 | Heaven Forbid
Publication Date: August 1, 2010In Lutishia Lovely's page-turning new novel, a scandalized church congregation enlists a new leader to heal the fallout of their fallen pastor—but they may be out of the frying pan and into the fire…Still reeling from the disgrace their former pastor left in his wake, members of Gospel Truth Church need someone who can restore order. Enter Reverend Doctor Pastor Bishop Overseer Mister Stanley Obadiah Meshach Brook, Jr., who quickly sets up a code of ethics so strict even Jesus might not pass muster! When the new rules send much of the flock fleei...
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 | The Pillowman - Acting Edition
Publication Date: January 1, 2006While still in his twenties, the Anglo-Irish playwright Martin McDonagh has filled houses in New York and London, been showered with the theatre world's most prestigious accolades, and electrified audiences with his cunningly crafted and outrageous tragicomedies. With echoes of Stoppard and Kafka, his latest drama, The Pillowman, is the viciously funny and seriously disturbing tale of a writer in an unnamed totalitarian state who is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a number of child-murders occurring in hi...
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 | Edward S. Curtis: The Women
Publication Date: April 26, 2005The first collection of Edward S. Curtis' stunning, evocative and hugely popular portraits of Native American Women--with never-before-published images. ...
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 | Head in the Clouds
Publication Date: October 1, 2010Adelaide Proctor is a young woman with her head in the clouds, longing for a real-life storybook hero to claim as her own. But when a husband-hunting debacle leaves her humiliated, she interviews for a staid governess position on a central Texas sheep ranch and vows to leave her romantic yearnings behind.When Gideon Westcott left his privileged life in England to make a name for himself in America's wool industry, he never expected to become a father overnight. And five-year-old Isabella hasn't uttered a word since she lost her mother. The unconventionality o...
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 | The Perfect Star (Spirit Flyer)
Publication Date: May 29, 1992| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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 | Joe Golem and the Drowning City Deluxe Hardcover
Publication Date: October 9, 2012| Series: Joe Golem and the Drowning City After a seance gone horribly wrong, strange men wearing gas masks and rubber suits abduct the aging psychic Orlov the Conjuror, sending his young assistant Molly McHugh racing through the canals of a submerged Manhattan. As Molly flees her captors through a sunken city full of scavengers, her one hope comes in the form of two strange men: Simon Church, a Victorian-era detective kept alive by clockwork gears and magic, and his assistant, Joe, whose mysterious past is hinted at in dreams of stone and witches.This deluxe...
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 | The Prodigal Daughter
Release Date: May 4, 2004With a will of steel, Polish immigrant Florentyna Rosnovski is indeed Abel's daughter. She shares with her father a love of America, his ideals, and his dream for the future. But she wants more to be the first female president.Golden boy Richard Kane was born into a life of luxury. The scion of a banking magnate he is successful, handsome, and determined to carve his own path in the world-and to build a future with the woman he loves. With Florentyna's ultimate goal only a heartbeat away, both are about to discover the shattering price of power as a titanic battle of...
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 | Sweet and Sour Milk (Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship)
Release Date: August 22, 2006| Series: Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship Winner of the 1980 English-Speaking Union Literary AwardThe first novel in Farah's universally acclaimed Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship trilogy, Sweet and Sour Milk chronicles one man's search for the reasons behind his twin brother's violent death during the 1970s. The atmosphere of political tyranny and repression reduces our hero's quest to a passive and fatalistic level; his search for reasons and answers ultimately becomes a search for meaning. The often detective-story-like nar...
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 | All Silver and No Brass: An Irish Christmas Mumming
Publication Date: 1983| ISBN-10: 0812211391 | ISBN-13: 978-0812211399For the general reader as for the folklorist, this is a fascinating, vivid, and sensitive account that, through its portraits of individuals and of a community, offers a unique insight into a folk custom of the Christmas season. ...
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 | Prehistoric Peoples of South Florida
Publication Date: April 30, 1993| ISBN-10: 0817306862 | ISBN-13: 978-0817306861To many people in South Florida, and "oldtimer" is someone who has lived there for more than five years. Prehistoric Peoples of South Florida considers the culture history of the real South Florida "oldtimers" dating from 10,000 B.C. through the invasion by Europeans and analyzes the ways in which they adapted to their environment through time—or caused their environment to adapt to them. South Florida is a biological island, its plant communities circumscribed by the southern limits ...
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 | The Canterbury Tales
Publication Date: 1961Chaucer's life, Chaucer's works. The present translation by Nevill Coghill. ...
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 | 1989 Nova Scotia Poetry Awards
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 | Renaissance and Reformation (Cambridge Introduction to World History)
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 | Le Jeu De L'amour Et Du Hasard (Petits Classiques) (French Edition)
Publication Date: February 9, 2011| Series: Petits Classiques SILVIAMais encore une fois, de quoi vous mêlez-vous, pourquoi répondre de mes sentiments ? --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
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 | The Dark One (The Wild Wulfs of London)
Release Date: November 1, 2005Rosalind Rutherford knows full well the scandal she courts when she attempts to seduce the notorious Armond Wulf--in fact, she's counting on it as a means to escape her sadistic stepbrother's control. Unfortunately, Lord Wulf's better instincts prevail...although not before he gives Rosalind a tantalizing taste of what she's missing. And when the opportunity arises to rescue Armond from a grim fate while changing her own, Rosalind knows she must seize it... Armond can no more ignore the Rutherford woman than his ancestor could resist the temptress who curse...
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 | The Eight
Release Date: June 23, 1997New York City, 1972—A dabbler in mathematics and chess, Catherine Velis is also a computer expert for a Big Eight accounting firm. Before heading off to a new assignment in Algeria, Cat has her palm read by a fortune-teller. The woman warns Cat of danger. Then an antiques dealer approaches Cat with a mysterious offer: He has an anonymous client who is trying to collect the pieces of an ancient chess service, purported to be in Algeria. If Cat can bring the pieces back, there will be a generous reward.The South of France, 1790—Mireille de Remy and her co...
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 | Three-Day Town (A Deborah Knott Mystery)
Publication Date: November 21, 2011| Series: A Deborah Knott Mystery Three-Day Town is the winner of the Agatha award for best novel.After a year of marriage, Judge Deborah Knott and Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant are off to New York City for a long-delayed honeymoon. January might not be the perfect time to take a bite of the Big Apple, but Dwight's sister-in-law has arranged for them to stay in her Upper West Side apartment for a week.Deborah had been asked to deliver a package to Lieutenant Sigrid Harald of the NYPD from Sigrid's Colleton County grandmother. But when the homicide detectiv...
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 | White Noise (A Helen Keremos Mystery)
Publication Date: April 1, 1997| Series: A Helen Keremos Mystery The last book in the series, Sonny, a former client from Hong Kong, arrives in Vancouver to ask Helen for help. He’s in trouble and doesn’t know who’s after him. A kidnapping attempt ensues, forcing Helen into the midst of a complicated set of crimes ...
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 | The Paradise Trap
Release Date: April 24, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up "A breathless escapade."—Kirkus Reviews"Jinks (the Evil Genius series) combines a plot filled with surreal twists and turns with a dash of Greek mythology in a novel that hits the mark on both the humor and horror fronts."—Publishers Weekly"Jinks deftly mixes mild horror with humor to give younger readers a few shivers and make older readers chuckle. Each dream/nightmare world sheds dramatic, sometimes touching, insight into the character whose hopes and fears create it, and the nonstop action will make for...
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 | A Basic Guide to Wrestling (Olympic Guides)
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