 | Some Assembly Required: A Novel
Release Date: July 1, 2008Thirty-nine-year-old Rose is content with her safe life: both her job writing manuals for appliances and her long-term boyfriend are reasonably satisfying. But when Mr. Almost Right betrays her, Rose decides there has to be more to it than writing succinct descriptions about how to use the timer on a Pause 'n Serve coffeemaker. Lured by the therapeutic promise of Cape Cod's sand, salt, and waves, Rose abandons her careful past and leaves the city far behind. Rose wants only to heal her broken heart. But with the help of a few eccentric neighbors, a fulfilling new jo...
 |  | A Reader's Companion to J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
Publication Date: June 15, 2011This second edition of Peter G. Beidler's Reader's Companion builds on the success of the first edition. It will be an indispensable guide for teachers, students, and general readers who want fully to appreciate Salinger's perennial bestseller. Now six decades old, The Catcher in the Rye contains references to people, places, books, movies, and historical events that will puzzle many twenty-first century readers. This edition includes a new section on reactions to Salinger's death in January, 2010.Beidler provides some 250 explanations to help readers make sens...
|  | Black House
Release Date: September 15, 2001Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer travelled to a parallel universe called The Territories to save his mother and her Territories "twinner" from a premature and agonizing death that would have brought cataclysm to the other world. Now Jack is a retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the nearly nonexistent hamlet of Tamarack, WI. He has no recollection of his adventures in the Territories and was compelled to leave the police force when an odd, happenstance event threatened to awaken those memories.When a series of gruesome murders oc...
|  | The Ice Storm: A Novel
Publication Date: April 10, 2002| Series: Back Bay Books (Series) The year is 1973. As a freak winter storm bears down on an exclusive, affluent suburb in Connecticut, cark skid out of control, men and women swap partners, and their children experiment with sex, drugs, and even suicide. Here two families, the Hoods and the Williamses, com face-to-face with the seething emotions behind the well-clipped lawns of their lives-in a novel widely hailed as a funny, acerbic, and moving hymn to a dazed and confused era of American life. ...
|  | Mind Magic
Publication Date: April 23, 2012*Magical species must never mix.* Accordingto the rules, Simon Osborne should ignore the children's cries for help. After all, they're werewolf cubs, and he's an apprentice mage. But for once in his life, Simon breaks the rules and rescues the cubs, saving them from a demon intent on draining them of their magic. Ofcourse, all actions have consequences, and Simon's bold move earns him the displeasure of his peers and the attention of the cubs' alpha, a man named Gray Townsend. Thelast thing Gray needs is a mage in his life, but Simon did save his son. Since Si...
|  | The Other Kingdom
Publication Date: January 1, 1999Classic running novel about a young miler and his quest for excellence. ...
|  | The Wandering Falcon
Release Date: October 13, 2011A haunting literary debut set in the forbidding remote tribalareas of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Traditions that have lasted for centuries, both brutal and beautiful,createa rigid structure for life in the wild, astonishing place where Iran,Pakistan,and Afghanistan meet-the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). Itis aformidable world, and the people who live there are constantly subjectedtoextremes-of place and of culture.The Wandering Falcon begins with a young couple, refugees fromtheirtribe, who have traveled to the middle of nowhere to escape the cruelp...
|  | Thomas Kyd's Mystery Play (American University Studies IV : English Language and Literature, Vol. 29)
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|  | Das alte und das neue Lied im Ewelande
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|  | St. Augustine's Confessions (CliffsNotes)
Publication Date: April 2, 2004| ISBN-10: 0764544802 | ISBN-13: 978-0764544804| Edition: 1 The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also features glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.CliffsNotes on St. Augustine’s Confessions takes you on a story of conversion – actually several conversions: to Manichaeism; to the pursuit of truth; to an intellectual acceptance of Christianity; and finally...
|  | De Profundis
Publication Date: July 9, 2012This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a broad and representative collection of classic works. ...
|  | El psicoanalista (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: May 30, 2012Este es un thriller fuera de serie. Feliz 53 cumpleanos, doctor. Bienvenido al primer dia de su muerte. Pertenezco a algun momento de su pasado. Usted arruino mi vida. Quiza no sepa como, por que, pero lo hizo. Lleno todos mis instantes de desastre y tristeza. Arruino mi vida.Y ahora estoy decidido a arruinar la suya. Al principio pense que deberia matarlo para ajustarle las cuentas. Pero me di cuenta de que eso era demasiado sencillo. Es un objetivo pateticamente facil, doctor. Acecharlo y matarlo no habria supuesto ningun desafio. Y, dada la facilidad de ese a...
|  | Night Pleasures (Dark-Hunter, Book 2)
Release Date: October 13, 2002Dear Reader,Have you ever wanted to know what it's like to be immortal? To journey through the night stalking the evil that preys on humans? To have unlimited wealth, unlimited power? That is my existence, and it is dark and dangerous. I play hero to thousands, but am known to none. And I love every minutes of it.Or so I thought until one night when I woke up handcuffed to my worst nightmare: a conservative woman in a button-down shirt. Or in Amanda's case, one buttoned all the way up to her chin. She's smart, sexy, witty, and wants nothing to do with the parano...
|  | Bendmore
Publication Date: August 22, 2008Three novellas...The Vampire's Surge..Gracie has been beside Jake through all kinds of crazy schemes throughout their lives, but he's gone too far when he wants to get bitten by a vampire. Then Jake doesn't come home, and Gracie soon she finds herself in over her head when she discovers there's a centuries-old vampire bent on possessing her body and soul. Gracie's got to find the courage to lead vampires, werewolves and other creatures of the night into a fight against a curse that could end all of their lives....Seth's Promise..Seth doesn't take his promise ...
|  | The Broken Window: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel
Release Date: April 28, 2009| Series: Lincoln RhymeBestselling master of suspense Jeffery Deaver is back with a brand-new Lincoln Rhyme thriller.Lincoln Rhyme and partner/paramour Amelia Sachs return to face a criminal whose ingenious staging of crimes is enabled by a terrifying access to information.... When Lincoln's estranged cousin Arthur Rhyme is arrested on murder charges, the case is perfect -- too perfect. Forensic evidence from Arthur's home is found all over the scene of the crime, and it looks like the fate of Lincoln's relative is sealed. At the behest of Arthur's wife, Judy,...
|  | L'Instinct de l'
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|  | Scooby-doo and the Witch Doctor #28 (Scooby-Doo Mysteries)
Publication Date: December 1, 2003| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up SCOOBY-DOO is an 'Ameri-canine' icon, the most beloved cartoon pooch of the past 3 generations. Scooby is in the midst of a huge popularity boom, with new TV episodes and a live-action movie on video.The gang from Mystery, Inc. is in Hawaii, and all Shaggy and Scooby-Doo can think about is going to a luau.But they're soon distracted by a scientist and his secret project - turning volcano soil into valuable gems!But when a spooky witch doctor starts haunting the volcano, Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, Daphne, Velma, and Fred...
|  | Daniel X Game Over
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|  | Stories for a Fragile Planet: Traditional Tales About Caring for the Earth
Publication Date: May 1, 2011| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up Ten sumptuously illustrated stories from different cultures highlight the importance of taking care of the world Sourced from around the world and through the ages, this is a collection of world stories that each reflect humanity's need to take care of the world that sustains them. Tales from ancient Greece, the Far East, the Celts, Africa, Greenland, Russia, China, Japan, South America, and ancient Israel afford wonderful opportunities for Jane Ray's paradisiacal paintings of trees and flowers, animals...
|  | Adventures of Brer Rabbit and Friends
Publication Date: November 1, 2001| Age Level: 9 and up Brer Rabbit is one of the craftiest characters you will ever meet. Locked in an eternal game of catch-me-if-you-can with Brer Fox, Brer Rabbit thinks up the most outrageous tricks to outsmart him time and time again. And when he's not scheming against hungry Brer Fox, Brer Rabbit is busy trying to outwit Brer Weasel, Brer Terrapin, Brer Bear, and all of his other friends just for the fun of it.African-American storyteller Karima Amin's lively retelling of ten classic Brer Rabbit tales is based on the stories that she heard as a child. "...
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