 | Invincible: A Novel
Release Date: June 1, 2010Jake Billings is usually cool under pressure, but when two stick-up kids rob his record store, Jake opens fire on them, landing him in prison. Five days in, he receives an anonymous letter telling him that his days are numbered. But before he can find out who’s behind the threats, Jake is stabbed and ends up in a coma.When he wakes in a hospital bed two years later, things have changed: His prison sentence has been commuted, his girlfriend is fiercely independent, and his side piece has gotten out of the street life altogether. But one thing remains: Jake...
 |  | Trinity: Moments Before the Dawn
Publication Date: August 14, 2012After the sensational murder trial of a prominent politician's son, Trinity humbly accepts her confinement into the Lowry Mental Institution, protecting Alex, and their secret promise that can never be broken. Confusion turns into hopelessness as the years pass by, until one strange day when Trinity suddenly finds herself back out on the streets after a simple identity mix up, and her drug infused adrenaline ultimately leads to an unrelenting determination.Danger escalates as Trinity attempts to escape her turbulent world and suddenly finds herself on the run...
|  | The Sweetgum Knit Lit Society: A Novel
Release Date: May 20, 2008Sometimes life has to unravel before you can knit it together…On the third Friday of each month, Eugenie, Ruth, Esther, Merry, and Camille meet at the Sweetgum Christian Church to enjoy the two things that connect them: a love of knitting and a passion for books. Their camaraderie remains unthreatened until Eugenie, the town librarian, introduces an angry teenager into their midst. Eugenie also gives them a new reading list: the classic novels of girlhood that young Hannah has never read. Little Women. Pollyanna. Heidi. Books that remind the women of the hope...
|  | Echoes of Savanna (Parent Generation)
Publication Date: August 31, 2010| Series: Parent Generation (Book 1) Every generation has their defining moments, events that change history and turn the course of lives. Forever will the children of that generation be identified by those moments. Savanna Taylor is a medical doctor in 2036, the same year terrorists release a series of plagues and viruses into the world. She is a nineteen year old Brain Trust whose task it is to find a cure for the diseases and develop vaccines to prevent their further spread. The world is thrown in turmoil and Savanna needs to find a way to survive with her...
|  | Winding Stair
Release Date: December 6, 2011Fort Smith, Arkansas, in 1890, is a haven of justice presiding overthousands of square miles known as the Indian Nation, a land thatharbors the most hardened criminals in the country. When a woman isfound murdered, young attorney Eben Pay, newly arrived to theterritory, is pulled into a posse that follows a trail of blood anddestruction. Among the dead he discovers a survivor, the beautiful,traumatized Jennie Thrasher, and the question of what she witnessedhangs like a storm cloud over the investigation. From the trial to thecourtroom, Winding Stair is a classic...
|  | Daughters of the House: A Novel
Publication Date: October 1994A Booker Prize Finalist, Daughters of the House is Michèle Roberts’s acclaimed novel of secrets and lies revealed in the aftermath of World War II. Thérèse and Léonie, French and English cousins of the same age, grow up together in Normandy. Intrigued by parents’ and servants’ guilty silences and the broken shrine they find in the woods, the girls weave their own elaborate fantasies, unwittingly revealing the village secret and a deep shame that will haunt them in their adult lives. --This text refers to an out of pr...
|  | Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: July 10, 2006| ISBN-10: 0521862655 | ISBN-13: 978-0521862653| Edition: 1 In the nineteenth century, epic poetry in the Homeric style was widely seen as an ancient and anachronistic genre, yet Victorian authors worked to recreate it for the modern world. Simon Dentith explores the relationship between epic and the evolution of Britain's national identity in the nineteenth century up to the apparent demise of all notions of heroic warfare in the catastrophe of the First World War. Paradoxically, writers found equivalents of the societies which produced Homeric or Northern...
|  | Modern French Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology
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|  | With the Eyes of a Raptor
Publication Date: March 1, 2004Allowing readers to become witnesses and partners in suffering, this poetry collection explores the mysteries of loss, focusing on the loss of the poet's daughter. ...
|  | Romances (COLECCION LETRAS HISPANICAS) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Romantic in Spain (Lost & Found)
Publication Date: June 7, 2001| Series: Lost & Found "I travel for the sake of traveling, to escape from myself and others. I travel to make a dream come true, quite simply, or to change skin if you like."In May 1840, Théophile Gautier, the enfant terrible of the French Romantic movement, set off by coach from Paris for a journey to Spain. Hired by the journal La Presse to send back regular installments of his travelogue, Gautier recorded his experiences and impressions with extraordinary vividness and enthusiasm. The end result was the book Voyage en Espagne (1845), an enthralling piec...
|  | The Legacy
Publication Date: July 1, 2003Lone wolf lawyer Joseph Antonelli takes the case of a black man accused of murdering a senator in San Francisco. Antonelli soon finds himself in a world ruled by backroom politics and naked ambition--and learns just how much one person will risk in order to leave behind a legacy. ...
|  | The Norumbegan Quartet #4: The Chamber in the Sky
Publication Date: June 1, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | First in the Field: Baseball Hero Jackie Robinson
Release Date: April 6, 1998| Grade Level: P and up As an African-American, Jackie Robinson had to fight for his rights again and again until he broke the Major League's color line. "First in the Field" explores the early years of this baseball legend, as he paved the way for other African Americans in professional sports, and made a place for himself in American history. Dozens of color photos . ...
|  | Green Start Giant Floor Puzzles: ABC Animals (35 Piece Floor Puzzles Made of 98% Recycled Materials)
Publication Date: July 1, 2010| Grade Level: P and up...
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|  | Saint George for England
Publication Date: November 5, 2002| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up "Soon after the tournament we began to fight again with Scotland. For some years we had had peace with that country, and under the regency a marriage was made between David, King of Scotland, son of Robert the Bruce, and the Princess Joan, sister to our king, and a four years' truce was agreed to." --This text refers to the Hardcover edition....
|  | Sophie's Drama (Faithgirlz!)
Release Date: May 5, 2009| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Epic Mahabharata: A Twenty-first Century Retelling
Publication Date: August 27, 2007In the same way that the Iliad represents the national epic of ancient Greece, the Mahabharata is the heroic tale of ancient India. Written by the sage Vyasa in Sanskrit and completed between 500 BCE and AD 200, the Mahabharata contains over 88,000 verses and tells of a great dynastic war fought on the plains of India more than three millennia ago.Gandharva raja introduces modern readers to this centuries-old epic in new verse form while preserving the classic text’s central theme and storyline. With an ambitious poetic reengineering, he artfully uses th...
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