 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Release Date: May 18, 2004Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow.This improbable story of Christopher's quest to investigate the suspicious death of a neighborhood dog makes for one of the most captivating, unusual, and widely heralded novels in recent years. ...
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 | Peregrinos de Aztlan / Pilgrims in Aztlan (Clasicos Chicanos =) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: December 1991| Series: Clasicos Chicanos = classic Chicano novel in original Spanish edition...
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 | Origins of Modern Japanese Literature (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
Publication Date: May 28, 1993| Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions Since its publication in Japan ten years ago, the Origins of Modern Japanese Literature has become a landmark book, playing a pivotal role in defining discussions of modernity in that country. Against a history of relative inattention on the part of Western translators to modern Asian critical theory, this first English publication is sure to have a profound effect on current cultural criticism in the West. It is both the boldest critique of modern Japanese literary history to appear in the post-war era and a major theor...
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 | Elixir
Publication Date: January 2005When Revell Pharmaceuticals, the multi-billion dollar giant owned by the Revells, approaches Taylor Knox and his company with the possibility of a merger, the future has never looked better. Not only will the merger benefit Taylor and his company - the promise of a personal share of the proceeds makes the move even more worthwhile. But in order to obtain this personal share, Taylor must find the missing pharmaceutical heiress, Kirra Revell — once the love of his life — who seems to have disappeared without a trace. According to her sister, Kirra ha...
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 | Ghost of a Smile (A Ghost Finders Novel)
Release Date: August 30, 2011| Series: A Ghost Finders Novel The Ghost Finders answer a distress call from the private researchcenter of one of the biggest drug companies in the world, where a teamof police enforcement agents have vanished. They have no idea whatthey're facing-except a deadline that threatens to remove the entirebuilding from existence if they fail to get to the bottom of themystery. ...
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 | Mysterious Skin
Release Date: May 10, 2005At the age of eight Brian Lackey is found bleeding under the crawl space of his house, having endured something so traumatic that he cannot remember an entire five–hour period of time. During the following years he slowly recalls details from that night, but these fragments are not enough to explain what happened to him, and he begins to believe that he may have been the victim of an alien encounter. Neil McCormick is fully aware of the events from that summer of 1981. Wise beyond his years, curious about his developing sexuality, Neil found what he perceived...
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 | Delhi: A Novel
Release Date: April 1, 1991historical novel set in Delhi, c. 17-20th Centuries ...
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 | Advice from a Tree Minibook
Publication Date: June 15, 2000Everyone needs a wise friend. Someone who knows how to say just the right thing. At just the right moment. Here a hundred year old tree shares its simple wisdom about life, about living in harmony with ourselves and with nature. 64 pages of green and growing wisdom with delightfully detailed tree illustration printed on recycled and 100%replanted paper. ...
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 | Homer's The Odyssey (Barron's Book Notes)
Publication Date: October 1, 1984| Series: Barron's Book Notes Plot synopsis of this classic is made meaningful with analysis and quotes by noted literary critics, summaries of the work's main themes and characters, a sketch of the author's life and times, a bibliography, suggested test questions, and ideas for essays and term papers. ...
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 | Diderot's Cat: Selected Poems
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 | Renegade in Power
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 | Deliberate Criticism: Toward a Postmodern Humanism
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 | Race, American Literature and Transnational Modernisms (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: May 8, 2008| ISBN-10: 0521884055 | ISBN-13: 978-0521884051| Edition: 1 Modernist poetry crosses racial and national boundaries. The emergence of poetic modernism in the Americas was profoundly shaped by transatlantic contexts of empire-building and migration. In this ambitious 2008 book, Anita Patterson examines cross-currents of influence among a range of American, African American and Caribbean authors. Works by Whitman, Poe, Eliot, Pound and their avant-garde contemporaries served as a heritage for black poets in the US and elsewhere in the New World. In tracing thes...
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 | The Un Saddest Factory presents a 10 Minute Play Festival: August 2010
Publication Date: August 12, 2010A collection of 10 plays performed as part of a 10 minute play festival at the Annex Theater in Baltimore, Maryland in August, 2010. ...
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 | The Compact Reader: Short Essays by Method and Theme
Publication Date: December 24, 2007| ISBN-10: 0312433476 | ISBN-13: 978-0312433475| Edition: 8th From its well-chosen essays to its thorough editorial apparatus to its distinctive organization, The Compact Reader provides the fundamental support students need to write successfully. The unique dual organization -- rhetorical and thematic -- introduces students to essential strategies of writing while engaging them with brief readings on captivating topics. For the instructor who wants a concise, effective means for teaching students to think critically about the connection between form an...
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 | The Law of Desire (Kimani Romance)
Publication Date: November 18, 2008| Series: Kimani Romance (Book 119) Decorated police detective Lawrence Hightower's instincts click into high gear when a beautiful but suspicious stranger appears in his stakeout zone. Soon he realizes Minerva Jones is in danger and needs protection. He can't trust her. But he can't get this tough, feisty, stubborn siren out of his head.Desperate to keep a low profile, the last thing Minerva needs is a sexy cop getting too close for comfort. Not that she's guilty of anything, except her own intense attraction to the too-fine detective. But she's got a few ...
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 | Texas Splendor (Zebra Historical Romance)
Release Date: February 27, 2008| Series: Zebra Historical Romance He Claimed Her Body...Though an Easterner born and bred, Trista Sinclair fell in love with the rugged Texas terrain the moment she arrived to join her fiance. But the warnings she has heard around the ranch come to life when she is captured by a blue-eyed Comanche warrior...a man whose sensual touch is far more dangerous than his brute strength.But Wanted Her Heart And Soul...Lance Barrett has never been tempted to take a captive until he sees a beautiful woman with hair like spun gold taming a magnificent stallion. Trista is ...
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 | The Increment: A Novel
Publication Date: May 3, 2010The New York Times bestseller: “A remarkably timely and pulse-quickening tale of deception, divided loyalty, and moral haziness.”—Raleigh News & ObserverHarry Pappas, chief of the CIA’s Persia House, receives an encrypted message from a scientist in Tehran. But soon the source of secrets from the Iranian bomb program dries up: the scientist panics; he’s being followed, but he doesn’t know who’s on to him, and neither does Harry. To get his agent out, Harry turns to a secret British spy team known as “The...
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 | Better Synchronized Swimming for Girls
Publication Date: October 1981Outlines the basic skills and techniques of synchronized swimming and discusses how to prepare and perform a routine. ...
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 | Winnie-the-Pooh's Cookie Book
Release Date: December 1, 1996More than forty recipes feature vignettes of the Milne characters. ...
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