 | Siguiriya: A Novel
Publication Date: September 1997Drawing on the experiences of three generations of her family in fifteenth-century Spain, the author presents a novel set in Moorish Andalusia about one family's struggle to maintain its Jewish identity under the Inquisition. National ad/promo." ...
 |  | The Lost Quilter: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel (Elm Creek Quilts Novels)
Release Date: March 31, 2009| Series: Elm Creek Quilts Novels Master Quilter Sylvia Bergstrom Compson treasures an antique quilt called by three names -- Birds in the Air, after its pattern; the Runaway Quilt, after the woman who sewed it; and the Elm Creek Quilt, after the place to which its maker longed to return. That quilter was Joanna, a fugitive slave who traveled by the Underground Railroad to reach safe haven in 1859 at Elm Creek Farm. Though Joanna's freedom proved short-lived -- she was forcibly returned by slave catchers to Josiah Chester's plantation in Virginia -- she left the B...
|  | The Last Prophet - Imminent End
Publication Date: February 10, 2011JD Uticus is torn from his mundane lifestyle by a miraculous occurrence, his tragic death witnessed by millions of people and astounding resurrection, that thrusts him into the public eye, dubbed as the Last Prophet with a message from God about the end of the world as we know it.Having passed from the other side of eternity, JD holds the key to life’s greatest mysteries including God’s timetable for Armageddon and the identity of the Great Antichrist. JD attempts to faithfully carry out his divine calling to spread God’s proclamation o...
|  | Heaven and Hell: a Novel: A Journey of Chris and Serena Davis (Tears of Heaven)
Publication Date: October 1, 2007| Series: Tears of Heaven Heaven and Hell takes you on a journey through Heaven and Hell, as viewed through the eyes of Chris and Serena Davis, who come to experience their reality first hand.Through God s mercy, those who dwell in Heaven, have no recollection of loved ones in Hell.At least, most don t.Yet, in the most beautiful place in the universe, one man s troubling dreams lead him to realize that the love of his earth life has been condemned to Satan s realm.Now, with the help of a famous scientist from the past, Chris endeavors to pull off the ultimate...
|  | Nightingale's Lament (Nightside, Book 3)
Release Date: April 27, 2004In the Nightside, the hidden heart of London where it's always 3 AM, Detective John Taylor must find an elusive singer known as The Nightingale. Her silken voice has inexplicably lured many a fan to suicide--and Taylor is determined to stop her, before the whole neighborhood falls under her trance. But to catch the swift-winged Nightingale, he'll have to hear the deadly music--and survive....
|  | Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, Book 12)
Release Date: May 28, 2002| Series: Star Wars: the New Jedi Order (Book 12) Not since Emperor Palpatine have the Jedi battled such monstrous evil. Unless they succeed against staggering odds, the galaxy is doomed.Luke Skywalker’s daring mission to halt the Yuuzhan Vong’s nefarious plot to overthrow the New Republic is struggling on all fronts. And time is slipping away for Han and Leia Organa Solo, trapped on a small planet whose rulers are about to yield to Yuuzhan Vong pressure to give up the Jedi rebels.On Coruscant, Luke and Mara Jade Skywalker have made a shocking discover...
|  | Every Good Thing
Publication Date: July 30, 2009Raised in a strict religion that forbids association with foreigners as well as love between men, Arieh Sef'ea cannot imagine a worse fate than to be sold as a love-slave to a Keshen soldier. Both men must learn that bodies may be purchased, but hearts must be won. ...
|  | Memoranda on Shakespeare's Comedy of Measure for Measure
Publication Date: December 1912| ISBN-10: 0404030688 | ISBN-13: 978-0404030681This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | The Seagull Reader: Essays
Publication Date: September 2001| ISBN-10: 0393976327 | ISBN-13: 978-0393976328| Edition: 1st W. W. Norton proudly announces the Seagull Readers, a new collection of the most frequently taught essays. Ideal for genre or introductory literature courses, the Seagull Readers offer a compact and affordable alternative to larger anthologies. Each volume includes a wide selection of both classic and contemporary works, as well as a thorough introduction to each genre and biographies of the authors. An inexpensive and portable alternative to bulky anthologies, The Seagull Reader: Essays offers ...
|  | The Best Stage Scenes of 1992
Publication Date: April 1, 1993| ISBN-10: 1880399180 | ISBN-13: 978-1880399187Another edition of America's best-selling scene study series for women and men. All scenes are excerpted from plays produced during the title's theatrical season. ...
|  | Grace and Mercy in Her Wild Hair : Selected Poems to the Mother Goddess
Publication Date: October 1, 1999These poems written in the eighteenth-century in Bengal, express his passionate devotion for the praise of the Great Mother Goddess -- primarily in her manifestation as Kali, the dark goddess, guardian of the cycles of birth and death. His work emerges from s bhakti-or devotional-tradition, which revolted against the Brahman -- dominated Hindu orthodoxy of the time. These poems traverse a spectrum of moods -- from the wild despair of an abandoned child to the intoxicated hilarity of a man drunk with the Goddess's love. ...
|  | Rumi Speaks Through Sufi Tales
Publication Date: October 1, 1996The translator presents the best known tales from the Mathnawi in a compelling prose format. Among the stories are Prophet Moses and Pharaoh, Prophet Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, Prophet Joseph, the Story of Bilal, the Dervish and the Hidden Treasure and many more. ...
|  | Une fleur dans la mer (French Edition)
Publication Date: September 26, 2011In this poignant poetic work Ibrahima Fall tells the story of the sinking of The Joola, Senegal's national ferry, and the loss of his three daughters in this tragedy. The Joola capsized off the coast of The Gambia on September 26, 2002 and the disaster resulted in the deaths of more than 2,000 people.The sinking of the ferry Joola is thought to be the second-worst non-military maritime disaster in number of lives lost."Une fleur dans la mer" (A flower in the water) is filled with heart-felt emotions and vivid memories of the author's daughters. ...
| | Tang hua shi zhong kan (Cang hai mei shu yi shu lun cong) (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | The Economy of the Short Story in British Periodicals of the 1890s (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)
Publication Date: January 23, 2007| ISBN-10: 0415977339 | ISBN-13: 978-0415977333| Edition: 1 This materialist study of the short story’s development in three diverse magazines reveals how, at the dawn of modernism, commercial pressures prompted modernist formal innovation in popular magazines, whilst anti-commercial opacity paradoxically formed the basis of an effective marketing strategy that appealed to elitism. Integrating methods of cultural studies with formal analyses, this study builds upon recent work challenging Andreas Huyssen’s provocative formation, the "great ...
|  | The Care and Feeding of an Alpha Male
Release Date: October 2, 2012Beth Ann needed a hero… Beth Ann Williamson has finally had it with her on-and-off fiancé of nine years. The problem? No one in town seems to believe her when she says it’s really over. Now Beth Ann is determined to show the small town of Bluebonnet, Texas, that she can take care of herself. That means opening her own salon and not taking the help that her ex-fiancé seems determined to offer. Of course, even the best laid plans go awry when she’s stranded in the woods in the middle of a downpour. Some independent woman she is. She...
|  | PERFECT DOUBLE (Loveswept)
Release Date: December 1, 1993| Series: Loveswept (Book 660) Saved from a near-fatal mugging by his look-alike, a cowboy drifter, business mogul Logan Prince trades places with his rescuer in order to capture the heart of the lovely Carmen Sanchez....
|  | Death of an Old Goat
Release Date: January 27, 1983Professor Belville-Smith had bored university audiences in England with the same lecture for fifty years. Now he was crossing the Australian continent, doing precisely the same. Never before had the reaction been so extreme, however, for shortly after an undistinguished appearance at Drummondale University, the doddering old professor is found brutally murdered. As Police Inspector Royle (who had never actually had to solve a crime before)probes the possible motives of the motley crew of academics who drink their way through the dreary days at Drummondale and as...
|  | Incredible Hulk, Vol. 2: Fall Of The Hulks
Publication Date: May 26, 2010| Grade Level: 4 and up This is it! The Fall of The Hulks begins here! The opening round: THE RED HULK VS. THE THING with Reed Richards' life at stake. When the Baxter Building is attacked by the all-new, all-deadly Frightful Four, who will save the Fantastic Four? How about THE RED HULK? Not a chance. Next up, it's THE RED HULK vs. THE UNCANNY X-MEN. Also, what do Red Ghost and the Super-Apes want with Beast and The Black Panther? And in GAMMA, Jeph Loeb and original World War Hulk artist John Romita Jr. bring you the set-up to the event of 2010. With the Hulk ...
|  | The Rabbit's Judgment
Publication Date: March 1994| Age Level: 6 and up In this traditional Korean folktale about justice and morality, a clever and witty rabbit tricks a conniving tiger to save a man's life. Striking illustrations, which combine oil, paint, pencil and collage, perfectly complement the text that appears in both Korean and English on every spread. Full color. ...
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