 | Give Me Liberty!: An American History (Third Edition)(Vol. 2)
Publication Date: September 15, 2010| ISBN-10: 0393935434 | ISBN-13: 978-0393935431| Edition: Third Edition A clear, concise, up to date, authoritative history by one of the leading historians in the country.Give Me Liberty! is the leading book in the market because it works in the classroom. A single-author book, Give Me Liberty! offers students a consistent approach, a single narrative voice, and a coherent perspective throughout the text. Threaded through the chronological narrative is the theme of freedom in American history and the significant conflicts over its changing meanings, i...
 |  | Goodnight Nobody: A Novel
Release Date: May 2, 2006For Kate Klein, a semi-accidental mother of three, suburbia has been full of unpleasant surprises. Her once-loving husband is hardly ever home. The supermommies on the playground routinely snub her. Her days are spent carpooling and enduring endless games of Candy Land, and at night, most of her orgasms are of the do-it-yourself variety. When a fellow mother is murdered, Kate finds that the unsolved mystery is the most exciting thing to happen in Upchurch, Connecticut, since her neighbors broke ground for a guesthouse and cracked their septic tank. Even though the ...
|  | Island Girl
Release Date: December 7, 2010 There are people who try hard to forget their problems. All Ruby wants to do is remember... Ruby Donaldson has been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's Disease, and she'll be damned if she won't straighten out her troubled family before she no longer knows how. Ruby spent years fighting to hold on to the home her grandmother built on Ward's Island. The only way she can ensure that her younger, mentally scarred daughter Grace can live there for the rest of her life is to convince her older daughter, Liz, to sober up and come home. Ruby always thought she'd ha...
|  | Truth or Dare
Release Date: September 28, 2004The New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz is at the top of her game with Truth or Dare....
|  | Tomo, Vol. 7: Betrayal of Trust
Release Date: November 3, 2009| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Hana would be like any other thirteen-year-old immigrant trying to fit into life at an American school, but she also battles hostile, animal-like warriors from the dimension of Argon Falls. In discovering secrets about her identity and her past, Hana bravely faces her enemies and realizes her divinely-given purpose. SWORDS CLASH, BATTLE ERUPTS, AND A FRIEND GOES DOWN! Hana and Tomo return to Argon Falls only to find an impenetrable dungeon holds their friends captive. But Ardath -- now clad in the Armor of the Ancien...
|  | Heart of Evil (Krewe of Hunters, Book 2)
Release Date: June 28, 2011| Series: Krewe of Hunters (Book 2) Emerging from the bayou like an apparition, Donegal Plantation is known for its unsurpassed dining, captivating atmosphere, haunting legends…and now a corpse swinging from the marble angel that marks its cemetery's most majestic vault. A corpse discovered in nearly the same situation as that of Marshall Donegal, the patriarch killed in a skirmish just before the Civil War.Desperate for help traditional criminologists could never provide, plantation heiress Ashley Donegal turns to an elite team of paranormal investigators...
|  | Koko Be Good
Release Date: September 14, 2010Koko’s always got a new project cooking, even though they usually end in total disaster. This time will be different, Koko promises herself. This time, she’s decided to Be Good. But how can a girl whose greatest talent is causing trouble get her act cleaned up? If she’s being honest with herself, Koko isn’t even sure what “being good” means.Jon knows what being good means, and that’s why he’s going to Peru to support his girlfriend’s humanitarian mission. That’s good, all right, but is it what he want...
|  | The Ice Owl - Hugo & Nebula Nominated Novella
Publication Date: July 6, 2012Set in the same universe as Arkfall (although a totally independent story), The Ice Owl tells a tale capturing that moment when we start to lose our childhood...when we start to realize that our parents and the "grown-ups" are just as flawed as we are...everyone struggling to deal with their own demons. *** It is also a story about past crimes and the haunting echo of ghosts long dead, of a life-long quest for redemption and, for some, the final revenge for crimes lost in the stellar dust... ...
|  | Nine Inning Murder
Publication Date: February 28, 2012Twenty years ago Kevin Jenkins was a fresh Ivy League grad working for the bush league Westernport Keystones.Kevin was determined to work his way up the ranks and become the next big hotshot executive in Major League Baseball.That dream died in a gritty Central Pennsylvania minor league baseball stadium when his boss and tormentor, Rick Munster, died violently in his arms.Blackballed from baseball by the taint of questions arising from Munster's death, Kevin was destined for career purgatory.Two decades later after a cryptic letter is read at the funeral of...
|  | The Book of Ballads
Release Date: October 14, 2004Illustrated and presented by one of the leading artists in modern fantasy, here are the great songs and folktales of the English, Irish, and Scottish traditions, re-imagined in sequential-art form, in collaboration with some of today's strongest fantasy writers.Here are New York Times bestseller Neil Gaiman with "The False Knight on the Road"; popular mystery author Sharyn McCrumb's version of "Thomas the Rhymer"; acclaimed children's writer Jane Yolen with "King Henry" and "The Great Selchie of Sule Skerrie"; popular novelist Charles de Lint's contemporary rewo...
|  | The mystic mandrake,
Publication Date: 1934The lore and use of the Mandrake root throughout history and around the world.Illustrated. Sample contents: Mandragora - derivation of the name - description of the plant and its habitat; Mandrake of the Hebrews - the Mandrake of the Bible - Rachel and the mandrakes; Mandrake in Ancient Egypt, Assyria and Persia; Mandrake and the gallows legend; Mandrake in Italy - among Southern Slavs and the Armenians; Mandrake in the drama, poetry and story; Mandragora in the light of modern science. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Der rasende Roland: Teil 1 (German Edition)
Release Date: October 23, 2001This edition is published in several volumes, sold separately. ...
|  | The Precious Present (Helen Exley Giftbook)
Publication Date: January 1, 2000| ISBN-10: 1861871082 | ISBN-13: 978-1861871084Inspirational quotations ...
|  | Double Life: Double Life
Publication Date: June 1, 1995Wolfe goes behind the scandalous headlines to reveal how Sol Wachler, New York State's esteemed Chief Judge, came to be charged with harassing and threatening his former lover, the beautiful socialite Joy Silverman. From hundreds of interviews and exclusive sources, Wolfe constructs a riveting portrait of a man driven to his downfall by sexual obsession. ...
|  | Therapy for Ghosts
Publication Date: September 13, 2012Some memories will find you no matter where you hide… Cindy James is a cognitive behavioral therapist in a quiet Missouri town, but her precisely patterned life spins into chaos when she is besieged by panic attacks. Forced to undergo counseling with a new, peculiar therapist in town, Tony Prost, Cindy defiantly resists both his unnerving charm and the truth behind the haunting images that are unleashing her anxiety. As Cindy’s memory flashes increase in frequency, she is jolted by the terrible deed her beloved mother committed to gain their ...
|  | Pompeii: A Tale of Murder in Ancient Rome
Publication Date: September 16, 2012History awaits an unsuspecting young man, fleeing the imperial capital and Nero's wrath. Arriving in Pompeii, Marcellus witnesses the funeral of a local man; the course of his life will be altered by this stranger’s death.Unable to stop the murder of a mysterious woman named Helen, Marcellus becomes the caretaker of the dead woman's newborn baby.Hiding in plain sight at a brothel, Marcellus is left to decipher Helen's secrets. With the help of his overbearing servant and a seductive oracle, Marcellus must deduce who in Pompeii has blood on their han...
|  | The Mammoth Book of Pulp Action (Mammoth Books)
Publication Date: December 10, 2001| Series: Mammoth Books Packed solid with seven decades of pulp action and peopled by shady operators, voluptuous molls, ruthless big shots, crooked cops, and gruff private eyes, this new collection of hard-boiled tales includes classics by such masters of the craft as Dashiell Hammett, Robert Leslie Bellem, Cornell Woolrich, and Erle Stanley Gardner, as well as some of the best modern crime fiction to be published by postwar giants like John D. MacDonald, Ross McDonald, Ed McBain, Charles Willeford, David Goodis, and James Ellroy. ...
|  | Reader's Digest Best loved books for young readers volume 4 Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Sherlock Holmes, Abe Lincoln Grows Up, Lost Horizon
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|  | Snakeskin Shamisen
Release Date: April 25, 2006From Summer of the Big Bachi to Gasa-Gasa Girl, Naomi Hirahara’s acclaimed novels have featured one of mystery fiction’s most unique heroes: Mas Arai, a curmudgeonly L.A. gardener, Hiroshima survivor, and inveterate gambler. Few things get Mas more excited than gambling, so when he hears about a $500,000 win–from a novelty slot machine!–he’s torn between admiration and derision.But the stakes are quickly raised when the winner, a friend of Mas’s pal G. I. Hasuike, is found stabbed to death just days later. The last thing M...
|  | Zero Hour (Hive)
Publication Date: August 1, 2011 ...
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