 | Biting Cold: A Chicagoland Vampires Novel
Release Date: August 7, 2012| Series: Chicagoland Vampires (Book 6) Turned into a vampire against her will, twenty-eight-year-old Merit found her way into the dark circle of Chicago's vampire underground, where she learned there was more to supernaturals than met the eye--and more supernaturals than the public ever imagined.And not all the secrets she learned were for sharing--among humans or inhumans. Now Merit is on the hunt, charging across the stark American Midwest, tailing a rogue supernatural intent on stealing an ancient artifact that could unleash catastrophic evil on the world...
 |  | The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: September 1, 2001| Series: Penguin Classics First published in 1873, The Gilded Age is both a biting satire and a revealing portrait of post-Civil War America-an age of corruption when crooked land speculators, ruthless bankers, and dishonest politicians voraciously took advantage of the nation's peacetime optimism. With his characteristic wit and perception, Mark Twain and his collaborator, Charles Dudley Warner, attack the greed, lust, and naivete of their own time in a work which endures as a valuable social document and one of America's most important satirical novels. ...
|  | Final Target
Release Date: February 26, 2002The President’s daughter...The women determined to save her...The man with the power to betray a nation...Melissa Riley arrives at her sister’s isolated Virginia country home to find herself plunged into a deadly drama. There the renowned Dr. Jessica Riley is attempting to draw the daughter of the President of the United States out of a severe catatonic trauma. The last thing young Cassie Andreas saw was an organized team ruthlessly murder her nanny and the Secret Service agents sworn to protect her. But to free Cassie, Melissa and Jessica must tr...
|  | Flanagan's Run
Publication Date: May 1982It is depression-era America and notorious huckster, Flanagan, plans the ultimate race, reeling in contestants with the promise of a glittering jackpot prize. Two thousand audacious hopefuls line up at the starting line from every walk of life and all ends of the globe, each with something to prove. As they run themselves ragged across America, they come up against numerous hazards, including the precipitous Rockies, shady mobsters and crooked officials. Their different stories, ambitions and dreams converge through a shared determination which will inspire you to p...
|  | To Build a Fire and Other Stories (Bantam Classics)
Release Date: April 1, 1986| Series: Bantam Classics To Build A Fire and Other Stories is the most comprehensive and wide-ranging collectionof Jack London's short stories available in paperback. This superb volume bringstogether twenty-five of London's finest, including a dozen of his great Klondikestories, vivid tales of the Far North were rugged individuals, such as the MalemuteKid face the violence of man and nature during the Gold Rush Days. Also includedare short masterpieces from his later writing, plus six stories unavailable in anyother paperback edition. Here, along with London's fa...
|  | No Animals We Could Name: Stories
Release Date: July 3, 2012The winner of the Bakeless Prize for Fiction, a bold debut collection The animals (human or otherwise) in Ted Sanders's inventive, wistful stories are oddly familiar, yet unlike anyone you've met before. A lion made of bedsheets, with chicken bones for teeth, is brought to life by a grieving mother. When Raphael the pet lizard mysteriously loses his tail, his owners find themselves ever more desperate to keep him alive, in one sense or another. A pensive tug-of-war between an amateur angler and a halibut unfolds through the eyes of both fisherman and fish. And...
|  | The Twins, the Dream/Las Gemelas, El Sueno
Publication Date: January 1, 1996This innovative project in poetry translation serves as a model for both cross-cultural interpretation and individual poetic exchange by authors. Two internationally recognized poets, Ursula Le Guin of the United States and Diana Bellessi of Argentina, have translated each other's works as a means of bridging cultural gaps and promoting cross-cultural and bilingual understanding. After years of working together and perfecting their translations of each other's poems, both Le Guin and Bellessi are now ready to issue their works in this composite anthology. ...
|  | The Art of Blessing the Day: Poems on Jewish Themes
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| | Svecha
Publication Date: 1977Book is in the Russian language. Moscow-born author was married to poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, short-story writer Yuri Nagibin, children's writer, Gennadi Mamlin, and artist Boris Messerer. Her verse, which has been compared to the work of Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetayeva, was regarded by the Soviet government as "superfluous and too intimate" thus denying her entry to the Soviet Writer's Union. ...
|  | Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers: From Charlotte Temple to The Da Vinci Code
Publication Date: August 2, 2012| ISBN-10: 144116216X | ISBN-13: 978-1441162168| Edition: 1 What is it about certain books that makes them bestsellers? Why do some of these books remain popular for centuries, and others fade gently into obscurity? And why is it that when scholars do turn their attention to bestsellers, they seem only to be interested in the same handful of blockbusters, when so many books that were once immensely popular remain under-examined? Addressing those and other equally pressing questions about popular literature, Must Read is the first scholarly collection ...
|  | The Maias (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: June 1, 1999| Series: Penguin Classics Eca de Queiros was Portugal's greatest nineteenth-century novelist, whose works brilliantly evoke -- and condemn -- the rapidly changing society of his times. The Maias (1888) depicts the declining fortunes of a landowning family over three generations as they are gradually undermined by hypocrisy, complacency, and sexual license. With a vivid, comprehensive portrayal of nineteenth-century Portuguese politics and social history, Eca creates a kind of comedie humaine that, despite the force of its social satire and its damning critique of t...
|  | A Regency Christmas VI/Five New Stories
Release Date: November 1, 1994| Series: Super Regency, Signet The festive holiday celebrations of Regency England form the backdrop for five romantic stories by Mary Balogh, Sandra Heath, Emily Hendrickson, Emma Lange, and Sheila Walsh....
|  | Unmasked
Publication Date: August 1997A fabulous masquerade ball--in which guests come as legendary lovers--at a New Orleans Garden District mansion becomes the setting for love, passion, scandal, and intrigue in a trio of romantic tales by best-selling authors Jennifer Blake, Janet Dailey, and Elizabeth Gage. Original." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
| | The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars A Mystery Novel Dedicated to Sherlock Holmes
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|  | The Curse of the Blue Figurine (Johnny Dixon)
Release Date: August 3, 2004| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Essential Avengers, Vol. 6 (Marvel Essentials)
Publication Date: February 20, 2008| Grade Level: P and up Changes in the Marvel Universe are nothing new - as seen when heroes are reborn, slain in this startling selection of seventies sagas! The search for the Celestial Madonna is on! After reviving heroes and villains to set a Legion of the Unliving against the Avengers, will Kang be divided against himself in deciding the fate of the woman who could alter the universe's destiny? Collecting: Avengers #120-140, Captain Marvel #33, Fantastic Four #150, Giant-Size Avengers #1-4 ...
|  | A Pocket for Corduroy
Release Date: March 6, 1978| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | My First Bike Book Pb
Publication Date: April 20, 1998Provides children and parents with the necessary information required by 5 to 8 year-olds when learning to ride a bicycle. This character-led story includes a quiz and covers safety aspects; clothing; accessories; and riding techniques. ...
|  | Les Dotze Proves D'asterix / the Twelve Tasks of Asterix (Catalan Edition)
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|  | Michigan Reader
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