 | Murder at Medicine Lodge
Publication Date: March 1999In 1867, the Kiowa traveled to Medicine Lodge, Kansas, along with the Comanche, Arapaho, Apache, and Cheyenne to meet with representatives of the U.S. government and to sign peace treaties.But not all of the Kiowa agree that the peace treaty is a good thing, and tensions between them and the U.S. Army ("The Blue Jackets") are running high.So, when the army bugler disappears and White Bear, chief of the Rattle Band, finds his bugle out on the plains, the army command assumes that White Bear has killed the man to steal it.To make matters worse, the bugler's body is ...
 |  | The Care and Handling of Roses with Thorns
Release Date: August 2, 2012Thirty-six-year-old Gal Garner lives a regimented life. Her job teaching biology and her struggle with kidney disease keep her toggling between the high school, the hospital, and her home on a strict schedule.Only at home, in her garden, does Gal come alive. It's here that she experiments with Hulthemia roses, painstakingly cross-pollinating various specimens in the hopes of creating a brand-new variation of spectacular beauty. But even her passion has a highly structured goal: Gal wants to win Queen of Show in a major competition and bring that rose to market.The...
|  | Hearts Aglow (Striking a Match)
Publication Date: March 1, 2011| Series: Striking a Match (Book 2) The future should be bright for Deborah Vandermark, who is now pursuing her interest in medicine alongside Dr. Christopher Clayton, who is courting her. But the lumber town is resistant to the idea of a woman physician, and she feels thwarted at every turn. A more devastating blow occurs, however, when Christopher breaks off their relationship to return home to his troubled family. Despite her own love life going awry, Deborah is still intent to be a matchmaker for both her widowed mother and her brother, who has caught the e...
|  | A Lever Long Enough
Publication Date: January 12, 2009In the near future, the Israeli military has developed a prototypic time machine. When believers in Yeshua (Jesus) create a politically explosive situation that threatens the balance of peace between Israel and nearby countries, the Israelis must send a team of four elite soldiers back to film the theft of Jesusʼ body from the tomb and thus disprove Christianity. The team, consisting of a Special Forces soldier as leader, an ex-American astronaut as engineering specialist, an archaeologist, and a linguist, has exactly seventy-two hours to collect the v...
|  | The Duke's Handmaid
Publication Date: July 1, 2010Slavery...loyalty. Torture...honor. Betrayal...selflessness. All the young orphan wanted was security in a world that destroyed her family and left her despised and rejected. Can the simple farmgirl find a new family through voluntary enslavement to the duke's household? Crafted in a highly precise writing style so smooth it slips right from the page into your imagination, this fantastical storyworld examines timeless social issues that inform global justice today."Something for everyone! If you like adventure and intrigue and danger, this is the book for you."~...
|  | Claire of the Moon: A Novel
Publication Date: August 1, 2004Love it or hate it (and there doesn't seem to be any in-between!), Nicole Conn's Claire of the Moon is without question one of the most influential lesbian films ever made. Here is the novel on which it was based. The story of brash, beautiful Claire, whose heterosexuality is pushed into question by a lesbian academic, is smart, sexy, challenging and surprising. In addition to writing the novel, Nicole Conn also wrote and directed the film version of Claire of the Moon. She is also the author of Passion's Shadows, Angel's Wings, The Wedding Dress and She Walks...
|  | The Escapement (Engineer Trilogy)
Publication Date: December 14, 2007| Series: Engineer Trilogy (Book 3) The engineer Ziani Vaatzes engineered a war to be reunited with his family. The deaths were regrettable, but he had no choice. Duke Valens dragged his people into the war to save the life of one woman - a woman whose husband he then killed. He regrets the evil he's done, but he, equally, had no choice. Secretary Psellus never wanted to rule the Republic, or fight a desperate siege for its survival. As a man of considerable intelligence, he knows that he has a role to play - and little choice but to accept it. The machine ...
|  | The Duchess of Malfi (New Mermaids)
Publication Date: August 29, 2003| Series: New Mermaids One of the most haunting tragedies written in the Jacobean period, The Duchess of Malfi (1614) adapts the true story of a noble Italian widow who secretly marries her steward and has children with him. Her two brothers, enraged by this act of female self-determination, begin to spy on the happy family, entrap them and subject their sister to fiendish psychological torture before they have her strangled. Unlike his sources, Webster does not condemn the Duchess for lasciviousness, nor does he allow her brothers to live. As the introductio...
|  | Graelent And Guingamour (Garland Library of Medieval Literature)
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| | A Chorus of Haiku
Publication Date: 1993Student's Haikus ...
|  | Frogpond (The Journal of the Haiku society of America, Volume 34, Number 1 Winter, 2011)
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|  | The Cruise Of The Noah's Ark
Publication Date: September 28, 2010This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enj...
|  | Been There, Done That : A Novel
Release Date: July 22, 2003In Darrien Lee's much-anticipated sequel to All That and a Bag of Chips, readers meet up again with Craig Bennett, who is still wary of love even years after his affair with Venice Taylor.This compelling continuation of the Craig Bennett and Venice Taylor saga reveals Craig to be still smarting from Venice's decision to marry her high school sweetheart despite the passion she and Craig shared during their college romance. Devastated by the loss, Craig has dedicated himself to building his company, Bennett Architectural, Inc., into a multimillion-dollar empire and...
|  | Blackwater
Release Date: December 15, 1996On Midsummer's Eve, 1974, Annie Raft arrives with her daughter Mia in the remote Swedish village of Blackwater to join her lover Dan on a nearby commune.On her journey through the deep forest, she sumbles upon the site of a grisly double murder--a crime that will remain unsolved for nearly twenty years, until the day Annie sees her grown daughter in the arms of one man she glimpsed in the forest that eerie midsummer night.Like Gorky Park and Smilla's Sense of Snow, Blackwater is a unique trhiller in which the hearts and minds of the characters are as strikingly...
|  | Strange Flesh: A Novel
Release Date: April 3, 2012THIS IS A STORY ABOUT SEX AND GAMES. “The only clue we have to our brother’s whereabouts is this place that doesn’t really exist.” Ten years ago, Blythe Randall broke James Pryce’s heart. Now she needs his help. Her enigmatic appeal lures the elite hacker into his most tantalizing, and most personal, assignment yet. A Harvard dropout employed by Manhattan-based RedRook Security, James makes a living finding people who don’t want to be found, pursuing their digital tracks around the globe, flushing out criminals, and exacting crea...
|  | Mrs. Malory Investigates (Mrs. Malory Mystery ; no. 1)
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|  | The Religious Body
Publication Date: November 2007Sister Anne has been thrown down the cellar stairs, and Inspector Sloan wonders who in God's name would want to murder a cloistered nun? Sloan's task is complicated by the unusual witnesses - 50-plus discreet, identically dressed nuns, each of whom has an assumed name and a past secular life. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Sabbath Lion: A Jewish Folktale from Algeria
Publication Date: September 1992| Age Level: 5 and up Because of Yosef's devotion to honoring the Sabbath, he is given special protection by a great lion during a dangerous journey through the desert. ...
|  | Allen Iverson (Real-Life Reader Biography)
Publication Date: August 1, 2002| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Yoga Bear: Yoga for Youngsters
Publication Date: October 15, 2004| Age Level: 2 and up Yoga Bear Yoga for Youngsters uses rhyming word play, bright photographs, and a charming, illustrated yoga bear to teach twenty-two poses that imitate animals and nature. Children will delight in pretending to be a frog, a cobra, or a butterfly. Only you will know that they are also strengthening their muscles, gaining flexibility and improving their coordination and posture! Perfect for families or groups of all ages and abilities, including children with special needs, yoga is a fun form of fitness! ...
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