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Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. : Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman by Sam Wasson
Category: Performing Arts | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
The Sleeper Hit of the Summer... Audrey Hepburn is an icon like no other, yet the image many of us have of Audrey -- dainty, immaculate -- is anything but true to life. Here, for the first time, Sam Wasson presents the woman behind the little black dress that rocked the nation in 1961. The first complet ...Show more
Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution by Kenneth R. Miller
Category: Science | Series: P.S.
From a leading authority on the evolution debates comes this critically acclaimed investigation into one of the most controversial topics of our times
Flame by John Lutz
Category: No Category | Series: P. I. Fred Carver Mystery Ser
When a client dies in a car explosion, Orlando detective Fred Carver learns the man may not have been who he said he wasFor Bert Renway, it starts out as a simple proposition: a fat bundle of money to spend a few weeks impersonating Frank Wesley, a local tycoon. But after a while Bert grows suspicious o ...Show more
Fluffy Strikes Back by Ashley Spires
Category: Picture Books | Series: A\P. U. R. S. T. Adventure Ser.
Sergeant Fluffy Vandermere's number-one job is protecting the world from alien domination (aka bugs), and he takes his responsibility very seriously. So when the unthinkable happens and aliens invade headquarters --- bzzzzzz --- Fluffy sets out on a daring solo mission to defeat the intruders, rescue th ...Show more
Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for the Lost Heroes of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff
Category: Military | Series: P.S.
When a cargo plane goes missing over the Greenland ice cap in November 1942, a B-17 is dispatched on a perilous search-and-rescue mission that ends in disaster when the plane crashes into a fogged-out glacier. Almost three weeks later, the U.S. Coast Guard learns that contact has been made with the B-17 ...Show more
Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon by Pablo Neruda
Category: Gift | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Mitchell, widely known for his original and definitive translations of spiritual writings and poetry, has taken the work of Neruda (1904-1973), whose poems are passionate, humorous and exceptionally accessible, and brought them to life for a whole new generation of readers. Mitchell has selected nearly ...Show more
Fullmetal Alchemist: the Complete Four-Panel Comics by Hiromu Arakawa
Category: Young Adult | Series: Fullmetal Alchemist: the Complete Four-P Ser.
Alchemy tore the Elric brothers' bodies apart. Can their bond make them whole again? In an alchemical ritual gone wrong, Edward Elric lost his arm and his leg, and his brother Alphonse became nothing but a soul in a suit of armor. Though their circumstances are tragic, in these spoofs penned by seri ...Show more
GENTELMEN AND PLAYERS by HARRIS JOANNE
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
For generations, privileged young men have attended St. Oswald's Grammar School for Boys, groomed for success by the likes of Roy Straitley, the eccentric Classics teacher who has been a fixture there for more than thirty years. This year, however, the wind of unwelcome change is blowing, and Straitley ...Show more
Galahad at Blandings by P. G. Wodehouse
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE Ser.
Lord Emsworth's prized pig, the Empress of Blandings, is at the centre of Wodehouse's hilarious tale of mistaken identity, the triumph of young love, and general mayhem among the twits at Blandings Castle.
Genome : The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley
Category: Science | Series: P. S. Ser.
Following in the tradition of James Gleick' Chaos, Matt Ridly vividly explores the most profound scientific discovery of the century--the mapping of the human genome. But what does that mean? In witty, clear language, Ridley answers this question for your students. Genome helps them understand what the ...Show more
God's Secretaries by Adam Nicolson
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
A net of complex currents flowed across Jacobean England. This was the England of Shakespeare, Jonson, and Bacon; the Gunpowder Plot; the worst outbreak of the plague England had ever seen; arcadian landscapes; murderous, toxic slums; and, above all, sometimes overwhelming religious passion. Jacobean En ...Show more
Good Book : The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of The Bible by David Plotz
Category: Religion | Series: P. S. Ser.
Good Book is a whip-smart, laugh-out-loud tour through a book most people have never read: the Bible. Like many Jews and Christians, David Plotz had always assumed he knew what was in the Bible. He read parts of it as a child in Hebrew school, and as a teenager while attending a Christian high schoo ...Show more