 | The Lesbian's Wife
Publication Date: March 17, 2006Aisha Kone receives the surprise of her life for her twenty-first birthday when she learns that her dad has purchased her an all expense trip to Africa. She feels like they are finally starting to repair the relationship that got torn apart when her dad started suspecting that she was leading an alternate lifestyle that was degrading to his position of high esteem in New York City s Muslim community. But, after spending a luxurious week in Africa, Aisha s life gets turned upside down when she s detained by the National Security Police at Abidjan International ...
 |  | Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade
Release Date: August 17, 2010Drawn from the secret, never-before-seen diaries, journals, and sexual records of the novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M. Steward, Secret Historian is a sensational reconstruction of one of the more extraordinary hidden lives of the twentieth century. An intimate friend of Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and Thornton Wilder, Steward maintained a secret sex life from childhood on, and documented these experiences in brilliantly vivid (and often very funny) detail.After leaving the world of academe to become Phil Sparrow, a tattoo artist on Chi...
|  | Roller Babes: The Story Of The Roller Derby Queen
Publication Date: December 14, 2005After tightening her laces with shaking hands, Lottie glanced at the other skaters, who had already rolled awkwardly around the big track. Each skater’s unsteady movements made a low rumble sound that reverberated throughout the empty Armory. The pounding of skates on the wooden surface made it difficult to hear normal voices. The skaters glided and stretched their legs; up on the big track each person appeared larger than life. Lottie noticed that the guys looked so much bigger and faster than the small group of girls. Maybe, she thought, her father w...
|  | Seer
Publication Date: January 1, 2004SEER, set in the Caribbean, traces the mystical adventures of Becka, shaman/healer, as she travels into the spirit-world on a mission to resolve the life and death issues faced by her neighbor's son.Becka endeavors to heal the spirit and thereby heal the body.During these dream-travels she encounters entities and intriguing characters that explode her understanding of "time" and reconfigure her sense of the "real."The plot builds in such a way as to reveal startling developments and revelations about connectedness and the essential unity of people through tim...
|  | Pliny: Natural History, Volume V, Books 17-19 (Loeb Classical Library No. 371)
Publication Date: January 1, 1950| ISBN-10: 0674994094 | ISBN-13: 978-0674994096Pliny the Elder, tireless researcher and writer, is author of the encyclopedic Natural History, in 37 books, an unrivaled compendium of Roman knowledge. The contents of the books are as follows. Book 1: table of contents of the others and of authorities; 2: mathematical and metrological survey of the universe; 3-6: geography and ethnography of the known world; 7: anthropology and the physiology of man; 8-11: zoology; 12-19: botany, agriculture, and horticulture; 20-27: plant products as used in medicine; 28-3...
|  | The Return of the Blue Cat
Release Date: April 17, 2005Who's Who in America lists the order of catsin hunting, fishing, bird-watching, farming,domestic service--the dictionary order of catswho have made it. So begins "Identity Crisis," one of the delightful poems in F. D. Reeve's witty, musical, biting book of verse. In the award-winning poet's seventh volume, the Blue Cat returns saucier and sassier than ever, "a courteous, outspoken, well-read, somewhat randy anarchist ready again to lay down one of his lives for what he believes." The poems that tell the story of the Cat's seemingly immortal existence set a standar...
|  | El gran Gatsby (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: May 16, 2011| ISBN-10: 8499191487 | ISBN-13: 978-8499191485Un misterioso millonario, Jay Gatsby, del que nadie parece saber nada y de quien todos hablan, se ha instalado en una gran mansión a las afueras de Nueva York. Sus fabulosas fiestas reúnen a lo más selecto de la sociedad y se convierten en el acontecimiento del verano. Pero ¿quién es Jay Gatsby? ¿Un gangster, un espía, un filántropo, un asesino? El narrador de esta historia, Nick Carraway, vecino y amigo de Gatsby, tratará de desentrañar el enigma, descubriendo q...
|  | Dangerous Games (Riley Jensen, Guardian, Book 4)
Release Date: March 27, 2007In Melbourne’s urban underworld, there’s a nightclub for every fantasy and desire. But for Riley Jenson, one such club has become an obsession. Riley, a rare hybrid of vampire and werewolf, hasn’t come in pursuit of pleasure but of an unknown killer who’s been using the steamy nightspot as his hunting grounds.Leave it to Riley to find the only ticket into the heavily guarded club: Jin, a deliciously hot-bodied bartender who might just provide the key to unmasking a killer unlike any other in the Directorate’s experience. Taunted by a ...
|  | Eternal Craving (Leisure Paranormal Romance)
Publication Date: May 1, 2009| Series: Leisure Paranormal Romance He's been promised a new life as the hunter he once was. But Al soon learns that all the rules have changed. Now he must control his most basic urges—the need to kill, to feed, to mate. And the woman he wants looks at him with both heat and fear in her eyes. Jenna Maloy doesn't buy this story that he's come to Philadelphia to save souls. She seems to see through the layers of deception to the primitive heart of him. With her beside him, Al stalks the dark forces that crouch in the city's night shadows. But the real batt...
|  | Farewell, My Lovely
Release Date: July 12, 1988Marlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thieves, another murder, a fortune-teller, a couple more murders, and more corruption than your average graveyard. ...
|  | The Funniest Pig in the World (Babe: The Sheep Pig / Pictureback)
Release Date: June 30, 1998Everyone's favorite four-legged hero is back! In "The Funniest Pig in the World", Babe hopes to win a prize at the fair. While taking in all the sights, he wanders into a tent where a clown's disguise falls on him. As he stumbles around, the crowd roars with laughter at the new clown. Babe is the hit of the fair after all. Full color. ...
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|  | Lucky 13: Survival in Space
Publication Date: October 1, 2008| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Heroism in outer space is the legacy of the lunar mission Apollo 13. On April 11, 1970, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert were launched into space as the crew of Apollo 13. Their mission, like the missions of Apollo 11 and Apollo 12, was to explore the lunar surface. But that mission was never completed. As they began the procedure for landing on the Moon, the spacecraft was rocked by a violent explosion. Oxygen began pouring out of the Service Module, and the spacecraft began to lose power. Jim ...
|  | Our Changing Planet: How Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and Weather Shape Our Planet (Scholastic Voyages of Discovery. Natural History, 17)
Publication Date: September 1996| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | Houghton Mifflin Science Indiana: Support Reader Chapter 1 Level 3 Parts Of Plants (Science Support Readers)
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|  | Smasher (Stepping Stone,paper)
Release Date: May 23, 2006| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | I (Heart) Robert Pattinson
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|  | 31 Days To Lovely
Publication Date: July 17, 201231 Days To Lovely is an introspective look at the biblical requirement to forgiveness.In this beautiful and easy-to-read month-long journey, Sarah encourages the Christian Woman to release her hurts and bitterness by fully embracing the beauty of her Salvation.To dwell on those things that are lovely and to allow her thoughts to change her life. This book is for anyone who is struggling with unforgiveness or anger and pain.Through the Word of God, her own testimony... ...
| | The Mummy (Monster Chronicles)
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|  | The Knowledge Entrepreneur
Publication Date: November 29, 2005| ISBN-10: 0810852918 | ISBN-13: 978-0810852914In a knowledge economy, it is most important that creative people with ideas, information skills, experience, and knowledge become engaged in entrepreneurial activity involving the creation and use of new knowledge for community, organizational, and personal development, in addition to developing new products and services. This book helps those who wish to engage in entrepreneurial activity realize that they too can work independently, both as an individual and within an organization.The Knowledge Entrepren...
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