 | Second Chance
Release Date: May 27, 2008 Jane Green has become a nationally bestselling author with legions of fans through her novels about the true-lifedilemmas of real women—their relationships, their careers, their loves, their triumphs and disappointments. In herlatest book, Green tells the story of a group of people who haven’t seen each other since they were best friends atschool. When one of them dies in a terrible tragedy, the reunited friends work through their grief together and find thateach of their lives is impacted in ways they could have never foreseen. Warm, witty, and as wise...
 |  | Recreating Emily
Publication Date: September 17, 2012On the anniversary of the night they met, Sarah Sanders walks in on her husband, Paul, and another woman in the throes of passion.After blacking out from shock, she wakes up in the body of her former self – nineteen years younger, nineteen years in the past. At first, she thinks she is experiencing a very realistic, if not supremely bizarre nightmare.But as her stomach rumbles from hunger, and she feels a pang of what might be menstrual cramps, she realizes: this may not be a dream after all . And if it isn’t, then her soul-mate-in-daughter-f...
|  | Winter of the Soul: Gay Vampire Fiction
Publication Date: 1995Chilling Beauty, Monstrous AppetitesWelcome to the world of the vampire, sensuous lover, dark guest,shapechanger and demon, whos lusts know no bounds, and in whose embrace noman is safe."There are many breeds of vampires. Some have fangs that unsheathelike a cat's claws, some have stingers in their tongues, and some aresmotherers who lie heavy on your chest and crush the breath from you. Someeat blood, or semen, or organs, or shit, or life itself."I eat dreams." ...
|  | Dark Tower: The Gunslinger - The Little Sisters of Eluria
Publication Date: June 22, 2011Near death from an attack by Slow Mutants, Roland Deschain is taken in by a group of Sisters who specialize in anything but the healing arts. These hideous, corpse-like creatures known as the Little Sisters of Eluria have murder on their twisted minds. And in his current, wounded condition, there's almost nothing the last gunslinger can do to prevent their tender mercies from taking hold. It's the beginning of a new Dark Tower story arc featuring the fine pencils of Luke Ross, whose work on this story will astound you! ...
|  | Once Upon an Elephant
Publication Date: July 1, 2002Once Upon an Elephant is a contemporary tale of Hindu deity Ganesh and what happens when worlds, cultures, and stories collide.A whimsical, contemporary retelling of the creation story of Ganesh—the elephant-headed Hindu deity—Once Upon an Elephant is rife with humour and political satire. When the police find unusual boy parts—a young man's head and an elephant's body—they assume a murder has been committed, and the case goes to trial. But the appearance of Vighnesvara, a manifestation of Ganesh with the body of a young man and the head of a...
|  | The Golden Mean: A Novel of Aristotle and Alexander the Great (Vintage)
Release Date: September 6, 2011| Series: Vintage Keenly intelligent and brilliantly rendered, The Golden Mean is a bold reimagining of one of history’s most intriguing relationships—that between the legendary philosopher Aristotle and his most famous pupil, Alexander the Great. Aristotle is initially reluctant to set aside his own ambitions in order to tutor the rebellious son of his boyhood friend, Philip of Macedon. Still, the philosopher soon realizes that teaching this charming, surprising, and sometimes horrifying teenager is a necessity amid the ever more sinister int...
|  | Dick Francis's Gamble
Release Date: July 26, 2011Felix Francis continues his father's New York Times- bestselling legacy with another edge-of-your-seat read that's classicFrancis. Nicholas "Foxy" Foxton, a former jockey who suffered a career- ending injury, is out for a day at the Grand National races when hisfriend and coworker Herb Kovak is murdered, execution style, right infront of him-and 60,000 other potential witnesses. Foxton and Kovakwere both independent financial advisers at Lyall & Black, a firmspecializing in extreme-risk investments.As he struggles to come to terms with Kovak's seeming...
|  | Damnation Road (Pinnacle Westerns)
Release Date: September 1, 2010| Series: Pinnacle Westerns It's the last chance for Jacob Gamble, Rough Rider, outlaw and man of a few principles. Nearing 50 and flat broke, Jacob bends his own rule about robbing trains. But by the time he reaches the payroll safe on a Rock Island train, he finds another thief there first with a bullet in his head. Jacob is caught holding the bag - and turned into hero. A broke hero. Shackled by unwanted fame, running from a life gone wrong, and raising the suspicions of a Pinkerton detective, Jacob listens to a woman: beautiful and tattooed by the Indians w...
|  | Henry V: The Oxford Shakespeare (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: August 1, 2008 ...
|  | Borges por el mismo, un libro sonoro/ Borges by Himself, an Sonorous Book (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Tender Moments. Love Poems
Publication Date: December 29, 2006The home of international award-winning Nigerian poet was devastated by Hurricane Katrinia in New Orleans, destroying his library, manuscripts, and other valuable possessions. This is his first collection since that time. Sensuous, daring and characteristically lyrical; these poems are a testimony to the affirmation of life and the indestructibility of the creative spirit. We see the deeply personal side of the bard widely regarded as a political poet. ...
|  | A Beautiful God To Love (To Mother Teresa, Desmond Tutu, Charles de Foucauld, Leonardo da Vinci, Martin Luther King)
Publication Date: July 1, 2006This book of poetry is written to encourage a better dependence upon God and a greater solidarity to the poor and needy people of the world. It takes the risk to approach the problems of the poor from the viewpoint of the Sovereign God, and it does so with the intent to encourage a sense of compassion in our human societies. While the book speaks about the problems of the poor countries, it is a book for all people who love and value the teachings of God. For what gift is greater than teaching the truth of God in Jesus name? ...
|  | Reading Cultures: The Construction of Readers in the Twentieth Century
Publication Date: January 30, 1998| ISBN-10: 0809321475 | ISBN-13: 978-0809321476| Edition: 1st Molly Abel Travis unites reader theory with an analysis of historical conditions and various cultural contexts in this discussion of the reading and reception of twentieth-century literature in the United States.Travis moves beyond such provisional conclusions as "the text produces the reader" or "the reader produces the text" and considers the ways twentieth-century readers and texts attempt to constitute and appropriate each other at particular cultural moments and according to specific psyc...
|  | Contemporary Poetry & Postmodernism
Publication Date: June 30, 1996This volume explores the relationship between the poetry of the mainstream and kinds of modernist poetry that have had to make their way outside it. Mainstream poets like Paul Muldoon, James Fenton and Carol Ann Duffy multiply voices and so draw on resources from the novel - Bakhtin's concept of the dialogic is therefore used to explain their techniques. By contrast, Shklovsky's concept of "estrangement" is shown to be more useful in accounting for the radical experimentation of poets like Edwin Morgan, Christopher Middleton and Denise Riley. However, the book ...
|  | The Case of the One-Eyed Witness (Perry Mason Mysteries (Fawcett Books))
Release Date: May 1, 1995| Series: Perry Mason Mysteries (Fawcett Books) A frantic woman desperate to retain Perry Mason's services suddenly disappears. The only clues are a news clipping about a blackmail case and the combination to a safe. The case is a tangled web involving an eccentric widower, a sexy cigarette girl, a shady real-estate broker, a wife, a lover, and too many loose ends. HC: Morrow. ...
|  | Gloria
Release Date: September 7, 2000On her last trip to New York with her mother, she'd been fitted for a new formal, one that was older and more sophisticated than she'd ever worn before; it was smoke and silver, princess length, quite low cut, and she didn't want to wear it-would have preferred to revert to her jeune fille Cinderella persona-but she didn't have any choice; she couldn't very well get another one made at this late date. Preparing to do her makeup, looking in the mirror at her freshly scrubbed, bare skin, she saw a sad, tired girl who wanted to stay home with a book. Maybe if I pu...
|  | Spooky Riddles (Beginner Books(R))
Release Date: September 12, 1983| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Summer Reading Is Killing Me! #7 (Time Warp Trio)
Release Date: April 26, 2004| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Walt Disney's: The Grasshopper and the Ants
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|  | Beautiful Blackbird (Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner)
Release Date: January 1, 2003| Age Level: 3 and up...
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