 | Strongholds (Blessed Trinity Trilogy)
Release Date: May 1, 2010| Series: Blessed Trinity Trilogy (Book 2) From Vanessa Davis Griggs comes the second book in her Blessed Trinity Trilogy. Part Terry McMillian, part Jan Karon, Griggs delivers the story of a congregation hoping for heaven--while dealing with life right here on earth... --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
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 | Hood Symphony
Publication Date: May 4, 2012When the streets threaten to rip a family empire apart, will La Familia give into the streets' wishes or will they stand together and continue to rule.Tree and Von are best friends who have been raised as brothers. When unequal power becomes an issue in the family, some members begin to do things on their own definitely leading to disaster.With Blood shed on the street and La Familia divided, shocking secrets will be revealed that will guarantee someone from La Familia will not be coming home. ...
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 | Minding Frankie
Release Date: December 27, 2011When Noel learns that his terminally ill former flame is pregnant with his child, he reluctantly agrees to take care of the baby girl. Along with the help of a caring network of friends, family and neighbors—including Lisa, his broken-hearted classmate, and Emily, his American cousin—Noel adapts to his new responsibilities. But when a nosy social worker decides to get involved, she threatens to ruin their unconventional but special arrangement. It will be up to Noel to persuade her that everyone in the neighborhood has something to offer when it com...
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 | Highwire Moon
Release Date: October 8, 2002Serafina is an illegal migrant worker living in California when the police catch her and send her back to Mexico–without her three-year old daughter.Twelve years later, with a pair of silver barrettes her only tangible memory of Elvia,Serafina begins a harrowing journey back across the border to find her daughter. At the same time Elvia, now fifteen and pregnant, resolves to track her mother down. They travel a landscape populated by desperately poor migrants moving from harvest to harvest, truckers living hand-to-mouth in seedy motels, and lost children in...
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 | Iona
Publication Date: April 15, 1995Eight rare poems, written at Iona monastery between 563AD and the early 8th century, translated from the original Latin and Gaelic and fully annotated with literary commentary. ...
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 | Waiting for An Angel: Fiction
Publication Date: January 2004"Habila's fictionalization...reveals the true casualties of oppression better than any news or history."—Library JournalLomba is a young journalist living under military rule in Lagos, Nigeria, the most dangerous city in the world. His mind is full of soul music and girls and the lyric novel he is writing. But his roommate is brutally attacked by soldiers; his first love is forced to marry a wealthy old man; and his neighbors on Poverty Street are planning a demonstration that is bound to incite riot and arrests. Lomba can no longer bury his head in the s...
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 | The Ice at the Bottom of the World: Stories
Release Date: January 1, 1991In these ten stories, Mark Richard, winner of the 1990 PEN/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award, emerges as the heir apparent to Mark Twain, Flannery O'Connor, and William Faulkner. ...
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 | Rise: Stories (Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction)
Publication Date: August 7, 2012| Series: Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction "Binder has gone so deeply, and with such mystical brilliance and loyalty, into her own world that she has brought mine to me in high relief. She both casts a spell and breaks it. To experience Rise is to experience wonder."--Laura Kasischke "In one of these amazing stories a character says to her husband, 'Why are you smiling? You're scaring me.' That's how I feel about Rise. There is a yearning so deep in each story, something beautiful and urgent, that the book glows. L. Annette Binder arrives wi...
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 | Rumi: Swallowing the Sun
Publication Date: September 2007Timeless and eternal, the poetry of Jalal al-Din Rumi is loved the world over and he is a best-selling poet from America to Afghanistan. Commemorating the 800th anniversary of Rumi's birth, this beautiful volume draws from the breadth of Rumi's work, spanning his entire career. Franklin Lewis's evocative translation will prove inspirational to both keen followers of Rumi and readers discovering the great poet for the first time. ...
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 | Sphere Carnac (Poesie/Gallimard) (French Edition)
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 | Argumentation: Inquiry and Advocacy
Publication Date: January 1990| ISBN-10: 0130460389 | ISBN-13: 978-0130460387| Edition: 2ndThis book presents a coherent introduction to the fundamental concepts of argumentation and debate, argumentation theory, and critical thinking. As the title suggests, the reader learns how to use argumentation effectively as a means of discovering what is worthy of belief and for gaining the support of others. Now comprised of nineteen in-depth chapters, this best-selling book offers a broad view of argumentation. The first two sections explain the field invariant concepts of critical inquir...
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 | The Victorians
Publication Date: 2008The Victorians, by A.N. Wilson, 2008 Folio Society. ...
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 | John Stow (1525-1605) and the Making of the English Past
Publication Date: May 12, 2005This collection is the first to assess the full range and diversity of the Irascible Elizabethan antiquary, John Stow, and his unique contribution to the 'making of the English past'. Touching on topics as wide-ranging as the identification of medieval forgeries and Hebrew inscriptions on the city walls, these essays make an invaluable contribution to our memory of one of the remarkable men of the early modern age. ...
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 | Little Journeys to The Homes of The Great Vol.11
Publication Date: 1916journeys to the homes of the great by Hubbard ...
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 | Iron House
Release Date: July 12, 2011An old man is dying. When the old man is dead they will come for him. And they will come for her, to make him hurt. John Hart has written three New York Times bestsellers and won an unprecedented two back-to-back Edgar Awards. His books have been called “masterful” (Jeffery Deaver) and “gripping” (People) with “Grisham-style intrigue and Turow-style brooding” (The New York Times). Now he delivers his fourth novel—a gut-wrenching, heart-stopping thriller no reader will soon forget. HE WOULD GO TO HELLAt the Iron M...
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| MX Champions (Mxplosion!)
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 | One Little Chicken
Release Date: August 9, 2011| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up How much work can one little chicken be? When Leora finds a chicken in her front yard, she imagines keeping it as a pet and gathering eggs for breakfast every morning. But her mother has a very different view. Following a Jewish law that says ”finders aren’t keepers,” Mrs. Bendosa is determined that the family should care for the chicken just until its rightful owner returns. Soon, however, one little chicken becomes a flock of chickens, a flock of chickens becomes two goats, two goats become ...
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 | Jump and Run (Read With Dick and Jane)
Release Date: September 15, 2003| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Millions of Americans remember Dick and Jane (and Sally and Spot, too!). Now Dick and Jane and all their pals are back with revised editions of these classic readers for a whole new generation of readers to enjoy! Jump and Run Sally said, "Oh, look. Mother can jump. Mother can jump and play." ...
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 | Wanted...Mud Blossom (Blossom Family Book)
Publication Date: August 2008| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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 | My First Book of Dinosaurs (My First Book series)
Publication Date: December 1, 2008| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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