 | Second Line: Two Short Novels of Love and Cooking in New Orleans
Publication Date: October 1, 2009hese two short novels bookend Poppy Z. Brite’s cheerfully chaotic series starring two chefs in New Orleans. The Value of X introduces G-man and Rickey, who grew up in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward and who are slowly realizing there are only two important things in life: cooking and each other. Rickey’s parents aren’t quite so taken with the boy’s plans and get him an impossible-to-resist place at the Culinary Institute of America.In D*U*C*K, Rickey and G-man’s restaurant, Liquor, is doing well but there are the usual compli...
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 | Stories from the Edges - A LongShortStories Collection
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 | The Long Way Home (A Secret Refuge Series #3)
Publication Date: June 1, 2001When a disastrous decision by the trainmaster forces Jesselynn Highwood and her companions to separate from the wagon train, she races back to Fort Laramie to find a guide to take them to Oregon. But the guide has a far different plan, and following her heart, Jesselynn agrees to join him, her ragtag band in tow.Back east, Louisa Highwood and her brother Zachary are captured by Union soldiers for smuggling medical supplies into Richmond. Can Louisa find a way to obtain her brother's freedom before it's too late?The future of the Highwood family--and that of thei...
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 | Sophie's First Dance (Faith Girlz Sophie Series 5)
Release Date: March 24, 2005| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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 | The Ones That Got Away
Publication Date: November 30, 2010These thirteen stories are our own lives, inside out. A boy's summer romance doesn't end in that good kind of heartbreak, but in blood. A girl on a fishing trip makes a friend in the woods who's exactly what she needs, except then that friend follows her back to the city. A father hears a voice through his baby monitor that shouldn't be possible, but now he can't stop listening. A woman finds out that the shipwreck wasn't the disaster, but who she's shipwrecked with. A big brother learns just what he will, and won't, trade for one night of sleep. From priso...
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 | Pacific Siege 8 (Seal Team Seven)
Release Date: June 1, 1999| Series: Seal Team Seven (Book 8) Action!Intrigue!Firepower!When a Japanese general goes ballistic and takes over a Russian island, the SEALs are sent in to restore justice.But between freeing Russian hostages and making sure not to step on the wrong toes, the SEALs find themselves stuck waist-deep in hell--and highwater.Praise for Keith Douglass' Carrier series:"Brimming with action and high-drama... Fasten your seatbelt!"--New York Times bestselling author Joe Weber ...
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 | Never Any End to Paris
Publication Date: May 24, 2011A splendid ironic portrayal of literary Paris and of a young writer’s struggles by one of Spain’s most eminent authors.This brilliantly ironic novel about literature and writing, in Vila-Matas’s trademark witty and erudite style, is told in the form of a lecture delivered by a novelist clearly a version of the author himself. The “lecturer” tells of his two-year stint living in Marguerite Duras’s garret during the seventies, spending time with writers, intellectuals, and eccentrics, and trying to make it as a creator of litera...
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 | The Art of the Short Story
Publication Date: July 27, 2005| ISBN-10: 0618155759 | ISBN-13: 978-0618155750| Edition: 1 This historically arranged anthology of short fiction by top American and international writers provides a comprehensive collection of both the classic stories as well as the most effective, relevant, and engaging modern and contemporary short stories. Through four distinct historical units, the author looks at the development of the short story as a genre. The historical introductions and visual spreads that begin each unit help instructors and students place the stories they read in a broader con...
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 | Sagas and Popular Antiquarianism in Icelandic Archaeology (Worldwide Archaeology Series)
Publication Date: December 1994| ISBN-10: 1856287092 | ISBN-13: 978-1856287098This work on sagas and antiquarianism in Icelandic archaeology describes the way that archaeology interacts with literary analogy. It covers: the Celts, Norsemen and Romans; religion (ritual sites and pagan burials); the assembly system; and the history of farming and the sagas. ...
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 | The Vampire's Apprentice (Zebra Horror)
Release Date: January 1, 1992| Series: Zebra Horror Author: Richard Lee Byers Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 0821736329 ISBN-13: 9780821736326 Zebra paperback, 1992. "He thirsted for blood....but he hungered for revenge! " Fiction; Horror; Vampires ...
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 | Bloody Bones (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter)
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 | Mail Order Husband
Publication Date: May 11, 2007Penny Jordan doesn't want a husband- she needs one. It's the only way she can save her ranch.Her pickings are slim, so she asks her friend from back east to find one and send him to the Black Hills of the Dakota Territory, ASAP. Penny soon discovers that her mail ordered husband is the last thing she needed- he's nothing more than a mail order problem!Jace Owens doesn't want a wife-again.When his meddling sister-in-law drugs and ships him to the middle of nowhere as a mail order husband, all he can focus on is getting back to Pennsylvania to wring her scrawny ne...
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 | The Complete Curious Mr. Tarrant
Publication Date: July 2003"The Most ImaginativeDetective Stories of Our Times"So wrote Ellery Queen about The Curious Mr. Tarrant, an extraordinary collection of detective stories by Charles Daly King (1895-1963).The cases solved by Trevis Tarrant, during the early 1930's, assisted by his manservant (who is in actuality a Japanese spy) include locked rooms, headless corpses, a vanishing harp, and newly built but haunted house, and other bizarre events.With the encouragement of Ellery Queen, King wrote four additional stories about Mr. Tarrant, some of them becoming "curiouser and curiouser....
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 | DK Readers: Greek Myths
Publication Date: September 29, 2008| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
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 | Fairy Tale Classics ETR Collection (Easy-To-Read Collection)
Release Date: September 15, 2003| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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 | Circles of Seven (Dragons in Our Midst, Book 3)
Publication Date: November 1, 2007| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Circles of Seven is a contemporary fantasy novel, the third in a series of books for pre-teens and young adults. This series inspires young people to pursue faith, courage, and love and to dig deep within to find their God-given strengths, no matter how difficult the circumstances. The first book, Raising Dragons, plunged two teenagers, Billy Bannister and Bonnie Silver, into mind-boggling mysteries, life or death pursuits, and deadly sword-to-sword battles. In the second book, The Candlestone, a mysterious diar...
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 | The Mud Pony (Reading Rainbow Books)
Publication Date: August 1, 1989| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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 | Ronald Morgan Goes to Bat
Release Date: April 1, 1990| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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 | The Milwaukee Brewers (Team Spirit)
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 | TREASURE HUNT: A Book of Clues for Parties
Publication Date: July 25, 2008This book was designed for any party or occasion where gifts are given. Why just hand someone gifts when you can have fun finding them with clues? It has over 100 clues to create a new experience in gift giving. ...
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