 | The Boomer Bible
Publication Date: January 10, 1991In the beginning there was the Holy Bible2 Which was a very good book indeed, but so many things happened since the beginning,3 That Maybe it was time for another bible,4 So a punk from Philadelphia wrote a new one,5 And so it is called The Boomer Bible,6 So there.7 And Its Past Testament tells the history of the world, including the Book of Greeks, Book of Brits, Book of Yanks, Book of Russkies, and all the other self-proclaimed Chosen Nations,8 And people sticking each other with pointed sticks, and acting up, which is called civilization,9 And also about ...
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|  | Bridesmaid, The (Home to Hickory Hollow)
Release Date: September 11, 2012| Series: Home to Hickory Hollow (Book 2) The Latest in Chart-Topping Amish Fiction from Beverly LewisTwenty-seven-year-old Joanna Kurtz has made several trips to the altar, but never as a bride. The single young Amishwoman is a closet writer with a longing to be published something practically unheard of in her Lancaster County community. Yet Joanna's stories aren't her only secret. She also has a beau who is courting her from afar, unbeknownst even to her sister, Cora, who, though younger, seems to have suitors to spare. Eben Troyer is a responsible young Am...
|  | Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English: A Novel
Publication Date: June 21, 2010At the outset of World War II, Jack Rosenblum, his wife Sadie, and their baby daughter escape Berlin, bound for London. They are greeted with a pamphlet instructing immigrants how to act like "the English." Jack acquires Saville Row suits and a Jaguar. He buys his marmalade from Fortnum & Mason and learns to list the entire British monarchy back to 913 A.D. He never speaks German, apart from the occasional curse. But the one key item that would make him feel fully British -membership in a golf club-remains elusive. In post-war England, no golf club will admit a...
|  | House Under Snow
Publication Date: July 23, 2002A first novel by an acclaimed American poet, House Under Snow is a storyof mothers and daughters, of sexual identity, of a family slowly disintegrating after the premature death of its patriarch. Anna Crane, soon to be married, reflects back on her childhood in Ohio during the 1960s and '70s with her two sisters and her charismatic, self-destructing mother. Evoking the claustrophobia of small-town life, Anna's first passionate love affair with a troubled boy who works as a groom and trainer at a horse track, and her mother's endless stream of suitors and a fail...
|  | Blazing Baptists
Publication Date: December 28, 2011Widower Reverend Mortimer J. Fenwick is called upon to perform a personal exorcism on the best-looking young matron in the county.The dowager empress of the town has designs on Mort, finds out about it and wants her own during which she and Mort fall into sin thus requiring their nuptials. Then the fun begins only for a shocking ending. ...
|  | The Dinosaur Hunter: A Novel
Release Date: November 9, 2010"A fascinating thriller, well crafted and relentless ... A cross between Tony Hillerman and Larry McMurtry, this is one hell of a good read.”--Douglas Preston, author of Tyrannosaur Canyon and BlasphemyThe cowboys who work on the ranchlands of Montana expect more than their fair share of trouble. One of them is Mike Wire, a former homicide detective. Mike is about to learn murder and mayhem can happen under Motnana's big skies, too. Beneath the earth lie enough dinosaur fossils to fill several museum collections---and make a fortune for whoever claims them...
|  | Mouse Hunter: Trapping Bioterrorists
Publication Date: August 19, 2011Mouse Hunter is a continuation of the author's earlier books regarding the lives ofsurgeon Mark Telfair and his sexy nurse-wife, Anne. Both have now retired from active practice to relax on the Georgia coast in rural McIntosh County.The bliss of retirement becomes disrupted when the couple first finds themselves trapped in WITSEC, a federalwitness protection program. Now living like Gypsies, and filled with boredom, they aimlessly roam the U.S. in their RV ...until they find themselves assisting the FBI's Counterterrorism Division. Their attempt at stoppinga ...
|  | Iron Tigers
Release Date: August 3, 2004From the bestselling author of Tin Soldiers torn from tomorrow's headlines-a cutting edge novel of a new World War. In the wake of the second Gulf War comes the revelation of shifting alliances in the Middle East. In Iraq, a stable new government has become a major global player rich with oil. OPEC has been redefined and the Saudis are left standing on the sidelines. But Russia is in turmoil. A hard-line Communist is in control, vowing to return Russia to its former power. His first move is to coerce the Saudi Crown Prince into a coalition to corner the world's oi...
|  | The Last Hiccup: A Novel
Publication Date: April 1, 2012Set in 1930s Russia, this darkly humorous, tragic, and ultimately heroic novel tells the tale of Vladimir, an eight-year-old Russian boy suddenly stricken with a chronic case of the hiccups. He soon finds himself spirited away to a Moscow hospital by the famous physician Sergei Namestikov, who puts him through a series of extraordinary—and often bizarre—treatments in an effort to find a cure. When Sergei’s chief medical rival, the brilliant Alexander Afiniganov, discovers that beneath Vladimir’s blank eyes lurks a pure, unbridled evil, he ...
|  | Romeo and Juliet
Publication Date: March 17, 2010William Shakespeare's passionate tale of two young lovers whose relationship is doomed from the start due to their families-the Capulets and the Montagues-being mortal enemies. ...
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|  | The Epic of The Cid
Publication Date: March 15, 2011| ISBN-10: 1603843159 | ISBN-13: 978-1603843157Translated and Edited, with an Introduction, by Michael Harney.The Epic of the Cid records the deeds of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, the Cid of history and legend. A powerful warrior in the Christian reconquest of medieval Spain, a formidable strategist, and a charismatic leader, the Cid deeply impressed his contemporaries, both Christian and Muslim. Already, in his lifetime, songs, stories, and chronicles were devoted to his exploits.In offering both a highly readable, colloquial prose translation of El Cantar...
|  | En verso y prosa: Antologia / In Verse and Prose: An Anthology (Real Academia Espanola) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: May 17, 2010| Series: Real Academia Espanola A Commemorative Edition of the Royal Spanish Academy and the Association of Spanish Language AcademiesThis definitive anthology of the works of Gabriela Mistral gathers published and unpublished works as well as other writings that had never previously been gathered together. This commemorative edition is complemented with studies conducted by academics from different countries as well as specialists of Mistral s work. It also includes an essential biography, a glossary of the narrative voices used in the author s novel, and an i...
|  | Poems from the Madhouse YA Edition
Publication Date: November 1, 2002A powerful collection of poetry about schizophrenia, with an introduction for young people, discussing the causes/effects. ...
|  | Reading With Lincoln
Publication Date: September 3, 2010 Through extensive reading and reflection, Abraham Lincoln fashioned a mind as powerfully intellectual and superlatively communicative as that of any other American political leader. Reading with Lincoln uncovers the how of Lincoln’s inspiring rise to greatness by connecting the content of his reading to the story of his life.At the core of Lincoln’s success was his self-education, centered on his love of and appreciation for learning through books. From his early studies of grammar school handbooks and children’s classics to his interest ...
|  | Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper
Publication Date: November 1, 2010Winner of the 2010 Guardian First Book Award: a groundbreaking reassessment of English cultural life in the thirties and forties.In the 1930s and 1940s, while the battles for modern art and modern society were being fought in Paris and Spain, it seemed to some a betrayal that John Betjeman and John Piper were in love with a provincial world of old churches and tea shops.Alexandra Harris tells a different story: eclectically, passionately, wittily, urgently, English artists were exploring what it meant to be alive at that moment and in England. They showed ...
|  | Mystery Women: An Encyclopedia of Leading Women Characters in Mystery Fiction, Vol.1 (1860-1979) Revised
Publication Date: May 2001Many bibliographers focus on women who write. Lawyer Barnett looks at women who detect, at women as sleuths and at the evolving roles of women in professions and in society. Excellent for all women's studies programs as well as for the mystery hound. ...
|  | Giant Sticker Activity First Words
Release Date: July 28, 2005| Age Level: 3 and up...
|  | R My Name Is Rachel
Release Date: July 24, 2012| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Rachel, Cassie, and Joey live in the city with their Pop, until Pop's search for work lands the family on a run down farm. Dreamy Rachel loves to read, and doesn't know much about the country. Times are hard there, too—the school and library are closed. When Pop gets work near Canada, he has to leave the children on the farm alone. For two months! But Rachel's the oldest, and she'll make sure they're all right. Somehow.From the Hardcover edition. ...
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