 | Monday Mornings: A Novel
Publication Date: March 13, 2012Every time surgeons operate, they're betting their skills are better than the brain tumor, the faulty heart valve, the fractured femur. Sometimes, they're wrong. At Chelsea General, surgeons answer for bad outcomes at the Morbidity and Mortality conference, known as M & M. This extraordinary peek behind the curtain into what is considered the most secretive meeting in all of medicine is the back drop for the entire book.Monday Mornings, by Dr. Sanjay Gupta, follows the lives of five surgeons at Chelsea General as they push the limits of their abilities and con...
 |  | Wild Night Company: Irish Tales of Terror
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|  | Sugar Walls
Release Date: November 21, 2007Sugar Alise Clark had a difficult childhood and now she wants the good things in life. After meeting Dyna, owner of an escort service, Sugar decides to start her own gentleman s club, Sugar Walls, and gets involved with the father of her sister s child. But both decisions will turn those she cared about against her...and may have lethal consequences. ...
|  | Call Me by Your Name: A Novel
Release Date: January 22, 2008A New York Times Notable Book of the YearA Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearA Washington Post Best Fiction Book of the YearA New York Magazine “Future Canon” SelectionA Chicago Tribune Favorite Book of the YearOne of The Seattle Times’ Michael Upchurch’s Favorite Books of the YearAn Amazon Top 100 Editors’ Picks of the Year An Amazon Top 10 Editors’ pick: Debut Fiction (#6)An Amazon Top 10 Editors’ pick: Gay & Lesbian (#1) Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms bet...
|  | In Peril: A Daring Decision, a Captain's Resolve, and the Salvage that Made History
Publication Date: November 1, 2003"Strong and Braden's tale of an imperfect storm, three ships, and a daring rescue comes to vivid life in this gem of a book." -Publishers Weekly "A marvelous yarn about an incredible rescue." -The Bangor (ME) Daily News When Skip Strong, a thirty-two-year-old captain of the 688-foot oil tanker Cherry Valley received the call, all he knew was that an oceangoing tug with five men aboard was in distress off Florida's east coast. Caught in an unusually powerful storm, the tug's engines failed, and as the winds gusted to more than sixty miles per hour and the sea...
|  | Marvellous Hairy
Publication Date: October 1, 2009| ISBN-10: 1926617088 | ISBN-13: 978-1926617084Hair is sprouting in unspeakable places and you can no longer carry a tune, but if you're a surrealistic artiste with an addiction to Freudian mythology and guilt-free sex, turning into a monkey has its upsides. Nick Motbot may be evolving as a novelist, but his friends aren't too sure about his DNA at least, not since Gargantuan Enterprises started experimenting with it. And once they figure out what's happening to him, they decide to set things right. Marvellous Hairy is a satirical novel about a ...
|  | Theatre As Action: Soviet Russian Avant-Garde Aesthetics (New Directions in Theatre)
Release Date: May 1, 1993| Series: New Directions in Theatre After the 1917 revolution, Russian and Soviet avant-garde theatre attempted to create a new art for post-revolutionary society. This reconsideration of the Russian avant-garde theatre investigates the burgeoning new drama/theatre forms of the period. Kleberg considers assumptions made about the audience and by the audience, and seeks to determine whether discrepancies existed between the two. Offering fresh insights into the modernist period of Russian theatre, Theatre as Action provides a new typology of the stage/audience relatio...
|  | The Church: A Comedy in Five Acts (Green Integer)
Publication Date: October 1, 2003| Series: Green Integer The Church, one of Céline's few dramatic works, was written in 1933, just one year after his great masterpiece Voyage au bout de la nuit (Journey to the End of Night). The play is a highly satirical work that mocks almost all races and religions, typical, in part, of Céline's diatribes. Yet here also is a work of great wit, sharing Céline's great comedic-tragic vision of humankind. One of the most noted writers of the 20th century, Céline is also the author of Death on the Installment Plan, North, Rigadoon, Castle t...
|  | Season's Greetings
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|  | The Changing Faces of Chilean Poetry: A Translation of Avant Garde, Women's, and Protest Poetry
Publication Date: September 14, 2008| ISBN-10: 0773450637 | ISBN-13: 978-0773450639Illustrating the translations of selected Chilean poets to provide resources for scholars interested in Chilean poetry, history, and culture, this title incorporates various elements of translation theory. It also takes into account the continuous interaction of linguistic, cultural, and historical elements. ...
|  | Selected Poems
Publication Date: August 6, 2001This selection offers a retrospective of the contemporary poetry of Simon Armitage, and is a perfect introduction to his work. It includes work chosen by the poet from six published volumes. ...
|  | Women Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews
Release Date: July 21, 1998Sixteen of the world's great women writers speak about their work, their colleagues, and their lives.For More Than Forty Years, the acclaimed Paris Review interviews have been collected in the Writers at Work series. The Modern Library relaunches the series with the first of its specialized collections -- interviews with sixteen women novelists, poets, and playwrights, all offering rich commentary on the art of writing and on the opportunities and challenges a woman writer faces in contemporary society. ...
|  | The Planets
Release Date: October 31, 2006With her bestsellers Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, Dava Sobel introduced readers to her rare gift for weaving complex scientific concepts into a compelling narrative. Now Sobel brings her full talents to bear on what is perhaps her most ambitious topic to date-the planets of our solar system. Sobel explores the origins and oddities of the planets through the lens of popular culture, from astrology, mythology, and science fiction to art, music, poetry, biography, and history. Written in her characteristically graceful prose, The Planets is a stunningly origin...
|  | The Leopard (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
Release Date: June 26, 2012| Series: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard In this electrifying new addition to Jo Nesbø’s internationally acclaimed series, Harry Hole must confront the darkest demons in his city—and in himself. Inspector Harry Hole has retreated to Hong Kong, escaping the trauma of his last case in squalid opium dens, when two young women are found dead in Oslo, both drowned in their own blood. Media coverage quickly reaches a fever pitch. There are no clues, the police investigation is stalled, and Harry—the one man who might be able to help—can&rs...
|  | Best Women's Erotica 2006
Publication Date: October 24, 2005| Series: Best Women's Erotica Best-selling sex book author Violet Blue takes the helm of this renowned series with a sexy, wide-ranging collection.Twist your bed sheets and dampen your palms. Under the stylish editorship of sex guru Violet Blue, Best Women’s Erotica 2006 delivers risky, romantic thrills. These joyful, daring, authentic stories revel in erotic adventure, from the sparks between strangers to the knowing caresses of longtime lovers. In Kellie Gillespie’s “Another Assignation with Charles Bonnet,” a blind woman experience...
|  | The Sanctuary: A Novel
Release Date: July 29, 2008After centuries of destruction, one unsuspecting woman stands at the center of a conspiracy that could change the world forever. ...
|  | The Bully Goat Grim: A Maynard Moose Tale
Publication Date: August 16, 2012| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up From the award winning creative team who brought you The Uglified Ducky, winner of the 2011 Texas Bluebonnet Award, and Rapunzel and the Seven Dwarfs comes the latest fractured fairy tale from Maynard Moose. The story has high flying bunnies, rude noises and a grammar lesson you’ll never forget. What more could you ask? An audio CD? OK, it has one of those too. In the wacky world of Maynard Moose, storyteller Willy Claflin brings us Bully Goat Grim who has a case of “Random Hostility Syndrome.” H...
|  | Down to the Wire (DK READERS)
Publication Date: September 27, 2004| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Game Time! (MathStart 3)
Release Date: August 22, 2000| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Poptropica: The Official Guide
Release Date: October 13, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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