 | Medicine Dream: Being the Further Adventures of Burr Henderson
Publication Date: February 26, 2009Young Burr Henderson, who survived an airplane crash in the Arizona desert in Medicine Walk, returns to fight for the ranch that he inherited from his father, and must survive another encounter with death in the unforgiving wasteland. ...
 |  | Dauntless Homecoming
Publication Date: July 21, 2010Sometimes, the most alien place you can go is back home again. Set hundreds of years in the future, this novel tells the story of the crew of The Dauntless, one of mankind's first interstellar ships, as they return to Earth. It took them hundreds of years, Earth time, to make their voyage. When they return, they initially believe their adventuring to be over, but it is only then that their real journey begins. Their world had changed in unexpected ways. It is ruled by a supreme ruler, the king, accompanied by powerful creatures known as the Purnarkat. The crew ...
|  | Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Release Date: May 22, 2001| Series: Tomb Raider THE POWER... An ancient relic called the All Seeing Eye that grants the owner the ultimate power in the universe. A power so immense that those who possess it could rule the world.THE ILLUMINATI... A secret brotherhood hell-bent on finding the All Seeing Eye and taking over the world. A sinister band of men who will stop at nothing to fulfill their diabolical plot.THE HERO... Lara Croft The greatest tomb-raiding high-flying adventurer of all time, who just so happens to hold the key to finding the All Seeing Eye.Through the living jungles...
|  | Other Men's Wives: A Novel
Release Date: June 26, 2007Denmark Wheeler had it all: a gorgeous wife, Sierra, whom he passionately loved, and a respectable job that allowed him to keep her living in the style to which she was accustomed. The good life wasn’t handed to him on a silver platter, though. Growing up in the Cleveland ghetto, his father was shot by a drug addict, he worked the streets to help his sister through college, and he made his fair share of enemies along the way. Yet not even his tough upbringing prepared him for the mysterious DVD that showed up on his doorstep, its contents revealing an explici...
|  | Mr. Monk Is Cleaned Out
Release Date: December 7, 2010| Series: Mr. Monk California and Adrian Monk are in a financial crisis when he's fired by the SFPD and finds his savings are gone. Bob Sebes, the leader of Reinier Investments, swindled his clients, including Monk. Whenakey witness is killed, Monk is convince that Sebes, under house-arrest, did it. Being jobless and broke, Monk can devote all of his obsessive energy to solving this latest mystery. ...
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|  | The Mauritius Command (Aubrey-Maturin)
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|  | Briefing for a Descent Into Hell (Vintage International)
Release Date: July 14, 2009| Series: Vintage International In this ambitious novel of madness and release, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Doris Lessing imagines the fantastical "inner-space" life of an amnesiac.Charles Watkins, a Professor of Classics at Cambridge University, has suffered a breakdown, confined to a mental hospital as his friends and doctors attempt to bring him back to reality. But Watkins has embarked on a tremendous pyschological adventure that takes him from a spinning raft in the Atlantic to a ruined stone city on a tropical island to an outer-space journey ...
|  | Clouds
Publication Date: April 1982| ISBN-10: 0865161259 | ISBN-13: 978-0865161252Text with facing translation, commentary and notes. (Aris and Phillips 1982) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Sophocles : Antigone (Focus Classical Library)
Publication Date: September 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 0941051250 | ISBN-13: 978-0941051255This is an English translation of Sophocles’ tragedy of Antigone and her fate when she decides to bury her dead brother Polyneices. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture. ...
|  | Ship Fever: Stories
Publication Date: November 17, 19961996 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.The elegant short fictions gathered hereabout the love of science and the science of love are often set against the backdrop of the nineteenth century. Interweaving historical and fictional characters, they encompass both past and present as they negotiate the complex territory of ambition, failure, achievement, and shattered dreams. In "Ship Fever," the title novella, a young Canadian doctor finds himself at the center of one of history's most tragic epidemics. In "The English Pupil," Linnaeus, in old age, watche...
|  | The Corn Maiden
Publication Date: November 1, 2011An incomparable master storyteller in all forms, in The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares Joyce Carol Oates spins six imaginative tales of suspense. “The Corn Maiden” is the gut-wrenching story of Marissa, a beautiful and sweet eleven-year-old girl with hair the color of corn silk. Taken by an older girl from her school who has told two friends in her thrall of the Indian legend of the Corn Maiden, in which a girl is sacrificed to ensure a good crop, Marissa is kept in a secluded basement and convinced that the world has ended. Marissa’s seem...
|  | Antho de La Poe Japon (Poesie/Gallimard) (French Edition)
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|  | Millrat
Publication Date: August 1, 1999Poetry. Michael Casey was born in Lowell, Massachusetts and worked as a kettleman in a textile mill dye house in nearby Lawrence. We hope that the two former employees/ of maintenance and the stockroom/ recently incarcerated at the Billerica Jail/ will once again become constructive/ citizens after appropriate rehabilitation. [Casey's] real interest is human behavior. That's why he refrains from moralizing; that's why his poems are so rich ... a genuine work of art -- The Nation. In reading Casey's poems we ought to remember that poetry often arises from an ex...
| | Magnetic North
Publication Date: January 1, 2006A landmark anthology of poetry by emerging poets from the northh of Ireland who are making their mark at the start of the twenty-first century. This wide ranging selection covers 29 poets. ...
| | Wonmun sihwa chongnim (Kkachi tongyanghak) (Korean Edition)
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|  | The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: October 15, 2008| Series: Oxford World's Classics John Polidori's classic tale "The Vampyre"(1819), was a product of the same ghost-story competition that produced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The present volume selects thirteen other tales of mystery and the macabre, including the works of James Hogg, J.S. LeFanu, Letitia Landon, Edward Bulwer, and William Carelton. The introduction surveys the genesis and influence of "The Vampyre" and its central themes and techniques, while the Appendices contain material closely associated with its composition and publication, includin...
|  | Burn
Release Date: March 29, 2005In California the hills are on fire. Not a good sign for Andrew Kindler, who just came from back east to get away from his past–as an arsonist. In fact, almost from the moment he sets foot in his cousin’s Santa Monica beach house, the heat starts swirling around him. First there’s the cop who thinks Andrew might know something about a murder suspect. Then there’s the suspect’s beautiful sister, who is willing to pay Andrew $5,000 for the same information.But Andrew really uninformed. And with a sensational murder case burning a h...
|  | Gracie & Grandma Underwater
Publication Date: September 1, 2008| Age Level: 3 and up...
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