 | Elvis and The Dearly Departed
Release Date: September 1, 2009They say you can't get to Heaven without passing through the Eternal Rest Funeral Home. And no one gets into Eternal Rest without passing muster with Elvis�the basset hound who's convinced he’s the reincarnation of the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll. Brewing up a big ol’ pitcher of Mississippi mystery, Peggy Webb’...
 |  | Short Eyes: A Play (Mermaid Dramabook Series)
Publication Date: January 1, 1975| Series: Mermaid Dramabook Series Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle AwardThis powerful drama of prison life is set in a house of detention where a group of young convicts-predominantly black and Puerto Rican-taunt, fight, insult, and entertain one another in an attempt to preserve their sanity and to create a semblance of community.When a young white prisoner accused of child molesting is thrown into the cell block by a guard who says he belongs in Sing Sing because "the men up there konw what to do with degenerates like you," the stage is set for ...
|  | 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 ...
|  | Heartstone & Saber
Publication Date: February 1994You can alomost hear the sabers clash in this rousingtale of good and evil and pasionate love, of warrior queens, whitewitches and sorcerers.After the devastating raid on her peaceful little village, Elayna andher brother are captured and nearly sold into slavery.Saved fromthis terrible fate by the imperious warrior queen, Cydell Ra Sadiin,Elayna is brought to the palace to serve her.The two are immediatefoes.But these two powerful women are destined to join forces.And so,when rumblings of war reach the palace, Cydell, ruler of Mauldar, andElayna, the Fair Witc...
|  | Battleground (Seal Team Seven)
Release Date: June 1, 1998The electrifying new novel in the special warfare series!The frigate U.S.S. Roy Turner docked just off Mombasa Bay, Kenya on a goodwill call. But a surprise attack soon left 160 American sailors captured and 28 killed. Now Lieutenant Murdock and the SEALs are being sent to restore justice...From the author of the Carrier Naval Aviation series, this action-packed novel is sure to satisfy fans of military thrillers. ...
|  | Pitching My Tent: On Marriage, Motherhood, Friendship, and Other Leaps of Faith
Release Date: September 13, 2005Before The Red Tent won her international literary acclaim, Anita Diamant was a columnist in Boston. Over the course of twenty years, she wrote essays that reflected the shape and evoution of her life, as well as the trends of her generation. In the end, her musings about love and marriage, birth and death, nature versus nurture, politics and religion -- and everything from female friendships to quitting smoking -- have created a public diary of the progress of her life that resonated deeply with her readers. Now, Pitching My Tent collects the finest columns o...
|  | The Economy of the Short Story in British Periodicals of the 1890s (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)
Publication Date: January 23, 2007| ISBN-10: 0415977339 | ISBN-13: 978-0415977333| Edition: 1 This materialist study of the short story’s development in three diverse magazines reveals how, at the dawn of modernism, commercial pressures prompted modernist formal innovation in popular magazines, whilst anti-commercial opacity paradoxically formed the basis of an effective marketing strategy that appealed to elitism. Integrating methods of cultural studies with formal analyses, this study builds upon recent work challenging Andreas Huyssen’s provocative formation, the "great ...
|  | Letters and Journals: 1818-19, The Flesh is Frail v. 6
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|  | Witchy Business: Under His Spell\Disenchanted?\Spirit Dance
Publication Date: September 11, 2007In SPIRIT DANCE by Mia Zachary, Siobhan Silverhawk always knewshe was different. Or, at least, that she was supposed to be. But she feelsincomplete; not really a witch and not fully a woman. Despite the many classes Siobhan has attended at the `magic rehab center'she feels like a fraud. Widowed chopper pilot J.B. Pendleton thinks she isone, too, but then he lets his son talk him into drinking a `love elixir'.And the crazy cocktail must have worked, because suddenly he can't stopthinking about sexy Siobhan... ...
|  | For Your Love (Arabesque)
Publication Date: July 1, 2002| Series: Arabesque For Your Love, by Sims, Janice. 1st ptg. 4 1/4 x 7. ...
|  | The Brotherhood (Blood Moon, Book 2)
Publication Date: July 1, 2007Joss Hyde-White left London for answers about who and what hewas.What he found, with night falling, Cornwall consumed by a snowstormquickly obscuring the road, was a carriage--a brougham by the look ofit--its snow-covered horses standing like two ghosts, and a scene of horrorinterrupted within.A chestnut-haired beauty lay prone, requiring hisassistance.But safety was not easily provided. On this night that brought to mind vampires and the foulest creatures ofmyth, through the whirling snow and growing darkness, it was difficult totell man or woman from beast.Fro...
|  | Brocade
Publication Date: May 10, 1999A TRAGIC LOVE WHICH DESTINED THEIR LIVES.For Jordan, his passion for Yukiko was as intense and as sudden as a tropical storm ending just as abruptly. When he returned to her and his son, he was years too late.Yukiko was as soft and gentle as a fragile flower. She lived only for the day that her handsome G.I. would return. She gave up her future to spare the life of the child of their love.For Joe, the son whose American blood made him an outcast, it was a raw life in the slums of a great city where he was destined to pay for the sins of his mother engendering a ...
|  | The Doctor's Wife
Release Date: November 29, 2005“The memory starts here, in my apron pocket, with the gun.” So begins The Doctor’s Wife, a stunning debut novel about four people and the cataclysmic intersection of their lives. Michael is a rising OB/GYN at a prominent private practice in Albany, New York; he also moonlights at a local women’s health clinic. But Annie, his wife, has become tired of her workaholic husband’s absences, and the soccer-mom lifestyle has worn thin. She begins a passionate love affair with bad-boy, fading celebrity painter Simon Haas&md...
|  | Farewell, Miss Zukas
Publication Date: June 18, 2011In the twelfth and concluding Miss Zukas mystery, Chief of Police Wayne Gallant has finally popped the question to Miss Helma Zukas, librarian par excellence. But before Bellehaven, Washington can rejoice in the glad tidings, Helma's mother and Aunt Em are robbed and the alleged robber lies dead - or does he? Helma and her artist friend Ruth navigate through dangerous waters, including Helma's mother's wedding schemes, Ms. Moon's library secrets, and picketing authors, to discover the truth and recover the stolen items, especially Aunt Em's mysterious Lithuania...
|  | Night Passage
Release Date: September 22, 1997An otherwise washed-up LAPD cop with a drinking problem gets ajob offer from a small Massachusetts town that is too good to be true,and Jesse Stone finds himself with no one to trust and a town full ofmoral and political corruption. 125,000 first printing. BOMC Main.Tour." ...
|  | Cruel as the Grave: A Medieval Mystery (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Release Date: October 5, 1999April 1193. England's King Richard Lionheart languishes in a German prison, and treason scents the air. Richard's younger brother, John, seizes Windsor Castle, and Dowager Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine summons her trusted personal "queen's man," Justin de Quincy, to do the impossible--mediate a truce with her rebel son.Amid such fateful events, the murder of a Welsh peddler's daughter seems small. But the cruel demise of the beautiful Melangell so troubles Justin that not even a threatened French invasion can keep him from investigating her death. Yet can he bring M...
|  | Super Bowl Champions: Green Bay Packers (Super Bowl Champs)
Publication Date: April 15, 2011| Grade Level: 1 and up...
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|  | Angels Coloring Book (Dover Coloring Books)
Publication Date: December 18, 2008| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | You Be Me, I'll Be You
Publication Date: March 1, 1990| Age Level: 3 and up Anna, the interracial child of a white father and black mother, explores questions and yearnings she has about her identity by "switching" skin-colors with her father. With wit, compassion and a very light and non-didactic hand, this book examines issues of concern not only to interracial children, but to all children who have ever worried about their diferences. Full-color illustrations. ...
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