 | Beautiful, Dirty, Rich: A Novel
Release Date: July 3, 2012A gripping new novel from bestselling author J.D. Mason about a wealthy Texas family and the one woman who holds— and will reveal—all their dirty secrets Desdimona Green has been the name on everyone’s lips in Blink, Texas. Twenty-five years ago, at the age of eighteen, she shot and killed one of the wealthiest men and pillars of the community, oil baron Julian Gatewood. The Gatewood family was considered untouchable, so the whole state of Texas was rocked to its core over Julian’s murder. They were even more shocked to discov...
 |  | The Niagara River: Poems (Grove Press Poetry)
Publication Date: August 17, 2005| Series: Grove Press Poetry In the citation accompanying Kay's recent award of the prestigious Ruth Lilly Prize, Christine Wiman wrote: "Kay Ryan can take any subject and make it her own. Her poems-which combine extreme concision and formal expertise with broad subjects and deep feeling-could never be mistaken for anyone else's. Her work has the kind of singularity and sustained integrity that are very, very rare…. It's always a dicey business predicting the literary future…[but] for this reader, these poems feel as if there were built to last, and...
|  | Vietnam War: Primary Sources
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|  | Crackpots: A Novel
Publication Date: August 17, 2003When we first meet Ruby Reese she’s a spunky kid in a cowgirl hat, tap dancing her way through a slightly off-kilter 1950s childhood. With an insomniac mother and a demolitions-expert father, her entire family is what the residents of her small town would call "a bunch of crackpots."Despite the dramas of her upbringing, Ruby matures into a creative, introspective, and wholly beguiling woman. But her adulthood is marked by complex relationships and romantic missteps -- three unsuitable marriages, dramatic crushes, the complicated love between siblings. A...
|  | Smoke and Ashes
Publication Date: June 6, 2006Fledgling wizard Tony is now an assistant director on "Darkest Night," the syndicated TV series about a vampire detective. But it's hard to concentrate on the latest episode when a Demonic Convergence is allowing lesser demons entry to our world, and the sexy stuntwoman, Leah, is also an immortal Demongate whose death would open the way to unimaginable peril. Can Tony halt the Convergence, keep Leah alive, and still have a career? Or will his artistic ambitions-not to mention the rest of the world-go up in smoke? ...
|  | The Monster of Frankenstein
Release Date: July 25, 2006The early 1950s were the Golden Age of horror comics.One of the most legendary titles of the era was Dick Briefer’s MONSTER OF FRANKENSTEIN, the first continuing series to feature a creature of darkness in a starring role.Veteran comics pro Briefer pulled out all the stops to create a truly great version of the Frankenstein Monster.Now, over a half-century later, these timeless, hard-hitting tales are collected for the first time in a big bonanza volume to delight monster lovers and comics fans alike.Combining bold visual flair and inventiveness with impress...
|  | Ruler of the World: Empire of the Moghul
Release Date: July 3, 2012| Series: Empire of the Moghul Alex Rutherford’s internationally bestselling series continues with the story of the third great Moghul Emperor, Akbar, leader of a triumphant dynasty that contained the seeds of its own destruction.Akbar, ruler of a sixth of the world's people, colossally rich and utterly ruthless, was a contemporary of Elizabeth I, but infinitely more powerful. He extended his empire over much of Asia, skillfully commanding tens of thousands of men, elephants, and innovative technology. And despite the unimaginable bloodshed ...
|  | Murder at the Nightwood Bar: A Kate Delafield Mystery
Publication Date: August 1, 2003| Series: A Kate Delafield Mystery When Katherine V. Forrest’s Amateur City was published in 1984, introducing LAPD detective Kate Delafield, it not only marked the beginning of one of mystery fiction’s most successful series, it also created one of the most lucrative genres in gay publishing: the lesbian mystery. With her next six Kate Delafield novels, Forrest’s complex and determined lesbian detective became the most celebrated figure in lesbian fiction. Alyson is proud to present the first and second Kate Delafield mysteries, back in p...
|  | Caballos salvajes / Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: July 15, 2010For the first 10 years of her life, Lily Casey Smith, the narrator of this true-life novel by her granddaughter, Walls, lived in a dirt dugout in west Texas. Walls, whose mega selling memoir, The Glass Castle, recalled her own upbringing, writes in what she recalls as Lily's plainspoken voice, whose recital provides plenty of drama and suspense as she ricochets from one challenge to another. Having been educated in fits and starts because of her parents' penury, Lily becomes a teacher at age 15 in a remote frontier town she reaches after a solo 28-day ride. Mar...
|  | 2666: A Novel
Publication Date: September 1, 2009Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño s life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes academics and convicts, an American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student and her widowed, mentally unstable father. Their lives intersect in the urban sprawl of Santa Teresa a fictional Juárez on the U.S.-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel a...
|  | Mythical Trickster Figures: Contours, Contexts, and Criticisms
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|  | Romulus
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|  | E.E.Cummings: A Selection of Poems
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|  | Zametki, zapisi, shtrikhi-- (Russian Edition)
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|  | Tales of Arthur: Adventure Stories from the Arthurian Legend
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|  | All a Cowboy Wants for Christmas: Waiting for Christmas\His Christmas Wish\Once Upon a Frontier Christmas (Harlequin Historical)
Publication Date: September 18, 2012| Series: Harlequin Historical (Book 1107) Waiting for Christmas by Judith StacyMarlee Carrington has never had a place to call home.Arriving in Harmony, Texas, she is thrown together with Scrooge-like Carson Tate. Amazingly, he reveals a seductive sense of fun—and Marlee begins to hope that Christmas has finally arrived!His Christmas Wish by Lauri RobinsonMorgan and Cora Palmer are married on paper, but in reality they're like strangers. Taciturn rancher Morgan's demons have barricaded his heart against his wife's love. Until a kiss ignit...
|  | Priest
Release Date: January 22, 2008Ireland, awash with cash and greed, no longer turns to the church for solace or comfort. But the decapitation of Father Joyce in a Galway confessional horrifies even the most jaded citizen.Jack Taylor, devastated by the recent trauma of personal loss, has always believed himself to be beyond salvation. But a new job offers a fresh start, and an unexpected partnership provides hope that his one desperate vision--of family--might yet be fulfilled.An eerie mix of exorcism, a predatory stalker, and unlikely attraction conspires to lure him into a murderous web of da...
|  | Women of Mystery: The Lives and Works of Notable Women Crime Novelists
Publication Date: December 11, 2000In this remarkable book, Martha Hailey DuBose has given those multitudes of readers who love the mystery novel an indispensable addition to their libraries.Unlike other works on the subject, Women of Mystery is not merely a directory of the novelists and their publications with a few biographical details. DuBose combines extensive research into the lives of significant women mystery writers from Anna Katherine Green and Mary Roberts Rinehart with critical essays on their work, anecdotes, contemporary reviews and opinions and some of the women's own comments...
|  | Princess Tea Parties: Royal Gatherings for Little Ladies
Publication Date: June 1, 2008Endearing and always cheerful, Michal Sparks' watercolors bring six princess tea parties to life. Through this brightly illustrated, charming tea book, little princesses (ages 3 to 8) first learn how to make a proper cup of tea and serve it to their subjects. They then discover a bit about the history of tea before reading further and exploring each enchanting tea party.The young majesties will take delight in preparinga Royal Princess Tea and Princess Tea for Twoa Fairy-Tale Princess Tea and a Sweetheart Princess Sleepytime Teaa Flower Princess Tea and Princess...
|  | How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Release Date: October 12, 1957| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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