 | Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986
Publication Date: November 5, 1987Celebrated as a major novelist throughout the English-speaking world, Atwood has also written eleven volumes of poetry. Houghton Mifflin is proud to have published SELECTED POEMS, 1965-1975, a volume of selections from Atwood's poetry of that decade. ...
 |  | Bone
Release Date: May 13, 2008"We were a family of three girls. By Chinese standards, that wasn't lucky. In Chinatown, everyone knew our story. Outsiders jerked their chins, looked at us, shook their heads. We heard things."In this profoundly moving novel, Fae Myenne Ng takes readers into the hidden heart of San Francisco's Chinatown, to the world of one family's honor, their secrets, and the lost bones of a "paper father." Two generations of the Leong family live in an uneasy tension as they try to fathom the source of a brave young girl's sorrow.Oldest daughter Leila tells ...
|  | Ya-Yas in Bloom
Release Date: March 29, 2005For readers everywhere who are ga-ga for the Ya-Yas and clamoring for more and for those who are lucky enough to be discovering the Ya-Yas for the first time, comes a new book about the incomparable Sisterhood, bursting with life and funnier than ever.... An emotionally charged addition to Rebecca Wells' award-winning bestseller Little Altars Everywhere and #1 New York Times bestseller Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, YA-YAS IN BLOOM reveals the roots of the Ya-Yas' friendship in the 1930s and roars with all the raw power of Vivi Abbott Walker's 1962 T-Bird...
|  | Haunted: A Novel
Release Date: April 11, 2006Haunted is a novel made up of twenty-three horrifying, hilarious, and stomach-churning stories. They’re told by people who have answered an ad for a writer’s retreat and unwittingly joined a “Survivor”-like scenario where the host withholds heat, power, and food. As the storytellers grow more desperate, their tales become more extreme, and they ruthlessly plot to make themselves the hero of the reality show that will surely be made from their plight. This is one of the most disturbing and outrageous books you’ll ever read, one that co...
|  | How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Release Date: September 20, 2011Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for BiographyHow to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—such questions arise in most people’s lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: How do you live? This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, considered by many to be the first truly modern individual. He wrote free-roaming explorations of his thoughts and experience, unlike anything written before. More than four hundred years later, M...
|  | TimingVerification of Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs)
Publication Date: June 14, 1999| ISBN-10: 0137943482 | ISBN-13: 978-0137943487| Edition: 1 79434-7 It's About Time In today's high-speed designs, timing analysis is critical to success. This is the first book to focus exclusively on these crucial timing issues, with special emphasis on timing verification of ASICs. Timing Verification of Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) highlights principles and techniques over specific tools. This method makes the materials applicable to a variety of logic design approaches, especially in the field of deep submicron digital design. Topic...
|  | Plautus: The Comedies (Vol. IV) (Complete Roman Drama in Translation)
Publication Date: September 1, 1995| Series: Complete Roman Drama in Translation (Book 4) "The works of Plautus," writes Palmer Bovie, "mark the real beginning of Roman literature." Now Bovie and David Slavitt have brought together a distinguished group of translators for the final two volumes of a four-volume set containing all twenty-one surviving comedies of one of Western literature's greatest dramatists.Born in Sarsina, Umbria, in 254 B.C., Plautus is said to have worked in Rome as a stage carpenter and later as a miller's helper. Whether authentic or not, these few details about the pl...
|  | Mystique (Bantam Books Historical Romance)
Release Date: March 1, 1996A tantalizing tale of a legendary knight and a headstrong lady whose daring quest for a mysterious crystal will draw them into a whirlwind of treachery–and desire. When the fearsome knight called Hugh the Relentless swept into Lingwood Manor like a storm, everyone cowered–except Lady Alice. Sharp-tongued and unrepentant, the flame haired beauty believed Sir Hugh was not someone to dread but the answer to her dreams. She knew he had come for the dazzling green crystal, knew he would be displeased to find that it was no longer in her possession. Yet Ali...
|  | Love's Deception (Arabesque)
Publication Date: April 1, 2010| Series: Arabesque As president of her family's successful conglomerate, Carissa Cartel thought she was willing to do anything to keep her company growing. But when her actions result in business rival Travis Edwards's heart attack, she finds that her attempts to make amends to his handsome son are sparking a dangerous attraction.Photographer Nathan Edwards is stunned to find a beautiful, intriguingly sensitive woman at his father's bedside when he arrives at the hospital. And he's even more fascinated to discover how much they have in common. As Nathan and Ca...
|  | One Brave Cowboy (Harlequin Special Edition)
Publication Date: September 20, 2011| Series: Harlequin Special Edition (Book 2143) Behind the bravado was a complex man. War hero. "Indian cowboy." Walking wounded in search of answers. Cougar needed to build a new life, and he'd start with what he loved most. Horses. Which brought him to the Double D Wild Horse Sanctuary. And into the orbit of ranch volunteer Celia Banyon and her very special son.The boy had suffered an unspeakable accident, and his mother felt unspeakable guilt. But something about Cougar brought her back from the brink. He represented her chance to be a woman again. Now,...
| ![Barefoot Bride for Three [Bride Train 1] (Siren Publishing Menage Everlasting)](https://imageproxy.pixnet.cc/imgproxy?url=https://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61-kTchvUGL._SL500_SS500_.jpg&width=150) | Barefoot Bride for Three [Bride Train 1] (Siren Publishing Menage Everlasting)
Publication Date: November 2, 2010| Series: Bride Train [Siren Menage Everlasting: Erotic Western Menage a Quatre Romance, M/F/M/M] Elizabeth James escapes an odious fiance by heading west on the first Bride Train of 1870. She finds herself at the end of the line in the Tanner's Ford jail, forced to marry the town bully unless someone else defies Big Joe to marry her. Sheriff Chambers banned the Elliotts from town until one got a wife and settled them all down. Finding a defiant Trace Elliott in town, the sheriff offers a tall, ornery barefoot woman to solve all their problems. Beth is shock...
|  | Hate Crime: A Novel of Suspense
Release Date: January 25, 2005Bestselling author William Bernhardt is an unsurpassed master at blending psychological suspense with gripping, surprise-filled legal action. Now, Bernhardt and his crusading attorney Ben Kincaid return in a thrilling story of love, hate, and the power of a courtroom to separate deception from the truth.In Tulsa, Ben Kincaid has built a national reputation as a stalwart defense attorney who will fight tirelessly for his clients. In Evanston, Illinois, Johnny Christensen has built a national reputation as a sadistic bigot who beat and stabbed a gay man and left h...
|  | The Grail (Area 51, Bk. 5)
Release Date: February 6, 2001The Holy Grail -- is it the key to a miracle ... or a terrifying truth?The Great Wall of China, the immense carvings on Easter Island, Egypt's pyramids, UFOs. What is the chilling connection? The answer, unearthed by an elite band of soldiers and scientists based at Area 51, is rewriting human history -- to include the aliens who shaped it! Now, in this heart-pounding novel, Area 51 personnel embark on a top secret search for the Holy Grail, a glittering artifact with the power to save the world ... or lead to its destruction. Special Forces officer Mike Turcott...
|  | Lingo
Publication Date: April 1991Brewster Billings is perhaps a little too wrapped up with his computer. He has given it a pet name, Lingo. He has programmed it with the ability to talk to its owner.In fact, Lingo has begun to respond to Brewster's programming skill surprisingly well.Lingo soon makes the jump from polite conversation to elaborate requests for specific television shows to be left on throughout the day.Eventually, Billings begins to suspect that his computerized friend is surpassing him in knowledge and abilities.By the time his suspicions are confirmed, not only is Brewster Billin...
|  | The Mccone Files
Publication Date: May 1, 1995The McCone Files gathers all of Sharon McCone's short cases covering her entire career as staff investigator at All Souls Legal Cooperative in San Francisco.Marcia Muller comments in the introduction, "Over the seventeen years since her first case, very little about McCone except her voice has remained the same, and the stories in this collection trace her development."Each tale, including two written especially for this volume, is a miniature masterpiece of plotting, realistic characters and vivid settings.From the death of a clown in Diablo Valley to the disapp...
|  | Mameshiba: On the Loose!
Publication Date: July 5, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | The Impudent Rooster
Release Date: April 12, 2004| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: P and upWhen a greedy nobleman steals the purse a rooster intends for his poor master, the rooster crows out the truth: "Give back the pennies you stole!" But the nobleman hears only impudence, and he orders the rooster thrown down a well. But neither the well’s deep water, nor an oven’s heat, nor cattle’s hard hooves can stop this "impudent" rooster, whose amazing powers win back the purse and reverse the nobleman’s fortunes. Children will relish the energetic language and interplay of magic and justice i...
|  | Sport Bikes (Torque Books: Motorcycles) (Torque: Motorcycles)
Publication Date: September 1, 2007| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Wild Critters
Publication Date: March 1, 2007Journalist-poet Tim Jones and nature photographer Tom Walker team up to produce a delightful book for children and adults alike combining whimsical verse in the tradition of Ogden Nash with rare and heart-warming photographs of wild animals and birds with their offspring. Walkers unforgettable images of the wild critters at work and play and Jones humorous verse will delight all who venture into this pages. ...
|  | Why?: A 26 Fairmount Avenue Book (26 Fairmount Avenue Books)
Release Date: February 1, 2007| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
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