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Blood Sports (Fletcher Smith #2) by Jonathan Harlen
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Fletcher Smith, Sports P.I.
Kelvin Hunt, the ear-biting, eye-gouging, in-your-face coach of the Australian rugby team, has been abducted by six masked men in a helicopter. Who could have pulled such a brazen stunt? Diehard fans, furious about a recent draw with the Canary Islands? Professional paramilitaries for a large cash ranso ...Show more
Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Endearing, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old Cecile is the very essence of untroubled amorality. Freed from the stifling constraints of boarding school, she joins her father a handsome, still-young widower with a wandering eye for a carefree, two-month summer vacation in a beautiful villa outside of Par ...Show more
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept by Paulo Coelho
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit | Series: P. S. Ser.
From Paulo Coelho, author of the international bestseller "The Alchemist," comes a poignant, richly poetic story that reflects the depth of love and life. Rarely does adolescent love reach its full potential, but what happens when two young lovers reunite after eleven years? Time has transformed Pilar i ...Show more
Checker and the Derailleurs by Lionel Shriver
Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
From the Orange Prize winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin this is a novel about what it takes to make it in music. How charisma is worth its weight in gold. And how jealously can grow until it has eaten away at a musician's heart. He has that thing that they'd all pay for but can't buy: on sta ...Show more
Chump Change by Dan Fante
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S.
A blackout brought on by a Mad Dog binge that ended with a self-inflicted steak knife wound bought Bruno Dante another stint in the nuthouse, no different from all the rest. Now it's done, and his wife, Agnes--taking time off from her personal-trainer lover--has come to pick Bruno up and to deliver a me ...Show more
Creativity: The Psychology of Discovery and Invention by Dr Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, PhD (University of Chicago. Illinois Univ. of Chicago, Illinois Claremont Graduate University Univ. of Chicago, Illinois Claremont Graduate University Claremont Graduate University Univ. of Chicago, Illinois)
Category: Self-Help | Series: P.S.
The classic study of the creative process from the national bestselling author of Flow creativity is about capturing those moments that make life worth living. Legendary psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi reveals what leads to these moments--be it the excitement of the artist at the easel or the scie ...Show more
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende; Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator)
Category: No Category | Series: P. S. Ser.
A magnificent sweeping tale from the international bestselling author of 'The House of the Spirits'. Set in Anglophile Chile and goldrush California during the middle years of the nineteenth century, this magnificent romance tells the story of English foundling Eliza Sommers who grows up in the bustling ...Show more
Dessa Rose: A Novel by Sherley A Williams
Category: Accessories | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Sherley A. Williams' highly acclaimed historical novel details two women's fierce strength of will and an unlikely bond despite racial barriers in the pre-civil war south"Having this treasure of a book available again for new and more readers is not only necessary, it is imperative."-Toni MorrisonIn 182 ...Show more
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King
Category: History | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Arguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court when he became embroiled in a case that threatened to change the course of the civil rights movement and cost h ...Show more
Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S.
Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that "love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer. . . ." A chanc ...Show more
Everything Beautiful Began After by Simon Van Booy
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Rebecca is young, lost, and beautiful. A gifted artist, she seeks solace and inspiration in the Mediterranean heat of Athens--trying to understand who she is and how she can love without fear. George has come to Athens to learn ancient languages after growing up in New England boarding schools and Ivy ...Show more
Eyeless in Gaza by Aldous Huxley
Category: Classics | Series: P.S.
Written at the height of his powers immediately after Brave New World, Aldous Huxley's highly acclaimed Eyeless in Gaza is his most personal novel. Huxley's bold, nontraditional narrative tells the loosely autobiographical story of Anthony Beavis, a cynical libertine Oxford graduate who comes of age in ...Show more