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How to Break Your Addiction to a Person

by Howard M. Halpern

Are you in love - or addicted? How to know when to call it quits ... and how to find the courage to do it.

Harry Potter y el Cáliz de Fuego (Harry Potter #4)

by J. K. Rowling Adolfo Muñoz García Nieves Martín Azofra

4a Harry Potter libro

Nights of Rain and Stars

by Maeve Binchy

A story of sudden endings, new beginnings, friendships forged in the face of tragedy, and nights of rain and stars that fall and shine over a beautiful island in a sparkling sea.

Soul Mountain

by Gao Xingjian Mabel Lee

A novel by the Nobel Prize winning author, loosely based on his 15000 kilometer trek out of China, where the narrator seeks the sacred mountain of Lingshan.

Hardboiled Cthulhu: Two-Fisted Tales of Tentacled Terror

by James Ambuehl

Hard hitting, hard edged, hardboiled stories that take Lovecraftian Mythos to places where only the toughest P.I.s, gangsters and creatures dwell. Venture into the urban sprawl and the dark places. Here the big sleep ends and the nightmares begin! Welcome to the world of Hardboiled Cthulhu!

Outlaw Seduction

by Kathryn Hockett

In desperate need of money, bounty hunter Bliss Harrison was overjoyed by the wanted poster for Travis La Mont. She'd get $200 for catching him! He was a lady-killer but she wasn't worried.

A Personal Matter

by John Nathan Kenzaburo Oë

A father comes to terms with his abnormal child, by the Nobel Prize winner for Literature.

Fire and Innocence

by Sheila O'Hallion

Moira Walsh's father lay dying, so she promised to fulfill his last wish, to marry Michael Sutton, Duke of St. Maur. But never once has she seen in his eyes the passion to match her own.

How Late It Was, How Late

by James Kelman

A raw, wry vision of human survival in a bureaucratic world, How Late It Was, How Late opens one Sunday morning in Glasgow, Scotland, as Sammy, an ex-convict with a penchant for shoplifting, awakens in a lane and tries to remember the two-day drinking binge that landed him there. Then, things only get worse. Sammy gets in a fight with some soldiers, lands in jail, and discovers that he is completely blind. His girlfriend disappears, the police probe him endlessly, and his stab at Disability Compensation embroils him in the Kafkaesque red tape of the welfare system.<P><P> A masterpiece of black humor, subtle political parody, and Scottish lower-class vernacular.<P> Man Booker Prize winner

The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire

by Pamela H. Smith

A study of business practices in the late 1600s in eastern Europe, including a biography of Johann Joachim Becher.

Divorce is Not the End of the World: Zoe's and Evan's Coping Guide for Kids

by Zoe Stern Evan Stern Ellen Sue Stern

A teenage brother and sister whose parents are divorced discuss topics relating to this situation, respond to letters from other kids, and offer tips based on their experiences.

The Raven and Other Writings

by Edgar Allan Poe

13 tales and 16 poems by the famous author, including all his famous ones. Reading group guide at the end.

The 21 Balloons

by William Pène du Bois

Professor William Waterman Sherman just wants to be alone. So he decides to take a year off and spend it crossing the Pacific Ocean in a hot-air balloon the likes of which no one has ever seen. But when he is found after just three weeks floating in the Atlantic among the wreckage of twenty hot-air balloons, naturally, the world is eager to know what happened. How did he end up with so many balloons... and in the wrong ocean?<P><P> Newbery Award winner.

The First Pet History of the World

by David Comfort

Felines, canines, equines, birds - they all had a paw in shaping civilization, and here are their tails.

The Silent Cry

by John Bester Kenzaburo Oë

The novel's anti-hero Mitsu searches for 'truth' throughout the novel, with many subcurrents on a variety of subjects. Oe won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Men of Music: Their Lives, Times and Achievements

by Wallace Brockway Herbert Weinstock

Biographies of Bach, Handel, von Gluck, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, von Weber, Rossini, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin, Berlioz, Liszt, Wagner, Verdi, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Strauss, Sibelius, and Stravinsky.

Light Her Fire: How to Ignite Passion, Joy, and Excitement in the Woman You Love

by Ellen Kreidman

Lessons on how to become the only man she'll ever want or need

Light His Fire: How to Keep Your Man Passionately and Hopelessly in Love With You

by Ellen Kreidman

Lessons on how to become the only woman he'll ever want or need

Great Contemporary Pianists Speak for Themselves (Volumes 1 and #2)

by Elyse Mach

Volume 1 pianists are Arrau, Ashkenazy, Brendel, Browning, de Larrocha, Dichter, Firkusny, Gould, Horowitz, Janis, Kraus, Tureck and Watts). Volume 2 pianists are Badura-Skoda, Bolet, Egorov, Fialkowska, Fleisher, Gilels, Hough, Kocsis, Ohlsson, Ousset, Perahia, and Pogorelich.

Laxdaela Saga

by Hermann Palsson Magnus Magnusson

Written around 1245 by an unknown author, the Laxdaela Saga is a tale of conflicting kinships and passionate love, a compelling work of Icelandic literature.

RahXephon (Volume #1)

by Hiroshi Ohnogi Rhys Moses

Relive events from the anime from the 1st person perspective. Tokyo has been quarantined from the rest of the world. A liberation force rises to free Tokyo from its alien captors.

Moon Tiger

by Penelope Lively

The last thoughts of a dying writer are captured in this intelligent novel. The moving and poignant story of life as a writer, historian, and mother ends as a saga of unfulfilled love.<P><P> Man Booker Prize winner

Archaeology: Theories, Methods, and Practice (4th Edition)

by Colin Renfrew Paul Bahn

A textbook on archaeology: its history; the variety of evidence; survey and excavation of sites and features; dating methods; social, environmental and cognitive archaeology; 5 case studies, and the archaeology of people.

The Line of Beauty

by Alan Hollinghurst

In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby-whom Nick had idolized at Oxford-and Catherine, highly critical of her family's assumptions and ambitions.<P><P> As the boom years of the eighties unfold, Nick, an innocent in the world of politics and money, finds his life altered by the rising fortunes of this glamorous family. His two vividly contrasting love affairs, one with a young black clerk and one with a Lebanese millionaire, dramatize the dangers and rewards of his own private pursuit of beauty, a pursuit as compelling to Nick as the desire for power and riches among his friends. Richly textured, emotionally charged, disarmingly comic, this U.K. bestseller is a major work by one of our finest writers.<P> Man Booker Prize winner

Hunter's Law

by Pat Tracy

Annalee's westward train was hell-bent for heaven! Where else could she be headed when her roguish cowboy rescuer seemed to be more angel than devil? Western romance.

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