 | The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto
Publication Date: May 25, 2010One part celebration, one part history, two parts manifesto, Bernard DeVoto's The Hour is a comic and unequivocal treatise on how and why we drink — properly. The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author turns his shrewd wit on the spirits and attitudes that cause his stomach to turn and his eyes to roll — warning: this book is not for rum drinkers. DeVoto instructs his readers on how to drink like gentlemen and sheds new light on the simple joys of the cocktail hour. Daniel Handler's introduction to this reprint of the 1950s classic provi...
 |  | Getting Out: Play In Two Acts
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|  | The Malice of Fortune
Release Date: September 11, 2012Against a teeming canvas of Borgia politics, Niccolò Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci come together to unmask an enigmatic serial killer, as we learn the secret history behind one of the most controversial works in the western canon, The Prince...When Pope Alexander dispatches a Vatican courtesan, Damiata, to the remote fortress city of Imola to learn the truth behind the murder of Juan, his most beloved illegitimate son, she cannot fail, for the scheming Borgia pope holds her own young son hostage. Once there, Damiata becomes a pawn in the politi...
|  | Strangers in the Forest
Publication Date: January 1, 1993Strangers in the Forest, originally published in 1959, was included in the Reader's Digest Condensed Books series. Set in the white pine timberland of the Idaho panhandle in 1908, the story explores the efforts of the early U.S. Forest Service to instill a sense of conservation in the land--a new concept affecting Idaho's seemingly inexhaustible forests. ...
|  | Last Citadel: A Novel of the Battle of Kursk
Release Date: April 27, 2004One nation taking a desperate gamble of war.Another fighting for survival.Two armies locked in a bloody cataclysm that will decide history. . .David L. Robbins has won widespread acclaim for his powerful and splendidly researched novels of World War II. Now he casts his brilliant vision on one of the most terrifying--and most crucial--battles of the war: the Battle of Kursk, Hitler’s desperate gamble to defeat Russia, in the final German offensive on the eastern front.Last CitadelSpring 1943. In the west, Germany strengthens its choke hold on France. To the ...
|  | Early Novels and Stories: The Troll Garden / O Pioneers! / The Song of the Lark / My Antonia / One of Ours (Library of America)
Release Date: January 1, 1987"Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet." Willa Cather's remark describes her own reasons for re-creating in her powerful fiction the Nebraska frontier of her youth. The vast Great Plains, where the earth has only recently come beneath the plow and the sky is huge and open, mirrors the uniquely American ethic of her characters: their heroic aspirations and stoicism, their passion for creativity, their rebelliousness of spirit. This volume, the first in The Library of America's authoritative three-volume collected Cather, includes the story collec...
|  | From Glory to Glory: An Anthology by Poetry in the Cathedral (Volume 1)
Publication Date: June 3, 2012An anthology of original poetry selected from submissions to Poetry in the Cathedral 2012. ...
|  | A Handbook of the Troubadours (Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA)
Publication Date: November 17, 1995| Series: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA (Book 26) This book is a reference volume and a digest of more than a century of scholarly work on troubadour poetry. Written by leading scholars, it summarizes the current consensus on the various facets of troubadour studies.Standing at the beginning of the history of modern European verse, the troubadours were the prime poets and composers of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries in the South of France. No study of medieval literature is complete without an examination of the courtly love which i...
| | A Dash Through Leaves: Haiku - In a Letterpress Edition on Deluxe Papers - Collector's Item
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|  | The Poetry of Business
Publication Date: August 15, 2003The Poetry of Business is a journey from your first resume through your mid-life crisis to retirement and beyond in a humourous and profound look at what you want from your career, where you are, and where you want to be.It is the second chance to do it all over again. ...
|  | Dead Over Heels
Release Date: March 4, 2008Three all-new paranormal stories of lust, laughter, and love from the New York Times bestselling author, including an original novella featuring Undead queen Betsy Taylor. With her trademark "sassy dialogue, lusty lovemaking [and] irreverent humor"* New York Times bestselling author MaryJanice Davidson delighted fans with her wickedly sexy and wildly funny anthology, Dead and Loving It-stories in which the worlds of the Wyndham Werewolves and Undead Queens collided. Now she returns to that sensual and irresistible after-dark realm of werewolves, vampires, and merma...
|  | The Wedding Deception (Zebra Historical Romance)
Release Date: June 7, 2005| Series: Zebra Historical Romance Marriages come in all shapes and sizes, particularly marriages of convenience. Take Claire Barrington's situation: she needed protection from the advances of a local squire, while her dashing new husband Jay needed a wife to shield him from busybody matchmakers. It's a perfect plan...until it goes perfectly awry. For when Claire makes an unexpected visit to her husband's London home, the man she meets is not the man she married - although the brooding look-alike is just as attractive, if not more so...A stunned Jasper Barrington gr...
|  | Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season Nine #1 (Jo Chen Variant Cover)
Publication Date: 2011Buffy Season 9 is here!Season 8 ended with a bang when Buffy cut the world off from the hell dimensions and all supernatural influence. Great, right? Except Buffy has left her best friend, Willow, powerless, and ended the long line of vampire slayers, leaving her hated by the hundreds of girls who recently stood behind her. Newly relocated to San Francisco, Buffy can count on a fresh start, and focus on what she's good at--slaying.* Written by creator Joss Whedon, with Andrew Chambliss of the CW's The Vampire Diaries! ...
|  | Cat in a White Tie and Tails: A Midnight Louie Mystery (Midnight Louie Mysteries)
Release Date: August 7, 2012| Series: Midnight Louie Mysteries (Book 24) In Carole Nelson Douglas' Cat in a White Tie and Tails, Midnight Louie goes along as chaperone when PR whiz Temple Barr and her fiance, rising media star Matt Devine, head to Chicago so she can meet his family. Matt's mother has a tragic past primed to rise and bite anybody in reach, even the ex-alley cat sleuth. When Louie is snatched, the catnapping's surprising motive loops back to Vegas and a string of unsolved murders connected to magic…and ex-magician Max Kinsella, Temple's former significant other...
|  | The Case of the Graveyard Ghost (Doyle and Fossey, Science Detectives)
Publication Date: October 6, 2009| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Bicycle Stunt Riding (Kids' Guides)
Publication Date: January 2005| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Laughing Tomatoes: And Other Spring Poems / Jitomates Risuenos: Y Otros Poemas de Primavera (The Magical Cycle of the Seasons Series)
Publication Date: March 10, 2005| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | Hey, 13!
Publication Date: October 2, 2011| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Being thirteen is happy, sad, humiliating, surprising, wonderful, awful, exciting, boring, in other words fill of ups and downs. The thirteen-year-olds in Gary Soto's thirteen stories experience all this and more. In one story, a girl's world is turned upside down when she visits a college campus where she expects to find a rarified atmosphere of intellectual pursuit, only to meet a tour guide who is tattooed, overly pierced, hungover, and not at all focused on academics. In another, two girls test the attraction...
|  | The Cave Dwellers: Part One of the Ancient Expeditions Series
Publication Date: April 22, 2009Molly is a typical eleven year old who doesn't like homework, has played the piano since she was four, and can beat every boy in school in an arm wrestling match. She is also deaf. One day in Social Studies class they begin to study Neandertals, an ancient group of people that lived in Europe over 30,000 years ago. On her way home, Molly finds herself transported back to Ice Age Europe! She runs into a Neandertal named Anika who takes her back to her cave but the people are reluctant to keep Molly around. Can Molly fit in with the Neandertals? And how in the w...
|  | Dinosaurs of Eden: Tracing the Mystery Through History
Publication Date: March 1, 2000| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Readers of all ages will take a thrilling ride in a time machine to the past when dinosaurs lived - a ride not through millions of years, but to a time not so long ago!Filled with stunning artwork, this fun family book will transport you on a breathtaking journey through the "time-gate" of the Bible, the true history book of the universe!This captivating adventure by popular writer Ken Ham projects you back to the Garden of Eden and to the real world inhabited by dinosaurs - and to the exciting days of Noah's fl...
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