 | California's Best: Two Centuries of Great Writing from the Golden State
Publication Date: July 1, 2009Experience California as seen through the eyes of forty-one writers spanning two centuries, from early adventurers to contemporary poets.Edited by Sunset magazine's Peter Fish, California's Best features fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, including Tobias Wolff's short story Desert Breakdown, Joan Didion's essay Notes from a Native Daughter, and a selection from Amy Tan's Joy Luck Club.Excerpts from the works of Wallace Stegner, Jack London, John Muir, Mark Twain, and many others incorporate voices from the past. Contemporary writers include Robert Hass, Danie...
 |  | The Woman Warrior & China Men- 2 Vol. Slipcase
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|  | The Avalon Ladies Scrapbooking Society: A Novel
Release Date: January 29, 2013Perfect for fans of Debbie Macomber, Kristin Hannah, Beth Hoffman, and Kate Jacobs, this luminous novel from the author of Friendship Bread follows a group of fascinating women who form deep friendships through their love of scrapbooking—as memories are preserved, dreams are shared, and surprising truths are revealed.Welcome to Avalon, Illinois, Pop. 4,243 At Madeline’s Tea Salon, the cozy hub of the Avalon community, local residents scrapbook their memories and make new ones. But across town, other Avalonians are struggling to free themselves ...
|  | Beach Girls
Release Date: August 3, 2004Luanne Rice is a rarity among novelists today; she's a true storyteller.Her unique ability to weave together the bonds of love and family with the challenges and rewards of everyday life has garnered her eight consecutive top-ten New York Times bestselling paperbacks.With Beach Girls, Luanne Rice returns to the place that she was born to write about—the Connecticut shore—to tell a story about a family of women whose lives encompass three generations, their histories intertwined with that of the mystic coastal town that has forever bound them to one a...
|  | The Last Summer of Innocence
Publication Date: January 1992Sent to live with her wealthy cousins in order to avoid seeing her mother die of consumption, sixteen-year-old Kate Linton discovers that the ""ultimate sacrifice"" her supposedly ailing mother had made is not all it appears to be. ...
|  | Dakota Home (Dakota Series #2)
Publication Date: December 1, 2007Buffalo Valley has found new life. People have started moving to this town—people like Lindsay Snyder, who came as a teacher and stayed, marrying local farmer Gage Sinclair. And now Lindsay's best friend, Maddy Washburn, has decided to pull up stakes and join her in Buffalo Valley, hoping for the same kind of satisfaction. And the same kind of love…Jeb McKenna is a rancher, a solitary man who's learned to endure. Maddy—unafraid and openhearted—is drawn to Jeb, but he rejects her overtures. Until one of North Dakota's deadly storms throws ...
|  | The Haunted Mesa
Release Date: April 1, 1988The Navajo called them the Anasazi, the “ancient enemy,” and their abandoned cities haunt the canyons and plateaus of the Southwest. For centuries the sudden disappearance of these people baffled historians. Summoned to a dark desert plateau by a desperate letter from an old friend, renowned investigator Mike Raglan is drawn into a world of mystery, violence, and explosive revelations. Crossing a border beyond the laws of man and nature, he will learn of the astonishing world of the Anasazi and discover the most extraordinary frontier ever encountered...
|  | Asylum Piece (Peter Owen Modern Classics)
Publication Date: March 25, 2002| Series: Peter Owen Modern Classic Kavan was always a dark writer, a very dark writer. Like Kafka, she writes of prisons with no bars, of paranoiac nightmares, of living in a halfway world between hell and reality. First published sixty years ago (Doubleday did it in the U.S. in 1946), Asylum Piece charts the descent of the narrator from the onset of neurosis to final incarceration at a Swiss clinic. This collection of interlinked and largely autobiographical stories (Kavan suffered numerous breakdowns and was a life-long heroin addict) evokes the sense of pa...
|  | Blood Lite II: Overbite
Release Date: September 27, 2011From the Horror Writers Association comes a brand-new collection of darkly humorous tales! The Big Questions of Life (and Death) Can a killer’s basement blood-feast be a tax write-off (under Entertainment)? Not if Vlad the IRS agent nails him first in Heather Graham’s "Death and Taxes." What does a pack of hungry she-wolves do to solve their man troubles? Ladies Night Out takes a wicked turn in "Dog Tired (of the Drama!)" by L. A. Banks. How far will an elite call girl go to beat a murder rap? Stuck with a dead client in a luxury L.A. hotel room, s...
|  | Conditions for Criticism: Authority, Knowledge, and Literature in the Late Nineteenth Century
Publication Date: May 30, 1991| ISBN-10: 0198122411 | ISBN-13: 978-0198122418This book studies changes in the practice of literary criticism in nineteenth-century Britain and locates those changes within wider movements in intellectual culture.The growth of knowledge and its subsequent institutionalization in universities produced new forms of intellectual authority.Small examines these processes in a wide variety of disciplines, including economics, historiography, sociology, psychology, and philosophical aesthetics, and explores their impact upon literary criticism. ...
|  | "Caedmon's Hymn" and Material Culture in the World of Bede (Medieval European Studies) (WV MEDIEVEAL EUROPEAN STUDIES)
Publication Date: December 1, 2007| ISBN-10: 193320222X | ISBN-13: 978-1933202228| Edition: 1st Edition The essays in this book use the nine-line poem known as "Cædmon's Hymn" as a lens on the world of Bede s Ecclesiastical History. A cowherd who is given a divine gift, Cædmon retells the great narratives of Christian history in the traditional form of Anglo-Saxon verse. An immense amount has been written about this episode, much of it concentrating on the hymn's significance in the history of English literature. Relatively little attention has been paid to what the sto...
| ![Hardcore Cowboys [Ride 'em Hard 1] (Siren Publishing Menage Amour)](https://imageproxy.pixnet.cc/imgproxy?url=https://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51uv-RD9MCL._SL500_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-big,TopRight,35,-73_OU01_SS500_.jpg&width=150) | Hardcore Cowboys [Ride 'em Hard 1] (Siren Publishing Menage Amour)
Publication Date: November 2, 2011[Menage Amour: Erotic Cowboy Menage a Quatre Romance, M/F/M/M, BDSM, sex toys]Samantha has one week off work to explore the country, never expecting a snowstorm to nearly take her life. Nor does she expect to find love and salvation with the three Carson brothers. Her cowboy saviors have no problem sharing, pulling her deeper into their world of erotic pleasures each day she remains on their ranch. Wyatt and his twin brothers, Cord and Val, need inspiration in the worst way. When Samantha comes into their lives, she gives them a purpose and fulfills all thei...
|  | An Appetite For Murder: A Key West Food Critic Mystery
Release Date: January 3, 2012| Series: Key West Food Critic (Book 1) Hayley Snow's life always revolved around food. But when she applies tobe a food critic for a Key West style magazine, she discovers that hernew boss would be Kristen Faulkner-the woman Hayley caught in bed withher boyfriend! Hayley thinks things are as bad as they can get-untilthe police pull her in as a suspect in Kristen's murder. Kristen waskilled by a poisoned key lime pie. Now Hayley must find out who usedmeringue to murder before she takes all the blame. ...
| | The Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Four Novels and the Fifty-Six Short Stories, Complete (2 Volume Set)
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|  | My First Nursery Rhymes (Harper Growing Tree)
Release Date: March 5, 1999| Age Level: 1 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | How to Improve at Karate
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|  | Karate (The World of Martial Arts)
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|  | Shout!: Little Poems that Roar
Release Date: February 1, 2007| Age Level: 2 and up This vibrant collection of twenty-one poems celebrates the joys (snack time!) and pitfalls (2 + 2 = 23?) of childhood. Brod Bagert’s often silly, always winsome poems cover everything from the seasons and the stars to finger paint and kids who quack. With humor and warmth, Shout! shows us there’s fun in work and play, poetry in everything, and a million different uses for ketchup. Kids are sure to shout for a reread. ...
|  | Defining Print Culture for Youth: The Cultural Work of Children's Literature (Beta Phi Mu Monograph Series)
Publication Date: May 30, 2003| ISBN-10: 0313321779 | ISBN-13: 978-0313321771Sponsored by the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America, this volume features a selection of ten papers compiled from the Center's second national conference, accompanied by a detailed introduction. Presented by scholars from diverse backgrounds, the essays center on the emerging, interdisciplinary field of print culture. They examine children's literature and related print materials from a cultural perspective and discuss the influence of ideological, political, and material factors on the re...
|  | Cleopatra and the King's Enemies: Based on a True Story of Cleopatra in Egypt (Ready-To-Read - Level 3 (Quality))
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