At an event honoring Daisy Bates as 1990's Distinguished Citizen then-governor Bill Clinton called her "the most distinguished Arkansas citizen of all time." Her classic account of the 1957 Little Roc…
Wonderful selection of this great poet's greatest, most popular poems. Includes "There's a certain slant of light," "Because I could not stop for death," "It was not death for I stood up."
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The best of the popular comic strip collected in one volume follows the rambunctious adventures of six-year-old Calvin and his tiger Hobbes.
Shelve The Revenge of the Baby-Sat (Calvin and Hobbes, #5)
As a devotee of classic novels, Mary Porter-Malcolm knows all about Mistakes That Have Been Made, especially by impressionable young women. So when a girl at her new high school nearly succumbs to the…
Gareth Hinds’s stylish graphic adaptation of the Bard’s romantic tragedy offers modern touches — including a diverse cast that underscores the story’s universality.
Now a fully licensed PI and working her own cases, Fee’s professional future comes into question once again with the discovery of an opponent’s body. She quickly uncovers ties to old crimes that could…
Shelve Inquiring Minds and Death (Fleming Investigations #2)
When Fee is hired as extra security for a poker tournament, she fully expects to learn a thing or two. Trouble is, when one of the players dies during play, she not only has to use her specialized ski…
Shelve All In and Death (Fleming Investigations #4)
The women’s retreat weekend was supposed to relax Fee, not lead to murder! When an unwelcome guest goes belly up, and Mother Nature interferes in a cry for the cavalry, Fee is on the case, doing her b…
Shelve Finding Zen and Death (Fleming Investigations #3)
When Fee and Crew are invited to a New Year’s Eve soiree at Emile and Daisy’s amazing penthouse, the last thing she wants is to get dolled up and pretend to have a good time when she would prefer to s…
Shelve Out With The Old and Death (Fleming Investigations Cozy Mysteries Book 5)
Like many women, Clare Pooley found the juggle of a stressful career and family life a struggle so she left her successful role as a Managing Partner in one of the world's biggest advertising agencies…
Shelve The Sober Diaries: How one woman stopped drinking and started living.
Three lifelong friends plus a dangerous, sexy new stranger in town add up to a scorching summer of manipulation, obsession, and murder, from the acclaimed author of The Hunting Wives.
In The Good War Terkel presents the good, the bad, and the ugly memories of World War II from a perspective of forty years of after the events. No matter how gruesome the memories are, relatively few …
Shelve The Good War: An Oral History of World War II
From Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Deborah Blum, the dramatic true story of how food was made safe in the United States and the heroes, …
Shelve The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam tells the darkly humorous story of the French colonial state's failed efforts to impose its vision of modernity upon…
Shelve The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam (Graphic History Series)
With a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918–1920 was the greatest human disaster, not only of the twentieth century, but possibly in all of recor…
Shelve Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
Georgiana Bridgerton isn't against the idea of marriage. She'd just thought she'd have some say in the matter. But with her reputation hanging by a thread after she's abduc…
Fiercely independent and adventurous, Poppy Bridgerton will only wed a suitor whose keen intellect and interests match her own. Sadly, none of the fools from her London seas…
In the exclusive town of Rosewood, Pennsylvania, where the sweetest smiles hide the darkest secrets, four pretty little liars--Spencer, Aria, Emily, and Hanna--have been very bad girls. . . .
Between August 1918 and March 1919 the Spanish influenza spread worldwide, claiming over 25 million lives, more people than those perished in the fighting of the First World War. It proved fatal to at…
Shelve America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918
An epic novel of an American family in the 1950s proves the tender division between what is permissible and what is taboo, between ordinary life and the secret places of the heart.
The week before Christmas - Brighton 1922 When Camille discovers that her estranged husband, Lord Henry (known as Harry) Divine has given her a boat house in Brighton as part of her divorce settlement,…
Shelve The Brighton Murders: The Camille Divine Murder Mysteries - A 1920s cozy mystery
The long-awaited first full biography of legendary jazz saxophonist and composer Sonny Rollins Sonny Rollins has long been considered an enigma. Known as the “Saxophone Colossus,” he is widely acknow…
Shelve Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins
This momentous work offers a groundbreaking history of the early civil rights movement in the South with new material that situates the book in the context of subsequent movement literature.
Shelve I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface
