 | The Curtain of Trees
Publication Date: May 1999From the middle of the twentieth century comes the latest collection of stories by renowned Chicano writer Alberto Alvaro Rios. The Curtain of Trees re-creates a time and place largely forgotten these days except by grandparents and elders. The stories in this book are part folklore, part oral history, but in full measure literary as they recollect family tales modified by time, telling, and now Ros's graceful perspective.Set along the Arizona-Mexico border, these stories engage the gulf between Mexican and Chicano, aunt and nephew, sister and sister, sanity and mad...
 |  | Private Passions (Arabesque)
Publication Date: March 20, 2012| Series: Arabesque Successful journalist Emily Kirkland never expected that her longtime friendship with gubernatorial candidate Christopher Delgado could ignite a dangerously irresistible desire that would result in their secret marriage. Now, with scandal and a formidable enemy threatening their most cherished dreams, Emily must uncover the truth, risking all for a passion that could promise forever…. ...
|  | Threading the Needle (Cobbled Court)
Release Date: May 31, 2011| Series: Cobbled Court The economic downturn has hit New Bern, Connecticut, and Tessa Woodruff's herbal apothecary shop, For the Love of Lavender, is suffering. So is her once-happy thirty-four-year marriage to Lee. They'd given up everything to come back to New Bern from Boston and start their business, but now they're wondering if they made the right decision. To relieve the strain, Tessa signs up for a quilting class at the Cobbled Court Quilt Shop, and to her surprise, rediscovers the power of sisterhood - along with the childhood friend she thought she'd lost ...
|  | Breaking Boundaries: An Anthology of Horror and Dark Science Fiction
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|  | The Conquering Sword of Conan (Conan of Cimmeria, Book 3)
Release Date: November 29, 2005“FOR HEADLONG, NONSTOP ADVENTURE AND FOR VIVID, EVEN FLORID, SCENERY, NO ONE EVEN COMES CLOSE TO HOWARD.”–Harry TurtledoveIn a meteoric career that covered only a dozen years, Robert E. Howard defined the sword-and-sorcery genre. In doing so, he brought to life the archetypal adventurer known to millions around the world as Conan the barbarian.Witness, then, Howard at his finest, and Conan at his most savage, in the latest volume featuring the collected works of Robert E. Howard, lavishly illustrated by award-winning artist Greg Manchess. Prep...
|  | The Honor Due a King
Publication Date: October 20, 2011(THE BRUCE TRILOGY: BOOK III)In the dawn of a kingdom, loyalties and lies collide. The truth will change England and Scotland forever. In the triumphant aftermath of Bannockburn, Robert the Bruce faces unfamiliar battles. His wife Elizabeth, held captive in England for eight long years, has finally returned home to Scotland. With his marriage in ruin and hopes for an heir quickly fading, Robert vows to fulfill an oath from long ago-one which will not only bind his daughter to a man she does not love, but challenge the honor of his most trusted knight, James ...
|  | The Island of Lote
Publication Date: March 15, 2012 Milo Hestler is a lonely, unusual, fourteen-year-old girl. She is constantly moving from home to home with her oblivious parents. The only friend she has is her conscience, whom she has named Bob. Her only comforts are cooking and listening to hip-hop. When her family moves yet again, Milo is bullied mercilessly by her classmates. Such treatment prompts her to travel to Australia for summer camp. During the plane ride, Milo awakens to find the plane deserted and about to crash. ...
|  | HOUSE OF THE SUN: A Metaphysical Novel of Maui
Publication Date: April 12, 2011House of the Sun, a metaphysical novel set on Maui, tells the story of Keli'i, a young boy who develops special powers -- and an indelible connection with Madame Pele, the legendary Goddess of Fire who dwells within the volcanoes of the Hawaiian Islands. Despite misgivings, Keli'i becomes a student of Joshua Bailey, an elderly kahuna , to learn the secrets of the ancient mysteries of the Huna, a spiritual way of life still practiced by some modern-day Hawaiians. Keli'i spends years with his mentor, learning the mystical spiritual practice -- and struggling to ...
|  | Painting with Thread: Simple Embroidered Pictures to Make and Cherish
Publication Date: September 2000From simple landscapes that use only one or two kinds of stitches to fully realized raised and 3-D embroideries: use your needle and thread just like a brush and paint! This exciting and unique approach to producing exquisite embroidered pictures borrows freely from many areas of needlecrafts, including stumpwork and quilting techniques like trapunto. Packed with tips for designing and executing your own stitched "paintings," as well as 20 projects such as a Spanish Garden and Duck Pond.Inspiring!...
|  | Field: A Haiku Circle
Publication Date: February 1, 1998After 25 years of silence in haiku publication, Don Eulert offers FIELD, a year's circle of joyful and contemplative practice in which he wrote a haiku each day. This book invites the reader to pause, each day in the year's circle, for a haiku moment. The landscape of these poems, at the south end of California's mountain range, reflects a particular inhabitation. But all readers will discover through them a renewed attention to their own places where life's wholeness shines through. ...
|  | Seduced by the Storm (ACRO, Book 3)
Release Date: July 29, 2008They met in a steamy Florida bar—then spent a night of mind-bending passion. Two secret agents who each possess unique telekinetic gifts—and whose combined sexual powers leave neither of them unscathed. For ex-Navy SEAL Wyatt Kennedy, assigned by the Agency for Covert Rare Operatives to the most treacherous mission of his career, the woman in black leather and lace has just become more than a one-night stand. Because Faith Black is the sole barrier to the success of his mission—and not even Wyatt’s legendary seduction skills can penetrat...
|  | Tall, Dark and Wolfish
Release Date: May 1, 2010In Lydia Dare's debut trilogy, Regency England has gone to the wolves! He's lost the most important part of himself... Lord Benjamin Westfield is a powerful werewolf-until one full moon when he doesn't change. His life now shattered, he rushes off to Scotland in search of the healer who can restore his inner beast, only to find she's not at all what he expected... She would make him whole, if she could... Young, beautiful witch Elspeth Campbell will do anything to help anyone who calls upon her healing arts. Then Lord Benjamin shows up, and she suddenly discovers she...
|  | The Magic of Christmas (Heartspell)
Publication Date: November 1, 2004| Series: Heartspell With the help of saintly Gentleman Jack Oakes, love warms the hearts of a miner and a laundress, turning a 19th-century California mining camp golden in the glow of the season, in Emma Craig's "Jack of Hearts". An angel becomes a matchmaker to earn her wings in "The Shephards and Mr. A handsome man with curiously pointed ears fulfills a lonely woman's wish and learns that the spirit of the season is alive and well in modern-day New Orleans, in "The Yuletide Spirit" by Kathleen Nance. And in Stobie Piel's "Twelfth Knight", two honorable t...
|  | The Ghost-Eye Tree (Owlet Book)
Publication Date: October 15, 1988| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Tales from the Odyssey: Sirens and Sea Monsters - Book #3
Release Date: September 2, 2003| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | The Fables of Aesop (Dover Children's Evergreen Classics)
Publication Date: January 29, 2002| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | On the Trail: (Stories of a Hunter) (Library of Soviet Short Story)
Publication Date: December 1, 2000| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | I'm as Quick as a Cricket
Publication Date: June 1998| Age Level: 3 and up...
|  | El aniversario de Asterix y Obelix. El libro de oro (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: July 1, 2010 ...
|  | Let Sleeping Dogs Lie (Hank the Cowdog #6)
Release Date: August 1, 1998| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up A chicken killer is loose on the ranch. In this story, Loper has laid down the law to Hank and Drover: the chicken killing must stop or else. (Gulp.) It's up to the Head of Ranch Security to interrogate every possible suspect, even old friends. Could Drover be the terrible chicken killer? ...
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