 | There's a Hair in My Dirt! A Worm's Story
Release Date: October 6, 1999Once upon a time in a place far away, lived a man named Gary Larson who used to draw cartoons. It was a cartoon that appeared for many years in daily newspapers and was loved by millions. (And was confusing to millions more.) But one day he stopped.Gary went into hiding. He made a couple short films. He played his guitar. He threw sticks for his dogs. They threw some back.Yet Gary was restless. He couldn't sleep nights. Something haunted him. (Besides Gramps.) Something that would return him to his roots in biology, drawing and dementia--a tale called There's a H...
 |  | Living Single
Release Date: August 1, 2002This is going to be Erin Weston's year. At thirty-two, she has decided to make a concentrated effort to find The One, though certainly not at the expense of her career in a Boston PR firm. But when she meets the married man-of-her-dreams, she has to figure out how to chase after the real Mr. Right, when Mr. Right - Now has swept her off her feet. Abby Walker is New England's version of a steel magnolia. A hopeless romantic, she has the unwavering determination to make her dream of becoming a wife and mother come true. Plus, she has the looks that make grown men sw...
|  | The Hundred Secret Senses
Release Date: October 17, 1995Kwan, a seventeen-year-old Chinese half-sister, turns young Olivia's world upside down with her stories of ghosts of another time, tales that have a profound impact on Olivia's life and imagination, until she discovers a way to reconcile the ghosts of the past with her dreams of the future. ...
|  | The Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: July 26, 2009| Series: Oxford World's Classics It is one of the most memorable first lines in all of literature: "When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into some kind of monstrous vermin." So begins Kafka's famous short story, The Metamorphosis. Kafka considered publishing it with two of the stories included here in a volume to be called Punishments. The Judgment explores an enigmatic power struggle between a father and son, while In the Penal Colony examines questions of power, justice, punishment, and the meaning of pain in a ...
|  | Woman of the Cloth (Shengold Books)
Publication Date: July 21, 1998| Series: Shengold Books In a Washington, D.C. congregation torn by several scandals, young ambitious Associate Rabbi Gabby Lewyn, seeks to restore the congregation's shattered confidence in its religious leaders.As one of the growing numbers of female rabbis in the country, Gabby finds herself defending her credentials and her gender to a shaken congregation and community, risking her career and her personal happiness for the ideals ofher profession. ...
|  | Return to Atlantis: A Novel
Release Date: August 28, 2012American archaeologist Nina Wilde and her husband, ex-SAS bodyguard Eddie Chase, are back for another heart-stopping, globe-spanning adventure in the latest New York Times bestselling series that “raises the bar to please adventure junkies who prefer to mainline their action” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). A MISSING SCRAP OF ANCIENT PARCHMENT.THREE POLISHED PURPLE STONES.AND FROM THE SUNKEN WORLD OF ATLANTIS:THE GREATEST POWER ON EARTH. Nina Wilde and Eddie Chase have stunned the world with their discoveries, from the legenda...
|  | Magic of the Heart
Publication Date: January 12, 2010Financial executive Susan Hettinger and wild, impulsive rock star MJ Carson couldn’t be more different if they tried—but opposites attract in ways neither can resist.Rock star Maggie “MJ” Carson has heard a thousand I-Love-You’s. People always want something for nothing from her, and she long ago decided it was better to use than be used. On a plane trip from hell, she’s seated next to an attractive woman and turns on her irresistible charm, expecting the usual weak-kneed compliance. But Susan doesn’t know who her...
|  | Body of Water: The Orcadian Novels (Volume 1)
Publication Date: May 3, 2012| Series: Orcadian Novels The #1 Kindle Gay Fiction Best Seller, now available in print, is the first novel in the Orcadian Trilogy, and 1 of 10 books long-listed for the Polari First Book Prize for a first book which explores the LGBT experience: “Fear the water.” Leven has never forgotten his mother’s terrible warning. So how can he explain his strange attraction to water, his powerful sensitivity to it, his extraordinary ability to swim as though possessed? Water is Leven’s natural element. And it’s water that takes the one h...
|  | Murder In Miniature: THE SHORT STORIES OF LEO BRUCE (Carolus Deene Series)
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|  | Blake and Freud
Publication Date: October 1980Examines Blake and Freud's" mappings of the human psyche". This book was praised by Harold Bloom when it first appeared. ...
|  | Moonlight - Acting Edition
Publication Date: October 1, 1995Published to coincide with its world premiere at the Almeida Theatre in London, this play explores relationships within the family, and our own particular and individual understanding of such communal history. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
|  | Sand and Foam and Other Poems
Publication Date: June 1, 2010An attractive new edition of Khalil Gibran's "Sand and Foam" as well as many other poems. ...
|  | Collected Poems of Vernon Watkins
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| | Poeticheskoe rechevoe myshlenie (Russian Edition)
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|  | X Marks the Spot: Women Writers Map the Empire for British Children, 1790-1895
Publication Date: April 13, 2010During the nineteenth century, geography primers shaped the worldviews of Britain’s ruling classes and laid the foundation for an increasingly globalized world. Written by middle-class women who mapped the world that they had neither funds nor freedom to traverse, the primers employed rhetorical tropes such as the Family of Man or discussions of food and customs in order to plot other cultures along an imperial hierarchy. Cross-disciplinary in nature, X Marks the Spot is an analysis of previously unknown material that examines the interplay between gend...
|  | The Fortunes of Apuleius and the "Golden Ass": A Study in Transmission and Reception (Martin Classical Lectures, New Series)
Publication Date: January 3, 2008| ISBN-10: 0691131368 | ISBN-13: 978-0691131368This book traces the transmission and reception of one of the most influential novels in Western literature. The Golden Ass, the only ancient Roman novel to survive in its entirety, tells of a young man changed into an ass by magic and his bawdy adventures and narrow escapes before the goddess Isis changes him back again. Its centerpiece is the famous story of Cupid and Psyche. Julia Gaisser follows Apuleius' racy tale from antiquity through the sixteenth century, tracing its journey from roll to codex in fou...
|  | The Virgin Sacrifice
Publication Date: October 19, 2005The Virgin Sacrifice concerns the fate ofayoung woman who inheritsproperty on anisland off the coast of Maine. The source of the inheritance, a reclusive old woman and distant relative, is unknown to her. Because of personal problems at work where she is a fashion design assistant, her depression over the fact that her fiancé is missing in Vietnam, and her desire to become more fully developed as an artist, she leaves New York for Maine. There she finds herself becoming involved with the long-dead owner of the house, the father of the woman who willed i...
|  | Flashgun Casey, Crime Photographer: From the Pulps to Radio And Beyond
Publication Date: November 11, 2011All there is to know about the crime fighting hero created by mystery writer George Harmon Coxe -- from his debut in Black Mask, the popular 1930s pulp magazine, to his 10 year stint on radio, his short lived television career plus his exploits in the movies, novels, comic books and a play. Includes the complete very first Casey short story, "Return Engagement," that appeared in Black Mask, synopses of ALL 21 Casey short stories and novelettes, 6 novels, 4 comic books, 2 films and a play, 2 uncirculated radio scripts, a complete Program Log for radio series...
|  | Urashima and the Kingdom Beneath the Sea (Kodansha Children's Classics)
Publication Date: January 16, 2001| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Miro in the Kingdom of the Sun
Publication Date: April 1, 1996| Age Level: 5 and up A lyrical retelling of an Incan folktale. ...
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