 | I Didn't Ask to Be Born: (But I'm Glad I Was)
Release Date: November 1, 2011In this hilarious collection of observations, Cosby brings us more of his wonderful and wacky insights into the human condition that are sure to become classics. In the tradition of Fat Albert, I DIDN'T ASK TO BE BORN offers a host of new characters, including Peanut Armhouse and Old Mother Harold. Not since Mushmouth, Dumb Donald, Bucky and the Cosby Kids has there been such a memorable cast.Over the past century few entertainers have achieved the legendary status of William H. Cosby Jr. His success spans five decades and virtually all media-remarkable accompli...
 |  | The Jungle (Barnes & Noble Classics)
Publication Date: March 28, 2005The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and li...
|  | Aint I a Woman (Pluto Classics)
Publication Date: December 31, 1983| Series: Pluto Classics In this classic study, cultural critic bell hooks examines how black women, from the seventeenth century to the present day, were and are oppressed by both white men and black men and by white women. Illustrating her analysis with moving personal accounts, Ain't I a Woman is deeply critical of the racism inherent in the thought of many middle-class white feminists who have failed to address issues of race and class. While acknowledging the conflict of loyalty to race or sex is still a dilemma, hooks challenges the view that race and...
|  | Song of Solomon
Release Date: June 8, 2004Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family’s origins, Morrison introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized black world. ...
|  | The Pilgrim Hawk: A Love Story (New York Review Books Classics)
Release Date: August 16, 2011| Series: New York Review Books Classics This powerful short novel describes the events of a single afternoon. Alwyn Tower, an American expatriate and sometime novelist, is staying with a friend outside of Paris, when a well-heeled, itinerant Irish couple drops in—with Lucy, their trained hawk, a restless, sullen, disturbingly totemic presence. Lunch is prepared, drink flows. A masquerade, at once harrowing and farcical, begins. A work of classical elegance and concision, The Pilgrim Hawk stands with Faulkner’s The Bear as one of the fin...
|  | A Day to Pick Your Own Cotton (Shenandoah Sisters #2)
Publication Date: May 1, 2003Book 2 of Shenandoah Sisters. Mayme and Katie, from entirely different worlds, have been thrown together in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War.Just teenagers, they are left to survive only by their own wits and shared experiences. Gradually, they are learning to appreciate each other's strengths and to shore up each other's weaknesses. Out of their efforts to simply stay alive comes a growing awareness of the Lord's love and care for them, as well as the dim outlines of a plan to keep Rosewood Plantation operating. The book continues the story begun in Angels...
|  | The Practice of the Presence of God: The Original 17th Century Letters and Conversations of Brother Lawrence
Publication Date: April 20, 2007Brother Lawrence (1614 to 1691) was a monk who today is mostcommonly remembered for the closeness of his relationshipwith God, as recorded in this little book. He spent almost all of hisadult life in solitude, poverty, and obscurity within the walls of apriory. He was known for profound peace and high commitmentto Jesus Christ. He cared not for the worldly status of his tasks,but the motivation behind it. "We can do little things for God,"he wrote. "I turn the cake that is frying on the pan for love ofhim, and that done, if there is nothing else to call me, I ...
|  | East Wind: West Wind (Oriental Novels of Pearl S. Buck)
Publication Date: April 5, 1995| Series: Oriental Novels of Pearl S. Buck (Book 8) East Wind: West Wind is told from the eyes of a traditional Chinese girl, Kwei-lan, married to a Chinesemedical doctor, educated abroad. The story follows Kwei-lan as she begins to accept different points of view from the western world, and re-discovers her sense of self through this coming-of-age narrative. ...
|  | Old Devil Moon
Publication Date: August 1, 2008“[Christopher] Fowler repeatedly challenges the reader to redraw the boundaries between innocence and malevolence, rationality and paranoia. His strength lies in the way he unveils the darker side of the ordinary.”—Guardian A geologist trapped in a town without water is lured into a desperate escape plan. A boy plans a murder in an eerie funfair. A cop witnesses an inexplicable plague of madness. A teenager learns a deadly trick with his cell phone. Christopher Fowler’s tenth collection of uniquely disturbing short stories contains ...
|  | Washington and Caesar
Release Date: March 1, 2005Inspired by a little-known historical fact—that American slaves fought alongside the British in the Revolutionary War—this epic novel tells of a Mount Vernon slave who joins a Loyalist black regiment charged with defeating his former master on the battlefield.The year is 1773.A new slave arrives at George Washington's Virginia estate and is given the name Caesar.But the war for independence will soon bring a turn of events neither master nor slave could have predicted.Within months they will be fighting on opposite sides: Washington as commander of the ...
|  | Stolen Souls: A Jack Lennon Investigation Set in Northern Ireland
Release Date: September 4, 2012Galya Petrova travels to Ireland on a promise that she will work for a nice Russian family, teaching their children English. Instead, she is dragged into the world of modern slavery, sold to a Belfast brothel, and held there against her will. She escapes at a terrible cost—the slaying of one of her captors—and takes refuge with a man who offers his help. As the traffickers she fled scour the city for her, seeking revenge for their fallen comrade, Galya faces an even greater danger: her savior is not what he seems. She is not the first traffi...
|  | The Patriots of Nantucket: A Romantic Comedy of the American Revolution
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|  | Sagas and Myths of the Northmen (Penguin Epics)
Release Date: December 26, 2006| Series: Penguin Epics (Book 16) In a land of ice, great warriors search for glory. When a dragon threatens the people of the north, only one man can destroy the fearsome beast. Elsewhere, a mighty leader gathers a court of champions, including a noble warrior under a terrible curse. The Earth's creation is described; tales of the gods and evil Frost Giants are related; and the dark days of Ragnarok foretold. This is a journey into a realm of legend, where heroes from an ancient age do battle with savage monsters, and every man must live or die by the sword. ...
|  | Painting the Past: The Victorian Painter and British History
Release Date: March 29, 2004Magnificent Elizabeth, innocent Princes in the Tower, Mary Queen of Scots on the scaffold, and beautiful, tragic Lady Jane Grey—that is how we think of them. The spell they cast is one of reality amplified by the history of Victorian painting; yet many of these paintings have been ignored or despised by modern art historians and critics. In this pioneering study, Roy Strong shows how and why these works came into being. He separates the fanciful recreations from the accurate reconstructions of the past, pinpoints their sources and identifies such literary par...
|  | Still Side by Side: A Diary of Making It Big in the City
Publication Date: November 30, 2011Sex and romance: The life of Evan and Rick In volume one of Mioki's A Side by Sidethe comic artist took us on a journey into the life of Evan and Rick: Best friends since they were kids, we saw them stumbling right into a hot love affair which ended happily with big love. Meanwhile, the two cuties live together in the city. The fact that both of them have sex with other men from time to time-whether together or alone-doesn't harm their relationship. On the contrary, it heats up their passion for each other. STILL SIDE BY SIDE offers hot sex on every occasio...
|  | A Different Kind of Love
Publication Date: April 2002A Different Kind of Love is a rare book, a collection of beautifully crafted love stories whose characters just happen to share the same sex. Although author Jay Mandal does explore the special difficulties encountered by gay men who fall in love, the anthology’s main focus is upon unabashed romance. Character gender apart, the book is one of love and not of the political complaint or seedy sex so common of the genre. ...
|  | Playing for Pizza
Publication Date: September 25, 2007NFL performance and story ...
|  | Robert Ludlum's The Hades Factor: A Covert-One Novel
Release Date: May 30, 2006| Series: Covert-One Robert Ludlum has been acclaimed as the master of .suspense and international intrigue for over twenty-five years. His many books have thrilled millions of readers, reaching the top of bestsellers lists the world over and setting a standard that has never been surpassed. Now, from the imagination of one of America’s greatest storytellers comes Robert Ludlum’s The Hades Factor.A homeless man in Boston, an Army major in California, and a teenage girl in Atlanta all die suddenly and painfully—each a victim of a hitherto unknown, f...
|  | Murder Most Fair : The Appeal of Mystery Fiction
Publication Date: November 2000Murder Most Fair investigates the appeal of mystery fiction with examples from before Poe to the end of the twentieth century. Mystery fiction and mainstream or ‘serious’ fiction changes places in many late-twentieth-century works, raising thequestion whether mystery can continue to appeal. But mystery’s conventions are not belief systems or ideologiesto be made obsolete; its formulas have resilience and longevity. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition....
|  | Benny and Penny in Lights Out (Toon)
Release Date: August 28, 2012| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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