 | Truth in Advertising: A Novel
Release Date: January 8, 2013A wickedly funny, honest, and poignant debut novel in the spirit of Then We Came to the End and This Is Where I Leave You about the absurdity of corporate life, the complications of love, and the meaning of family.Finbar Dolan is lost and lonely. Except he doesn’t know it. Despite escaping his blue-collar Boston upbringing to carve out a mildly successful career at a Madison Avenue ad agency, he’s a bit of a mess and closing in on forty. He’s recently called off a wedding. Now, a few days before Christmas, he’s forced to cancel a long-post...
 |  | Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas (Sun Tracks)
Publication Date: October 1, 2011| Series: Sun Tracks (Book 68) Editor and poet Allison Hedge Coke assembles this multilingual collection of Indigenous American poetry, joining voices old and new in songs of witness and reclamation. Unprecedented in scope, Sing gathers more than eighty poets from across the Americas, covering territory that stretches from Alaska to Chile, and features familiar names like Sherwin Bitsui, Louise Erdrich, Joy Harjo, Lee Maracle, and Simon Ortiz alongside international poets—both emerging and acclaimed—from regions underrepresented in anthologies.The...
|  | Transfer of Power
Release Date: October 1, 2005#1 New York Times bestselling author Vince Flynn delivers a heart-pounding novel that poses an alarming and timely question right out of today’s headlines: What if America’s most powerful leader was also its prime target? TRANSFER OF POWER On a busy Washington morning, the stately calm of the White House is shattered in a deadly terrorist attack on the executive mansion. The president is evacuated to an underground bunker, but not before nearly one hundred hostages are taken. Mitch Rapp, the CIA’s top counterterrorism operative sent in to take c...
|  | The Ghosts of Morpeth (Horror, Occult, Ghosts): Amy Stuart Paranormal Blogger Book 2
Publication Date: November 28, 2011| Series: Amy Stuart, Paranormal Blogger What do Voodoo spirit bottles have to do with the ghosts in an Australian touristy village? Plenty, as Amy Stuart discovers to her detriment. Morpeth, once an early river port of Australia but now famous for its ghosts, plays host to Amy's latest paranormal mystery. Amy Stuart, journalist and blogger for a paranormal magazine, is back from London, having been made Keeper of a Society about which she knows nothing. Her caffeine habit is out of control, as is her job security. Even her life is left in the balance, as A...
|  | Madam President
Publication Date: November 2001It's the year 2020 and history has been made by Devlyn Marlowe--the first woman to win the U.S. Presidency. When it comes time to select a biographer to chronicle her historic term in office, Devlyn breaks with tradition and chooses a writer based on very personal reasons. She wants Lauren Strayer, a young author whose writing has always captivated her. There's only one problem--Lauren isn't interested in the job.Despite Lauren's reservations, the persuasive Commander-in-Chief is able to sway the author's opinion with the promise of true editorial freedom--a bi...
|  | Up
Publication Date: 1999When Ronald Sukenick's first novel, UP, came out in 1968, post-modernism, avant-pop and autofiction hadn't been invented yet. UP invented them. Ronald Sukenick's ten subsequent books are typically twenty or thirty years ahead of their time, and UP is more timely than ever. Ronald Sukenick is himself the main character of his book, in which he glides undisturbed from present to future, from reality to fantasy. Some of the time he's an adolescent Brooklynite, at other times a part-time English teacher, a struggling writer living in a Lower East Side tenement, or a fantasi...
|  | Las Cronicas de Narnia (Chronicles of Narnia (HarperCollins Spanish)) (Spanish Edition)
Release Date: November 7, 2006| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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|  | Screams
Publication Date: April 1, 1995Joyce Mansour's "Screams" was first published in France in 1953. In atime when feminism was in its nascent stage, and explicit sexualitywas taboo, Mansour's violent eroticism, and poetic mastery wereshocking. In "Screams" Mansour breaks open the female wound--andwomen's rage, ecstacy, and pain came forth in sharp piercingcries. Until now, American readers have not had access to thispowerful erotic text. Translated by Serge Gavronsky, "Screams" is amust for anyone interested in the feminist dimension of the Surrealistmovement. ...
|  | New Commentary on the Poems of Wb Yeats
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|  | Poems to Live by
Publication Date: August 4, 2008These poems and pictures were given to me by the Spirit of God for people to visualize or to envision what God is relating to us in this book. I bless the Lord Jesus Christ for the opportunity to be a blessing to Gods people for such a time as this.Poems are an expression of what has been created by God in the earth. This expression is in poetic terms to bring to us peace, joy, happiness and fulfillment. To enable us to love ourselves and to love others. As we look through the poetic words, we will know that God has always been here. Now we can live as we read...
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|  | Freedom's Promise (The Reardon Brothers #1)
Publication Date: January 10, 2000Series premiere special price! After completing her years of servitude to a dairy farmer in North Carolina, Annie McGregor hears there is a man in town, Ike Reardon, looking for settlers to accompany him across the mountains to Tennessee. Could this be the answer to her prayer for independence? During their adventurous journey, both Annie and Ike learn that freedom's promise holds more than either of them ever dreamed. ...
|  | Jane's Warlord (Berkley Sensation)
Release Date: June 1, 2004| Series: Berkley Sensation The next target of a time traveling killer, crime reporter Jane Colby finds herself in the hands of a warlord from the future sent to protect her--and in his hands is just where she wants to be....
|  | The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original)
Release Date: September 21, 2010| Series: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original An unstoppable anthology of crime stories culled from Black Mask magazine the legendary publication that turned a pulp phenomenon into literary mainstream. Black Mask was the apotheosis of noir. It was the magazine where the first hardboiled detective story, which was written by Carroll John Daly appeared. It was the slum in which such American literary titans like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler got their start, and it was the home of stories with titles like “Murder Is Bad Luc...
|  | Alien for Rent
Release Date: May 9, 2000| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up How much trouble can two third graders and one pint-sized alien get into? Plenty, as well as plenty of slapstick fun!It's just an ordinary school day when third-graders Lexie and J.P. see an unusual sign on the bulletin board. In silver letters that seem to float on the paper it says: Alien for Rent: Two Gugentocks Per Hour. Definitely weird.Before Lexie and J.P. can find any aliens, Bruce, the fifth-grade bully, finds them. When he tries to punch J.P., Bruce freezes in mid-swing, glows green, and floats off the ground. W...
|  | Los argonautas (Caballo mitologico) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: April 1, 2008| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Luna Bay #1: Pier Pressure: A Roxy Girl Series
Release Date: May 27, 2003| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | How Bees Make Honey (First Facts: Big Picture: Food)
Publication Date: January 1, 2011| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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