 | Early Bird: A Memoir of Premature Retirement
Publication Date: April 11, 2006In this hilarious and insightful memoir twenty-five-year-old Rodney Rothman, burned out from his big-city life, decides to get a jumpstart on the golden years...four decades before his time. He retires and moves to South Florida and finds an elderly roommate, Leslie, a former piano teacher with cats. Rodney throws himself into the easy life, but soon finds that all the softball, shuffleboard, bingo, gambling cruises, canasta and tennis is, well, exhausting. After his newfound friends get over the oddity of a twenty-something retiree, he becomes one of them, th...
 |  | SatisFaction: Erotic Fantasies for the Advanced & Adventurous Couple
Publication Date: August 14, 2012The New York Times bestselling author of The Vixen Manual is back!And this time, Karrine Steffans gives you a guide to making your wildest sexual fantasies come true.SatisFactionPacked with frank and meaningful discourse, contemplative advice, and page-turning hot-and-sexy fun, SATISFACTION: Erotic Fantasies for the Advanced & Adventurous Couple offers something for everyone.By combining erotic fiction with advice and instruction on how to incorporate these fictional erotic adventures into your committed relationship, Karrine Steffans will teach you how to le...
|  | The Hellbound Heart
Publication Date: September 1, 2008Clive Barker is widely acknowledged as the master of nerve-shattering horror. The Hellbound Heart is one of his best, one of the most dead-frightening stories you are likely to ever read, a story of the human heart and all the great terrors and ecstasies within. It was also the book behind the cult horror film, Hellraiser.In a quiet house on a quiet street Frank and Julia are having an affair. Not your ordinary affair. For Frank it began with his own insatiable sexual appetite, a mysterious lacquered box- and then an unhinged voyage through a netherworld of...
|  | Executive Actions
Publication Date: April 10, 2007When an assassin takes aim at a presidential candidate during a primary stump speech, the outcome of the election is irrevocably changed. But it's not candidate Teddy Lodge, an upcoming media sweetheart, who is killed, but his wife. As a result, Lodge emerges as the man to beat and the greatest threat to the incumbent President Morgan Taylor. Under a specific directive from the President, Special Agent Scott Roarke delves into the case and begins to unravel a deadly plot that has incubated for more than thirty years, a plot designed to alter America's allegian...
|  | The Witness: A Novel
Publication Date: July 31, 2012Jennifer Jeffries is single and the innocent victim of a violent assault. She is forced to deal with her trauma in the company of strangers, since she was in London and not her Houston home when the attack occurred. In addition, she must testify in one of London's Crown Courts against the man who nearly killed her. Her inauspicious circumstances and the intense style of writing create a strong connection with the reader. Strong supporting characters enrich the narrative.No one expected Jenny to survive the physical and emotional trauma she experienced--not the ...
|  | The Worship Drama Library - Volume 11: 12 Sketches for Enhancing Worship
Publication Date: October 1, 1994| Series: The Worship Drama Library (Book 11) (Lillenas Publications). Worship drama has become a viable tool for training and outreach. TheWorship Drama Library Seriesis a premier collection of sketches to use as sermon starters or anytime a thought-provoking dramatic presentation is needed. While such scripts are often written without closure (allowing for a follow-up sermon), open-ended and resolved scripts are both provided, giving them greater versatility. Topics covered in this volume include: envy and bitterness, marriage reconciliation, commitment, se...
|  | The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol (Volume 1)
Publication Date: April 15, 1985| ISBN-10: 0226300684 | ISBN-13: 978-0226300689Nikolai Gogol was an artist who, like Rabelais, Cervantes, Swift, and Sterne, "knew how to walk upside down in our valley of sorrows so as to make it to a merry place." This two-volume edition at last brings all of Gogol's fiction (except his novel Dead Souls) together in paperback. Volume 1 includes Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka, the early Ukrainian folktales that first brought Gogol fame, as well as "Nevsky Prospekt" and "Diary of a Madman.""It is good to have a complete collection of Gogol's tales in pape...
|  | The Kabir Book: Forty-Four of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir
Publication Date: February 1, 1993Forty-four of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir"Kabir's poems give off a marvelous radiant intensity. . . . Bly's versions . . . have exactly the luminous depth that permits and invites many rereadings, many studyings-even then they remain as fresh as ever."-The New York Times Book Review ...
|  | The Elder Edda: A Selection
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|  | Snake at the Wrist: A Collection of Poems
Publication Date: April 1, 2002Poetry. Margaret Kaufman's SNAKE AT THE WRIST is a striking collection of contemplative engagement, at once celebratory and elegiac. Rich images convey a fine attention to the natural world and the inner worlds of a variety of speakers, a prairie woman, a nineteenth century physician, an artist's model, Lot's wife. "Psychologically acute," according to Eleanor Wilner, the poems combine "chastened experience with sensuous relish for the garden of the real." David St. John calls the volume "a gorgeous collection"; Joan Aleshire notes "Kaufman's keen eye, insights...
|  | A Great Time: Children's Poetry In English and Russian
Publication Date: October 1, 2007With children's poetry displayed in Russian and English on the same page, "A Great Time" is an enchanting, poetic foray into a world of imagination in which children are taught timeless truths by bugs, animals, plants, and the sun. These fun-filled, character-building messages spark hope and joy in children, while helping them better understand how precious life is and the importance of friendships, showing courtesy, and sharing with others. The illustrations and poetry richly capture the heart of these simple lessons that are so important to developing in a ...
|  | Love and War: The Civil War Letters and Medicinal Book of Augustus V. Ball
Publication Date: October 25, 2010Love and War: The Civil War Letters and Medicinal Book of Augustus V. Ball is not a typical Civil War letter collection. Ball's circumstances and experiences allowed him to glimpse the war through two sets of eyes, that of a loving husband, and of an increasingly disillusioned physician. The inclusion of Ball's medicinal recipe book is the first of its kind to appear in print completely annotated. Readers will find themselves not only sympathetic to the struggles of one newlywed couple, but educated about the medical and herbal lore of that era. Du...
|  | Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature: Middle English (Oxford 21st Century Approaches)
Publication Date: April 25, 2009| ISBN-10: 0199559392 | ISBN-13: 978-0199559398These original essays mean to provoke rather than reassure, to challenge rather than codify. Instead of summarizing existing knowledge after the fashion of the now-ubiquitous literary 'companions,' these essays aim at opening fresh discussion; instead of emphasizing settled consensus they direct their readers to areas of enlivened and unresolved debate. Although 'major authors' such as Chaucer and Langland are richly represented, many little-known and neglected texts are considered as well. Analysis is devoted...
|  | Once a Pirate
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|  | Partners in Crime: A Tommy and Tuppence Mystery (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries)
Release Date: April 17, 2012| Series: Tommy & Tuppence MysteriesTommy and Tuppence Beresford are restless for adventure, so when they are asked to take over Blunt's International Detective Agency, they leap at the chance. Their first case is a success—the triumphant recovery of a pink pearl. Other cases soon follow—a stabbing on Sunningdale golf course; cryptic messages in the personal columns of newspapers; and even a box of poisoned chocolates. But can they live up to their slogan of "Any case solved in 24 hours"?...
|  | Ultimate X-Men Vol. 9: The Tempest
Publication Date: August 30, 2006| Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Great Fairy Tale Characters Stickers (Dover Little Activity Books Stickers)
Publication Date: May 21, 2009| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Dragon Tooth Trouble
Release Date: October 3, 2006| Age Level: 7 and up Losing a tooth isn't easy--especially when you're a dragon Ginger has a loose tooth, and she is in dragon-size pain. But she will never, never, NEVER go the dentist. So her brothers, Ben and Buster, lasso her and drag her to Dr. Frumble, who fixes her problem right away. But when Dr. Frumble wants to give the boys' mouths a good cleaning, they get all fired up.This charming chapter book is sure to get a smile from any early reader....
|  | The Legend of the King (The Squire's Tales)
Publication Date: September 13, 2010| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Scholastic Reader Level 1: "What Is That?" Said the Cat
Publication Date: June 1, 1998| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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