 | I'm Your Girl
Release Date: March 1, 2010For public library clerk Diane Anderson, reading romance novels and living vicariously is far easier than attracting a flesh-and-blood man of her own. It seems she's too voluptuous in the wrong places to attract the kind of black man her mama requires as a son-in-law...and just exotic enough to attract the kind of white man Mama forbids. But there's something about that lost-looking guy who comes into the library one afternoon. And when he reveals that Diane is his muse, well, she can't help being intrigued...After months spent mourning a personal tragedy, novelist...
 |  | House of Holes
Release Date: February 7, 2012Shandee finds a friendly arm at a granite quarry. Ned drops down a hole in a golf course. So begins Nicholson Baker’s fuse-blowing sexual escapade—a modern-day Hieronymus Boschian bacchanal set in a pleasure resort where normal rules don’t apply. House of Holes, one of the most talked-about books in recent memory, is a gleefully provocative novel sure to surprise, amuse, and arouse. ...
|  | Werewolf of London
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|  | A Dangerous Fortune
Release Date: November 1, 1994In 1866, tragedy strikes at the exclusive Windfield School. A young student drowns in a mysterious accident involving a small circle of boys. The drowning and its aftermath initiates a spiraling circle of treachery that will span three decades and entwine many loves... From the exclusive men's club and brothels that cater to every dark desire of London's upper classes to the dazzling ballrooms and mahogany-paneled suites of the manipulators of the world's wealth, K...
|  | 17 Mile Drive (Library Edition)
Publication Date: June 1, 2011Pebble Beach is a unique spot--less flashy than, say, Montecito, not as many bold-face names, appealing more to the discreet powers that employ the bold-face crowd, attractive also to families with last names recognizable as name-brand consumer items--in short, an understated place where the most flaunted status symbol is not the private jet but the proudly displayed doggy poop bag. Enter our hero, Jason Heart, an unknown rookie on the PGA tour who isn't after money or fame but after greatness. After overcoming a stint in prison for something he didn't do, deja ...
|  | Sothis: Star of Egypt
Publication Date: December 1, 2009Set in 260 B.C., SOTHIS, Star of Egypt tells the story of Meru, a gifted young novice at the Temple of Isis in Alexandria, Egypt. Through her extraordinary psychic powers, Meru discovers a lost connection to Sothis (Sirius) and a Cosmic Council trying to communicate with the people of Earth. With the help of the Cosmic Council she will attempt to recover the long lost records of Atlantis.Although Meru is a dedicated Virgin Priestess, she soon finds herself deeply involved with a young priest. In acknowledging their love for each other, they ultimately must m...
|  | Lone Star Rising: The Texas Rangers Trilogy
Publication Date: November 1, 2003| Series: Texas Rangers Trilogy In 1999, with Forge's publication of The Buckskin Line, Elmer Kelton launched a series of novels on the formative years of the Texas Rangers. In Texas Justice, the first three of these critically acclaimed books are now brought together in a single volume.In The Buckskin Line, Kelton introduces the red-haired boy captured by a Comanche war party after the massacre of his family. Rescued by Mike Shannon, a member of a Texas "ranging company" protecting settlers from Indian raids, the boy known as Rusty is adopted by the Shannon...
|  | The Fountainhead
Release Date: November 1, 1994When The Fountainhead was first published, Ayn Rand's daringly original literary vision and her groundbreaking philosophy, Objectivism, won immediate worldwide interest and acclaim. This instant classic is the story of an intransigent young architect, his violent battle against conventional standards, and hisexplosive love affair with a beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him. This edition contains a special Afterword by Rand's literary executor, Leonard Peikoff which includes excerpts from Ayn Rand's own notes on the making of The Fountainhead. As fresh tod...
|  | Broken Music: A Mystery
Release Date: November 22, 2011The year is 1919 and the population of Great Britain is still struggling to its feet after being hit by the atrocities of the First World War. Progress is slow, even in quiet spots like the village of Broughton Underhill, on the edge of the Black Country. Gradually soldiers return, wounds begin to heal, and people try to move on with their lives. Former police sergeant Herbert Reardon has returned to the village, determined to solve an old murder--a woman was found drowned in the lake when the war was just beginning.However, as Reardon begins to investigate, it...
|  | The English Poetic Mind
Publication Date: March 1, 2008| ISBN-10: 1556355556 | ISBN-13: 978-1556355554This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections...
|  | John Wieners Selected Poems
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|  | District and Circle: Poems
Release Date: April 3, 2007| ISBN-10: 0374530815 | ISBN-13: 978-0374530815| Edition: 1st District and Circle inhabits the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the weight and worth of what has been held in the hand and in the memory. Scenes from a childhood spent far from the horrors of World War II are colored by a strongly contemporary sense that "Anything can happen," and other images from the dangerous present--a fireman's helmet, a journey on the Underground, a melting glacier--are fraught with this same a...
|  | Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)
Publication Date: May 9, 1991| ISBN-10: 0195067851 | ISBN-13: 978-0195067859In Contending Forces (1900), her best-known novel and her only work of fiction published in book form during her lifetime, Pauline Hopkins uses the conventions of the sentimental romance as she seeks to encourage social change.In its pages we encounter noble heroes and virtuous heroines, exotic settings, unsavory villains, melodramatic scenes, and a star-crossed love affair.Both an extraordinarily detailed examination of black life in nineteenth-century America and a richly textured and engrossing piece of fictio...
|  | Dance of the Gods (The Circle Trilogy, Book 2)
Release Date: October 3, 2006| Series: The Circle Trilogy, Book 2 (Book 2) With one vampire determined to rule the earth, the Circle of Six prepares to battle for their lives—and their hearts......
|  | Silent Witness (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Release Date: October 4, 2011NOW A TNT MYSTERY EVENT MOVIE!After the murder of his high school sweetheart left him shattered, Tony Lord vowed never to return to his Ohio hometown of Lake City. Twenty-eight years later, Tony is a successful California criminal lawyer with a beautiful celebrity wife. He’s living the good life…until long-buried memories come crashing down when he hears from an old friend, who needs his help.Sam Robb is a track coach at Lake City High. He swears he is not responsible for the death of one of his female team members…even though forensic evidence ...
|  | The Bishop's Man: A Novel
Publication Date: October 11, 2011Father Duncan MacAskill knows all about temptation, all the devious ways that lonely priests persuade themselves that their private needs trump their vows. His fellow priests call him the “Exorcist” behind his back because he’s spent most of his priesthood as the bishop’s clean-up man, sent in to discipline the wayward priests and defuse potential scandal while moderating the emotions of the victims too—something that has been increasingly wearing away at his sense of justice and calling.And so, when the bishop hears that a big me...
|  | Sylvan Street: A Novel
Release Date: May 25, 2010Read Deborah Schupack's posts on the Penguin Blog. Nine neighbors; two ominous outsiders; one suitcase containing a million dollarsDeborah Schupack tells a provocative and suspenseful tale about what happens when cold, hard cash moves in next door. With page-turning storytelling, graceful prose and deep, true emotion, Sylvan Street explores the ultimate power-and limitations-of money. What these friendly suburban residents do with their newfound money, and what the money does with them, builds toward a revelatory conclusion: how the tensions between benevolence an...
|  | Philadelphia Noir (Akashic Noir)
Publication Date: October 19, 2010| Series: Akashic Noir "It's a collection enhanced by an unerring sense of place . . . that will please the most discriminating lovers of the dark side."--Kirkus Reviews"It took long enough for Akashic's noir series to get to Philly. Now that it has, compiled under the shadowy auspices of Inquirer literary critic/West Philly native Carlin Romano, the fun begins."--Philadelphia City PaperIncludes brand-new stories by: Diane Ayres, Cordelia Frances Biddle, Keith Gilman, Cary Holladay, Solomon Jones, Gerald Kolpan, Aimee LaBrie, Halimah Marcus, Carlin Romano, A...
|  | Eggs for the Hunting: starring Pine Cone and Pepper Pot and the illimitable Tiptoes Lightly
Publication Date: February 8, 2012Spring is full of life and life is full of eggs, all sorts of eggs: great cosmic eggs and tiny butterfly eggs, salmon eggs and bird eggs, rabbit eggs and special eggs being gilded and painted by two gnomes called Pine Cone and Pepper Pot. They have been told (gossiped, to be correct) that Farmer John’s children, Tom and June, are going to give them special eggs for Easter, and they decide to reciprocate. However, if you are a gnome, a small gnome—even if you are two small gnomes—then the simplest of tasks (such as finding a bird who does...
|  | Lemonade for Sale (MathStart 3)
Release Date: December 18, 1997| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
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