 | One Night at the Call Center: A Novel
Release Date: May 1, 2007Press 1 for technical support. Press 2 for broken hearts.Press 3 if your life has totally crashed. . . . Six friends work nights at a call center in India, providing technical support for a major U.S. appliance corporation. Skilled in patience–and accent management–they help American consumers keep their lives running. Yet behind the headsets, everybody’s heart is on the line. Shyam (Sam to his callers) has lost his self-confidence after being dumped by the girl who just so happens to be sitting next to him. Priyanka’s domineering mother h...
 |  | Christmas at Thrush Green
Publication Date: October 14, 2010A cozy, heartwarming visit to the English countryside for a traditional Christmas The villagers of Thrush Green celebrate Christmas in a way that has hardly changed over the generations. Children eagerly hang up their stockings, families go to church together, and everyone enjoys treats of the festive season. When it snows as the carol singers make their way round the cottages on the green, it seems as if Christmas will be perfect this year, but not everything is as peaceful as it seems. Phyllida and Frank have their work cut out for them when they...
|  | Theophilos: A Novel
Publication Date: April 23, 2012St. Luke addressed his Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles to a man named Theophilos.Who was Theophilos? Scripture scholars do not know, making him a fit subject for Michael O'Brien's vivid imagination. In this fictional narrative, Theophilos is the skeptical but beloved adoptive father of St. Luke. Challenged by the startling account of the "Christos" received in the chronicle from his beloved son Luke and concerned for the newly zealous young man's fate, Theophilos, a Greek physician and an agnostic, embarks on a search for Luke to bring him home. He...
|  | Vampires, Mummies, and Liberals: Bram Stoker and the Politics of Popular Fiction: 1st (First) Edition
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|  | The Ridge
Publication Date: June 8, 2011In an isolated stretch of eastern Kentucky, on a hilltop known as Blade Ridge, stands a lighthouse that illuminates nothing but the surrounding woods. For years the lighthouse has been considered no more than an eccentric local landmark-until its builder is found dead at the top of the light, and his belongings reveal a troubling local history.For deputy sheriff Kevin Kimble, the lighthouse-keeper's death is disturbing and personal.Years ago, Kimble was shot while on duty.Somehow the death suggests a connection between the lighthouse and the most terrifying mome...
|  | The Assault
Release Date: March 12, 1986A novel that probes moral devastation following a Nazi retaliation in a Dutch town. The Assault has been translated and published to great critical acclaim throughout Europe and in the United States.It is the winter of 1945, the last dark days of the ware in occupied Holland. A Nazi collaborator, infamous for his cruelty, is assassinated as he rides on his bicycle. The Germans retaliate by slaughtering an innocent family: only the youngest son, twelve-year-old Anton, survives.The Assault traces the complex repercussions of this nightmarish event on Anton's life. D...
|  | Crack Head (Triple Crown Publications Presents)
Publication Date: April 1, 2005Lisa Lennox's debut novel transports us to the heart of the crack era: The South Bronx, New York, 1989. In the late 80s and early 90s, the crack epidemic swept through inner city communities like the plague. Mothers abandoned their children and took to the street for a hit. Fathers sold everything they owned to get a taste. The crackhead was rampant. Some neighborhoods were never the same. Enter Laci Johnson, a privileged, smart, beautiful teenage girl from across town, who teams up with The South Bronx Bitches, an infamous girl group known for chasing men and ...
|  | Northland Cottage: Where the Heart Comes Home
Publication Date: August 16, 2012In 1811, a masterpiece of literature, Sense and Sensibility, was unveiled to the world, mysteriously published under the nom de plume, A Lady, to protect the author's identity. Two centuries later in A.P. Maddox's shining literary debut, readers are welcomed to the world of Northland Cottage in a compelling fast-paced Southern tale filled with charismatic and brilliant characters written in a style reminiscent of that great work. When the Hathcock family patriarch dies, Mrs. Hathcock and her daughters find themselves in dire and unfamiliar straits-facing pove...
|  | Station Island
Publication Date: January 1, 1986The title poem of this collection, set on an Irish island, tells of a pilgrim on an inner journey that leads him back into the world that formed him, and then forward to face the crises of the present. Writing in The Washington Post Book World, Hugh Kenner called this narrative sequence "as fine a long poem as we've had in fifty years." ...
|  | Have Others Ever Felt This Way?
Publication Date: June 1999Have Others Ever Felt This Way? is a collection ofpoems and short essays about human feelings, emotional growth anddevelopment, self-discovery and self-reconciliation.Our feelings areoften recast through experience and maturity. This book explores thedynamics involved in emotions, such as alienation, insecurity anddespair, as well as passion, joy and ecstacy as love enters the humanspirit.Poetry at its psychological best. ...
|  | Memoir of Isaac Forsyth, bookseller in Elgin, 1768-1859
Publication Date: 1889This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable ...
|  | Power Talk: The Art of Effective Communication
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|  | The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction (2nd Edition)
Publication Date: March 27, 2009| ISBN-10: 1408203901 | ISBN-13: 978-1408203903| Edition: 2 With over 900 biographical entries, more than 600 novels synopsized, and a wealth of background material on the publishers, reviewers and readers of the age the Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction is the fullest account of the period's fiction ever published. Now in a second edition, the book has been revised and a generous selection of images have been chosen to illustrate various aspects of Victorian publishing, writing, and reading life. Organised alphabetically, the information provid...
| | Le Morte D'Arthur: A Critical Edition (Studies in English Literature No. 96)
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|  | Sea of Secrets
Publication Date: February 29, 2012Can she save him from the darkness in his soul... or will it destroy them both?After her brother is killed in the Crimean War, innocent young Oriel Pembroke finds herself alone in the world. Disowned by the cruel father who has always despised her, she has nowhere to turn until she is taken under the wing of a glamorous relative she never knew: the former Duchess of Ellsworth, who has scandalized society by remarrying soon after her first husband's death. At the opulent seaside estate of Ellsmere, Oriel thinks she has found a safe haven--but the darkly hand...
|  | Return To Shadow Creek (Gothic Category Romances)
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|  | Slow Dollar (Deborah Knott Mysteries)
Publication Date: August 1, 2003| Series: Deborah Knott Mysteries A moonlit autumn night brings out half the county to fill the Tilt-O-Whirl with squealing riders and the dirt around Polly's Pitch Plate with losers' quarters. But in an air nostalgically sweet with caramel apple and spun sugar, one crooked game ends with a brutal death ... and Judge Deborah Knott will discover more than a body. For beneath the carnival's razzle-dazzle surface swirl dark secrets that Deborah has kept hidden for almost twenty years. Now as family loyalties war with the demands of the law, she must struggle to w...
|  | Murder, She Wrote: Destination Murder
Release Date: September 7, 2004| Series: Murder She Wrote Mystery writer Jessica Fletcher takes a three-night train trip with her friend and his railroad association through scenic British Columbia. But when a member of the entourage takes a sip of a Bloody Mary and dies, police begin investigating.The suspects gather in the Starlight Express dinner car, and it's up to Jessica to do some unplanned sleuthing before everyone's plans are derailed by death. ...
|  | How the Fox Got His Color Bilingual Hungarian English (Hungarian Edition)
Publication Date: August 6, 2011This delightful little story tells of a young girl's time with her grandmother as she relates a legend of how a mischievous little white fox, with all his grand adventures, became the red fox we all know today.How the Fox got His Color may well become an all-time children's classic and a perfect book for the young reader. English as a second language students will enjoy it as a valuable study tool, as well as those learning a foreign language. ...
|  | Roly and Renee: The Best of Friends (Spanish/English Bilingual Edition)
Publication Date: December 1, 2001| Age Level: 3 and up The forest is a lonely place especially for a little snake called Roly. He wants to make friends, but the forest animals don’t seem to like him. Is it because he's different? He is disheartened. But, one day, Renee, a little fox, asks him to rescue a gift she accidentally dropped into a narrow hole. A job made for someone just like Roly!The book emphasizes the differences between each of us. It illustrates the value and importance of every person's uniqueness by demonstrating that everyone has a valuable role to play in society and...
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