 | Nick Virgilio:A Life in Haiku
Publication Date: March 22, 2012Nick Virgilio, who started writing in the 1960s and was a pioneer of American haiku poetry, penned some of this country’s most elegiac and memorable haiku. Born and bred in Camden, New Jersey, he was a legend to some, an inspiration to others. He spent countless hours in his cellar at his Remington typewriter, writing haiku about nature, the people of Camden and south Philadelphia, and his family. In particular, he detailed the deep sense of loss that affected him and his family when his youngest brother, Larry, was killed in Vietnam. Edited and introdu...
 |  | Halestorm
Publication Date: August 25, 2012Could you choose between love and freedom?Meet the American Revolution’s most endearing hero: Nathan Hale, the 21-year-old spy who "only regretted he had but one life to give for his country." Caught between honor and romance, Nathan must forfeit the woman he hopes to marry, even as a rival for her hand vows to win her at any cost. Their contest culminates in a British Artillery Park when Nathan hangs for espionage – but, in a surprising twist, still triumphs. Filled with love and conflict, murder and betrayal, Halestorm whisks readers into an e...
|  | Revenge of the Geek (Geek High)
Release Date: November 2, 2010| Series: Geek High (Book 4) Some people have to learn the hard way-don't mess with a geek.Miranda Bloom, girl genius, is totally psyched to start her junior year at Geek High. Too bad her boyfriend, lacrosse player Dex McConnell, is off to boarding school in Maine. Miranda thought she could count on her best friends, Finn and Charlie, to cheer her up, but they're caught up in their own issues... So Miranda decides to make friends with the shy new student Nora Lee. At first things with Nora are great, but soon it seems like Nora thinks that anything Miranda ca...
|  | Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family
Publication Date: January 1985Nicholas Pileggi’s vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hill—the working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that “to be a wiseguy was to own the world,” who grew up to live the highs and lows of the gangster’s life—has been hailed as “the best book ever written on organized crime” (Cosmopolitan). This is the true-crime bestseller that was the basis for Martin Scorsese’s film masterpiece GoodFellas, which brought to life the violence, the excess, the families, the wives and ...
|  | Out of the Closet and Nothing to Wear
Publication Date: June 1, 2000This collection of humorous stories starring Leslea Newman and her butch, Flash, who live in Lesbianville, U.S.A., is based on her popular column, which has run in lesbian and gay periodicals all over the country. Nothing is sacred and nobody's feelings are spared in this clever and caustic collection which will make readers laugh, think, and want to shop. ...
|  | The Slow Fix
Publication Date: April 1, 2009”Coyote is an important literary voice, blending a keen sense of gay identity and community with a refreshing appreciation for the goodness at the heart of some straight people.”—OutThe first three story collections by Ivan E. Coyote featured insightful, deeply personal tales about gender, identity, and community, based on her own experiences growing up lesbian in Canada’s North. Ivan’s most recent book, Bow Grip, was her first novel; it was shortlisted for the Ferro-Grumley Prize for Women’s Fiction, was named a Stonewall Ho...
|  | The Hen House
Release Date: April 1, 2007We are very pleased to announce the release of a new fiction title by New York Times bestselling author, Sharon Sala, titled "The Hen House".The last of the trilogy finds the couple in Colorado in the late 1800 s.In "Whippoorwill", Letty Murphy had come to Denver City a single woman, although she d gone through more hell in her twenty-nine years than she would have ever thought possible.She d nearly starved as a child and had sold herself to a man for money before she d even managed to grow breasts.But that was before she and Eulis had traveled to Denver City, surv...
|  | Beware the Hawk
Publication Date: March 9, 2012Sure, being a courier for a secret, possibly terrorist society has its risks, but the pay was worth it. At least I thought it was until I was ordered to make a late-night run to Boston to meet an opium-addicted, vodka-addled contact, who blows the deal. Now I am being hunted as I hobble, injured through the streets of Beantown. When I discover a gun and my new assignment, I wonder if perhaps I made a bad career choice. ...
|  | A Fine Balance (Modern Plays)
Publication Date: April 5, 2007| Series: Modern Plays Based on the Booker-shortlisted novel by Rohinton Mistry andadapted by Sudha Bhuchar and Kristine Landon-Smith, this programme textedition of A Fine Balance is published to coincide with Tamasha Theatre Company's 2007 revival and tour of the hit play.India, 1975, and a callous government has declared a State of Emergency.In these uncertain times a spirited Parsi widowdetermined to avoid a second marriage takes a student boarder and twoHindu tailors into her ramshackle flat. The four strangers whose lives havebecome inextricably linked fin...
|  | Antho de La Poe Fr 16e Sie (Poesie/Gallimard) (French Edition)
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|  | If I Don't Know
Publication Date: June 4, 2001The comic brilliance and formal skills which propelled Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis and Serious Concerns into the bestseller lists are much in evidence here. But a softer, lyrical voice, also present in the earlier books, is given more room to develop in poems about gardens and contentment and the poignancy of having something to lose. If I Don't Know ends with a longer poem, a moving narrative called 'The Teacher's Tale'. Fireworks Poems (from If I Don't Know) I Faster and faster, They vanish into darkness: Our years together. II Write it in fire across the n...
|  | Kenenroku ko: Jotei Sanjin iko. Baiton shisho (Shin Nihon koten bungaku taikei) (Japanese Edition)
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|  | Dead Run (Monkeewrench, No 3)
Release Date: April 4, 2006Computer game company founders Grace MacBride and Annie Belinsky—along with Wisconsin deputy Sharon Mueller—are en route to Green Bay, following reports of a serial killer, when their car breaks down deep in the northern woods. A short walk through the forest leads them to the eerily quiet town of Four Corners, where they find severed phone lines and a complete absence of any life. But the quiet is deceptive. Before they know it, they witness a horrifying double murder—and discover that this is only the beginning of a race to save their own lives&...
|  | And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon
Publication Date: May 1, 2001| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Every night the rhyme gets read. Every night Dish and Spoon run away. And every night they return--until tonight!Where can Dish and Spoon be? The rhyme can't go on without them, so Cat, Cow,and Dog set out to search for their missing friends. But where to start? Should they go north? East? Northeast? They'll just have to read Fork's map, ask directions, and try not to get lost in Little Boy Blue's haystack or under Miss Muffet's tuffet or in Big Bad Wolf's kitchen--"FEE, FI, FO . . ." Oh no. Could that be the giant? ...
|  | Enid Blyton Omnibus Hb
Publication Date: September 2000This omnibus edition features the Green Goblin stories, in which three pixies team up to run a little shop that offers to get anything for anyone; and the Yellow Fairy book, in which a brother and sister go up the Faraway Tree to rescue a kidnapped princess. ...
|  | Start Reading Phonics 3.16 (suffixes) Oops! (Phonic Ebooks: Sounds Made Easy (Children's Start Reading Books Level 3))
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|  | A Tale of Two Turkeys
Publication Date: November 1995| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Yoshka is the most clever boy in his small village. When he hears that a reward is being offered to anyone who can cure the czar of Russia of a terrible illness, Yoshka sets out to test his skills in the world. As he makes his way to the czar's palace, every person he meets tries to trick Yoshka--but he outwits them all! ...
|  | Greg Maddux: Master On / Mound
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|  | Getting to Omaha and the NCAA Men's College World Series
Publication Date: August 1, 2012Baseball is a way of life for many Americans, especially college students dreaming to get to Omaha and the NCAA Men s College World Series. The journey to Omaha is filled with fun, good food, celebrations, and sacrifice to be named champions. Author Valerie Doherty brings the culture of college baseball to life, reminding us why baseball is America's favorite pastime. ...
|  | El Color de mis Palabras = The Color of My Words (Spanish Edition)
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