 | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Publication Date: May 1987What do a dead cat, a computer whiz-kid, an Electric Monk who believes the world is pink, quantum mechanics, a Chronologist over 200 years old, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet), and pizza have in common? Apparently not much; until Dirk Gently, self-styled private investigator, sets out to prove the fundamental interconnectedness of all things by solving a mysterious murder, assisting a mysterious professor, unravelling a mysterious mystery, and eating a lot of pizza -- not to mention saving the entire human race from extinction along the way (at no extra charge). To f...
 |  | Real Vampires Have More to Love
Publication Date: December 7, 2010| Series: Real Vampires (Book 6)Dangerous curves lie ahead in the latest hilarious novel from the national bestselling author of Real Vampires Hate Their Thighs. Glory St. Clair is a vampire with man trouble. Between her on-again, off-again lover Jeremy Blade, smoking hot rock star Ray Caine, and former bodyguard turned apartment mate Valdez, there's enough man-candy around to make even a gal with a liquid diet feel a sugar rush.Glory's got no time to enjoy it, though, considering that she's in the middle of planning her best friend's wedding. And let'...
|  | Master and Commander (Aubrey-Maturin)
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|  | Hamlet's Mother and Other Women
Publication Date: March 15, 2002| ISBN-10: 0231071779 | ISBN-13: 978-0231071772| Edition: 2nd Carolyn G. Heilbrun's groundbreaking essay "The Character of Hamlet's Mother" was published in 1957 at a time when few critics thought seriously about women's issues in literature. In the years since, Heilbrun has emerged as a feminist leader through her commitment to women's writing and feminist literary critique. Now in a new paperback edition with a new preface by the author, this collection explores feminism in literary studies during the last three decades. By questioning the gender arrange...
|  | Tartuffe
Publication Date: December 23, 2011To the dismay of their family and friends, Orgon and his mother develop a great reverence for the insufferable pieties of a con-artist named Tartuffe. Tartuffe s flagrant hypocrisy is obvious to everyone else, and when Orgon declares his intention to give Tartuffe his daughter s hand in marriage, his family decides that they have had enough. One of Moliere s most celebrated plays, Tartuffe is witty satire. ...
|  | Thesmophoriazusae (Comedies of Aristophanes, Vol. 8)
Release Date: September 27, 2012| Series: Comedies of Aristophanes (Aris and Phillips 1994) ...
|  | Melting Pot
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| ![Baseball Haiku (08) by Tamura, Nanae [Hardcover (2007)]](https://imageproxy.pixnet.cc/imgproxy?url=https://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31HxBwr4ZfL._SL500_SS500_.jpg&width=150) | Baseball Haiku (08) by Tamura, Nanae [Hardcover (2007)]
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| | The Shalford Book of 20th Century Russian Poetry
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|  | The Invention of the Renaissance Woman: The Challenge of Female Independence in the Literature and Thought of Italy and England
Publication Date: July 1, 1992During the Renaissance the nature of womankind was a major topic of debate. Numerous dialogues, defenses, paradoxes, and tributes devoted to sustaining woman's excellence were published, and in them history was rewritten to include the achievements of womankind. Often these texts demonstrate that women are capable of acting with prudence, temperance, fortitude, and justice, and thus are capable of being independent of male political and moral authority, yet, Pamela Benson argues, the writers use literary means (genre, characterization, narrator, paradox, plot) t...
|  | Dickens's England: Life in Victorian Times
Publication Date: January 30, 2003| ISBN-10: 0275979814 | ISBN-13: 978-0275979812Victorian England was, in Tennyson's phrase, an awful moment of transition. A society based largely on agriculture, traditional values, and social hierarchies was transformed into one both stimulated and unsettled by unprecedented growth in science, technology, industry, urbanization and population, and profound questioning of politics, morality, and religion. Its writers energetically revealed their responses to the times and the effect that such a rapidly changing world had upon them. This collection of so...
|  | Hush (Zebra Romantic Suspense)
Release Date: June 28, 2011| Series: Zebra Romantic Suspense In the summer before their senior year, Coby Rendell and her friends take a beach trip together. Around a campfire on a foggy June night, Coby, Rhiannon, Yvette and the others share their darkest secrets, before a tragic accident shatters the bond between them...Twelve years later Coby attends a birthday party reunion that ends in horror when Yvette's sister's lifeless body is discovered in a hot tub. Soon others in the original group of tale-tellers begin meeting similar fates-unfortunate 'accidents' shrinking their numbers one by...
|  | Acqua Alta
Release Date: January 27, 2009Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice Questura is shocked to hear that Brett Lynch, a friend since a murder case at La Fenice, has suffered a savage beating. The attack, in the beautiful palazzo home of Flavia Petrelli, reigning diva of La Scala, had come with a message: 'Don't keep that appointment with Dottor Semenzato.' Then, with the storm clouds gathering fast over the city, a man's body is found ... --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
| | Lethal Risk
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|  | Batman: Meet the Super Heroes (I Can Read Book )
Release Date: December 22, 2009| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and upWhen an evil dragon attacks Gotham City, Batman knows he can't stop it by himself. With Superman and Wonder Woman fighting by his side, there is nothing these three Super Heroes can't do!...
|  | Suddenly Supernatural: Unhappy Medium
Publication Date: April 1, 2009| Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Sheep Blast Off!
Publication Date: March 7, 2011| Grade Level: K and upWhen a mysterious spacecraft lands in a nearby pasture, the lovable, blundering sheep get in gear for the ride of their lives! Unfortunately, these sheep don’t know the first thing about piloting a spaceship . . . but there may be someone else on board who does. ...
|  | Justin Morneau (Reading Power: Baseball's MVPs)
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|  | Franz Kafka (Bloom's Major Novelists)
Publication Date: October 2002| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | The Fox and the Grapes: A Retelling of Aesop's Fable (Read-It! Readers - Level Yellow C)
Publication Date: January 1, 2008| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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