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 |  | The Gathering
Publication Date: September 10, 2007Anne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Ireland’s most singular voices. Now she delivers The Gathering, a moving, evocative portrait of a large Irish family and a shot of fresh blood into the Irish literary tradition, combining the lyricism of the old with the shock of the new. The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan are gathering in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother, Liam, drowned in the sea. His sister, Veronica, collects the body and keeps the dead man company, guarding the secret she shares with hi...
|  | Murder, She Wrote: Madison Ave Shoot
Release Date: March 2, 2010| Series: Murder She Wrote It's lights... Camera... Murder! The USA Today bestselling series-more than 4.5 million copies in printWhen Jessica Fletcher's nephew, Grady, asks her to visit him in New York City, she's happy to reunite. The production firm Grady works for is creating commercials featuring big-name celebrities, and he has proposed that Jessica star in one. She reluctantly agrees. But when one of the most creative-and despised-bigwigs is found murdered on the set, there's a long list of suspects. And Jessica soon finds herself not just a witness in a m...
|  | Cold Serial Murder (Beach Reading)
Publication Date: March 1, 2009| Series: Beach Reading Tim Snow expected to show his visiting Aunt Ruth the wonders of San Francisco, but never expected one of the sights of the city would be the body of his ex-lover. A killer is on the loose in the Castro district. Meanwhile, Tim's cadre of quirky friends and neighbors makes life all the more interesting with their drama of weddings and lost (and found) loves. Cold Serial Murder continues the story of one of the Castro's most adorable characters. Can Tim and his Aunt uncover who the killer is before it's too late? ...
|  | Slammerkin
Publication Date: March 1, 2011Set in London and Monmouth in the late 1700s, this is an extraordinary novel about Mary Saunders, the young daughter of a poor seamstress. Mary hungers greedily for fine clothes and ribbons, as people of her class do for food and warmth. It's a hunger that lures her into prostitution at the age of thirteen. Mary is thrown out by her distraught mother when she gets pregnant and almost dies on the dangerous streets of London. Her saviour is Doll - a prostitute. Mary roams London freely with Doll, selling her body to all manner of 'cullies', dressed whorishly in c...
|  | The Draft
Release Date: October 31, 2006"Wil Mara goes inside the NFL draft like never before. He details the personalities and complications that go into every draft decision, making for good reading and good drama."---John Clayton, NFL analyst and ESPN senior writer It's draft time in the National Football League. For high-ranking team executives, this means long days and sleepless nights, endless negotiations, and determining which young men deserve to become millionaires and which do not. Careers will be made with the stroke of a pen, but mistakes are costly. Baltimore Ravens General Man...
|  | The Unwanted (Saul, John)
Publication Date: September 28, 2005| Series: Saul, John Cassie Winslow is sixteen. She has just lost her mother in a terrible accident. Now, lonely and frightened, she has come to live with the father she barely knows and his new family in tiny False Harbor on Cape Cod. For Cassie, the strange, unsettling dreams that come to her suddenly in the dead of night are merely the beginning. Very soon, Cassie Winslow will come to know the terrifying powers that are her gift. And in the village of False Harbor, nothing will ever be the same. ...
|  | Texas Kidnappers
Release Date: February 5, 1996The Ysabel Kid was being followed as he rode the trail back to Rio Hondo Country. The three hombres behind him were robbing cowhands of their cattle-drive pay. And the Kid had been deputized to stop them. Riding out on his lonesome, he intended to bring justice to this lawless land. But another gang was also at work in the Texas hills, and they had snatched the granddaughter of Ole Devil Hardin, the Ysabel Kid's old buckaroo and trail boss, from the local stagecoach. Now the Kid wants more than justice, he wants revenge. His Winchester is at the ready, his bowie...
|  | The Last Resort: A Novel
Publication Date: March 1993A satirical novel of country life in Southern Ireland follows the adventures of Luke Diverali, a sophisticated, wealthy American, who takes a financial interest in rural Brulagh while traveling through the region. By the author of The Neon Madonna....
|  | A History of Modern Chinese Fiction: Third Edition
Release Date: November 22, 1999| ISBN-10: 0253213118 | ISBN-13: 978-0253213112| Edition: Third Edition "The great virtue of this book is that it provides a practical acquaintance with the writing itself by means of copious passages of translation from representative novels." —New York Times Book Review"C. T. Hsia's book is by now an acknowledged classic. It truly opened up a new field and prepared the way for generations of American scholars to do research. We are all in his debt." —Leo LeeThis pioneering, classic study of 20th-century Chinese fiction covers some sixty year...
|  | Three Sisters, The
Publication Date: November 16, 2010Drama / Characters: 9 male, 6 femaleScenery 2 Interiors / 1 ExteriorThis poignant story of three provincial sisters who long with all their hearts to go to Moscow is classic theatre which has featured many of the world's great actresses and actors in the roles of Olga, Masha, Irina and Vershinin. ...
|  | The Poetics of the Occasion: Mallarme and the Poetry of Circumstance
Publication Date: July 1, 1992An excellent new study of Mallarme's works written from a new perspective ...
|  | Warriors: Tigerstar and Sasha #3: Return to the Clans
Release Date: June 9, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Piano Lessons Can Be Murder(Goosebumps Series)
Publication Date: August 1, 2004| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | Thing Classic - Volume 2 (The Thing)
Publication Date: August 15, 2012| Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Ivan: Stories of Old Russia (Oxford Myths and Legends)
Publication Date: June 22, 1989| Age Level: 7 and up...
|  | My First Baking Book Hb (My First Book)
Publication Date: October 10, 1991 ...
|  | If You See a Fairy Ring: A Rich Treasury of Classic Fairy Poems
Publication Date: October 1, 2007| Grade Level: From Pre and up “If you see a fairy ring,In a field of grass,Very lightly step around,Tiptoe as you pass. . . .” A rich combination of enchanting verse and magical color illustrations make this a truly unusual and attractive book for younger children. The easy and accessible poems—all of them written by major literary figures—share a common theme: fairies and fairyland. Ingenious paper engineering produces illustrated images that change in their details as kids turn the pages. For example, a morning woodland ...
|  | Pedro: The Angel of Olvera Street
Publication Date: October 20, 2009| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up This Caldecott Honor book from beloved children's book author Leo Politi, originally published in 1946, is set on Olvera Street, the site of Los Angeles' original Latino settlement, which is still preserved very much as it once was--a busy and colorful me'lange of small artisan shops, restaurants, and strolling musicians. Pedrotells of the community's Christmas tradition of the "posada," a procession that reenacts Mary and Joseph's pilgrimage to Bethlehem, and of the "piñata," a papier-mâché vessel...
|  | Las dragonas no muerden / Dragons Don't Bite (Ala Delta: Serie Azul / Hang Gliding: Blue Series) (Spanish Edition)
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