 | Lucky Bastard
Release Date: April 17, 2012Meet Nick Monday: a private detective who’s more Columbo than Sam Spade, more Magnum P.I. than Philip Marlowe. As San Francisco’s infamous luck poacher, Nick doesn’t know whether his ability to swipe other people’s fortunes with a simple handshake is a blessing or a curse. Ever since his youth, Nick has swallowed more than a few bitter truths when it comes to wheeling and dealing in destinies. Because whether the highest bidders of Nick’s serendipitous booty are celebrities, yuppies, or douche bag vegans, the unsavory fact remains: lu...
 |  | It's Classified: A Novel
Release Date: June 12, 2012Charlotte Kramer, America’s first female president, is beginning her second term and is determined to make her mark on history although events do seem to be conspiring against her. Melanie Kingston, her best friend, just signed on as secretary of defense. Will their relationship survive? Dale Smith is the senior communications advisor to the vice president and knows a secret that could not only ruin her own career but put the credibility of the White House on the line. Tara Meyers is the most popular vice president in recent history, but does her public image...
|  | The Smart One
Release Date: August 5, 2008 Bev is the Smart One, who finally leaves her artistic ambitions in chalk dust (and her humor-impaired husband in the arms—and legs—of his nubile protégée) to become a schoolteacher. Clare is the Pretty One, who married well and seems to be living a designer version of the suburban dream. Joey is the Wild One, struggling to stay clean and sober now that she's used up her fifteen minutes of fame as a one-hit-wonder rock star. They love each other but mix like oil, water, and hundred-proof gin . . . a combination that threatens to combust o...
|  | Treading Water on Ripple Creek Farm: Lily
Publication Date: December 1, 2011The Ripple Creek Farm series follows the progress of a young farming family growing up in rural, southern America. The first book, Treading Water on Ripple Creek Farm: Lily, is set in The Great Depression and World War II eras. Lily, who is the eldest Howell child, tells the story.Living on a struggling farm, Lily is faced with responsibilities and decisions that are far beyond her tender age. With a growing family, daily dilemmas with farm life, and two of her uncles away in the war, Lily will need great heart and strength as the family treads water.Treadin...
|  | The Pit and the Pendulum, and Five Other Tales
Publication Date: June 1967Ex-library copy with light edge wear to clean cover. Corners are bumped. Text is perfect. Same day shipping. ...
|  | The Vampire's Bedside Companion: The Amazing World of Vampires in Fact and Fiction
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|  | King Solomon's Mines (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: January 29, 2008| Series: Penguin Classics The first great "Lost World" action-adventure-a precursor to Indiana Jones H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines has entertained generations of readers since its first publication in 1885. Following a mysterious map of dubious reliability, a small group of men trek into southern Africa in search of a lost friend-and a lost treasure, the fabled mines of King Solomon. Led by the English adventurer and fortune hunter Allan Quartermain, they discover a frozen corpse, survive untold dangers in remote mountains and deserts, and encounter t...
|  | Autobiography of a Female Slave (Banner Book Series)
Publication Date: March 1, 1998| Series: Banner Book Series "The first lick from Mr. Peterkin laid my back open. I writhed, I wrestled; but blow after blow descended, each harder than the preceding one. I shrieked, I screamed, I pleaded, I prayed, but here no mercy shown me. Mr. Peterkin having fully gratified and quenched his spleen, turned to Mr. Jones and said 'Now is yer turn; you can beat her as much as you please, only jist leave a bit o'life in her, is all I cares for.' " In the pages of this putative autobiography the author poses as a slave for the purpose of bringing attention to t...
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|  | The Master and Margarita (Library Edidtion Audio CDs)
Publication Date: July 25, 2010Based on the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov. Satan and his retinue, including a seven foot tall skinny fellow with a pince-nez , an obnoxious cigar smoking black cat and a beautiful naked vampire visit Moscow in the 1920s, taking with them chaos and insanity where ever they go. ...
|  | Testamento involuntario (Spanish Edition) (Unconscious Testament)
Publication Date: March 30, 2012A collection of poems gathered from the recollections, and the notebooks, of Abad Faciolince.''In a sense, poetry represents the instinctive truth of language stripped off the tyranny of reason. Paradoxically, even longstanding poetic rules (musicality, rhythm, rhyme, and meter) bring forth the profound, as the search of a word lies not in logic, coherence or clarity but in its euphony, and so it is that the most primitive, unforeseen or instinctive thoughts come through. That is why the poet who succeeds in combining words into the perfect phrase is imbued ...
| | Das Aufgeklarte Mondschaf: Achtundzwanzig Calgenlieder und deren gemeinverstandliche Deutung durch Jeremias Mueller, Dr. phil., Privatgelehrter (GERMAN; POETRY)
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|  | Subterranean Radio Songs (Emerging Authors)
Publication Date: January 5, 2005| Series: Emerging Authors Subterranean Radio Songs is a collection of poetry that forms a narrative of the author s travels from Australia to the Americas and the Himalayas, with frequent detours into our mind and soul. The collection melds travel with urban life and the trials that we face, brought to life by Joel Deane s vivid language and evocative description.This collection will appeal to all poetry readers, particularly those interested in travel and the human condition. Essential for all libraries, with holdings incontemporary poetry. Recommended for ...
|  | Elizabethan and Jacobean England: Sources and Documents of the English Renaissance
Publication Date: December 28, 2010| ISBN-10: 1405149671 | ISBN-13: 978-1405149679| Edition: 1 Through a combination of original essays and primary source material, Elizabethan and Jacobean England records the transformative changes that defined English society during the Renaissance. Combines original source documents with critical essays to chart the transformative changes in English society from the accession of Elizabeth I in 1558, to the end of the reign of James I in 1625Brings together a variety of source material including new public and private documents, providing a vivid portr...
|  | Strabo: Geography, Books 10-12 (Loeb Classical Library No. 211)
Publication Date: January 1, 1928| ISBN-10: 0674992334 | ISBN-13: 978-0674992337| Edition: Vol. 5, Books 10-12 Strabo (ca. 64 BCE to ca. 25 CE), an Asiatic Greek of Amasia in Pontus, studied at Nysa and after 44 BCE at Rome. He became a keen traveller who saw a large part of Italy, various near eastern regions including the Black Sea, various parts of Asia Minor, Egypt as far as Ethiopia, and parts of Greece. He was a long time in Alexandria where he no doubt studied mathematics, astronomy, and history.Strabo's historical work is lost, but his most important Geography in seventeen books ...
|  | The Bourne Legacy (Jason Bourne)
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|  | Hail to the Chef (A White House Chef Mystery)
Release Date: December 2, 2008| Series: A White House Chef Mystery White House executive chef Ollie Paras has to put her own interests on the back burner when a kindly electrician is electrocuted to death, and the First Lady’s nephew dies in an apparent suicide less than 24 hours after cleaning shrimp with Ollie. Ollie suspects something fishy is going on. She’ll have to watch her back—and find a killer unlikely to be pardoned. ...
|  | The Golem
Publication Date: October 29, 1996| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up A clay giant miraculously brought to life by a saintly rabbi saves a Jewish banker who has been falsely accused in the Prague of Emperor Rudolf II. ...
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|  | Detective Science: 40 Crime-Solving, Case-Breaking, Crook-Catching Activities for Kids
Publication Date: February 6, 1996| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Children/ScienceBecome a super science sleuth with . . .Detective Science40 Crime-Solving, Case-Breaking, Crook-Catching Activities for KidsSearch for evidence, gather clues, and discover how science can help solve a mystery. From dusting for fingerprints to analyzing handwriting, these easy, fun-filled activities give you a firsthand look at how detectives and forensic scientists use science to solve real-life crimes.Make a plaster cast of a shoe. Identify lip prints left on a glass. Examine hair and clothing fi...
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