 | Shadowbosses: Government Unions Control America and Rob Taxpayers Blind
Publication Date: August 21, 2012SHADOWBOSSES tells a story of intrigue, drama, and corruption and reads like an organized crime novel. But it is actually a true story of how labor unions are infiltrating our government and corrupting our political process. This compelling and insightful book exposes how unions have organized federal, state, and local government employees without their consent, and how government employee unions are now a threat to our workers' freedoms, our free and fair elections, and even our American way of life. And, Mallory Factor reveals what's coming next: how unions...
 |  | The Book of a Thousand Eyes
Publication Date: April 1, 2012Ranging widely in subject and tone, this collection of prose begins as an homage to Scheherazade—the heroine of The Arabian Nights whose nightly tale-telling saved her culture and her own life by teaching a powerful and murderous ruler to abandon cruelty in favor of wisdom and benevolence. Mirroring Scheherazade’s tactic, this lyrical exploration offers diverse works including lullabies, fairy tales, nonsensical mumblings, dream narratives, and the occasional erotic ditty. The poems explore and play with languages of varied stages of consciousne...
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|  | Always Hiding: A Novel
Release Date: March 18, 1998My birth should have been an auspicious occasion for my parents because I was their first child. But I was born a girl and in the Philippines that made all the difference," writes Maria Violetta Rosario Dananay, the narrator of this story. Her life was at first a happy one, beloved by both father and mother. But when her father eloped with his latest flame, who was pregnant by him, the world turned sour. Her mother, unable to face the disgrace, fled to New York and became an illegal alien. Virtually deserted by her father, she lived as dangerously as she could unt...
|  | All Hallows' Eve
Publication Date: November 11, 2002Charles Williams had a genius for choosing strange and exciting themes for his novels and making them believable and profoundly suggestive of spiritual truths. All Hallows' Eve is the story of a man and woman whose love wasso great it could bridge the gap of death; of evil so terrible as to be unmentionable, of a vision so beautiful it must be true. ...
|  | Fearless (Dominion Trilogy #2)
Publication Date: May 1, 2008Intricate conspiracies and a relentless pace drive forward this larger-than-life tale of a modern hero, providing a resonate message of faith. Dominion Trilogy book 2. ...
|  | Autumn of the Phantoms
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|  | Gears of War: Jacinto's Remnant
Release Date: July 28, 2009| Series: Gears of War Based on the blockbuster Xbox game, this is the stunning story of the men and women who stood between a planet and total destruction–and now have to face the consequences of their actions.After a brutal fifteen-year war for survival, the Coalition of Ordered Governments is forced to destroy mankind’s last city in a final bid to stop the Locust Horde. As the survivors flee Jacinto, they must contend with the last of the Locust, bent on vengeance, as they struggle to stay alive in an icy wilderness. Marcus Fenix, Dom Santiago, and t...
|  | Chitra: A Play in One Act
Publication Date: November 25, 2007Chitra: A Play in One Act is a play written by Bengali poet and Indian guru Rabindranath Tagore. Works by Tagore were largely based on classic Indian literature and ancient Sanscrit scriptures. Chitra is based on a story from the Mahabharata and is about the characters Arjuna and the kings daughter, Chitrangada. Arjuna asks the king, Chitravahana, for his daughters hand in marriage. Arjuna and Chitrangada set out to have a child who will in the future take the throne and one day be king. Chitra is a highly recommended play for those who are interested in th...
|  | The Female Homer: An Exploration of Women's Epic Poetry
Publication Date: December 1, 2009The Female Homer opens with simple questions: Are there any women's epic poems? If so, what are the central characteristics of these epics and how do they relate to the traditional vision of epic poetry as male-authored and masculinist, as powerful and patriarchal? The book explores relations among women's epic poems over a great span—from the ancient Sumerian Descent of Inanna to Rita Dove, from the oral epics of the Russian bylinists to contemporary "language" poets. Through brief, accessible chapters, the book opens up the mythic structure of women...
|  | Selected Poems 1975-2010
Publication Date: April 15, 2012A gay, light-hearted type, Ken Bolton cuts a moodily romantic figure within the dun Australian literary landscape, his name inevitably conjuring perhaps that best known image of him, bow-tie askew, lipstick-smudged, grinning cheerfully, at the wheel of his 1958 Jaguar D-type, El Cid.Bolton, a poet & art critic-a 'Sydney' poet living in Adelaide, & working there at The Experimental Art Foundation-is editor of Little Esther books and at one time edited the magazines Magic Sam & Otis Rush.Major publications include Untimely Meditations and At The Flash & At The B...
|  | Devil May Cry (Dark-Hunter, Book 11)
Release Date: August 7, 2007As an ancient Sumerian god, Sin was one of the most powerful among his pantheon. . . Until the night Artemis brutally stole his godhood and left him for dead. For millennia, this ex-god turned Dark-Hunter has dreamed only of regaining his powers and seeking revenge on Artemis. If only life were that simple. Unfortunately he has bigger fish--or in Sin's case--demons, to fry. The lethal gallu that were buried by his pantheon are now stirring and they are hungry for human flesh. Their goal is to destroy mankind and anyone else who gets in their way. ...
|  | Wuthering Heights
Publication Date: February 24, 2007Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Brontë is considered to be one of the great classic novels of literature in the English language.A gothic story of obsessive, cruel love, of terrifying "soul mates" Catherine and Heathcliff who destroy each other with unresolved passion, the novel is distinctive for its complex structure, told in circular flashback.The mood and psychological tension is mesmerizing, and the atmosphere of the supernatural permeates this dark, unforgettable work. ...
|  | Man Vs Machine
Release Date: July 3, 2007Fifteen original tales envision ever-more sophisticated technology-and the repercussions on humankind... As our world and daily lives become more and more involved with and dependent on complex technology, concern over what the future holds increases.If computers develop genuine Artificial Intelligence will they still willingly serve humankind? If the machines rebel, can we shut them down?And what kind of world would we be left with if we did? These are just a few of the questions explored in fifteenbrand-new stories by some of science fiction's most visionary minds...
|  | The Verge Practice: A Kathy and Brock Mystery (Kathy and Brock Mysteries)
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|  | The Berenstain Bears and the Ghost of the Forest
Release Date: November 8, 1988| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Illus. in full color. When prankster Papa Bear plays ghost at the Bear Scouts' sleep-out in the Great Spooky Forest, he winds up scaring himself. ...
|  | Jack'S Time Machine
Publication Date: April 1, 2000| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up In this captivating tale of time-travel, stolen treasure, danger, and mystery, a boy is whisked back to the time of the ancient Aztecs, where he finds himself running from a villaninous treasure hunter as he searches for a way home.A beautifully illustrated story that brings new meaning to reader participation with five challenging puzzles for young readers to solve.Ages 7 - 12. ...
|  | The Never-Ending Greenness
Publication Date: March 1997| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up A country blossoms with promise and lifeThe trees in the old European city of Vilna stretch their branches toward the sun-filled skies. But when war comes, a small boy and his family escape to Israel. There, in the safety of their new home, the boy begins planting seedlings in the barren hills. In hope-filled text and soaring illustrations, a boy's dream becomes a rich vision of life, a never-ending greenness of the human spirit that is celebrated today in the Israeli tree-planting holiday of Tu b'Shvat. ...
|  | The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy
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|  | Elmo and Dorothy: Friends Forever! (Sesame Street)
Release Date: September 28, 2010| Age Level: 1 and up...
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