 | Handling Sin
Release Date: April 1, 2010On the Ides of March, our hero, Raleigh Whittier Hayes (forgetful husband, baffled father, prosperous insurance agent, and leading citizen of Thermopylae, North Carolina), learns that his father has discharged himself from the hospital, taken all his money out of the bank and, with a young black female mental patient, vanished in a yellow Cadillac convertible. Left behind is a mysterious list of seven outrageous tasks that Raleigh must perform in order to rescue his father and his inheritance. And so Raleigh and fat Mingo Sheffield (his irrepressibly loyal friend...
 |  | Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States
Release Date: July 1, 2003In four sections—Childhood, Migration, First Generation, and Return—the contributors to this anthology write powerfully, often hauntingly, of their lives in Haiti and the United States. Jean-Robert Cadet's description of his Haitian childhood as a restavec—a child slave—in Port-au-Prince contrasts with Dany Laferriere's account of a ten-year-old boy and his beloved grandmother in Petit-Gove. We read of Marie Helene Laforest's realization that while she was white in Haiti, in the United States she is black. Patricia Benoit tells us of a Haitia...
|  | The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing: Fiction (Penguin Ink)
Release Date: July 26, 2011A critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller, this spirited and wickedly insightful narrative maps the progress of fourteen-year- old Jane Rosenal as she navigates the perilous terrain of love, sex, and relationships, capturing-with perfect pitch-what it's like to be a young woman in America today. ...
|  | Dark Revenge: A Vampire Story
Publication Date: December 12, 2002Dark shadows fall across the shores of the Atlantic Ocean as an evil being arrives in Florida. Karl Braun takes revenge against the man who tried to destroy him a half century earlier. In this erotic vampire tale, five terrified people unite to battle the forces of evil. ...
|  | Garden of Shadows (Dollanganger Series)
Release Date: November 16, 2010| Series: Dollanganger Series Before terror flowered in the attic there was a young girl. An innocent, hopeful girl... When young Olivia arrives at Foxworth Hall, she thinks her marriage to handsome Malcolm will bring the joy she has longed for. But in the gloomy mansion filled with festering desires and forbidden passions, a stain of jealous obsession begins to spread--an evil that will threaten her children, two charming boys and one very special, beautiful girl. For within the halls of this cursed house a shocking secret lives. A secret that will taint the F...
|  | Of Angels and Madness
Publication Date: November 17, 2011"They're really strange cases," Dr. Woodward said. "How many so far?" Jake said. "Nearly thirty, but some, of course, are dead now." "And you have no idea how they got it?" "None." He leaned back and slid open his top drawer. "I've been over it in my mind a thousand times—these women didn't have any risk factors for AIDS." He lifted his pipe and loaded it, then tapped in on the desk. "Maybe they had risk factors but denied them," Jake said. ...
|  | The Parentectomy ~ A Memoir: A Perspective On Rising Above Parental Alienation
Publication Date: November 10, 2009"Great news for bookstores! The Parentectomy is enrolled in Xlibris Book Returnability Program, which gives booksellers the convenient option of returning excess stocks through Ingram within two years.In a ""winner takes all"" culture, children caught in divorce have become the grand prize. Experts claim parental alienation has reached epidemic proportions in our country. Parents are only human, but when they indulge in their own unhealthy feelings and make a deliberate attempt to win a child s loyalty, they are perpetrators of bond abuse, also known as p...
|  | Pride of the Bimbos
Publication Date: July 1975The Pride of the Bimbos is John Sayles's outrageous, poignant and hilarious first novel, about a circus sideshow softball team—The Brooklyn Bimbos—who play in drag at scraggly small towns across the South. The heart of the team—and the novel—is a midget and former private eye named Pogo Burns, who is pursued by Dred, an evil super-pimp whom Pogo had earlier shot in order to rescue a woman he loved. The Pride of the Bimbos is about Pogo's rise, fall and eventual immortality, a man who refuses to admit he's a freak. --This text refers to a...
|  | Seventeenth-Century British Poetry, 1603-1660 (Norton Critical Edition)
Publication Date: December 29, 2005| ISBN-10: 0393979989 | ISBN-13: 978-0393979985| Edition: 1 Twenty-nine poets writing from the 1603 ascension of James I, the first Stuart King, and theRestoration of the monarchy in 1660, areincluded in this Norton Critical Edition.A time of political and social unrest in England, thisperiod produced some of the greatest poetry inEnglish. This volume includes the majorpoets—John Donne, Ben Jonson, George Herbert, John Milton, and Andrew Marvell—the major womenwriters of the era—Aemilia Lanyer, Mary Wroth,Anne Bradstreet, Margaret C...
|  | Women's Work: Modern Women Poets Writing in English
Publication Date: January 1, 2009An inclusive selection of women’s poetry in English that features writers from 1900 through the present, this collection reflects aspects of women’s lives, such as work, childhood, God, and lust. Classic poems from Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop, and Sylvia Plath complement those from recent prize-winners Alice Oswald, Deryn Rees-Jones, and Carol Ann Duffy. Showcasing the range, craft, intelligence, and skill of women’s poetry, this compilation contains authors from Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, New Zealand, t...
|  | Illuminations
Publication Date: May 16, 2011"If we are absolutely modern—and we are—it's because Rimbaudcommanded us to be."—John Ashbery, from the prefaceFirst published in 1886, Arthur Rimbaud’s Illuminations―the work of a poet who had abandoned poetry before the age of twenty-one―changed the language of poetry.Hallucinatory and feverishly hermetic, it is an acknowledged masterpiece of world literature, still unrivaled for its haunting blend of sensuous detail and otherworldly astonishment.In Ashbery's translation of this notoriously elusive text, the acclaimed ...
|  | My Love, My Star (Korea's Golden Poems) (Korean Edition)
Publication Date: May 1, 2001| ISBN-10: 1565911687 | ISBN-13: 978-1565911680| Edition: Bilingual: English/Korean "Kim So-yeop's poetic world is deeply rooted in love for man and God, and her poems inevitably deepen, broaden and heighten the spiritual world of her readers as they are filled with gentle and romantic emotion." Park Yi-do (Literary critic, Professor at Kyunghee Univ.) ...
|  | What Romance Do I Read Next: A Reader's Guide to Recent Romance Fiction, 2nd Edition
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|  | From Archaeology to Spectacle in Victorian Britain: The Case of Assyria, 1845-1854
Publication Date: February 2012| ISBN-10: 1409426890 | ISBN-13: 978-1409426899In his examination of the excavation of ancient Assyria by Austen Henry Layard, Shawn Malley reveals how, by whom, and for what reasons the stones of Assyria were deployed during a brief but remarkably intense period of archaeological activity in the mid-nineteenth century. His book encompasses the archaeological practices and representations that originated in Layard's excavations, radiated outward by way of the British Museum and Layard's best-selling "Nineveh and Its Remains" (1849), and were then dispersed ...
|  | Beat Generation: Glory Days in Greenwich Village
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|  | A LITERARY HISTORY OF ROME:FROM THE ORIGINS TO THE CLOSE OF THE GOLDEN AGE
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|  | Immortal Laws
Release Date: September 15, 2008Denver homicide detective Bryson Coventry is thrust into his most bizarre and twisted case yet as he hunts the killer of a woman who was murdered with a wooden stake through her heart as if she was a vampire. Meanwhile, beautiful young blues singer Heather Vaughn learns that she has been targeted for a similar death. She frantically searches for answers, not ony to save her life but also to find out whether dark genes from an ancient past are buried inside her. As time runs out, both she and Coventry find themselves swept deeper and deeper into the throes of a...
|  | The Wowzer
Release Date: May 1, 2012In the Arkansas Ozarks, old-timers spin tales of the Wowzer, a giant panther-like creature that decapitates those who wander too far into the woods. County sheriff’s deputy Jerry was raised on Wowzer stories, but they aren’t enough to stop him from carrying out his own business in the remote hills. Jerry’s more than a sheriff’s deputy; he moonlights as muscle for local drug traffickers, who sometimes need people to get hurt—or get dead. Fortunately, Jerry’s pretty good at his job. And since Tom Haskell runs the sheriff’s offi...
|  | Star Wars: Attack of the Clones Incredible Cross-Sections
Release Date: April 23, 2002| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Star Wars: Episode II -- The Saga Continues... Illustrated by DK's acclaimed cross-section artists, Hans Jenssen and Richard Chasemore, Episode II Incredible Cross-Sections is written by new author, Dr. Curtis Saxton, who has a Ph.D. in theoretical astrophysics and well-known to Star Wars fans through his high-profile website (The Star Wars Commentaries, hosted by the biggest fan site, Force.net) Episode II will include detailed cross-sections of all the new spaceships and vehicles, including: Obi-Wan Kenobi's Starfigh...
|  | A Tale Dark and Grimm
Release Date: August 18, 2011| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up In this mischievous and utterly original debut, Hansel and Gretel walk out of their own story and into eight other classic Grimm-inspired tales. As readers follow the siblings through a forest brimming with menacing foes, they learn the true story behind (and beyond) the bread crumbs, edible houses, and outwitted witches. Fairy tales have never been more irreverent or subversive as Hansel and Gretel learn to take charge of their destinies and become the clever architects of their own happily ever after. --This text r...
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