 | The Lola Quartet
Publication Date: May 1, 2012Gavin Sasaki is a promising young journalist in New York City, until he’s fired in disgrace following a series of unforgivable lapses in his work. It’s early 2009, and the world has gone dark very quickly; the economic collapse has turned an era that magazine headlines once heralded as the second gilded age into something that more closely resembles the Great Depression. The last thing Gavin wants to do is return to his hometown of Sebastian, Florida, but he’s drifting toward bankruptcy and is in no position to refuse when he’s offered a j...
 |  | The Annunciation (Voices of the South)
Publication Date: October 2001| Series: Voices of the South Ellen Gilchrist's debut novel expands the thematic and unusual landscapes the author made indelibly hers in radiantly spun stories. THE ANNUNCIATION follows the desires of Amanda McCarney: an unwed mother on a Mississippi Delta plantation at age fourteen, a wealthy New Orleans matron into her early forties, and now a divorced poetry student living in a university community in the Ozarks. When Amanda finds herself infatuated with an intense young musician, what at first appears to be a sexual intrigue becomes a grand and impossible p...
|  | Brooklyn: A Novel
Release Date: March 2, 2010“One of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary literature” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the hard years following World War Two. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn offers to sponsor Eilis in America, she decides she must go, leaving her fragile mother and her charismatic sister behind. Eilis finds work in a department store on Fulton Street, and when she least expects it, finds love. Tony, who loves the Dodgers and his big Italian family, slowly wins her over with patient charm. But just ...
|  | The Cul-de-sac KidsBooks 1-6 (Boxed Set)
Publication Date: October 1, 1995| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up This is an exciting and lighthearted chapter book series for young readers that centers on the often humorous escapades of a group of endearing neighborhood friends. Ages 7-10. ...
|  | The Best Ghost Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Ghost Anthology
Publication Date: September 23, 2011Ghost short stories became very popular in the first half of the nineteenth century and this collection by Andrew Barger, award-winning author of COFFEE WITH POE: A NOVEL OF EDGAR ALLAN POE'S LIFE and THE BEST HORROR SHORT STORIES 1800-1849: A CLASSIC HORROR ANTHOLOGY, contains the very scariest of them all. As he has done with a number of other books, Andrew Barger has added hisscholarly touch to this collection by including story backgrounds, annotations, author photos and a foreword titled "All Ghosts Are Gray." Buy the book tonight and be rea...
|  | My Sweet Vampire (Familia Sangre, Book 4)
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|  | Vampyre: A Bedside Companion
Publication Date: November 1978"Here is a comprehensive anthology of vampire stories, all dating from the most creative period in the development of the Vampire Count and the Fatal Woman as figures in European fantasy literature--between Lord Byron and Bram Stoker. Many of the stories and selections in The Vampyre have never been published before, and the collection includes material that has been newly translated into English". ...
|  | Maurice: A Novel
Publication Date: December 17, 2005"The work of an exceptional artist working close to the peak of his powers." Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York TimesSet in the elegant Edwardian world of Cambridge undergraduate life, this story by a master novelist introduces us to Maurice Hall when he is fourteen. We follow him through public school and Cambridge, and on into his father's firm, Hill and Hall, Stock Brokers. In a highly structured society, Maurice is a conventional young man in almost every way, "stepping into the niche that England had prepared for him": except that his is homosexua...
|  | The Golden Hour
Release Date: February 7, 2012In this stunning debut set in the summer of 1944 in Tuscany, GiovannaBellini, the daughter of a wealthy aristocrat and vineyard owner, has justturned seventeen and is on the cusp of adulthood. War bears down on herpeaceful little village after the Italians sign a separate peace with theAllies-transforming the Germans into an occupying army.But when her brother joins the Resistance, he asks Giovanna to hide abadly wounded fighter who is Jewish. As she nurses him back to health, shefalls helplessly in love with the brave and humble Marco, who comes from asancient ...
|  | Disease Detective: The Story of An Infectious Disease Physician
Publication Date: February 7, 2009This is a work of fiction that follows Dr. John Davis, MD/PhD through his work as a member of the Epidemic Intelligence Service and as a member of the US Public Health Service. Follow Dr. Davis as he responds to an outbreak of international proportions. ...
|  | The Oscar Wilde Collection (Library Edition Audio CDs) (L.a. Theatre Works)
Publication Date: March 25, 2010| Series: L.a. Theatre Works Four classic comedies from one of the wittiest playwrights in Western literature: Lady Windermere s Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, all featuring star-studded casts. Also includes a chilling dramatization of the only novel Oscar Wilde wrote, The Picture of Dorian Gray.The Importance of Being Earnest starring James Marsters, Charles Busch, et al. A stylish send-up of Victorian courtship and manners, complete with assumed names, mistaken lovers, and a lost handbag. A full-cast perf...
|  | Understanding Hamlet: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents (The Greenwood Press "Literature in Context" Series)
Publication Date: October 30, 1998| ISBN-10: 0313298777 | ISBN-13: 978-0313298776Shakespeare's Hamlet, regarded by many asthe world's most famous play by the world's most famous writer, is one of the most complex, demanding, discussed, and influential literary texts in English. As a means of access to this play, this unique collection of primary materials and commentary will help student and teacher explore historical, literary, theatrical, social, and cultural issues related to the play. In an approach unique for this series, Corum guides the reader through a literary analysis of Hamlet...
|  | A Little Class on Murder (Death on Demand Mysteries, No. 5)
Release Date: November 1, 1989When mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance is invited to teach "The Three Great Ladies of the Mystery" class at Chastain Community College, the sometime sleuth discovers that all is not strictly academic in Chastain's hallowed halls of learning. And when a shocking scandal in the school newspaper erupts in a suicide and two violent deaths, Professor Laurance enlists the talents of her new hubby, private eye Max Darling, and dons her thinking cap to probe intrigue and vengeance among Chastain's faculty.A Dangerous ThingMax and Annie, with dubious help ...
|  | The Fathers of the Church: Saint Augustine - Four Anti-Pelagian Writings
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|  | Timetwist: Timewalker
Publication Date: June 1, 2003| Series: Timetwist (Silhouette) TIME AFTER TIMETo save his people, Navajo medicine man Benjamin Two Eagles poured his soul into an ancient amulet. For over one hundred years he had been lost in time, until a beautiful woman set him free into a world he did not understand.She was a tough-as-nails special agent with the FBI, but Julia Stevens was also a woman, and not invulnerable to the magnificent warrior she had released into this century. But Benjamin's quest to avenge the wrongs done to his people went against every law she'd sworn to uphold.Could they find ...
|  | My Little Blue Robot (Paula Wiseman Books)
Release Date: August 28, 2012| Age Level: 4 and up...
|  | Heist Society
Release Date: February 9, 2010| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up...
|  | How the Stars Fell into the Sky: A Navajo Legend
Publication Date: March 30, 1992| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up This retelling of a Navajo folktale explains how First Woman tried to write the laws of the land using stars in the sky, only to be thwarted by the trickster Coyote. ...
|  | The Swim Race (My First Graphic Novel)
Publication Date: January 1, 2012 ...
|  | Snowshoe Thompson (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 1996| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. One winter, John Thompson skis across the Sierra Nevada Mountains and creates a path upon which mail and people may travel, thus earning his nickname ""Snowshoe Thompson. ...
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