 | The House Next Door
Release Date: July 3, 2007 An unparalleled picture of that vibrant but dark intersection where the Old and the New South collide.Thirtysomething Colquitt and Walter Kennedy live in a charming, peaceful suburb of newly bustling Atlanta, Georgia. Life is made up of enjoyable work, long, lazy weekends, and the company of good neighbors. Then, to their shock, construction starts on the vacant lot next door, a wooded hillside they'd believed would always remain undeveloped. Disappointed by their diminished privacy, Colquitt and Walter soon realize something more is wrong with the house next doo...
 |  | Flight from Berlin: A Novel
Release Date: July 10, 2012 August 1936: The eyes of the world are on Berlin, where Adolf Hitler is using the Olympic Games to showcase his powerful new regime. Cynical British journalist Richard Denham knows that the carefully staged spectacle masks the Nazis’ ruthless brutality, and he’s determined to report the truth. Sparks fly when the seasoned newspaperman meets the beautiful and rebellious American socialite Eleanor Emerson. A superb athlete whose brash behavior got her expelled from the U.S. Olympic swim team, Eleanor is now covering the games as a celebrity columnist for...
|  | The Siege: A Novel
Publication Date: January 9, 2002Called "elegantly, starkly beautiful" by The New York Times Book Review, The Siege is Helen Dunmore's masterpiece. Her canvas is monumental -- the Nazis' 1941 winter siege on Leningrad that killed six hundred thousand -- but her focus is heartrendingly intimate. One family, the Levins, fights to stay alive in their small apartment, held together by the unlikely courage and resourcefulness of twenty-two-year-old Anna. Though she dreams of an artist's life, she must instead forage for food in the ever more desperate city and watch her little brother grow cruell...
|  | Escape From Heaven
Publication Date: May 2002An L.A. radio talk-show host is sent on a mission from God that takes him to Heaven -- then back to earth -- on a rollercoaster adventure that includes meetings with the most famous celebrities in Heaven and on earth. ...
|  | The Awakening
Publication Date: July 1, 2002This fast-paced novel is about the spiritual awakening of three ordinary people who experience bizarre events. Leigh Honeywell is a Mental Health Counselor who hypnotizes a client and stumbles onto a grisly murder in a former lifetime. Phillip Shepherd, a widowed businessman, is suddenly blessed with the gift of healing. Eleven-year-old Andy Benedetti has amazing psychic powers. Together, they must find their mission, which is veiled in mystery, before the dark forces can stop them.This book gives hope, inspiration, and comfort about fearful realities such as de...
|  | The Death Ship of Dartmouth (Knights Templar)
Publication Date: November 1, 2006| Series: Knights Templar It is 1324, and a disastrous autumn looms large. In Dartmouth, a man is found lying dead in the road, but the inhabitants of this little haven dismiss his death as a drunken accident. Their attentions are turned to more worrying matters—piracy. A ship, the St. John, has been discovered, half-ravaged and the crew missing, in an attack that bears all the hallmarks of the supposedly disbanded Lyme Pirates. Could this be the beginning of a vicious onslaught, or is something even more sinister happening? Sir Baldwin Furnshill h...
|  | German Literary Fairy Tales: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Clemens Brentano, Franz Kafka, and others (German Library)
Publication Date: September 1, 1983| Series: German Library (Book 30) The German Library is a new series of the major works of German literature and thought from medieval times to the present. The volumes have forewords by internationally known writers and introductions by prominent scholars. Here the English-speaking reader can find the broadest possible collection of poetic and intellectual achievements in new as well as great classic translations. Convenient and accessible in format, the volumes of The German Library will form the core of any growing library of European literature for yea...
|  | Celtic Texts of the Coelbook: The Last Five Books of The Kolbrin Bible
Publication Date: May 31, 2006| ISBN-10: 1597720305 | ISBN-13: 978-1597720304Authored by Celtic priests when the first Gospels of the New Testament were being created, the Celtic Texts of the Coelbook (the last five books of The Kolbrin Bible) documents the fusion ofCeltic and Druid mysticism, Judaism and Egyptian anthropology.Some regard it as a key Celtic wisdom text because it includes a revealing biography of Jesus with several never-before published first-person quotes.This work is rooted in a 3600-year-old Egyptian text (the first six books of The Kolbrin Bible) written following t...
|  | Canto a Mi Mismo / Song of Myself (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 1999For lovers of timeless classics, this series of beautifully packaged and affordably priced editions of world literature encompasses a variety of literary genres, including theater, novels, poems, and essays. Los lectores tomarán un gran placer en descubrir los clásicos con estas bellas y económicas ediciones de literatura famosa y universal. Esta selección editorial cuenta con títulos que abarcan todos los géneros literarios, desde teatro, narrativa, poesía y el ensayo. --This text refers to the Paperback ed...
|  | Cuaderno Blanco (Diferencias) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 2009| Series: Diferencias Siguiendo su estilo narrativo de los libros Historias de Olmo y Cuaderno de Feldafing, ambos publicados en Siruela, o de su poesía anterior Cálculo de lindes (México), aunque esta vez mucho más cerca de la línea experimental iniciada por Mallarmé, el auto ...
| | Polskaia poeziia v russkikh perevodakh: Vtoraia polovina XVII-pervaia tret XVIII veka (Russian Edition)
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|  | Shrines (English and English Edition)
Publication Date: May 1, 2004This collection of poetry explores the intimate beauty of our most sacred places. The landscape of these poems is as far-reaching as the continent of Africa and as close as the next room. ...
|  | Ecocritical Theology: Neo-Pastoral Themes in American Fiction from 1960 to the Present
Publication Date: May 7, 2012| ISBN-10: 0786469749 | ISBN-13: 978-0786469741The literary field of ecocriticism appraises texts from the perspective of the natural world, its biosystems, its animals (human and otherwise), and its ecological interconnections. Exploring a range of contemporary American novelists whose narratives resonate with numerous ecological challenges, this work examines humankind's relationship with the environment in the context of Judeo-Christian theological views. It demonstrates how characters from novels such as John Updike's Rabbit Run, DeLillo's White Noise, To...
|  | Cartas de Cortazar 3 (1965-1968) (Cortazar's Letters 3 (1965-1968)) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: August 25, 2012Odio las cartas literarias, cuidadosamente preparadas, copiadas y vueltas a copiar; yo me siento a la maquina y dejo correr el vasto rio de los pensamientos y los afectos, escribio Julio Cortazar en 1942: una declaracion de principios que mantuvo siempre. En estas cartas, que pueden leerse como diario personal, autobiografia y cuaderno de bitacora de sus libros, se asiste a la creacion de un estilo inconfundible. Con curiosidad permanente, Cortazar da cuenta de todos los aspectos de su actividad como escritor, de sus desvelos politicos y sus vaivenes personal...
|  | Forever Vampire
Publication Date: April 19, 2011Vail the Unwanted is a pure-blooded vampire. But raised by Faery, he has neither home nor peace, and when his aid is sought in the recovery of a priceless diamond gown, his price is information. Specifically the whereabouts of his accursed father. His goal is revenge, and the supernaturally sexy Lyric, the icy blond vampiress with whom he must work, is a distraction he can't afford.Outwardly as cold as the diamond dress in which she was kidnapped, Lyric has her own secrets. Desperate to break free from her criminal family, she aligns herself with the brooding ...
|  | Dark Harbor (Stone Barrington)
Release Date: October 3, 2006| Series: Stone Barrington Stuart Woods's newest bestseller, Dark Harbor, brings us the perfect mix of sexy intrigue and swift suspense that have earned him legions of fans over the years. In this latest thriller, Stone enters the picturesque town Dark Harbor off the coast of Maine, where the shocking deaths of three people have cast a long shadow over this island haven-a locale as mysterious as it is exclusive. Stone Barrington hasn't heard from his cousin, Dick Stone, in years-though he has fond memories of a teenage summer spent at his house in Maine. Then, La...
|  | Thaw (Night Fall)
Publication Date: August 2010| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up...
|  | Hay Un Dragon En Mi Bolsa De Dormir: (Theres A Dragon In My Sleeping Bag)
Publication Date: May 1, 1998| Age Level: 4 and up In any language, this wry tale of two brothers who amiably try to outdo each other by creating jumbo-size imaginary friends is "a great read-aloud" ("School Library Journal"). ...
|  | David Lawrence and his Game Day Chocolate Chip Pancakes
Publication Date: May 27, 2011 David Lawrence is nervous about playing in his first Pee Wee football game and decides he does not want to play. He is afraid of making mistakes and losing the game. After a talk with his mom about confidence and eating the yummy chocolate chip pancakes she made, he feels better about playing in his first big football game....
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