 | Grab On to Me Tightly as if I Knew the Way: A Novel (P.S.)
Release Date: June 13, 2006| Series: P.S.A wise, bighearted, and hilarious look at one teenager's life by a remarkable new voice in contemporary fiction It's 1992, and as Vim Sweeney deals with the recent end of his high school career and the uncertainty of his future, America shares his angst. In Seattle, Kurt Cobain reeks of teen spirit. In Washington, George Bush (the first one) has just finished rattling his saber at Saddam Hussein. And in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Vim is trying to put off adulthood and all that comes with it, whatever that is, for as long as he can. He's already jugg...
 |  | Johnny The Eternal: A Dawn In Darkness
Publication Date: April 5, 2012Johnny is an impetuous young man who has died and been recruited by a Heavenly Order as an Earth Angel on the upcoming apocalypse. When he suffers an ostensibly fatal accident, causing him amnesia, he will have to find out who he really is again, and with the help of a beautiful chosen one he will do so; at the same time, he will find out his real purpose in life. He will have to battle unknown forces and rescue New York from its impending doom. Thus, accompanied by his growing Celestial powers and the help of the FBI, Johnny discovers a world outside his own (...
|  | Torrent: A Novel (River of Time Series)
Publication Date: September 1, 2011| Series: River of Time Series When Gabi and Lia finally learn to surf the river of time, they realize they must make hard choices about life and love in Torrent, the third and final book in the River of Time series. Gabi and Lia Betarrini have learned to control their time travel, and they return from medieval Italy to save their father from his tragic death in modern times. But love calls across the centuries, and the girls are determined to return forever—even though they know the Black Plague is advancing across Europe, claiming t...
|  | Doomstone
Publication Date: March 30, 2005The world of good and evil resides in the Doomstones. The fabled Doomstones of light and dark, order and chaos. But they are gone now, wrested from their guardians by Sekia Soulrender. Broken will be the stones, unless the companions of Soulmender Ashroud can retrieve them… The Shepherd, possessed by a dead man's soul, despiser of himself and the woman who spurns him. The Fernfolk, ravaged by the Timing and Sundered from her Bondmate. The Irthmog king, deprived of his kingship and held in thrall by a cursed weapon. The bhujan, a beast who can stride behin...
|  | Hitler's Angel: A Novel
Publication Date: January 4, 2011A thrilling and twisting tale set in a dark and fateful time in history, this story by a renowned fantasy writer hints at what might have happened had Hitler been derailed early on by scandal "So we have blood and a supposed body. With all the death and riots in Munich, you believed this to be important?" The sergeant licked his lips, swallowed, and then said, "The dead girl, sir. The dead girl, she is Herr Hitler's niece." This much is true: Hitler was obsessed with his young niece, Geli Raubal. On September 19th, 1931, two yea...
|  | Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog: Medieval Studies and New Media (New Middle Ages)
Release Date: May 25, 2010| ISBN-10: 0230105076 | ISBN-13: 978-0230105072Medieval Studies and New Media presents all of the most memorable posts of the medievalist internet phenomenon "Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog," newly revised and updated, along with essays on the genesis of the blog itself, the role of internet blogs in medieval scholarship, and the unique pleasures of studying a time period full of plagues, schisms, and assizes. “Le Vostre GC” and medievalists Bonnie Wheeler, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, and Robert W. Hanning draw new conclusions about the ways medieval studies...
|  | Words of Inspiration (Volume 1)
Publication Date: July 30, 2012A book of religous and inspirational poems that help others to understand my transformation to a child of God ...
|  | Duelo del lenguaje/Language Duel (Spanish Edition)
Release Date: July 30, 2002"English and Spanish have been at war since Queen Elisabeth sank King Felipe's Spanish Armada in 1588," Rosario Ferré writes in the title poem of Language Duel; "Language carries with it all their fire and power." Ferré explores this tension throughout this explosive collection, which plays with the sensual differences between the languages and lays bare many of the complications facing an increasingly bilingual America.In these poems, Miami is celebrated as a modern Tower of Babel and a place where the layers of history are particularly palpable. Wave af...
|  | Inverted Fire
Publication Date: January 1, 1997Poetry. "Almost no one is good at both short and long poems, but Alice Friman is. Her poems 'Turnip' and 'Cherries' have sharp language, imagination and alert observation. INVERTED FIRE is good, a must" --Leo Connellan. ...
|  | Gather Round Me: The Best of Irish Popular Poetry
Release Date: February 12, 2005Gather round me, all ye ladies fair,And ye gentlemen of renown;Listen, listen, and to me repair,Whilst I sing of beauteous Dublin town.The Irish have long been associated with great writing generally and with poetry specifically. The love of language pervades this strong culture, and the Irish people have long shared poetry with each other, whether in the street, in the home, or in the pub. These poems may be bawdy or tragic, but there is always something quintessentially Irish about them.In Gather Round Me, Christopher Cahill has put together a collection of t...
|  | Bibliography of American Children's Books Printed Prior to 1821
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|  | Dtv-Atlas Zur Deutschen Sprache (German Edition)
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|  | William of Saint-Amour: De periculis novissimorum temporum (Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations)
Publication Date: May 19, 2008| Series: Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations (Book 8) In early 1256, amidst growing tensions between Parisian secular and mendicant academies, the theologian William of Saint-Amour published his major assault on the friars, De periculis novissimorum temporum, or On the Dangers of the Last Times. As its title proclaims, the treatise employed the exegetical language of apocalypticism to expose the mendicants' success as the ultimate universal threat, and to warn their supporters that they were siding with the Antichrist. Official response to these audacious ac...
|  | Always Dakota (Dakota Series #3)
Publication Date: June 1, 2008Buffalo Valley, North Dakota, has become a good place to live— the way it used to be. People here are feeling confident about the future again.Stalled lives are moving forward. People are taking risks—on new ventures and lifelong dreams. On happiness. And one of those people is local rancher Margaret Clemens, who's finally getting what she wants most. Marriage to cowboy Matt Eilers. Her friends don't think Matt's such a prize, but Margaret's aware of his reputation and his flaws. She wants him anyway. And she wants his baby.… ...
|  | The Texan (Wanted)
Publication Date: January 1, 2009| Series: Wanted When an Eastern-raised young lady returns to Texas to fulfill the terms of her father’s will, she falls in love with the Wild West and a rugged cowboy who makes her Boston beAU look tame and dull by comparison. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | The Aquitaine Progression
Release Date: January 1, 1997It begins in Geneva.There American lawyer Joel Converse meets a man he hasn't seen in twenty years, a covert operative who dies violently at his feet, whispering words that hand Converse a staggering legacy of death: "THE GENERALS...THEY'RE BACK...AQUITAINE!"Suddenly Converse is running for his life, alone with the world's most shattering secret.Pursued by anonymous executioners to the dark corners of Europe, he is forced to play a game of survival by blood rules he thought he'd long left behind.One by one, he traces each thread of a deadly progression ...
|  | Skulduggery Pleasant: The Faceless Ones
Release Date: June 29, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Kobe Bryant: Slam Dunk Champion (Reading Power)
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|  | Shaolin: Legends of Zen and Kung Fu
Publication Date: July 12, 2006| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up "Shaolin" takes kids and grownups alike on a fun and exciting discovery of Shaolin Kung Fu.A popular Chinese saying goes, "All the kung fu in the world arise from Shaolin."Shaolin is a 1,500-year-old Zen Buddhist temple in China that is famous worldwide for its peaceful-looking monks who perform incredible kung fu stunts.How are these monks able to achieve such amazing feats? Why do Buddhist monks learn martial arts? And what do the Star Wars and The Matrix films have anything to do with Shaolin Kung Fu?The answers ...
|  | David Beckham (Sports Heroes and Legends)
Publication Date: October 2007| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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