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201) Drinking with men
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"A vivid, funny, and poignant memoir that celebrates the distinct lure of the camaraderie and community one finds drinking in bars. Rosie Schaap has always loved bars: the wood and brass and jukeboxes, the knowing bartenders, and especially the sometimes surprising but always comforting company of regulars. Starting with her misspent youth in the bar car of a regional railroad, where at fifteen she told commuters' fortunes in exchange for beer, and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Some monsters are figments of our imagination. Others are as real as flesh and blood: humans who may look like us, who may walk among us, often unnoticed, occasionally even admired--but whose evil deeds and secret lives, once revealed, mark them as something utterly wicked. In this illustrated volume from the host of the hit podcast Lore, you'll find tales of infamous characters whose veins ran with ice water and whose crimes remind us that truth...
203) Words are my matter: writings about life and books, 2000-2016 with a journal of a writer's week
Author
Publisher
Small Beer Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
This collection of Ursula K. Le Guin's recent talks, essays, introductions is the best manual we have for exploring the worlds explored in recent fiction; the most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life.
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A young pretender raises an army to take the throne. Learning of his father's death, the adolescent, dashing and charismatic and descended from the old kings of the North, vows to avenge him. He is supported in this war by his mother, who has spirited away her two younger sons to safety. Against them is the queen, passionate, proud, and strong-willed and with more of the masculine virtues of the time than most men. She too is battling for the inheritance...
206) Caballos salvajes
Author
Publisher
Suma de letras
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1. ed.
Language
Español
Description
"Caballos salvajes nos descubre los origenes de la disfuncional familia Walls. Si en El castillo de cristal los ninos nos conmovieron con su fortaleza y sus ganas de vivir, en esta precuela será Lily Casey Smith, su abuela, la que nos brinde su tenacidad y perseverancia ante las dificultades que atravesó en el camino de su vida. Heroina y pionera en el Lejano Oeste americano, Lily vivió durante sus casi primeros diez años en una caseta del desierto...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Texas rangers: Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw.
Canyon passage: Businessman Logan Stuart is torn between his love of two very different women in 1850's Oregon and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line.
Kansas raiders: Outraged by Redleg atrocities, the James and Younger Brothers along with Kit Dalton join...
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
[Blu-ray/DVD combo pack]
Language
English
Description
Beauty and the beast (1991): Join brave, independent Belle on the adventure of a lifetime as she sets out to rescue her father and finds herself in the enchanted castle of a mysterious beast. This timeless tale overflows with unforgettable characters and Academy Award-winning music (Best Song, Best Score, 1991).
Beauty and the beast (2017): The story and characters you love come to life in the live-action adaptation of Disney's animated classic,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Arkadii͡a
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Russian
Description
Hedy Kiesler is lucky. Her beauty leads to a starring role in a controversial film and marriage to a powerful Austrian arms dealer, allowing her to evade Nazi persecution despite her Jewish heritage. But Hedy is also intelligent. At lavish Vienna dinner parties, she overhears the Third Reich's plans. One night in 1937, desperate to escape her controlling husband and the rise of the Nazis, she disguises herself and flees her husband's castle. She lands...
Author
Publisher
Visible Ink
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Once upon a time, science fiction was only in the future. It was the stuff of drive-ins and cheap double-bills. Then, with the ever-increasing rush of new, society-altering technologies, science fiction pushed its way to the present, and it busted out of the genre ghetto of science fiction and barged its way into the mainstream. What used to be mere fantasy (Trips to the moon? Wristwatch radios? Supercomputers capable of learning?) are now everyday...
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Brilliant, dedicated, and driven, archaeologist Emma Fielding is trying to unearth evidence of a seventeenth century coastal Maine settlement that predates Jamestown, one of the most significant archaeological finds in years. But the dead body that accompanies it has embroiled Emma and her students in a different kind of exploration.
Archaeologist Emma Fielding finds her colleague murdered in the crypts below Chandler Castle. When she makes unsettling...
Author
Series
Nonna Maria series volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"As Nonna Maria's longtime friend and sometimes colleague, Captain Murino of the Ischian caribineri, never wanted to see harm brought to the doorstep of everyone's favorite espresso-brewing, counseling-giving amateur sleuth. But when you live a long life, you're bound to make a few enemies. And when those enemies come calling, you have to rely on friends. Faced with an assassin seeking revenge for a decades-old grudge, Captain Murino has no choice...
Author
Series
From destitute to diamonds volume 2
Publisher
Mills & Boon
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Her fairy tale future doesn't include a husband! When Maren Hargreave wins a castle and a crown in a poker game, she also unknowingly marries billionaire Acastus Diakos. Their union finally heals the wound her family inflicted on his generations before, but nothing prepares him for their intoxicating passion! It's a passion that shockingly leaves Maren with a life-changing Christmas confession... She's expecting his heirs!
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