| The Beautiful Mystery: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
Release Date: August 28, 2012| Series: Chief Inspector Gamache (Book 8) The brilliant new novel in the New York Times bestselling series by Louise Penny, one of the most acclaimed crime writers of our time No outsiders are ever admitted to the monastery of Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups, hidden deep in the wilderness of Quebec, where two dozen cloistered monks live in peace and prayer. They grow vegetables, they tend chickens, they make chocolate. And they sing. Ironically, for a community that has taken a vow of silence, the monks have become world-famous for their ...
| | The Valedictorian and Other Stories
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| | Naked Heat (Nikki Heat)
Release Date: September 28, 2010| Series: Nikki Heat Nikki Heat and Jameson Rook are together again in Richard Castle’s thrilling follow-up to his New York Times bestseller, Heat Wave.When New York’s most vicious gossip columnist, Cassidy Towne, is found dead, Heat uncovers a gallery of high profile suspects, all with compelling motives for killing the most feared muckraker in Manhattan. Heat’s murder investigation is complicated by her surprise reunion with superstar magazine journalist Jameson Rook. In the wake of their recent breakup, Nikki would rather not deal with...
| | A Christmas Story: The Book That Inspired the Hilarious Classic Film
Release Date: October 28, 2003A beloved, bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana—the book that inspired the equally classic Yuletide film.The holiday film A Christmas Story, first released in 1983, has become a bona fide Christmas perennial, gaining in stature and fame with each succeeding year.Its affectionate, wacky, and wryly realistic portrayal of an American family’s typical Christmas joys and travails in small-town Depression-era Indiana has entered our imagination and our hearts with a force equal to It’s a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street.Th...
| | The Enclave
Publication Date: July 1, 2009When Lacey McHenry accepts a prestigious research fellowship at the world-renowned Kendell-Jakes Longevity Institute, she sees it as a new start on life. But a disturbing late-night encounter with an intruder leads to an unexpected cover-up by Institute authorities, and she soon realizes there's more going on than she ever imagined. She finds a supporter in genetics researcher Cameron Reinhardt. However, Reinhardt is a favorite of the Institute's director, and she can't help wondering if he, too, is in on the cover-up. The brilliant but absentminded researcher t...
| | Dead Man's Gold
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| | The Soft Machine
Publication Date: September 1992In Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs revealed his genius. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventure that will take us even further into the dark recesses of his imagination, a region where nothing is sacred, nothing taboo. Continuing his ferocious verbal assault on hatred, hype, poverty, war, bureaucracy, and addiction in all its forms, Burroughs gives us a surreal space odyssey through the wounded galaxies in a book only he could create. ...
| | Plough the Furrow
Publication Date: December 1994| ISBN-10: 0330333798 | ISBN-13: 978-0330333795| Edition: New edition Lincolnshire, 1910. Shunned by her own family, desperate for work a place to stay, Esther Everatt walks through the night to Sam Brumby's farm, seeking the chance to earn her keep. Reluctantly, the old man takes her on. Able to work alongside any man, Esther soon earns Sam's grudging respect and affection, and at last feels she has found a home she can call her own. But her peace and security are cruelly shattered when old Sam dies: as a woman, she has no right to inherit the lease on the...
| | Yes, But Is It Good for the Jews?: A Beginner's Guide, Volume 1
Release Date: October 3, 2006From the Amish to Zoolatry, this hilarious tour of world history and culture will answer the question on everyone's lips this Chanukah: "Yes, but is it good for the Jews?" Jews have long evaluated everything from current events to dinner menus through the prism of "Yes But is it good for the Jews." Finally, there is a method by which to evaluate this burning question--the ancient art of Judology. It's easy: Add "Anti-Semitic Potential" (an open and obvious threat to the Jews) + "Impact on the World" (10 years or more) x "The J-Factor" (level of "jewishness")= Tzu...
| | Aboriginal Myths, Legends & Fables
Publication Date: February 1, 1999A.W. Reed. This book presents a wealth of poetic and imaginative tales from Aboriginal cultural heritage. While retelling the stories simply, this book captures the mystical bonds that exist between Aboriginal people, their environment and the spirit life of the Dreamtime. ...
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| | Too Much Happiness (Vintage International)
Release Date: November 2, 2010| Series: Vintage International Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers—the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize. With clarity and ease, Alice Munro once again renders complex, difficult events and emotions into stories about the unpredictable ways in which men and women accommodate and often transcend what happens in their lives. In the first story a young wife and mother, suffering from the unbearable pain of losing her three children, gains solace from a most surprising source. In another, a young woman, i...
| | Indian Poetry Containing: "The Indian Song of Songs," from the Sanskrit of the G
Publication Date: March 23, 2011CONTENTS: The Indian Song of Songs-Hymn to Vishnu;Sarga the First-The Sports of Krishna; Sarga the Second-The Penitence of Krishna; Sarga the Third-Krishna troubled; Sarga the Fourth-Krishna cheered; Sarga the Fifth-The Longings of Krishna; Sarga the Sixth-Krishna made bolder; Sarga the Seventh-Krishna supposed false; Sarga the Eighth-The Rebuking of Krishna; Sarga the Ninth-The End of Krishna's Trial; Sarga the Tenth-Krishna in Paradise; Sarga the Eleventh-The Union of Radha and Krishna, Miscellaneous Oriental Poems-; The Rajpoot Wife; King Saladin; The Calip...
| | Poetry of Seamus Heaney
Publication Date: September 7, 1998The original edition, published in 1986, of this study of Seamus Heaney's poetry was entitled "A Student's Guide to Seamus Heaney". Written with Heaney's co-operation and with access to his papers, it has been revised throughout and contains additional chapters on each of his poetry collections published since the first edition, as well as separate discussions of his work as a translator and essayist. ...
| | Playing with Fire (Tales of an Extraordinary Girl, Book 1)
Release Date: October 27, 2009Twenty-four-year-old barista Belle Jamison dreams of a better job and a decent love life. Until a crazy scientist spikes her mocha latte! Suddenly Belle can wield the four elements—earth, wind, fire and water—with only a thought. Coffee too hot? No problem. Hair in need of a blow-dry? Done.Gorgeous government agent Rome Masters has been sent to neutralize Belle. But he's not the only one after her. Together they must outrun the rogue agents on their trail and find a way to control her powers. There's just one problem: the sparks Belle and Rome genera...
| | Love's Surprise
Publication Date: November 30, 2011In this collection of three whimsical and fresh stories of romance in unusual settings, Karen Ball's writing will delight readers of all ages and in every season. Infused with love, tenderness and humor, the stories are threaded together with common characters and themes. The protagonist in "Valentine's Surprise" has been unlucky in love, so her sisters conspire and set her up with a blind date they're sure will be "The One." The date is surprisingly successful...until she discovers she went out with the wrong man! In "Jericho's Walls," a widow's grown chil...
| | The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Publication Date: November 24, 2003| ISBN-10: 0521008719 | ISBN-13: 978-0521008716In addition to covering the "detective" fiction of writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, this collection of British and American crime fiction considers other kinds of fiction where crime plays a substantial part, such as the thriller and spy fiction. Ranging over the last three centuries, it includes chapters on the analysis of crime in eighteenth-century literature; French and Victorian fiction; women and black detectives; crime on film and TV; and police fiction and postm...
| | Lo & Behold (Lo & Behold, 1)
Publication Date: March 11, 2003| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
| | Peanut Butter And Jelly (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)
Publication Date: January 12, 1992| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Rhyming text and illustrations explain how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Includes instructions for accompanying hand and foot motions. ...
| | Fiesta Fiasco
Publication Date: January 1, 2010| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up There is another desert party in the works in this spicy companion book to Mañana, Iguana. This time it is Snake’s birthday, and Iguana, Tortoise, and Rabbit are shopping for birthday gifts to bring to his fiesta. But what presents should they buy for Snake? In a sneaky twist, Rabbit convinces them to buy gifts that aren’t for Snake at all—but for him! With a clever text, a spattering of Spanish vocabulary. and lively illustrations, this author-illustrator team presents quite the fiesta f...
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