 | The Angel of Forgetfulness
Publication Date: July 25, 2006T.C. Boyle meets Isaac Bashevis Singer in a virtuoso act of storytellingIn his rollicking, colorful new novel, the celebrated Jewish American author Steve Stern interweaves three narratives about characters—two men and an angel—who take flight from their ordinary lives and are plunged into extraordinary circumstances. The story leaps through time and space from the Lower East Side of 1910 New York to Prague’s famous medieval synagogue, the Altneushul, to a 1960s hippie commune in Arkansas. Stern has created a luminous triumph of the storyteller&#...
 |  | Plum Set 4, Books 10-12 (Ten Big Ones / Eleven on Top / Twelve Sharp (Stephanie Plum Novels)
Release Date: June 19, 2007| Series: Stephanie Plum Novels Ten Big OnesShe's accidentally destroyed a dozen cars. She's a target for every psycho and miscreant this side of the Jersey Turnpike. He mother's convinced she'll end up dead...or worse, without a man. She's Stephanie Plum and she kicks butt for a living (well, she thought it would sound good to put it that way...)It begins as an innocent trip to the deli-mart, on a quest for nachos. But Stephanie Plum and her partner, Lula, are clearly in the wrong place at the wrong time. A robbery leads to an explosion, which leads to the destruc...
|  | The Shadow Within (Legends of the Guardian-King, Book 2)
Publication Date: August 1, 2004Legends of the Guardian King, book 2, from the award-winning author of Arena. Karen Hancock brings to imaginative life the supernatural battle between good and evil, the preconceptions that keep us from embracing truth, and the distortions that trick and trap us. Four years have passed since the conclusion of The Light of Eidon. Abramm has been living peacefully abroad, but when he hears of trouble in his homeland, he returns to claim the crown he thought he'd never wear. But he has many enemies, including his murderous brother. The only thing that will save h...
|  | Judge (Books of the Infinite)
Publication Date: November 1, 2012| Series: Books of the Infinite (Book 2) A Fantasy Saga Fueled by Adventure and FaithThe last thing Kien Lantec expects on his first day of military leave is to receive marching orders from his Creator, the Infinite. Orders that don't involve destroyer-racing or courting the love of his life, Ela. Adding to Kien's frustration, his Infinite-ordained duties have little to do with his skills as a military judge-in-training. His mission? To warn the people of ToronSea against turning their backs to the Infinite to worship a new goddess.But why Kien? Isn't this t...
|  | Shall We Tell the President?
Release Date: December 30, 2008After years of great sacrifice and deep personal tragedy, Florentyna Kane’s has finally become the first woman president in America. But on the very day that she is sworn into office, powerful forces are already in motion to take her life.The FBI investigates thousands of false threats every year. This time, a reliable source has tipped them off about an assassination attempt. One hour later, the informant and all but one of the investigating agents are dead. The lone survivor: FBI Special Agent Mark Andrews. Now, only he knows when the killers will ...
|  | The Little Death
Publication Date: October 1, 2003Henry Rios is introduced as a troubled San Francisco public defender battling alcoholism and burnout. While investigating the murder of an old friend, he traces clues back to the man’s own wealthy family. It is here that we first encounter Henry Rios’s struggle to maintain his faith in a legal system caught between justice and corruption, a theme that will continue throughout the series. ...
|  | (Un)Masked
Publication Date: August 17, 2012Jay Walker has two wishes: to perform the play of his dreams alongside his best friend at Wellington's Downstage Theatre, and to meet that special someone. Someone he'd go to the ends of the earth for. Someone who might only exist in fairy tales. When Jay meets accordion busker Lethe Cross, it's like living a dream come true. Lethe's music captivates Jay, and he resolves to meet the man who plays so beautifully. But then he discovers Lethe's life is more like a nightmare. The phrase "down on his luck" can't begin to cover it. Determined to help, Jay does some...
|  | With Fire and Sword (The Trilogy, Book I)
Publication Date: April 1991This powerful novel, "a Polish Gone with the Wind" (New York Times Book Review), is set in the 17th century and follows the struggle of the kingdom of Poland to maintain its unity in the face of the Cossack-led peasant rebellion. Foreword by James Michener. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Images of Afghanistan: Exploring Afghan Culture through Art and Literature
Publication Date: September 6, 2010Images of Afghanistan provides the first-ever overview of the art and literature of Afghanistan. 32 chapters on art, music, film, proverbs, short stories, poetry, cartoons, and folktales in popular style offer key insights into the complexities of Afghan culture. The book is divided into seven sections. Introductory chapters focus on the history of Afghanistan and understanding culture through art and literature. A Dari Literature section covers classical and modern poetry, short stories, proverbs and children's rhymes. A Pashto Literature section includes ...
|  | Kool Logic/La logica kool
Publication Date: March 1, 2005The poems in this bilingual collection trace the "kool logic" of culture in transit. Scuttling from free verse and limericks to décimas and terza rima, the poet is our guide in a transcultural tour through downtowns, suburbs, stockyards, shantytowns, power lunches, HMOs, open mics, and open sores. The voice is formal and formless, tuned to misery and parody. This is poetry as prism and as prison. The breeding ground for a new, polyphonic brand of flâneur. Fusing pop riffs, Beat whimsy, Nuyorican punch lines, and modernist deadpan, the poet in these pa...
|  | Antologia Poetica (Poetas Argentinos Contemporeaneos) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Among My Books
Publication Date: October 9, 2008This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. ...
|  | Modernism (A Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages)
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|  | Jack Kerouac: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies)
Publication Date: August 30, 2004| Series: Greenwood Biographies From relative obscurity, even at the time of his death in 1969, Jack Kerouac has risen to icon status with invigorated interest at all levels of scholarship and readership. This biography serves an important purpose in cutting through both the hagiography and the critical backlash that still surrounds the figure most closely identified with the Beat movement. Using the same structure—the events of his life— that Kerouac himself utilized in writing his roman a clef novels such as On the Road, this biography provide...
|  | Lee and Jackson's Bloody Twelfth: The Letters of Irby Goodwin Scott, First Lieutenant, Company G, Putnam Light Infantry, Twelfth Georgia Volunteer Infantry (Voices Of The Civil War)
Publication Date: October 15, 2010| Series: Voices Of The Civil WarOffering a fascinating look at an ordinary soldier's struggle to survive not only the horrors of combat but also the unrelenting hardship of camp life, Lee and Jackson's Bloody Twelfth brings together for the first time the extant correspondence of Confederate lieutenant Irby Goodwin Scott, who served in the hard-fighting Twelfth Georgia Infantry.The collection begins with Scott's first letter home from Richmond, Virginia, in June 1861, and ends with his last letter to his father in February 1865. Scott miraculously compl...
|  | A Fistful of Charms (The Hollows, Book 4)
Release Date: June 27, 2006 The evil night things that prowl Cincinnati despise witch and bounty hunter Rachel Morgan. Her new reputation for the dark arts is turning human and undead heads alike with the intent to possess, bed, and kill her -- not necessarily in that order. Now a mortal lover who abandoned Rachel has returned, haunted by his secret past. And there are those who covet what Nick possesses -- savage beasts willing to destroy the Hollows and everyone in it if necessary. Forced to keep a low profile or eternally suffer the wrath of a vengeful demon, Rachel must nevertheless ...
|  | Off World 2: Sanctuary
Publication Date: August 6, 2008Vigilant crewmember Sandy D'abu stays behind on Doradus station to mind the crew's new secure cargo business while the rest of the guys take the spaceship out on a run. There isn't a lot for him to do, so he spends his evenings at Durty Nelly's, keeping an eye on bartender Alex, a former pleasure slave a few of his crewmates feel responsible for. When the man who made Alex's a pleasure slave back on Earth suddenly turns up as part-owner of the sex club, Sandy agrees to help Alex out by pretending to be his boyfriend. After all, what are a few kisses among frie...
|  | Tales Told in Tents: Stories from Central Asia
Publication Date: November 18, 2004Why are some carpets magic? What is a wish tree? And where can the fountain of eternal life be found? Internationally acclaimed storyteller Sally Pomme Clayton provides the answers to these and many other intriguing questions in this enchanted journey through Central Asia. Traveling through the region herself, she accumulated a wealth of folklore and knowledge of nomadic cultures. Now, retracing her steps through Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan, the author recounts 12 exotic tales that were shared with her in st...
|  | Cam Newton (Football's Rising Stars)
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| | Ulouba: Level 1 (Zulu Edition)
Publication Date: December 31, 2002ULouba uhlala elokishini lase N'Djamena elibizwa ngokuthi iDoumpa. Impilo lapho ayilula ngaso sonke isikhathi, kodwa unabangani, ibhola lakhe lezinyawo kanye nephupho lakhe. Louba lives in a part of N'Djamena called Doumpa. Life there is not always easy, but he has his friends, his soccer and his dream. ...
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