 | The Joke's on Me
Publication Date: June 28, 2011Frankie Goldberg is a former actress and stand-up comic whose life in Hollywood falls apart with an exclamation mark when a mudslide destroys her hopes, her home, and her entire collection of impractical footwear. Needing comfort, she returns to her mother's B&B in Woodstock, New York, where she spent her teen years doing chores and chasing after the handyman's hot, high-school-jock son. But the joke's on her. Now she has to deal with the mess she left behind, including her non-relationship with her bossy older sister and their mother's illness. As if her n...
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 | Vampire Clans
Publication Date: September 6, 2008For centuries the Montare and Corala Clans have co-existed in relative peace. The war, which previously raged for three millennia, came to an anti-climactic end with the simplest of actions; pen and paper. The Diurnal Clans, led by Montare, had begun a campaign of unity; to unite not only the vampire world, but the human one as well. But a recent epidemic had led some within the vampire world to believe that action to be unsanctioned by the Gods. A virus, unlike anything ever seen, had begun to sweep through the Clans, felling the greatest of them. As the p...
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 | The Dorothy Dunnett Companion
Release Date: July 10, 2001Here is a lovingly assembled, essential A-Z companion to Dorothy Dunnett’s brilliant Lymond Chronicles and the first fivenovels in theHouse of Niccolò series.Elspeth Morrison has re-created the author’s exhaustive original research, documenting her myriad sources and literary references. Foreign phrases are translated; poems and quotations presented in full; historical figures and events fleshed out; subtle allusions–and there are many–noted. From the origins of the Arabic drink qahveh to a recipe for quince paste, from the medical ...
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 | A Week in Winter : A Novel
Publication Date: May 6, 2002When Maudie Todhunter finally decides she must sell Moorgate, her beautiful farmhouse on the edge of Bodmin Moor, she anticipates strong objections from her family - particularly from Selina, her stepdaughter, with whom she has never seen eye to eye. But no one could have predicted the feelings that Moorgate evokes or the consequences... --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
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 | Everyone Remembers The Play
Release Date: November 21, 2011Millions of people have become bored going through the routine church services, listening to the same presentations over and over. In Everyone Remembers the Play, you will see a collection of five Bible stories or Bible principles with a modern-day twist to them. As you read these plays, be prepared for an adventurous encounter. These plays are based on the stories of: The Prodigal Son - Initially, Sister Perla refuses to forgive Brother Brown for leaving the church for so many years, but she recognizes that she needs forgiveness herself when she realizes that ...
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 | Letras E Imagenes (Spanish Edition)
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 | Compared to What. Selected Poems 1971-2003
Publication Date: May 16, 2005Laurie Duggan was born in Melbourne in 1949 and lives in Brisbane. He is the author of eleven collections of poetry in Australia, including the remarkable volume "The Ash Range" (1987), which won the Victorian Premier's New Writing Award, and also a volume of cultural history "Ghost Nation: Imagined Space and Australian Visual Culture 1901-1939" (2001). This book is Duggan's first collection to be published in Britain and the USA, and is a career overview which introduces a vibrant and colourful new voice which will sound familiar at first - with its obvious inf...
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 | Never Look Back
Release Date: June 28, 2005Linda Lael Miller delivers "heart-stopping suspense" (Winter Haven News, FL) in her New York Times bestsellers featuring savvy defense attorney Clare Westbrook and sexy homicide detective Tony Sonterra.A hungry attraction. A hidden enemy.A multimillion-dollar inheritance from the father she never knew has allowed Clare Westbrook to turn a storefront in a tough Phoenix neighborhood into the legal firm of her dreams. But when explosive shots take out her street-level windows -- and nearly take her life -- Clare must surrender to Tony Sonterra's protection if she ...
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 | The Lost Duchess of Greyden Castle
Release Date: June 1, 1990Vanessa never expected that a year after her sister Caroline’s violent death, Richard, Duke of Greyden would ask her to marry him. Her dream became a nightmare when she learned that Richard had an identical twin who hated him, a mother who shunned Vanessa, and a sister who might be certifiably mad. And now someone was trying to kill Vanessa… Gothic romance by Nina Coombs Pykare; originally published by Zebra Books --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
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 | Night Fall
Publication Date: November 6, 2007Now in trade paperback for the first time, bestselling author Nelson DeMille brings you the triumphant return of Detective John Corey, in this #1 New York Times bestselling novel that investigates what really happened to TWA Flight 800. ...
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 | The Nervous System (Akashic Urban Surreal Series)
Publication Date: July 3, 2012| Series: Akashic Urban Surreal Series A Barnes and Noble Mystery Book Club Summer Reading Pick!"Dewey is a seriously weird dude, obsessed with Purell...and generally trying to survive in a world that's been unraveled from manifold disasters...Whiplash prose, teeth-gnashing dialogue and post-civilization concepts that make a crazy (amateur) librarian in a pitch-black world a hall of a lot of fun...A good time for fans of the likes of Charlie Huston and Charles Stross."--Kirkus Reviews"A taut, action movie-violent mystery that will appeal to fans of Larson's earl...
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 | Writer's Guide to Police Organization, Crime Investigation and Detection
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 | Great Race, The (Chinese Legends Trilogy)
Publication Date: September 1, 1997| Age Level: 8 and up...
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 | Hoop-La: Riddles about Basketball (You Must Be Joking!)
Publication Date: September 1993| Age Level: 4 and up...
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 | Dr Seuss Green Eggs and Ham and Other Stories Jigsaw Large (Jigsaw Books)
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 | Paul Revere: Boston Patriot (Childhood of Famous Americans Series)
Release Date: October 31, 1986| Age Level: 8 and up...
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 | Franklin and the Hero (Franklin (Scholastic Paperback))
Publication Date: October 2000| Age Level: 4 and up...
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 | What Do You Do with a Kangaroo? - Audio
Publication Date: June 1, 2008| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up The classic story of a little girl and some very bossy animals, from the beloved creator of Little Critters and There's a Nightmare in my Closet.Format: Paperback book and CDIf a bossy kangaroo jumped through your window AND started telling you what to do AND refused to go away AND had all kinds of other animals joining him...what would you do?Would you tell that kangaroo a thing or two? ...
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 | I the Fly
Publication Date: September 15, 2008| Age Level: 5 and up This whimsical story follows the adventures of an ordinary housefly, encountering many precarious scenarios with people, food, and objects. Written from the perspective of the fly, Turner creates a topsy-turvy adventure where even the tiniest of circumstances and actions seem life-altering. ...
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 | A Crossing of Zebras: Animal Packs in Poetry
Publication Date: April 1, 2008| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up Everyone has heard the phrase "a school of fish." But what about "a rumba of rattlesnakes," "an army of ants," or "a crash of rhinos"? Derived from both oral and written traditions, collective nouns go back centuries. These terms not only charm us with their sound, but they provide a bit of insight into animal behavior. Readers can find these and other terms - from alley cats to zebras - in fourteen thought-provoking poems by Marjorie Maddox. She and artist Philip Huber create a wonde...
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