 | The Woman Warrior & China Men
Publication Date: 1980The Woman Warrior & China Men [Paperback] ...
 |  | Sixteen Years In Sixteen Seconds: The Sammy Lee Story
Publication Date: April 1, 2005| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up The inspirational true story of Sammy Lee, a Korean American who overcame discrimination to realize both his father's desire that he become a doctor and his own dream of becoming an Olympic champion diver. ...
|  | God Made Time (God Made (Christian Focus))
Publication Date: September 1, 2011| Series: God Made (Christian Focus) Thank you, God, for time. Thank you for the morning and for the evening. You give us all the time we need to do the things we need to do. Help us, Jesus, to spend our time pleasing you. ...
|  | The Judas Gospel: A Novel
Release Date: June 14, 2011Judas, the disciple responsible for betraying Jesus, has a conversation with God and proposes to him that if God had used his powers to market Jesus that Judas would have, Jesus would have been more successful in saving the world, with more people following him. Judas has heard rumors that God is preparing another prophet and talks God into letting Judas return to earth to prove his point using this new prophet, a woman who possesses supernatural abilities and who is stalked by a serial killer through her horrifying dreams of his victims. Judas takes her pure minis...
|  | The Imprints of gloomth: The Gothic novel in England, 1765-1830 ; an exhibition featuring the Sadleir-Black Gothic novel collection
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|  | The Little Stranger
Release Date: April 30, 2009A chilling and vividly rendered ghost story set in postwar Britain, by the bestselling and award-winning author of The Night Watch and Fingersmith. Sarah Waters's trilogy of Victorian novels Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, and Fingersmith earned her legions of fans around the world, a number of awards, and a reputation as one of today's most gifted historical novelists. With her most recent book, The Night Watch, Waters turned to the 1940s and delivered a tender and intricate novel of relationships that brought her the greatest success she has achieved so far. With ...
|  | Dealings of Captain Sharkey and Other Tales of Pirates
Publication Date: December 1, 2001A book of pirate stories representing some of Conan Doyle's non-Sherlock-Holmes writings. ...
|  | Shoe Cobbler Who Mended Souls
Publication Date: June 30, 2007Story of a shoe cobbler who embraces the uncertainties of life and questions why people from many lands come to his shop seeking his advice while he continues to struggle with his own trials. As the cobbler is working on the sole of a boot, the tapping of the nails into the sole hypnotically sends him back in time into the trenches of an old war, long forgotten, and the woman he loved.His words touch the heart and soul of the reader, regardless of country or creed. This compelling novel is the story of adventure, love, a little heartbreak, and most of all magic...
|  | The First Man
Release Date: August 6, 1996Camus tells the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like his own. Camus summons up the sights, sounds and textures of a childhood circumscribed by poverty and a father's death yet redeemed by the austere beauty of Algeria and the boy's attachment to his nearly deaf-mute mother. Published thirty-five years after its discovery amid the wreckage of the car accident that killed Camus, The First Man is the brilliant consummation of the life and work of one of the 20th century's greatest novelists. Translated from the French by David Hapgood."The First...
|  | Ghost Ship of Diamond Shoals: The Mystery of the Carroll A. Deering
Release Date: April 6, 2005In the misty dawn of January 31, 1921, a Coast Guardsman on watch at the Cape Hatteras Life-Saving Station sighted a mighty five-masted schooner, all sails set, wrecked on the treacherous Diamond Shoals. Rescuers rushed to the ship, but when they arrived they found the Carroll A. Deering deserted, with no trace of the captain, Willis B. Wormell, or the crew. When, several months later, a bottle was found on a nearby beach, purportedly containing a note from a crew member who ascribed the schooner's fate to its capture by pirates, a sensational panic in internationa...
| | The Chester Mystery Cycle: A New Staging Text
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|  | Educating Seeta: The Anglo-Indian Family Romance and the Poetics of Indirect Rule (VICTORIAN CRITICAL INTERVENTIO)
Publication Date: April 30, 2010| Series: VICTORIAN CRITICAL INTERVENTIO Even though Edward Said’s Orientalism inspired several generations of scholars to study the English novel’s close involvement with colonialism, they have not considered how English novels themselves were radically altered by colonialism. In Educating Seeta, Shuchi Kapila argues that the paradoxes of indirect rule in British India were negotiated in “family romances” which encoded political struggle in the language of domestic and familial civility. A mixture of domestic ideology and liberal polit...
|  | Affair
Release Date: February 2, 1998Charlotte Arkendale knew all there was to know about men. After all, she'd made a career out of steering marriage-minded women away from untrustworthy members of the opposite sex.Yet nothing could have prepared her for Baxter St. Ives--an arresting stranger too daring, too determined, too dangerous to be her new man-of-affairs. Still, perhaps he was the perfect person to help Charlotte investigate the recent murder of one of her clients. So she gave him a chance, never realizing that Baxter, a gifted scientist, would soon conduct a risky exploration into the alc...
|  | A Gentle Giving
Publication Date: January 1, 1993Willa Hammer has nothing left after narrowly escaping the lynch mob that unjustly hanged her foster father except her dog, her faith, and the protection of a secretive family. She joins their wagon train heading West, never realizing she is traveling to the wilds of Bighorn Mountain, where a rundown ranch and the arms of an untamed, hardened cowboy await her. ...
|  | The Former Fiance
Publication Date: April 2003Guarded against fervent suitors by the handsome Earl of Rosegoode, Robinson Hollister, Lady Madeline Dalton might just let her own guard down... --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Blue Steel
Publication Date: June 5, 20121963: An RAF V-Bomber goes missing on a delivery flight to the Woomera atomic test range in outback Australia. The 'Blue Steel' nuclear stand-off weapon that it is carrying falls into the hands of Indonesian president Sukarno. He threatens to sell it to Russia if Great Britain interferes with his plan to dominate all of Southeast Asia. Britain appeals to Australia for help. Brad Grant and Tony Martin are Intelligence field officers on assignment from the RAAF to a secret agency known as 'AFIS' (Air Force Intelligence Service.) Sent to Indonesia with orders to re...
|  | More Holmes for the Holidays
Release Date: October 1, 2001Just in time for the holidays, a second volume of all-new mysteries featuring the most popular detective of all from the pens of today's greatest mystery authors: Anne Perry, Peter Lovesey, Loren D. Estleman, Bill Crider, Carolyn Wheat, Daniel Stashower, Edward Hoch, Tanith Lee, Jon Breen, L.B. Greenwood, and Barbara Paul. "Clever plotting and superior imitations of Watson's narrative voice makes this an above average anthology of new Sherlockian adventures." (Boston Herald) "Each tale glows with Victorian warmth in this new round of adventures...a fitting sequel...
|  | Bridge to Oblivion
Publication Date: December 26, 2011In one of the worst bridge disasters in American history, a runaway freighter rams the underpinnings of Tampa Bay’s Sunshine Skyway during a morning squall, spilling a string of rush hour passengers to their deaths. For Charlene Gibbs, the sister of one of the victims, this event leads years later to her own fatal plunge from the reopened Skyway, an incident novice detective Adam Fraley witnesses by chance. Puzzled by the official findings, Fraley delves into the circumstances surrounding the death ~ his digging uncovering a sinister link between the...
|  | Escalofrios HorrorLandia #1: La venganza del muneco viviente: (Spanish language edition of Goosebumps HorrorLand #1: Revenge of the Living Dummy) (Spanish Edition)
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