 | Clutches and Curses (Haley Randolph Mysteries)
Release Date: May 1, 2012| Series: Haley Randolph Mysteries Life is looking good for amateur sleuth/professional fashionista Haley Randolph. She's even close to getting her hands on the Delicious, the season's hottest purse - until she's hit with a curse from an irate customer at Holt's department store. When things start to go really wrong, Haley transfers to the new store near Las Vegas - and promptly finds the body of Courtney Collins, an old classmate, sprawled across the floor of the menswear department. Now Haley is suspect number 1. Everyone knows Haley was once jealous of Courtney, a...
 |  | Nick Virgilio:A Life in Haiku
Publication Date: March 22, 2012Nick Virgilio, who started writing in the 1960s and was a pioneer of American haiku poetry, penned some of this country’s most elegiac and memorable haiku. Born and bred in Camden, New Jersey, he was a legend to some, an inspiration to others. He spent countless hours in his cellar at his Remington typewriter, writing haiku about nature, the people of Camden and south Philadelphia, and his family. In particular, he detailed the deep sense of loss that affected him and his family when his youngest brother, Larry, was killed in Vietnam. Edited and introdu...
|  | Not Far Away: The Real-life Adventures of Ima Pipiig (Contemporary Native American Communities)
Publication Date: September 21, 2007| Series: Contemporary Native American Communities In Not Far Away, a semi-fictional memoir, Lois Beardslee gives a chilling acount of racism, particularly that leveled against Native women, in language that is supple, evocative, often comical, and always incisive. Her fictional heroine, the teacher Ima Pipiig (pronounced 'buh-BEEG'), endures humiliating insults from school administrators, fellow teachers, students, and callous neighbors. For years, she suffers in silence, believing that opposing bigotry would only fuel its caustic flames--but then she beg...
|  | The Woman Warrior & China Men
Publication Date: 1980The Woman Warrior & China Men [Paperback] ...
|  | Though Mountains Fall (The Daughters of Caleb Bender)
Publication Date: January 1, 2013| Series: The Daughters of Caleb Bender (Book 3) Unique Amish Historical from a Bestselling, Award-Winning AuthorAmish pacifism is sorely tested in the Paradise Valley settlement in the 1920s. When an army of bandits descends on them, the Amish are saved by the last-minute arrival of government troops. But they soon learn that soldiers can be as cruel as the bandits themselves. Then a bishop travels to Mexico, and Caleb's daughters are finally able to marry, though the ban still looms for Miriam even as her beloved Domingo decides he must go off to fight in t...
|  | Acheron
Publication Date: August 24, 2011Captain Nate Leathers thought being a soldier on the front lines in Iraq was hard enough. And when his convoy is attacked and he’s thrown in a dungeon by insurgents, he can’t imagine things can get any worse. But then the world is turned upside down.When he escapes, Leathers finds the city of Basra shrouded in green mist and under siege from nightmare creatures far more horrific than any terrorist. Walking corpses. Tentacled beasts. Giant slithering things. Ancient creatures risen from the depths.Alone in the city Leathers will have to draw on a...
|  | Merkabah Rider: Have Glyphs Will Travel
Publication Date: December 1, 2011The acclaimed weird western series continues. The Rider and Kabede must rally a US Cavalry troop against an army of the undead lead by three of Adon's renegade riders if they are to survive The Long Sabbath. The Rider infiltrates an Apache stronghold to convince the combined forces of Vittorio and Geronimo not to lend their might to the mysterious forces of The War Prophet. The Rider sets out to rescue the succubus Nehema from the wrath of The Mules of The Mazzikim, then confronts his greatest enemy, The Man Called Other. Seeking to learn the remaining secre...
|  | The Ride of a Lifetime
Publication Date: February 10, 2011| ISBN-10: 1449711685 | ISBN-13: 978-1449711689When Lucas McCade retired from the PRCA rodeo circuit, he was an internationally famous rodeo star. In a life of conquering hard bulls and harder men, he had rarely known defeat and never given into fear. Little could he have known that as he left the arena of wild-eyed bulls and slashing hooves, he was stepping into a life filled with real danger.Once he rode for gold-buckle dreams, now ride with Lucas McCade as he scouts the back trails over the rolling hills of Oklahoma and encounters the paths of the po...
|  | The Book of Punishment (Nexus)
Release Date: April 22, 2010| Series: Nexus Indigo, bookseller and corporal punishment-loving submissive, is obsessed with an antiquarian work of sadomasochism that eluded her father all his life. Caned, roped, and shamed through the fleshpots of Europe, she will suffer any indignity to prevent Dervil Badon and his transsexual slave Natasha from getting their hands on her prize. But Dervil has no intention of allowing a mere submissive to own the legendary book. ...
|  | A Companion to Theatre in Australia
Publication Date: November 24, 1995A comprehensive reference book, never before attempted, which covers theatre in Australia in all its forms since 1788. Some 1300 entries, alphabetically organised and ranging in length from 200 to 7000 words, cover Australian and visiting personalities who have influenced Australian cultural history; genres from melodrama and the classics to pantomime, musical theatre, circus and performance art. Longer entries include historical accounts of colonial theatre, industrial relations, touring conditions, acting style, management dramatic criticism, set design, ...
|  | Flowing, Still: Irish Poets on Irish Poetry
Publication Date: February 27, 2009Irish poetry is among the most vibrant language culturesin the world. A decade on from the landmark anthology Watching the River Flow : A Century in Irish Poetry (Poetry Ireland, 1999), Flowing, Still reissues the ten introductory essays from that book-by some of the best-known figures in contemporary Irish poetry, among them Seamus Heaney, John Montague, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Eavan Boland and Ciaran Carson-adding a number of extended essays which bring the book up to the present day. This new volume aims to provide students and general readers alike wi...
|  | Out of the Howling Storm: The New Chinese Poetry (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
Publication Date: May 15, 1993| ISBN-10: 0819512109 | ISBN-13: 978-0819512109| Edition: 1st Poems by Bei Dao, Yang Lian, Shu Ting, Jiang He, Gu Cheng, Duo Duo, Mang Ke, Chou Ping, Xi Chuan, Zhang Zhen, Tang Yaping, Fei Ye, Bei Ling, and Ha Jin ...
|  | Nightmare of a Victorian Bestseller: Martin Tupper's Proverbial Philosophy
Publication Date: January 1, 2002A friend of both the Marxes and the Gladstones, a lovable but preposterous figure, with a quiverful of children and advice to anyone who would listen, Martin Tupper was in many ways the quintessential Victorian. In 1842 he wrote the first of a series entitled "Proverbial Philosophy", a moral self-improvement manual, full of hearty evangelism - somewhere between "The Road Less Travelled" and "The Little Book of Calm" - which became a multi-million bestseller. Few people today have heard of Tupper but in his own time his name was a household word. Know Tupper, ...
|  | Voyages of Discovery: Time Frame Ad 1400 - 1500
Publication Date: September 1989| Series: Time Frame Excellent condition. No blemishes, highlights or damage to pagers or cover. ...
|  | Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry: The Contemporaneity of Modernism (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: January 26, 1990| ISBN-10: 0521330858 | ISBN-13: 978-0521330855Charles Altieri's groundbreaking new book sets modernist American poetry in a precise cultural context by analyzing how major poets reacted to the challenge posed by modernist painting's radical critique of traditional representational models for art. It argues that modernist poets have tended to resist the received values of their contemporary culture by finding idealizing principles in modes of pure abstraction. It traces the use of such abstraction in literature from Wordsworth, through Baudelaire and Mal...
|  | Aristotle: Politics (Loeb Classical Library No. 264)
Publication Date: January 1, 1932 Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367–347); subsequently he spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia Minor and at this time married Pythias, one of Hermeias's relations. After some time at Mitylene, in 343–2 he was appointed by King Philip of Macedon to be tutor of his teen-aged son Alexander. After Philip's death in 336, Aristotle became head of his own ...
|  | Crooked Counties; Further Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
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|  | Eclipse (Warriors: Power of Three, Book 4)
Release Date: July 28, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Emperor Smith: Lucky Luke Vol. 22 (Lucky Luke Adventures)
Publication Date: August 16, 2010| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Grandma's Lap Stories
Publication Date: January 27, 2006| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up Beginning with some of the earliest he heard as a lap-child, Donald Davis recountsLittle Red Hen,Jack and Jill, and The House that Jack Built, a Walking Game. Also includes Davis's own retelling ofJack and the Animals, which is published as a picture book in our August House LittleFolk line. Continuing in a traditional theme, the recording features stories about Jack and a narrative on making molasses with Grandmother that leads into the final story, The Lady in a Syrup Can. Grandma .... ...
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