 | Been Doon So Long: A Randall Grahm Vinthology
Publication Date: October 19, 2009This eclectic collection at last brings to a wide audience the irreverent, zany voice of Randall Grahm, visionary California winemaker and founder of Bonny Doon Vineyard. An iconoclastic send-up of the wine industry and a celebration of unsung grape varieties, the book features, among other things, Grahm's hilarious literary parodies--Joyce, Kafka, Pynchon, Salinger, and others--together with song lyrics, other snarky satires, poems, lectures, and more. Subtle undertones of gravitas with faint suggestions of earnestness lie beneath the humor, however, as Gra...
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|  | Cosmical Horror of H. P. Lovecraft - a Picotial Anthology
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|  | Amalia
Publication Date: May 1, 2000| Series: Letras Hispanicas/ Hispanic Writings Amalia is one of the most popular Latin American novels and, until recently, was required reading in Argentina's schools. It was written to protest the dictatorship of Juan Manuel de Rosas and to provide a picture of the political events during his regime, but the book's popularity stemmedfrom the love story that fuels the plot. Originally published in 1851 in serial form, Marmol's novel recounts the story of Eduardo and Amalia, who fall in love while he is hiding in her home. Amalia and her cousin Daniel protect him...
|  | Stonewall: Stories of Gay Liberation
Publication Date: December 30, 2008"At Stonewall," Jack Fritscher wrote, "gay character changed." In June 1969, the legendary Stonewall Rebellion in New York's Greenwich Village began the national gay civil rights movement. Fritscher, one-time lover of Robert Mapplethorpe and early intimate of elegant Picasso biographer and "Vanity Fair" author John Richardson, is the highly acclaimed novelist, award-winning historian, and polished prose stylist. His best-selling "Some Dance to Remember: A Memoir-Novel of San Francisco 1970-1982" pairs perfectly with his nonfiction tour de force "Gay San Fra...
|  | When Fortune Frowns
Publication Date: April 1, 2011The engrossing story of HMS Pandora, never before told in a historical novel, comes to life in this portrait of the crew that embarked in 1790 on an epic voyage to Tahiti to find and arrest the men who revolted against the Bounty and Captain William Bligh. Evoking the remarkable and cataclysmic events that occurred after the British Admiralty sent the Royal Navy out to detain the mutineers and bring them back to England for trial, this novel embodies life aboard a ship in the 19th century. Based on original documents, including the correspondence of the partici...
|  | Freedom Spy: David Jove and The Meaning of Existence
Publication Date: April 3, 2012Canadian-born David Jove was an actor, singer, songwriter, musician, poet, sculptor, writer and filmmaker. He could have been successful at anything he wanted to do, but it was the free-thinking 1960s and he wanted to be a magician, an alchemist, and a master of time and space. Instead, through heights of guile, gumption and glibness previously unseen in rock 'n' roll high society, David Jove achieved notoriety with one wave of his magic cane when in England he became known as "The Acid King" after partying with The Rolling Stones, and getting Keith R...
|  | The Nautical Negro: The Adventures Of A Black Waterman
Publication Date: September 13, 2011This book is the story of an African American man's strange Love, and passion for anything nautically related. Book I of the Nautical Negro was written 10 years ago during My first stay in the New York State Prison system. When I took to writing Book one I had never written anything before that time and was learning on the fly. So the stories in book one reflect my limited experience in the craft of writing. Book one does however give a very clear picture of my nautical development and the progression I've made throughout the years. Book II of The Nautical...
|  | New World Order
Publication Date: September 3, 2004Left-field geographer and anti-travel author Dixe Wills presents a uniquely new look at each of the 198 countries of the world. With a handy grading system to reveal who are the globe's real top nations and which ones are letting the side down on a monumental scale, Dixe Wills goes in search of, and definitively reveals, the best country in the World. ...
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|  | The Great Books Series III (This Morning)
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|  | Master of Temptation
Release Date: April 27, 2004In her dazzling new novel, Nicole Jordan tempts readers with a tale of breathless splendor and soul-searing passion.Lovers in paradise . . .He is a brilliant military commander . . . and every woman’s temptation. When Max Leighton unexpectedly comes to her golden Mediterranean island, Caro Evers longs to heal his emotional battle scars. But during one glorious night in his arms, she discovers a sensual master whose mere touch drives her to wild abandon.She is the bewitching angel he can’t forget. Jaded by the glittering ballrooms of Regency London, M...
|  | Her Only Desire: A Novel
Release Date: March 27, 2007From the exotic splendors of India to the elegant ballrooms of Regency London, celebrated author Gaelen Foley pens the enthralling tale of a luscious beauty who has sworn never to call any man her master, and the powerful marquess whose passion threatens to conquer her. . . . Born into the wealthy British ruling class of India, Georgiana Knight is as unconventional as she is beautiful. She has sworn not to marry till she meets a man who will treat her as an equal–but that vow doesn’t appease her sensual curiosity. When Ian Prescott, the Marquess of G...
|  | Panhandle Blizzard
Publication Date: January 7, 2011Vivian Leigh Campbell, a teacher from east Texas, is forced to flee a ruthless man determined to destroy her. As she runs for her life, she finds herself stranded in a blizzard in the Texas panhandle. In danger of freezing to death, she is rescued by a handsome rancher, Flint Spear. Vi finds she enjoys life on a ranch, but she soon realizes Flint is a cowboy with secrets. As her past catches up with her, she discovers strengths she didn't know she possessed, and a desire to trust again. But will Flint's secret occupation be her downfall or her salva...
|  | Restitution
Publication Date: July 1, 2001Picking up three months after "Retribution" left off, this is the story of how Ice finally makes full restitution for her crimes by agreeing to a plea bargain set up by a secret justice probe. ...
|  | The First Person
Publication Date: November 30, 2010In The First Person, a disillusioned computer programmer working for the police has decided to erase his identity. We do not know why. Leaving his old life behind, the man becomes a private detective in Los Angeles under a new, forged identity. He is hired to find a local gangster's unfaithful wife, but after locating the woman, he falls in love with her. The pair plans to reunite after he returns her and collects his fee, but their plans are shortcircuited by her husband, who punishes her cruelly for her betrayals. Devastated, the detective exacts his reve...
|  | The Magician (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel #2)
Release Date: June 24, 2008| Age Level: 12 and up | Grade Level: 7 and up After fleeing Ojai, Nicholas, Sophie, Josh, and Scatty emerge in Paris, the City of Lights. Home for Nicholas Flamel. Only this homecoming is anything but sweet. Perenell is still locked up back in Alcatraz and Paris is teeming with enemies. Nicollo Machiavelli, immortal author and celebrated art collector, is working for Dee. He’s after them, and time is running out for Nicholas and Perenell. For every day spent without the Book of Abraham the Mage, they age one year—their magic becoming weaker and their b...
|  | Mom Can I Have a Dragon?
Publication Date: June 30, 2004The Best selling Children's Book Mom Can I Have A Dragon comes to life in this wonderful reading performed by the Award Winning Author himself T.E.Watson. Enchanting melodies help bring this children's favorite alive like never before. read along with your copy of the book for a family experience your children will remember always. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Earning a Ride: How to Become a NASCAR Driver (World of NASCAR)
Publication Date: August 1, 2003| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Douggie: The Playful Pup Who Became a Sled Dog Hero
Release Date: November 15, 2007| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up From the beginning one puppy was different from the rest. He was big and black, his brother and sisters small and gray. While the others lay quietly snuggled against their mother, this puppy squirmed and wiggled constantly. So begins the inspiring story of a puppy whose boundless energy almost got the best of him. Douggie: The Playful Puppy Who Became a Sled Dog Hero is Pam Flowers s tribute to the pup who seemed destined to remain the class clown. But Pam saw potentialin this exuberant youngster, and Douggie's inte...
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