 | The Vices
Release Date: August 16, 2011Oliver Vice, forty-one, prominent philosopher, scholar, and art collector, is missing and presumed dead, over the side of Queen Mary 2.Troubled by his friend’s possible suicide, the unnamed narrator of Lawrence Douglas’ new novel launches an all-consuming investigation into Vice’s life history. Douglas, moving backward through time, tells a mordantly humorous story of fascination turned obsession, as his narrator peels back the layers of the Vice family’s rich and bizarre history. At the heart of the family are Francizka, Oliver’s ha...
 |  | Pantaleon Y Las Visitadoras (Narrativa (Punto de Lectura)) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: April 1, 2008| Series: Narrativa (Punto de Lectura) This delightful 1973 satire later made into a motion picture, opens as the prim and proper Captain Pantoja learns he is to be sent to Peru's Amazon frontier on a secret mission for the army: to supply women for the amorous recruits. Sidesplitting complications arise as word of Captain Pantoja's remarkable achievements start to spread. This story underscores the hypocrisy of ''exemplary'' institutions, the eternal debate between need and virtue, truth and lies, and the sometimes-negative consequences of carrying out one's d...
|  | A Book of contemporary nightmares
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|  | Plasticville
Publication Date: March 1, 2000"Plasticville is about the bliss of collecting, invention, and valuing the bits and pieces of popular detritus that constitute our lives. . . . Trinidad's warm intelligence makes poetry deft and true, dazzling and vulnerable, plastic and classic."—Molly Peacock ...
|  | Legends and Tales of the American West (Pantheon Fairy Tale & Folklore Library)
Release Date: September 1, 1998| Series: Pantheon Fairy Tale & Folklore Library From Davy Crockett, Wild Bill Hickok, and Calamity Jane to Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, and Frank and Jesse James, here are more than 130 colorful stories of the pioneers, cowboys, outlaws, gamblers, prospectors, and lawmen who settled the wild west, creating a uniquely American hero and an enduringly fascinating folk mythology.In this wonderfully boisterous treasury of tall tales, everyone and everything is larger than life and bragging is elevated into an art form. Many of these stories are of real peopl...
|  | Words from the Garden: A Collection of Beautiful Poetry, Prose and Quotations
Publication Date: May 1, 2012Perfect for garden lovers, a collection of poetry and prose inspired by all things green and flourishing With quotations from down the ages and through the seasons, this beautifully-designed book contains words of wisdom on everything from allotments to arboretums, from pergolas to potting sheds, and will provide moments of laughter and reflection whether you are cooped up on a rainy day or admiring the fruits of your labour on a summer evening. ...
|  | The Gardener
Publication Date: January 11, 2004The Gardener, a book of prose. Most of the lyrics of love and life, the translations of which from Bengali are published in this book, were written much earlier than the series of religious poems contained in the book name Gitanjali. The verses in this book are far finer and more genuine than even the best in Gitanjali. ...
|  | 50 Harbor Street (Cedar Cove)
Publication Date: January 1, 2010| Series: Cedar Cove Corrie McAfee50 Harbor StreetCedar Cove, WashingtonDear Reader,Considering that I'm married to Cedar Cove's private investigator, you might think I enjoy mysteries. But I don't—especially when they involve us! Roy's been receiving anonymous postcards and messages asking if we "regret the past." We don't know what they mean….On a more positive note, we're both delighted that our daughter, Linnette, has moved to Cedar Cove to work at the new medical clinic. A while ago I attended the humane society's "Dog and Bachel...
|  | School Days (Spenser)
Release Date: October 3, 2006| Series: Spenser When a Massachusetts boy is accused of mass murder, his socially prominent grandmother, who hires Spenser to investigate, is convinced of his innocence. But Spenser isn’t convinced of anything—except that there’s trouble ahead......
|  | Beast of Burden (Cal Innes Novels)
Publication Date: August 11, 2011| Series: Cal Innes Novels In his short career as Manchester’s most indestructible private eye, Callum Innes has been run over by a car, beaten within an inch of his life, shot in the ear, left for dead on a desert roadside, and halfway blown up by a car bomb. Now, mourning the death of his addict brother, walking with a cane, and barely able to speak following a massive drug-related stroke, Cal is a wreck. Enter Manchester ganglord Morris Tiernan to make his life even worse. Tiernan’s ne’er-do-well son Mo has gone missing, and Cal Inne...
|  | Sherlock Holmes Radio Mysteries
Publication Date: November 1, 2002The Golden Age of Radio Series is a collection of audio titles assembled by theme. Each topic in the series features high-quality audio programs compiled together at one incredibly low price.For the First time in half a century, Sherlock Holmes returns to radio in a new series of broadcasts! Here is a collection of newly-conceived tales of the world's First consulting detective, as told by his friend and associate, Dr. John Watson, portrayed by actor Lawrence Albert. Sherlock Holmes Radio Mysteries is produced under authority of the estate of Dame Jean Conan...
|  | Dragon Breath (Eek! Stories to Make You Shriek)
Publication Date: February 1997| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | Iktomi and the Buzzard: A Plains Indian Story
Publication Date: March 1994| Age Level: 4 and up Iktomi the trickster tries to fool a buzzard into carrying him across the river on the buzzard's back. Asides printed in italics may be used by the storyteller to encourage listeners to make their own remarks about the action, as in traditional Iktomi storytelling. ...
|  | Football (Wonder Books: Level 2 Sports)
Publication Date: January 2003| Age Level: 6 and up...
|  | Formula One Race Cars (Pull Ahead Books)
Publication Date: February 1, 2004| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | The Dog Who Loved Tortillas: La perrita que le encantaban las tortillas (Little Diego Book) (English and Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: May 29, 2012| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | Wu-Tang Clan (Hip-Hop, Part 2)
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| | Pocket Devotional for Teens
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|  | Heroes (How to Draw Manga)
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|  | Corrective Reading Comprehension A: Student Edition
Publication Date: March 30, 20071 - Corrective Reading Comprehension Level A Grade Level 3-8 Student Workbook. Student Material. ...
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