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| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
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| 9780345360007 | The Mummy Or Ramses The Damned: A Novel | Rice, Anne | He was Ramses the Damned in ancient Egypt, but awoke in opulent Edwardian London as Dr. Ramsey, expert in Egyptology. He mixes with the aristocrats and samples their voluptuous lifestyle, but it is for his beloved, Cleopatra, that he longs, and will do anything to be with....San Francisco Chronicle"The reader is held captive, and, ultimately, seduced." | Ballantine Books |
| 9780312278588 | The Nanny Diaries: A Novel | Mclaughlin, Emma, Kraus, Nicola | A Graduate From New York University Takes A Position Caring For The Only Son Of A Weathly Manhattan Family. She Rapidly Learns The Work And Time Involved To Ensure That The Park Avenue Wife Doesn't Work, Cook, Clean Or Raise Her Own Child. A Satirical And Comical Look At The Upper Class Of Manhattan. Emma Mclaughlin And Nicola Kraus. | St. Martin's Press |
| 9780553591903 | The Neighbor: A Detective D. D. Warren Novel | Gardner, Lisa | Bantam | |
| 9780393912531 | The Norton Anthology Of English Literature | Abrams, M. H. | The Ninth Edition Offers More Complete Works, More Teachable Groupings Than Ever Before And The Apparatus Teachers Trust. Read By More Than 8 Million Students, The Norton Anthology Of English Literature Sets The Standard. New Longer Texts Include: 'sir Gawain And The Green Knight' In Simon Armitage's New Translation, Sidney's 'defense Of Poetry', Wycherley's 'the Country Wife', Joyce's 'portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man', Woolf's 'mrs Dalloway' And Beckett's 'waiting For Godot' (exclusive To Norton). | W. W. Norton & Company |
| The Outside Man | ||||
| 9780345300201 | The Outside Man: A Novel | Patterson, Richard North | The outside man is society lawyer Adam Shaw. A northerner in a southern town jealous of its secrets, he finds the dead body of his best friend's wealthy wife — and his friend is missing.In a world where wealthy people will stop at nothing to maintain a genteel image, Shaw must gamble his career, his marriage, and his very life in a passionate quest for the real murderer — and learn the shocking truth about his own past and future . . . ."A classic detective story." — The New York Times Book Review"Rich, complex, beautifully written." — The New Republic"Richard North Patterson seems destined for celebrity status, alongside Scott Turow and John Grisham, as an acknowledged master." — Los Angeles Times Book Review | Ballantine Books |
| 9780198661412 | The Oxford Dictionary Of Modern Quotations | Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf, Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy, Louis Armstrong and Mae West, Woody Allen and Dorothy Parker--these are but a few of the figures who have given voice to our century's most memorable quotations. Now, in The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations, A.J. Augarde gathers together 6,000 of the best known quotes from our time, drawn from novels, plays, poems, essays, speeches, films, radio and television, songs, and even advertisements.Here readers will find the history-making quotes, from Churchill's stirring wartime speeches ("Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"), to Neville Chamberlain's infamous "Peace for our time," to Spiro T. Agnew's outrageous "If you've seen one city slum you've seen them all." On the lighter side, readers will enjoy such wits as Woody Allen ("It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens"), Fran Lebowitz ("Food is an important part of a balanced diet"), and Dorothy Parker ("This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force"). There are generous excerpts from literature, from the novels of Hemingway and Joyce, the poetry of Auden, Eliot, and Pound, the plays of Lillian Hellman and Anita Loos, and the lyrics of Irving Berlin and Cole Porter ("In olden days a glimpse of stocking / Was looked on as something shocking / Now, heaven knows, / Anything goes"). Augarde also includes famous book titles (such as Shepherd Mead's "How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying"), song titles (Larry Morey's "Whistle While You Work"), even cartoon captions (Bill Maudlin's wartime "I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages"). And of course, the book brims with wisdom, from Count Ciano's "Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan," to Lord Morley's "You have not converted a man because you have silenced him," to Alfred Adler's "It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." Designed both for reference and for browsing, the Dictionary arranges quotations in alphabetical order by author, with attributions after each quote so that readers can explore the original quotes in context. In addition, the index helps the reader trace quotations from their most important keywords, so that if you know the quote but not the author, you can still find it easily.Whether you want to find out who first used the expression "a walk on the wild side" (it was Nelson Algren) or simply enjoy discovering fine turns of phrase or witty remarks (such as Beatrice Lillie's off-the-cuff comment to a waiter who spilled soup on her dress: "Never darken my Dior again"), The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations offers a unique view of the twentieth century through some of its most memorable lines. | Oxford University Press | |
| The Poems And Plays Of Robert Browning | ||||
| The Poems Of Byron Keats And Shelley | ||||
| 9780316115001 | The Pretty Committee Strikes Back | Lisi Harrison | A tragic haircut leaves Kristen looking manlier than a New York Jets linebacker. Will she be condemned to a season of trying to find cute hats when, as everyone knows, hats are so over? Meanwhile, Claire got everything she wants — new camo Converse high-tops, bag and bags of gummies, and best of all, her first ever cell phone, from Massie. Although Claire's now an official member of the Clique, presents don't matter to her — all she really wants is her first kiss from Cam, of course! | Poppy |
| 9780893756062 | The Red Badge Of Courage (Watermill Classic) | Stephen Crane | The Red Badge of Courage was published in 1895, when its author, an impoverished writer living a bohemian life in New York, was only twenty-three. It immediately became a bestseller, and Stephen Crane became famous. Crane set out to create "a psychological portrayal of fear." Henry Fleming, a Union Army volunteer in the Civil War, thinks "that perhaps in a battle he might run....As far as war was concerned he knew nothing of himself." And he does run in his first battle, full of fear and then remorse. He encounters a grotesquely rotting corpse propped against a tree, and a column of wounded men, one of whom is a friend who dies horribly in front of him. Fleming receives his own "red badge" when a fellow soldier hits him in the head with a gun. "The idea of falling like heroes on ceremonial battlefields," Ford Madox Ford remarked later, "was gone forever." Shelby Foote, author of The CivilThe Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with afford-able hardbound editions of impor-tant works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoringas its emblem the running torch-bearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inau-gurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices. | Troll Communications Llc |
| The Reivers | ||||
| The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe | ||||
| 9780140431223 | The Return Of The Native | Thomas Hardy - Edited By George Woodcock | Penguin Books | |
| 9780451524713 | The Return Of The Native | Hardy, Thomas | Signet Classics | |
| 9780307455291 | The Road (Movie Tie-In Edition 2008) (Vintage International) | McCarthy, Cormac | In A Novel Set In An Indefinite, Futuristic, Post-apocalyptic World, A Father And His Young Son Make Their Way Through The Ruins Of A Devastated American Landscape, Struggling To Survive And Preserve The Last Remnants Of Their Own Humanity. Publisher Description For The Road -- A Searing, Postapocalyptic Novel Destined To Become Cormac Mccarthy's Masterpiece. A Father And His Son Walk Alone Through Burned America. Nothing Moves In The Ravaged Landscape Save The Ash On The Wind. It Is Cold Enough To Crack Stones, And When The Snow Falls It Is Gray. The Sky Is Dark. Their Destination Is The Coast, Although They Don't Know What, If Anything, Awaits Them There. They Have Nothing; Just A Pistol To Defend Themselves Against The Lawless Bands That Stalk The Road, The Clothes They Are Wearing, A Cart Of Scavenged Food -- And Each Other. The Road Is The Profoundly Moving Story Of A Journey. It Boldly Imagines A Future In Which No Hope Remains, But In Which The Father And His Son, Each The Other's World Entire, Are Sustained By Love. Awesome In The Totality Of Its Vision, It Is An Unflinching Meditation On The Worst And The Best That We Are Capable Of: Ultimate Destructiveness, Desperate Tenacity, And The Tenderness That Keeps Two People Alive In The Face Of Total Devastation. Cormac Mccarthy. | Vintage |
| 9780671028459 | The Rose That Grew From Concrete | Tupac Shakur | Tupac Shakur's most intimate and honest thoughts were uncovered only after his death with the instant classic The Rose That Grew from Concrete.His talent was unbounded a raw force that commanded attention and respect.His death was tragic—a violent homage to the power of his voice.His legacy is indomitable—as vibrant and alive today as it has ever been.For the first time in paperback, this collection of deeply personal poetry is a mirror into the legendary artist's enigmatic world and its many contradictions.Written in his own hand from the time he was nineteen, these seventy-two poems embrace his spirit, his energy—and his ultimate message of hope. | MTV Books |
| 9780440221470 | The Runaway Jury | Grisham, John | A Member Of The Jury For The Century's Most Explosive Trial Against A Giant Tobacco Company, Juror #2, A Mysterious Man With A Past And A Hidden Agenda, Joins Forces With A Beautiful Woman On The Outside To Get The Verdict He Wants, No Matter What The Cost. Reissue. (a 20th Century Fox Film, Releasing Fall 2003, Starring Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, & John Cusack) (suspense) | Dell Publishing |
| The Second Saladin | ||||
| 9780440221869 | The Second Saladin: A Novel | Hunter, Stephen | A second chance... In the windswept sands of the Middle East, Paul Chardy fought side by side with Ulu Beg: one, a charismatic, high-strung CIA covert warrior, the other a ferocious freedom fighter. Then Chardy fell into the hands of the enemy, and Beg was betrayed. Now the two men are about to meet again. A second gun... Beg has come over the Mexican border under a hail of bullets—determined to assassinate a leading American political figure and avenge his people's betrayal. The CIA wants Chardy to stop the hit. Chardy wants to save Beg's life. Between the two men is a tragic past, a failed mission, and a woman who knew them in war—and who knows their secrets now. Around both men is a conspiracy of lies and violence that reaches back to the Cold War. But as Beg moves in for his kill and as Chardy breaks loose from his handlers, a terrible truth begins to emerge: somewhere, someone wants both men to die. | Dell |