 | Maybe This Time
Release Date: April 26, 2011Andie Miller is ready to move on with her life. She wants to marry her fiancé and leave behind everything in her past, especially her ex-husband, North Archer. But when Andie tries to gain closure with him, he asks one final favor of her. A distant cousin has died and left North the guardian of two orphans who have driven away three nannies already—and things are getting worse. He needs someone to take care of the situation, and he knows Andie can handle anything. When Andie meets the two children, she soon realizes it’s much worse than she feared...
 |  | Crazy Little Thing
Release Date: October 23, 2012If Sadie Turner is good at anything, it’s putting stuff in order. Sowhen she finds her “perfect” life in disarray, she hopes a summervacation at her aunt’s lake house will help her piece it back together.She wants to relax, reboot, and heal the wounds left by her cheatingex-husband. And that requires time away from men. All men. Or so she thinks. With two slobbering dogs and two cousins living there—one aflamboyant decorator intent on making over Sadie—it’s hard to get amoment’s peace at eccentric Aunt Dody...
|  | Broken Wings: A Novel
Publication Date: June 3, 2011Onstage, the singing duo of Gabe and Mitzi Steiner captured America's heart for more than two decades. Offstage, their own hearts have throbbed as one for sixty years. Only now, Gabe has retreated into the tangles of Alzheimer's, leaving Mitzi to ponder her future alone.On the other side of Tulsa, everyone believes Brooke Woodson has found the perfect man--a handsome lawyer with sights on becoming Tulsa's next District Attorney. If only Brooke felt more sure. If only her fiancé could control his anger. If only love didn't come with so many scars.When an acc...
|  | The Underworld Initiation: A journey towards psychic transformation (Celtic Myth & Legend, V. 3)
Publication Date: December 1998The authentic core of Western mysteries revealed through oral traditions, Celtic myth and legend.Provides a unique insight into the initiatory path of Western esoteric system. ...
|  | The Mammoth Book of Wolf Men
Publication Date: October 27, 2009This collection of 23 dark stories of the supernatural creature, half-man, half-wolf, and entirely unpredictable, is being re-released to coincide with the much-anticipated Wolf Man, starring Anthony Hopkins and Benicio del Toro. Top contributors include Clive Barker, Michael Marshall Smith, Graham Masterton, and Mark Morris. ...
|  | Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Release Date: January 21, 1997| Series: Ballantine Reader's Circle Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s; of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women--of the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth--who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern kind of Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter,...
|  | Dangerous Hood Dreams
Publication Date: January 20, 2012Growing up for Carlos was rough,from seeing his mother work overtime to meeting only the bills,to watching his father walk out on him and his little brother at an early age and never looking back.As Carlos grew older and wiser he stepped up to try and keep his little brother out the streets and in school.In the process of Carlos trying to show his brother the right way,he had plans of his own. He doesn't believe in theory's or hood tales,the only thing Carlos liked to live by is experience.That's something he's been doing since the first drug package he stol...
|  | Consumed
Publication Date: June 18, 2012Sometimes cycling can be very, very bad for you... Cycling pro Romain Mariani is all set for success at the highest level. But then his world collapses. Haunted by the darkest of obsessions, he begins a descent more terrifying than any he has ever faced on the road. And waiting at the bottom is the awful truth of what he will have to do before he can start the long climb back up. A novel about insatiability and compulsion, ‘Consumed’ inhabits a unique space where Lance Armstrong’s ‘It’s Not About the Bike’ meets ‘...
|  | Lady Windermere's Fan (Drama Classics)
Publication Date: September 1, 2004| Series: Drama Classics Joins top-selling Wilde titles, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest. ...
|  | Pretty Quick & Easy Bible Dramas (Bible Fun Stuff for 2nd-3rd Grades)
Publication Date: June 1, 2008| Series: Bible Fun Stuff for 2nd-3rd Grades Inside each of these 10 new books children's educators will find twenty-six creative activities to engage kids with fantastic Bible-focused, high-energy fun! Correlated with Bible-in-Life and Echoes curriculum and covering ages preschool to middle school, these books are loaded with innovative ideas including scripture references and teacher tips and provide a great resource for alternative Step 3 activities. Or teachers can use it with their own lesson plans this handy resource fits well with any curriculum or can be...
|  | Selected Stories
Publication Date: August 2003| Series: Norton Library "Some of these stories, I am sure, will beread as long as the Chinese languageexists."—Ha Jin"When I was young I, too, had many dreams. Most of them came to be forgotten, but I see nothing in this to regret. For although recalling the past may make you happy, it may sometimes also make you lonely, and there is no point in clinging in spirit to lonely bygone days. However, my trouble is that I cannot forget completely, and these stories have resulted from what I have been unable to erase from memory."—Lu HsunLivin...
|  | The Hymns of Job and Other Poems (Lannan Translations Selection Series)
Publication Date: December 3, 2008| Series: Lannan Translations Selection Series “Bejerano crosses boundaries as a matter of fact, giving voice to the first female Job (perhaps not only in Hebrew, but the world over) as if this were the most natural expressive venue for a single mother in Tel Aviv of the 1990s.”—Professor Yael Feldman, New York UniversityMaya Bejerano was born in Israel in 1949. She has published ten volumes of poetry in Israel, including her collected poems, Frequencies (2005). The Hymns of Job and Other Poems marks her first full-length American editio...
|  | Iliad (Arcturus Paperback Classics)
Publication Date: June 30, 2009| Series: Arcturus Paperback Classics This groundbreaking English version by Robert Fagles is the most important recent translation of Homer's great epic poem. The verse translation has been hailed by scholars as the new standard, providing an Iliad that delights modern sensibility and aesthetic without sacrificing the grandeur and particular genius of Homer's own style and language. The Iliad is one of the two great epics of Homer, and is typically described as one of the greatest war stories of all time, but to say the Iliad is a war story does not begin to d...
|  | Encounters Across Borders: The Changing Visions of Spanish Modernism, 1890-1930
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|  | Valley
Publication Date: January 6, 2006Swift River Valley is doomed: set to disappear beneath the waters of the Quabbin reservoir. Communities will be destroyed, lives uprooted, even the dead exhumed. Jeremy Treat is the town minister, a man of deep faith trying to inspire hope in a place destined to be taken from its inhabitants. He is also the husband of Una, a voluptuous eccentric pining for her first love, and father of Jimmy, a seemingly perfect child prodigy. Into this tight-knit family comes Sarianna, a romantic student obsessed by the story of the Valley. Her ensnarement in the secrets and...
|  | Payback
Publication Date: March 1, 1999It's payback time! Now a major motion picture from Paramount Pictures starring Mel Gibson as master theif Parker, who appeared in a series of celebrated crime novels between 1962 and 1974 and returned after 23 years in "Comeback", which was named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times. Crime writer Richard Stark is the pseudonym of Mystery Writers of American Grand Master Donald E. Westlake. ...
|  | What About Murder? A Guide to Books About Mystery and Detective Fiction
Publication Date: May 30, 1995| ISBN-10: 0810814137 | ISBN-13: 978-0810814134| Edition: 1st ed Identifies and annotates 239 books about mystery and detective fiction published through the end of 1981. ...
|  | The Austere Academy (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 5)
Release Date: August 8, 2000| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up As the three Baudelaire orphans warily approach their new home Prufrock Preparatory School : they can′t help but notice the enormous stone arch bearing the school′s motto Memento Mori or "Remember you will die." This is not a cheerful greeting and certainly marks an inauspicious beginning to a very bleak story just as we have come to expect from Lemony Snickett′s Series of Unfortunate Events, the deliciously morbid set of books that began with The Bad Beginning and only got worse.Ages 10+ ...
|  | Basketball for Fun! (Sports for Fun! Series)
Publication Date: June 1, 2003| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up Describes the basic rules, skills, important people, and events in the sport of basketball. ...
|  | Ice Cream: The Full Scoop
Publication Date: January 2, 2008| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up Cool and smooth and sweet, ice cream has long been a favourite treat. It cools you off when it's hot and is too delicious to resist even in cold weather. How did it get to be so scrumptious? Best-selling author/illustrator Gail Gibbons dishes out the latest scoop on ice cream production. Ice cream has come a long way from its humble beginnings as a mixture of snow, milk, and rice. Gail Gibbons details the many firsts in ice cream history, from the earliest ice cream crank to the original waffle cone. Children's mo...
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