Listening to Billie

“She commands her material so well that we are made to believe that her fictionâher plotâis no stranger than our lives.”Â  --Ms. Magazine Â  Listening to Billie is a brilliant portrait of a contemporary woman adventurously, decisively embarked on her own life. Â  We first glimpse Eliza Hamilton Quarles as a blonde boarding-school student, sitting in a sophisticated New York club, listening to Billie Holiday. She is on the brink of her marriage to her older, worldly date. Twenty years later, a mother, divorced, she, tentatively begins a new life, with new lovers, new interests, new strength, even a new, more comfortable identity.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Alice Adams

Mystery

Pocket

Alice Adams wrote short stories for the New Yorker Magazine. This is the first collection of stories by Adams, many of which originally appeared in the magazine. Adams wrote eleven novels but is mainly remembered and admired for her telling of a story -- in this book, for and about women.

Beautiful Girl: Stories

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Second Chances

A portrait of a group of men and women, friends for years, who suddenly, and with amazement, find they are growing old. Looking back, they attempt to understand their past; looking forward, they hope for second chances. The author also wrote "Careless Love" and "Superior Women".

Contemporary

Mandarin

This up-to-date and easy-to-read Commercial Driver's License (CDL) test preparation guide covers everything you need to know before taking the exam, setting you on a path to success. Aside from presenting the "need to know" material tested on the CDL exam, the 2nd Edition provides tips for new drivers, and added step-by-step illustrations to help make certain that you understand the information you've read. Students of all levels, even those with English as a second language, will feel comfortable with the thorough, easy-to-use information contained within.

CDL Test Preparation Guide: Everything You Need to Know, 2nd Edition (Pass the CDL Exam)

Business & Money

Van O'Neal

Job Hunting & Careers

Cengage Learning'

Trucking: Tractor-Trailer Driver Handbook/Workbook

Engineering & Transportation

Automotive

Thomson/Delmar Learning

Invincible Summer

Four friends. Twenty years. One unexpected journey. Eva, Benedict, Sylvie, and Lucien graduate in 1997, into an exhilarating world on the brink of the new millennium. Hopelessly in love with playboy Lucien and keen to shrug off the socialist politics of her childhood, Eva breaks away to work for a big bank. Benedict, a budding scientist who's pined for Eva for years, embarks on a physics PhD, and siblings Sylvie and Lucien pursue more freewheeling existences--she as an aspiring artist and he as a professional partier. But as their dizzying twenties evaporate into their thirties, the once close-knit friends, now scattered and struggling to navigate thwarted dreams, lost jobs, and broken hearts, find themselves drawn together once again in stunning and unexpected ways. A dazzling depiction of the highs and lows of adulthood, INVINCIBLE SUMMER is a story about finding the courage to carry on in the wake of disappointment and a powerful testament to love and friendship as the constants in an ever-changing world.

Picador

From John Smith's 1616 description of the New World to George W. Bush's address to the American people after 9/11; from the poems of the seventeenth century to the hymns of the twentieth; from John Winthrop to Martin Luther King Jr. American Voices takes you on a fascinating journey through history in the words of Americans whose voices still speak today.

American Voices: A Collection of Documents, Speeches, Essays, Hymns, Poems, and Short Stories from American History

History

RAYMOND CARVER

JOHN UPDIKE

ANDREA BARRETT

Charles Baxter

SANDRA CISNEROS

Laurie Colwin

Frank Conroy

Harriet Doerr

Andrea Lee

Dennis McFARLAND

Joyce

Judith Rossner

John Sayles

Christopher Tilghman

Stephanie Vaughn

Amy, Tan

jane-smiley

Americas

Notgrass Company

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