 | Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition
Release Date: April 5, 2011Fifty years after its original publication, Catch-22 remains a cornerstone of American literature and one of the funniest—and most celebrated—books of all time. In recent years it has been named to “best novels” lists by Time, Newsweek, the Modern Library, and the London Observer. Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real problem is not the enemy—it is his own army, wh...
 |  | My Princess Treasury
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|  | Missing Max: A Novel
Release Date: June 15, 2010When baby Max is kidnapped during Mardi Gras, Jane and Kyle Madison’s life falls apart. What their daughter, Melanie, does next is unthinkable. Max vanished into thin air while in the care of his teenage sister, Melanie. Six months later, the family is a shadow of its former self: Melanie blames herself and is acting out and rebellious; Jane is obsessed with finding Max; and Kyle, a lawyer, struggles to cope with his own grief—and a persistent suspicion that one of his cases is connected to Max’s disappearance. With her family in turmoil and her m...
|  | The Spirit of Lawsonia
Publication Date: March 28, 2005The Golf Courses of LawsoniaThe LinksOpened for play in May, 1930, the Links course remains unique to date. Designed by William Langford, the course is arranged in the Scottish golf links tradition. Elevated greens, unusually severe bunkers, and open rolling terrain still create great difficulty. According to legend, a boxcar is buried beneath the seventh green providing its extraordinary elevation.Year after year, decade after decade, the Links layout has essentially reserved a spot on lists of the nation’s top 100 public courses in national golf publica...
|  | Rough Music
Release Date: May 8, 2001Beautifully written and deeply compassionate, Rough Music is a novel of one family at two defining points in time. Seamlessly alternating between the present day and a summer thirty years past, its twin stories unfold at a cottage along the eastern coast of England.Will Pagett receives an unexpected gift on his fortieth birthday, two weeks at a perfect beach house in Cornwall. Seeking some distance from the married man with whom he's having an affair, he invites his aging mother and father to share his holiday, knowing the sun and sea will be a welcome change for. Bu...
|  | The Cambridge Companion to English Poets (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Publication Date: March 7, 2011| Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature This volume provides lively and authoritative introductions to twenty-nine of the most important British and Irish poets from Geoffrey Chaucer to Philip Larkin. The list includes, among others, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Wordsworth, Browning, Yeats and T. S. Eliot, and represents the tradition of English poetry at its best. Each contributor offers a new assessment of a single poet's achievement and importance, with readings of the most important poems. The essays, written by leading experts, are personal responses, ...
|  | Trick 'r Treat: Tales of Mayhem, Mystery, and Mischief
Publication Date: September 29, 2007Trick 'r Treat delves into the four stories that make up the feature film, Trick 'r Treat releasing in October 2007. It reflects Dougherty's personal take on the filmmaking process, details how the ideas and art came together, and presents it with exclusive special features in a unique format. The genre encompasses drama, horror, thriller...mixed with a good dose of twisted humor. Set in a small suburban town, Trick 'r Treat explores Halloween traditions while following a group of people trying to survive the most terrifying night of the year. From a seria...
|  | Chansons Des Rues Et (Poesie/Gallimard) (French Edition)
Publication Date: June 1, 1982| Series: Poesie/Gallimard (Book 162) This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.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...
|  | An Anthology of German Poetry 1830-1880
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|  | Lucky Table
Publication Date: April 1, 2002| ISBN-10: 0864734069 | ISBN-13: 978-0864734068This collection shows Vincent O'Sullivan-one of New Zealand's leading poets-at the height of his artistic powers. Demonstrating the author's effortless command of a wide range of poetic forms, the varied themes range from satirical treatments of contemporary intellectual and political culture, to lyric poems on the intimate themes of love and mortality. Lucky Table was shortlisted for the 2001 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. ...
|  | Ancrene Wisse: Guide for Anchoresses (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: March 1, 1994| Series: Penguin Classics This classic of English devotional literature was written for three anchoresses by a chaplain in about 1230 and is divided into eight sections, each dealing in an accessible way with one division of the religious rule. As well as being of historical importance, it is also a work of great charm and expressiveness, and is regarded as one of the greatest prose work of the Middle Ages. ...
|  | The Sleep of Reason: Fantasy and Reality from the Victorian Age to the First World War
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|  | Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett
Publication Date: May 1, 2001A literary event: the letters, both private and professional, of Dashiell Hammett, creator of Sam Spade and father of the hardboiled crime novel. . In his five great crime novels, all of them written in a magnificent burst of creativity between 1927 and 1935, Dashiell Hammett gave America a cast of immortal characters-Sam Spade, the Continental Op, and Nick and Nora Charles, mold-breaking, red-blooded alternatives to Sherlock Holmes and Lord Peter Wimsey. In the words of Raymond Chandler, Hammett "gave murder back to the kind of people who commit it for reasons, ...
|  | The March Up Country: A Translation of Xenophon's Anabasis (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)
Publication Date: March 1, 1958| Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks The famous chronicle of the wealthy Athenian leader Xenophon, brought to life for the modern reader ...
|  | The Apocalypse Watch
Release Date: April 1, 1996Deep in the Hausruck Mountains of Austria, there is a remote hideaway—the fortress-like nerve center of an ominous movement, the Brotherhood of the Watch.American agent Harry Latham has penetrated the movement, a neo-Nazi organization that was born in the days after the Third Reich's defeat and whose deadly tentacles have spread to the United States and beyond.Now, after three years in deep cover, and on the eve of his most spectacular success, Harry Latham has disappeared.Drew Latham, Special Officer for Consular Operations in Paris, is frantic to discover h...
| !["H" is for Homicide (Kinsey Millhone Mysteries)](https://imageproxy.pixnet.cc/imgproxy?url=https://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Rbm%2Bl5QkL._SL500_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-big,TopRight,35,-73_OU01_SS500_.jpg&width=150 ""H" is for Homicide (Kinsey Millhone Mysteries)") | "H" is for Homicide (Kinsey Millhone Mysteries)
Release Date: November 27, 2007| Series: Kinsey Millhone Mysteries (Book 8) #1 New York Times bestselling author Sue Grafton’s PI Kinsey Millhone tackles insurance fraud in her latest outing—and finds that she’ll have to commit some deceit of her own to catch a cold-blooded killer…H IS FOR HUSTLER…When PI Kinsey Millhone’s good friend and colleague Parnell Perkins is found murdered in the parking lot behind California Fidelity Insurance, she can’t believe he had any enemies. The only clue that raises a red flag for Kinsey is one of Parnell̵...
|  | An Unacceptable Death (Munch Mancini Novels)
Release Date: December 27, 2005| Series: Munch Mancini Novels One thing about Miranda Mancini that has never changed is the name everyone knows her by---Munch. But the child abused by her father and sent into prostitution, the young girl who stole money because she couldn't do without her drugs, the woman who spent awful months in prison---that person no longer exists. Instead, Munch Mancini is the surrogate "mother" of a friend's loving little girl, a woman who can top any male car mechanic's talents with a tool, and the unbelievably happy fiancée of police detective Enrique "Rico" Cha...
|  | Death with Reservations (Pennyfoot Hotel Mysteries)
Release Date: January 1, 1998| Series: Pennyfoot Hotel Mysteries Check into the Pennyfoot Hotel for delightful tales of detection...The doctor claims food poisoning killed Pennyfoot guest, Lord Sittingdon. But Cecily finds this hard to believe. Now she'll have to do some investigating of her own -- before murder becomes the daily special... ...
|  | Vendetta: An Aurelio Zen Mystery
Release Date: September 1, 1998In Italian police inspector Aurelio Zen, Michael Dibdin has given the mystery one of its most complex and compelling protagonists: a man wearily trying to enforce the law in a society where the law is constantly being bent. In this, the first novel he appears in, Zen himself has been assigned to do some law bending. Officials in ahigh government ministry want him to finger someone--anyone--for the murder of an eccentric billionaire, whose corrupt dealings enriched some of the most exalted figures in Italian politics.But Oscar Burolo's murder would seem to be no...
|  | Holly Brown and the Dragon Dingle Continuing Adventures: Special Edition (Heather and Holly Brown Series)
Publication Date: December 1, 2008| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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