 | Naked Pictures of Famous People
Publication Date: October 6, 1999A critically acclaimed national Bestseller, Naked Pictures of Famous People arrives in trade paperback with a new essay, written especially for this edition. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
 |  | Somebody Else's Daughter: A Novel
Release Date: April 7, 2009A taut, complex psychological thriller from the author of The Doctor's Wife Like The Doctor's Wife - which The Boston Globe called "a compelling read"-Somebody Else's Daughter is a literary page-turner peopled with fascinating and disturbing characters. In the idyllic Berkshires, at the prestigious Pioneer School, there are dark secrets that threaten to come to light. Willa Golding, a student, has been brought up by her adoptive parents in elegant prosperity, but they have fled a mysterious and shameful past. Her biological father, a failing writer and former drug ...
|  | Westley, the Big Truck
Publication Date: May 1, 2006| Age Level: 3 and up This colorful book tells the story of Westley and how he learns that he was specially created for a specific purpose by a creator. Children can easily see the parallels between Westley and themselves. ...
|  | Wicked Pleasures
Release Date: September 27, 2012All families have secrets—but could one scandalous secret tear this aristocratic family apart? Sexy, glamorous, and fun, Wicked Pleasures, set on a canvas as American as English, is the story of a brother and two sisters who discover that they all have different fathers. None of them are the children of Alexander, Earl of Caterham, who was married to their mother for almost twenty years.A family saga that takes the reader right from the 1950s to the end of the twentieth century, and set between the Hamptons summer homes of New York’s elite and the ...
|  | Green Darkness (Rediscovered Classics)
Publication Date: April 1, 2005| Series: Rediscovered Classics This unforgettable story of undying love combines mysticism, suspense, mystery, and romance into a web of good and evil that stretches from 16th-century England to the present day. Richard Marsdon marries a young American woman named Celia, brings her to live at his English estate, and all seems to be going well. But now Richard has become withdrawn, and Celia is constantly haunted by a vague dread. When she suffers a breakdown and wavers between life and death, a wise doctor realizes that only by forcing Celia to relive her past...
|  | Bendigo Shafter: A Novel
Publication Date: January 5, 1999At what point does a group of strangers become a community? When young Bendigo Shafter and a ragtag bunch of travelers settle in the rugged Wyoming mountains, they quickly come to depend on a toughness and wisdom many of them never knew they possessed. Led by the beautiful and resourceful widow Ruth Macken, the settlers battle harsh winters, renegade opportunists, and the destructive lure of gold. Through these brutally demanding experiences, young Bendigo is forged into a man. But when he travels to New York to reclaim the love of Ninon, his childhood sweeth...
|  | The Price of Freedom (Pirates of the Caribbean)
Release Date: May 17, 2011| Series: Pirates of the Caribbean Twenty-five-year-old Jack Sparrow is a clean-cut merchant seaman pursuing a legitimate career as a first mate for the East India Trading Company. He sometimes thinks back to his boyhood pirating days, but he doesn’t miss Teague’s scrutiny or the constant threat of the noose. Besides, he doesn’t have much choice—he broke the Code when he freed a friend who had been accused of rogue piracy, and he can no longer show his face in Shipwreck Cove. ...
|  | All the Pretty Girls
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|  | Almost Famous
Publication Date: June 26, 2000Almost Famous takes its place among the relatively few adult novels about professional baseball...The narrative is tough and unsentimental, the dialogue crisp and right-sounding...a dramatic and moving story.-Chicago Sun-TimesElegantly crafted, Small's first novel is a stunning debut.Saturday Review...
|  | Pride and Prejudice
Publication Date: June 23, 2012This is a beautiful new edition of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice". Complete and unabridged. Printed on high quality paper. ...
|  | The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. B: The Romantic Period through the Twentieth Century and After
Publication Date: March 15, 2006| ISBN-10: 0393928314 | ISBN-13: 978-0393928310| Edition: 8th Read by millions of students over seven editions, The Norton Anthology of English Literatureremains the most trusted undergraduate survey of English literature available and one of the mostsuccessful college texts ever published.Firmlygrounded by the hallmark strengths of all Norton Anthologies—thorough and helpful introductorymatter, judicious annotation, complete textswherever possible—The Norton Anthology ofEnglish Literature, The Major Authors has beenrevitalized in this Eighth...
|  | Birds; Lysistrata; Women at the Thesmophoria (Loeb Classical Library No. 179) (Greek and English Edition)
Publication Date: November 15, 2000| ISBN-10: 0674995872 | ISBN-13: 978-0674995871Aristophanes (ca. 446–386 BCE), one of the world's greatest comic dramatists, has been admired since antiquity for his iridescent wit and beguiling fantasy, exuberant language, and brilliant satire of the social, intellectual, and political life of Athens at its height. In this third volume of a new Loeb Classical Library edition of Aristophanes, Jeffrey Henderson presents a freshly edited Greek text and a lively, unexpurgated translation of three plays with full explanatory notes.In Birds Aristophanes...
|  | Das Kurze Leben Der Sophie Scholl (Fiction, Poetry & Drama) (German Edition)
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|  | Surrealism and Painting
Release Date: September 2, 2002Originally published in 1928 and augmented throughout the author's life, Surrealism and Painting is the single most important statement ever written on Surrealist art. While many pages have been devoted to visual Surrealism, this is the only book on the suject by the movement's founder and prime theorist. It contains Andra Breton's seminal treatise on the origins and foundations of artistic Surrealism, with his trenchant assessments of its precursors and practitioners, and his call for the plastic arts to "refer to a purely internal model." Also included are es...
|  | El Corazon Es Un Cazador Solitario (Spanish Edition)
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|  | As Luck Would Have It
Publication Date: September 2, 2012Sydney is an average middle aged housewife who encounters some misfortune in her life. Her misfortune happens to be someone else's fate.What is supposed to be a therapy trip turns into a trip of lust and sexapades.They say "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas." What if that's not what you want. What if what happened in Vegas is just what's missing back home? ...
|  | Blood on the Mink (Hard Case Crime)
Release Date: April 3, 2012| Series: Hard Case Crime Somewhere in Philadelphia, a master engraver is turning out brilliant forgeries of U.S. currency plates for an organized crime gang - and the government wants to put a stop to it. But how can they get close enough to bring down the criminal enterprise from the inside? By snatching a west coast crime boss' right-hand man and sending a federal agent undercover in the man's place. His assignment: pose as a buyer of counterfeit bills and try to get the engraver out. Which works fine - until he crosses paths with someon...
|  | Hardboiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories
Publication Date: May 18, 1995What are the ingredients of a hard-boiled detective story? "Savagery, style, sophistication, sleuthing and sex," said Ellery Queen. Often a desperate blond, a jealous husband, and, of course, a tough-but-tender P.I. the likes of Sam Spade or Philop Marlowe. Perhaps Raymond Chandler summed it up best in his description of Dashiell Hammett's style: "Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it....He put these people down on paper as they were, and he made them talk and think in the language they customarily used for these purposes."Hard-Boiled: ...
|  | Scared Witless: Thirteen Eerie Tales to Tell
Publication Date: July 25, 2006| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Stories are powerful. If a story is well told, listeners feel as if they are in a bit of a trance. Storytellers have always loved to tell stories around a campfire. It's the perfect setting to tell a jump story where the whole point is to startle the listeners. These 13 tales come with tips for telling guaranteed to make the listener jump, scream, gasp, and giggle. ...
|  | Bible: Family Flip Quiz (Family Flip Quiz series)
Publication Date: April 1, 2003| Age Level: 9 and up...
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