| A Second Helping: A Blessings Novel Release Date: January 5, 2010| Series: BlessingsWith the millions she received after divorcing her faithless tycoon husband, Bernadine Brown saved the historic town of Henry Adams, Kansas, from financial ruin and found loving homes for five needy children. Now there are other "projects" crying out for rescue. If ever a town institution needed rescuing, it's the beloved Dog and Cow diner. Once it was Henry Adams's social centeror gossip central!now it's in danger of becoming duct-tape central. But there are other distractions pulling Bernadine from the task at hand: a plethora...
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| Poems of Faith Publication Date: August 1984| ISBN-10: 0899520863 | ISBN-13: 978-0899520865Perhaps the most beautiful volume of all Helen Steiner Rice books, Poems of Faith continues to bless with its faith-filled truths and promises. Joyously celebrating the peace that comes to those who put their trust in God, this warmly illustrated, full-color book features 90 favorite verses by America's all-time favorite inspirational poet. ...
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| Tending Roses (Tending Roses Series, Book 1) Release Date: February 4, 2003“The best times of my life, the times that have passed by me the most quickly, were the times when the roses grew wild.” The lessons that most enrich our lives often come unexpectedly. That’s what Kate Bowman learns when she moves temporarily—with her husband and baby son—to her grandmother’s Missouri farm. The family has given Kate the job of convincing Grandma Rose, who’s become increasingly stubborn and forgetful, to move off her beloved land and into a nursing home. But Kate knows such a change would break her g...
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| False Gods: The Heresy Takes Root (The Horus Heresy) Release Date: July 11, 2006| Series: The Horus Heresy (Book 2) The human Imperium stands at its height of glory - thousands of worlds have been brought to heel by the conquering armies of mankind. At the peak of his powers, Warmaster Horus wields absolute control - but can even he resist the corrupting whispers of Chaos? ...
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| The Perfect Season Release Date: July 26, 2005The Perfect Season is a fictional novel based on the real undefeated, untied and unscored upon season of the 1954 Churchland Truckers of Portsmouth, Virginia. The Truckers had a tough, unique Coach they called "Shotgun". He was a wildman who refused to lose! What made him so tough and how was it that his team never lost? What was it in his past that threatened the perfect season?It was a time of "iron man" football when rock and roll was new and cars had fins! If you have ever been to any High School football game, cruised and rocked after the game, or had a High S...
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| Massacre Mountain: A Cotton Pickens Western (Cotton Pickens Westerns) Release Date: October 1, 2011| Series: Cotton Pickens Westerns Cotton Pickens is feeling about as low as a man can get. Held up, robbed and fired from his job as sheriff, things get even worse when someone murders Cotton's horse Critter. And it's all happening just as a flashy, fleshy stage company comes to town. Some folks demand the show be shut down for immorality. Some folks - Cotton included - sure enjoy the proceedings. But when a man gets stabbed to death, a bank safe gets blown up, and another county's sheriff starts imposing his will, Cotton realizes that a dastardly plot is taking ...
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| Paradise Lost Publication Date: September 30, 2005| ISBN-10: 0872207331 | ISBN-13: 978-0872207332| Edition: 3rd Paradise Lost remains as challenging and relevant today as it was in the turbulent intellectual and political environment in which it was written. This edition aims to bring the poem as fully alive to a modern reader as it would have been to MiltonâÂÂs contemporaries. It provides a newly edited text of the 1674 edition of the poemâÂ"the last of Milton's lifetimeâÂ"with carefully modernized spelling and punct...
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| Song of the Stone Publication Date: October 31, 1995'Song of the Stone' is the true story of five remarkable journeys.Barry Brailsford, the highly acclaimed author of 'The Tattooed Land' and 'Greenstone Trails', spent six years writing 'Song of Waitaha', at the invitation of the oldest tribes of New Zealand.This white historian and archaeologist was initiated into the sacred school of learning and sat with knowledge long thought lost. 'Song of the Stone' describes his fascinating odyssey into the world of the wisdom-keepers of his land and the North American Indian peoples.Barry's amazing quest is about the d...
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| Homeric Variations on Lament by Briseis Publication Date: August 2002| ISBN-10: 0742522180 | ISBN-13: 978-0742522183Casey Dué examines the figure of Briseis, the concubine of Achilles in theIliad, as an example of the traditional artistry enabled by a complex and self-contained oral poetic system. Briseis' lament for Patroclus inIliad 19 hints at her role in the larger epic tradition. Dué argues that Briseis' role in theIliad is enormously compressed, both in relation to theIliad and the entire tradition of the epic cycle. Through a close reading of Homeric passages, Homeric Variations on a Lament by Briseis shows ho...
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| The Rig Veda: An Anthology of One Hundred Eight Hymns (Penguin Classics) Release Date: January 28, 1982| ISBN-10: 0140444025 | ISBN-13: 978-0140444025| Edition: 1St Edition The earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and the first extensive composition to survive in any Indo-European language, "The Rig Veda" (c. 1200-900 bc) is a collection of more than 1,000 individual Sanskrit hymns. A work of intricate beauty, it provides unique insight into early Indian mythology and culture. ...
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| Roman Erotic Elegy: Love, Poetry, and the West ...
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| Heroines of Jiangyong: Chinese Narrative Ballads in Women's Script Publication Date: January 2009"Heroines of Jiangyong" is the first English translation of a set of verse narratives recorded in the unique women's script (nushu) of rural Jiangyong County, Hunan, in southern China. This selection of Chinese folk literature provides a rare window into the everyday life of rural daughters, wives, and mothers, as they transmit valuable lessons about surviving in a patriarchal society that is often harsh and unforgiving. Among samples of Chinese women's literature, writings in women's script are rare in their presentation of peasant women speaking their own mind...
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| Shi (Zhongguo gu dai wen ti cong shu) (Mandarin Chinese Edition) ...
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| Bookstore Cat(Step into Reading, Step 1, paper) Release Date: September 10, 1994| Age Level: 4 and up...
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| Paladin of Souls Release Date: April 26, 2005Follow Lois McMaster Bujold, one of the most honored authors in the field of fantasy and science fiction, to a land threatened by treacherous war and beset by demons -- as a royal dowager, released from the curse of madness and manipulated by an untrustworthy god, is plunged into a desperate struggle to preserve the endangered souls of a realm. ...
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| Dead I Well May Be: A Novel Release Date: July 25, 2010This Irish bad-boy thriller -- set in the hardest streets of New York City -- brims with violence, greed, and sexual betrayal."I didn't want to go to America, I didn't want to work for Darkey White. I had my reasons. But I went."So admits Michael Forsythe, an illegal immigrant escaping the Troubles in Belfast. But young Michael is strong and fearless and clever -- just the fellow to be tapped by Darkey, a crime boss, to join a gang of Irish thugs struggling against the rising Dominican powers in Harlem and the Bronx. The time is pre-Giuliani New York, when crac...
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| Screen of Frogs: An Old Tale Publication Date: March 1993| Age Level: 4 and up This old tale of the son of a wealthy land owner who grows up to be a lazy, selfish man is deftly illustrated in bold and flowing acrylic and colored pencil on kozo (mulberry) paper, and collage of hand-marbled and Japanese decorated papers. Full color. ...
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| Chicken Socks Make Your Own Tiaras Activity Book Publication Date: May 15, 2005| Age Level: 4 and up...
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