 | Song of Creation
Publication Date: June 1, 2003In 1225 the infirm St. Francis, living in a hut in a church garden, wrote this poem in which he looks on the face of creation and blesses it in its totality. Our text is a translation of the poem by Matthew Arnold. We have illuminated each line with paintings -- "Praised be my Lord for our brother the Wind" is accompanied by a Corot painting of trees bent before a gale, and also an illustration by Frank Pape in which a dove is borne joyously upward. In this manner two faces of wind are shown, and the words made more vividly manifest. ...
 |  | Classic Tales of Horror and Suspense
Publication Date: August 25, 2003This recording contains fully dramatized versions of some the world's best loved classic tales of horror and suspense, complete with sound effects and music. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, and Tales of Poe which includes the classics The Gold Bug, The Fall of the House of Usher, and The Cask of Amontillado. ...
|  | All Clear
Release Date: October 25, 2011Winner of the Nebula AwardTraveling back in time, from Oxford circa 2060 into the thick of World War II, was a routine excursion for three British historians eager to study firsthand the heroism and horrors of the Dunkirk evacuation and the London Blitz. But getting marooned in war-torn 1940 England has turned Michael Davies, Merope Ward, and Polly Churchill from temporal tourists into besieged citizens struggling to survive Hitler’s devastating onslaught. And now there’s more to worry about than just getting back home: The impossibility of altering ...
|  | Droppin Dimes
Publication Date: March 27, 2012Isis Riddick has it all, a beautiful daughter and a street figure for a man but that isn't enough. Having it her way or no way at all. No one s man is off limits. . . But when she takes her lusting too far she is threatened. Isis is willing to do anything and everything to keep her position of head bitch in charge. Her betrayal is unforgivable, and only harsh punishments can be rendered.Mar'kel Wally and R&B singer Rihanna both have one thing in common; they're both Good-Girls-Gone-Bad. After being betrayed by her lover and best friend, Mar'kel decides to be a...
|  | Liar , Liar
Release Date: May 29, 2007Six months prior to their wedding, Stormy Adair Knight, learns that her fiancé, Camden Brooks, is cheating on her-with a male parishioner from their church! After this revelation, the wedding is called off due to Camden's unfitness for marriage. But months later, Stormy is informed that God has "delivered" Camden from the demons that made him unfit for marriage. Believing in Camden's transformation, Stormy agrees to marry Camden. Their lavish ceremony and expensive honeymoon signal the start of a wonderful married life.Once married, Stormy is in turmoil when ...
|  | Family Protection Act 2:The Seed of Life
Publication Date: September 1, 2012| Series: Family Protection Act An unknown, undetectable substance is affecting people all across America, and suddenly fewer and fewer babies are being born to couples who desperately want them.Is this the result of sabotage, an industrial accident, or perhaps some horrible scientific miscalculation? Or is it bioterrorism? Can the source of this affliction be found in time to save Americans from dying off as a nation? ...
|  | Captive Queen: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine
Release Date: July 13, 2010Having proven herself a gifted and engaging novelist with her portrayals of Queen Elizabeth I in The Lady Elizabeth and Lady Jane Grey in Innocent Traitor, New York Times bestselling author Alison Weir now harks back to the twelfth century with a sensuous and tempestuous tale that brings vividly to life England’s most passionate—and destructive—royal couple: Eleanor of Aquitaine and King Henry II. Nearing her thirtieth birthday, Eleanor has spent the past dozen frustrating years as consort to the pious King Louis VII of France. F...
|  | Los amigos que perdi/ The Friends I've Lost (Narrativa (Punto de Lectura)) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: March 1, 2007| Series: Narrativa (Punto de Lectura) Manuel is a single man. He lives in a big house in one of Miami s neighboring islands. He stands there, absorbed in his thoughts, watching as lizards fall in a pool and hoping for the phone to ring; but it won t ring. Manuel has lost those friends whom he wishes would call. He lost them because of his selfishness, because they were his inspiration for the novels that made him famous and at the same time, condemned him to the indifference and the silence of those he now misses. This is a collection of letters to the friends...
|  | Hildur, Queen of the Elves: And Other Icelandic Legends (International Folk Tales)
Publication Date: August 1, 2006| Series: International Folk Tales In 870 AD, the first explorers arrived on the volcanic island that one day would be called Iceland. The men and women Who settled there, on the edge of the Arctic Circle, beside the last vestiges of ancient Ice Age glaciers, were a resourceful and hardy folk. They withstood fierce winter storms, plunging arctic temperatures, violent volcanic eruptions, powerful earthquakes, and the lonely isolation of this distant island.In the eleventh century, Iceland's governing body grew weary of civil war and grudgingly accepted the rule...
|  | Vergil's Aeneid (Latin Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 1999| ISBN-10: 0865164339 | ISBN-13: 978-0865164338Both paperback and clothbound now contain an 'Annotated Bibliography on Vergil, to Supplement Pharr's Aeneid,' by Alexander McKay, a bibliography of articles and books in English, for use in college and high school Vergil courses, for students and their teachers.Also Available:Vergil's Aeneid: Selections from Books 1, 2, 4, 6, 10, and 12 - ISBN 0865164819Poet & Artist: Imaging the Aeneid - ISBN 0865165858For over 30 years Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers has produced the highest quality Latin and ancient Greek bo...
|  | From the Sagas of the Norse Kings
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|  | Par Pris Des Cho Douze (Collection Pobesie) (French Edition)
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|  | Evening Clearing: Poems and Drawings from the Mountain
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|  | Reading lists for college-bound students
Publication Date: 1990| ISBN-10: 0136352510 | ISBN-13: 978-0136352518Contains actual reading lists - straight from the professors' desks - from over 100 colleges and universities nationwide and an annotated list of the 100 books most often recommended by leading schools. It also includes guidance for setting up your own personal reading program and a tear-out checklist to help guide your reading selection. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Presenting Zibby O'Neal (Twayne's United States Authors Series)
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|  | Chess in the Middle Ages and Early Modern AgeA Fundamental Thought Paradigm of the Premodern WorldFMC (Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture)
Publication Date: July 15, 2012| ISBN-10: 3110288516 | ISBN-13: 978-3110288513The game of chess was wildly popular in the Middle Ages, so much so that it became an important thought paradigm for thinkers and writers who utilized its vocabulary and imagery for commentaries on war, politics, love, and the social order. In this collection of essays, scholars investigate chess texts from numerous traditions - English, French, German, Latin, Persian, Spanish, Swedish, and Catalan - and argue that knowledge of chess is essential to understanding medieval culture. Such knowledge, however, canno...
|  | Postmodern Spiritual Practices: The Construction of the Subject and the Reception of Plato in Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault (URBAN LIFE & URBAN LANDSCAPE)
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|  | Salman Rushdie: Second Edition
Release Date: November 24, 2009| ISBN-10: 0230217222 | ISBN-13: 978-0230217225| Edition: Second Edition This updated and expanded new edition reviews Rushdie's novels in the light of recent critical developments. It also features three new chapters which examine the author's latest works The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999), Fury (2001) and Shalimar the Clown (2005), bringing coverage of this important British author up to the present day. ...
|  | Gleanings: Essays 1982-2006
Publication Date: June 8, 2006Gleanings is a gathering of hitherto uncollected essays written by Christine Downing during the quarter century since the publication in 1981 of her seminal book, The Goddess: Mythological Images of the Feminine. Many of the essays continue her exploration of Greek goddess traditions and other aspects of Greek mythology. Others grow out of her ongoing involvement with the thought of both Freud and Jung. The interrelationship between polis and psyche, city and soul, is a central theme of several of these papers, including those that focus on the Holocaust. Variou...
|  | Slightly Irregular (Finley Anderson Tanner Mysteries)
Release Date: April 17, 2012| Series: Finley Anderson Tanner Mysteries Kidnapping is so last season. Couture-conscious paralegal Finley Anderson Tanner knew it was risky to break her cardinal shopping rule—never pay full price—for a last-minute date with her gorgeous new boss, but the hidden costs of her little black dress have put her whole life in the red. After the romantic evening turns into a disaster thanks to impossibly sexy and utterly infuriating private eye Liam McGarrity, Finley finds herself down two thousand dollars and out two potential boyfriends. Naturally, ...
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