 | The Cinderella Deal
Release Date: October 25, 2011New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Crusie brings humor and storytelling magic to this modern-day romance about a match with a dubious beginning—that is destined for a fairy-tale ending. Daisy Flattery is a free spirit with a soft spot for strays and a weakness for a good story. Why else would she agree to the outrageous charade offered by her buttoned-down workaholic neighbor, Linc Blaise? The history professor needs a makeshift fiancée to secure his dream job, and Daisy needs a short-term gig to support her painting career. And so the C...
 |  | Brand New Human Being
Release Date: June 12, 2012I’m putting the drill back in the safe when my fingers touchsomething unexpected—paper. An envelope. I take it out. Where an addressshould be, my name is written in Gus’s unmistakable, back-slantinghand. Meet Logan Pyle, a lapsed grad student andstay-at-home dad who’s holding it together by a thread. His father, Gus,has died; his wife, Julie, has grown distant; his four-year-old son hasgone back to drinking from a bottle. When he finds Julie kissinganother man on a pile of coats at a party, the thread snaps. Logan packsa bag, buckles his son...
|  | FACE THE MUSIC #3 (Girls Only/Silver Skates, No 3)
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|  | Beyond the Ashes
Publication Date: January 4, 2006Sohni Vessels has always been the one who everyone could depend on.She, along with her five sisterfriends, Bianca, Jacey, Mirrah, Carly and Ziona are on a quest to dig beneath the ruins of the smothered fires in their lives and find peace.Along the journey they encounter men who are also searching for wholeness (Ricky, Jabori, Leon and Ashtel).Mirrah's ex-husband, Justin, reappears and instead of convincing her to come back, he finds the Lord and tries to develop a relationship with his daughter, Meah.Serendity Baptist Church, with Bishop Mack as its pastor, ...
|  | The Book of Fate
Publication Date: October 1, 2011Brad Meltzer's #1 New York Times bestseller featuring a two-hundred-year-old code devised by Thomas Jefferson and a present-day conspiracy at the highest level of power ."Six minutes from now, one of us would be dead. None of us knew it was coming."So says Wes Holloway, a young presidential aide, about the day he put Ron Boyle, the chief executive's oldest friend, into the president's limousine. By the trip's end, a crazed assassin would permanently disfigure Wes and kill Boyle. Now, eight years later, Boyle has been spotted alive. Trying to figure out what r...
|  | Bellevue: A Documentary of a Large Metropolitan Hospital
Publication Date: October 19, 2000The anatomy of life within a large metropolitan hospital. Real people doctors, nurses, administrators and patients interacting in a memorable way."Fascinating...marvelous."The New York Times ...
|  | The Fires of Fu Manchu
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|  | Reading Eighteenth-Century Poetry (Blackwell Reading Poetry)
Publication Date: February 24, 2009| Series: Blackwell Reading Poetry (Book 1) Reading Eighteenth-Century Poetry recaptures for modern readers the urgency, distinctiveness and rewarding nature of this challenging and powerful body of poetry. An essential guide to reading eighteenth-century poetry, written by world-renowned critic, Patricia Meyer SpacksExposes the multiplicity of forms, tones, and topics engaged by poets during this period Provides in-depth analysis of poems by established figures such as Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, as well as work by less familiar figures, including A...
|  | Elusive Shadows: Ghazals and Poems by Jamshed
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|  | Hebrew Renaissance Poetry A Historical-Critical Anthology Volume I (Hebrew) (Hebrew Edition)
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|  | Against the Grain: New Anthology of Contemporary Austrian Prose. (Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture, and Thought. Translation Series)
Publication Date: February 28, 1997| Series: Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture, and Thought Translation Series The authors whose works are represented in this anthology are above all those who began to publish in the 1980's or whose main prose works began to leave an impression on public consciousness during this period. Observers of the literary scene agree that from about the beginning of the 1980's a 'directional change' made itself felt. The new literature is a reaction against the so-called 'classical modern' literature that appeared at the end of the fifties, itself a counter-tre...
|  | Arrivals and Departures
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| | The Alexandrine Plan
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|  | What Learning Leaves
Publication Date: July 1, 2002| ISBN-10: 1887012176 | ISBN-13: 978-1887012171A collection of poems about teaching, love, and dogs. ...
|  | Giordano Bruno and the Philosophy of the Ass
Publication Date: July 24, 1996This study uses the figure of the ass as a lens through which to focus on the thought and writings of the humanist philosopher Giordano Bruno. The donkey played a prominent role as a symbol in 16th-century literature, and for Bruno the ass and human asininity became a motif in his work. ...
|  | Late Imperial Romance
Publication Date: July 17, 1994As the US imperium lurches towards its economic twilight, comparisons with the fate of the British Empire have become increasingly commonplace.Surpassed as the world's most vigorous capitalist manufacturer by Japan and Germany, the US now seems bound for the same rocky shores as those on which Britannia foundered at the end of the nineteenth century.John McClure charts the course of decline, first in the works of Joseph Conrad, chronicler of high imperialism's contradictions, then in the post-war fictions of Joan Didion, Robert Stone and Thomas Pynchon. He maps...
|  | Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical Rent
Release Date: October 31, 2006Anthony Rapp had a special feeling about Jonathan Larson's rock musical Rent as early as his first audition, which won him a starring role as the video artist Mark Cohen. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Rent opened to thunderous acclaim off-Broadway -- but even as friends and family were celebrating the show's first success, they were also mourning Jonathan Larson's sudden death from an aortic aneurysm. And when Anthony's mom began to lose her battle with cancer, Anthony found himself struggling to balance his life in the theater with his responsibility to his family...
|  | The Usborne Book of Greek and Norse Legends
Publication Date: June 1987| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up -- A fascinating introduction to the world of mythology-- Brief outlines of all of the most famous stories-- Ideal source of inspiration for role-playing games ...
|  | DA Wei's Treasure: A Chinese Tale
Publication Date: May 1, 1999| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Da Wei and his father were poor tenant farmers whose landlord, the local Magistrate, was a hard, greedy man. Da Wei's father had only one thing to leave Da Wei when he died -- a large rock taken from the ocean, given to him by a lonely old fisherman with the promise that one day, a light would shine from the rock and show the way to treasures beneath the sea. And one day, the light "did" blaze forth. After the crops were harvested, Da Wei went to visit the seaside village where the old fisherman had lived. Miraculousl...
|  | Little Bo Peep's Library Book
Publication Date: September 1999| Age Level: 4 and up Little Bo Peep visits the library where other nursery rhyme characters help her find a book that will tell her how to locate her lost sheep. Includes three smaller books inserted in pages. ...
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