 | A Seeking Heart (Mountain Lake, Minnesota Trilogy)
Publication Date: January 1, 2012| Series: Mountain Lake, Minnesota Trilogy (Book 1) A rich, heartwarming story about discovering God's love, acceptance, and healing-for even the most damaged hearts. It's 1917, and Samantha O'Brien, seventeen years old, runs away from Wisconsin to Minnesota to escape a drunkard father and broken home. She is accepted with open arms into the Klaassen family, German-Mennonites who show both love and patience to this lonely and defensive girl. Samantha's fractured childhood and its devastating losses make it very difficult for her to accept the Klaassen's genui...
 |  | Bryson City Seasons: More Tales of a Doctor's Practice in the Smoky Mountains
Release Date: September 22, 2005Welcome to Bryson City, a small town tucked away in a fold of North Carolina's Smoky Mountains. The scenery is breathtaking, the home cooking can't be beat, the Maroon Devils football team is the pride of the town, and you won't find better steelhead fishing anywhere. But the best part is the people you're about to meet in the pages of Bryson City Seasons.In this joyous sequel to his bestselling Bryson City Tales, Dr. Walt Larimore whisks you along on a journey through the seasons of a Bryson City year. On the way, you'll encounter crusty mountain men, warmhea...
|  | Into the Mummy's Tomb
Release Date: April 1, 2001The Mummy. The first thing that comes to mind is the curse...reanimation... and revenge. But what further mysteries are there to be unwrapped in the tombs of the Ancient Egyptians?This exciting new anthology from the editor of Vampires, Wine and Roses features a diverse selection of remarkable talents, from major bestselling authors like Anne Rice (famous for her vampire and mummy novels) and Elizabeth Peters (mystery's master of Egyptology), to all-time favorites such as Bram Stoker (who wrote one of the first mummy novels) and Agatha Christie (queen of the sealed...
|  | Digital Darling: An American Story
Publication Date: June 22, 2011When President Alexander North bans air travel to help control a deadly virus, the nation s tourism industry goes into a tailspin. Digital Darling, the tantalizing hostess of an underground travel show, becomes a persistent critic of the president s policies and an Internet sensation. North instructs the National Security Agency to get her off the air, but the task falls to a ruthless agent and the Feds look the other way as the body count rises. Through a long, hot New England summer, Digital Darling, her lover, and their hacker sidekick risk everything to wag...
|  | Surfing Summer's Florida Adventures
Release Date: October 14, 2006The story of Summer continues with this sixth book in the Surfer Girl Series. Summer continues her ordinary, but extraordinary life as she follows both her dream and her legacy! Summer. her mother and her godmother, Jill, travel to Florida where Summer competes again in the USA National 10K Championships! Swim, sun and surf with Summer and her friends, and go with Summer on a brand new Florida adventure where she meets a boy named Kane. Summer is surprised to find herself attracted to Kane, because she is still going with Phillip. Summer, Jill and Kane have an e...
|  | No se lo digas a nadie / Tell No One (Coleccion Jaime Bayly) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: April 1, 2010| Series: Coleccion Jaime Bayly Tell No One recounts the personal trajectory of a child born to Lima s wealthiest bourgeoisie. It is within the nucleus of his family, where the most brutal male chauvinism and classicism coexist with the strictest prudishness, that he discovers his own homo-erotic identity. This sexual identity carries him not without an occasional heterosexual episode to the vortex of drug addiction and the core of coke addicts, to the very limits of urban male prostitution. Our character, however, avoids being swallowed by this marginalized wo...
|  | History Makers - Great Women Comedians
Publication Date: March 7, 2002| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | John Webster, Renaissance Dramatist (Renaissance Dramatists)
Publication Date: December 14, 2010| Series: Renaissance Dramatists Transgressive and darkly brilliant, the drama of John Webster has long been celebrated as one of the crowning glories of the English Renaissance. David Coleman locates Webster's remarkable plays within the context of the tumultuous political, religious, and economic climate of Jacobean London. He reintroduces readers to the playwright's great tragedies and familiarizes them with lesser-known works. He unpacks the fascination and repulsion expressed by generations of critics and theatergoers, ultimately arguing that the relev...
|  | Istoricheskie pesni, ballady (Sokrovishcha russkogo folklora) (Russian Edition)
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|  | Old Books, Rare Friends: Two Literary Sleuths and Their Shared Passion
Release Date: June 1, 1998Louisa May Alcott once wrote that she had taken her pen for a bridegroom. Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern, friends and business partners for fifty years, have in many ways taken up their pens and passion for literature much in the same way. The "Holmes & Watson" of the rare book business, Rostenberg and Stern are renowned for unlocking the hidden secret of Louisa May Alcott's life when they discovered her pseudonym, A.M. Barnard, along with her anonymously published "blood and thunder" stories on subjects like transvestitism, hashish smoking, and feminism.Old B...
|  | Grotesque Relations: Modernist Domestic Fiction and the U.S. Welfare State
Publication Date: August 14, 2008| ISBN-10: 0195338537 | ISBN-13: 978-0195338539In this book, Susan Edmunds explores he relationship between modernist domestic fiction and the rise of the U.S. welfare state. This relationship, which began in the Progressive era, emerged as maternalist reformers developed an inverted discourse of social housekeeping in order to call for state protection and regulation of the home. Modernists followed suit, turning the genre of domestic fiction inside out in order to represent new struggles on the border between home, market and state. Edmunds uses the wor...
|  | Muerto y enterrado (Dead and Gone) (Sookie Stackhouse) (Spanish Edition) (Sookie Stackhouse / Southern Vampire)
Publication Date: February 3, 2012| Series: Sookie Stackhouse / Southern Vampire For Sookie Stackhouse, the day to day activities of the vampire and were communities in and around Bon Temps, Louisiana, are of vital interest, She's blood-bound to the leader of the vamps, a friend to the local were pack, works for a man who is shifter, and has a brother who is a were-panther. But for most of the humans in Bon Temps, the vamps are mysterious seductive creatures-and they don't even know about the weres. Until now. A race of unhuman beings--older, more powerful and far more secretive than vampire...
|  | Odes and Epodes (Loeb Classical Library)(English and Latin Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 1968 THIS EDITION HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A NEWER EDITIONHorace (b. 65 B.C.) claims the lyric poetry of Sappho and Alcaeus as models for his celebrated odes. His four books cover a wide range of moods and topics: friendship is the dominant theme of about a third of thepoems; a great many deal with love and amorous situations, often amusingly; others deal with patriotic and political themes. The seventeen epodes, which Horace called iambi, were also inspired by a Greek model: the seventh centuryiambic poetry of Archilochus. As in the odes, love and politics are fre...
|  | I Love the Earl
Release Date: September 6, 2011 A single lady in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a suitor Margaret de Lacey has accepted her unmarried state with dignity, if not delight. She had no suitors when she was young and starry-eyed, though regrettably poor, and it’s unlikely any man will court her now that she’s older, wiser, and still just as penniless. Until, that is, her brother unexpectedly inherits the dukedom of Durham and settles an enormous dowry on her, making her the most eligible heiress in town. No gentleman in London is more in need of a wealthy bride than...
|  | The Butterfly Virus: A Thriller
Publication Date: February 2, 2009A fast paced techno thriller, in the vein of Michael Crichton, "The Butterfly Virus" takes you on an action packed thrill ride into the unthinkable. Dr. Daniel Lamb, a renowned genetic engineer working on a revolutionary breakthrough in human cloning technology, is called into action when an unknown virus breaks out in the southwest. They gain an ally in John Featherstone, an archeologist, whose work on ancient Native American cultures provides a critical key to the unfolding global events. Why is the military activating Operation Cave Eagle? Why are some pe...
|  | Kindness Goes Unpunished: A Walt Longmire Mystery (Walt Longmire Mysteries)
Release Date: March 15, 2007| Series: Walt Longmire MysteriesWalt Longmire returns for his third adventure but this time he is in the City of Brotherly Love,where no act of kindness goes unpunishedWalt has been the sheriff in Wyoming’s Absaroka County for twenty-four years, where his wit andcharm have helped him solve many crimes. But that can’t prepare him for the savage attack onhis daughter, Cady, a Philadelphia lawyer who has unwittingly become embroiled in a politicalcover-up. As Walt and his best friend, Henry Standing Bear, scour the city for clues, he gets helpfrom his ...
|  | Dracula Doesn't Drink Lemonade (The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids, #16)
Publication Date: October 1, 1995| Age Level: 7 and up...
|  | Eagle Boy: A Pacific Northwest Native Tale
Release Date: October 31, 2000| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Based on a popular Northwest Coast Native tale, this book recounts the story of Eagle Boy. Born an orphan, the title character grows up to love eagles, despite the fact that the people of his tribe distrust eagles. In return he is ridiculed and made an outcast. One year, the tribe has difficulty hunting and fishing, and must depart their land. With not enough room in their boats, Eagle Boy is left behind. He is saved from starvation by the eagles he loves, and using their assistance saves his starving tribe, who have...
|  | The Kayak Racer (Olympic Dreams)
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|  | Goalies (Hockey's Hottest)
Publication Date: September 1, 1999| Age Level: 7 and up...
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