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In this novel, Greek tragedy meets a dysfunctional family from Maryland, revealing how time and place matter little when it comes to the implacable logic of the darkest human emotions.A family matriarchhalf Medea, half Clytemnestracalls home her three children, who …
New York Review Books
A Schoolboys Diary brings together more than seventy of Robert Walsers strange and wonderful stories, most never before available in English. Opening with a sequence from Walsers first book, Fritz Kochers Essays, the complete classroom assignments of a fictional boy …
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
A group of friends try to make sense of love and life in the new millennium in this hilarious novel from Van Whitfield, author of Somethings Wrong with Your Scale! and Beeperless Remote.After years of disappointment, Simon Washington has grown …
Random House Children's Books
Forming a horse-sitting business to earn some extra money, Lisa, Carole, and Stevie believe that their skills will make the business a breeze, but soon find themselves in way over their heads.
View book details for Drunk Flies and Stoned Dolphins
A Trip Through the World of Animal Intoxication
From the cup of coffee that jumpstarts the day to dangerously addictive drugs, the recreational use of plants with psychoactive properties has a long history among humans. But, as with many things, it turns out that other animals got there …
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
The tumultuous alley of this rich and intricate novel (first published in Arabic in 1959) is inhabited by a delightful Egyptian family, but is also the setting for a second, hidden, and more daring narrative: the spiritual history of humankind. …
Crown/Archetype
The highly anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Beautiful Lies. Charged with relentless intensity and kinetic action, and playing out with unnerving suspense on the streets of New York and London, Sliver of Truth delves deep into the …
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The Strange and (Sometimes) Terrible Life of Lorne Campbell, Satan's Choice and Hells Angels Biker
Random House of Canada
In this explicit first-hand account, a biker who spent 46 years as a member of the Hells Angels and Satan's Choice invites bestselling author Peter Edwards into the story of life lived as we've only imagined it. A kid raised …
Random House Children's Books
From the author of the Project (Un)Popular series and Too Cool For This School, a funny, authentic story about fitting in, growing up, and making it in middle school!After an unfortunate incident at the hair salon, Bessica is not allowed …
Random House Children's Books
Some folks have skeletons in their closets. The Waters have toilets. Jakes mortified by his dads dream to open the American Toilet Museum. Toilets have caused enough turmoil in Patience, Kansas. Patience has been cursed for 129 years, since Jeremiah …
View book details for Dear Luke, We Need to Talk, Darth
And Other Pop Culture Correspondences
Crown/Archetype
Dear Luke, We Need to Talk, Darth is proof that a funny book on pop culture doesn't have to be snide and nasty. I loved everything about it. Jim Gaffigan We all know how Darth Vader shared his big secret …
View book details for Censored 2006
The Top 25 Censored Stories
Seven Stories Press
The yearly volumes of Censored, in continuous publication since 1976 and since 1995 available through Seven Stories Press, is dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media …
View book details for Crucible: Trial of Cyric the Mad
The Avatar Series
Wizards of the Coast Publishing
In the final Avatar Series adventure, an ordinary mortal is chosen as the champion of Cyric the Mad and joins the battle of the gods When Malik, an ordinary mortal, is mysteriously chosen as the champion of Cyricthe Lord of …
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The Norman Conquest of 1066 and the Making and Meaning of the Bayeux Tapestry
Random House Publishing Group
The Bayeux Tapestry is the worlds most famous textilean exquisite 230-foot-long embroidered panorama depicting the events surrounding the Norman Conquest of 1066. It is also one of historys most mysterious and compelling works of art. This haunting stitched account of …
View book details for Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, & Memoirs (LOA #219)
In the Midst of Life (Tales of Soldiers and Civilians) / Can Such Things Be? / The Devil's Dictionary / Bits of Autobiography / selected stories
Library of America
A veteran of some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, Ambrose Bierce went on to become one of the darkest and most death haunted of American writers, the blackest of black humorists. This volume gathers the most celebrated …
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hey xenophobe! Who you calling foreigner?
Seven Stories Press
Writing from the upper west side of Manhattan, where Harlem intersects with waves of immigrants from the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Korea, Cambodia, Ivory Coast, India, Native America, and from all over the globe, hattie gossett vividly invokes her …
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A Political and Spiritual Life
Verso Books
Throughout his long and turbulent career as a political leader, first in South Africa and then in India, Gandhi sought to fulfil his religious aspirations through politics and to reconcile politics with personal religious conviction. But Gandhis religion was wildly …
View book details for Shut Up About Your Perfect Kid
A Survival Guide for Ordinary Parents of Special Children
Potter/TenSpeed/Harmony
AUTHORS DISCLAIMER:We are not in any way experts on parenting children with disabilities. Our goal is simply to share strategies that have worked for each of us in the event it may help those in a similar situation. If youre …
Tundra
Twelve-year-old Jane Peeler is about to embark on a summer ritual: the family car trip. Along with her two younger brothers, Bill and Bernie, Jane will endure traffic jams, singalongs, and fights over who gets the window on a two-day …
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The Definitive Anthology of Space Opera
Titan
This second Infinite Stars science fiction anthology offers 26 space opera short stories set in famous sci-fi series like Wayfarers, Ender, and Lost Fleet. Includes tales from George R.R. Martin, Orson Scott Card, Seanan McGuire, and more! Amongst the infinite …
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Healing the Heart with Craft
Potter/TenSpeed/Harmony
From the author of the modern classic The Knitting Sutra comes an inspiring and colorful narrative on knitting through ones darkest hours.Susan Gordon Lydons groundbreaking book The Knitting Sutra offered a new way for knitters to look at their craftas …
View book details for Getting Started with FPGAs
Digital Circuit Design, Verilog, and VHDL for Beginners
Skip the complexity and learn to program FPGAs the easy way through this hands-on, beginner-friendly introduction to digital circuit design with Verilog and VHDL.Whether you have been toying with field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) for years or are completely new …
Random House Children's Books
For fans of Gillian Flynn, Caroline Cooney, and R.L. Stine comes Secret, Silent Screams from four-time Edgar Allen Poe Young Adult Mystery Award winner Joan Lowery Nixon. Is Barrys death the latest tragedy in a string of suicides at Farrington …
Truth comes at a cost.Ever since Renie Mayfield survived the merciless attack on Belle Morte that killed donors and vampires alike, she is forever changed. Now a vampire, the agonizing transformation of her body and mind is rivaled only by …
View book details for World Report 2011
Events of 2010
Seven Stories Press
Human Rights Watch is increasingly recognized as the worlds leader in building a stronger awareness for human rights. Their annual World Report is the most probing review of human rights developments available anywhere. Written in straightforward, non-technical language, Human Rights …
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