 | Couples: A Novel
Release Date: August 27, 1996One of the signature novels of the American 1960s, Couples is a book that, when it debuted, scandalized the public with prose pictures of the way people live, and that today provides an engrossing epitaph to the short, happy life of the “post-Pill paradise.” It chronicles the interactions of ten young married couples in a seaside New England community who make a cult of sex and of themselves. The group of acquaintances form a magical circle, complete with ritualistic games, religious substitutions, a priest (Freddy Thorne), and a scapegoat (Piet Hanem...
 |  | The Most Special Mommy in the Whole World (Holiday Book)
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|  | What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal: A Novel
Publication Date: August 1, 2003A lonely schoolteacher reveals more than she intends when she records the story of her best friend’s affair with a pupil in this sly, insightful novelSchoolteacher Barbara Covett has led a solitary existence; aside from her cat, Portia, she has few friends and no intimates. When Sheba Hart joins St. George’s as the new art teacher, Barbara senses the possibility of a new friendship. It begins with lunches and continues with regular invitations to meals with Sheba’s seemingly close-knit family. But as Barbara and Sheba’s relationship dev...
|  | A Dangerous Stage (Protection for Hire)
Release Date: October 30, 2012| Series: Protection for Hire Tessa Lancaster worked for her uncle in the Japanese mafia until she was sent to prison for a murder she didn't commit. Now, after finding God behind bars, she takes odd jobs as a bodyguard to keep her distance from the family business. In A Dangerous Stage, the second book in Camy Tang's Protection for Hire series, Tessa gets caught up in the web of lies surrounding a shady singing competition. Hired by one of the contestants, she works with Charles Britton---the lawyer who sent her to prison---to discover the dark figures manipula...
|  | Climbing The Great Denali
Publication Date: July 15, 2011With their mountaineering coach, teenagers Mitch and Jason aspire to climb America’s highest mountain, known as Denali or Mt. McKinley. The tough climb inspires an injured child to work for recovery after losing a leg to a drunk driver. The challenge to reach the peak at 20,320 feet is full of adventure and life threatening events. This novella is great for readers as young as 13, and for readers of any age who want to know about mountain climbing in frigid Alaska, especially Mt. McKinley. ...
|  | Dying Thunder: The Battle Of Adobe Walls & Palo Canyon, 1874 (Plainsmen)
Release Date: August 28, 2012| Series: Plainsmen (Book 7) Dying ThunderTerry Johnston Newly freed from service with the 10th Cavalry, Seamus Donegan joins a party of buffalo hunters as they follow the shrinking herds into the ancient hunting grounds of the Kiowa and Comanche. The presence of the white men ignites a storm of Indian fury and the group is besieged. Donegan and some 27 men and one woman take shelter in a few sod shanties. They hold off over 700 braves for five days in the fight at Adobe Walls.From then on, the U.S. Army would not rest until the Indians of the Staked Plain r...
|  | Ambushed: The Continued Adventures of Hayden Tilden
Release Date: December 5, 2006| Series: Hayden Tilden (Book 4) Deputy U.S. Marshal Hayden Tilden and his Brotherhood of Blood were on the trail of the Dawson Gang when they were ambushed by their quarry. Now, only Tilden and a civilian tracker remain to take down the outlaws. ...
| | All the Best Programs for Kids 2: A Year of Sketches, Plays and Music for All Ages
Publication Date: January 9, 20042003 by Lillenas Publishing Co. - Split-Channel; 28 musical selections to go along with the book which contains a year of sketches, plays and music for every age and season: Christmas, Easter, Mother's and Father's Days, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving and more. ...
|  | Mozart and Salieri Pb
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|  | Collected Stories (A New Directions Book)
Publication Date: April 1, 1994| Series: A New Directions Book Tennessee Williams was famous for insisting he write every morning. Even during his darkest days, while mourning a lover, or abusing some substance -- and he abused most of them at one time or another -- he'd write. The stories in this volume, arranged chronologically, are from every period of his long life, and recreate the milieux Williams knew and chronicled so movingly -- from his gypsy youth in St. Louis and New Orleans to his days of celebrity in Hollywood and New York. Some are studies for his plays, and like them, their l...
|  | Red candle Dead Water (Chinese Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 2011Wen Yiduo (1899–1946) was a famous poet in early twentieth century Chinese poetry. He studied art in the U.S. in 1923 and published his first collection of poetry Red Candle (Hong Zhu). He returned to China in 1925 andtaught at universities. He was a member of the literary group Crescent Moon Society. In 1928 he published his second collection of poetry, Dead Water (Si shui). He was also active in political movements and was assassinated in 1946. ...
|  | Inventario II (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: July 15, 2001A deeper look on the topics written about in his prior book of poetry, Inventory I. This collection was written between 1986 and 1991. These poems are filled with Benedetti’s characteristic simple and clear style.Blurb in Spanish:En Inventario II, Mario Benedetti avanza y profundiza sobre temas ya presentes en Inventario I: la integridad personal, el reencuentro con la patria después del exilio, la dulce complicidad del amor. Pero la constante que penetra toda su obra es la necesidad de unión con el lector, la transformación de la propia voz...
|  | The Mother-Daughter Book Club Rev Ed.: How Ten Busy Mothers and Daughters Came Together to Talk, Laugh, and Learn Through Their Love of Reading
Release Date: March 13, 2007Newly revised and updated! The tenth anniversary edition of the inspirational book that has brought countless mothers and daughters closer together!The Mother-Daughter Book Club is the story of a group of mothers and their daughters, and how their relationships were strengthened and changed by starting a monthly reading club. But it is also a practical step-by-step guide—filled with stories, anecdotes, and reading lists—that will inspire parents to start reading clubs of their own. Shireen Dodson's message is a powerful one: Reading, learning, an...
|  | YNA The Prelude(Bks 1 and 2) and Selected Poems (York Notes Advanced)
Publication Date: August 27, 2003| ISBN-10: 0582772281 | ISBN-13: 978-0582772281| Edition: 1 York Notes Advanced offer a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature.This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students.Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced intorduce students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts. ...
|  | The City of God Against the Pagans, Vol. 7, Books 21-22 (Loeb Classical Library, No. 417) (Bks.XXI-XXII v. 7)
Publication Date: 1972| ISBN-10: 0674994590 | ISBN-13: 978-0674994591| Edition: abridged editionAugustinus (354–430 CE), son of a pagan, Patricius of Tagaste in North Africa, and his Christian wife Monica, while studying in Africa to become a rhetorician, plunged into a turmoil of philosophical and psychological doubts in search of truth, joining for a time the Manichaean society. He became a teacher of grammar at Tagaste, and lived much under the influence of his mother and his friend Alypius. About 383 he went to Rome and soon after to Milan as a teacher of rhetoric, being now a...
|  | The Birth of Modernism: Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, and the Occult
Publication Date: May 19, 1994In "The Birth of MLeon Surette offers a radical revision of our understanding of high modernism. Acknowledging that current post modern and theoretical critiques have provoked fresh examination of the high culture of the first half of this century, Surette rejects their characterization of modernism as positivistic and absolutist, despite the statements in the 1920s of modernists such as Pound, Eliot, and Joyce. He also rejects the diametrically opposed New Critical view of modernism as sceptical and relativistic. Through an explanation of both familiar and litt...
|  | Night Secrets: A Novel
Release Date: October 28, 2008Sydney McBride is writing a profile on a plastic surgery spa in Rio that caters to celebrities, and she’s going under the knife herself–all to revive her sagging career. But then she gets wind of an even bigger story. Among the nips and tucks she discovers a mysterious and devastatingly attractive man claiming he’s come to Rio to foil a plot that has the potential to unleash worldwide horror. Lucas Fox is Sydney’s ticket to a comeback–one that could relaunch her into the limelight. All she has to do is gain his trust.But Lucas Fox t...
|  | Pok
Publication Date: August 3, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up R to L (Japanese Style) All your favorite Pokémon game characters jump out of the screen into the pages of this action-packed manga! Red doesn't just want to train Pokémon, he wants to be their friend too. Read along as Red embarks on adventures with Pikachu, Bulbasaur and others that follow storylines from the videogames!...
|  | Bizarro Day! (DC Super Friends) (Step into Reading)
Release Date: January 8, 2013| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | The Baby Dragon-Tamer
Publication Date: April 1, 2010| Age Level: 3 and up Boom! Crash! Bang! A dragon has arrived! He is big, loud, snorting purple smoke—and all he wants is treasure. And he'll try anything to get it . . . but he wasn't expecting the Baby. The Baby isn't the slightest bit afraid of the dragon, no matter what tricks he tries, and it's only after their fun-filled, nighttime adventure that the dragon realizes what real treasure is. ...
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