 | Hollywood Wives
Release Date: August 1, 1987They lunch at Ma Maison and the Bistro on salads and hot gossip. They cruise Rodeo Drive in their Mercedes and Rolls, turning shopping at Giorgio and Gucci into an art form. They pursue the body beautiful at the Workout and Body Asylum.Dressed by St. Laurent and Galanos, they dine at the latest restaurants on the rise and fall of one another's fortunes. They are the Hollywood Wives, a privileged breed of women whose ticket to ride is a famous husband.Hollywood. At its most flamboyant. ...
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 | The Book of Emma
Publication Date: January 7, 2009Confined to a psychiatric hospital following the murder of her young daughter, Emma Bratte refuses to speak any language but her mother tongue. Dr. MacLeod has brought in an interpreter, Flore, to help him evaluate Emma's fitness to stand trial."Both crazy and too lucid," an articulate and knowledgeable Emma relates her long battle against despair, through striking images of her lonely but determined and creative struggle to win the love of a mother misled by a racist society and then through tales of the suffering and resistance of some of her female forebea...
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 | Way of the Wolf the (Gemstar)
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 | So Help Me God
Release Date: April 1, 2008Miraculously awakening from a twelve-year coma, television evangelist Thomas Jeremiah Luther eagerly resumes his world-wide ministry while secretly plotting to seize control of conservative Christian political power in America. When a teenage member of Luther’s congregation almost dies from an abortion, he convinces her family to file a multi-million dollar medical malpractice case against the physician and abortion clinic. The right verdict will shut down abortion clinics all over the country and send the religious right and power brokers of all...
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 | Bottom of the Ninth: Great Contemporary Baseball Short Stories (Writing Baseball)
Publication Date: March 22, 2003| Series: Writing Baseball Skillfully edited by John McNally, Bottom of the Ninth: Great Contemporary Baseball Short Stories collects nineteen contemporary baseball short stories from a successful mix of well-established writers, lesser-knowns, and a few up-and-comers. These stories are characterized by the same dramatic elements that draw people to the sport itself—the mythologizing of players, the obsessions and romance of the game, the bonds between players and fans, parents and children. From a key play, a missed catch, a chance lost, these are tales...
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 | The Arab Apocalypse
Release Date: February 15, 2007This is a masterwork of the dislocations and radiant outcries of the Arab World... The Arab Apocalypse is an immersion into a rapture of chaos clawing toward destiny, a nullified hope refusing its zero.It is also the journey of a soul through the cartography of a global immediacy rarely registered by maps, replete with signposts like hieroglyphs in a storm of shrapnel and broken glass.And above all it is a book that, though capable of being read in its orderly sequence, has so surrendered to "being there," it can rivet the sensibility to the Middle Eastern cond...
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 | Comics Poetry the Adapted Victor Hugo (v. 1)
Publication Date: April 1, 2004| Series: Comics Poetry From France, this series will present the best poems of various authors put to comics by a bevy of talented cartoonists. The full poem in its original form is first presented and then its visualized counterpart. ...
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 | Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Tale Blazers)
Publication Date: September 1980| Series: Tale Blazers Volume: 3 Publisher: Philadelphia : G. Barrie Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ...
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| Zhongguo shi ge shi (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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| Antologia del Modernismo Literario Hispanico (Veleta)
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 | The Betrayers
Release Date: June 28, 2005 Nick Cutter--starting with nothing--crosses oceans and continents as he conquers the world's gambling and liquor markets, only to risk everything for the love of a woman.Luzhad nightheat, the sensuous quality in a woman that makes men ache with desire.Nick loved and lusted for her the first time he saw her.But what he didn't know was that Luz had secrets--that beneath the glamour and sex appeal was a woman determined to turn her back on wealth and challenge a corrupt political system.Even if it meant her life.Nick started out dirt poor--as a child, he survived the...
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 | Lady Maggie's Secret Scandal
Release Date: May 1, 2012"Burrowes is an unconventional storyteller who knows exactly how to touch a reader's heart and reach deep into the soul."—RT Book Reviews Lady Maggie Windham Has Secrets And she's been perfectly capable of keeping them...until now. When she's threatened with exposure, she turns to investigator Benjamin Hazlit to keep catastrophe at bay. But Maggie herself intrigues Benjamin more than the riddle she's set him to solve. As he uncovers more and more of her past, Maggie struggles to keep him at a distance, until they both begin to discover the truth in their heart...
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 | From This Day Forward: No Regrets\Always the Groomsman\The Daddy Track
Publication Date: June 9, 2009Claire Winters was a society girl. Jack Murphy was born a roughneck. But at a time when women were expected to play by the rules, Claire was determined to break all of them....Rebecca Murphy was planning her grandparents' wedding anniversary party when she was reunited with her onetime wedding fling, Ryan Fuller. But while their chemistry still sizzled, Ryan maintained his position--he was always the groomsman...and never the groom!Successful businessman Nate Aldrich had always avoided settling down...until single mom and restaurant owner Jordan Chelsey showed h...
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 | Attorney's Run
Publication Date: September 15, 2009Fresh out of law school, London Vaughn discovers there's no room in the prominent law firms for a middle-of-the-class graduate. While barely making ends meet as a waitress, she encounters a beautiful woman who engages her services irrespective that she has no experience, no office and no reputation. Almost immediately, London and her client are thrust into the deadly throes of a high-stakes international thriller of unimaginable scope. ...
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 | Life As It Could Be
Publication Date: July 11, 2011Our greatest and proudest creation, the internet, has continued to dazzle us with its breakneck evolution. Reaching ever higher levels of complexity, it has served us well, deeply affecting us and our civilization, but will it continue to do so?Will it ever be conscious? When and how will human technology spin out of control as is expected? These and other questions are pondered by scientists of an obscure institute in Cambridge when they are drawn into a vortex of catastrophic events that converge upon Bruno Haslop, a software tester in a personal crisis. In t...
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 | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Peebles Classic Library)
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 | Countdown to the Year 1000 (Dragon Slayers' Academy)
Publication Date: September 1, 2007| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
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 | Super Bowl Champions: New York Giants (Super Bowl Champs)
Publication Date: April 15, 2011| Grade Level: 1 and up...
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 | Chasing Fire: Danger in Canoe Country
Publication Date: June 1, 2002Fire Danger High reads the sign at the US Forest Service ranger station as thirteen-year-old Danny Forester returns to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness for another family canoe trip adventure. He is a year older, taller, and more skilled. Still, the unpredictable events of the trail test his courage and endurance. Early on, he helps his family rescue another family, the Tuckers from Ohio, who have swamped on huge windswept Lake Lac La Coix. Then, on a risky night paddle, the Foresters leave the Tuckers, including thirteen-year-old Julie Tucker, to a Can...
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 | I Spy Animals
Publication Date: January 1, 2012| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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