 | J R (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))
Publication Date: February 7, 2012| Series: American Literature (Dalkey Archive) A great masterpiece by William Gaddis, with a new introduction by Rick Moody.Winner of the 1976 National Book Award, J R is a biting satire about the manyways in which capitalism twists the American spirit into something dangerous,yet pervasive and unassailable. At the center of the novel is a hilarious elevenyear old—J R—who with boyish enthusiasm turns a few basic lessons in capitalist principles, coupled with a young boy’s lack of conscience, into a massiveand exploitative paper empire. T...
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 | Once Upon a Gulf Coast Summer
Publication Date: January 15, 2004Susan Oliver says, "It takes very little for a mother and daughter to turn on each other. So much lies below the surface—hurts held for decades in clinched fists, extravagant expectations never met, and ties that bind."Once Upon a Gulf Coast Summer is about the complex relationship between Josephine Green and her grown daughter, Katy. Issues bear down from Josephine’s troubled and rigid childhood and the enigmatic mother who was preoccupied with her own secret disappointments.Jo and Katy continue to war with each other, especially after Jo is dia...
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 | A Test of Faith
Release Date: September 4, 2004Anne’s daughter Faith is the answer to her lifelong prayer to be a mother. But her dream is shattered when the teenager rejects Anne’s love and the love of God. After years pass, and God heals their relationship, Anne falls seriously ill. Faith watches her mother weaken, struggling with role reversals and leaning on God as never before. Through all the intricacies of their relationship, all the joys and trials, they learn that God is with them. He brings them peace in the darkness, joy in the midst of sorrow, and hope in the face of death.A Mother...
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 | Breaker's Reef (Cape Refuge, No. 4)
Release Date: March 10, 2005Murder and mystery continue in Book Four of the Cape Refuge series A famous mystery writer has just moved to Cape Refuge when a teenage girl is found murdered. Sheila Caruso--ex-con, mother to Sadie and Caleb, and resident of Hanover House--is working for the writer when she discovers that a scene in one of his novels matches the crime scene. When Police Chief Cade and Blair Owens discover a second dead teenager--mirroring a murder in another of the eccentric writer's books--Cade is drawn into a web of trickery and deceit. Evidence turns up in Cade's own truck, an...
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 | Konrad (Warhammer)
Publication Date: May 1, 2004| Series: Warhammer Novels Paperback ...
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 | Small Packages (Shaken series)
Publication Date: May 12, 2009In Without Warning, they fell in love. In Aftershock, that love was tested and reaffirmed. Now Anna and Lily Kaklis face questions about family and future when a homeless woman is killed in San Francisco, leaving a three-year-old who happens to be Lily's nephew in foster care. Lily will not allow her birth mother to ruin another childhood, but ways to save the little one rapidly dwindle. She can't arrange for adoption herself, not when Anna is clearly terrified at the prospect of raising a child. Anna is happy to let Lily do the temporary parenting necessary unt...
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 | Debt of Honor
Release Date: August 17, 1994Razio Yamata is one of Japan's most influential industrialists, and part of a relatively small group of authority who wield tremendous authority in the Pacific Rim's economic powerhouse.He has devised a plan to cripple the American greatness, humble the US military, and elevate Japan to a position of dominance on the world stage.Yamata's motivation lies in his desire to pay off a Debt of Honor to his parents and to the country he feels is responsible for their deaths -- America. All he needs is a catalyst to set his plan in motion. When the faulty gas tank on...
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 | The First State Attack!
Publication Date: October 16, 2008Omakka Trice was a walk-on player for a fledgling franchise called the First State Attack. Playing Professional football was a boyhood dream. Through his heart and hard work he allows his special dream to slowly and painfully materialize.The Attack endured as the worst team for many years. It was no different when Trice began there.Trice was no stranger to humility. In addition, he often dealt with self doubt. Yet, Trice would attempt to overcome that. Omakka's best expresssion became football. He embraced it like it was all that he had, until he met a speci...
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 | Gucci Gucci Coo
Release Date: May 30, 2006The acclaimed author of Original Cyn finds fertile ground for her wicked wit in this ferociously funny new novel about babies, sex, celebrity...and daring to date a gynecologist.Ruby (still single at thirty-two) Silverman has made a name for herself at Les Sprogs, her exclusive baby boutique where trust-fund mothers swaddle their infants in the hottest designer wear. But all those bumps and babes can’t prepare Ruby for the bombshell her fifty-year-old mother drops on her: Ruby’s about to get…a baby brother or sister!When Ruby recovers from the s...
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 | Pretense / Recycling Times
Publication Date: April 5, 2011A double volume of new plays from Hong Kong Arts Festival, including Pretense, in which an older man from Hong Kong relives his intense, devastating relationship with a young woman in Shanghai and Recycling Times, about an intellectual who works in a recycling dump, compressing literary works along with garbage into bales of recycled paper. ...
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 | Guillen on Guillen: The Poetry and the Poet
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 | Carvings from an Heirloom: Oral History Poems
Publication Date: April 1, 1983Carvings from an Heirloom: Oral History Poems is Helene Pilibosian's first book of poems, published in 1983 under the imprint Ohan Press. The book contains 64 short poems which are based on information from interviews with her parents about their village of origin in historic Armenia, which is now in Turkey. The first half of the book presents incidents and characterizations from this area of folk life with appropriate simple styling; the second half of the book relates more to the Armenian-American life and nostalgia for what was left behind. There are intervi...
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 | Locals: A Collection of Prose Poems
Publication Date: September 19, 2012Locals is a narrative atlas of prose poems as intimate as they are unpredictable, each a keyhole glimpse into the life of a different realm where our normal logic doesn't apply. Are we beholding magic?No, but through observing these strangers, we're confronted by the extraordinary paradoxes within our own hearts."When Shakespeare wrote about the poet's calling to give form to what 'imagination bodies forth,' to 'local habitation[s]," surely he was foreseeing the arrival of Claire Bateman's Locals. And if he was not as prescient as he now se...
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 | What Would Mr. Darcy Do? (A Pride & Prejudice Variation)
Release Date: April 1, 2011Praise for Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy: The Last Man in the World"Romance worthy of Austen herself." -Palmer's Picks for Reading"A poignant love story and...an exceptional read." -Once Upon a Romance"Addicting...Abigail Reynolds delivers again!" -Love Romance Passion There's only one gentleman to turn to when a lady is in desperate need of answers... With scandal descending on the Bennet family (again!), Elizabeth absolutely refuses to drag Mr. Darcy's name into this shocking situation. But how on earth is she going to get her family out of trouble this time withou...
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 | It's Never Too Late to Fall in Love: An Anthology of Romantic Short Stories
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 | The Long Escape
Publication Date: October 24, 2011Al Colby, an American expatriate working as a private investigator in Mexico City, is contacted by an old acquaintance in Los Angeles who hands him a cold case involving a missing person. Robert Parker’s mysterious disappearance is tying up a family fortune and is enraging his abandoned wife who can’t tap the family coffers without proof of death. The case sounded routine enough, right up his alley, but the trail for the missing Mr. Parker leads Colby down a rabbit hole winding through a number of South American countries, each one a dead end. ...
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 | Mysterium and Mystery: The Clerical Crime Novel
Publication Date: July 31, 1992A reprint of the first book on the topic of the cleric as a crime-solver in fiction. Mysterium and Mystery by William David Spencer is a primary reference of meticulous scholarship for anyone interested in mystery literature. ...
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 | Contemporary American Crime Fiction (Crime Files)
Publication Date: December 14, 2001| Series: Crime Files This accessible, lively, and informative study gives a clear, comprehensive overview of recent trends in American crime fiction. Building on a discussion of the immediate predecessors, Bertens and D'haen focus on the work of popular and award-winning authors of the last 15 years. Particular attention is given to writers who have reworked established conventions and explored new directions, especially women and those from ethnic minorities. ...
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| HIS LAST BOW - EIGHT CASES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
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 | Magic Tree House #45: A Crazy Day with Cobras (A Stepping Stone Book(TM))
Release Date: January 11, 2011| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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