 | Leaving Lancaster: A Novel Publication Date: March 1, 2012Can a splintered Amish family reconcile? More than anything else, thirty-something Holly Fisher longs for family. Growing up in Seattle without a dad or grandparents, she wonders what it would be like to have a heritage, a place of belonging. Holly is furious when her mother, Esther, reveals a long-kept secret: Holly’s grandmother and uncles are still alive and begging Esther to return. And Holly is shocked when she learns that the family she’s never known lives on a Lancaster, Pennsylvania, farm—as part of an Amish community her mother o...
 |  | Me & Emma Publication Date: March 1, 2005In many ways, Carrie Parker is like any other eight-year-old--playing make-believe, dreading school, dreaming of faraway places. But even her imaginative mind can't shut out the realities of her impoverished North Carolina home or help her protect her younger sister, Emma. By turns achingly naïve and utterly pragmatic, Carrie has been shaped by the loss of her beloved daddy, and mired by a drunken stepfather and emotionally absent mother. Charting an astonishing course of survival for herself and Emma, she hopes to transform their life into one more closel...
 |  | Echoes of Titanic Publication Date: March 1, 2012Kelsey Tate comes from sturdy stock. Her great-grandmother Adele endured the sinking of Titanic and made it safely to America, where she not only survived but thrived. Generations later, Kelsey works for the firm Adele founded nearly 100 years ago.Now facing a hostile takeover, the firm's origins are challenged when new facts emerge about Adele's actions on the night Titanic sank. Kelsey tries to defend the company and the great-grandmother she has long admired, but the stakes are raised when Kelsey's boss is murdered and her own life threatened. Forced to seek...
 |  | A Dream to Follow (Return to Red River #1) Publication Date: May 1, 2010It is 1893 and the first generation of immigrants who came to America for the promise of free land and a good life for their children have finally achieved their dreams. They labored hard on the land and now have a bountiful heritage to pass on to the next generation. However, many of the young people aren't interested in becoming farmers--they have aspirations of their own. Thorliff Bjorklund has been writing stories and plays since he was a young boy and longs to attend college to study journalism. But his father has other plans for him and refuses to agree. Th...
 |  | Seven Days To Say Goodbye Publication Date: April 3, 2006Meet Sam. A Heavenly being that wants answers. Meet Dawn. A girl with a million questions for a sister she hasn't seen in fifteen years. Both have only seven days to get the answers to the questions before history repeats itself. Sam and Dawn take you on a journey that exists somewhere between love and hate. Sam follows Dawn as he sends her back exactly seven days before her sister's murder. She goes back, knowing how it will all end and Sam won't let her change a thing. When you are given Seven Days To Say Goodbye, how do you say it?...
 |  | The Disappeared Publication Date: January 11, 1996Horror with a highly unusual and inventive twist.Author's previous titles include 'The Presence'. ...
 |  | Apocalipsis maya (Vintage Espanol) (Spanish Edition) Release Date: May 3, 2011| Series: Vintage Espanol 2012¿Es real la profecía maya del Apocalipsis? Desde hace dos mil años el calendario maya ha profetizado el fin de la humanidad en una fecha que corresponde al 21 de diciembre de 2012. Al aproximarse ese día, la codicia, la corrupción, el colapso económico y la violencia parecen dirigir a nuestra especie al presagiado desastre. Pero otra amenaza apocalíptica se cierne sobre nuestro futuro inmediato, una advertencia muy real que puede acabar no sólo con la humanidad, sino con el planeta entero. ...
 |  | The Creator Publication Date: February 1, 1994An anthology of the work of Clifford D. Simak. Other work by the author includes "Goblin Reservation", "Out of their Minds", "Heritage of Stars", "Time and Again", "Cemetery World" and "Way Station". ...
 |  | Money Shot Publication Date: September 2004Alan "Nick" Nichols is living the Great Las Vegas Dream. An executive at Las Vegas' biggest advertising agency, he has a fine home and family. Just as midlife rumblings of discontent are beginning to settle in, Nick suddenly hits the jackpot. Not in the lottery or at a slot machine, but by buying a Bigg Fizz soda with the winning bottle cap in a million-dollar basketball challenge.Now Nick has four weeks to prepare for a life changing three-point shot during halftime at the NCAA regional finals in Phoenix. If he nails it, he goes home with a cool mil.But in La...
 |  | Milo Talon Release Date: July 1, 1981Milo Talon knew the territory and the good men from the bad. He had ridden the Outlaw Trail and could find out things others couldn’t. That was why a rich man named Jefferson Henry hired Milo to hunt down a missing girl. But from the moment Milo began his search, he knew something wasn’t right. Three people had already died, an innocent woman was on the run, and a once sleepy town was getting crowded with hired guns. Suddenly, Milo Talon realized that there were still things he had to learn—about the woman he was trying to find, the man who had ...
 |  | Milton's Good God: A Study in Literary Theodicy Publication Date: June 4, 2009| ISBN-10: 0521112389 | ISBN-13: 978-0521112383| Edition: 1 Few writers have achieved the synthesis of art and idea that was attained by John Milton in Paradise Lost. In that work the poet addressed one of the most important questions in philosophy and religion: How could God, if he is omnipotent and wholly good, have made a world in which there is so much evil? In this book Professor Danielson examines Paradise Lost, focusing on Milton's treatment of creation, chaos, predestination, free will, God's foreknowledge, the Fall of Man and the nature of human exi...
 |  | BoomeRangers: A Verse Play for Theatre Radio or Animation Publication Date: November 7, 2011Set somewhere in Outback Australia over 100 years after the British atomic bomb tests at Maralinga. The descendants of those animals who managed to survive the explosions now live in a complex network of underground caves, and have developed a new society— ‘Narkindie’—with its own set of rules and taboos. The eight Tribes: Emu, Red Kangaroo, Rock Wallaby, Possum, Python, Kookaburra, Wombat and Lizard, all co-exist in relative harmony. Up until now. To avoid the perceived dangers of solar radiation the Tribes may only venture outsi...
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 |  | Layamon's `Brut': The Poem and its Sources (Arthurian Studies) Publication Date: October 12, 1989| ISBN-10: 0859912825 | ISBN-13: 978-0859912822| Edition: Second Enlarged A comprehensive and objective study of Layamon'ssources is long overdue. As a first step Françoise le Saux investigates the English poet's handling of his main source, Wace's Roman de Brut, to determine what principles guided the composition of the English Brut. These established, she is able to distinguish between different sorts of variation from the Roman, thereby providing norms against which to gauge the probability of further, secondary sources. Additional sources are th...
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 |  | Forbidden Embers: A Dragon's Heat Novel Release Date: October 4, 2011| Series: Dragons Heat Novel (Book 3) Erotic fantasy so hot it breathes fire. Desperate to save his clan from deadly biological warfare,Dragonstar sentry Logan Kelly infiltrates the dangerous Wyvermoon clan- by posing as a rogue dragon. But his plan is compromised when he fallsfor Cecily, the Wyvermoon queen... ...
 |  | A Word to the Wise (Five Star First Edition Mystery) Publication Date: December 1, 2009| Series: Five Star First Edition Mystery David Heinzmann has covered crime for the Chicago Tribune for nearly a decade. He started his journalism career with the Associated Press in Baltimore and Atlanta and also worked at the Daily Southtown in Chicago’s gritty south suburbs before joining the Tribune. He has appeared numerous times on national news outlets including CNN, National Public Radio, MSNBC, and NBC’s Dateline. Heinzmann grew up in rural Metamora, Ill., earned degrees from George Washington University and the University of Illinois,...
 |  | Mrs. Jeffries Reveals Her Art (Victorian Mystery) Release Date: March 1, 1998| Series: Victorian Mystery Mrs. Jeffries is back - keeping house for Inspector Witherspoon and, as always, keeping him on his toes. This popular Victorian mystery series is "full of Humor, suspense, adventure, and touches of romance." Rendezvous," and in Mrs. Jeffries Reveals Her Art, a missing artist's model is the catalyst for a baffling mystery that will satisfy and delight Mrs. Jeffries legions of fans. First time in print A consistently popular series featuring "the Miss Marple of Victorian mystery." ( "Paperback Forum" ) ...
 |  | Baseball in April and Other Stories Publication Date: April 1, 2000| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up The Mexican American author Gary Soto draws on his own experience of growing up in California’s Central Valley in this finely crafted collection of eleven short stories that reveal big themes in the small events of daily life. Crooked teeth, ponytailed girls, embarrassing grandfathers, imposter Barbies, annoying brothers, Little League tryouts, and karate lessons weave the colorful fabric of Soto’s world. The smart, tough, vulnerable kids in these stories are Latino, but their dreams and desires belong t...
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