, candid, and often humoro...
|  | The Lincoln Rhyme Collection
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|  | The Daltons' Escape: Lucky Luke Vol. 30 (Lucky Luke Adventures)
Publication Date: November 16, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up...
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