 | Mildred Pierce (Movie Tie-in Edition) (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
Release Date: March 22, 2011| Series: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Mildred Piercehad gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness. Sheused those attributes to survive a divorce and poverty and to claw her way outof the lower middle class. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen forshiftless men, and an unreasoning devotion to a monstrous daughter. Outof these elements, James M. Cain created a novel of acute social observation anddevastating emotional violence, with a heroine whose ambitions and sufferingsare never less than recognizable. ...
 |  | The Curtain of Trees
Publication Date: May 1999From the middle of the twentieth century comes the latest collection of stories by renowned Chicano writer Alberto Alvaro Rios. The Curtain of Trees re-creates a time and place largely forgotten these days except by grandparents and elders. The stories in this book are part folklore, part oral history, but in full measure literary as they recollect family tales modified by time, telling, and now Ros's graceful perspective.Set along the Arizona-Mexico border, these stories engage the gulf between Mexican and Chicano, aunt and nephew, sister and sister, sanity and mad...
|  | Nervous: A Novel
Publication Date: August 15, 2011[WARNING: EXPLICIT CONTENT] Zane's legion of fans can't get enough of her way of telling a juicy, sexy story. In Nervous, the New York Times bestselling queen of erotica brings us a tale of a woman with a split personality.Jonquinette has always been nervous around men, but on the weekends her alter ego, Jude, goes on intense sexual escapades. When Jonquinette seeks the help of Dr. Marcella Spencer, the psychiatrist Zane originated in her bestselling novel Addicted, Jude's response is to go on a sexual rampage. Meanwhile, Jonquinette becomes interested in h...
|  | Fireworks Over Toccoa
Release Date: March 30, 2010Every so often that story comes along that reminds us of what it’s like to experience love for the first time—against the odds, when you least expect it, and with such passion that it completely changes you forever.An unexpected discovery takes eighty-four-year-old Lily Davis Woodward to 1945, and the five days that forever changed her life. Married for only a week before her husband was sent to fight in WWII, Lily is anxious for his return, and the chance to begin their life together. In honor of the soldiers' homecoming, the small Georgia...
|  | A Place for Kathy: A Novel
Release Date: April 16, 1997Having lost her hemophiliac husband to a brain hemorrhage only to discover that she has contracted AIDS from him, Grace sets out to try to find a future home for her twelve-year-old daughter Kathy, in this story of loss and hope. ...
|  | Sophie's Fire
Publication Date: August 28, 2012In the midst of a raging fire on a winter night in 1779, a Burgundian woman went into early labor and delivered a child who never should have survived.Instead, the tiny infant—Madeleine Sophie Barat—went on to thrive in a France wracked and torn by revolution, terror, Napoleonic domination, and all that followed in their wake. Possessed of a vision of a world dedicated to generosity and love, she founded a religious order and an international network of schools that still flourish today: the schools of the Sacred Heart. In 1925 she was declared ...
|  | The House on the Strand
Publication Date: January 2000In this haunting tale, Daphne du Maurier takes a fresh approach to time travel. A secret experimental concoction, once imbibed, allows you to return to the fourteenth century. There is only one catch: if you happen to touch anyone while traveling in the past you will be thrust instantaneously to the present.Magnus Lane, a University of London chemical researcher, asks his friend Richard Young and Young's family to stay at Kilmarth, an ancient house set in the wilds near the Cornish coast. Here, Richard drinks a potion created by Magnus and finds himself at the s...
|  | My Fellow Americans
Publication Date: October 1, 2007The United States in crisis - In the face of increasing terrorist attacks on his own soil, the president of the United States declares martial law and sits for a third term. His country simmers in suspicion and fear. In Chicago, Jason Walker, half Lebanese but thoroughly American, is detained, interrogated and tortured. In exchange for his freedom, he must turn spy for Homeland Security, but it soon becomes impossible to tell who are the good guys . . . ...
|  | Fanon
Publication Date: April 16, 2010A philosopher, psychiatrist, and political activist, Frantz Fanon was a fierce, acute critic of racism and oppression. Born of African descent in Martinique in 1925, Fanon fought in defense of France during World War II but later against France in Algeria’s war for independence. His last book, The Wretched of the Earth, published in 1961, inspired leaders of diverse liberation movements: Steve Biko in South Africa, Che Guevara in Latin America, the Black Panthers in the States. Wideman’s novel is disguised as the project of a contemporary Afri...
|  | Riders From Long Pines
Release Date: May 5, 2009When some drovers stumble upon the bloody aftermath of a stagecoach robbery, they discover a hidden cache of money that belongs to the most powerful man in the county. Briefly tempted to fill their saddlebags and run, they decide to do the right thing and return the cash. But that's not as easy as it sounds. Buckshot Parks, the outlaw responsible for the robbery, is dead set on getting back his money -- and he has a stolen badge to hide behind while he tracks the "thieves." --This text refers to the Hardcover edition....
|  | Dubliners (Twentieth-Century Classics)
Release Date: June 1, 1993| ISBN-10: 0140186476 | ISBN-13: 978-0140186475"Dubliners" was completed in 1905, but a series of British and Irish publishers and printers found it offensive and immoral, and it was suppressed. The book finally came out in London in 1914, just as Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" began to appear in the journal "Egoist" under the auspices of Ezra Pound. The first three stories in "Dubliners" might be incidents from a draft of "Portrait of the Artist," and many of the characters who figure in "Ulysses" have their first appearance here, but this is n...
|  | Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It
Release Date: July 6, 2010 One of the most critically acclaimed books of the year from a master of the short story.One of the most celebrated new writers of the last decade returns with an extraordinary collection of stories demonstrating the emotional power and the clean, assured style for which she's become famous. Set mostly in the American West, the stories explore the moral quandaries of love, family, and friendship and examine the tensions between having and wanting, as small-town lawyers, ranchers, doctors, parents, and children try to keep hold of opposing forces in their lives: in...
|  | American Haiku by Lynch, Kathleen published by Dorrance Pub Co Paperback
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|  | Who Can Be Happy And Free In Russia?
Publication Date: September 10, 2010No wonder the peasants Dislike a wet spring-tide: The peasant needs greatly A spring warm and early. This year, though he howl Like a wolf, I'm afraid. ...
|  | Dickens's England: Life in Victorian Times
Publication Date: January 30, 2003| ISBN-10: 0275979814 | ISBN-13: 978-0275979812Victorian England was, in Tennyson's phrase, an awful moment of transition. A society based largely on agriculture, traditional values, and social hierarchies was transformed into one both stimulated and unsettled by unprecedented growth in science, technology, industry, urbanization and population, and profound questioning of politics, morality, and religion. Its writers energetically revealed their responses to the times and the effect that such a rapidly changing world had upon them. This collection of so...
|  | The Tiger's Eye
Publication Date: February 1, 2002"The Tiger's Eye", a widely-read magazine of art and literature, was published in nine quarterly issues from 1947 to 1949 by writer Ruth Stephan and painter John Stephan. It took its name from the poem by William Blake. "The Tiger's Eye" featured European and American Surrealists, members of the Latin American avant garde, and young American painters soon to become known as Abstract Expressionists. The artists, among them Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Adolph Gottlieb, Stanley William Hayter, Andre Masson, Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko, Anne Ryan, Kay Sage, Kur...
|  | The Obedient Bride (Signet Regency Romance)
Release Date: May 2, 1989| Series: Signet Regency Romance Miss Arabella Wilson knows perfectly well that the handsome Lord Geoffrey Astor is marrying her only out of a sense of duty. She resigns herself to this bargain and expects no more--until she commits the most scandalous of sins: she falls in love with her own husband. Regency Romance reissue. ...
|  | The Silverton Scandal
Publication Date: August 8, 2012A Regency Romance. Tenth Anniversary Edition Note: Previously published under the title of Highwayman to Heaven When Eleanor Grantham's younger sister receives a blackmail demand for some incriminating letters, Eleanor intends to buy the letters back again. But her plan is foiled when her coach is held up by a highwayman, whom she later discovers to be a wealthy nobleman, Lord Silverton. Once the blackmailer is found dead, Eleanor's life is placed in jeopardy and Lord Silverton is the only one she can turn to . . . Reviews "Regency romances never seem to lose ...
|  | The Silencers (Matt Helm, No. 4)
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|  | Eunice: Nereid of the Forest
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