 | Small World
Release Date: June 1, 1995Veteran rivals for an exclusive academic chair (recently endowed with $100,000 a year) do scholarly battle with each other in what the Washington Post Book World called a "delectable comedy of bad manners . . . infused with a rare creative exuberance". From the author of the award-winning Changing Places. ...
 |  | Dime quien soy (Vintage Espanol) (Spanish Edition)
Release Date: February 1, 2011| Series: Vintage Espanol Una apasionante aventura protagonizada por unos personajes inolvidables cuyas vidas construyen un magnífico retrato de la historia del siglo XX. Un periodista recibe la propuesta de investigar la vida de su bisabuela, Amelia Garayoa, una mujer de la que sólo se sabe que huyó abandonando a su marido y a su hijo poco antes de que estallara la guerra civil española. Para rescatarla del olvido deberá reconstruir su historia desde los cimientos, encajando, una a una, todas las piezas del inmenso y extraordinari...
|  | Suspicion: A Novel
Release Date: May 9, 2008In the common course of events, people choose houses. Sometimes, though, it doesn't work that way. Sometimes houses choose people.Emma Roth, successful novelist, never imagined living anywhere but New York City, until she finds the perfect house. It's a beautiful coastline mansion on Long Island, with a glassed-in tower library any writer would kill for. But no sooner does Emma move into the house with her scientist husband, Roger, and her son, Zack, than eerie things begin happening. Characters from Emma's book begin taunting her. Treatening messages appear on her...
|  | La Muerte Blanca (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Many Lives
Publication Date: January 1, 2000"That night, the rain poured and wind howled, raindrops crashing like solid objects onto the ground and water. A passenger boat from Ban Phaen to Bangkok, packed with people, pressed on through the current amidst the rising clamor of the rain and storm. . . ." The boat capsizes in the torrent, and washed up on the shore the next morning are the sodden bodies of the many passengers who lost their lives. Thus begins M. R. Kukrit Pramoj's classic novel set in the Thailand of the early 1950s and first published in 1954. The life of each passenger who perished is ...
|  | A Treasury of Southern Folklore: Stories, Ballads, Traditions, and Folkways of the People of the South
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|  | All for Love (Drama Classics)
Publication Date: August 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 1854593722 | ISBN-13: 978-1854593726Dryden's retelling of Antony and Cleopatra story as a heroic tragedy. ...
|  | A Beginner's Guide to Rakes
Release Date: October 4, 2011All of London is abuzz with the return of the utterly alluring, recently widowed Diane Benchley. Will she remarry? What will she do with her late husband’s fortune? Sociey is shocked by her announcement—at the Grand Ball, of all places!—that she plans to open an exclusive gentleman’s gaming club in the family mansion. But no one is more stunned than the Marquis of Haybury, Oliver Warren.Years ago, Oliver and Diane shared a private indiscretion. Now Diane threatens to reveal Oliver’s most ungentlemanly secrets…unless he agrees t...
|  | Carnal Deceptions
Release Date: July 29, 2008Tess Starling is willing to risk everything -- and offer anything -- to avenge her father's death.Upon leaving her father's gravesite, Tess spies creditors confiscating the finery of her first London Season. But her gowns will do little to satisfy her father's debts. Fleet Prison awaits her. Tess dons a homely disguise, cloaking herself in mourning weeds. She is determined to evade the authorities until she brings to justice the swindler who ruined her father.Resolute in her quest, she will transform anew, reinventing herself as a temptress to seduce the villain. S...
|  | Lone Star Woman (Signet Eclipse)
Release Date: January 6, 2009| Series: Signet Eclipse First in a SEXY new series about a TEXAN ranching DYNA STY— from an exciting debut authorJude Strayhorn, the smart, free-spirited daughter of the Circle C Ranch’s CEO, is snooping around the nearby abandoned 6-0 Ranch when she encounters a stranger. Accusing him of trespassing, she quickly discovers he’s the heir to the 6-0 and has every intention of thwarting her plans to buy it. All goes according to plan—until he starts falling for her... --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | Yours, Mine and Howls (Werewolves in Love)
Publication Date: February 7, 2012| Series: Werewolves in Love Sometimes happily ever after is on the wrong side of death’s door. Werewolves in Love, Book 2 Thirteen years ago, Ally Kendall died defending her young cousin from his werewolf stepfather. She hasn’t been the same since. Ally returned from the hereafter with strange new powers, burdened with the secret of why and how she survived. She managed to scrape her life together and raise her cousin, but now he needs a pack to guide him into adulthood. That means pulling up stakes yet again and heading fo...
|  | False Convictions
Publication Date: February 10, 2010In bestselling author Tim Green's latest thriller, Casey Jordan returns-seeking justice in a small town riddled with . . .FALSE CONVICTIONS Casey is counting on an open-and-shut case, a sure success for her first effort with the Freedom Project, the renowned charity group dedicated to helping exonerate wrongfully convicted prisoners. Not only is the Freedom Project giving Casey the chance to help innocent people, but its founder, Robert Graham, is offering Casey a one-million-dollar annual pledge to her legal clinic for taking on just two jobs a year. H...
|  | The Fourth Protocol
Release Date: August 1, 1985It is a time of political unrest in Great Britain. And behind the Iron Curtain an insidious plot is being hatched, a plan so incendiary that even the KGB is ignorant of its existence--Aurora, the sinister brainchild of two of the world's most dangerous men: the general secretary of the Soviet Union and master spy Kim Philby.The wheels are in motion, the pawns are in place, and the countdown has begun toward an "accident" that could change the fact ...
|  | the Gravimetal Paradox
Publication Date: February 8, 2004Bruce Wyndam, a young widower working as a materials engineer, is frustrated because his creativity is unappreciated by his boss Jerry Hopper. Then he accidentally discovers a remarkable metal alloy which appears to violate the laws of physics. Jerry's secretary Marilee sympathizes, but he can't get anyone else to listen until Harry, the company's PR man, eager to promote something new, arrives on the scene.Before Bruce realizes what's happening, Harry has arranged demonstrations and a press conference, leading to unrealistic claims for gravimetal. The media...
|  | Tangled Ever After Read-Along Storybook and CD (Disney Tangled)
Release Date: June 26, 2012| Age Level: 3 and up...
|  | Champ Wide Retriever
Publication Date: July 25, 2011This story explains with great detail, The best football player ever with four legs and a tail! Meet Champ, the new "Wide Retriever" for the Tiny Tacklers football team. When the team experiences a losing streak, Champ knows just what to do to get their hearts and minds back in the game! ...
|  | I Spy With My Little Eye: Hockey
Release Date: October 31, 2011| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Z is for Zombie
Release Date: September 1, 2010| Grade Level: 1 and up Children looking for goosebumps and chills will get them in this A to Z just right for Halloween or anytime. Rich, spooky paintings help set the stage for a frightfully good time. ...
|  | Manon Lescaut (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: February 15, 2009| Series: Oxford World's Classics "The sweetness of her glance, or rather my evil star already in its ascendant and drawing me to my ruin, did not allow me to hesitate for a moment."So begins the story of Manon Lescaut, a tale of passion and betrayal, of delinquency and misalliance, which moves from early eighteenth-century Paris--with its theatres, assemblies, and gaming-houses-via prison and deportation to a tragic denouement in the treeless wastes of Louisiana. It is one of the great love stories, and also one of the most enigmatic: how reliable a witnes...
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