 | The Vietnam Reader: The Definitive Collection of Fiction and Nonfiction on the War
Release Date: October 20, 1998| ISBN-10: 0385491182 | ISBN-13: 978-0385491181The Vietnam Reader is a selection of the finest and best-known art from the American war in Vietnam, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, film, still photos, and popular song lyrics. All the strongest work is here, from mainstream bestsellers to radical poetry, from Tim O'Brien to Marvin Gaye. Also included are incisive reader's questions--useful for educators and book clubs--in a volume that makes an essential contribution to a wider understanding of the Vietnam War.This authoritative and accessible vo...
 |  | The Secret She Kept
Release Date: July 3, 2012Her novel Say Amen, Again won the NAACP Image Award, proving that ReShonda Tate Billingsley’s storytelling “scores a direct hit” (Publishers Weekly), delighting and inspiring with powerful, soul-searching situations and unforgettable characters. How far will you go to save someone you love and trust when they’ve kept a dangerous secret for years? That’s the question facing Lance Kingston, a successful Houston magazine executive whose recent marriage to beautiful, high-powered attorney Tia Jiles seemed to promise a bright future for both...
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|  | Love During Oyster Season
Publication Date: July 20, 2000LOVE DURING OYSTER SEASON is a contemporary American novel/memoire set against thebackdrop ofChicago’s glamorous lakefront. A naïve young couple, Deandra and Mark, begin married life with lingering memories of their wild youth safely tucked away.Deandra is an idealistic academic lost in her research papers.Mark works in the production end of the entertainment business, a fascinating world of talent, neuroses and bad habits.He secretly acquires some of those bad habits, then gets caught in an affair with his wife’s best girlfriend Charlie, who is ...
|  | Band of Sisters
Publication Date: August 17, 2012Maureen O’Reilly and her younger sister flee Ireland in hope of claiming the life promised to their father over twenty years before. After surviving the rigors of Ellis Island, Maureen learns that their benefactor, Colonel Wakefield, has died. His family, refusing to own his Civil War debt, casts her out. Alone, impoverished, and in danger of deportation, Maureen connives to obtain employment in a prominent department store. But she soon discovers that the elegant facade hides a secret that threatens every vulnerable woman in the city.Despite her famil...
|  | Dreams of Decadence #11 Summer 2000 Vampire Poetry and Fiction
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|  | I Don't Know How She Does it (Movie Tie-in Edition) (Vintage Contemporaries)
Release Date: August 9, 2011| Series: Vintage Contemporaries Now a Major Motion Picture Delightfully smart and heartbreakingly poignant, Allison Pearson’s smash debut novel has exploded onto bestseller lists as “The national anthem for working mothers.” Hedge-fund manager, wife, and mother of two, Kate Reddy manages to juggle nine currencies in five time zones and keep in step with the Teletubbies. But when she finds herself awake at 1:37 a.m. in a panic over the need to produce a homemade pie for her daughter’s school, she has to admit her life has become unrecogniza...
|  | The Catch: A Novel
Publication Date: July 7, 2009Forced on hiatus from her producer's job on Marry Me or Else!, Minerva Watkins heads for the tiny fishing village of Tuck Harbour. Working the counter at Eats n’ Treats, Minerva gets to know the locals, including eligible bachelor Joe McTeal. But try as she might to love Joe and the quaint fishing village, Minerva can’t ignore the call of the big city. A comical look at life in the slow lane, The Catch is a sassy, sexy update of Anne of Green Gables. ...
|  | Fever of the Bone: A Novel
Release Date: September 7, 2010 He is psychologist and criminal profiler Dr. Tony Hill’s worst nightmare—a killer driven by the most perverted hungers and unmoved by youth and innocence, a killer with a long shopping list of victims who leaves no trail. The murder-mutilation of teenager Jennifer Maidment is horrific enough on its own, but Hill quickly realizes that it’s just the beginning of a chilling campaign targeting an apparently unconnected group of young people—victims that the monster has been grooming through a social networking site. It is a case that is reawa...
|  | An Anthology of Russian Folktales
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|  | The Chester Plays: A Collection of Mysteries Founded Upon Scriptural Subjects, and Formerly Represented By the Trades of Chester at Whitsuntide (Classic Reprint)
Publication Date: July 5, 2012The Mysteries and Miracle Plays of the middle ages possess an interest not only as illustrating the history of the stage in its infancy, but as pictures of the manners and condition of our forefathers, and also as indicating the quantity and the peculiar character of the religious knowledge inculcated into the populace in Catholic times. The Chester Plays complete the publication of the different series of such productions in the English language hitherto generally known. It is perhaps desirable that the few single plays of a similar character that are found sca...
|  | The Science Of Life: Philosophical Equations Of Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Religion
Publication Date: June 29, 2010The Golden Age Of Science has arrived with leading thoughts from this book full of philosophical and mathematical thoughts This Book Of Science is a unique volume of poetry full of scientific equations to understand fundamental scientific values of today such as quantum entanglement, gravity, relativity, string theory, genetics and even the origin of life. From Newton to Einstein to Bohr to Schrodinger, this book covers a history of physics, to uncover, inspire and unravel new laws of science to allow the past generation to be understood by the new and future g...
|  | Celebration in Darkness and Strangers' Sky (Asian Poetry in Translation: Japan #6) (English and Japanese Edition)
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|  | An eye of minnows
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| | The Skeleton in the Wardrobe: C.S. Lewis' Fantasies : A Phenomenological Study
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| | Jugend, Buch und Konjunktur, 1933-1945: Studien zum Ideologiepotential des genuin nationalsozialistischen und des konjunkturellen "Jugendschrifttums" (German Edition)
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|  | Possible Worlds of Fiction and History: The Postmodern Stage
Publication Date: March 2, 2010WithPossible Worlds of Fiction and History, Lubomír Doležel reexamines the claim—made first by Roland Barthes and then popularized by Hayden White—that "there is no fundamental distinction between fiction and history." Doležel rejects this assertion and demonstrates how literary and discourse theory can help the historian to restate the difference between fiction and history. He challenges scholars to reassess the postmodern viewpoint by reintroducing the idea of possible worlds. Possible-worlds semantics reveals that possible world...
|  | From Richard Wright to Toni Morrison: Ethics in Modern and Postmodern American Narrative
Publication Date: February 1, 2001| ISBN-10: 0820451053 | ISBN-13: 978-0820451053From Richard Wright to Toni Morrison: Ethics in Modern and Postmodern American Narrative studies the relationship of literature to contemporary ethical problems. Focusing on southern and African American writers, this book employs theoretical approaches from ethnicity studies, regional criticism, and postcolonial theory. ...
|  | Touched by an Alien (Alien Novels)
Release Date: April 6, 2010| Series: Alien Novels How can a sexy marketing manager join forces with an Alpha Centauri male in Armani to save the planet-using hairspray, a Mont Blanc pen, and rock n' roll? Easy... She's Touched by an AlienMarketing manager Katherine "Kitty" Katt steps into the middle of what appears to be a domestic dispute turned ugly. And it only gets uglier when the man turns into a winged monster, straight out of a grade-Z horror movie, and goes on a killing spree. Though Kitty should probably run away, she springs into action to take the monster down. In the middle of ...
|  | Improbable Cause: A J.P. Beaumont Novel (J.P. Beaumont Novels)
Release Date: September 27, 2011| Series: J.P. Beaumont NovelsA spellbinding tale of twisted depravity and blood vengeance featuring Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont from the New York Times bestselling author of Betrayal of Trust J. A. Jance Improbable Cause Perhaps it was fitting justice: a dentist who enjoyed inflicting pain was murdered in his own chair. The question is not who wanted Dr. Frederick Nielsen dead, but rather who of the many finally reached the breaking point. The sordid details of this case, with its shocking revelations of violence, cruelty, and horrific sexual abus...
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