 | Wedding Ring
Publication Date: July 1, 2004| Series: Shenandoah Album (Book 1) Three generations of women discover the healing gift of family, memories and love. Tessa MacCrae agrees to spend the summer helping her mother and grandmother clean out and repair the old family home in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. At first the summer is filled with emotional storms. Helen, the family matriarch, is domineering and sharp-tongued. Nancy, Tessa's mother, appears to be little more than a hand-wringing social climber, but what Tessa can't see is a woman ashamed of her own background. As Tessa restores a tattered w...
 |  | Hero's Ransom (Justice, Book 4)
Publication Date: February 1, 2010CIA Agent Bo Rider (The Camelot Conspiracy) and Federal Agents Eva Montanna and Griff Toppng (Facing Justice, Confirming Justice, The Camelot Conspiracy) return in Hero's Ransom, the Munsons' fourth family-friendly adventure. When archeologist Amber Worthing uncovers a two-thousand-year-old mummy and witnesses a secret rocket launch at a Chinese missile base, she is arrested for espionage. Her imprisonment sparks a custody battle between grandparents over her young son, Lucas. Caught between sinister world powers, Amber's faith is tested in ways she never dr...
|  | Stonewall
Publication Date: September 15, 1998A powerful work of historical fiction that dramatizes the romantic, brutal, and glorious life of Stonewall Jackson, one of the Civil War's greatest heroes. ...
|  | Grand Cayman Slam
Release Date: April 7, 2009Dusky MacMorgan’s old buddy Captain Wes O’Davis has been set up for a murder rap by a gang of kidnappers whose latest victim is the son of Sir Conan James and Lady James, British aristocracy with powerful connections. The ransom note gives them three days to pay up, or the boy dies. But now that Dusky MacMorgan is involved, that gives the kidnappers only three days to live… --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | The 38 Million Dollar Smile (A Donald Strachey Mystery)
Publication Date: May 2, 2009Gary Griswold, cheerily dim gadfly scion of Albany old money, late of the Key West artists colony, goes missing, and his ex-wife wants to know what's happened to him - not to mention his 38 million dollars in cash. Turns out that religious dilettante Gary and his money have disappeared into Thailand, where corruption has its own etiquette. Soon, Albany's only gay PI, Don Strachey, is out of his element, and his lover Timmy is way out of his comfort zone as they comb the Land of Smiles for a man with an unerring weakness for the poorest choice possible and a daft ...
|  | The Zero Knot
Publication Date: October 14, 2011Eighteen-year-old Jess Bonner is casting off pretense-and, with it, some friends from his past who aren't particularly trustworthy. In just a few months he'll be starting college, and it's time for him to admit the truth: he's gay, not bi, and only one of his old friends holds any kind of real interest for him. When Dylan Finch, aka Mig, follows his lead and puts some distance between himself and the old crowd, he and Jess give in to a mutual attraction that's been building for years.But navigating a fledgling relationship isn't easy for beginners, and force...
|  | Beautiful Game
Publication Date: July 19, 2011It's 1991 and Melissa Etheridge is a brand new voice on the radio. In Southern California, it's almost--but not quite--safe to say the word lesbian out loud. For Camille Wallace, a sophomore attending San Diego University on a soccer scholarship, life is sweet. She has gay friends, the sport she loves, and a future full of possibilities. Her possible futures don't include a woman like Jess Maxwell. Potential all-American, star-caliber tennis player and in every way the perfect co-ed, Jess isn't likely to notice Cam's admiring glances. Even if she does, cha...
|  | Religion and Politics in Aristophanes' Clouds (Altertumswissenschaftliche Texte und Studien: Band 24)
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|  | Anthology of Renaissance Music: Western Europe 1400-1600 (The Norton Introduction to Music History)
Publication Date: March 17, 1998| ISBN-10: 0393971708 | ISBN-13: 978-0393971705In this carefully selected anthology—the author of Renaissance Music presents full scores for all the music highlighted in the companion text—a total of 102 works of complete movements by some 75 composers.Spanning the period from the early fifteenth century to the late sixteenth, the anthology features all of the era’s important forms and many minor ones, including carols, motets, Mass movements, Anglican services, a Magnificat setting, chansons, frottole, Lieder, madrigals, and others. F...
|  | The Author and His Doubles: Essays on Classical Arabic Culture (Middle East Literature in Translation)
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|  | The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Publication Date: July 23, 2007| ISBN-10: 0521673682 | ISBN-13: 978-0521673686The Harlem Renaissance (1918-1937) was the most influential single movement in African American literary history. Its key figures include W. E. B. Du Bois, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay,and Langston Hughes. The movement laid the groundwork for all later African American literature, and had an enormous impact on later black literature world-wide. With chapters by a wide range of well-known scholars, this Companion is an authoritative and engaging guide to the movement.It first discusses the hist...
|  | Dear Stinkpot: Letters From Louise Brooks
Publication Date: October 21, 2009LOUISE BROOKS and Jan Wahl had a special, roller-coaster relationship lastingtwenty-odd years. He met the legendary star when he was a student; it turned outeach of them hoped to be a writer. This intense friendship continued by letterand in person. The letters from Louise reveal much of her inner personality--herinsights and anecdotes make fascinating, compelling reading.JAN WAHL is the author of over 100 books for children of all ages; he has wonnumerous awards. His work has been translated into many languages. ...
|  | The Chocolate Thief
Release Date: July 31, 2012 ParisBreathtakingly beautiful, the City of Light seduces the senses, its cobbled streets thrumming with possibility. For American Cade Corey, it's a dream come true, if only she can get one infuriating French chocolatier to sign on the dotted line. . .ChocolateMelting, yielding yet firm, exotic, its secrets are intimately known to Sylvain Marquis. But turn them over to a brash American waving a fistful of dollars? Jamais. Not unless there's something much more delectable on the table. . .Stolen PleasureWhether confections taken from a locked shop or kisses in the ...
|  | The Wonderful Edison Time Machine: A Celebration of Life
Publication Date: October 1999Enhanced with 58 color plates, fold-outs and illustrations by Toby Bluth ...
|  | A Dignity of Dragons
Publication Date: May 3, 2010| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: K and up To catch a glimpse of one unicorn is lucky; to see a grace of unicorns is to witness a marvel. In this book, you will also find . . . a riddle of sphinx, a splash of mermaids, a dignity of dragons, and more. With inventive groupings, luminous artwork, and a fact-filled glossary, A Dignity of Dragons makes for a bestiary to treasure. For within its pages, you’ll learn about all the creatures you may be lucky enough to see, if you know where to look. ...
| | Young Footballer's Pocket Book
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|  | Native American Games and Stories
Publication Date: September 25, 2000| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Provides young readers with Native American stories and games that both educate and entertain. ...
|  | Mittens
Publication Date: February 1998Richard achieves his lifelong desire to have a kitten, only to have it become lost. ...
|  | The Sopping Thursday
Publication Date: January 1, 2008| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up An umbrella is missing. A man is distressed. A thief scampers over rooftops. A child is in danger. A harangued salesclerk weeps. A dog save the day. The intriguing story of The Sopping Thursday is unlike any other Edward Gorey book, both because of its unique gray-and-black illustrations and because it has a happy ending (if one is to dismiss any worry about the child featured in the last frame). In just thirty images and thirty short lines of text, Gorey manages to create a complex tableau of characters and a plo...
|  | Beacham's Literature for Young Adults (Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults)
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