 | Unseen Academicals (Discworld)
Release Date: September 28, 2010| Series: DiscworldThe wizards at Ankh-Morpork's Unseen University are renowned for many things—wisdom, magic, their love of teatime—but athletics is most assuredly not on the list. So when Lord Vetinari, the city's benevolent tyrant, strongly suggests to Archchancellor Mustrum Ridcully that the university put forth a football team composed of faculty, students, and staff—or lose the funding that pays for their nine daily meals—the more-than-usually-at-sea UU wizards find themselves in a quandary. To begin with, they have to figure out ju...
 |  | Long Journey Home
Publication Date: September 2, 2008After divorcing her abusive husband, single mother Callie May is still nursing the scars of a painful past. The last thing she needs in her life is another man, so she s less than thrilled when a handsome but brooding stranger moves into the apartment across the hall.Dan Mattson may be attractive, but his circumstances certainly aren t: a former church pastor, he abandoned his flock in Michigan and fled to the Chicago suburbs after the deathof his beloved wife and baby daughter in a tragic automobile accident. Embittered by his loss, Dan turns his back on G...
|  | Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha De Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland (Forgotten Books)
Publication Date: November 7, 2007Book Description: "GODS AND FIGHTING MEN : The Story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland, arranged and put into English by Lady GregoryGods and Fighting Men was first published in 1904, two years after Cuchulain of Muirthemne, and complements that work. It contains the other mythological histories of early Ireland, the stories of Lugh, of Mananaan, the Children of Lir, the coming of the Tuatha de Danaan, as well as those that deal with Oisin, Finn MacCumhal, the Fianna and their exploits, Oisin, and Diarmuid and Grania." (Quote from colinsmy...
|  | Targets of Opportunity (Jordan Sandor)
Release Date: April 24, 2012| Series: Jordan Sandor THE ENEMY HAS A THOUSAND WAYS TO STRIKE. WE HAVE JUST ONE WAY TO RETALIATE. HIS NAME IS JORDAN SANDOR. In Targets of Deception, which suspense master Robert K. Tanenbaum called “a fast-paced thriller,” Jeffrey Stephens introduced CIA agent Jordan Sandor, whom bestselling author Steve Alten praised as “terrific.” Now Sandor is back, playing for bigger stakes and facing deadlier challenges. Whisked from his Manhattan town house to a gabled CIA safe house in Virginia, Sandor faces off with a top terrorist agent from Ira...
|  | Amish Snow: Second Edition
Publication Date: September 21, 2009Amish Snow provides a rare insight into Amish culture as it clashes with the American counter-culture of the late 60's.Deep faith clashes with religious persecution and personal identity.Rheinheimer weaves an engaging tale of loss, of redemption, of the triumph of the human spirit, coming of age in a dangerous time.And in the face of evil that divides us, he clings firmly to the common bonds of human experience to show the truth that unites us.Roger Rheinheimer was raised in a Mennonite community and served as an apprentice to an Amish woodworker as a teen...
|  | Carrier 15: Enemies
Release Date: August 1, 2000| Series: Carrier (Book 15) When tensions rise between Greece and the breakawayrepublic of Macedonia, "Tombstone" Magruder and Carrier Battle GroupFourteen are sent to maintain the peace-but wind up facing a rogueGreek officer who has decided to end the conflict with openwar."Fast-paced...brimming with action and high drama."-JoeWeber on Carrier #15 in the acclaimed NavalAviation series ...
|  | Dangerous Ground
Release Date: April 4, 2006The US submarine Memphis should have been mothballed decades ago. Instead, she is charged with one last, secret mission: to locate leaking containers of Russian nuclear fuel on the floor of the Arctic Ocean. More than just an environmental nightmare, this radioactive burial ground houses enough nuclear capability to destroy most of America's major cities. Lead by the Bligh-like commander Lowell Hardy, the Memphis' crew deals with flaring tempers, faulty machinery, raging Arctic Seas, and their newest crewmate, Jerry Mitchell. Mitchell was a naval pilot whose career...
|  | An Excellent Mystery: The Eleventh Chronicle of Brother Cadfael
Publication Date: October 1, 1997| Series: Brother Cadfael Mysteries (Book 11) In 1141, two monks have arrived in Shrewsbury from Winchester, where their abbey was destroyed. Now Brother Humilis, who is very ill, and Brother Fidelis, who is mute, must seek refuge at Shrewsbury. And from the moment he meets them, Brother Cadfael senses something deeper than their common vows binds these two brothers. And as Brother Humilis's health fails, Brother Cadfael faces a poignant test of his discretion and his beliefs as he unravels a secret so great it can destroy a life, a future, and a holy order. ...
|  | This Year It Will Be Different
Release Date: November 1, 1996From the New York Times bestselling author of Circle of Friends and The Glass Lake comes This Year It Will Be Different, a stunning new work that brings us the magic and spirit of Christmas in fifteen stories filled with Maeve Binchy's trademark wit, charm, and sheer storytelling genius. Instead of nostalgia, Binchy evokes contemporary life; instead of Christmas homilies, she offers truth; and instead of sugarplums, she brings us the nourishment of holidays that precipitate change, growth, and new beginnings.In "A Typical Irish Christmas," a grieving New York wi...
|  | White Guard
Publication Date: May 5, 2009White Guard, Mikhail Bulgakov’s semi-autobiographical first novel, is the story of the Turbin family in Kiev in 1918. Alexei, Elena, and Nikolka Turbin have just lost their mother—their father had died years before—and find themselves plunged into the chaotic civil war that erupted in the Ukraine in the wake of the Russian Revolution. In the context of this family’s personal loss and the social turmoil surrounding them, Bulgakov creates a brilliant picture of the existential crises brought about by the revolution and the loss of social, mora...
|  | Shido, The Way of Poetry
Publication Date: April 6, 2001Born in a wartime Relocation Center for Japanese-Americans in 1944, Tanaka uses the Zen parable to create a voice for those Americans who feel that they are ‘living in a cultural vacuum’ on the margins of society. These small stories are kata or form exercises in spiritual self-definition, where the reader is shown how to create his or her own virtual literary culture. At the same time, Shidó focuses on the process of writing poetry as a spiritual discipline in which the poems themselves become stepping stones to spiritual ends.Originally publish...
|  | Hut of Fallen Persimmons (The Americas Series)
Release Date: April 15, 2011| ISBN-10: 0896727211 | ISBN-13: 978-0896727212| Edition: 1 In a station of the metro in Rio de Janeiro, where both live, illustrator Haruki and artisan Celina meet by chance—and soon decide, however improbably, to travel together to Japan. Their shared destination: the famous Rakushisha, or Hut of Fallen Persimmons, where seventeenth-century haiku master Matsuo Basho once stayed. Their trip to Kyoto provides a context for each to meditate on the past, their feelings for each other, and questions of cultural difference. Through a counterpoint of narratio...
|  | An Essay on the Poetry of Osip Mandelstam: God's Grateful Guest
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|  | Rough Draft: The Modernist Diaries of Emily Holmes Coleman, 1929-1937
Publication Date: March 15, 2012| ISBN-10: 1611493765 | ISBN-13: 978-1611493764Rough Draft: The Modernist Diaries of Emily Holmes Coleman, 1929-1937 is an edited selection, published here for the first time, of the diaries kept by American poet and novelist Coleman during her years as an expatriate in the modernist hubs of France and England. During her time abroad, Coleman developed as a surrealist writer, publishing a novel, The Shutter of Snow, and poems in little magazines like transition. She also began her life’s work, her diary, which was sustained for over four decades. Thi...
|  | The Color Of Trouble (Love Spectrum Romance)
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|  | Kisscut
Publication Date: June 7, 2003Saturday night dates at the skating rink have been a tradition in the small southern town of Heartsdale for as long as anyone can remember. But when a teenage quarrel explodes into a deadly shoot-out, Sara Linton - the town's paediatrician and medical examiner - finds herself entangled in a terrible tragedy. What seemed at first to be a horrific but individual catastrophe proves to have wider implications. The autopsy reveals evidence of long term - abuse, of ritualistic self-mutilation, but when Sara and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver start to investigate, they ...
|  | Hot Kid CD
Release Date: May 10, 2005Carl Webster, the hot kid of the marshals service, is polite, respects his elders, and can shoot a man driving away in an Essex at four hundred yards. Carl works out of the Tulsa, Oklahoma, federal courthouse in the 1930s, the period of America's most notorious bank robbers. Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, those guys. Carl wants to be America's most famous lawman. He shot his first felon when he was fifteen years old. With a Winchester. Jack Belmont wants to rob banks, become public enemy number one, and show his dad, an oil millionaire, he can make it on his own. With...
|  | An Easy Thing (Missing Mystery, #49)
Publication Date: March 15, 2002Set amidst the political turbulence and social unrest of contemporary Mexico City, An Easy Thing introduces English-speaking readers to Taibo's human and world-weary protagonist, independent detective Hector Belascoaran Shayne. In this debut outing, our hero, who, incidentally, possesses an insatiable appetite for Coca Cola and cigarettes, tackles three cases simultaneously: a killing in a corrupt factory; the deadly threats against a former porn starlet's teenage daughter; and, strangely, the search for Emiliano Zapata, folk hero and leader of the Mexican Rev...
|  | Ghouls Gone Wild (Mostly Ghostly)
Release Date: April 26, 2005| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | The Karate Teacher 3
Publication Date: July 22, 2012Sam’s journey from an orange belt to a purple belt. Sam and his brother attend karate classes in a fitness studio. One day they overhear two studio customers, Tommy and Jimmy, planning to steal the fitness studio’s weekly income. Despite their father’s orders to stay at home and out of trouble, the children decide to interfere with the plan of the amateur thieves. At night, when Tommy and Jimmy break into the studio, the children are ready for them. The night ends with a big fight between fitness trainers, thieves, the children and other we...
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