 | The Merry Recluse: A Life in Essays
Release Date: May 10, 2005From the best-selling author of Drinking: A Love Story, and Appetites: Why Women Want comes this unforgettable collection spanning fifteen years of observations on modern culture and women's lives. Caroline Knapp's readers are known not just for their number, but for their intense connection to her work. Knapp connected so well in part because of the intense focus she brought to her subjects. Now, with The Merry Recluse: A Life in Essays, Knapp shows us that her vision through a wider lens is as brilliant as through a narrow one. These essays paint the fullest pictu...
 |  | Wife Extraordinaire Returns (part 2)
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|  | The Coffin Tree
Publication Date: January 1996Commander John Coffin suspects foul play when two officersinvestigating a money laundering scheme are found dead and launchesinto his own investigation with the help of his worldly wife. Reprint.AB. " --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Render Unto the Valley
Publication Date: January 1, 2012Karen Godwell isn't as much ashamed of her mountain heritage as of what she once had to do to preserve it.Karen reinvents herself at college and doesn't look back until her clan's historic farm is threatened. The gutsy curator at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art returns to the mountains only to come face to face with who she was and what she did.Descendants of the early settlers still have a grip on the farmlands deep in the folds of the southern Blue Ridge Mountains, but the ground is shifting beneath their feet. Cousin Bruce, the town historian, sees l...
|  | Heart Most Worthy, A
Publication Date: March 1, 2011The elegance of Madame Forza's gown shop is a far cry from the downtrodden North End of Boston. Yet each day Julietta, Annamaria, and Luciana enter the world of the upper class, working on finery for the elite in society. The three beauties each long to break free of their obligations and embrace the American dream--and their chance for love. But the ways of the heart are difficult to discern at times. Julietta is drawn to the swarthy, mysterious Angelo. Annamaria has a star-crossed encounter with the grocer's son, a man from the entirely wrong family. And thro...
|  | River of Life
Publication Date: November 29, 2011From the outpouring of his soul and the Holy Spirit as his guide, come the words that fill his heart and now line the pages of this book. "it's you who waits for all who seek, it's you who changes stone to meek, its' you who fulfills each and every soul, it's you who teaches each one his or her role. it's you who ignites my heart on fire, it's you who drives my desire." It is apparent that Sam Olivo is a man after God's own heart. Consumed with a passion to serve and live for our Savior, Sam is a clear voice in a chaotic world that beckons people to trust i...
|  | Faces at the Cross: A Lent and Easter Collection of Poetry and Prose
Publication Date: January 1995Brimming with readings appropriate for congregational or family worship, this book provides poetic monoloques and meditations for Lent and Easter. In these soliloquies, readers meet Simon of Cyrene, Mary, Barabbas, the centurion, Salome, an innocent bystander, and others. ...
|  | Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet
Release Date: August 8, 2006It was 1994 when Xinran, a journalist and the internationally acclaimed author of The Good Women of China, received a telephone call asking her to travel four hours to meet a woman who had just crossed the border from Tibet into China.Xinran made the trip and met the woman, called Shu Wen, who recounted the story of her thirty-year odyssey in the vast landscape of Tibet. In Sky Burial, Xinran has re-created Shu Wen’s journey, painting an extraordinary portrait of a woman and a land, each at the mercy of fate and politics. It is an unforgettable, ultimately ...
|  | Leave It to Psmith
Release Date: April 12, 2005A debononair young Englishman, Psmith (“the p is silent, as in phthisis, psychic, and ptarmigan”) has quit the fish business, “even though there is money in fish,” and decided to support himself by doing anything that he is hired to do by anyone. Wandering in and out of romantic, suspenseful, and invariably hilarious situations, Psmith is in the great Wodehouse tradition. ...
|  | The Portable Renaissance Reader
Release Date: August 25, 1977| Series: Portable Library Essential passages form the works of more than 100 fifteenth-and sixteenth-century thinkers and writers, including Erasmus, Cervantes, Boccaccio, Montaigne, Bodin, Dürer, Machiavelli, Guicciardini, Rabelais, Leonardo, Cellini, Copernicus, Galileo, Savonarola, Luther, and Calvin. ...
|  | Opening the Ark of the Covenant
Publication Date: February 15, 2007Through his worldwide research into its disappearance, author Frank Joseph has learned that the Ark was not a mere legend; nor was it just an elaborate box used to store the original Ten Commandments. It was, he asserts, purpose-built to harness the powers of the Earth for humanity's continued physical existence and spiritual evolutions. ...
|  | The Dance of Death (Drama Classics)
Publication Date: April 1, 2004| Series: Drama Classics Drama Classics edition ...
|  | He Was a German: A Biography of Ernst Toller
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|  | Beowulf: An Imitative Translation
Publication Date: 1988The name "Beowulf" lingers in our collective memory, although today fewer people have heard the tale of the Germanic hero's fight with Grendel, the dreadful Monster of the Mere, as recounted in this Anglo-Saxon epic. This edition of Beowulf makes the poem more accessible than ever before. Ruth Lehmann's imitative translation is the only one available that preserves both the story line of the poem and the alliterative versification of the Anglo-Saxon original. The characteristic features of Anglo-Saxon poetry-- alliterative verse with first-syllable stress, flexible word...
|  | On My Way Back
Publication Date: January 8, 2007"On My Way Back," written by Aladdin Assaiqeli, is an intriguing collection of original poetry which provides the reader with the author's unique perspective of what he deems to be a miscarriage of justice imposed upon the Arab world by the world's most dominant force, The United States, and her close ally, "Israel". Being of Palestinian heritage, Mr. Assaiqeli's experiences and views could offer an opportunity for those not well versed on the ever present struggle for co-existence between Jews and Palestinians to understand the feelings of those from the Mus...
|  | Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature: Feminine Fictions: Revisiting the Postmodern (RLE: Women, Feminism and Literature) (Volume 14)
Publication Date: June 6, 2012| ISBN-10: 0415521815 | ISBN-13: 978-0415521819| Edition: 1 ‘Postmodernism’ and ‘feminism’ have become familiar terms since the 1960s, developing alongside one another and clearly sharing many strong points of contact. Why then have the critical debates arising out of these movements had so little to say about each other? Patricia Waugh addresses the relationship between feminist and postmodernist writing and theory through the insights of psychoanalysis and in the context of the development of modern fiction in Britain and Americ...
|  | Salvador Dalí's Art and Writing, 1927-1942: The Metamorphosis of Narcissus (Res Monographs in Anthropology and Aesthetics)
Publication Date: March 29, 1996| ISBN-10: 0521497477 | ISBN-13: 978-0521497473Salvador Dalí's Art and Writing, 1927-1942 examines the evolution of Dalí's art during the 1920s and 30s, when he was associated, first with the Catalan avant-grade, and then with the Surrealist group in Paris.During this period, Dalí's painting style changed radically, a phenomenon that has never been fully accounted for in the extensive literature on this subject.Haim Finkelstein's study is the first to examine these writings in detail as the foundation for the evolutionof Dalí's unique a...
|  | Holmes for Holidays
Release Date: November 1, 1998Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes has been solving cases and amazing fans for more than a century...Now, today's best mystery writers have gathered together to present fourteen original Holmes stories in one festive collection.Contributors include: * Anne Perry * Loren D. Estleman * Carole Nelson Douglas * Reginald Hill * Barbara Paul * Gillian Linscott * Gwen Moffat * Jon L. Breen * J.N. Williamson * John Stoessel * William L. DeAndrea * Bill Crider * Edward D. Hoch * Carolyn Wheat ...
|  | Crazy Horse's Vision
Publication Date: August 30, 2006| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up Joseph Bruchac tells the compelling story of how a young boy named Curly seeks a vision in the hope of saving his people - and grows into the brave and fierce warrior Crazy Horse. Sioux artist S. D. Nelson's paintings, in the traditional ledger style of the Plains Indians, evokes the drama and the tragedy of this important American figure. ...
|  | A Place for Fish
Publication Date: March 1, 2011| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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