 | Dedication
Publication Date: July 1, 2008What if your ex was famous and adored by millions? What would you do if you had one chance to make him regret his entire existence? How much would you risk? Kate Hollis's ex-boyfriend's face plasters newsstands and TV, the Internet, and the multiplex. Jake Sharpe is one of the biggest recording stars on the planet, and every song he's famous for is about Kate. For over a decade his soundtrack has chased her -- from the gym to the supermarket, from the dentist's office to the bars. Now thirty-year-old Kate gets the call that Jake has finally landed back in their ...
 |  | Double Wedding
Publication Date: March 1, 2005Jessica and Carol, two childhood friends, are both engaged to be married. Secretly afraid her fiance is going to chicken out, Carol is insisting on a double wedding. Jessica is appalled at the idea: she doesn't want to share the happiest day of her life with whining Carol and her womanising boyfriend. Unfortunately for her, she has a very soft heart and is easily persuaded to agree. Carol's parents are separated and at loggerheads. Neither wants the other to be there. Who will win that war? Nadine, Carol's younger sister, is wild and disruptive and drinks like ...
|  | The Ladies of the Corridor (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: April 29, 2008| Series: Penguin Classics The blackly comic play about the oppressed lives of women in 1950s New York One of Literature ’s leading humorists, Dorothy Parker drew from the dark side of her imagination to pen The Ladies of the Corridor, a searing drama about women living on their own in a New York residence hotel. Loosely based on Parker’s life, and co-written with famed Hollywood playwright Arnaud d’Usseau, The Ladies of the Corridor exposes the limitations of a woman’s life in a drama teeming with Parker’s signature wit. ...
|  | The Titus Diary:The Story of an Incredible Adventure that Changed the World (First-Century Diaries)
Publication Date: August 1, 1999In this fictionalized account of the apostle Paul's second missionary journey, told through the eyes of Titus, readers accompany Paul as he travels throughout Asia Minor and Greece, and they listen in as he writes his letters to the Thessalonians. Churches are started, disagreements are settled, persecution is endured--and the life-changing gospel moves forward. ...
|  | Mess Detectives: The Slobfather
Release Date: October 12, 2003| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | The Forbidden Truth: The truth shall set you free
Publication Date: July 22, 2012Madison found a forbidden book and curiosity gave her the drive to sneak a peek. After reading the book, Madison decided to go off on a journey of her own; only to uncover the truth of the world and it's very existence. ...
|  | The Lady of Serpents (Vampyricon)
Release Date: September 5, 2006| Series: Vampyricon (Book 2) Hailed as the prophesied messiah of the vampyre, Aleric seemed destined for glory-until, like many of his brethren, he was captured by the sorceress Enora. Imprisoned, he is now forced to fight in the arena for her amusement.To end Enora's reign of terror, Aleric must escape and find the alchemist behind her power, though that may mean unleashing Pythia, the Lady of Serpents-Aleric's old enemy, the seductress who ended his mortal life. For she alone may hold the key to the survival not only of the vampyres, but also all of humank...
|  | The Assault: A Novel
Release Date: June 1, 1995In this, the final volume in the series of five novels that constitute his "secret history of Cuba", Reinaldo Arenas paints a harrowing, and at times boldly entertaining, Kafka-esque picture of a dehumanized people living in a world where homosexuality is a crime punishable by death and a cockroach hunt makes for a national holiday. Narrated by a hate-filled government torturer who has become an agent for the "Bureau of Counterwhispering"," The Assault follows his travels through a blackly humorous shadowland as he winnow out whisperers, sex...
|  | The Sins of the Father
Publication Date: July 1992A novel based on the story of Eichmann's discovery, capture and execution. The scene shifts from Argentina to Israel, from London to Rome, as Franz and Becky try to come to terms with their fathers' world. By the author of "A Question of Loyalties", winner of the Scottish Book of the Year Award. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Ancient Tales in Modern Japan: An Anthology of Japanese Folktales
Release Date: April 22, 1985Ancient Tales in Modern Japan makes available for the first time in English a unique collection of Japanese folk tales. More than half of these tales have never before been translated. Fanny Hagin Mayer, a pioneer Western scholar in the field of Japanese folklore, has selected 347 folk tales from the standard Japanese reference work, the Meii. Ninety early collectors from throughout Japan, among them key figures such as Sasaki Kizen and Iwakura Ichiro, furnished tales for this selection. This remarkable anthology presents a vivid picture of centuries of Japanese f...
|  | The Making of the Poema de mio Cid
Publication Date: November 25, 2010The Poema de mio Cid is in all respects a major text of early Spanish literature and an epic of great power. Its origins and authorship have long been a subject of dispute among scholars and this book, firmly based on rigorous research, proposes the view that the Poema was a wholly new work of the early thirteenth century written by a single author, Per Abad. The author argues that it was the first epic to be composed in Castilian and he examines the sources that the poet used for the structure of his work, for his rhetoric and for his metrical system. Thro...
| | Tang shi da ke nan (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
Publication Date: October 28, 2011As a neurasthenic, kleptomaniac, man-chasing proto-punk poet and artist, the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven left in her wake a ripple that is becoming a rip--one hundred years after she exploded onto the New York art scene. As an agent provocateur within New York's modernist revolution, "the first American Dada" not only dressed and behaved with purposeful outrageousness, but she set an example that went well beyond the eccentric divas of the twenty-first century, including her conceptual descendant, Lady Gaga. Her delirious verse flabbergasted New Yo...
|  | Schaum's Quick Guide to Writing Great Short Stories
Publication Date: October 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 0070390770 | ISBN-13: 978-0070390775| Edition: 1 This guide to writing compelling, memorable short stories gives you all the essentials without wasted words. It tells you how and where to get ideas, how to establish and sustain excitement, how to create live, colorful characters, and how to plot, develop and bring home your story. It even includes exercises to help you perfect your story-telling skills. Full of tips and techniques that work, it makes an indispensable, reliable collaborator. You'll find it ideal whether you're studying alone or ...
|  | Skelligside
Publication Date: May 1999| ISBN-10: 094664053X | ISBN-13: 978-0946640539This is a remarkable folk autobiography of a fisherman, small farmer and poet from the South Iveragh peninsula of County Kerry. It's a "beautifully written evocation...a gem of a book" (The Sunday Press) about the famed holy islands, their fishing, crafts, customs, local history and folklore. ...
|  | Past Tense: A Brady Coyne Novel
Publication Date: October 19, 2001Brady Coyne is a middle-aged Boston attorney with a small, select clientele - one that leaves him sufficient time to pursue a personal life. That personal life currently focuses on Evie Banyon, a hospital administrator Brady has been seeing for the past year. While they are on a weekend vacation in Cape Cod, though, a determined stalker from Evie's past turns up to torment her anew. After an unpleasant confrontation with him, Brady and Evie return to their vacation cabin with a dark cloud hanging over them. The next morning, Brady wakes up to the sound of Ev...
|  | The Shamus Winners: America's Best Private Eye Stories: Volume I 1982-1995
Publication Date: July 14, 2010Stories by all-star mystery writers that have won the coveted Shamus award from the Private Eye Writers of America.Volume I includes tales by John Lutz, Bill Pronzini, Lawrence Block, Brendan DuBois, Loren D. Estleman, Ed Gorman, Mickey Spillane, Marcia Muller, Nancy Pickard, Benjamin M. Schutz, Linda Barnes, Max Allan Collins, and Sue Grafton. Collected and introduced by Robert J. Randisi. ...
|  | His Last Bow 8 Sherlock Holmes Mysteries
Publication Date: 1964Although the title suggest a farewell appearance, happily, instead, these 8 stories comprise still another segment in Dr. Watson's entertaining memoirs of his friend, Sherlock Holmes. Stories included are: The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge, The Adventure of the Cardboard Box, The Adventure of the Red Circle, The Adventure of Bruce-Partington Plans, The Adventure of the Dying Detective, The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax, The Adventure of the Devil's Foot, and His Last Bow. ...
|  | Harry Potter y las reliquias de la muerte (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: February 21, 2008| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Summary:0About the Author:•0Author: J. K. RowlingIllustrator:0Publisher:Salamandra Publicacions Y EdicionsPublished Date:02/21/2008Format:PaperbackISBN:8498381460#of pages:#N/A ...
|  | Molly Moon Stops the World
Release Date: April 12, 2005| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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