 | Me and Jezebel: When Bette Davis Came for Dinner -- And Stayed ... And Stayed ... And Stayed ... And ...
Release Date: May 1, 1992A star-struck fan recounts the story of how her dream came true when Bette Davis came to dinner and had to stay in her suburban home for four weeks due to a hotel strike in Manhattan....
 |  | Clear Light of Day
Publication Date: September 12, 2000Set in India's Old Delhi, CLEAR LIGHT OF DAY is Anita Desai's tender, warm, and compassionate novel about family scars, the ability to forgive and forget, and the trials and tribulations of familial love. At the novel's heart are the moving relationships between the members of the Das family, who have grown apart from each other. Bimla is a dissatisfied but ambitious teacher at a women's college who lives in her childhood home, where she cares for her mentally challenged brother, Baba. Tara is her younger, unambitious, estranged sister, married and with ch...
|  | Soon (Underground Zealot Series #1)
Publication Date: May 13, 20042004 Christy Fiction award winner! Paul Stepola, an agent working for the National Peacekeeping Organization (NPO), has been assigned to enforce compliance with the world government's prohibition on religion. Paul relishes his job and is good at it. He is determined to expose underground religion—flush it out, expose it, and kill it—until his life is turned upside down and he is forced to look at life in a different way. As Paul begins to unravel the truth about what he has found, events taking place around the world start to make sense. Something ...
|  | The Bride's Prerogative: Fergus, Idaho, Becomes Home to Three Mysteries Ending in Romances (Ladies' Shooting Club)
Publication Date: November 1, 2011| Series: Ladies' Shooting ClubEnjoy all three of Susan Page Davis’s Wild West novels in one jumbo book. Gert Dooley organizes target practice for the women of Fergus, Idaho, but the shooting club soon becomes an integral part of solving a murder—and bringing the sheriff and Gert together. A string of mysterious events has the women trying to restore peace while coaxing Libby Adams and the shy gunsmith together. Vashti Edwards dream job as a stagecoach driver becomes especially dangerous when a band of robbers begins to attack the stagecoach ...
|  | Christopher And His Kind
Publication Date: September 18, 2001Originally published in 1976, Christopher and His Kind covers the most memorable ten years in the writer's life-from 1929, when Isherwood left England to spend a week in Berlin and decided to stay there indefinitely, to 1939, when he arrived in America. His friends and colleagues during this time included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, and E. M. Forster, as well as colorful figures he met in Germany and later fictionalized in his two Berlin novels-who appeared again, fictionalized to an even greater degree, in I Am a Camera and Cabaret.What most impressed t...
|  | In Peril: A Daring Decision, a Captain's Resolve, and the Salvage that Made History
Publication Date: November 1, 2003"Strong and Braden's tale of an imperfect storm, three ships, and a daring rescue comes to vivid life in this gem of a book." -Publishers Weekly "A marvelous yarn about an incredible rescue." -The Bangor (ME) Daily News When Skip Strong, a thirty-two-year-old captain of the 688-foot oil tanker Cherry Valley received the call, all he knew was that an oceangoing tug with five men aboard was in distress off Florida's east coast. Caught in an unusually powerful storm, the tug's engines failed, and as the winds gusted to more than sixty miles per hour and the sea...
|  | Murder Your Darlings: Algonquin Round Table Mystery
Release Date: January 4, 2011| Series: Algonquin Round Table (Book 1) One morning legendary wit Dorothy Parker discovers someone under Manhattan's famed Algonquin Round Table. A little early for a passed out drunk, isn't it? But he's not dead drunk, just dead. When a charming writer from Mississippi named Billy Faulkner becomes a suspect in the murder, Dorothy decides to dabble in a little detective work, enlisting her literary cohorts. It's up to the Algonquins to outwit the true culprit-preferably before cocktail hour-and before the clever killer turns the tables on them. ...
|  | Rough & Tumble: A Novel
Release Date: September 1, 2009Inspired by his years shedding blood and sweat playing in the National Football League, Rough & Tumble is Mark Bavaro’s novel about the brutal world of the NFL—and a classic sports story of one man’s determination and grit. ...
|  | Wuthering Heights (Case Study in Contemporary Criticism)
Publication Date: March 5, 2003| Series: Case Study in Contemporary Criticism This revision of a widely adopted critical edition presents the 1847 text of Emily Brontë’s British Victorian novel along with critical essays that read Wuthering Heights from four contemporary perspectives: psychoanalytic, Marxist, feminist, and cultural studies. An additional essay demonstrates how several critical perspectives can be combined. In the second edition, two of the five essays are new. The text and essays are complemented by contextual documents and illustrations (new), introductions with...
|  | The Shaman's Quest
Publication Date: September 16, 2012The shaman is an enigmatic figure – a healer, magician and visionary who moves between the everyday world and the realm of gods and spirits. "The Shamans Quest" describes the spiritual journeys of four shamans from different corners of the world – the arctic snows of Canada, the central Australian desert, the sacred mountains of Japan, and the forests of north-western South America.From the North comes a tale of the Inuit shaman Enoyuk and his magical adventures with different gods and spirit-helpers. In the South we enter the world o...
|  | The Happy End of Comedy: Shakespeare, Jonson, Moliere
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|  | The Iliad (MCI) (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)
Publication Date: May 1987| Series: Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations Chronicling the last year of the Trojan War, Homer's Iliad was the first great war poem. As the first of the major epics, it stands as the prototype for all successors. More than a war poem, the Iliad also offers plenty of information about the ancient Greek social structure.The title, Homer’s The Iliad, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Homer’s The Iliad through extracts of critical essays by well-known liter...
|  | Love's Liturgy
Publication Date: May 7, 2012A poetic celebration of significant recurring events in the life of lovers over 22 years.The poems, playful and passionate, focus on the birth of a goddess, the lovers' first date, the day a new world dawned for them, the day their two bodies became one, and the day they proclaimed their love to the world. ...
|  | Salmon - A Jouney in Poetry: 1981 - 2007
Publication Date: July 1, 2008A collection of poetry from more than 100 poets published by Salmon Poetry since 1981. ...
|  | The New York Times Reader: Science & Technology (TimesCollege Series) (TimesCollege from CQ Press)
Publication Date: March 24, 2010| ISBN-10: 1604264810 | ISBN-13: 978-1604264814 0 Science writing poses specific challenges: Science writers must engage their audiences while also explaining unfamiliar scientific concepts and processes. Further, they must illuminate arcane research methods and statistics and at the same time cope with scientific ignorance and uncertainty. Stocking’s volume not only tackles these challenges, but also includes extraordinary breadth in story selection, from prize-winning narratives, profiles and explanatory pieces to accounts of scientific meetings and...
|  | The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters
Release Date: October 28, 2008 The Mitford sisters were the great wits and beauties of their time. Immoderate in their passions for ideas and people, they counted among their diverse friends Adolf Hitler and Queen Elizabeth II, Cecil Beaton and President Kennedy, Evelyn Waugh and Givenchy. The Mitfords offers an unparalleled look at these privileged siblings through their own unabashed correspondence. Spanning the twentieth century, the magically vivid letters of the legendary Mitfords constitute a superb social and historical chronicle and an intimate portrait of the stormy but enduring r...
|  | Promises We Make (Kimani Romance)
Publication Date: January 18, 2011| Series: Kimani Romance (Book 224) Fast-track creative director Niveah Evans is too busy climbing the corporate ladder to think about love. But beneath that hard-driving facade is a woman yearning to make magic with one special man. And when she spies a gorgeous hunk at a bar, she does something totally out of character…and ends up in Damien Hunter's hotel room, sharing the most unforgettable night of her life.Business has brought the New York playboy to Florida, but it's pleasure that keeps him coming back for more. Especially when he discovers that h...
|  | Faith's Portrait
Publication Date: November 6, 2007The old house called to Claire, and then she found the portrait in the attic. She discovered Faith had died tragically many decades earlier, and that her fate was intertwined with a man that Claire felt a strange connection with. She wanted to know more about what happened to Faith and Noah. Then one night Claire touched the portrait and found herself propelled into the past. Could she right the wrongs that had been done, and could she also set things right in her own life? ...
|  | Cherry Ames Boxed Set (Books 1-4) Student Nurse, Senior Nurse, Army Nurse & Chief Nurse
Publication Date: November 29, 2005| ISBN-10: 0977159744 | ISBN-13: 978-0977159741| Edition: 1 The first boxed set, Cherry Ames Boxed Set 1-4, introduces our beloved heroine in her four earliest adventures: Student Nurse, Senior Nurse, Army Nurse, and Chief Nurse!Cherry Ames is back, just as you remember her! The books are just as you remember them, retaining the same look, feel, and sense of adventure and patriotism as when they were first published. With fully illustrated color covers and a soft-finished hardcover format just like the originals, these books will transport you back to t...
|  | Invincible Iron Man, Vol. 2: World's Most Wanted, Book 1
Publication Date: November 11, 2009| Grade Level: 4 and up In the aftermath of Secret Invasion, Iron Man is no longer the hero he used to be, and Tony Stark's entire life is torn apart. We can't say much now, but... how bad does it get? Here's a hint: read World's Most Wanted! By the blockbuster Invincible Iron-Man creative team of Matt Fraction and Salvador Larroca, lauded by fans and critics alike! Collects Invincible Iron Man #8-13. ...
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