 | Second Verse
Publication Date: December 18, 2007It's been two years since Gail Larsen, editor for Outrageous Press, has so much as held hands with anyone. Her isolation is self-imposed, due to the guilt she feels over an accident involving her beloved Marissa. Then a special editing assignment throws Gail together with Connie Martin, one of the leading ladies of lesbian fiction. Gail is at first amused by Connie's pit-bull personality in a Pekinese body, but amusement turns to attraction, and attraction to heart-wrenching torment. Following an intense month working with Connie on her soon-to-be-released ...
 |  | The Secret Diary of Sarah Chamberlain
Publication Date: July 16, 2012In the year 2008, fifteen year-old Emily Grace (Em) discovers a secret hiding place under a wooden plank in the attic of an old house in Petersburg. It conceals a 150 year-old-diary belonging to Sarah Chamberlain, the previous owner of the house. Carefully turning to the last entry, Em’s interest is piqued by the mention of missing confederate gold and a murder mystery. She slips the diary into the pocket of her capris.As she reads the diary, Em is touched by Sarah’s deep love for her husband, Robert. Emotionally, Em’s life is spinning out of ...
|  | Christmas Stories from Ohio
Publication Date: August 13, 2010With the first Christmas tree in American history, the creation of the candy cane as a Christmas icon, and the production of one of the most popular Christmas gifts of all time, the Etch A Sketch, Ohio can boast of a remarkable seasonal heritage. Christmas Stories from Ohio documents this heritage in fiction and memoir and celebrates the many moods of yuletide in the Buckeye State. With selections from some of Ohio s most highly regarded classic and contemporary authors, including Kay Boyle, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, and James Thu...
|  | La Profecia Celestina: Una Aventura (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: April 19, 1996You have never read a book like this before -- a book that comes along once in a lifetime to change lives forever.In the rain forests of Peru, an ancient manuscript has been discovered. Within its pages are 9 key insights into life itself -- insights each human being is predicted to grasp sequentially; one insight, then another, as we move toward a completely spiritual culture on Earth. Drawing on ancient wisdom, it tells you how to make connections among the events happening in your life right now and lets you see what is going to happen to you in the years t...
|  | The Trouble with Emily Dickinson
Publication Date: March 16, 2012An LGBT teen novel: Meet Josephine Jenkins, better known as JJ. A senior at Sampson Academy (high school), JJ’s a closet poet and a talented writer suffering from stage fright. She’s also committed the ultimate lesbian faux pas—she’s fallen in love with a straight girl.Kendal McCarthy is uber popular. She’s the campus beauty and a cheerleader. But she’s still searching for that elusive high school experience that will help her make sense of herself before she leaves for college.When JJ and Kendal cross paths, their liv...
|  | The Rage of Achilles
Publication Date: November 1, 2009Blood. Guts. Pride. Wrath. The ancient clash of armies outside the walls of Troy is a cornerstone of Western literature. In The Rage of Achilles, Terence Hawkins brilliantly reimagines that titanic encounter. His stunningly original telling captures the brutality of the battlefield, the glory and the gore, in language that never relents.Raw and compelling, The Rage of Achilles tells the story of Achilles, a monstrous hero, by turns vain and selfish, cruel and noble; of Paris, weak and consumed by lust for his stolen bride; of Agamemnon, driven nearly to insa...
|  | La chica que sonaba con un cerillo y un galon de gasolina: The Girl Who Played with Fire (Spanish Edition) (Millenium)
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|  | Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada
Publication Date: January 1, 2002| ISBN-10: 0864923139 | ISBN-13: 978-0864923134| Edition: No edition Atlantic Canada is enjoying a renaissance unknown since the days of Alden Nowlan, Milton Acorn, and John Thompson. Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada features work by 60 of the region’s finest poets in a volume that will whet appetites for more. The earlier poetry renaissance began in 1945, with the establishment of The Fiddlehead magazine. In this new volume, the present Fiddlehead editor Ross Leckie, and his collaborators Ann Compton, Laurence Hutchman, and Robin McGrath, sh...
|  | Conjuro
Publication Date: September 21, 2012Xánath Caraza's first book-length collection Conjuro(Spellbound), with introduction by Fred Arroyo, is published by Mammoth Publications, a Native-owned literary press. In this tri-lingual text, Caraza combines Spanish, English, and Nahuatl (language of the Aztecs) to create a continuous spell of verse. Caraza's writing derives from her awareness of Indigenous thought: words are tangible objects, not abstractions, and capable of influencing physical reality's web of interactions. The poet's connection to her Indigenous and Mexican heritage energizes h...
|  | Budni velikikh stroek: Stikhi russkikh sovetskikh poetov o trude (Russian Edition)
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|  | The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America
Release Date: April 12, 1991With mixed feelings of wonder and trepidation, the brilliant British writer Martin Amis approaches America and introduces this sharp and thoroughly stimulating collection of "American" pieces. From Claus von Bulow to the New Evangelists, little escapes Amis' curiosity. ...
|  | The Willie Lynch Letter And The Making Of A Slave
Publication Date: November 25, 2008The Willie Lynch Letter and The Making of A Slave is a speech delivered by Willie Lynch to an audience on the bank of the James River in Virginia in 1712 regarding control of slaves within the colony. The speaker, William Lynch, is said to have been a slave owner in the West Indies, and was summoned to Virginia in 1712; in part due to several slave revolts in the area prior to his visit, and more so because of his reputation of being an authoritarian and strict slave master. The Willie Lynch Letter is an account of a short speech given by Willie Lynch, in w...
|  | The Rusted Hauberk: Feudal Ideals of Order and Their Decline
Publication Date: May 20, 1994The metaphor of the hauberk, a tunic of chain mail that rusts over time, shapes and unifies this investigation of medieval culture. These essays question the very rubric of the feudal ideal, demonstrating that in historical and legal practice, and in imaginative and didactic writing, a breach often exists between ideal and practice. The authors challenge the notion of a fixed historical construct, emphasizing instead that all constructs must be elastic to allow historical perspectives to enlarge. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | Bedeviled: A Dark Breed Novel
Release Date: December 27, 2011| Series: Dark Breed NovelShe has done the unthinkable—turned her best friend into a dark breed: part Vampyre, Lychen and Witch . . . Kyana thought only to save her friend’s life when she fed Haven her blood; instead, she created a monster. Now the woman she thought of as a sister is under the spell of an ancient, vengeful god, determined to set him free and wreak havoc on the mortal world . . . and only Kyana can stop her. But time is running out. In just seven days, Kyana’s Vampyre and Lychen abilities will be gone and she’ll be comp...
|  | Echoes of Angels
Publication Date: May 1, 2002| ISBN-10: 1894869419 | ISBN-13: 978-1894869416Twenty-one years ago, Cassandra Blackthorne and her daughter, Julienne, fled their family home. Ironically, circumstances lure Julienne Hunter back to her birthplace--Blackthorne Manor in Virginia--and into the clutches of the man her mother hated, Morgan Saint-Evanston. She soon discovers that Blackthorne balances between two worlds, that of mortal reality and the dimensional enigma known as Sclyd. Come Halloween, they will merge and Scyldian entities will be free to hunt the weaker human race for slaves and sac...
|  | To Ruin a Queen: An Ursula Blanchard Mystery at Queen Elizabeth I's Court
Release Date: November 4, 2008| Series: Ursula Blanchard Mystery at Queen Elizabeth I's CourtHer devotion to her family trumps all. Homesick for England, heartsick at being separated from her young daughter, Ursula Blanchard is struggling to build a new life in France with her husband, Matthew de la Roche. Ursula is devastated when she learns Meg has disappeared from the family that has fostered her since the French civil war forced Ursula to leave her behind. A wanted man in England, Matthew is unable to accompany her as she frantically journeys home. Upon her arrival, Ursula is stunned...
|  | On a Raven's Wing: New Tales in Honor of Edgar Allan Poe by Mary Higgins Clark, Thomas H. Cook, James W. Hall, Rupert Holmes, S. J. Rozan, Don Winslow, and Fourteen Others
Release Date: January 6, 2009Twenty contemporary writers commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe with chilling stories inspired by the master himself.Nearly two centuries after they were penned, Edgar Allan Poe's macabre tales are still working their eerie magic on readers of every stripe—thrill-seekers, filmmakers, even fellow writers of suspense. Collected here to honor and celebrate Poe's genius are original stories by some of the best mystery writers at work today. A son attempts to connect with his dying father in Thomas H. Cook's "Nevermore." Jo...
|  | bySir Arthur Conan DoyleThe Complete Sherlock Holmes All 4 Paperback
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|  | Master Maid: A Tale of Norway
Release Date: June 1, 1997| Age Level: 6 and up TEACHERS AND LIBRARIANS -- A READER'S THEATER SCRIPT OF THIS BOOK IS AVAILABLE IN AARON'S BOOK "FOLKTALES ON STAGE," OR FREE ON AARON'S WEB SITE. PLEASE CLICK "SHOW MORE," BELOW, TO SEE REVIEWS, AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR INFO, AND SAMPLE TEXT. Leif is a likeable fellow, but he never wants to listen to anyone, and he always has to do things his own way. So when his father warns him not to go work for the troll, that's just what he does! The troll seems nice enough, but the jobs he gives Leif are trickier tha...
|  | The Story of the Philadelphia Flyers (NHL: History and Heroes)
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