 | Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter
Release Date: October 7, 2008 Warning: May contain material offensive to vegans, pharmaceutical lobbyists, and those on a low-sodium diet. Animals were harmed during the writing of this book.While Phoebe Damrosch was waiting for life to happen, she supported herself by working as a waitress. Before long she was the only female captain at the four-star New York City restaurant Per Se during its first year. Service Included is the story of her obsession with food, her love affair with a sommelier, and her amusing, eye-opening, and sometimes shocking experiences in the fascinating, frenetic, ...
 |  | In the Image: A Novel
Publication Date: September 23, 2002A young woman's coming of age, a romantic love story, and a spiritual journey; each infused with the lessons of history.In the Image is an extraordinary first novel illuminated by spiritual exploration, one that remembers "a language, a literature, a held hand, an entire world lived and breathed in the image of God." Bill Landsmann, an elderly Jewish refugee in a New Jersey suburb with a passion for travel, is obsessed with building his slide collection of images from the Bible that he finds scattered throughout the world. The novel begins when he crosses ...
|  | Mandarin Plaid (Lydia Chin, Bill Smith Mystery)
Publication Date: August 15, 1997| Series: Lydia Chin, Bill Smith Mystery It's a long way from the cramped, dreary sweatshops where Lydia Chin's mother once sewed for the heady world of fashion. But in New York City, worlds collide. And a petite, Chinese-American P.I. can still rub shoulders with the rich, the poor, the beautiful, and the depraved. Elegant, porcelain-skinned Genna Jing is sure her latest designs are worth a fortune. That's why she is willing to pay the fifty grand being demanded by the person who stole her design book. But when Lydia--backed by her partner Bill Smith--makes ...
|  | Quiet As They Come
Publication Date: August 17, 2010"Heartbreaking tales of ordinary people lost between the extraordinary circumstances of history. Bitter and beautiful all at once."—Sandra Cisneros"We call it naturalization, but these bright, authentic, well-made stories both personalize and illuminate just how unnatural the first twenty years in America felt for thousands of Vietnamese families who fled to San Francisco to escape the Vietnam War. Angie Chau writes with humor, intensity and forgiveness about lives full of danger, insult, momentary reprieve, unending tenacity and undying hope."—Pam ...
|  | These Tangled Threads (Bells of Lowell Series #3)
Publication Date: October 1, 2003Book 3 of Bells of Lowell. Timid yet alluring Daughtie Winfield finds herself in a precarious position when the new doctor casts his favor upon her. Though flattered by his attention, she is drawn to Liam Donohue, a local Irish artisan. As Daughtie and Liam work together to help runaway slaves, their friendship blossoms. But her work in the mills is threatened when a downturn in profits causes the Associates to decrease wages--resulting in plans for a strike. With the fate of the textile industry in an upheaval, will her hopes for love be thwarted as dissenti...
|  | The House of the Wolfings
Publication Date: February 23, 2007The story of how the Wolfings fight, and eventually destroy, the invading Roman legions. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press. ...
|  | The Hunt for Atlantis: A Novel
Release Date: September 29, 2009A LOST CIVILIZATION.A DANGEROUS QUEST.A DEADLY SECRET.It’s one of history’s most enduring and controversial legends—the lost city of Atlantis. Archaeologist Nina Wilde is certain she’s solved the riddle of its whereabouts—and with the help of reclusive billionaire Kristian Frost, his beautiful daughter, Kari, and ex-SAS bodyguard Eddie Chase, she’s about to make the most important discovery in centuries. But not everyone wants them to succeed: a powerful and mysterious organization will stop at nothing to ensure that a secre...
|  | Secret Protocols (Peter Owen Modern Classics)
Publication Date: September 8, 2006| Series: Peter Owen Modern Classics A historical novel focusing on the life of one man beginning at the start of World War II. ...
|  | Seer
Publication Date: January 1, 2004SEER, set in the Caribbean, traces the mystical adventures of Becka, shaman/healer, as she travels into the spirit-world on a mission to resolve the life and death issues faced by her neighbor's son.Becka endeavors to heal the spirit and thereby heal the body.During these dream-travels she encounters entities and intriguing characters that explode her understanding of "time" and reconfigure her sense of the "real."The plot builds in such a way as to reveal startling developments and revelations about connectedness and the essential unity of people through tim...
|  | Beowulf
Release Date: February 11, 1977This presentation of the translation and the Old English Text on facing pages allows the reader to approach the first major poem in English literature in a fresh and exciting new way. Includes a Guide to Reading Aloud, Introduction, Commentary and notes for translation from the original. ...
|  | Shakespeare's Edward III: An Early Play Restored to the Canon
Publication Date: September 25, 1996| ISBN-10: 0300066260 | ISBN-13: 978-0300066265| Edition: 1st "Edward III" was first published, anonymously, in 1596. Though most scholars now discern Shakespeare's hand in the play, academic uncertainties over "collaboration," "plagiarism", and "memorial reconstruction" have kept it firmly outside the canon. Now Eric Sams, whose "The Real Shakespeare" confirmed the playwright as a writer of popular plays from an early age as well as an assiduous reviser of his own work, offers a new edition that authenticates "Edward III" as Shakespeare's own, unaided...
|  | Vancouver: A Poem
Publication Date: April 20, 2008The Lions bare of snow, crowded express buses, a giant red turning letter W. Vancouver: A Poem is George Stanley's vision of the city where he lives, though he does not call it his own. Vancouver, the city, becomes Stanley's palimpsest: an overwritten manuscript on which the words of others are still faintly visible. Here the Food Floor's canned exotica, here the stores of Chinatown, here the Cobalt Hotel brimful of cheap beer and indifferent women.The poet travels through the urban landscape on foot and by public transit, observing the multifarious life aroun...
|  | Did You Hear About the Fighting Cat?
Publication Date: November 15, 2010| ISBN-10: 1848611323 | ISBN-13: 978-1848611320| Edition: Bilingual Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Spanish by Kristin Dykstra. This book takes up the experiment of connecting Buddhist practices to an American landscape. In a 2008 interview Perez states, "If Buddhism is to have a role in Cuban life it must be in harmony with the basic ethical and natural values of this land; it must give, so to say, its blood and marrow to the soil." Perez seems to have thrown even "revolutionary" readers for a loop by pursuing that...
|  | Haiku Poetry Volume One (Paperback)
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|  | Book (Eyewitness Books)
Release Date: September 14, 1993| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | The Renaissance in Europe: An Anthology (Renaissance in Europe series)
Publication Date: March 11, 2000| Series: Renaissance in Europe series Current research on the Renaissance has emphasized the need to look again at the original texts, documents and artefacts which, taken together, constitute the primary source of evidence for the re-evaluation of its historical significance. This volume represents one attempt to reflect this renewal of interest in returning to first principles.The Anthology presents a series of carefully selected primary sources across a wide range of disciplines, ordered thematically and reflecting the interests of scholars in a variety of...
|  | Cognitive Fictions
Publication Date: June 27, 2002| Series: Electronic Mediations (Book 8) Bringing together cognitive science and literary analysis to map a new "media ecology," Cognitive Fictions limns an evolutionary process in which literature must find its place in an artificial environment partly produced and thoroughly mediated by technological means. Joseph Tabbi provides a penetrating account of a developing consciousness emerging from the struggle between print and electronic systems of communication.Central to Joseph Tabbi's work is the relation between the arrangement of communicating "modules" tha...
|  | The English Novel: Defoe to the Victorians (Comparative literature)
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|  | Werewolf in the North Woods: A Wild About You Novel
Release Date: October 4, 2011| Series: Wild About You Novel (Book 2) When Abby Maddox's grandfather swears he saw Bigfoot in the woodsbehind his Portland, Oregon, home, his neighbors decide to bring in aprominent anthropologist to prove him wrong. Rather than see hergrandpa made a laughing stock, Abby sets out to send the professorpacking...until she sees how hot he is.Roark Wallace can't risk having tourists comb the woods for Bigfoot-notwith a local pack of werewolves to protect. When Roark meets Abby,sparks fly-but can he pursue this fiery red-head without compromisinghis pack? ...
|  | Mystery Writers of America Presents The Prosecution Rests: New Stories about Courtrooms, Criminals, and the Law
Publication Date: April 14, 2009From the Salem witch trials to Depression-era Chicago, from the exclusive country-clubs of the wealthy to the depths of today's toughest ghettos, this riveting collection traces the triumphs, defeats, and temptations of two opposing sides: those sworn to defend the accused, and those tasked with prosecuting them. They are the stories of lawyers under pressure, of criminals facing the needle, and of the heartbroken families--of both the victim and the defendant--who hope for justice from the back of the courtroom, and who sometimes take it into their own hands....
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