 | Leaving Earth: A Novel
Publication Date: April 17, 2005In 1933, two women aviators try for the longestflight-endurance record while, in Toronto below, war looms.Leaving Earth was Helen Humphreys's debut, and it brought the beauty of her poetry into the story of two women's love of flight and dream to excel, even if it took all their courage and strength and even their lives. Novice flyer Willa joins Grace, heroine of the skies, in what becomes an intimate journey of friendship. Yet the clouds that gather above are echoed by lurking dangers below for Maddy, a young fan of Grace's, and her Jewish mother and uncle. A...
 |  | The Battle of the Little Bighorn
Publication Date: June 1986| ISBN-10: 089190879X | ISBN-13: 978-0891908791Mari Sandoz's account of the battle in which General George Armstrong Custer staked his life—and lost—reveals on every page the author's intimate knowledge of her subject. The character of the Sioux, the personality of Custer, the mixed emotions of Custer's men, the Plains landscape—all emerge with such clarity that the reader is transported in time to that spring of 1876, when the Army of the Plains began its fateful march toward the Yellowstone. The background of the tragedy is here: the history...
|  | Two Crosses: A Novel (Secrets of the Cross Trilogy)
Publication Date: June 1, 2012| Series: Secrets of the Cross Trilogy (Book 1) The glimmering Huguenot cross she innocently wears leads her deep into the shadows. When Gabriella Madison arrives in France in 1961 to continue her university studies, she doesn’t anticipate being drawn into the secretive world behind the Algerian war for independence from France. The further she delves into the war efforts, the more her faith is challenged. The people who surround her bring a whirlwind of transforming forces—a wise nun involved in the smuggling, a little girl carrying secret...
|  | El Unbral (Sangre de la trilogia del cielo #2) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: June 29, 2004From the realms of science, the paranormal, and Bible prophecy emerges a novel for our times: fast-paced, carefully researched . . . with a warning none can ignore.Some say Brandon Martus has a mysterious ability to see into the future, to experience what scientists refer to as a 'higher dimension'. Others insist he is simply a troubled Generation-X member plagued by the accidental death of his little sister. It isn't until he teams up with Sarah Weintraub, the ambitious but haunted neurobiologist, that a far deeper secret unfolds.Utilizing the latest discoveri...
|  | Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Autumnal
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|  | Legal Larceny
Publication Date: January 22, 2007What would happen if doctors across the United States, tired of endless litigation and skyrocketing malpractice costs, decided to simply quit?When Senator Cynthia “Maddi” Madison from Washington, D.C., elects to take on the Trial Lawyers Association, she pits herself against a very formidable—and dangerous—enemy. Maddi soon realizes that her life could be in jeopardy, especially since she and her newfound allies will ultimately wind up as participants in the very court system that they are trying to reform. Can Maddi succeed in her endeav...
|  | Adored
Publication Date: June 13, 2006To the outside world, Siena McMahon has a fairy-tale life. Born into a great Hollywood dynasty-granddaughter of movie legend Duke McMahon, daughter of billionaire producer Pete McMahon-she is blessed with beauty, brains, and wealth...a proverbial princess. Yet behind the wrought-iron gates of the sprawling McMahon mansion in Hancock Park, her life is far from idyllic. The McMahons are bound together not by love but by infighting and ambition. When a gold-digging English aristocrat, Caroline Berkeley, worms her way into their lives and their home, the family's p...
|  | 62 Comedy Duet Scenes for Teens: More Real-Life Situations for Laughter
Publication Date: September 2012Easily staged scenes with believable teen characters in a variety of comic situations. ...
|  | A Cynthia Ozick Reader
Release Date: May 22, 1996"[Ozick's] range of influences is obvious in the fine selections of poems and short stories as well as essays from ÂArt & Ardor (1983) and ÂMetaphor and Memory (1989) that Kauvar has so sensitively chosen." —Booklist"[This collection reflects] the imaginative, inventive, and insightful Ozick. Some of the best of Ozick as poet, essayist, and fiction writer is represented in ÂA Cynthia Ozick Reader." —Library Journal"Gathered here are some bristling, incandescent tales and thorny essays that show Ozick at her finest." ...
|  | The Old Norse Elucidarius (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
Publication Date: September 1, 1992| ISBN-10: 1879751186 | ISBN-13: 978-1879751187This translation, the first into contemporary American English, is based on the complete edition of all surviving fragments on deposit in the Arnamagnaean Institute in Copenhagen. Literary scholars will find this text indispensable because it was the heretofore largely unknown source of numerous literary allusions for Germanic medieval literature. ...
|  | Aqu
Publication Date: January 15, 2001| ISBN-10: 8433924893 | ISBN-13: 978-8433924896| Edition: Primera Este lirbo es la rareza de un lunatico, el afiebrado trance de un sonador, el penultimo guiño de un seductor perdido. Este no es un libro convencional de poesia. Es el diario intimo de un prisionero de sus propias dudas y tormentos, la cronica de una guerra entre le autor y sus enemigos reales e imaginarios, el cuaderno de bitacora de un viajero perezoso, la radiografia que un hombre confundido hace de si mismo. ...
| | Tuskloe Okontse: Rasskazi, Stikhi, Ocherki
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|  | Vacances du pouvoir: Poemes des Tang (Connaissance de l'Orient) (French Edition)
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|  | Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918
Publication Date: July 15, 2008Charles Dickens died in 1870, the same year in which universal elementary education was introduced. During the following generation a mass reading public emerged, and the term "best-seller" was coined. In new and cheap editions Dickens's stories sold hugely, but these were progressively outstripped in quantity by the likes of Hall Caine and Marie Corelli, Charles Garvice and Nat Gould. Who has now heard of these writers? Yet Hall Caine, for one, boasted of having made more money from his pen than any previous author.This book presents a panoramic view of litera...
|  | The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics
Publication Date: May 15, 1997| ISBN-10: 0226259935 | ISBN-13: 978-0226259932| Edition: 1 In At the Will of the Body, Arthur Frank told the story of his own illnesses, heart attack and cancer. That book ended by describing the existence of a "remission society," whose members all live with some form of illness or disability. The Wounded Storyteller is their collective portrait.Ill people are more than victims of disease or patients of medicine; they are wounded storytellers. People tell stories to make sense of their suffering; when they turn their diseases into stories, they f...
|  | The Complete Tolkien Companion: Totally Revised and Updated
Release Date: October 14, 2004For all those who journey to J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth, here is the complete guide to its lands, legends, histories, languages, and people. The Tolkien Companion explains, translates, and links every single reference - names, dates, places, facts, famous weapons, even food and drink - to be found in Tolkien's world, which includes not only The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings but also The Simarillion and many other posthumously published works. A detailed explanation of the various Elvish writing systems, together with maps, charts, and genealogical tables, ...
|  | Trust Your Eyes
Release Date: September 4, 2012#1 international bestselling author Linwood Barclay’s novels have been praised as “compelling” (The Associated Press), “gripping” (The Wall Street Journal), and “fast-paced” (The Washington Post). Now, Barclay returns with a thrilling story in which two brothers suddenly find themselves pulled into a frightening vortex of power and murder… Thomas Kilbride is a map-obsessed schizophrenic so affected that he rarely leaves the self-imposed bastion of his bedroom. But with a computer program called Whirl360.com, he t...
|  | The Quest of the Silver Fleece (Dover Books on Literature & Drama)
Publication Date: August 8, 2008| Series: Dover Books on Literature & Drama This classic novel by a renowned sociologist and civil-rights leader examines issues of race, class, and gender in early 20th-century America. Its romance between young lovers becomes increasingly urgent and dramatic in the shadow of the "silver fleece" — the cotton industry, which forms a nexus of Northern finance and Southern politics. ...
|  | Thee Needs Killing, Marly
Publication Date: June 1, 2011‘Thee Needs Killing Marly’ Driving to work, skilled, San Jose Internist and Addiction Specialist, RichardDrinkwater is ambushed and shotin the shoulder by a masked man; fortunately, one with poor aim.Police are stymied. The doc soon suspects one of his patients, Marly Doan, a successful but cocaine-addicted and paranoid defense attorney who thinks his doc gave confidential, medical information to a legal panel resulting in disbarment and criminal charges. In addition to pain, terror and rage over this event,Drinkwater is already enduring a signific...
|  | Sherlock Holmes 's Greatest Adventure THE EARTHQUAKE MACHINE
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