 | Last Resort Hb
Publication Date: May 7, 1998Placed in Florida's Key West, this novel from Alison Lurie features Jenny, the devoted wife of a famous naturalist. Worried by his depressed state, Jenny encourages him to take a much-needed break. The author won the Pulitzer Prize with her novel "The Truth about Lorin Jones". ...
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 | The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 21
Publication Date: November 9, 2010| Series: Mammoth Book of Best New Horror (Book 21) This is the world’s premier annual showcase of horror and dark fantasy fiction, representing the most outstanding new short stories and novellas. It remains the world’s leading anthology dedicated solely to presenting the best in contemporary horror fiction. ...
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 | Gain: A Novel
Release Date: September 29, 2009Gain braids together two stories on very different scales. In one, Laura Body, divorced mother of two and a real-estate agent in the small town of Lacewood, Illinois, plunges into a new existence when she learns that she has ovarian cancer. In the other, Clare & Company, a soap manufacturer begun by three brothers in nineteenth-century Boston, grows over the course of a century and a half into an international consumer products conglomerate based in Laura's hometown. Clare's stunning growth reflects the kaleidoscopic history of America; Laura Body's life is ch...
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 | Jack Tier
Publication Date: January 1, 2009| ISBN-10: 1443804959 | ISBN-13: 978-1443804950| Edition: New edition Jack Tier is one of Fenimore Cooper's later novels, and as often with his later work uses the basic outline of a form he had often used - seagoing romance - as a setting for an unusual subject of thought - here transvestism, in effect. ...
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 | Center Cut (Hardscrabble Books-Fiction of New England)
Publication Date: August 31, 2006| Series: Hardscrabble Books-Fiction of New England "Imagine a wise-cracking Tiger Woods as Sherlock Holmes," says bestselling novelist Tess Gerritsen."That's the sort of lovable hero John Corrigan has created in this new mystery series." Corrigan once again captures life--and death--on the PGA Tour in his new mystery featuring Jack Austin, native of Maine and professional golfer.After narrowly missing his first tournament win at the conclusion of Snap Hook, Jack has begun a new season in the worst slump of his career. Since he now has a family to support, th...
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 | The Sportswriter: Bascombe Trilogy (1)
Release Date: June 13, 1995As a sportswriter, Frank Bascombe makes his living studying people--men, mostly--who live entirely within themselves. This is a condition that Frank himself aspires to. But at thirty-eight, he suffers from incurable dreaminess, occasional pounding of the heart, and the not-too-distant losses of a career, a son, and a marriage. In the course of the Easter week in which Ford's moving novel transpires, Bascombe will end up losing the remnants of his familiar life, though with his spirits soaring. ...
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 | Joyce Cho Plays
Publication Date: March 10, 2009| ISBN-10: 0981753302 | ISBN-13: 978-0981753300| Edition: 1st Drama. "The five playwrights of Joyce Cho: Scott Adkins, Kelly Copper, Karinne Keithley, Sibyl Kempson and Amber Reed, are among the most exciting, imaginative and profound theater writers in our time, in any time. Joyce Cho is a genius, and a genial one. No one is thinking as deeply and as complexly on what our theater is and is not; nor on what she could be. I do not understand the work of these writers in the same way I do not understand the sky, the sea, and the secret of the forest. They ar...
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 | Fate of a Cockroach and Other Plays (African Writers)
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 | Into The Garden: A Wedding Anthology: Poetry and Prose on Love and Marriage
Release Date: April 8, 1994For brides and grooms who want to give their weddings new depth and meaning, two acclaimed poet-translators have gathered a stunning collection of poems and prose that will add a unique and personal dimension to the ceremony. ...
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 | Claudian: Volume I (Loeb Classical Library No. 135)
Publication Date: January 1, 1922| ISBN-10: 0674991508 | ISBN-13: 978-0674991507Claudius Claudianus, Latin poet of great affairs, flourished during the joint reigns (394–5 CE onwards) of the brothers Honorius (Emperor in the West) and Arcadius (in the East). Apparently a native of Greek Alexandria in Egypt, he was, to judge by his name, of Roman descent, though his first writings were in Greek, and his pure Latin may have been learned by him as a foreign language. About 395 CE he moved to Italy (Milan and Rome) and though really a pagan, became a professional court-poet composing fo...
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 | Sinful
Publication Date: May 1, 2010In Victorian England vice of every kind can be purchased, and Matthew, the Earl of Wallingford, makes certain he avails himself of every possible pleasure. Bored and jaded, he is as well-known for his coldness as for his licentious affairs with beautiful women.While these numerous dalliances fulfill Matthew's every physical need, they secretly leave him numb and emotionally void. Until one night when he finds himself beaten, eyes bandaged and in the care of a nurse with the voice of an angel—and a gentle touch that soothes the darkness in him and makes him...
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 | Catching The Moon
Publication Date: May 1, 2007| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up From the bestselling author of THE BEE SEASON, a memorable first book for children.When the old woman began to fish at night under the watching moon, the fishermen shook their heads - she'd never catch anything that way. But the old fisherwoman was wilier than they knew. The waves had risen to take bites out of all the fishing shacks, and what she was hoping to catch was the person who controlled the tides - the man in the moon.A book that explores the unlikely friendship between a salty old woman and the sweetest man...
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 | Winning Lacrosse for Girls (Winning Sports for Girls)
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 | Camping Fun Sticker Activity Book (Dover Little Activity Books)
Publication Date: May 21, 2003| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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 | Temperate Forests (Ecosystems)
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 | Planet in Peril (Horrible Geography)
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 | Life on the Mayflower (Thanksgiving)
Publication Date: January 2, 2011| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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 | The Apple State Treasure Hunt: A Story About Washington (Fact & Fable: State Stories Set 3)
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 | Good News Bible for Children
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 | The Complete Book of Origami: Step-by Step Instructions in Over 1000 Diagrams (Dover Origami Papercraft)
Publication Date: January 1, 1989| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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