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Release Date: May 31, 2011For decades Hazie Coogan has tended to the outsized needs of Katherine "Miss Kathie" Kenton, veteran of multiple marriages, career comebacks, and cosmetic surgeries. But danger arrives with gentleman caller Webster Carlton Westward III, who worms his way into Miss Kathie’s heart—and boudoir. Soon, Hazie discovers that this bounder has already written a celebrity memoir foretelling Miss Kathie’s death in an upcoming musical extravaganza. As the body count mounts, Hazie must execute a plan to save Katherine Kenton for her fans and for posterity...
 |  | The Writing Life: Writers On How They Think And Work
Release Date: May 6, 2003Featuring a gathering of more than fifty of contemporary literature's finest voices, this volume will enchant, move, and inspire readers with its tales of The Writing Life. In it, authors divulge professional secrets: how they first discovered they were writers, how they work, how they deal with the myriad frustrations and delights a writer's life affords. Culled from ten years of the distinguished Washington Post column of the same name, The Writing Life highlights an eclectic group of luminaries who have wildly varied stories to tell, but who share this singularly ...
|  | Satin Cash: Poems
Publication Date: August 18, 2008"[Her poetry] is the perfect marriage of the realism of William Carlos Williams and the sleepless heaven-seeking... of Dickinson and Hopkins."—Virginia Quarterly ReviewIn the wake of Blue Venus, called "a virtuoso book" by the Los Angeles Times Book Review, comes this ravishing volume of bodily, even carnal prayers, that quiver with the ecstasy and anguish of longing. Lisa Russ Spaar has long produced poems that emit a palpable, devotional Eros, but Satin Cash is a raw, more elemental invocation of human yearning—a startling song of worship and feti...
|  | Crazy Weather (Bison Book)
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|  | Jordan's Crossing: A Novel
Release Date: September 20, 2003From Pastor to Vigilante, One Father's Crippling Quest for JusticeMotivated by money, liberal pastor Jordan Rau accepts a position with a European mission organization and moves his reluctant family to Germany. But his dreams of a better life are soon shattered when his teenage son is brutally murdered. Let down by his reason-faith, Jordan's life is now driven by one purpose--revenge.Consumed by hatred for his son's killers, Jordan's global pursuit of retaliation sets him on a course that will destroy the lives of everyone involved, including the remnants of h...
|  | The Count Dracula Fan Club presents Death of the vampire baroness (Treasure trove series)
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|  | Dirk Quigby's Guide to the Afterlife: All You Need to Know to Choose the Right Heaven Plus a Five-Star Rating System for Music, Food, Drink, and Accommodations
Publication Date: September 14, 2010"Impish and delightful—a hilarious Zagat's Guide to Heaven!"—Ray Bradbury"A fantastical, profound, hilarious and rollicking good ride through the heavens and hells of the afterlife! A wonderful book."—Margaret ChoHell's too full, so the Devil hires ad man Dirk Quigby to pen a travel guide enticing travelers to different afterlives: Hindu, Catholic, Protestant (that one's got a lot of subdivisions), Scientologist, and more. Instead of writing a boffo bestseller, Dirk unites all religions in a common goal: kill Dirk.E.E. King grew up in one of...
|  | Isaiah's Surprise
Publication Date: January 1, 1987What might have happened had the Prophet Isaiah been able to transport himself, through time, to the date of Jesus' birth? Nancy Steltz asked that question. The result is this delightful Christmas pageant. Isaiah, wide-eyed and unsure of how his prophecies are coming to fruition, punctuates the dialog and action. Seven scenes introduce the congregation to all the familiar Christmas characters from the narratives in Saint Luke and Saint Matthew. Parts are included for children from nursery through senior high. Scenes include: The Annunciation Joseph's Quandary...
|  | Brodsky Through the Eyes of His Contemporaries (Vol 2) (Studies in Slavic and Russian Literatures, Cultures and History) (Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History)
Publication Date: January 1, 2010| ISBN-10: 1936235064 | ISBN-13: 978-1936235063| Edition: Reprint In the new second volume of Brodsky Through the Eyes of His Contemporaries, the collection of interviews features eye-witness accounts of Joseph Brodsky's friends and family members, publishers, editors, translators, students, and fellow poets including John Le Carre, Oleg Tselkov, Peter Vail, Bengt Jangfeldt, Susan Sontag, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, and others. This collection of 40 interviews illuminates an intriguing contemporary phenomenon and affords a fascinating insight into the A...
| | Stream and Gliding Sun: A Wicklow Anthology
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|  | Orwell in Spain: The Full Text of Homage to Catalonia, with Associated Articles, Reviews and Letters from the Complete Works of George (Penguin Modern Classics)
Publication Date: May 3, 2001| ISBN-10: 0141185163 | ISBN-13: 978-0141185163The volume collects together, for the first time ever, Orwell's writings on his experience of the Spanish Civil War - the chaos at the Front, the futile young deaths for what became a confused cause, the antique weapons and the disappointment many British Socialists felt on arriving in Spain to help. ORWELL IN SPAIN includes the complete text of HOMAGE TO CATALONIA. ...
|  | Marked Man LP
Release Date: September 19, 2006 All Victor Carl knows is that he's just woken up with his suit in tatters, his socks missing, and a stinging pain in his chest thanks to a new tattoo he doesn't remember getting: a heart inscribed with the name Chantal Adair. Is Chantal the love of Victor's life or a terrible drunken mistake? Victor intends to find out, but right now he's got bigger concerns. His client, a wanted man, needs to come in out of the cold, and he's got a stolen painting for Victor to use as leverage. But someone is not happy that the painting has surfaced. Or that the client i...
|  | The Mysterious Case of Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys
Publication Date: May 29, 2007Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys have woven their spell of teen intrigue over more than 150 million readers, beginning in 1927 and continuing today. With its marvelous text and brilliant design, The Mysterious Case of Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys uncovers why the fearless young crime fighters remain beloved icons.From The Secret of the Old Clock to Rock 'n Roll Renegades, the popular teen sleuths have deduced and detected their way through hundreds of adventures. Although the plots have changed with the times, the books have always starred the same clean teens wit...
|  | The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes: Mystery Detective volumes (Collector s Edition)
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|  | Uncle Scrooge: Like a Hurricane TP (Uncle Scrooge: Ducktales)
Release Date: March 1, 2011| Age Level: 6 and up...
|  | Monsters Vs. Aliens: The M Files
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|  | Surfing (X-Treme Sports)
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|  | Rapid Ray: The Story Ray Lewis
Release Date: September 10, 2002| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Rapid Ray Lewis was arguably the fastest man of his generation. He won medals in the 1932 Olympics and the 1934 British Empire Games, and countless races in North America. Remarkable achievements for any man – but all the more remarkable because Lewis had to race poverty and prejudice. The geat-grandson of slaves, he worked as a porter on the railway, and trained by running alongside the tracks when the train was stopped on the prairies.Rapid Ray is far more than a sports autobiography; it is as much a histo...
|  | Why Dear Mrs. Sullivan Is Distressed!
Publication Date: March 16, 2012Told with humor and in verse for young readers: A lady hippo finds insects residing in her bathtub and vows to remove them, but the "small lives" convince her of their right to exist. ...
|  | Readers' Advisory for Children and 'Tweens
Publication Date: April 9, 2010| ISBN-10: 1598843877 | ISBN-13: 978-1598843873| Edition: 1 Finding children and 'tweens great books to read is still a key library service, even in the age of computers. Readers' Advisory for Children and 'Tweens is an easy-to-use, practical guide that will help any library staff member become more comfortable offering this service—and more adept at producing satisfying results.Beginning with basic advice on the readers' advisory interview, the book details how to find books for different age groups, including young children and their parents, emerg...
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