 | What Ho, Magic!
Publication Date: March 15, 1999Tanya Huff, the acclaimed writer of the Blood and Kigh series, is also a fantastic short story writer. What Ho, Magic! is a collection of fifteen of Tanya's short stories:"I'll Be Home for Christmas""Word of Honor""Shing Li-ung", "First Love, Last Love""The Harder They Fall""February Thaw""The Chase is On""A Debt Unpaid""Symbols are a Percussion Instrument""Underground""A Midsummer Night's Dream Team"Four stories featuring Vicki, Henry, and Mike from her Blood series:"This Town Ain't Big Enough""What Manner of Man""The Cards Also Say""The Vengeful Spirit of La...
 |  | May We Be Forgiven: A Novel
Release Date: September 27, 2012A darkly comic novel of twenty-first-century domestic life and the possibility of personal transformation Harold Silver has spent a lifetime watching his younger brother, George, a taller, smarter, and more successful high-flying TV executive, acquire a covetable wife, two kids, and a beautiful home in the suburbs of New York City. But Harry, a historian and Nixon scholar, also knows George has a murderous temper, and when George loses control the result is an act of violence so shocking that both brothers are hurled into entirely new lives in which they both ...
|  | The Knitting Circle Rapist Annihilation Squad (Flashpoint Press)
Publication Date: November 1, 2012| Series: Flashpoint Press In this darkly comic novel, the six women of the Knitting Circle meet every week to talk, eat cake, and make fabulous sweaters. The easy-going circle undergoes a drastic change when the members realize they are all the survivors of rape—worse still, that none of their attackers suffered consequences—and the group becomes the vengeful Knitting Circle Rapist Annihilation Squad, taking punishment into their own hands via their knitting needles. As the women take their revenge, groups of men issue statements again...
|  | Walking in Between
Publication Date: August 6, 2011Fourteen-year-old Elisabeth Grace is so stricken with the curse of beauty that she attracts everyone she meets. Her family calls it, ‘sangre dulce’, or sweet blood. But is it possible her curse is actually a gift? In the story she realizes the greater reason for it; her sweet blood is not limited to this realm. During a summer spent at a historic inn near Williamsburg, Va., she discovers that she is a clairvoyant. She develops a powerful bond with an older boy, Carter, who has been dead for over two hundred years. He is instantly smitten with her...
|  | Windfall: A Novel
Release Date: September 7, 2010Sensible Cassia Fallon is married to a doctor for seven years when she inherits a large amount of money from her godmother. This enables her to leave her old life behind and embark on a new life with danger and passion.This is Penny Vincenzi at her utmost. ...
|  | Crude Bedfellows: How the Insiders Set-Up, Started and Finished a Bull Market Run in Crude Oil.
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|  | Enemies & Allies
Release Date: September 28, 2010It was a time of international tensions, a time of hope and fear—when Elvis, Howdy Doody, UFOs, and the Communist menace preoccupied America. It was the first time in history when human beings had the power to destroy their world. A time when heroes were needed more than ever.Evil is loose in the world. As the United States and the Soviet Union race to build their nuclear stockpiles, two extraordinary men are called upon to form an uneasy alliance. Studies in opposites—shadow and light—a Dark Knight and a Man of Steel must overcome the...
|  | The Shakespeare Diaries: A Fictional Autobiography
Publication Date: April 1, 2007Blending fact with fiction and written in diary form, this unique biography of Shakespeare encapsulates his life like never before—from his views on daily events to vivid impressions of the Elizabethan era and his role within such a world. Delightfully whimsical, this distinctive life story provides answers to questions such as What was Shakespeare thinking while he wrote Hamlet? What did he and Ben Jonson talk about when they were having a drink together? and What might Shakespeare have said to the formidable Elizabeth I? Incorporating fragments of lines ...
|  | Lonigan
Release Date: September 1, 1988THE LEGENDS OF THE WEST In this exciting collection of short stories, Louis L’Amour, the legendary voice of the American West, celebrates the unique breed of men who worked the great cattle ranches. Men like Dan Regan, who refused to surrender when trouble came . . . Con Fargo, who would fight for what was his—despite the odds . . . Rowdy Horn, a small-time rancher with big-time dreams . . . Tandy Thayer, too loyal to forget a friend . . . Bill Carey, who might have fallen low, but not low enough to let the likes of Tabat Ryerson ride off w...
|  | Diaries
Publication Date: August 20, 2012| ISBN-10: 0871404109 | ISBN-13: 978-0871404107| Edition: 1 A major literary event—the long-awaited publication of George Orwell's diaries, chronicling the events that inspired his greatest works.This groundbreaking volume, never before published in the United States, at last introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books throughout his career, the eleven surviving diaries collected here record Orwell’s youthful travels among miners and itinerant laborers, ...
|  | Rumi: The Big Red Book: The Great Masterpiece Celebrating Mystical Love and Friendship
Release Date: November 1, 2011 Considered one of the masterpieces of world literature, The Big Red Book is perhaps the greatest work of Rumi, the medieval Sufi mystic who also happens to be the bestselling poet in America. Rumi was born in 1207 to a long line of Islamic theologians and lawyers on the eastern edge of the Persian Empire in what is now Afghanistan. In order to escape the invading Mongol armies of Genghis Khan, his family moved west to a town now found in Turkey, where he eventually became the leader of a school of whirling dervishes. It was a fateful day in 1244 when he met S...
|  | The Florist @ Tahrir Square
Publication Date: January 19, 2012Going from Upper Egypt to Cairo to start a new life was not easy, neither on her nor on her childhood sweetheart. When both decided to head North, they had only one thing to count on, hope. They had never expected what was in store. ...
|  | Immortal
Publication Date: September 28, 2010The wound inflicted only a few minutes before was nearly healed. A small cut was the only sign that anything had occurred. I watched in disbelief as it finished closing and eventually disappeared."What are you?" * * *Gods, demons, vampires, eighteen year old Alina Taylor doesn't believe in any of them, until she meets Samuel Grant and Duncan Michaels, and discovers a world that could destroy everything she loves. ...
|  | Trial By Fire
Publication Date: January 1, 1993The fourth consecutive New York Times bestseller from the acclaimed author of Bright Star, Sword Point and Team Yankee. In a powerful and sophisticated thriller, Coyle brings to life the complex interplay among war, politics, and the media, as a government overthrow in Mexico destabilizes the border, and the U.S. is compelled to invade Mexico and establish a security zone. ...
|  | Roseanna: A Martin Beck Police Mystery (1) (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
Release Date: September 30, 2008| Series: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard The masterful first novel in the Martin Beck series of mysteries by the internationally renowned crime writing duo Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, finds Beck hunting for the murderer of a lonely traveler.On a July afternoon, a young woman's body is dredged from Sweden's beautiful Lake Vattern. With no clues Beck begins an investigation not only to uncover a murderer but also to discover who the victim was. Three months later, all Beck knows is that her name was Roseanna and that she could have been strangled by a...
|  | Beanworld Book 3: Remember Here When You Are There! (Larry Marder's Beanworld)
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|  | The History of NASCAR
Publication Date: February 1, 2008| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Good Books, Good Times! (Trophy Picture Books)
Release Date: January 26, 2000| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | The Village of Round and Square Houses
Publication Date: May 30, 1986| Grade Level: P and up The village of Tos is like no other village in the world, for in this village the women live in round houses and the men live in square ones.The story of how this came to be is told from the point of view of a young girl who grew up there.Ann Grifalconi's bold, dynamic art and rhythmic storytelling recreate this world and make The Village of Round and Square Houses a perfect book for reading aloud. ...
|  | Babar's ABC
Publication Date: March 1, 2001| Age Level: 1 and up A re-issue with the original artwork of one of the best loved of the Babar series of children's books. 'A' is for Airport, 'B' is for Babar (of course!), 'C' is for Circus. And the rest of the letters follow as Babar and his family take young readers on a lively romp through the alphabet. Crocodiles, fire engines, and penguins abound. Originally published in 1983 by Random House. ...
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