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| | Nice to Come Home To Publication Date: April 10, 2008A funny, entertaining novel of love and family for our times: a single woman who fears she's lost her chance at a family of her own, begins to accumulate an ad hoc one around her.In the tradition of Elinor Lipman or Marisa de los Santos (Love Walked In), Flowers delivers a smart, witty, appealing story of love, family, and community that breaks the mold of the conventional love story-and will have readers cheering.Everyone around Prudence Whistler, thirty-six, seems to be settling down. Her once single girlfriends have married and had babies. Her gay best ...
| | Distant Echoes (Aloha Reef Series #1) Publication Date: May 31, 2005In the land of aloha and paradise, dark secrets lurk just below the surface. When a tragic accident downs a tourist boat off the coast of Hawaii, dolphin researcher Kaia Oana is one of the first in the water, risking her own life to try and save others. She’s enlisted to help the U.S. Navy find out what really happened – utilizing her specially trained dolphins to help Kaia and Lieutenant Commander Jesse Matthews team up in the investigation – but as they edge closer to the truth about the incident, their own lives are threatened. Will...
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| | Something in the Blood (Severn House British Mysteries (Hardcover)) Publication Date: September 1, 2007| Series: Severn House British Mysteries (Hardcover) The launch of a new mystery series set in Bath - Honey Driver runs a hotel in Bath. As boss shes in charge one day and washing dishes the next, resisting her mothers match-making attempts and managing multiple responsibilities. Then one day things change. Honey lands the job of liaising with the police on behalf of Bath Hotels Association. And when an American tourist goes missing, Honey is called in to help . . . ...
| | Whatever Makes You Happy: A Novel Release Date: April 14, 2009“An excellent comic novel that interweaves the romance, humor, and pathos of three complicated families.”—Publishers Weekly Three suburban moms who have long been friends decide to show up unannounced at the homes of their thirty-something layabout sons. Their goal: to swoop in and set things right. The result: a hilarious mix that will resonate with mothers who can’t turn a blind eye and their adult sons who can’t quite get it together. ...
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| | Great Occasions: Readings for the Celebration of Birth, Coming-Of-Age, Marriage, and Death Publication Date: January 1, 2003Birth, maturity, marriage and death: These are the four cornerstones of human life, the great occasions. Over 650 memorable selections to commemorate the milestones of life. Poetry and prose from a broad spectrum of highly regarded writers, including Aiken, Pound, Dickinson, Seneca, Blake, Buddha, Bronte, Marcuse, Stevens, Sexton, Tagore, Lippman, Sandburg, Sarton, Pasternak, Lao Tzu, Yevtushenko, Yeats and many more.This treasury of words pays tribute to the watershed events of life. Prose and poetry selections are sorted by the occasion they...
| | Washed by the Gulf Stream: The Historic and Geographic Relation of Irish and Caribbean Literature Publication Date: December 1, 2008This is an historically comparative postcolonial study asserting the dialogic relation between Irish and Caribbean narrative form, relating Irish Big House and Caribbean Plantation novels, the "errantry" of Joyce's and Walcott's epic geographies, and the transition from traditional bildungsroman modes of exile to contemporary memoirs of 'diseased' emigration. The book focuses on the demise of empire and the role of geography in creating an "island imaginary" for writers from James Joyce and Jean Rhys to Jamaica Kincaid and Frank McCourt. The complex interpla...
| | Women on the Edge: Four Plays by Euripides (New Classical Canon) Publication Date: December 24, 1998| ISBN-10: 0415907748 | ISBN-13: 978-0415907743Women on the Edge, a collection of Alcestis, Medea, Helen, and Iphegenia at Aulis, provides a broad sample of Euripides' plays focusing on women, and spans the chronology of his surviving works, from the earliest, to his last, incomplete, and posthumously produced masterpiece. Each play shows women in various roles--slave, unmarried girl, devoted wife, alienated wife, mother, daughter--providing a range of evidence about the kinds of meaning and effects the category woman conveyed in ancient Athens. The fem...
| | Poetic License: Essays on Modernist and Postmodernist Lyric ...
| | Merlin's Disciples: Prophecy, Poetry, and Power in Renaissance England ...
| | El llano en llamas/ The Burned Plain (Idiomas Y Literatura) (Spanish Edition) Publication Date: January 3, 2006| Series: Idiomas Y Literatura En 1953, dos anos antes de Pedro Paramo, salio a la luz una recopilacion de cuentos con el titulo de El Llano en llamas. Los lectores del momento, como los de ahora, sintieron nacer en su interior las preguntas: Quien es Juan Rulfo? Por que escribe lo que escribe, tanta desolacion, esa prosa tan severa y cargada de dolores, soledad y violencia? Esta edicion ofrece el texto definitivo de El Llano en llamas corregido por la Fundacion Juan Rulfo ...
| | 4 Bodies and a Funeral (Body Movers, Book 4) Publication Date: April 1, 2009Ever had one of those days? A surprise visit from her fatherwho's on the run from the lawhas given Carlotta Wren a lot to think about. Should she join her former fiancé, Peter, in proving her father is innocent? If she does, are her body-moving days over? And then
A close friend's behavior begins to spin out of control
The cops turn up the heat on her father's case
Carlotta discovers that her brother Wesley's gambling debts are child's play compared to his new vice
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| | Scandalous Release Date: September 27, 2005Katherine Fleming has lived her life without even a hint of indiscretion. So she is devastated to discover the nobleman she's engaged to has a secret he's kept from her: a wife! Suddenly Katherine's enmeshed in a scandal that has the ton buzzing—and forced to accept a most unconventional proposal from the notorious seducer Dominic Mallory, her faithless fiancé's brother
and precisely the sort of rake she has sworn to avoid!Charming and dangerously sensual, Dominic has desired the stunning beauty from the first moment he spied her. Now, with ...
| | The Second Comings Publication Date: August 1999Clone the DNA of Jesus? The facts in this thoughtful technothriller are clear but, what really happened? ...
| | Hide My Eyes: Albert Campion #16 Publication Date: November 16, 2010| Series: Albert Campion (Book 16) Returning to the darker themes of Tiger in the Smoke, Allingham introduces a serial killer who is haunting London's Theatreland. The sparring between Sergeant Luke (who thinks he's got the case sewn up) and Albert Campion (who wonders what the old couple on the bus saw) is sparkling as ever, but readers will note that Allingham was shifting toward psychological themes that put her in the company of Ruth Rendell and Patricia Highsmith. ...
| | The Knight And The Dragon (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) Publication Date: February 1, 1998| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A knight who has never fought a dragon and an equally inexperienced dragon prepare to meet each other in battle. ...
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