 | The Gary Snyder Reader: Prose, Poetry, and Translations
Release Date: April 4, 2000This monumental collection gathers essays, travel journals, letters, poems, and translations from one of the most influential literary voices of the twentieth century.. Gary Snyder has been a major cultural force in America forfive decades-prize-winning poet, environmental activist, Zen Buddhist, and reluctant counterculture guru. Having expanded far beyond the Beat poems that first brought his work into the public eye, Snyder has produced a wide-ranging body ofwork that encompasses his fluency in Eastern literature andculture, his commitment to the environment, an...
 |  | The Secret of Joy
Publication Date: November 17, 2009IS THE HALF SISTER THAT REBECCA STRANDHAS NEVER MET SHORT? TALL? RICH? POOR? PRETTY?FUNNY? MARRIED? LONELY? HAPPY?...Rebecca is about to find out. The New York City paralegal thought nothing could shake her life off its fast track -- which includes her handsome lawyer boyfriend and their extravagant condo. The shocking revelation that she even has a half sister comes from her dying father, in a hospital bed confession of a long-past summer affair...and now the dad she adores has one last wish: would Rebecca deliver a cache of letters he never sent to his ot...
|  | Eleven Minutes: A Novel (P.S.)
Release Date: March 29, 2005| Series: P.S.Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that "love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer. . . ." A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune. Maria's despairing view of love is put to the test when she meets a handsome young painter. In this odyssey of self-discovery, Maria has to choose between pursuing a ...
|  | Legend of the Celtic Stone (Caledonia Series, Book 1)
Publication Date: July 1999An Epic Saga of Scotland From Michael Phillips! Let bestselling author Michael Phillips take you to a place of noblemen, mysterious highlanders, and ancient legends with Caldeonia. Enjoy the beauty, the adventure, and the romance that is Scotland both past and present. "Absolutely smashing! I loved the history-."Mary Hutchison, a fiction fan from Devon, EnglandFollowing on the success of The Secrets of Heathersleigh Hall, Michael Phillips recreates a world of heather-covered moors and evocative highlands where one man's quest to uncover his connection t...
|  | Segu
Release Date: September 1, 1996The year is 1797, and the kingdom of Segu is flourishing, fed by the wealth of its noblemen and the power of its warriors. The people of Segu, the Bambara, are guided by their griots and priests; their lives are ruled by the elements. But even their soothsayers can only hint at the changes to come, for the battle of the soul of Africa has begun. From the east comes a new religion, Islam, and from the West, the slave trade. Segu follows the life of Dousika Traore, the king’s most trusted advisor, and his four sons, whose fates embody the forces tearing at ...
|  | Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (Transaction Large Print Books)
Publication Date: January 30, 1992| Series: Transaction Large Print Books This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | Hard Merchandise (Star Wars: The Bounty Hunter Wars, Book 3)
Release Date: July 6, 1999Boba Fett fears only one enemy--the one he cannot see....Feared and admired, respected and despised, Boba Fett enjoys a dubious reputation as the galaxy's most successful bounty hunter. Yet even a man like Boba Fett can have one too many enemies....When Boba Fett stumbles across evidence implicating Prince Xizor in the murder of Luke Skywalker's aunt and uncle, Fett makes himself an enemy even he fears: the unknown mastermind behind a monstrous deception, who will kill to hide his tracks. Fett also finds himself in possession of an amnesiac young woman named Neelah,...
|  | Moby-Dick
Publication Date: May 19, 2012| ISBN-10: 1477493182 | ISBN-13: 978-1477493182Moby Dick is considered to be one of the Great American Novels and a treasure of world literature. The story tells the adventures of wandering sailor Ishmael, and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab has one purpose on this voyage: to seek out a specific whale—Moby Dick, a ferocious, enigmatic white sperm whale. In a previous encounter, the whale destroyed Ahab's boat and bit off his leg, which now drives Ahab to take revenge. In Moby-Dick, Melville ...
|  | Long Winter Gone: Son of the Plains (Sons of the Plains)
Release Date: October 1, 1990| Series: Sons of the Plains (Book 1) In the first volume of this saga of George Custer, the infamous general takes a lover among the Indians captured in his long winter campaign against the Cheyenne, risking marriage, reputation, and career for her. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel (Penguin Ink) (The Penguin Ink Series)
Release Date: June 29, 2010| Series: The Penguin Ink Series A modern classic, this early novel by Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee centers on the crisis of conscience and morality of the Magistrate-a loyal servant of the Empire working in a tiny frontier town, doing his best to ignore an inevitable war with the "barbarians." ...
|  | All Quiet On The Orient Express
Publication Date: September 8, 1999Innocence, experience and comedy in Cumbria.He's a bit of a handyman. Or, at least, so Mr Parker seems to think. No matter, he'll soon be on that train east to India from these wet lakeland fells. Just as soon as he's finished that little job Mr Parker asked him to do.It wasn't much of a holiday anyway. As the tourists trickled away from the campsite, so did the sunshine, and the hot water, and the provisions at the local shop, and even the good beer. Still, there seemed to be plenty of work to take his mind off these minor disappointments -- as much as he ...
|  | All the Best Programs for Kids
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| | Fabliaux: Ribald Tales from the Old French
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|  | The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
Publication Date: May 9, 1991A volume of songs, rhymes and poems from "The Red Book". They tell of Tom's encounters with Goldberry, with Old Man Willow, who tries to trap Tom inside his trunk, with the Badger-folk, and with the ghostly Barrow-wight, as well as with a princess, trolls, dwarves and legendary beasts. ...
|  | Echoes: Contemporary Art at the Age of Endless Conclusions
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|  | Bitten: Dark Erotic Stories
Publication Date: July 29, 2009Susie Bright brings together love's darkest arrows in this shiver-inducing collection of 15 gothic erotic short stories,with original stories from legends such as author Francesca Lia Block and Supernatural screenwriter Sera Gamble. Delicate illustrations weave throughout the lush package, and printed edges make the baroque book an object to behold. Open alone or share with a lover and devour the mystical characters, forbidden sexual relationships, and private pleasures. ...
|  | When Lightning Strikes
Release Date: October 16, 2010Sarah Douglas is 23, beautiful, smart...and about to marry theperfect guy. Level-headed, nice-looking, honest and intelligent, David du Bois is not only the son of her father's business partner, but the kind of man any mom would want their daughter to marry. Right? Or so she thought...until her mother gives her a mysterious "good luck" charm on the eve of her wedding, telling her that it's a family tradition and if she keeps it with her all night, she will know her heart's true desire.Sarah thinks it's all just a bunch of silly "Gypsy hocus pocus", but she soon ...
|  | Watch Me Die
Publication Date: June 17, 2011Harvey Mapes is a 26-year-old security guard who learned everything he knows about being a private eye from books and TV ... and who is about to discover that the differences between fact and fiction can be fatal.This was a finalist for the Shamus Award for Best Novel from the Private Eye Writers of America and was formerly published under the title "The Man with the Iron On Badge." CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR "WATCH ME DIE"Approaching the level of Lawrence Block is no mean feat, but Goldberg succeeds with this engaging PI novel." Publishers W...
|  | WordGirl: The Incredible Shrinking Allowance
Release Date: December 6, 2011| Age Level: 6 and up...
|  | Best Dad in the Sea (Finding Nemo Step into Reading, Step 1)
Release Date: April 22, 2003| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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