 | American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
Release Date: January 3, 2012 He is the deadliest American sniper ever, called “the devil” by the enemies he hunted and “the legend” by his Navy SEAL brothers . . . From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States military history. The Pentagon has officially confirmed more than 150 of Kyles kills (the previous American record was 109), but it has declined to verify the astonishing total number for this book. Iraqi insurgents feared Kyle so much they named him al-Shaitan (“the devil”) and placed a bounty on hi...
 |  | Hot Six (Stephanie Plum, No. 6) (Stephanie Plum Novels)
Release Date: June 20, 2000| Series: Stephanie Plum Novels Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum and Trenton vice cop Joe Morelli join forces to find the madman killer who shot and barbecued the youngest son of international black-market arms dealer Alexander Ramos.Carlos Manoso, street name Ranger, is caught on video just minutes before the crime occurs.He's at the scene, he's with the victim, and he's the number-one suspect.Ranger is former special forces turned soldier of fortune.He has a blue-chip stock portfolio and no known address.He moves in mysterious circles.He's Stephanie's mentor--the man...
|  | A Pug's Tale
Release Date: June 7, 2011The long-awaited follow-up to Pug Hill--from "a poignant and very funny" (Washington Post) writer. There are pugs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art! Hope McNeill has worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for years, but this is the first time she's been able to bring along her pug, Max. (Officially at least. Previously she's had to smuggle him in inside her tote bag.) The occasion: a special "Pug Night" party in honor of a deep-pocketed donor. Max and his friends are having a ball stalking the hors d'oeuvres and getting rambunctious, an...
|  | The Brothers K
Release Date: June 1, 1996Finally in trade paperback, complementing Bantam's new release of River Teeth and our consistently bestselling edition of The River Why, here is The Brothers K, a lyrical and lovely novel of family. ...
|  | A Pastor's Poetry: Volume One
Publication Date: September 29, 2005Kenny J. Walden's book is a riveting exposé of the Church and Church life that seems to be tabooed conversation. It has the power to speak profoundly to both the Churched and the Un - Churched. ...
|  | The Winter Journey (Morland Dynasty)
Publication Date: April 1, 1998| Series: Morland Dynasty (Book 20) In the Morland Dynasty series, the majestic sweep of English history is richly and movingly portrayed through the fictional lives of the Morland family. It is 1851, and the Great Exhibition brings all the Morlands to London—including a cousin from America. Charlotte is using her wealth and social position to build a hospital, and aware of how badly sick people are nursed, defies convention to train a team of female nurses. When the Crimean war begins, and her brother Cavendish departs with his cavalry regiment and her hu...
|  | Canada LP
Release Date: May 22, 2012 When fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons' parents rob a bank, his sense of a happy, knowable life is forever shattered. A family friend spirits Dell across the Canadian border, in hopes of delivering him to a better life. There, Dell is taken in by Arthur Remlinger, an enigmatic American whose suave reserve masks a violent nature. Undone by the calamity of his parents' arrest, Dell struggles under the vast prairie sky to remake himself and define the adults he thought he knew and loved. But his search for grace and peace only moves him nearer to a harrowing and murderous...
|  | Demyansk: More Tales from the Russian Wilderness 1941-45
Publication Date: June 3, 2011Subtitle: More Tales from the Russian Wilderness 1941-45 ...
|  | The Complete Poems and Translations (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: May 29, 2007| Series: Penguin Classics The essential lyric works of the great Elizabethan playwright?newly revised and updated Though best known for his plays?and for courting danger as a homosexual, a spy, and an outspoken atheist?Christopher Marlowe was also an accomplished and celebrated poet. This long-awaited updated and revised edition of his poems and translations contains his complete lyric works?from his translations of Ovidian elegies to his most famous poem, ?The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,? to the impressive epic mythological poem ?Hero and Leander.? ...
|  | Complete Works, Vol. 4
Publication Date: January 13, 1994This work collects some of the author's most famous writings, including plays, short stories, and essays. ...
|  | Spring Awakening (Drama Classics)
Publication Date: October 18, 2011| ISBN-10: 1848420560 | ISBN-13: 978-1848420564This new translation of this notorious but pioneering play is an obvious addition to the NHB Drama Classics series. This volume includes an extensive introduction giving the background to play and author, and an account of its long struggle to be free of censorship. ...
|  | Echo Booming The Play: An Episodic Play in One Act for Teens
Publication Date: June 3, 200862 characters (31 male and 31 female) Double and triple roles may be assigned to a single actor.Echo Booming: The Play is an episodic play in one act that reveals the inner thoughts and private conversations of teens as they experience the ups and downs of love, friendship, high school, and ultimately the task of forging the path to their future.Funny, dramatic and thought provoking, Echo Booming is easy to produce and sure to please. Bonus material included with the script: An Actor's Journal, Contact Sheet and Autograph pages for cast and crew. ...
|  | The Epic of Gilgamesh (The folios archive library)
Publication Date: January 15, 2011| Series: The Folios Archive Library This ancient Mesopotamian epic is thought to be 4000 years old and may rightly be called the Odyssey of ancient Iraq.It has been placed by literary experts in the ranks of the world s greatest literature. Believed to have been based on a real ruler from 7th century BCE, it tells a tale of a young ruler, his wild adventures with his raucous friend, his friend s death, confrontations with enemies from the human, animal and divine realms and the tale of the Great Flood and themes of loss of innocence and the quest for immort...
|  | Poem, Revised: 54 Poems, Revisions, Discussions
Publication Date: July 1, 2008| ISBN-10: 1933338253 | ISBN-13: 978-1933338255| Edition: 1st The creative world of the writer is uncovered in this captivating exploration of the techniques of poetry revision. An in-depth look at the writing processes of 54 poems, each by a different modern author, is provided, complete with early drafts, subsequent revised versions, and short essays from the poets themselves revealing how and why they made specific changes, as well as their editing secrets. Poetry lovers will enjoy browsing through their favorite works and authors, and budding writers wil...
|  | Al-Jurjani's Theory of Poetic Imagery Al Jurjani's Theory of Poetic Imagery (Approaches to Arabic Literature)
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|  | Who Killed Homer: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom
Publication Date: April 1, 2001With straightforward advice and informative readings of the great Greek texts, the authors show how we might still save classics and the Greeks for future generations. Who Killed Homer? is must reading for anyone who agrees that knowledge of classics acquaints us with the beauty and perils of our own culture. ...
|  | Touch the Dark (Cassandra Palmer, Book 1)
Release Date: June 6, 2006Cassandra Palmer can see the future and communicate with spirits—talents that make her attractive to the dead and the undead. The ghosts of the dead aren’t usually dangerous; they just like to talk…a lot. The undead are another matter. Like any sensible girl, Cassie tries to avoid vampires. But when the bloodsucking mafioso she escaped three years ago finds Cassie again with vengeance on his mind, she’s forced to turn to the vampire Senate for protection. The undead senators won’t help her for nothing, and Cassie finds herself working w...
|  | Lady Gypsy
Publication Date: September 2001She belonged to no world of her own.Not the world of the Gypsy . . .Liza was born to roam the land with her mother’s people, but she is shamed by the sin that made her forever different.And not the world of the Gaje, the non-Gypsy . . .Reese has set down roots deep in the Nebraska prairie.His long-held dreams are sure to come true with a budding railroad and a proper new wife and child.Until their worlds collide . . .But Liza is accused unfairly by Reese’s people, and she is forced to flee the security of her world to seek safety in his. When Reese&#...
|  | Murders in the Nursery
Release Date: December 1, 2006Murders in the Nursery are about a famous but psychologically crazed female neurological surgeon. Murders begin to occur in the surgical nursery of University Hospital of children either just coming from surgery or being prepared for neurosurgical procedures, two young residents in training, one in pediatrics, Dr. Melanie Sweet, and the other in neurosurgery, Dr. Isaac Newton Castle team up to find the perpetrator.Eventually they fall in love, discover the murderer and then must act as witnesses in the trial that takes a surprising turn that neither the defense ...
|  | Dorothy L. Sayers: The Centenary Celebration
Publication Date: April 1993In honor of the 100th anniversary of Dorothy L. Sayers' birth, Dale has gathered today's finest and most popular mystery writers to discuss the ways in which Sayers taught them their trade and the manner in which she viewed the mystery as a morality play. Contributors include Amanda Cross, Catherine Aird, Michael Gilbert, Carolyn G. Hart, Sharyn McCrumb, Aaron Elkins, and H.R.F. Keating. ...
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