 | Mama Fela's Girls: A Novel
Publication Date: October 15, 2006Mama Fela, a skilled seamstress, is the aging matriarch of the Romero clan in Santa Lucía, a small town in northeastern New Mexico at the height of the Great Depression. Her six-year-old granddaughter and constant companion, Cipriana, delights in the Shirley Temple movies that occasionally come to the town's theater. Through Cipriana's eyes, we see her parents' struggles over money. Graciela, Cipriana's mother, is a teacher in a rural school system who juggles the roles of wife, mother, and breadwinner. Cita, Cipriana's aunt who is in her mid-twen...
 |  | Naughty 3
Release Date: January 1, 2011| Series: Naughty African American Fiction-Jaylin Jerome Rogers is back to take his final journey.In Two's Enough Three's A Crowd, he gave the definition of a playa true meaning.In My Way Or No Way, he definitely lived up to his bad boy persona.Now, in Change Don't Always Come, he's got to make some critical changes, or else his playing days are about to get him played.After failing to prove to Scorpio that he's a one woman's man, their relationship continues to revolve around lies, manipulation and electrifying sex.Scorpio's serving it up on demand, until she fi...
|  | House Under Snow
Publication Date: July 23, 2002A first novel by an acclaimed American poet, House Under Snow is a storyof mothers and daughters, of sexual identity, of a family slowly disintegrating after the premature death of its patriarch. Anna Crane, soon to be married, reflects back on her childhood in Ohio during the 1960s and '70s with her two sisters and her charismatic, self-destructing mother. Evoking the claustrophobia of small-town life, Anna's first passionate love affair with a troubled boy who works as a groom and trainer at a horse track, and her mother's endless stream of suitors and a fail...
|  | Memorial Day
Release Date: July 19, 2005Fighting terrorism on foreign ground, CIA superagent Mitch Rapp does whatever it takes to protect American freedom.MEMORIAL DAYCIA intelligence has pointed to a major terrorist attack on the United States, just as the nation's capital prepares for a grand Memorial Day tribute to the veterans of World War II. Racing to Afghanistan, Mitch Rapp leads a commando raid on an al Queda stronghold in a remote border village -- and defuses plans for a nuclear strike on Washington. The crisis averted, the special ops work is done. But Rapp knows, in the face of a new kind...
|  | Angelwalk
Publication Date: February 22, 1988Angelwalk is beautifully brutal. One minute I was smiling at a deft phrase, and the next minute I was weeping. I couldn't help it. This book is like a lovely spider's web made out of steel cables, charged with high voltage.--Warren W. ...
|  | The Cat's Pajamas & Other Stories
Publication Date: July 1, 2004Terminal baptism, erotic performance art, and voodoo economics with actual voodoo are just a few of the subjects that James Morrow tackles with humor and sharp criticism in this book of science fiction stories. Other outlandish tales include John Wayne battling cancer using a highly alternative therapy, a gene for integrity being harvested from the brain of an unwilling donor, and the landing of Christopher Columbus in modern-day Manhattan. Included are the Locus and Nebula Award-nominated novelette Auspicious Eggs and several previously unpublished pieces. ...
|  | The Anatomy of Ghosts
Release Date: January 17, 2012"Mr. Taylor is a sophisticated writer . . . with a high degree of literary expertise."--New York Times Book Review1786, Jerusalem College, CambridgeDesperate to salvage the reputation of her son, Frank, who has been locked away after seeing the ghost of a deceased woman at Jerusalem College, Lady Anne Oldershaw employs John Holdsworth to investigate. When Holdsworth, the author of a stinging argument on why ghosts are mere delusions, finds himself haunted, he becomes more determined than ever to find the deceased woman's murderer. No one will leave Jer...
|  | Bright and Dull:A Novel
Publication Date: June 14, 2012A boy grows up in 1990s America, protected from many of the outside world’s ills by his upbringing on a family-run tobacco farm. But when his grandfather passes away, he begins to notice that, as time moves forward, bad things naturally occur. As he enters adolescence, the boy tries to grasp the more grown-up issues of death, religion, and politics. Ultimately, when the government threatens to end the growing of tobacco in his state, the boy’s main conflict is within himself--the memories of so many good times being all that can be taken with him ...
|  | Out of Time: A Novel
Publication Date: February 18, 1999A handsomely repackaged version of an award-winning debut novel that won the 1990 Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Fiction and was a Finalist for the American Library Association Gay and Lesbian Book Award. ...
|  | The Little Book of Love
Publication Date: December 16, 2008Written by the world's leading expert on Gibran, this profound little book will be an essential addition to any reader's Gibran collection, and a perfect Christmas and Valentine's Day alternative for those tired with collections of cliched romantic verse. Regarding it as the raison d'etre of the universe, Kahlil Gibran was never more insightful than when he wrote about love. Now for the first time, and illustrated with the poet's own paintings, his reflections on love and friendship have been gathered together in one volume, capturing the essence of love in...
|  | The Little Big Book for Grandfathers (Little Big Book)
Release Date: April 1, 2005| Series: Little Big Book Celebrate the magic of youth and the wisdom of age with The Little Big Book for Grandfathers. Brimming with stories, poetry, songs, activities, and recipes, and designed with timeless vintage illustrations, The Little Big Book for Grandfathers will include: Literary Excerpts: Nine excerpts that include grandfathers in literature (Heidi and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) and characters who instruct and teach life lessons (the wizard in The Wizard of Oz, Baloo in The Jungle Book, the fox in The Little Prince). Legendary Tales: Nine stori...
|  | Manual de psicomagia / Psychomagic Handbook: Consejos Para Sanar Tu Vida / Tips to Heal Your Life (Spanish Edition)
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|  | The Way Some People Die (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
Release Date: July 10, 2007| Series: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard In a rundown house in Santa Monica, Mrs. Samuel Lawrence presses fifty crumpled bills into Lew Archer's hand and asks him to find her wandering daughter, Galatea. Described as ‘crazy for men’ and without discrimination, she was last seen driving off with small-time gangster Joe Tarantine, a hophead hood with a rep for violence. Archer traces the hidden trail from San Francisco slum alleys to the luxury of Palm Springs, traveling through an urban wilderness of drugs and viciousness. As the bodies begin to pile up, he ...
|  | Crime Spells
Release Date: February 3, 2009Sixteen original stories about magic-fueled crimes and those who investigate them When magic is used for criminal purposes, all sorts of ethical and logistical questions arise beyond the realm of everyday law and order. Now, sixteen top tale-tellers offer fascinating new stories of those who commit magic crimes, those who investigate them, and those who prosecute them. From a young woman who uses out-of-body excursions to research paranormal crimes to a bookie who?s been paying for hex protection against magical interference to an artist who does divination thro...
|  | Alibi For Isabel
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|  | Humble Pie
Publication Date: September 1, 2002 Only Theo's grandmother sees the truth about the boy: He's as spoiled as a rotten old apple!That is why, on one of Theo's naughtiest, grabbiest, mouthiest days, Grandmother decides to bake him a pie.Young Theo has never seen the like. Its crust is as big as a bedsheet; its filling of plums, cherries, peaches, pears, apples, and quince is as tempting as any sweet feast ever set before a boy. But when he greedily reaches out for a taste, little Theo bites off a lot more than he can chew!Jennifer Donnelly's wise and funny tale has inspired pictures of m...
|  | There Was a Man Who Loved a Rat: and Other Vile Little Poems
Release Date: March 27, 2008| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up There was a man who loved a rat. He fed it ham till it got fat. He kept it in his bed at night, and rather hoped it wouldn’t bite. A man who keeps a chicken in a cube and feeds it through a tube. A man who came to harm because three gerbils bit his arm. A cunning little mobster who kept a large and lively lobster. This collection of absurd verse and quirky line illustrations will charm children and adults alike. If Shel Silverstein had collaborated with Edward Gorey, the fruits of their effort may well have resemb...
|  | The Armpit of Doom: Funny Poems for Kids
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|  | Absolutely Not
Release Date: March 21, 2006| Age Level: 3 and up Two friends will win your heart as their adventure amazes your eyes.Gloria is brave, but Frieda is absolutely not. Gloria wants to go for a walk but Frieda absolutely does not. Everything is scary from Frieda's point of view-the river looks suspiciously like a snake, and is that a moldy old log over there, or a ferocious dog? When Frieda cries wolf one too many times, Gloria stops listening to her. But what's that in the bushes? Are the two little friends in danger, or is it another figment of Frieda's imagination?Matthew McElligott's vis...
|  | The Big Guide 2: Irish Children's Books
Publication Date: November 1, 2000An informative guide to Irish children's books. It contains a wide range of articles, which will appeal to anyone interested in contemporary thinking about Irish children's literature. It includes articles on cultural concerns, reflecting the past and depicting the present, the place of books in the primary and post-primary classroom, award-winning books, Irish children's books in translation, and sources for researching Irish children's literature. Hundreds of reviews of recent children's books are contained in this useful and attractive publication, which ...
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