 | The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: September 27, 2005| Series: Penguin Classics A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighboring squire—though he sometimes succumbs to the charms of the local girls. When Tom is banished to make his own fortune and Sophia follows him to London to escape an arranged marriage, the adventure begins. A vivid Hogarthian panorama of eighteenth-century life, spiced with danger and intrigue, bawdy exuberance and good-natured aut...
 |  | Eighteen Acres: A Novel
Release Date: July 12, 2011From the former Communications Director for the White House and current political media strategist comes a suspenseful and smart commercial novel about the first female president and all dramas and deceptions she faces both in politics and in love.Eighteen Acres, a description used by political insiders when referring to the White House complex, follows the first female President of the United States, Charlotte Kramer, and her staff as they take on dangerous threats from abroad and within her very own cabinet. Charlotte Kramer, the 45th US President, Melanie K...
|  | Jenna's Cowboy Hero (Love Inspired)
Publication Date: December 1, 2009| Series: Love Inspired Former football player Adam Mackenzie arrives in small-town Oklahoma to fix up a camp for underprivileged kids. But the city slicker doesn't know horse tack from a touchdown. He's desperate for help -- and the pretty rancher next door is the answer to his prayers. War vet Jenna is back from Iraq with a five-year plan: raising her twin boys, running her ranch -- and not falling in love. But she can't say no to gorgeous and kind Adam. Can he make Jenna forget her plan and open her heart to love? --This text refers to the Paperback editi...
|  | Earth Angel
Publication Date: October 9, 2006What if you were an angel with a big mouth but no message? What if all the angels were starting their missions except you? What if God was keeping you in Heaven because your soulmate hadn't asked for you yet?What if one day... he did? Meet Shayna and Kane, two twin souls from opposite ends of the universe.She's a divine messenger in the loudest possible way. He doesn't believe in angels. This is the poignant and humorous story of one prayer and its answer. Believe in miracles. ...
|  | Child Wonder: A Novel (The Lannan Translation Series263)
Release Date: September 27, 2011| Series: The Lannan Translation Series263 *Winner of the prestigious Norwegian Booksellers' Prize**A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection (Holiday 2011)*A glorious evocation of a Norwegian childhood in the early sixties by an author short-listed for the 2009 Dublin IMPAC AwardLittle Finn lives with his mother in an apartment in a working-class suburb of Oslo. Life is a struggle to make ends meet, but he does not mind. When his mother decides to take a lodger to help pay the bills, he watches with interest as she freshens up their small apar...
|  | Erewhon: Over the Range (Forgotten Books)
Publication Date: May 7, 2008Based on his experiences in New Zealand, Samuel Butler wrote this account of a visit to a very peculiar utopian (dystopian, actually) society in the vein of Gullivers' Travels. This is not a blueprint for a better world but a means of satirizing the foibles of Victorian English society. Published anonymously in 1872, this book has influenced a number of successive authors, including G.B. Shaw, and a number of New Zealand utopian authors. Aldous Huxley cited Erewhon as a primary source of his own dystopia, Brave New World. (Quote from sacred-texts.com)About the Au...
|  | Whatever Makes You Happy: A Novel
Release Date: April 14, 2009“An excellent comic novel that interweaves the romance, humor, and pathos of three complicated families.”—Publishers Weekly Three suburban moms who have long been friends decide to show up unannounced at the homes of their thirty-something layabout sons. Their goal: to swoop in and set things right. The result: a hilarious mix that will resonate with mothers who can’t turn a blind eye and their adult sons who can’t quite get it together. ...
|  | Twelve Plays by Shakespeare
Publication Date: November 19, 2004Convenient and inexpensive, this box set features a dozen of the Bard's most popular dramas. Unabridged texts of Hamlet, Richard III, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, Othello, King Lear, Julius Caesar, and Much Ado About Nothing. ...
|  | Relative Values (Acting Edition)
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|  | From Fiction to the Novel
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| | Spatial Dynamics and Female Development in Victorian Art and Novels (Studies in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, V. 20)
Publication Date: June 12, 2003| ISBN-10: 0820462012 | ISBN-13: 978-0820462011Spatial dynamics and imagery surface as distinctive and insightful elements for investigating female figures in Victorian art and literature. This book explores the concept that space can be a productive and creative realm, rather than merely an empty or confining category, for personal development. Through discussing representative Victorian paintings of the mid- to late- 1800s, as well as novels by women authors, Spatial Dynamics and Female Development in Victorian Art and Novels illustrates the ways visual a...
| | The Unity of Nothing
Publication Date: 1999Spencer Powers is a writer of various forms of philosophical and Surrealist literature. ...
|  | Retrieving Bones: Stories and Poems of the Korean War
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|  | Sins of a Virgin
Release Date: August 28, 2012 There is improper, there is scandalous… and then there is Madeline Valdan. To the world, Madeline Valdan is a scandalous courtesan, with society's most eligible gentlemen at her feet. But no one knows her shocking secret: she has never experienced the most intimate touch of any man. So she astonishes the ton by telling them the truth . . . and by announcing the auction of her virginity to the highest bidder. Handsome and disciplined, Gabriel Huntford knows his time is best spent hunting down criminals from the darkest corners of London. As a Bow Street ...
|  | When Butterflies Kiss
Publication Date: October 28, 2001Ten writers-all rising stars-weave a collective novel, chapter by chapter. The story, before it's written, is completely unknown. The first writer creates a brother named Dante, whose biggest desire is to lie tangled in the sweetness of a woman. His life is a chaotic mix of testosterone-charged competition and romantic fiascoes. He could go on this way, dodging his boys' challenges and running from commitment, but for the enigmatic nightmares that torment him at night.When Butterflies Kiss defies convention with its multiple authors and fresh insight. One by...
|  | The Gas Chamber of Sherlock Holmes: And Other Writings on the Holocaust, Revisionism, and Historical Understanding
Publication Date: April 15, 2011Among scholars and the general public, the prevailing consensus holds that millions of European Jews were sent to death in gas chambers as part of an official Nazi policy of mass extermination during the Second World War. So entrenched is this consensus that throughout the Western world those who publicly question its accuracy are now routinely subject to censorship, academic censure, and even criminal prosecution. In contemporary society, no other species of dissident scholarship is met with comparably illiberal reaction.In an intellectual atmosphere thus poi...
|  | El nigromante (Roca Junior) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: June 1, 2011| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up...
|  | Football: Passing (High Interest Books)
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|  | Official Queens Park Rangers FC Annual 2011
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|  | The Always Prayer Shawl (Reading Rainbow Books)
Publication Date: September 1, 2005| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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