The title, POIKILOPAIDIA, is Greek for "a multicolored education." In fact, the 198 poems collected, spanning 60 years, cover a wide variety of subjects such as one encounters during a long life...więcej »
Poirot Investigates is a short story collection written by English author Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by The Bodley Head in March 1924. In the eleven stories, famed eccentric d...więcej »
Sheila Lowe "wins readers over with her well-developed heroine and the wealth of fascinating detail" (Booklist) in this captivating mystery set in Hollyw...więcej »
You know that saying, things can't possibly get worse? They always can.I thought I'd hit rock bottom when I turned sixteen. The day I broke my first love's heart, endi...więcej »
Sometimes life, as well as death, is about second chances. Luckless Telly Martin doesn't have a clue. An awful gambler trying to scrape by as a professional poker player, he becomes the prot...więcej »
Four-time Denver Grand Champion, Pushcart Prize nominee, and winner of the 2008 Women of the World Poetry Slam, Andrea Gibson's dynamic and energetic first book, Pole Dancing to Gosp...więcej »
Alone, destitute and living on his dilapidated boat after a devastating malpractice decision, Dr. Ben Dailey tries to earn money by doing an insurance examination for a friend. This job wil...więcej »
A rogue police officer can damage a lot more than a perfect evening out.
When Kennedy Stern and her best friend Reuben drag themselves away from their grueling stud...więcej »
Owen Lipke is looking for adventure. When he hears about a ranch in the Muskokas catering to kinky men who don't want to settle for backroom amateurs, he signs up in a second.A...więcej »
Ronan O'Driscoll's novel follows two people on the autism spectrum--one the child of the narrator, and the other a boy confined to a Poor Farm in Nova Scotia in the 19th century. The tale explor...więcej »
Poor Folk sometimes translated as Poor People, is the first novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, written over the span of nine months between 1844 and 1845. Dostoevsky was in financial difficulty because...więcej »
Based in part on the life and times of World War II US Navy dive-bomber hero Rear Admiral John Blitch, Jackson "Pop" Harrison returns from the war to his ancestral homestead on Sullivan's Isl...więcej »
Porgy is a novel written by the American author DuBose Heyward and published by the George H. Doran Company in 1925.The novel tells the story of Porgy, a crippled street beggar...więcej »
When an anonymous collector approaches the Richard Museum in Washington, D.C., with a possible Modigliani portrait, art authentication expert Olivia Danford is called in. Her talents investigati...więcej »
Originally printed in 1980. This is a New Edition rePrint by the Gardner Francis Fox Library LLC.
This story is about Love Or Money?
That was the choice beautiful Cherie Marsan suddenly faced. A st...więcej »
Portraits as Animal is a gallery of self-becoming in a "sunbaked house as tiny as a heart." With a toothy lyricism at turns sly and forthright, Cárdenas's hunger to belong carries us fr...więcej »
Celebrity reporter Dillon Murphy survives the mysterious accident that kills his wife, Jillian. His distraught children convince him to try PAstREAM, an innovative new device that reaches into the ...więcej »
Four mother's lives interweave across continents and time... Kasambayi, recently arrived in the UK from the Democratic Republic of Congo, starts her contractions on the number 38 bus at Clapton Pon...więcej »