| Lucky Chica: A Novel Release Date: January 6, 2009Rosie Caballero hates her nagging boss, her "ditch-me" dating history, her second-hand wardrobe and third-rate job--nothing is easy. She can’t even afford to pay for her dog Tootie's food. And then, Rosie wins the largest lottery jackpot ever: 600 million. Rosie can hardly believe her new life: she spends thousands on diamonds, makeup, clothes, and promises. Rosie parties like a celebrity—and even meets the hottest actor on the planet, Brad Merritt, who sweeps her off her feet and seems too good to be true. But he’s not the only o...
| | The Poems Of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975 (A Black Sparrow Book) Publication Date: November 30, 2005Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976) was born in Brooklyn, the son of Russian immigrants. He was an original, a blood-and-bone New Yorker who walked the city's waterfronts and breathed the life of the Jewish tenements into a lifetime of remarkable poetry. Black Sparrow Books is proud to publish his complete shorter poems - all of his poetry except the book-length works Testimony and Holocaust - scrupulously edited, with notes, by Seamus Cooney. ...
| | Death, Taxes, and Peach Sangria (Tara Holloway) Release Date: January 29, 2013| Series: Tara Holloway (Book 4) Death, Taxes, and Peach SangriaDiane KellyWhen it comes to exposing tax fraud, Tara and her partner Eddie are really cleaning up. From their brilliant takedown of the disappearing “Tax Wizard” to their perfectly planned downfall of the “Deduction Diva,” they’ve earned the respect of their peers at Criminal Investigations. Now Tara’s ready to celebrate with an ice-cold pitcher of peach sangria—even if her next case is totally the pits…Tara’s looking forward to a challenge but, ...
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| | The Girls Club ...
| | The Halfway House (New Directions Paperbook) Publication Date: May 27, 2009| Series: New Directions Paperbook “This posthumous translation of Rosales, a Cuban-American writer who committed suicide in 1993, delivers a raw, powerful story set in a Miami home for the mentally ill… It’s a frightening, nihilistic cousin of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”—Publishers WeeklyNever before available in English, The Halfway House is a trip to the darkest corners of the human condition. Humiliations, filth, stench, and physical abuse comprise the asphyxiating atmosphere of a halfway house for indigents in...
| | Goetia (Hellgate London, Book 2) (Bk. 2) Release Date: February 26, 2008 The trilogy that began in Exodus continues:2024: Four years after the Demons opened the planar rift known as the Hellgate, mankind's desperate struggle to survive continues. Simon Cross, expatriate of the secret Templar order, works to find and transport survivors out of the ruined city. Hiding within London's Underground system, Simon is raising an army to fight against the encroaching Darkness. Now, he battles the monsters that roam the city and fends off a jealous Knight who plans to take Simon down...all while striving to reunite the divided Templar forc...
| | Pop Goes the Weasel Publication Date: August 10, 2012Patrick Weasley, aka Weasel, is a fun-loving college student with a wealthy homophobic jerk stepfather and a best friend, Jake Winston, who's just as gay as Weasel. When Jake's aunt dies, many from the publishing world-including Jasper, Weasel's weasel of a stepfather-gather at Winston Manor for the reading of the will, and Weasel is obligated to tag along. Turns out all he has to do is three things: 1) swap the wills so Jake's uncle inherits the house instead of the gardener, who's also an old enemy of Weasel's; 2) secure a publishing contract from author Ce...
| | Lady Knight Publication Date: April 1, 2007Rhiannon, outcast and female knight, seeks a cause worthy of a chivalric hero in a medieval world of magic and misogyny. Eleanor, a wealthy widow, has given up all hope of finding passionate love and her perfect knight--until she meets Rhiannon. Aveline, a powerful priestess, needs a warrior for her secret mission of starting a holy war. She binds Rhiannon with double-edged oaths and a magical sword. A love affair worthy of troubadours' songs clashes with loyalty, intrigue, ambition, and war, tangling the three women in a web that perhaps not even Rhiannon's sw...
| | Blood Mountain Release Date: July 1, 1999New from the acclaimed author of Once A Marshal...Stranded in the bleak northern Rockies, a band of settlers is viciously savaged by a group of merciless outlaws rampaging through the mountains. But when the villains cross the wrong man, nothing on earth will stop him from paying every one of them back...in blood.*Stark realism combined with a classic good-against-evil Western story ...
| | Children of Lir: Stories from Ireland ...
| | Greek Drama Publication Date: 1978For this book, Moses Hadas chose nine plays which display the diversity and grandeur of Greek tragedy, the critical and satiric genius of comedy, in outstanding translations of the past and present. ...
| | Sir Gawain & the Green Knight CD Publication Date: April 17, 2006A collection of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour.Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl are two poems by an unknown author written in about 1400. Sir Gawain is a romance, a fairy-tale for adults, full of life and colour; but it is also much more than this, being at the same time a powerful moral tale which examines religious and social values.Pearl is apparently an elegy on the death of a child, a poem pervaded with a sense of great personal loss: but, like Ga...
| | The 'Ah-Ness' of Things!: Haiku and Senryu ...
| | BAWDY BALLADS & LECHEROUS LIMERICKS: A Lewd Collection of Lascivious Lyrics Publication Date: December 30, 2004This very playful adult book contains 5 very raunchy ballads and 6 lecherous limerick poems . . . stories told by stringing together a series of 5-line limerick stanzas. This humorous collection is presented in the low-cost chap-book format, making it an ideal gag gift, party favor, or stocking stuffer. ...
| | The Incredible Adventures of Doc Atlas: The Doc Atlas Omnibus (Doc Atlas Onmibus) Publication Date: October 7, 2011| Series: Doc Atlas Onmibus Set in the era of the 1940s and 50s, this collection of pulp-style novellas follows the adventures of the mighty Doc Atlas and crew from the jungles of Central America to the frozen tundra of the North Pole. Whether they’re prowling the streets of Manhattan, investigating reports of a killer gorilla (with the purported brain of an executed criminal)or a crashed flying saucer in a small town named Roswell, New Mexico, Doc and company always see the investigation through to the end. Written with historical hindsight, these tal...
| | Before Sunrise Release Date: January 31, 2012Since Jeremiah Cortez broke her heart, Phoebe Keller has devoted herself to her career. As an expert in Native American culture, she has her doubts when an anthropologist claims to have discovered priceless artifacts on a nearby reservation. But before Phoebe can pursue the matter, the professor in question turns up deadand the FBI sends Cortez to investigate.Cortez thought he'd left the past behind himespecially his history with Phoebe. Once, she'd sparked his world-weary soul
but he'd had to walk away. Now, seeing the blonde beauty...
| | The Cowboy's Christmas Bride Publication Date: November 3, 2006Realizing she was about to make an enormous mistake, Allison ran away from her wedding, only to be caught in a bitter Wyoming blizzard. When she takes shelter at the Crazy H ranch, she finds herself snowbound with sexy rancher CJ Hall. She's just avoided one bad relationship, how can she let herself fall into another? CJ has been left at the altar once. He isn't about to get involved with somebody else's runaway bride. Can the magic of the holidays help them overcome the past, and make this the best Christmas ever? ...
| | Animal Spot-the-Differences (Dover Little Activity Books) Publication Date: July 30, 2007| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
| | Anno's Counting Book Big Book Release Date: September 30, 1992| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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