 | The Ideal Man
Release Date: June 5, 2012A woman’s life and love are compromised in this pulse-pounding new thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Garwood... Dr. Ellie Sullivan has witnessed the shooting of an FBI agent in pursuit of a ruthless modern-day Bonnie and Clyde known as the Landrys. The only person to see the shooter’s face, Ellie is suddenly thrust into the center of a criminal investigation spearheaded by the no-nonsense, by-the-book, and tantalizingly handsome agent Max Daniels. With the Landrys captured, she’ll be called to testify. But the Landrys have been...
 |  | Sankofa: Stories of Power, Hope, and Joy
Publication Date: January 13, 1999This collection of over 100 inspirational africentric stories of power, hope, and joy will appeal to all races. Stories about biblical events, African history, family, education, nature, and famous African Americans such as Nelson Mandela, Harriet Tubman, George Washington Carver, Paul Robeson, and many others are included. Harriet Tubman’s story profiles her fight against slavery and dangerous travels to the South in the 1840s while living free in Pennsylvania. George Washington Carver’s story highlights his commitment to teaching students whe...
|  | The Devil and Doctor Dwight: Satire and Theology in the Early American Republic (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American Hist)
Release Date: December 4, 2001| Series: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American Hist At the close of the eighteenth century, Timothy Dwight--poet, clergyman, and, later, president of Yale College--waged a literary and intellectual war against the forces of "infidelity." The Devil and Doctor Dwight reexamines this episode by focusing on The Triumph of Infidelity (1788), the verse satire that launched Dwight's campaign and, Colin Wells argues, the key to recovering the deeper meaning of the threat of infidelity in the early years of the American Republic. The book also features...
|  | Reality's Dawn
Publication Date: March 1, 2011Once upon a time, in a land far,far away, reality invaded the world...When the presence of reality emerges from under the facade of perception, lives are changed. Forever. A mystical ring binds Sisko to bless others with miracles and avoid using its power for himself, which would lead to a curse. With his friends Josh the wizard and Seth the leader of a gang of thieves, Sisko explores the emerging reality through his travels and adventures. Journey with Sisko as reality's presence confronts and changes the greedy, the killers, the trapped, the demonic, and Sisk...
|  | The Tarot Cafe Novel Volume 1: The Wild Hunt
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|  | Heart Song (Logan Family Series, Bk. 2)
Release Date: May 1, 1997Melody Logan was as alone as a solitary gull, with only the wild Atlantic wind to lift her spirits....When Melody Logan's mother died in a car accident, Melody lost the last shred of family she had ever known. She was practically a stranger to the Logans, her wealthy relatives on Cape Cod, where she now drifted on a sea of dark secrets. In the eyes of gentle Aunt Sara, Melody was a replacement for her dead daughter, while for Uncle Jacob she was a reminder of the family's shameful past. Only good-hearted Cary seemed to care, and since it was revealed that she and C...
|  | The Vault (Tyler Locke)
Release Date: February 28, 2012| Series: Tyler Locke A RUTHLESS MASTERMIND IGNITES A TICKING-BOMB RACE TO UNEARTH A KING’S LEGENDARY GOLD . . . IN THIS “ELECTRIFYING BLEND OF HISTORY, MYTH, AND SCIENCE” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE ARK. Military engineer Tyler Locke’s commute on a Seattle ferry is plunged into terror when an anonymous caller claims that his father has been kidnapped—and that a bomb on the boat’s car deck is set to detonate in minutes. Disabling the device alongside classical language expert Stacy Benedict̵...
|  | The Good Wife Strikes Back
Release Date: December 28, 2004Elizabeth Buchan’s New York Times bestseller Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman was hailed as “a thoughtful, intelligent, funny, coming-of-middle-age story” by The Boston Globe. Now she’s back with another wise and entertaining novel about a woman who veers off the beaten path—and finds much more than she bargained for. After nineteen years of being the perfect wife to an ambitious politician, Fanny Savage is restless. Tired of merely keeping quiet and looking good at public engagements, she remembers the career she abandoned and the...
|  | The Friendly Guide to Mythology
Release Date: December 28, 2000From Athena to Zorya, a clever compendium of myths from ancient Greece and around the worldFrom classic literature and Jungian psychology to pop lyrics and Nike sneakers, mythology informs every aspect of our culture and thought. These timeless myths tell surprisingly modern-sounding tales of love and devotion--and of carnage, adultery, and incest. Whether they come from a Native American, Asian, African, or Greek and Roman tradition, they offer endless revelations and insights into the human psyche. ...
|  | Intimate Commerce: Exchange, Gender, and Subjectivity in Greek Tragedy
Publication Date: 1997Exchanges of women between men occur regularly in Greek tragedy--and almost always with catastrophic results. Instead of cementing bonds between men, such exchanges rend them. They allow women, who should be silent objects, to become monstrous subjects, while men often end up as lifeless corpses. But why do the tragedies always represent the transferal of women as disastrous?Victoria Wohl offers an illuminating analysis of the exchange of women in Sophocles' Trachiniae, Aeschylus' Agamemnon, and Euripides' Alcestis. She shows how the attempts of women in these plays t...
|  | Other People We Married
Release Date: February 7, 2012In Other People We Married, Straub creates characters as recognizable as a best friend, and follows them through moments of triumph and transformation with wit, vulnerability, and dazzling insight. In “Some People Must Really Fall in Love,” an assistant professor takes halting steps into the awkward world of office politics while harboring feelings for a freshman student. Two sisters struggle with old assumptions about each other as they stumble to build a new relationship in “A Map of Modern Palm Springs.” In “Puttanesca,” tw...
|  | Anna Akhmatova: Her Poetry
Publication Date: November 1, 1996| ISBN-10: 185973099X | ISBN-13: 978-1859730997| Edition: First Edition This superb introduction to the work of the famous Russian poet Anna Akhmatova (1886-1966) begins with an account of her life in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg and Stalinist Russia, and focuses principally on her poetry. Incorporating all recent scholarship, the author traces the way in which Akhmatova's work reflects the tumultuous times in which she lived, and her emergence as the spokeswoman of her generation, to provide a long overdue account of her entire career. ...
|  | Here I Am (New Russian Writing)
Publication Date: December 2, 2001| Series: New Russian Writing Rubinstein succeeds in arranging his fragmented text in such a clever way that they invariably trigger off a series of associations, even in the reader who fails to catch all the allusions weaved in by the author. Thus his texts begin to speak to any reader anywhere and in any language, but they speak in a different way. ...
|  | The Graduate
Publication Date: November 1999Benjamin Braddock graduated one day in June. But it has left him disillusioned, worried about his future and he needs time to think. Somehow it didn't seem to be what his father expected from a college education. And everyone was really appalled when Ben raped Mrs Robinson (that was her story anyway) and ran off with her daughter in the middle of her wedding to someone else... --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Hot Button (Button Box Mystery)
Release Date: June 5, 2012| Series: Button Box Mystery (Book 2) Button collector Josie Giancola has a sharp eye for detail, and a love for keeping things together. But when a murder interrupts her button business, she’s always ready to snap into action… As chairwoman of an international conference for button collectors, Josie has plenty to worry about. Between greeting collectors, overseeing the dinner cruise, and attending to the many needs of the guest of honor, Thad Wyant, she barely has time to deal with her gorgeous ex-husband…let alone a dead body.But whe...
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|  | Movie Maker: The Ultimate Guide to Making Films
Release Date: September 14, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Action! Open the working clapper board to find everything an aspiring filmmaker needs to make a cool movie using a digital camera or cell phone.Do you know the difference between a close-up and a mid shot? A tilt and a pan? What does a camera’s point of view have to do with telling a story? From gathering simple equipment to outlining a script, from choosing a location to mastering the art of lighting and directing with finesse, MOVIE MAKER offers expert guidance (and top tips from professionals) to help kid...
|  | When Human Heads Were Footballs: Surprising Stories of How Sports Began
Publication Date: August 1, 1998Centuries ago, the English chopped off the head of an invading Viking and decided to kick the thing around just for fun. A new sport had begun! Early basketball games, as played by the Aztecs, allowed hair pulling, kicking, and punching. Wulffson tells these and other tales in this intriguing book of wacky stories and little known facts. ...
|  | Fire at the Triangle Factory (Carolrhoda on My Own Book.)
Publication Date: April 1995| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Like a Maccabee
Publication Date: September 1, 2009| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Days before Hanukkah, ten-year-old Ben's soccer team makes the league championships. Only one thing stands between Ben and victory: the rival team's best defender, a school bully whose favorite sport, other than soccer, is tormenting Ben. No one at home seems to understand. And now he has to share his bedroom with his grandfather, a man he barely knows! Facing humiliation at school and misunderstood by those who love him most, Ben finds an unexpected friend in his grandfather, learning ancient wisdom and steadfa...
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