 | The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln
Release Date: July 10, 2012From the best-selling author of The Emperor of Ocean Park and New England White, a daring reimagining of one of the most tumultuous moments in our nation’s past Stephen L. Carter’s thrilling new novel takes as its starting point an alternate history: President Abraham Lincoln survives the assassination attempt at Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865. Two years later he is charged with overstepping his constitutional authority, both during and after the Civil War, and faces an impeachment trial . . . Twenty-one-year-old Abigail Canner is a young...
 |  | Tigers in Red Weather: A Novel
Publication Date: July 17, 2012Nick and her cousin, Helena, have grown up sharing sultry summer heat, sunbleached boat docks, and midnight gin parties on Martha's Vineyard in a glorious old family estate known as Tiger House. In the days following the end of the Second World War, the world seems to offer itself up, and the two women are on the cusp of their 'real lives': Helena is off to Hollywood and a new marriage, while Nick is heading for a reunion with her own young husband, Hughes, about to return from the war. Soon the gilt begins to crack. Helena's husband is not the man he seemed to...
|  | Kristin Lavransdatter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Release Date: September 27, 2005In her great historical epic Kristin Lavransdatter, set in fourteenth-century Norway, Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset tells the life story of one passionate and headstrong woman. Painting a richly detailed backdrop, Undset immerses readers in the day-to-day life, social conventions, and political and religious undercurrents of the period. Now in one volume, Tiina Nunnally’s award-winning definitive translation brings this remarkable work to life with clarity and lyrical beauty.As a young girl, Kristin is deeply devoted to her father, a kind and courageous ...
|  | Black Beetles in Amber
Publication Date: May 1, 2008Death-poet Pickering sat at his desk, Wrapped in appropriate gloom; His posture was pensive and picturesque, Like a raven charming a tomb. -- "The Obituarian" Best known for his tales of bleak reality and dark imagination, Ambrose Bierce also gave expression to his sardonic, epigrammatic wit in verse form. Black Beetles in Amber collects his finest forays into versification. Some are barbed and venomous, while others are simply entertaining sallies upon the entertaining foibles of his day -- as in "The Oleomargarine Man," 'On the Wedding of an Aeronaut," or "Judg...
|  | Silicone
Publication Date: May 13, 2011Millions of women around the world undergo breast implant operations every year. Which of the following statements do you think are true?A. Breast implants can make you look sexier.B. Breast implants can cause asphyxiation.C. Breast implants can save your life.D. Breast implants can cause a car wreck. It’s all of the above. Jordan Hamilton is a brilliant immunologist who works at a major teaching hospital in Sacramento, California. When a young woman dies during a routine operation to remove her ruptured breast implants, Jordan realizes that the victim re...
|  | Damned Good Show (Raf Quartet 3)
Publication Date: August 2, 2012| Series: Raf Quartet 3 They joined an R.A.F. known as 'the best flying club in the world', but when war pitches the young pilots of 409 Squadron into battle over Germany, their training, tactics and equipment are soon found wanting, their twin-engined bombers obsolete from the off. Chances of completing a 30-operation tour? One in three. At best. Robinson's crooked salute to the dogged heroes of the R.A.F.'s early bombing campaign is a wickedly humourous portrait of men doing their duty in flying death traps, fully aware, in those dark days of war, there was ...
|  | Women Poets of the Renaissance
Publication Date: March 1999| ISBN-10: 0415923506 | ISBN-13: 978-0415923507| Edition: 1 Although women of the Renaissance were expected to be "chaste, silent and obedient," many women poets risked the disapproval of their own society and transcended the strictures of contemporary female behavior in words that still resonate today. Their meditations on the danger and sufferings of motherhood and their descriptions of the vagaries of love, while couched in the formal style of Renaissance poetry, often appear startlingly close to modern experience. As a consequence, the range of poetry prod...
|  | Harry Potter's Bookshelf: The Great Books behind the Hogwarts Adventures
Release Date: July 7, 2009| Age Level: 18 and up | Grade Level: 12 and up Harry Potter. The name conjures up J.K. Rowling's wondrous world of magic that has captured the imaginations of millions on both the printed page and the silver screen with bestselling novels and blockbuster films. The true magic found in this children's fantasy series lies not only in its appeal to people of all ages but in its connection to the greater world of classic literature.Harry Potter's Bookshelf: The Great Books Behind the Hogwarts Adventures explores the literary landscape of themes and genres J.K. Rowlin...
|  | Carribbean Discourse: Selected Essays (Caribbean and African Literature)
Publication Date: September 30, 1999| ISBN-10: 081391373X | ISBN-13: 978-0813913735Selected essays from the rich and complex collection of Edouard Glissant, one of the most prominent writers and intellectuals of the Caribbean, examine the psychological, sociological, and philosophical implications of cultural dependency. ...
|  | Knight's Tale (The Complete Classics)
Publication Date: September 30, 2006| ISBN-10: 9626344156 | ISBN-13: 978-9626344156| Edition: Unabridged The Knight's Tale of medieval wars and chivalry is the first tale told to the pilgrims as they set out to Canterbury. It concerns Theseus, returning from fighting at Thebes, two brother knights Palamon and Arcite, imprisoned but yearning for their loves. But the real hero of this recording is Richard Bebb who, with the help of Professor Derek Brewer, the leading expert on Chaucerian pronunciation, make the original Middle English not only comprehensible to the modern ear, but exciting...
|  | En voz baja/Voice in low tone: La amada inmovil/The immobile loved one (Letras hispanicas) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Modernism, Medicine, and William Carlos Williams (Oklahoma Project for Discourse & Theory)
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|  | The Truth About Lord Stoneville (Hellions of Halstead Hall)
Release Date: January 19, 2010| Series: Hellions of Halstead Hall Oliver Sharpe, the Marquess of Stoneville, has been London’s most notorious rake for years. Fed up with his behavior, his grandmother threatens to disinherit him if he doesn’t tame his wild ways and wed within the year. Outraged, Oliver decides to hire a woman from a brothel to pose as his fiancÉe to prove that he can’t be forced into marriage. When he meets Maria Butterfield, a beautiful American woman who is searching for her fiancÉ in the most unlikely of places, he knows she’s perfect ...
|  | Costly Reflections in a Midas Mirror
Publication Date: March 15, 2011Costly Reflections in a Midas Mirror is an educational novel to be used near the end of a principles of managerial accounting course or at the beginning of a second-level cost accounting course. This instructional novel is ideal for an MBA program or a finance course which has a light coverage of managerial accounting. The inverse of ledgers, margins, and units, the story contains dead bodies, a wealthy client, and a drug-money laundering scheme. This supplemental text mixes fraud, murder, art, ethics, terrorism, and managerial accounting together to get a bet...
|  | The Grumpus Under the Rug (Modern Curriculum Press Beginning to Read)
Publication Date: January 1950| Age Level: 4 and up...
|  | Spinderella (Blue Go Bananas)
Publication Date: November 1, 2005| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | Let's Go Hunting (Adventures Outdoors)
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| | To Touch The Stars (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Jamestown's American Portraits (Pb))
Publication Date: April 1, 2004| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Apple Farmer Annie
Release Date: August 19, 2004| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up Apple cider, applesauce, apple muffins, cakes, and pies! Annie is a very busy apple farmer. She bakes yummy treats with the apples she picks and saves her best apples to sell at the market. Follow Annie through her apple-filled day of picking, counting, sorting, baking, and selling, and then try making some of her simple apple recipes. ...
|  | Everything Spring (Picture the Seasons)
Release Date: February 9, 2010| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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