 | The Kitchen Daughter
Release Date: December 20, 2011After the unexpected death of her parents, painfully shy and sheltered 26-year-old Ginny Selvaggio seeks comfort in cooking from family recipes. But the rich, peppery scent of her Nonna’s soup draws an unexpected visitor into the kitchen: the ghost of Nonna herself, dead for twenty years, who appears with a cryptic warning (“do no let her…”) before vanishing like steam from a cooling dish.A haunted kitchen isn’t Ginny’s only challenge. Her domineering sister, Amanda, (aka “Demanda”) insists on selling their ...
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 | The Rest of Her Life CD
Release Date: August 7, 2007 In The Rest of Her Life, Laura Moriarty delivers a luminous, compassionate, and provocative look at how mothers and daughters with the best intentions can be blind to the harm they do to one another. Leigh is the mother of high-achieving, popular high school senior Kara. Their relationship is already strained for reasons Leigh does not fully understand when, in a moment of carelessness, Kara makes a mistake that ends in tragedy—the effects of which not only divide Leigh's family, but polarize the entire community. We see the story from Leigh's perspectiv...
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 | Alice
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 | Voices of Struggle, Voices of Pride (Gift Editions)
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 | By Way of the Wilderness (Lions of Judah Series #5)
Publication Date: August 1, 2005The always-compelling story of Moses, told as only master storyteller Gilbert Morris can deliver it. Readers will feel the sand beneath their feet as they follow Moses through his days in Pharaoh's court, his exile in the desert in Midian, his return to Egypt and confrontation with Pharaoh, to leading his people into the desert on their quest to reach the Promised Land. Lions of Judah Book 5. ...
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 | Mortality Bridge
Publication Date: July 31, 2011Decades ago a young rock and blues guitarist and junkie named Niko signed in blood on the dotted line and in return became the stuff of music legend. But when the love of his damned life grows mortally and mysteriously ill he realizes he's lost more than he bargained for--and that wasn t part of the Deal.So Niko sets out on a harrowing journey from the streets of Los Angeles through the downtown subway tunnels and across the redlit plain of the most vividly realized Hell since Dante, to play the gig of his mortgaged life and win back the purloined soul of his l...
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 | The Tree House
Publication Date: January 5, 2009When Harris Thatcher's father dies, the boy's journey into manhood becomes complicated with questions of faith, the meaning of life, and the capriciousness of death. Harris soon finds himself preaching the Mormon gospel as one of the first missionaries to West Germany following the devastation of World War II. Little does he know that his own war horrors await him upon his return home, when he is drafted into the Korean War.Starting out in the same 1940s-era Provo, Utah, that Thayer brought to life in his memoir Hooligan: A Mormon Boyhood, this novel deepens ...
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 | The Ghost Writer
Publication Date: July 5, 2004A tantalizing tale of suspense and family secrets that weaves Victorian ghost stories into the present – where they start to come trueTimid, solitary librarian Gerard Freeman lives for just two things: his elusive pen pal Alice and a story he found hidden in his mother’s drawer years ago. Written by his great-grandmother Viola, it hints at his mother's role in a sinister crime. And as he discovers more of Viola’s chilling tales, he realizes that they might hold the key to finding Alice and unveiling his family's mystery – or will they bri...
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 | Dutch Interior
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 | The Darwin Poems
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| Zhongguo ming sheng shi lian jing jian (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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 | Reading Revolution: The Politics of Reading in Early Modern England
Publication Date: May 2000| ISBN-10: 0300081529 | ISBN-13: 978-0300081527This fascinating book - the first comprehensive study of reading and politics in early modern England - examines how texts of that period were produced and disseminated and how readers interpreted and were influenced by them. Based on the voluminous reading notes of one gentleman, Sir William Drake, the book shows how readers formed radical social values and political ideas as they experienced civil war, revolution, republic and restoration. By analysing the strategies of Drake's reading practices, as well as those ...
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 | The Horror in the Museum
Release Date: September 25, 2007“H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century’s greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.” –Stephen King“Lovecraft’s fiction is one of the cornerstones of modern horror.”–Clive BarkerSome tales in this collection were inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, others he revised, two he co-authored–but all bear the mark of the master of primordial terror.The Horror in the Museum–Locked up for the night, a man will discover the difference between waxen grotesqueries and the real ...
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 | Adios Hemingway / Goodbye Hemingway (Andanzas / Adventures) (Spanish Edition)
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 | Hard to Hold: (Hard to Hold Trilogy Book 1)
Release Date: November 24, 2009THE SPECIAL OPS HERO FEARED NOTHING—UNTIL HE MET A WOMAN TOO HOT TO HOLD.…Lieutenant Jake Hansen has survived some of the riskiest missions known to man. But now the wounded Navy SEAL faces his toughest job yet: smuggling Dr. Isabelle Markham out of Africa without triggering an international incident. Not easy to do when the gorgeous hostage happens to be a senator’s daughter—and about as easy to resist as an oasis in the desert. If it weren’t for Jake, Isabelle would still be halfway across the world, where rebel forces left ...
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 | A Springwater Christmas (Springwater Seasons)
Publication Date: October 1, 1999| Series: Springwater Seasons Come home to the heart of a frontier town.... Linda Lael Miller created magic in five novels set in Springwater, Montana -- and in the delightful characters whose lives and hearts entwine in each of her enchanting tales. Now, come back to Springwater for an unforgettable holiday -- and join in the tears and the smiles when a prodigal son returns to find love at long last.When Jack McLaughlin drifted into Springwater, he carried little more with him than his bitter memories of the Civil War and the shattering secret of a promise b...
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 | Framed: The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siecle
Publication Date: October 30, 2008Framed uses fin de siècle British crime narrative to pose a highly interesting question: why do female criminal characters tend to be alluring and appealing while fictional male criminals of the era are unsympathetic or even grotesque?In this elegantly argued study, Elizabeth Carolyn Miller addresses this question, examining popular literary and cinematic culture from roughly 1880 to 1914 to shed light on an otherwise overlooked social and cultural type: the conspicuously glamorous New Woman criminal. In so doing, she breaks with the many Foucauldian st...
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 | Chicken Little
Release Date: March 3, 2009| Age Level: 3 and up BONK! An award-winning father-daughter team make the sky fall an entirely new way.You may already know the tale of a not-quite-so-bright little chicken whose encounter with an acorn and gravity convinces him the sky is falling, but youÕve never seen the story told this way. A brilliant collaboration brings us a bold and colorful retelling of the classic tale, as crazy-eyed Chicken and all his panicked friends run away from the sky and right into an eye-catching gatefold surprise. ...
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 | Dark Destiny (Bionicle Legends)
Publication Date: April 1, 2006| Age Level: 9 and up...
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 | Spider-Man Jumbo Color & Activity Book
Release Date: January 4, 2005Action packed color & activity books! Classic images of Spider-Man as he battles evil villains for control of the world fill the pages of these coloring books. But there’s more…cool activities like connect-the-dots, crosswords, word jumbles, and look and finds will keep kids entertained for hours! ...
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