 | Psalms of Lament
Publication Date: August 1995Here beloved poet Ann Weems offers a poignant rendering of her own personal psalms of lament. She draws from the rich heritage of Scripture to give voice to the grief and anguish she has felt. Her words will deeply move anyone who has mourned. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
 |  | Conversations with Don DeLillo (Literary Conversations)
Publication Date: January 13, 2005| Series: Literary Conversations In novel after award-winning novel, Don DeLillo (b. 1936) exhibits his deep distrust of language and the way it can conceal as much as it reveals. Not surprisingly, DeLillo treats interviews with the same care and caution. For years, he shunned them altogether. As his fiction grew in popularity, especially with White Noise, and he began to confront the historical record of our times in books such as Libra, DeLillo felt compelled to make himself available to his readers. Despite claims by interviewers about his elusiveness, he...
|  | The Living Blood
Release Date: January 2, 2002From the author of the national bestseller My Soul to Keep comes a riveting new novel of supernatural suspense -- a gripping tale that brilliantly showcases a writer at the pinnacle of her astounding storytelling abilities.Jessica Jacobs-Wolde has somehow survived the worst that any mother or wife could ever endure: the deaths of her husband and first daughter. But now, four years later, not only is the nightmare continuing -- it may have only just begun. Jessica has discovered the terrifying truth behind the legacy that her husband left to their second daughte...
|  | Striving for the Wind (African Writers Series)
Publication Date: June 1992| Series: African Writers Series Set in Kenya, this portrayal of post-colonial decadence features the newly wealthy black landowner, Baba Pesa, who clashes with his family, friends and neighbours as he attempts to gain financial dominance of his region. ...
|  | The herald wind, (The wisdom of the East)
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|  | Perverse Romanticism: Aesthetics and Sexuality in Britain, 1750-1832
Publication Date: December 10, 2008Richard C. Sha’s revealing study considers how science shaped notions of sexuality, reproduction, and gender in the Romantic period. Through careful and imaginative readings of various scientific texts, the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and Longinus, and the works of such writers as William Blake, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Lord Byron, Sha explores the influence of contemporary aesthetics and biology on literary Romanticism. Revealing that ideas of sexuality during the Romantic era were much more fluid and undecided than they are of...
|  | Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Maya: The Great Classic of Central American Spirituality, Translated from the Original Maya Text
Publication Date: March 1, 2007The Popol Vuh is the most important example of Maya literature to have survived the Spanish conquest. It is also one of the world’s great creation accounts, comparable to the beauty and power of Genesis.Most previous translations have relied on Spanish versions rather than the original K’iche’-Maya text. Based on ten years of research by a leading scholar of Maya literature, this translation with extensive notes is uniquely faithful to the original language. Retaining the poetic style of the original text, the translation is also remarkably ac...
|  | Royko in Love: Mike's Letters to Carol
Publication Date: September 15, 2010Street-smart, wickedly funny, piercingly perceptive, and eloquent enough to win a Pulitzer Prize, Mike Royko continues to have legions of devoted fans who still wonder “what Royko would have said” about some outrageous piece of news. One thing he hardly ever wrote or talked about, though, was his private life, especially the time he shared with his first wife, Carol. She was the love of his life, and her premature death at the age of forty-four shook him to his soul. Mike’s unforgettable public tribute to Carol was a heart-wrenching colum...
|  | Cuentos De Amor (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: May 14, 2009Cuarenta y tres cuentos que nos mostrarán algunas de las infinitas formas que puede adoptar el amor en nuestras vidas de la mano de Emilia Pardo Bazán. El amor inesperado, amor eterno, amor a distancia, el amor de la juventud y de la madurez. También amores ocultos, engaños, infidelidades, traiciones, y amores no correspondidos. Historias con final feliz e historias con dramático desenlace. Amor y odio se entremezclan en breves relatos que sorprenderán y emocionarán al lector, que sin duda verá que el amor nos rodea en tod...
|  | Blue-Eyed Bandit (Timeswept)
Publication Date: August 14, 2000| Series: Timeswept Darian Woodward had been a hero in the War Between the States, but somewhere hed been blown off course. Unjustly ruined by a superior officer, the handsome soldier turned to crime. His blue eyes and daring deeds earned him a name throughout the old Southwest, but bandits sought gold, and this gunfighters interests were entirely different. Fate had blown in a sexier bounty. Though she was swept away by it, Emily Morgan was less awed by the mystic whirlwind that carried her into the past than by the handsome desperado who greeted her. Joinin...
|  | Lady Gone Bad
Release Date: August 28, 2012The saloon singer known as "Lady Gone Bad" is the most drop-dead gorgeous outlaw the West has ever seen. Lady has never met a cowboy she couldn't entice, or a lawman she couldn't outrun. But when Lady tangles with a sexy U.S. Marshall, she's tempted to stick around long enough to watch him lay down the law - in her bed. U. S. Marshall Rafe Morgan wants to lock up Lady Gone Bad for good - and he won't let his attraction to her slow him down. But when his attempt to bring Lady to justice goes awry, Rafe is nearly hanged - and by dawn, his face is plastered next to ...
|  | Blaze
Release Date: August 1, 1992In her attempts to persuade Jon Hazard Black, the Harvard-educated son of an Absarokee chief, to sell his land claim to her father, Boston heiress Blaze Braddock unwittingly captures Black's heart with her fiery spirit. Reprint. ...
|  | Tough Enough: The Cowboy\The Cougar\Murder at Last Chance Ranch (Hqn)
Publication Date: March 20, 2012| Series: Hqn In these timeless romances from bestselling authors Jayne Ann Krentz, Lindsay McKenna and B.J. Daniels, three women will discover that the West has never been so wild…The CowboyAfter their disastrous parting, Margaret Lark thought she was through with Rafe Cassidy. So when he shows up on her doorstep a year later with a shocking proposal, Margaret has no choice but to put her heart on the line again—even if it means winning back the cowboy who stole it in the first place.The CougarJim Cunningham's Arizona ranching family has been fe...
|  | Barnaby Grimes: Return of the Emerald Skull
Release Date: August 14, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | The Dark Knight Legend: Junior Novel (Dark Knight Rises)
Release Date: June 5, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf
Publication Date: March 1992| Age Level: 3 and up In a humorous revision of the classic tale, three unkempt pigs venture out into the world, where they encounter a very mangy wolf. By the author of I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly....
|  | Bone Soup
Publication Date: September 8, 2008| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Known across the land for his infamous appetite, Finnigin is never seen without his eating stool, his eating spoon, and his gigantic eating mouth.When Finnigin finds himself in a new town on Halloween, he hopes to join a great feast with the creatures who live there. But not a body or soul will share any of their food with the ever-famished Finnigin. So what’s a hungry skeleton to do? Armed only with his wits and a special ingredient, will Finnigin be able to stir up a cauldron’s worth of Halloween m...
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| | U.S. Olympians (Cornerstones of Freedom. Third Series)
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|  | My Book Of Simple Addition
Publication Date: February 5, 2005| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up This book focuses on helping children learn how to add the numbers 1 and 2 to other numbers. This very basic mathematical skill cannot be acquired through repetition alone. By using this book, children will be able to understand, without difficulty, the concept of addition by first repeatedly tracing and reciting numbers and then gradually shifting to addition formulas that include the numbers 1 and 2. ...
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