 | A Reader's Companion to J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
Publication Date: June 15, 2011This second edition of Peter G. Beidler's Reader's Companion builds on the success of the first edition. It will be an indispensable guide for teachers, students, and general readers who want fully to appreciate Salinger's perennial bestseller. Now six decades old, The Catcher in the Rye contains references to people, places, books, movies, and historical events that will puzzle many twenty-first century readers. This edition includes a new section on reactions to Salinger's death in January, 2010.Beidler provides some 250 explanations to help readers make sens...
 |  | A Dangerous Kiss (Grayson Friends)
Release Date: June 26, 2012| Series: Grayson Friends (Book 7) HE'S GOT SUMMER ON HIS MIND.Sexy, single sports consultant Payton "Sin" Sinclair has tackled the world's most valuable players--and most eligible women. But ever since his two best friends found love, despite his dangerous secret, he's tempted to take a chance himself. And that temptation is a woman named Summer... SHE'S GOT SIN IN HER HEART.A self-made restaurant owner with a painful past, Summer has always counted on Sin. Beneath his smooth charm--and hard body--lies a tender-hearted friend who always ke...
|  | Jeffrey
Publication Date: January 1998A two act play for 7 males and 1 female. From the publisher's synopsis: "Jeffrey, a gay actor/waiter, has sworn off sex after too many bouts with his partners about what is "safe" and what is not. In gay New York, though, sex is not something you can avoid. Whether catering a ditzy socialite's "how-down for AIDS" or cruising at a funeral; at the gym or in the back rooms of an anonymous sex club; at the annual Gay Pride Parade, or in the libidinous hands of a father-confessor, Jeffrey finds the pursuit of love and just plain old physical gratification to be the n...
|  | Choke
Release Date: August 26, 2008Victor Mancini's a medical school dropout with a problem. He needs to pay for elder care for his mother, who's got Alzheimer's. So he comes up with the perfect scam: pretending to choke in upscale restaurants and getting “saved” by fellow diners who, feeling responsible for Victor's life, offer him financial support.Meanwhile, he cruises sexual addiction recovery workshops and spends his days working at Colonial Dunsboro, where his stoner colleagues are sentenced to the stocks for any deviation from the colonial lifestyle. Oh, yeah, and he's desperate...
|  | Wildwood
Release Date: July 1, 2011Long-buried memories of a tragedy in their past silently connect three friends and bring an added dimension to the time-tested theme of the power of female friendship in this vibrant debut novel. After 12-year-old Hannah struggles against the sexual advances of a neighbour and pushes him over a cliff to his death, she and her best friends, Liz and Jeanne, pledge never to reveal what happened. But the secret reverberates throughout each of their lives, causing seemingly unrelated difficulties in their relationships with loved ones. Hannah essentially abandons her own...
|  | Fatal Secrets (Love Inspired Suspense)
Publication Date: May 11, 2010| Series: Love Inspired Suspense "For my baby's safety, I must give her up..."An old letter is all Kristin Perry has of her birth mother. When the Witness Protection Program couldn't keep mother or daughter safe, the woman fled "underground." With the help of private investigator Zane Black, Kristin tries to track her down. Instead, though, she finds herself the target of a series of deadly "accidents." Zane's still searching for her missing mother--but now Kristin's starting to wonder if her family reunion will be the death of them all.... --This text refers to...
|  | Genome: The Novel
Publication Date: August 16, 2012Jack and his team created a sexy Artificial Intelligence to run the 3D holo-room and the biogenetics laboratory. Samantha, a beautiful psychic haunted by someone from Jack's past, needs his help to stop the nightmares. Jack must risk his life, using the AI and the laboratory to alter his senses, to solve the mystery from his past. Sam and Jack discover that a cemetary is not always as quiet and deserted as it seems. ...
|  | Pocket Kings
Publication Date: March 27, 2012In this dead-on satire of online obsessions, a novelist with writer’s block finds a new—and very lucrative—stream of income in a virtual world that appears to give him everything he lacks in the real world.When frank Dixon, a frustrated writer who has seen his career crash and burn, decides to dabble in online poker, he discovers he has a knack for winning. In this newfound realm, populated by alluring characters—each of them elusive, mysterious, and glamorous—he becomes a smash success: popular, rich, and loved. Going by the name...
|  | The Biblical Drama of Medieval Europe
Publication Date: September 18, 2003Lynette Muir's study presents a detailed survey and analysis of the surviving corpus of Biblical drama from all parts of medieval Christian Europe. It examines over five hundred plays from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries, in a wide-ranging discussion that makes available the full scope of this important part of theater history. Organized to provide a complete overview of major aspects of medieval Biblical theater, it includes valuable appendices that give information on the liturgical calendar, processions, the Mass and the Bible. ...
|  | The Gaze of Orpheus: And Other Literary Essays
Publication Date: June 1, 1981Writing about The Gaze of Orpheus, Geoffrey Hartman suggested that 'When we come to write the history of criticism for the 1940 to 1980 period, it will be found that Blanchot, together with Sartre, made French 'discourse' possible, both in its relentlessness and its acuity..This selection.is exemplary for its clearly translated and well-chosen excerpts from Blanchot's many influential books. Reading him now, and in this form, I feel once more the excitement of discovering Blanchot in the 1950s. ...
|  | A Choice of Flowers. Chaguo LA Maua: An Anthology of Swahili Love Poetry (African Writers Series, 93)
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|  | Madness Like Morning Glories: Poems
Publication Date: April 1, 2005In her enchanting poem sequence, Doris Davenport introduces readers to Soque Street and its "Affrilacian" residents. These African Americans inhabiting an Appalachian community in northeast Georgia live in a world where magic threads daily life and the living and dead commingle. Ghosts, self-propelled caskets, and sensate trees are as natural as morning glories to these characters, who are at once eccentric and universal, peculiar and welcoming.Spoken in intersecting and overlapping monologues, the poems create a refreshing portrait of small-town life, with its...
|  | The Pilgrim and the Bee: Reading Rituals and Book Culture in Early New England (Material Texts)
Publication Date: June 11, 2007| ISBN-10: 0812240154 | ISBN-13: 978-0812240153| Edition: Reprint We conventionally understand the book as a vessel for words, a place where the reader goes to have a private experience with written language. But readers' relationships with books are much more complex. In The Pilgrim and the Bee, Matthew P. Brown examines book culture and the rituals of reading in early New England, ranging across almanacs, commonplace books, wonder tales, funeral elegies, sermon notes, conversion relations, and missionary tracts. What emerges is a new understanding of the ...
|  | The Wild Ones
Publication Date: July 30, 2012THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERPassion as hot as midnight in the South and love as wild as the horses they tame. Camille "Cami" Hines is the darling daughter of the South's champion thoroughbred breeder, Jack Hines. She has a pedigree that rivals some of her father's best horses. Other than feeling a little suffocated at times, Cami thought she was pretty happy with her boyfriend, her life and her future. But that was before she met Patrick Henley. "Trick" blurs the lines between what Cami wants and what is expected of her. He's considered the...
|  | Raisins and Almonds (Phryne Fisher Mystery)
Publication Date: April 16, 2012| Series: Phryne Fisher Mystery (Book 9) In investigating the poisoning of a young man in a bookshop at the Eastern Market, and the wrongful arrest of one Miss Sylvia Lee, Phryne Fisher is plunged into a world of Jewish politics, alchemy, poison and chicken soup. Stopping only for a brief, but intensely erotic, dalliance with the beautiful Simon Abrahams Phryne picks her way through the mystery with help from the old faithfuls - Bert, Cec, Dot and Detective Inspector 'Call Me Jack' Robinson. But ultimately it is her stealth and wit which solve the crime - and ...
|  | Fairy Fashion (Dover Coloring Books)
Publication Date: September 19, 2008| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | If I Were a Pittsburgh Steeler
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|  | Farm Mouse (Patchwork Mice Series)
Release Date: January 1, 2005| Age Level: 3 and up...
|  | Tear Up This Book! (American Girl Library)
Release Date: September 1, 2005| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Sky Boys: How They Built the Empire State Building
Release Date: January 10, 2012| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up The unbeatable team of Deborah Hopkinson and James E. Ransome present a riveting brick-by-brick account of how one of the most amazing accomplishments in American architecture came to be. Join a young boy as he watches the Empire State Building being constructed from scratch, then travels to the top to look down on all of New York City in 1931. Hopkinson, a master of historical fiction, and Ransome, an award-winning illustrator, dazzle us with this ALA Notable and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book. ...
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