 | Hope in a Jar
Release Date: July 7, 2009Twenty years ago, Allie Denty was the pretty one and her best friend Olivia Pelham was the smart one. Throughout high school, they were inseparable…until a vicious rumor about Olivia— a rumor too close to the truth—ended their friendship. Now, on the eve of their twentieth high school reunion, Allie, a temp worker, finds herself suddenly single, a little chubby, and feeling old. Olivia, a cool and successful magazine beauty editor in New York, realizes she’s lonely, and is finally ready to face her demons. Sometimes hope lives in the future; ...
 |  | Diving Through Clouds
Release Date: March 24, 2005Kate Fitzgerald's spirit hovers above her hospital bed, looking down on her lifeless body. She finds herself far from extinguished but rather in some sort of limbo. She travels freely back and forth into the lives of those she left behind--her cold unloving husband, William; his lover, Veronica; her best friend, Veronica (yes, you guessed it); her estranged daughter, Celia; and her adorable French grandson, Matt. His first words to her are "Bonjour, Grand-mère Kate. Are you a fantôme?" Readers will discover a most marvelous and memorable ghost indeed. ...
|  | The Lion Vrie (The White Lion Chronicles, Book 2)
Publication Date: June 15, 2007What if all you knew was lost? What if destruction surrounded you? How would you rebuild? And where would you turn for help?Luik, now son to a dead King, finds himself injured and headed for Tontha in the north of a besieged Dionia. Here he sorts through the trauma of the recent past and attempts to piece together the whereabouts of his fallen Dibor and his friends Fane, Hadrian, and Princess Anorra.As work begins on fortifying Mt. Dakka, now under his command, Luik journeys south to the wreckage of Adriel in the hopes of discovering anything that might hel...
|  | Clive Barker's books of blood: Volumes one, two and three
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|  | The Gallup 14
Publication Date: February 1, 2000When seven people are wounded in a riot in Gallup, New Mexico, and three more left for dead, among them the local sheriff, justice must be served. The authorities lose no time in rounding up the usual suspects: Mexican immigrants and striking coal miners, the �Gallup 14,� whose conviction and execution seem inevitable. Based on a notorious case of political coercion in the 1930s, when fear of Communism led to the scapegoating of foreigners and union activists, this novel uses court documents and newspaper reports to tell the...
|  | Modern Family: Wit and Wisdom from America's Favorite Family
Release Date: September 4, 2012The Hilarious New Book by the Writers of the Emmy-winning Hit Show Modern Family Every week, the families of Modern Family have something to learn. Sometimes it's a lesson about parenting. Other times, it's about surviving marriage--or getting along with the dreaded in-laws. But no matter what, the Pritchetts always find a fresh and incredibly funny way to teach us a little bit about life and love along the way.Now, America's most beloved family has finally opened up their albums and shared some of their favorite quotes, photos, and memories for us to enjoy a...
|  | Aliens Omnibus Volume 2 (v. 2)
Publication Date: January 1, 2008| Series: Aliens Omnibus (Book 2) Many humans have died horribly at the claws of the Alien. The surface ofEarth has been devastated to cleanse the beasts from our world. But thecommercial value of this scourge has never been in doubt, especially when thespecial properties of the Alien Queen's royal jelly are discovered. WillMankind once again risk its very survival as a species in order to sleep withthe Alien?Dark Horse Comics' critically acclaimed Aliens seriesset the bar for how the universe of a popular film could be expanded throughgraphic fiction. Aliens...
|  | Kept Boy
Release Date: October 1, 1997Kirkus calls him "the undisputed doyen of the effervescent gay novel of manners". Which, in his characters' vernacular, means he's a total scream.Having made a career of deconstructing the denizens of the modern gay world, Robert Rodi now turns his hand to -- and twists the knife in -- yet another gay archetype: the kept boy.Dennis Racine is 31, but looks 23...which might be considered his good fortune, except that even 23 is a bit old for his chosen profession: pampered "companion" to the fiftyish, filthy rich Chicago theatrical impresario Farleigh Nock (a.k.a. ...
|  | Over the Wine-Dark Sea
Publication Date: July 13, 2001In Rhodes, Menedemos is a young, daring sea captain; and scholarly, reserved Sostratos is his cousin. Now Menedemos and Sostratos plan their largest, most audacious trading voyage yet, which will take them from the shores of Asia Minor all the way to the coasts of faraway Italy, and to confrontations with the barbarians of an obscure town called Rome. Along the way they will buy and sell wine, silks, and evento the astonishment of allpeacocks. ...
|  | Stevie Smith and Authorship (Oxford English Monographs)
Publication Date: October 21, 2010| Series: Oxford English Monographs A full-length study of the British novelist, poet, and illustrator Stevie Smith (1902-1971), this book draws on extensive archival material to offer new insights into her work, challenging conventional readings of her as an eccentric. It reveals the careful control with which she managed her public persona, reassesses her allusive poetry in the light of her own conflicted response to written texts, and traces her simultaneous preoccupation with and fear of her reading public. William May considers the influence of artists ...
|  | The Complete Plays of Jean Racine: Volume 3: Iphigenia
Publication Date: August 1, 2011| Series: Complete Plays of Jean Racine (Book 3) In Iphigenia, his ninth play, Racine returns to Greek myth for the first time since Andromache. To Euripides' version of the tale he adds a love interest between Iphigenia and Achilles. And dissatisfied with the earlier resolutions of the Iphigenia myth (her actual death or her eleventh-hour rescue by a dea ex machina), Racine creates a wholly original character, Eriphyle, who, in addition to providing an intriguing new denouement, serves the dual dramatic purpose of triangulating the love interest and galvanizi...
|  | Martial: Epigrams, Volume III, Books 11-14. (Loeb Classical Library No. 480)
Publication Date: January 1, 1993| ISBN-10: 0674995295 | ISBN-13: 978-0674995291 It was to celebrate the opening of the Roman Colosseum in 80 CE that Martial published his first book of poems, "On the Spectacles." Written with satiric wit and a talent for the memorable phrase, the poems in this collection record the broad spectacle of shows in the new arena. The great Latin epigrammist's twelve subsequent books capture the spirit of Roman life—both public and private—in vivid detail. Fortune hunters and busybodies, orators and lawyers, schoolmasters and street hawkers, jugglers...
|  | Risk
Release Date: February 1, 2007A Spark Of Desire...Fine and fearless, Justus Robinson doesn't hesitate to hit on gorgeous law student Angela Dennis at his brother's wedding even though she's the bride's sister. That night the two share an unforgettably sexy dance, but nothing more--until ten years later when a tragedy reunites them... ...A Test Of LoveAngela has barely healed from a breakup when her sister and brother-in-law are killed in an accident. Sharing their grief, Justus and Angela discover they are still attracted to one another. But when they find themselves competing to adopt their...
| ![Operation Mustang [The Service Club 3] (Siren Publishing Menage and More)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51MX5dG73YL._SL500_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-big,TopRight,35,-73_OU01_SS500_.jpg) | Operation Mustang [The Service Club 3] (Siren Publishing Menage and More)
Publication Date: September 5, 2012[Menage and More: Erotic Cowboy Menage a Quatre Romance, M/F/M/M, voyeurism, public exhibition, bondage, sex toys, HEA] Mustang Ducote craves the Rylon brothers' touch. She can't give in to her darkest desires or she'll lose everything. Now they're on her ranch, and her attempts at resisting are failing. When danger strikes, she's faced with two options-full surrender or a Rylon brother retreat that'll take them out of her life forever. As Navy SEALs, Diek and Gunner have been tested. But claiming Mustang proves tougher than any op they've faced. It'll take...
|  | All Roads Lead to Murder
Publication Date: April 19, 2011The ancient Roman world comes to life in this complex tale of horrific murder. Pliny the Younger and Tacitus, the future historian, are returning from a posting by caravan and break the journey in Smyrna. In the morning one of their number is discovered with his heart cut out. The authorities assume his slaves are responsible and prepare to take action: torture and death for all the man's enslaved household. Pliny is convinced not all is as it seems: the man did not die from having his heart removed, and the guilty party is not among his slaves. More than a se...
|  | Weighed in the Balance: A William Monk Novel (Mortalis)
Release Date: January 26, 2010| Series: Mortalis When Countess Zorah Rostova asks London barrister Sir Oliver Rathbone to defend her against a charge of slander, he is astonished to find himself accepting. For without a shred of evidence, the countess has publicly insisted that the onetime ruler of her small German principality was murdered by his wife, the woman who was responsible for the prince’s exile to Venice twenty years before. Private investigator William Monk and his friend Hester Latterly journey to the City of Water in an attempt verify the countess’s claims, and thou...
|  | The Tale of Despereaux: The Graphic Novel
Release Date: October 14, 2008| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | At the End
Publication Date: April 23, 2012Night 1: 12 billion taken.Day 1: Confusion. Night 2: 13 billion taken. Day 2: Panic. Night 3: 13 billion taken Day 3: The fight for survival begins. In 2048, the human population borders 39 billion after the termination of the birth control industry, and the realities of overcrowding have sunken into the minds of the world, until billions mysteriously go missing. In the wake of civilization's collapse, a trio of teenage gamers from Washington struggle to endure. Maggy, a strong-willed intellectual, leads Darrel and Félix, tw...
|  | A Perfect Day
Release Date: April 24, 2007| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and upWhat could possibly be better than spending a day together? Absolutely nothing. Turn the pages. Here is a perfect day.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | The Princess and the Whale
Publication Date: September 13, 2012In the first work by Cory Edwards, a young princess in a seaside kingdom ventures down to the beach to encounter an unlikely friend. ...
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