 | Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
Release Date: September 27, 2005The national bestseller!At Thermopylae, a rocky mountain pass in northern Greece, the feared and admired Spartan soldiers stood three hundred strong. Theirs was a suicide mission, to hold the pass against the invading millions of the mighty Persian army.Day after bloody day they withstood the terrible onslaught, buying time for the Greeks to rally their forces. Born into a cult of spiritual courage, physical endurance, and unmatched battle skill, the Spartans would be remembered for the greatest military stand in history--one that would not end until the rocks...
 |  | Barb of Fire: Twenty Poems of Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity With Selected Passages from Blessed Columba Marmion Osb
Publication Date: May 1, 2002| ISBN-10: 0852445423 | ISBN-13: 978-0852445426New and vivid translations of the twenty poems by Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity that were published in the Souvenirs shortly after her death in 1906. Accompanying each poem is a selected passage from Abbot Marmion, also newly translated. The editor and translator, Alan Bancroft, shows how strikingly the writings of the celebrated Benedictine Blessed Columba Marmion (beatified in 2000) and those of the young French Carmelite interlock. Elizabeth Catez, beatified in 1984, loved God with an astonishing intensity....
|  | Red River Bride (Heartsong Presents, No. 519)
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|  | The Warded Man
Release Date: March 10, 2009The time has come to stand against the night.As darkness falls each night, the corelings rise–demons who well up from the ground like hellish steam, taking on fearsome form and substance. Sand demons. Wood demons. Wind demons. Flame demons. And gigantic rock demons, the deadliest of all. They possess supernatural strength and powers and burn with a consuming hatred of humanity. For hundreds of years the demons have terrorized the night, slowly culling the human herd that shelters behind magical wards–symbols of power whose origins are lost in myth an...
|  | Robinson Crusoe (Norton Critical Editions)
Publication Date: December 17, 1993The Second Edition of the Norton Critical Edition of Robinson Crusoe is based on the Shakespeare Head Press reprint of the first edition copy in the British Museum, with the "errata" listed by Defoe’s publisher, William Taylor, incorporated into the text.Michael Shinagel has collated the reprint with all six authorized editions published by Taylor in 1719 to achieve a text that is faithful to Defoe's original edition. Annotations assist the reader with obscure words and idioms, biblical references, and nautical terms. "Contexts" helps the rea...
|  | Bad Medicine
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|  | Apocalypse - How to Survive a Global Crisis
Publication Date: May 15, 2011Will the world, as we know it, end in 2012? It's the intention of this book to teach you what you'll need to know IF it does. Spiritual/scientific predictions, asteroid impacts, pandemics, economical/governmental collapse, solar flares, electrical grid failure, climate change, epic floods, WW3, Planet-X, peak oil, super tsunamis, alien invasions, how the government's preparing; this book has it all, and teaches how you and your family can survive it all. A complete self-help guide not only for the end times, but any global crises, of which we seem to be having p...
|  | Russian Tales of Love and Life: The Complete Russian Folktale
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|  | Greek Tragedy and the Emotions: An Introductory Study
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|  | Ramayana Book Two: Ayodhya (Clay Sanskrit Library) (Bk. 2)
Release Date: February 1, 2005| ISBN-10: 0814767168 | ISBN-13: 978-0814767160The king decides to abdicate in favor of Rama; but just as the celebrations reach their climax, a court intrigue forces Rama and Sita into fourteen years banishment; they dutifully accept their fate, and go off to the jungle. The other brothers refuse to benefit from his misfortune, which leaves nobody to run the city; eventually one of them is persuaded to act as regent, but only consents to do so on condition that he lives outside the city and acts in Rama’s name.“Ayódhya” is Book Two of...
|  | Day
Publication Date: May 30, 2007[Amir Or] is a poet who dares, in our time, to mention the 'soul.' He is a poet whose awareness of Old Testament poetry rings easily and true, like water echoing in the heart of a cove. . . . This is a poetry of note, a workto be taken seriously and spread around, a poet who bestrides several traditions with seeming ease, a special contribution to world poetry.-John F. Deane, from the Afterword ...
|  | The Seeing Eye: Selections from the Urdu and Persian Ghazals of Ghalib
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|  | Man-Making Words: Selected Poems of Nicolas Guillen
Publication Date: October 2003The Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén, who was born in the eastern province of Camagüey in 1902, died in 1989. This new edition of his selected poems, reissued thirty years after its original publication, includes an extensive, new introductory essay by Roberto Márquez, one of the original translators and a leading authority on Caribbean and Latin American literature and culture. ...
|  | Rogues Vagabonds Sturdy Beggar
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|  | Discourse Analysis: An Introduction (Continuum Discourse)
Publication Date: February 1, 2007| ISBN-10: 082648557X | ISBN-13: 978-0826485571<p><span>D<i>iscourse Analysis: An Introduction </i>is a comprehensive, accessible introduction to discourse analysis. In a series of nine chapters the book examines different approaches to discourse, looking at discourse and society, discourse and pragmatics, discourse and genre, discourse and conversation, discourse grammar, corpus-based approaches to discourse and critical discourse analysis. The final chapter presents a practical approach to doing d...
|  | The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature
Publication Date: November 21, 1985| ISBN-10: 0195002067 | ISBN-13: 978-0195002065This landmark book explores the ways in which the Greco-Roman tradition has shaped modern European and American literature. ...
|  | Dark Harvest (Maplecreek Amish)
Publication Date: December 21, 2010| Series: Maplecreek Amish Policewoman Kat Lindley is running from the big-city job that nearly got her killed, and from memories of the abused boy she failed to save. She agrees to undertake a dangerous masquerade within the peaceful Amish community of Maplecreek, desperate to save its children.Widower Luke Brand is a leader in the Amish community. But his people are under attack from unknown assailants. The community is reluctant to turn to the outside world—until a particularly vicious assault forces Luke to seek help.Together Luke and Kat are deter...
|  | Sum3: The 2006 Zircon Anthology of Speculative Romance
Publication Date: January 15, 2007A secret agent investigating murders of an extraterrestrial origin. A desperate guardian of a people's last hope. A rebellious lady artist in the English countryside. A farmer's boy. A college professor. An assassin. What do all these people have in common? They're all going to fall in love...with someone, somewhere, somewhen. And falling in love can change the world. Come explore these and many other stories in Sum3: An Anthology of Speculative Romance. ...
|  | Curious George Visits the Zoo
Publication Date: October 28, 1985| Age Level: 4 and up...
|  | The Unusual Motion of Strange Beasts
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