 | Don't Even Go There Release Date: January 25, 2011Essence Bestselling Author Brenda Hampton presents Don’t Even Go There, the story of Chase Jenkins, a troublemaking, backstabbing diva, who will stop at nothing to get what she wants, even going after her boss's husband. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
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 | Howl For It Release Date: August 28, 2012Shelly Laurenston - "Like a Wolf with a Bone" - Quiet little Darla Lewis couldn't be happier when the most-feared member of the South's rowdiest pack kidnaps her. A girl gets real tired of being overprotected by her own shifter family, and there's nothing like a big bad wolf to start a pack feud, unleash her instincts- and have her surrender however and whenever she wants...Cynthia Eden - "Wed or Dead" - Gage Ryder knew his human bride had a wild side. But spending their honeymoon night on the run from hunters out to finish him and his pack is sure not the kind o...
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 | By Bizarre Hands Publication Date: February 6, 1992A collection of horror stories written by the author of "On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks", which won the 1990 Bram Stoker Award for the best novella. ...
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 | Dark Harvest Release Date: September 4, 2007Halloween, 1963. They call him the October Boy, or Ol’ Hacksaw Face, or Sawtooth Jack. Whatever the name, everybody in this small Midwestern town knows who he is. How he rises from the cornfields every Halloween, a butcher knife in his hand, and makes his way toward town, where gangs of teenage boys eagerly await their chance to confront the legendary nightmare. Both the hunter and the hunted, the October Boy is the prize in an annual rite of life and death. Pete McCormick knows that killing the October Boy is his one chance to escape a dead-end futu...
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 | Ghost In The Shell - Stand Alone Complex Volume 2: Revenge Of The Cold Machines (v. 2) Publication Date: September 26, 2006| Series: Ghost in the Shell (Book 2) 2030 Tokyo: While patrolling Tokyo's post-World War III refugee zones Togusa, the newest member of Section 9, discovers that one of the most powerful cyber-criminals his squad has ever faced has plans to kill their leader, Section 9 Chief Daisuke Aramaki, in one of three stories in this collection, and it will take all of the members of Section 9 to stop him. The action heats up in the stories "Double Targets," "First Love, Last Love" and "Revenge of the Cold Machines." ...
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 | Farming and Poetry in Hesiod's Works and Days Publication Date: June 28, 2000| ISBN-10: 0761816844 | ISBN-13: 978-0761816843This book fills a void in classical scholarship with its treatment of the interplay between farming and poetry in Hesiod's poem and in later Greek poetry. Its accessibility to those unfamiliar with ancient Greek is heightened by the translations of Greek words and phrases, along with an introduction aimed at the non-specialist, yet the book deals masterfully with semantics and parallels within Greek poetics in order to reveal the interconnectedness of Hesiod's Almanac and moral themes. Farming and Poetry in Hes...
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 | A Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku and Zen Publication Date: October 1, 2003| ISBN-10: 1593760086 | ISBN-13: 978-1593760083Zen Buddhism distinguishes itself by brilliant flashes of insight and its terseness of expression. The haiku verse form is a superb means of studying Zen modes of thought and expression, for its seventeen syllables impose a rigorous limitation that confines the poet to vital experience. Here haiku by Matsuo Basho (1644-94) the greatest Japanese haiku poet are translated by Robert Aitken, with commentary that provides a new and deeper understanding of Basho’s work than ever before. In pres...
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 | Reading "Beowulf": An Introduction to the Poem, Its Background, and Its Style ...
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 | Extraordinary Measures: Afrocentric Modernism and 20th-Century American Poetry (Modern & Contemporary Poetics) Publication Date: August 10, 2000| Series: Modern & Contemporary Poetics This broad overview by an established poet and cultural critic reveals the rich tapestry of African American poetry as it has emerged over the past century. From early 20th-century writings to present-day poetry slams, African American poetry exhibits an impressive range of style and substance. Lorenzo Thomas has written an important new history of the genre that offers a critical reassessment of its development in the 20th century within the contexts of modernism and the troubled racial history of the United State...
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 | Riffs and Reciprocities: Prose Pairs Publication Date: December 1, 1999"This Astaire-like glide through our not-so-idle talk is a pleasure."—Publishers WeeklyStephen Dunn experiments with short, relatedpieces that play off each other in the manner of jazz improvisations. The resulting pairs coversuch subjects as "Scruples/Saints,""Hypocrisy/Precision," and"Anger/Generosity." The wisdom andstartling turns we've come to expect from Dunnare everywhere in the ninety miniatures(forty-five pairs) that comprise this volume. ...
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 | Nevada Barr Ill Wind Release Date: June 1, 2004| Series: An Anna Pigeon Novel (Book 3) Lately, visitors to Mesa Verde have been bringing home more than photos--they're also carrying a strange, deadly disease. And once it strikes, park ranger Anna Pigeon must find the very human source of the evil wind....
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 | Sherlock Holmes: The American Years Release Date: February 2, 2010A compelling volume of original tales concerning Sherlock Holmes’ legendary time in America With an introduction by Leslie S. Klinger, editor and compiler of all three volumes of the Annotated Sherlock Holmes, this collection of ten original stories brings light to one of the least examined periods in the life of the great detective—his time in the former colonies, the United States. This Holmes is a youthful one—a young man not yet set upon his course in life and in his famous lodgings at 221B Baker Street. In Richard Lupoff ’s ...
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 | Babymouse #9: Monster Mash Release Date: August 26, 2008| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
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 | Exiles Vol. 15: Enemy of the Stars (X-Men) (v. 15) Publication Date: August 1, 2007| Grade Level: 4 and up A new era for Exiles begins here! Legend Chris Claremont (Uncanny X-Men) starts a run that will have Exiles fans talking for years to come. And he's not the only one joining up, as X-Woman Psylocke joins the team, as well. What is she doing there? How will the team deal with her arrival? And what new villains plan on destroying every world in existence?! Collects Exiles #90-94 ...
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 | IN THE ZONE (Super Hoops) Release Date: June 9, 1997 ...
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 | Louisiana Football SportsMysteries, Vol. I (Carole Marsh Louisiana Books) Publication Date: June 1990Great for any sports player or fan; especially popular withreluctant boy readers!Features choose-your-own-ending stories usingLouisiana football teams and locations.Free teacher's guide givesspecific suggestions and instructions on how to get max educational valuefrom this book....
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 | Improve Your Running Skills (Superskills Series) Publication Date: March 1988| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up...
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 | The Usborne Complete Riding School Publication Date: January 2003The Usborne Riding School series provides essential information about different aspects of riding and pony care, with detailed, practical advice and lively photographs and illustrations.' ...
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 | Petty Crimes Publication Date: May 1, 2006| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Meet Manuel, a young man who wears hand-me-downs from his older brothers until he finally gets a brand-new pair of shoes. And Jose Luis, who watches the vet bills rise after he buys a sick rooster to save it from becoming someone's dinner. And Alma, a young woman who runs to every shop and flea market in town buying back the clothes of her dead mother that her father has given away. These Mexican American youths meet life's challenges head-on in this hard-hitting collection of short stories. ...
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 | The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree Publication Date: April 1, 1988| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: K and up This book about nature and the changing seasons focuses on a young boy and a very special apple tree. ...
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