 | Et Tu, Babe
Release Date: August 24, 1993In this fiendishly original new novel, Mark Leyner is a leather-blazer-wearing, Piranha 793-driving, narcotic-guzzling monster who has potential rivals eliminated by his bionically enhanced bodyguards, has his internal organs tattooed, and eavesdrops on the erotic fantasies of Victoria's Secret models -- which naturally revolve around him.Leyner's jet-propelled roller derby through the cultures of celebrity, cyberpunk, and rabid egotism is exhilaratingly bizarre, exhaustingly funny -- and you'd better hope it's just fiction. ...
 |  | I Remember You
Release Date: June 15, 2010Internationally bestselling author Harriet Evans gives readers "the perfect girly read" (Cosmopolitan, UK) in this fun, bittersweet, and irresistibly surprising journey of fresh starts and first loves. Twelve years in bustling London have left Tess Tennant dumped by her boyfriend, out of work, and miserable. Still, maybe taking a new job as a classics professor at the tiny college in her picture-perfect hometown in the English countryside was a bit drastic. Langford’s stone cottages, quaint shops, and lifelong locals feel even smaller than she remembered, but...
|  | The Remedy for Regret
Publication Date: July 1, 2005TessLongren is 28, single, and at a crossroads in herlife. She finally has a job she enjoysas well as a proposal of marriage from a man she loves, but Tesscan’t seem to grasp a future filled with promise and hope. Her mother’s long ago death remains aconstant, though subtle ache that Tess can’t seem tomove past. When childhood friend, Blair Holbrook, asks Tessto accompany her to their childhood home to resolve a situation left unsettledfifteen years ago, Tess falsely imagines that byhelping her friend find peace, she will find co...
|  | Tales of the Mountain Men: Seventeen Stories of Survival, Exploration, and Frontier Spirit
Publication Date: August 1, 2004Long the dominant icon embodying the spirit of America's frontier past, the image of the cowboy no longer stands alone as the ultimate symbol of independence and self-reliance. The great canvas of the western landscape-in art, books, film-is today shared by the figures called "Mountain Men." They were the trappers of the Rocky Mountain fur trade in the years following Lewis and Clark's Expedition of 1804-1806. With their bold journeys peaking, during the period of 1830-1840, they were the first white men to enter the vast wilderness reaches of the Rockies in s...
|  | The Taking of Eden
Publication Date: December 1, 2005Frustrated with life and death situations that she can’t control, Jamie Spencer takes a new job at a mental health facility, where she believes she can make a difference in her patients’ lives. The difference she makes in Eden Carlton’s life turns her world upside down and out of control. A spur-of-the-moment decision sets in motion a turn of events that she is powerless to stop and changes her life and everyone around her forever.Murder and betrayal send three women fleeing for their lives deep into the woods of the Carolinas. With little c...
|  | Weepin' Willie
Release Date: June 9, 2008Richard Grayson was born in Georgia and lived in New York State, working with a declining insurance company after his discharge from the United States Marine Corps. He has spent the last eight years as an author writing the story that must be told. ...
|  | Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)
Publication Date: February 7, 2011<DIV>Jerome K. Jerome's comic masterpiece---and one of the best-known classics of English humor---follows the misadventures of three bungling, Victorian-era bachelors who take off on a rowing excursion up the Thames.</div> ...
|  | Fairy Tales Reimagined: Essays on New Retellings
Publication Date: August 6, 2009| ISBN-10: 0786441151 | ISBN-13: 978-0786441150No mere escapist fantasies, the reimagined fairy tales of the late 20th and early 21st centuries reflect the social, political, and cultural truths of our age with insight, intelligence, and complexity. Sixteen essays consider fairy tales recreated through short stories, novels, poetry, and the graphic novel from both best-selling and lesser-known writers, applying a variety of theoretical perspectives, including postmodernism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, feminism, structuralism, queer theory, and gender studies....
|  | The Arabian Nights (Everyman's Library)
Release Date: June 30, 1992| ISBN-10: 0679413383 | ISBN-13: 978-0679413387(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)These stories (and stories within stories, and stories within stories within stories), told by the Princess Shahrazad under the threat of death if she ceases to amuse, first reached the West around 1700. They fired in the European imagination an appetite for the mysterious and exotic which has never left it. Collected over centuries from India, Persia, and Arabia, and ranging from vivacious erotica, animal fables, and adventure fantasies to pointed Sufi tales, the stories of The Arabia...
|  | Comedy plays for taping II: A collection of six comedy satires for recording
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|  | Treasury of Jewish Love: Poems, Quotations & Proverbs : In Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino and English (Treasury of Love)
Publication Date: November 1, 1994| Series: Treasury of Love Original works appear in Hebrew, Yiddish, and Ladino, alongside their English translations. ...
|  | If I Knew Then What I Know Now: The Self Help Book For Everyone
Publication Date: May 28, 2008This book was written to help you to make the right decisions the first time or aid you in correcting bad decisions of the past.Subjects cover in this book include, Choosing or Changing Careers, Eliminating Bad Debt, The Smart Way To By A Car, Building Wealth, Facing Foreclosure, How to Handle To Much Success, Road Rage, Why Relationships Don't Last, How To Be A Great Lover, Parenting, Abortion, Loosing Weight And Gaining Strength, Sunlight The Silent Killer, Quit Smoking, Do You Have A Drinking Problem? Identifying And Treating Depression and Life Isn't Fair. ...
| | All My Yesterdays Were Steps: Selected Poems of Dora Teitelboim
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|  | Peripheral Light: Selected and New Poems
Publication Date: July 18, 2005"We are poised before...what I prophesy will be a major art."—Harold Bloom"One of Australia's most vivid, energetic and stormy poets, a writer who turns to the natural world with a fierce light."—Edward Hirsch, Washington Post Highly Recommended Poetry Books of 2003 ...
|  | The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art
Publication Date: April 16, 2011Demonstrates how Chinese literary traditions have echoed throughout Japan and Korea for more than 1,000 years.Collection includes landscape paintings, figure paintings, ceramics, lacquer ware and calligraphic scrolls.Chinese classical poems are an international culture code in East Asia. Many diverse factors account for the phenomenon of cross-cultural merging in this region. Using works from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, this catalogue concentrates on the classical Chinese poetry that Japanese and Korean elites learned and then applied to the...
|  | Arthurian Localities
Publication Date: August 10, 2003This book is Essay I of the Arthuriana Or Essays on the Arthurian Romance Cycle as the Formal Material of the New Poesy series. It represents the Arthurian localities, their historical origin, chief country and Fingalian relations. The author believes this article was the first to show that Southern Scotland and the English Border is the chief country of Arthurian localities, and to point out the relation of this district to that of the Fingalian topography of Scotland. Partial Contents: historical origin of Arthurian localities; chief country of Arthurian lo...
|  | The Temptation of the Night Jasmine (Pink Carnation)
Release Date: January 5, 2010| Series: Pink Carnation (Book 5)A New York Times extended list bestseller and the exciting fifth book in the national bestselling Pink Carnation series.After years abroad, Robert, Duke of Dovedale, has returned to England to avenge the murder of his mentor. To uncover the murderer's identity, he must infiltrate the infamous, secret Hellfire Club. But the Duke has no idea that an even more difficult challenge awaits him-in a mistaken, romantic-minded young lady. Charlotte Lansdowne wistfully remembers the Robert of her childhood as a valiant hero among men. T...
|  | Dashing Through the Mall (Wheeler Large Print Book Series)
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|  | Deadly Intentions
Release Date: May 1, 2011She's Hot On The Trail Of A Thief...When Lisa Claxton starts her own cleaning business on Paradise Island, she may finally profit from her talent for whipping a house into shape--in more ways than one. A valuable Claxton heirloom, a golden bowl, is missing, and Lisa has tracked it down to a local home, which she quickly gets herself hired to clean. But when she arrives she finds a dead body--and flees right into the safe arms of an irresistibly handsome man...But She's About To Find So Much More...Injured Navy SEAL Brian Knight came to his grandfather's house to recu...
|  | The Book of Fairies
Release Date: October 3, 2000| Age Level: 10 and up In stories, songs, and poems, fairies have lived tantalizingly close to human folk for centuries. Unpredictable and elusive, they've brought luck and done harm, while people have longed for a glimpse of their magical world. In his illustrations for this rich and varied collection, Michael Hague, one of America's most beloved painters of fantasy, creates a fabled world that belongs to the fairies. There is the lost flower fairy Thumbelina, the cruel and clever goblins of Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market, and the invisible creatures of Jame...
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