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Meet Sophie, Eva, and John. In college, they did everything together. Then they drifted apart. Now, twenty years later, they're about to reunite to compare lives, talk about the past, and plan for the future. But will it bring them closer together...
Megan Cartwright thought she had her life figured out. Her job as a waitress paid the rent and left her the free time to do as she pleased. Sure, now and again she might wish for a little excitement to liven things up. But finding a wild animal in...
In 1663, the Puritan missionary John Eliot, with the help of a Nipmuck convert whom the English called James Printer, produced the first Bible printed in North America. It was printed not in English but in Algonquian, making it one of the first bo...
Removable Type: Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1663-1880
Desperate to make ends meet, winsome diner waitress Merry Hopper takes a temp job as a Christmas Coordinator for a handsome widower, promising to bring Christmas back for his three kids. As the "haves" collide with the "have nots" of this world, M...
The beginning to the sweeping Aubrey/Maturin series. "The best sea story I have ever read. "-Sir Francis Chichester. This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, R. N., and Stephe...
This volume of 12 essays fills a broad gap in modernist art history. Taken together, these case studies on artists and concepts present Dada as a coherent movement with a set of operating principles. Among the " tactics" elaborated are the hyperbo...
The poems in Not Finding Wittgenstein feature Peter Henry Lepus, a rabbit who searches the world for philosophers, conversing with Ludwig Wittgenstein in Antarctica, Bertrand Russell in Japan, and with A. J. Ayer and J. L. Austin in Iraq before an...
These two classic novels featuring private eye Philip Marlowe made Raymond Chandler's name synonymous with America's hard-boiled school of crime fiction. The Big Sleep was an instant success when first published in 1939. It centers around a paraly...
The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely: AND Farewell My Lovely (Modern Library)
A collection of Vine Deloria Jr.'s writings from books, essays, and articles, as well as previously unpublished pieces. A collection of the writings of America's premier Native American writer and preeminent thinker! Viewed by many as one of the m...
Nessi's ? strength as a poet rests with his own distinctive and daring language ? a spirit level that enables him always to align himself with the subject of his verse. And, if his work is the product of a rational and realistic pessimism ? occasi...