 | The House Behind the Cedars
Publication Date: August 31, 2007Originally published in 1900, this groundbreaking novel by a distinguished African-American author explores the Southern obsession with race. The drama of a brother and sister who "pass for white" during the dangerous days of Reconstruction, it offers realistic, unsentimental perspectives on the role of race in 19th-century American life. ...
 |  | The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou
Release Date: September 13, 1994For the first time, the complete collection of Maya Angelou's published poems-including "On the Pulse of Morning"-in a permanent collectible, handsome hardcover edition. ...
|  | Life with an Angel
Publication Date: April 9, 2007Discover the meaning of life as you travel with twelve-year-old Joe Anderson, along with his younger brother Mitch and their friend, Amy Peterson. You will be with them as they meet an Angel named Mary Margaret (MM)... As they lay peacefully in bed MM takes them through the skies back in time. When they land they are in Dawsonville, OH during the 1800s. There they are caught in a blazing ferry fire that changes an entire community and unites the town to love and care for one another. When they return to their present day, they help save one of their school teac...
|  | Signs of Life
Release Date: July 30, 2005The amazing and thought-provoking experiences of a veteran hospice care nurse and her patients and their loved ones. This book may very well change the way you look at life and death. ...
|  | Domain
Publication Date: September 1, 2012Man versus rat—the balance of power has shiftedThe long-dreaded nuclear conflict has come. The city is torn apart and its people destroyed or mutilated beyond hope. For just a few, survival is possible only beneath the wrecked streets—if there is time to avoid the slow-descending poisonous ashes. But below, the rats, demonic offspring of their irradiated forebears, are waiting. They know that man has been weakened, become frail—and has become their prey. ...
|  | Recollections of Rosings: The acclaimed Pride and Prejudice sequel series (Pemberley Chronicles)
Publication Date: March 1, 2010| Series: Pemberley Chronicles A disaster at Rosings unearths long-hidden secrets "Many surprises and turns in the lives of our favorite characters leave you riveted to each page." -Beverly Wong, author of Pride & Prejudice Prudence O Sisters Catherine Harrison and Becky Tate, daughters of Charlotte Lucas and Mr. Collins, have very different personalities and temperaments. Both grew up in the shadow of Rosings Park, domain of the formidable Lady Catherine de Bourgh, but as adults their paths diverged dramatically.When a catastrophe at Rosings Park brings Beck...
|  | Eroc Rocks
Publication Date: March 6, 2011Eroc (pronounced E-Rock) chases his dream of becoming a rock star while his life becomes a nightmare of love, friendship, loss and depression. Co-author Eric Munden shares his teenage art, journal entries and true life experiences to take the reader into the heart and soul of "Eroc" beyond the sex, drugs and rock 'n roll. ...
|  | Hunting's Best Short Stories (Sporting's Best Short Stories series)
Publication Date: July 1, 2000| Series: Sporting's Best Short Stories series In this powerful collection, classics including Guy de Maupassant’s “Love” and Ernest Hemingway’s “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” join contemporary offerings such as Wallace Stegner’s “The Blue-Winged Teal,” “On the Antler” by E. Annie Proulx, and David Quammen’s “Walking Out.” From duck, goose, and grouse hunting to stiffer contests for deer, elk, moose, bear, and big African game—in one case, even a manhunt—a...
|  | The Complete Father Brown Stories (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: July 31, 2012| Series: Penguin Classics Shabby and lumbering, with a face like a Norfolk dumpling, Father Brown makes for an improbable super-sleuth. But his innocence is the secret of his success: refusing the scientific method of detection, he adopts instead an approach of simple sympathy, interpreting each crime as a work of art, and each criminal as a man no worse than himself. This complete edition brings together all of the "Father Brown" stories, including two not previously available in Penguin: "The Donnington Affair", in which Chesterton rises to the challenge of solv...
|  | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Patience, Pearl: Verse Translations
Publication Date: January 2001| ISBN-10: 0393976580 | ISBN-13: 978-0393976588| Edition: 1st ed Verse translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Patience, and Pearl by Marie Borroff."These translations by Marie Borroff not only are one of the great achievements of the translator's craft but are works of art in their own right."--Lee Patterson, Frederick W. Hilles Professor of English and Chairman of Medieval Studies, Yale University. ...
|  | La perfecta salud : La gu
Release Date: December 29, 1997¿Cuál es su tipo físico?TIPO VATA 1. Mi temperamento es entusiástico y vivaz. 2. Soy delgado, y no engordo fácilmente. 3. Me es difícil dormirme o dormir por la noche entera. 4. Mi mente es muy activo, a veces desasosegado, pero también imaginativo. 5. Aprendo cosas rapidamente, pero también...
|  | Primal Possession: A Moon Shifter Novel
Release Date: September 4, 2012| Series: Moon Shifter Novel To protect her, he will unleash the beast within… As his pack’s second-in-command, lupine shifter Liam Armstrong gives orders and takes what he wants—until he meets red-headed, blue-eyed December McIntyre. Liam knows the human beauty is his intended mate the moment he sees her, but December is far too strong-willed to accept his protection. December, whose brother is the town sheriff, has every reason to mistrust shifters after one killed her youngest sibling. But the forceful and handsome Liam has gotten u...
|  | Dark Desire: A Carpathian Novel (Dark Series)
Release Date: July 31, 2012| Series: Dark SeriesThey were masters of the darkness, searching through eternity for a mistress of the light . . . The stranger silently summoned her from across the continents, across the seas, whispering of eternal torment, of endless hunger . . . of dark, dangerous desires. And somehow American surgeon Shea O'Halloran could feel his anguish, sense his haunting aloneness. Drawn to the far Carpathian Mountains, Shea found a ravaged, raging man, a being like no other. And she trembled. For in his burning eyes she recognized the beloved stranger who'd alread...
|  | Who Were Shake-Speare?: The Ultimate Who-Dun-It!
Publication Date: October 1997The first and only book which demystifies the 400-year-old Shakespeare authorship mystery. Discover who were the writers of Shakepeare's works? Who influenced existing versions of the works? Why so many have been proposed as Shakespeare? Why authorship information has been manipulated, misunderstood and been so controversial? ...
|  | The Girl Behind the Glass
Release Date: August 7, 2012| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Eleven-year-old twins Hannah and Anna agree about everything—especially that they don't want to move to the creepy old house on Hemlock Road. But as soon as they move into the house, the twins start disagreeing for the first time in their lives. In fact, it's almost as though something or someone is trying to drive them apart. While Anna settles in, Hannah can't ignore the strange things that keep happening on Hemlock Road. Why does she sense things that no one else in the family does? It's almost as though...
|  | Science Fiction Stories
Release Date: November 14, 2003| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Attention, earthlings! Here are twenty imaginative stories from the pioneers of sci-fi and the best of today's popular science fiction writers, including Isaac Asimov, H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, and Ray Bradbury. ...
|  | Dragon Rider
Publication Date: September 1, 2004| Age Level: 9 and up Published before THE THIEF LORD in Germany, DRAGON RIDER established Cornelia Funke as a bestselling and critically acclaimed author. Now, this fantastical epic has come to America!Firedrake, a young dragon, receives a frightening warning one night: Humans are planning to destroy the valley in which he lives! All the dragons must flee. Their only refuge is a place above the clouds called the Rim of Heaven --- which may not even exist. Firedrake boldly volunteers to go ahead first. As he embarks on his journey, he meets Ben, a runaway b...
|  | The Five Chinese Brothers
Release Date: October 7, 1938Long ago in China lived a family with five brothers who resembled each other very closely. They each possessed a special talent. One can swallow the sea; one has an iron neck; one can stretch his legs; one can survive fire; and the last can hold his breath forever. When one of the brothers, a somehow very successful fisherman, agrees to let a young boy accompany him on his fishing trip, trouble results. This brother holds the entire sea in his mouth so that the boy can retrieve fish and treasures. When the man can no longer hold in the sea, he frantically signals...
|  | The Chimney Sweep's Ransom (Trailblazer Books)
Release Date: August 1, 1992| Age Level: 8 and up A young English boy is sold to be trained as a chimney sweep and is rescued by his brother with the help of John Wesley. Ages 8-12. ...
|  | Africa, pequeno Chaka / Africa, Little Chaka (Spanish Edition)
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