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 |  | Sixteen Brides
Publication Date: April 1, 2010Sixteen Civil War widows living in St. Louis respond to a series of meetings conducted by a land speculator who lures them west by promising "prime homesteads" in a "booming community." Unbeknownst to them, the speculator's true motive is to find an excuse to bring women to the fledging community of Plum Grove, Nebraska, in hopes they will accept marriage proposals shortly after their arrival!Sparks fly when these unsuspecting widows meet the men who are waiting for them. These women are going to need all the courage and faith they can muster to survive these u...
|  | A Land of Sheltered Promise: Faith/Hope/Charity (Inspirational Novella Collection)
Release Date: April 19, 2005Out of the Wilderness…Three Women. Three Eras. Three Miracles.1901Plagued by loneliness on the Big Muddy Ranch, a sheepherder’s wife awaits the outcome of her husband’s trial for murder. He is sentenced to life in prison–and she to life without him. But a startling event could redeem their pasts and transform their future.1984Against a backdrop of attempted murder, federal indictments, and the first case of bio-terrorism in the U.S., one woman seeks to rescue her granddaughter from within the elaborate compound of a cult that has claime...
|  | Midnight Sun
Publication Date: 19911st edition paperback, new ...
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|  | Mind Fuck
Publication Date: October 29, 2007There are no bad guys or good guys. There are only better guys and worse guys.One of the worse guys is Val Toreth. In a world in which torture is a legitimate part of the investigative process, he works for the Investigation and Interrogation Division, where his colleagues can be more dangerous than the criminals he investigates.One of the better guys is Keir Warrick. His small corporation, SimTech, is developing a "sim" system that places users in a fully immersive virtual reality. A minnow in a murky and dangerous pond, he is only beginning to discover how...
|  | They Change the Subject
Publication Date: June 27, 2005Treacherously comic and poignant, the autobiographical stories in They Change the Subject follow a young man’s quest for identity through love and desire. Sustained by a single voice, the stories simultaneously offer a fractured novel and stand, powerfully, on their own. At the center of each tale is the heightened, visceral possibility of unexpected emotional encounters—from an escort’s dates in Manhattan hotels to a photo shoot that doubles as seduction. Always pushing toward a bigger shiver of passion, Martin’s young-man-on-t...
|  | The King's Own (Classics of Naval Fiction)
Publication Date: April 1, 1999| Series: Classics of Naval Fiction William Seymour grows up on shipboard in the Royal Navy, after his father is hanged during the mutiny at the Nore (1797), and later, he is impressed into the crew of a daring smuggler. This amusing and exciting novel blends in the classic true tale of an English captain who deliberately lost his frigate on a lee shore, in order to wreck a French line-of-battle ship. ...
|  | To Catch the Lightning: A Novel of American Dreaming
Publication Date: October 1, 2009The critically acclaimed winner of the Grub Street National Book Prize for Fiction " Until someone tells you, you never know in whose dreams you appear..."—from the prologueBeginning in the late 1890s, Edward Sheriff Curtis embarked on an overwhelming odyssey to document and photograph the fading way of life of the American Indian. In To Catch the Lightning, Alan Cheuse creates a remarkable portrait of the man who would become a legend. Curtis turned his lens on a landscape of unparalleled beauty and tradition, and in so doing, became the architect o...
|  | Las Voces Del Desierto (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 2004Summoned by a remote tribe of nomadic Aborigines to accompany them on walkabout, the protagonist of this fictional account makes a four-month-long journey through the Australian outback. Over the course of the challenging journey, Morgan learns how the Aborigines thrive in natural harmony with the plants and animals in the rugged lands of Australia's bush. By traveling with this extraordinary community, she discovers a world based on the ancient wisdom and philosophy of a culture that is more than 50,000 years old. ...
|  | A Knife at the Opera
Publication Date: August 1989Backstage at the Turnbridge Wells girls' school production of The Beggar's Opera, all was bedlam. Miss Claire Fairlie, the pretty English teacher, was found with a knife plunged into her back. The Superintendent was in the audience, and as he dug deeper in the case, he discovered there was a lot more to Miss Fairlie than met the eye. HC: Summit. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Blue Ridge Music Trails: Finding a Place in the Circle
Publication Date: June 30, 2003The Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and Virginia are the heart of a region where traditional music and dance are celebrated as nowhere else in America. This book is a comprehensive traveler's guide to discovering the many places where this unique music-making legacy thrives. The book leads readers to more than 160 venues and events filled with bluegrass and string band music, ballad singing, fiddling, shape-note singing, gospel music, clogging, and other traditional forms of music and dance. Vivid descriptions bring the mountain music scene to life in al...
|  | Relatively Speaking: Three One-Acts and A Monologue about the Family
Publication Date: November 1, 1988(Lillenas Publications). The "relativity" in this title refers to playwright Jerry Cohagan's recollections of childhood and growing up whether real or imagined. The three one-acts and monologue in this collection have a common denominator: relationships that transcend age. Jerry's most popular script in this work is "The Ark" an intergenerational story that takes place in and out of a canoe. Of equal weight are the two plays, "The Dalton Gang" and "From the Heart." The first dealing with youth's acceptance of old age; the second with reconciliation. The Ark ...
|  | The Orange Door Hinge Anthology (Volume 1)
Publication Date: July 13, 2012A collection of poetry from students who submitted poems in our annual poetry contest. ...
|  | The Clean Shirt of It (Lannan Translations Selection Series)
Publication Date: July 1, 2007| Series: Lannan Translations Selection Series (Book 10)The Clean Shirt of It marks the first English translation of a full-length poetry title by acclaimed Brazilian poet Paulo Henriques Britto. As translator Idra Novey writes in her introduction, “No other contemporary Brazilian poets write like Britto. At least not with such a keen sense of the relationship between form and content, or pop culture and high art.” Paulo Henriques Britto has received Brazil’s most prestigious prizes for literature and translation. He lives in Rio de Janeiro, ...
|  | Black Prometheus: A Critical Study of Karl Edward Wagner (Gothic Chapbook Series)
Release Date: January 15, 2007| ISBN-10: 0913045144 | ISBN-13: 978-0913045145| Edition: 1st A collection of critical essays on horror and fantasy writer Karl Edward Wagner. ...
|  | White Nights (Leisure historical romance)
Publication Date: April 1, 2000| Series: Leisure historical romance Eirica Macauley sees the road to better days: the remainder of the Oregon Trail. The trail is hard, even for experienced cattle hands like James Jones, but the mans will and determination lend Eirica strength. Yet, Eirica knows she can never accept the cowboy's love; the shadows that darken her past will hardly disappear in the light of day. But as each night passes and their wagon train draws nearer its destination, James's intentions grow clearer James stays beside her, the beautiful widow knows that when dawn comes, shell...
|  | East of Desolation
Release Date: November 1, 1998The wreckage of a private plane plunges charter pilot Joe Martin into deadly danger in the icy desert of Cape Desolation, Greenland... ...
|  | Snow Sports (Super Sports)
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|  | Endangered Species: A Novel
Publication Date: April 1, 2001"In his witty and beautifully written novels, Louis Bayard is establishing Washington D.C. as the District of Comedy."-Bob Smith, author of Openly Bob, and Way to Go SmithThe Broome family is facing an uncertain future; however no one but youngest son Nick seems to notice. Driven by an inexplicable but driving certainty that they are on the brink of extinction, Nick vows to bring a child into the world by whatever means necessary. The problem? Nick is gay.The brave new world of parenting is explored as never before in Louis Bayard's new novel, which is full of ...
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