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After her parents' divorce, eighth-grader Rachel Lee joins her mother's new housecleaning business, which has her scrubbing bathrooms in her more popular classmates' homes and learning useful secrets.

Rachel Lee is enjoying a summer of baking class and flirting with her almost-boyfriend Evan until a rival cleaning business comes to town, stealing her mother's clients, and she must focus on protecting Lee Cleaners rather than Whit, her cute new classmate.

"When thirty-four-year-old Ms. Shibata gets a new job in Tokyo to escape sexual harassment at her old one, she finds that, as the only woman at her new workplace--a company that manufactures cardboard tubes--she is expected to do all the menial tasks. One day she announces that s...

Offers a visual perspective on the Civil War as reflected by artifacts ranging from a soldier's footlocker and the Emancipation Proclamation to leaves from Abraham Lincoln's bier and Grant's handwritten terms of surrender at Appomattox.

"Julie Doucet arrived in comics in the 1990s as a fully formed cartoonist. Her comic book series Dirty Plotte was visionary both for the medium and for storytelling. Her stories are candid, funny, and intimate, plumbing the depths of the female psyche while charting the fragility...

"Julie Doucet arrived in comics in the 1990s as a fully-formed cartoonist. Her comic book series Dirty Plotte was visionary both for the medium and for storytelling. Her stories are candid, funny, and intimate, plumbing the depths of the female psyche while charting the fragility...

Dirty dishes, piles of laundry, a dog whining for a walk--everyday annoyances or portals to joy and self-discovery? When life takes an unexpected turn and sends you reeling, is it time to run away or sit still? Part photo diary, part art journal, part essay collection, Ordinary S...

"The followup to the much-loved Easy Peasy, Little Green Fingers is packed full of even more fun gardening activities for children. These inspiring, creative and simple activities are possible whether you have a backyard, a balcony or even just a windowsill--everyone is welcome t...

A superhero with total disregard for the damage he causes while saving people finds himself having his image changed by a public relations executive, in return for saving the executive's life.

"Long acclaimed as a classic fly-on-the-wall memoir, Diary of a Rock'n'Roll Star is Ian Hunter's candid account of Mott the Hoople's five-week American tour in November and December of 1972. In this diary, the first ever rock autobiography, Hunter strips away the glittering facad...

"When thirty-four-year-old Ms. Shibata gets a new job in Tokyo to escape sexual harassment at her old one, she finds that, as the only woman at her new workplace-a company that manufactures cardboard tubes-she is expected to do all the menial tasks. One day she announces that she...

"When thirty-four-year-old Ms. Shibata gets a new job in Tokyo to escape sexual harassment at her old one, she finds that, as the only woman at her new workplace-a company that manufactures cardboard tubes-she is expected to do all the menial tasks. One day she announces that she...

The first book in Anna Staniszewski's award-winning YA best selling book series: The Dirt Diaries! A hilarious tale about the weight of responsibility that comes from a secret-filled diary... Rachel can't believe she has to give up her Saturdays to scrubbing other people's to...

This modern idyll tells the story of a school-teaching middle-aged farmer with a certain "weakness". He has all he ever wanted--until he falls in love with his student, the lovely Sherry, and the crisis reshapes his world.

"In the fairy tales about father-daughter incest-'The Girl Without Hands,' 'Thousand Furs,' the original 'Cinderella,' 'Donkey Skin,' and the stories of Saint Dymphna, patron saint of incest survivors-the daughters are all as you would expect them to be, horrified by their father...

It's a hot, hot summer, and in the depths of the Toronto Transit Authority's Lost and Found, 17-year-old Duncan is cataloging lost things and sifting through accumulated junk. And between Jacob, the cranky old man who runs the place, and the endless dusty boxes overflowing with s...

J. A. Konrath, author of the Lt. Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels thrilller series (Whiskey Sour, Bloody Mary, Rusty Nail, Dirty Martini, Fuzzy Navel, Cherry Bomb, Shaken) offers a gigantic 180,000 word collection of sixty-five previously published short stories from the thriller, horro...

A bungled hand-off leaves professional go-between Philip St. Ives suspected of murder in this thriller that inspired the Charles Bronson movie St. Ives . It's three in the morning, and Philip St. Ives has come to the all-night Laundromat to meet a thief. His laundry bag isn't...