 | The Armageddon Letters: Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro in the Cuban Missile Crisis
Publication Date: September 14, 2012| ISBN-10: 1442216794 | ISBN-13: 978-1442216792In October, 1962, the Cuban missile crisis brought human civilization to the brink of destruction. On the 50th anniversary of the most dangerous confrontation of the nuclear era, two of the leading experts on the crisis recreate the drama of those tumultuous days as experienced by the leaders of the three countries directly involved: U.S. President John F. Kennedy, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, and Cuban President Fidel Castro. Organized around the letters exchanged among the leaders as the crisis deve...
 |  | God for President: A Parable About the Power of Love
Publication Date: June 1, 2008The fate of the world is at stake, so God is running for president in Lisa Venable s delightful parable. Sarah Rose, a disillusioned American activist, has retreated from Washington politics to her hometown in Minnesota to work for a friend at the Heavenly Hair Salon. Sarah has essentially given up on God, but one day is provoked by a conversation between customers at the salon about the state of the world and she begins to wonder what God would do as president of the free world. Sarah exclaims, Imagine it...people would think twice before they act. Laws would b...
|  | Realms: Beneath the Dust
Publication Date: December 16, 2008Crime scene investigator Rachel Cohen is accustomed to dealing with death. It's part of her job, and she keeps her emotions out of it. In fact, nothing seems to get to the smart, sexy and savvy investigator. As if life wasn't getting complicated enough, she finds that her beloved lead detective and mentor retires, mysteriously making way for Rachel's first love, Hal, to step in as her new boss. Confidence, sarcasm and wit have always been in her corner, even amidst the most trying of circumstances... But that all changes when Rachel decides to wipe the dust...
|  | Smoke and Shadows (The Smoke Trilogy, Book 1)
Release Date: April 5, 2005Tony, a former street kid, is now a production assistant on a TV series about a vampire detective. But the special effects wizard is actually a real wizard who's come from another dimension-along with a dangerous foe. And Tony will definitely need the help of vampire Henry Fitzroy if he, his friend-and the world-are going to stand any chance of surviving this invasion....
|  | Night of Thunder: A Bob Lee Swagger Novel (Bob Lee Swagger Novels)
Release Date: September 29, 2009| Series: Bob Lee Swagger NovelsNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR STEPHEN HUNTER RETURNS WITH HIS MOST RIVETING BOB LEE SWAGGER VOLUME TO DATE.Talk about a ride! Woe unto he who crosses Bob Lee Swagger, especially when his daughter's life is at stake. Forced off the road and into a crash that leaves her in a coma, clinging to life, reporter Nikki Swagger had begun to peel back the onion of a Southernfried conspiracy bubbling with all the angst, resentment, and dysfunction that Dixie gangsters can muster. An ancient, violent crime clan, a possibly corrupt l...
|  | Brokeback Mountain
Release Date: November 1, 2005Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, "Brokeback Mountain" is her masterpiece.Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they're working as sheepherder and camp tender one summer on a range above the tree line. At first, sharing an isolated tent, the attraction is casual, inevitable, but something deeper catches them that summer.Both men work hard, marry, and have kids because that's what cowboys do. But over the course of many year...
|  | The Middle English Breton Lays (TEAMS Middle English Texts)
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|  | A.d. Players Christmas (Lillenas Drama)
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|  | The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Volume II: North America 1894-1960 (Oxford Critical Cultural History of Modernist Magazines)
Publication Date: September 7, 2012| ISBN-10: 0199545812 | ISBN-13: 978-0199545810The second of three volumes charting the history of the Modernist Magazine in Britain, North America, and Europe, this collection offers the first comprehensive study of the wide and varied range of 'little magazines' which were so instrumental in introducing the new writing and ideas that came to constitute literary and cultural modernism. This book contains forty-four original essays on the role of periodicals in the United States and Canada. Over 120 magazines are discussed by expert contributors, comple...
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|  | Renee And Jay
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|  | The Holy Thief
Publication Date: March 1, 1994The 19th chronicle of Brother Cadfael. In the chill autumn of 1144, rising flood waters endanger the sacred remains of St. Winifred, the abbey's most cherished possession. When the bones disappear and a corpse is found, Brother Cadfael needs his prayers answered to catch a killer. ...
|  | Back to the Badlands: Crime Writing in the USA
Publication Date: February 1, 2007“A gazetteer of American noir.”—Daily Telegraph In the summer of 1989 John Williams donned a baseball cap and took off for the States to search out the mythical America of modern crime fiction—to find James Ellroy’s Los Angeles, Elmore Leonard’s sleazy South Beach of Miami, Sara Paretsky’s Chicago, and many others on a tour of the American underbelly. The result was Into the Badlands, a riveting collection of interviews. In 2005 Williams returned to discover that much had changed in the intervening years, b...
|  | The Fire (Witch and Wizard, Book 3) (Witch & Wizard)
Release Date: December 5, 2011| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
| | Cinderella, Or, the Little Glass Slipper
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|  | Dangerously Ever After
Release Date: September 13, 2012| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Not all princesses are made of sugar and spice--some are made of funnier, fiercer stuffPrincess Amanita laughs in the face of danger. Brakeless bicycles, pet scorpions, spiky plants--that's her thing. So when quiet Prince Florian gives her roses, Amanita is unimpressed . . . until she sees their glorious thorns! Now she must have rose seeds of her own. But when huge, honking noses grow instead, what is a princess with a taste for danger to do?For readers seeking a princess with pluck comes an independent heroine wh...
| | John Elway (Football Legends)
Publication Date: February 1997| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | Pat the Zoo (Pat the Bunny) (Touch-and-Feel)
Release Date: August 7, 2012 ...
|  | Baby Penguin (Seaworld Library)
Publication Date: October 20, 2005| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | When Fuzzy Was Afraid of Losing His Mother: (Fuzzy the Little Sheep)
Publication Date: January 1, 2005| Age Level: 2 and up...
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