 | Haywire: Poems (Swenson Poetry Award)
Publication Date: October 20, 2006| Series: Swenson Poetry Award Tenth annual winner of the May Swenson Poetry Award, Haywire is a well-polished collection from a highly accomplished poet. With humor, compassion, and an unflinching eye, Bilgere explores the human condition in accessible lines and a magician's way with language. In images bright and dark, tangible and immanent, Bilgere brings us time after time to the inner reaches of a contemporary life. In subjects ranging from adolescent agony to the loss of parents to the comic pain of middle age, he finds no reason to turn away...
 |  | Dead in the Family (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood, Book 10)
Release Date: May 4, 2010| Series: Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood (Book 10)View our feature on Charlaine Harris’s Dead in the Family. Visit our Sookie Stackhouse series feature page.The #1 New York Times bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series- the basis for HBO(r)'s True Blood-continues!After enduring torture and the loss of loved ones during the brief but deadly Faery War, Sookie Stackhouse is hurt and she's angry. Just about the only bright spot in her life is the love she thinks she feels for vampire Eric Northman. But he's under scrutiny by the new Vampire King because of their rel...
|  | The Haunting of Hill House (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: November 28, 2006| Series: Penguin Classics The classic supernatural thriller by an author who helped define the genre First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting"; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, th...
|  | Summer of the Midnight Sun (Alaskan Quest #1)
Publication Date: March 1, 2006Alaskan Quest Book 1 - The Barringer family is happy in the Alaskan Territory. Confronted by an old flame, Leah realizes her feelings never went away and she is whisked away on an unforgettable journey. From bestselling author Tracie Peterson. ...
|  | Salem's Lot
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|  | Vampire: His Kith and Kin
Publication Date: August 27, 2003In the present work, Mr. Montague endeavored to set forth what might be termed the philosophy of vampirism, and however ghastly and macabre they may appear, he felt that here one must not tamely shrink from a careful and detailed consideration of the many cognate passions and congruous circumstances which, there can be no reasonable doubt, have throughout the ages played no impertinent and no trivial but a very vital and very memorable part in consolidating the vampire legend, and in perpetuating the vampire tradition among the darker and more secret mysterie...
|  | Juliet's Opera
Publication Date: December 15, 2009| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Eight-year-old Evelyn (Eve) Burke is a fortunate girl. She lives in a wonderful seaside town, spends three months a year on a beautiful ship at sea with her mother and father, and even knows how to paint. And she has wonderful adventures! In Juliet's Opera, Eve meets an elderly woman named Juliet aboard the famous Queen Mary 2. Soon Juliet and Eve develop a special friendship, and the two introduce each other to beautiful worlds each has never known. ...
|  | Purgatorio
Release Date: January 6, 2004Now I shall sing the second kingdom,there where the soul of man is cleansed,made worthy to ascend to heaven.In the second book of Dante’s epic poem The Divine Comedy,Dante has left hell and begins the ascent of the mount of purgatory. Just as hell had its circles, purgatory, situated at the threshold of heaven,has its terraces, each representing one of the seven mortal sins. With Virgil again as his guide, Dante climbs the mountain; the poet shows us, on its slopes, those whose lives were variously governed by pride, envy, wrath, sloth, avarice, gluttony, ...
|  | Just Deserts (Hetta Coffey Mystery Series)
Publication Date: August 18, 2011| Series: Hetta Coffey Mystery Series Book 4 of the Hetta Coffey SeriesHetta Coffey is a woman with a yacht, and she s not afraid to use it.As a self-employed engineering consultant with a penchant for oddball read: shady projects, she has a way of attracting trouble..With her floating home dry docked for repairs in Mexico, Hetta needs a place to live and a job to pay the boatyard. Landing a project at a mining operation not far from her boat, Hetta finds herself on the tumultuous Arizona/Mexico border, where all hell is breaking loose even before she gets th...
|  | American Short Stories since 1945
Publication Date: August 23, 2001| ISBN-10: 0195131320 | ISBN-13: 978-0195131321Offering significantly more comprehensive and inclusive coverage than similar anthologies, this excellent and varied collection features seventy-nine of the best American short stories written between 1945 and the present. Taken together, these stories document the ever-changing reality of American life since World War II--who we are, where we have been, and where we might be going. Striving to make this anthology representative of all the literary voices of the period, editor John G. Parks includes work from...
|  | The Selected Poems of Po Chu-I (New Directions Paperbook)
Publication Date: June 1, 1999| Series: New Directions Paperbook In 1997 David Hinton was awarded the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from The Academy of American Poets. Generally acclaimed as one of China's greatest poets, Po Ch-i (772-846 C.E.) practiced a poetry of everyday human concerns and clear plain-spoken language. In spite of his preeminent stature, this is the first edition of Po Ch-i's poetry to appear in the West. It encompasses the full range of his work, from the early poems of social protest to the later recluse poems, whose spiritual depths reflect both his life-long ...
|  | To Woo and to Wed: Contemporary Poets on Love and Marriage
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|  | Lions are Not Elephants
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|  | Public Secrets
Release Date: July 28, 2009New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts deftly blends romance and suspense in this compelling novel of a woman whose career, marriage, and very life are threatened by the truth about her own past. Emma McAvoy may have grown up in the limelight, but some secrets are hidden in a darkness no light can reach. Now on the verge of a successful career, and having fallen in love with the man of her dreams, Emma is looking to the future. Yet it’s the past that is about to catch up with her. For Emma, her childhood had been almost like a rags-to-riches...
|  | Surrender to a Donovan (Kimani Romance)
Publication Date: September 18, 2012| Series: Kimani Romance (Book 301) Sean Donovan is a man on a mission—to discover who is behind the popular relationship column that has transformed his family-owned magazine into Miami's hippest glossy. But Tate Dennison isn't the sassy columnist the hardworking bachelor expected. Nor is he prepared for the flash fire of passion the stunning single mother arouses.…The hunky magazine executive wants to mix business with pleasure, but Tate has one hard and fast rule: never fall for the boss! The once-burned advice columnist has no intenti...
|  | Texas Tender
Publication Date: June 5, 2012He was the most beautiful man Idalou Ellsworth had ever set eyes on. When he appeared at her front door, she was struck speechless at the very sight of him. Folks in Dunmore, Texas thought her bossy, too focused on rescuing her family’s failing ranch to be interested in courting. But in Will’s company, she couldn’t think of anything but him. And when the devil-may-care cowboy took her in his arms, she understood as never before, the pleasures of being a woman. ...
|  | Threats: A Novel
Release Date: February 28, 2012David’s wife is dead. At least, he thinks she’s dead. But he can’t figure out what killed her or why she had to die, and his efforts to sort out what’s happened have been interrupted by his discovery of a series of elaborate and escalating threats hidden in strange places around his home—one buried in the sugar bag, another carved into the side of his television. These disturbing threats may be the best clues to his wife’s death: CURL UP ON MY LAP. LET ME BRUSH YOUR HAIR WITH MY FINGERS. I AM SINGING YOU A LULLABY. I AM TESTI...
|  | Crime Scene Spain: Essays on Post-Franco Crime Fiction
Publication Date: July 15, 2009| ISBN-10: 0786441577 | ISBN-13: 978-0786441570This essay collection examines the changing cultural, political and physical landscape of Spain as represented in Spanish crime fiction of the last three decades. The first several essays focus on crime fiction set in Barcelona and look at, among other topics, the symbiotic relationship between the city and the detective in Francisco Gonzalez Ledesma's long-running Inspector Mendez series; Manuel Vazquez Montalban's treatments of the 1992 Summer Olympic Games; and place and identity in Alicia Gimenez-Bartlett's...
|  | Just a Dream
Publication Date: March 7, 2011| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and upWalter is a litterbug who does not appreciate the beauty of nature, or understand his role in keeping the planet healthy . . . until a fantastic journey shows him the tragic fate that could befall Earth if humans like him are not more careful. Are Walter’s actions really helping his planet along the road to destruction, or is it all just a dream?Chris Van Allsburg’s classic story of environmental responsibility is now available in this special paperback edition with french flaps. ...
|  | The Fox and the Crow (Tadpoles (Quality))
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