 | City Girl
Publication Date: December 3, 1998A friendly blonde 'made for loving', a quiet brown-eyed girl of no confidence, and a sexy redhead with wanderlust: Devlin, Caroline and Maggie. Their staunch three-way friendship is born while housesharing and during their twenty-something years it's the only certainty. That, and their status-symbol membership of Dublin's most exclusive health centre for high-profile women: City Girl. For Caroline, life's great purpose is not to be left on the shelf and so she considers resorting to St Jude - the patron saint of hopeless cases. But then God sends her Devlin ...
 |  | Heart Blessings: Choice Gems of Poetry and Prose
Publication Date: 1973Gleaned from many sources by Evangelist Dale Crowley, Washington DC's Radio Ministry. ...
|  | Shadows in Summer: A Novel in Six Voices
Publication Date: December 22, 2009Plagued by dreams of her dead father, Katrina Nielsen returns to her native Denmark to face the ghosts of her past. After seven years in New York, sidelined by a career-ending injury, Katrina is determined to reunite her shattered family. But when she and her American husband, Richard, purchase Sound House, an ordinary-looking home overlooking the water, a series of weird events begins: inexplicable smoke and footsteps, a ghostly face at the window. After she is "pushed" down the cellar stairs by an unseen force, her charming (if slightly creepy) neighbor, ...
|  | Sweet Turnaround J
Publication Date: June 8, 2009"It was going to be the best year of my life. This year we'd go to State and win it all. That's all I thought about. In March, I was going to be cutting down the net and holding a trophy in the air."Sixteen-year-old All-State, Janey Holmes is devastated, her dream shattered. Her old school suddenly closes over the summer and she finds herself at a new school, on a basketball team that hasn't won a game in over three years.As the Riverside Ravens climb from a hopeless start to challenge the best teams in the District, Janey learns what happens when her passion fo...
|  | Buddha Da: A Novel
Publication Date: March 5, 2004Anne Marie's dad, a Glaswegian painter and decorator, has always been game for a laugh. So when he first takes up meditation at the Buddhist Center, no one takes him seriously. But as Jimmy becomes more involved in a search for the spiritual, his beliefs start to come into conflict with the needs of his wife, Liz. Cracks appear in their apparently happy family life, and the ensuing events change the lives of each family member. Donovan completely captures these lives in her clear-eyed, evocative prose, rendered alternately in the voices of each of the main char...
|  | The Complete Poetry of John Milton
Release Date: July 6, 1971The first complete annotated edition of Milton's poetry available in a one-volume paperback. The text is established from original sources, with collations of all known manuscripts, chronology and verbal variants recorded. Works in Latin, Greek and Italian are included with new literal translations. ...
|  | Meleager: The Poems
Publication Date: June 1, 1992| ISBN-10: 0865162549 | ISBN-13: 978-0865162549As a poet and an editor of an anthology that transmitted the poetry of many Hellenistic epigrammists to modern times, Meleager is an important literary figure, and this text provides an excellent introduction to his poetry. The total of 132 epigrams is encompassed in a little more than 800 lines, allowing a complete reading within a reasonable time. The volume includes notes, vocabulary, and proper name and epigram source indices.Also available:Plato: Apology - ISBN 0865163480Dioscorides and Antipater of Sidon: ...
|  | The Columbia Anthology of American Poetry
Publication Date: April 15, 1995In the nineteenth century, Alexis de Tocqueville suggested that the poetry of the new American democratic state, free from the staggering weight of centuries of European aristocracy and tradition, would focus on "man alone... his passions, his doubts, his rare properties and inconceivable wretchedness."For hundreds of years, American poets have presented their various images of the land and its people. But what is "American poetry?" Is there truly such a thing as an American poetic tradition, spanning over nearly four centuries from colonial times to the turn ...
|  | Muza v khrame nauki: Sbornik stikhotvorenii (Russian Edition)
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|  | World Enough & Time, On Creativity and Slowing Down
Publication Date: September 9, 2011World Enough and Time focuses on the positive effect of deliberately simple living on creativity. McEwen juxtaposes religious traditions of both the East and West, and intertwines words of wisdom from writers ranging from Montaigne to Ralph Waldo Emerson and from Virginia Woolf to Jack Kerouac to Adrienne Rich, artists and musicians from John Ruskin to Meredith Monk, and myriad psychologists, linguists, philosophers, and scholars. In so doing, she creates a unique combination of history, spirituality, and practical advice about how to incorporate slowness a...
|  | El enredo de la bolsa y la vida
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|  | Hot Desert Nights: Mistress To A Sheikh\Desert Rake\Blackmailed By The Sheikh
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|  | Lush Life: A Novel
Release Date: March 3, 2009A National BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of the YearLush Life is a tale of two Lower East Sides: one a high-priced bohemia, the other a home to hardship, it's residents pushed to the edges of their time-honored turf. When a cocky young hipster is shot to death by a street kid from the "other" lower east side, the crime ripples through every stratum of the city in this brilliant and kaleidiscopic portrait of the "new" New York. ...
|  | Problem at Pollensa Bay: And 7 Other Mysteries (Mystery Masters)
Publication Date: October 22, 2003| Series: Mystery Masters This spellbinding collection of short stories features three of Christie's top sleuths: her two favorites, Harley Quin and Mr. Parker Pyne, and of course, her most famous creation, Hercule Poirot. Stories include "The Love Detectives," featuring a murder in a library and not one but two confessed killers; "Yellow Iris," in which a murder threatens to duplicate itself four years later; and six more. ...
|  | The Wild Wood Enquiry (Ivy Beasley)
Release Date: May 1, 2012| Series: Ivy Beasley In a brand-new mystery from the author of The Measby Murder Enquiry, the cantankerous golden years gumshoe Ivy Beasley keeps her mental faculties sharp with a strict regimen of crime detection. Apart from the unwelcome noise made by the morning cleaning crew, life has been quiet at Springfields Home for the Elderly. Too quiet, in fact. Ivy and her team of sleuths, Enquire Within, have resorted to finding lost cats, and Gus is even threatening to return to his memoirs. But no sooner does he attempt to put a winning phrase together than...
|  | Golden & Grey: The Nightmares That Ghosts Have (Golden and Grey)
Release Date: October 23, 2007| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | DK Readers: Star Wars: The Adventures of Han Solo
Publication Date: June 20, 2011| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Exiles Vol. 13: World Tour, Book 2 (X-Men) (v. 13, Bk. 2)
Publication Date: November 1, 2006| Grade Level: 4 and up The Exiles are gonna party like it's 2099! The World Tour continues and the Exiles just might happen to pick up another teammate! Our money's on Hulk! Or Skullfire! Plus: What's that? You thought the Exiles World Tour was going to slow down? What are you, an insane person!? It's off to the Squadron Supreme universe for some major butt-kicking! Collects Exiles #75-83. ...
|  | The Great God Pan
Release Date: May 13, 2003| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Pan, both goat and god, is a curious being who roams nature searching, wondering, and frolicking with maenads and satyrs. He plays melodies on his reed flute, wooing animals to listen. He is a creature of mystery and delight. One day in his travels, Pan meets Iphigenia, a human raised as the daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra. Pan is captivated by the young princess. Set against a landscape of myth and legend, Napoli’s latest tale is a love story wrought with sincere emotion and all that is great a...
|  | The Illustrated Treasury of Fairy Tales
Publication Date: September 1, 2003| Grade Level: 3 and up...
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