| One Good Dog Release Date: February 1, 2011Acclaimed author Susan Wilson brings us a touching yet unblinkingly authentic tale of loss and rediscovery, of true friendship and learning what’s truly important in life.One note. Three words. And Adam March’s well-ordered life and well-laid plans are shattered. The very definition of a hard-nosed businessman, Adam March has no room in his life for anything but the cold drive to succeed. Not for his social-climbing wife or for his rebellious teenage daughter. Then, in an instant, he loses everything. Due to an untimely collision of arrogance, stre...
| | Where the Woodbine Twines: A Novel Publication Date: June 28, 2006A woman is confronted with an enigmatic figure from her past in this Southern Gothic thriller of unresolved friendship and unsettling memories. The coincidental sighting of someone resembling a long-lost childhood acquaintance sets off a flood of memories about their strange experience. She hopes she'll at last find the answer to the question that has stuck with her all the years since: Whatever became of the unforgettable Catherine Wiley? Set against the live-oak splendor of the South Carolina low country and the dark glamour of Myrtle Beach in the 1950s, this...
| | Silver: Return to Treasure Island Release Date: August 7, 2012A rip-roaring sequel to Treasure Island—Robert Louis Stevenson’s beloved classic—about two young friends and their high-seas adventure with dangerous pirates and long-lost treasure. It's almost forty years after the events of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island: Jim Hawkins now runs an inn called the Hispaniola on the English coast with his son, Jim, and Long John Silver has returned to England to live in obscurity with his daughter, Natty. Their lives are quiet and unremarkable; their adventures have seemingly ended. ...
| | Truth-Stained Lies (Moonlighter Series) Release Date: March 12, 2013| Series: Moonlighter Series Cathy Cramer is a former lawyer and investigative blogger who writes commentary on local homicides. When she finds a threatening note warning her that she's about to experience the same kind of judgment and speculation that she dishes out in her blog, Cathy writes it off as mischief ... until her brother is caught in the middle of a murder investigation---the victim is his ex-wife. As her brother is tried and convicted in the media, and bloggers and commentators like her have a field day, Cathy wonders if she should have taken the thre...
| | Happily Ever After (Deep Haven Series #1) Publication Date: April 12, 2007God has answered Mona Reynolds's prayers and given her the opportunity of a lifetime: she is about to open her own bookstore-coffee shop, the Footstep of Heaven. Now Mona has no time for love and no hope that a man can ever be the hero of her dreams. But when she hires mysterious drifter Joe Michaels to be her handyman, she discovers that it isn't only in fairy tales that people live “happily ever after.” ...
| | The Betrayed: A Novel of the Gifted Release Date: September 2, 2008| Series: The Gifted First time in paperback?the second novel in the Gifted trilogy, ?an exhilarating religious historical thriller.?(Midwest Book Review) In this epic trilogy in the tradition of In the Name of the Rose and The Lord of the Rings, an illuminated letter?long buried by the Church and prophesying a fellowship of men and women possessing powerful spiritual gifts?is the catalyst for a profound war that will bring either a new age of enlightenment or a darkness the world has not seen. As the Gifted gather and gain strength, following God?s clues, thei...
| | Crossings (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) Publication Date: June 1, 2002| Series: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Pocket Paperback Numbered) (Book 25) THE MOST DANGEROUS GAMEBuffy and Dawn are having difficulty settling into their new roles, now that their mother is gone. Buffy herself is reluctant to cross over to the role of parent, and the two are bickering more than usual.In fact, Buffy's distraction prevents her from noticing strange behavior among the video-game crowd. One of Xander's friends goes medieval outside the Sunnydale movie theatre, laughing and babbling that he can't be stopped -- he's only in town on a temporary visa. Pu...
| | Kiss and Kill: Hot Blood VIII Publication Date: February 1, 1997| Series: Hot Blood (Book 8) More thrilling tales from the original--and still the hottest--bestselling and award-winning erotic horror series. Get your kicks from fantasy-fulfilling cheerleaders on Interstate 666 . . . enter a modern den of sin where centuries-old acts of debauchery are on the house . . . travel to an exotic island for the rich and depraved, where forbidden desires are par for the corpse . . . keep score as the competition for the greatest sexual conquest propels two wives to a carnage-filled climax. ...
| | Hurricane Watch Publication Date: March 16, 2008In this sequel to "Tropical Storm," Dar and Kerry are back and making their relationship permanent. But an ambitious new colleague threatens to divide them --- and out them. He wants Dar's head and her job, and he's willing to use Kerry to do it. Can their home life survive the office power play? Dar and Kerry are redefining themselves and their priorities to build a life and a family together. But with the scheming colleagues and old flames trying to drive them apart and bring them down, the two women must overcome fear, prejudice, and their own pasts to prot...
| | Hard Trail To Follow (Texas Rangers, No 7) Release Date: December 30, 2008Former Texas Ranger Andy Pickard, called "Badger Boy" when he lived with Comanches as a child, is following the plow on West Texas land until he learns that his friend, Sheriff Tom Blessing, has been killed during a jailbreak. The escaped bank robbers are led by a man calling himself Cordell. Andy gets reinstated as a Ranger so he can catch Cordell and get justice for Tom Blessing.Cordell is something of an enigma to Andy, especially since the pursuit slowly reveals that he is very likely not the killer of Tom Blessing. Even so, Cordell and his cohorts mu...
| | Winding Stair Release Date: December 6, 2011Fort Smith, Arkansas, in 1890, is a haven of justice presiding overthousands of square miles known as the Indian Nation, a land thatharbors the most hardened criminals in the country. When a woman isfound murdered, young attorney Eben Pay, newly arrived to theterritory, is pulled into a posse that follows a trail of blood anddestruction. Among the dead he discovers a survivor, the beautiful,traumatized Jennie Thrasher, and the question of what she witnessedhangs like a storm cloud over the investigation. From the trial to thecourtroom, Winding Stair is a classic...
| | The Death of Empedocles: A Mourning-play (SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy) Publication Date: July 1, 2009| ISBN-10: 0791476480 | ISBN-13: 978-0791476482The definitive scholarly edition and new translation of all three versions of Hölderlin's poem, The Death of Empedocles, and his related theoretical essays. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition....
| | Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness Publication Date: May 17, 1993This landmark anthology, the first of its kind, takes it impulse from the words of Bertolt Brecht: "In these dark times, will there also be singing? / Yes, there will be singing. / About the dark times."Bearing witness to extremity—whether of war, torture, exile, or repression—the volume encompasses more than 140 poets from five continents, over the span of this century from the Armenian genocide to Tiananmen Square. ...
| | German Poetry from the Beginnings to 1750: Hartmann von Aue, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Martin Luther, (German Library) Publication Date: October 1, 1992| ISBN-10: 0826403387 | ISBN-13: 978-0826403384| Edition: 1 Foreword by George C. Schoolfield> ...
| | Poetry After Modernism: Revised and Expanded Edition Publication Date: March 1998Poetry After Modernism, Story Line's most successful anthology of criticism, was recognized and widely praised for raising the level of discourse on poetry. This expanded edition retains seven original essays and adds seven new pieces. As editor Robert McDowell points out, "Poets who can write good critical prose from distinctive points of view are the most reliable guides to the news we need to hear most". ...
| | William and Henry James: Selected Letters, Ignas K Skrupskelis and Elizabeth M Berkeley eds.Introduction by John J McDermott Publication Date: April 22, 1997| ISBN-10: 0813916941 | ISBN-13: 978-0813916941William and Henry James are well known for their master works of psychology and fiction respectively, but the celebrated brothers amassed an impressive collection of letters to one another as well. Through their copious correspondence, readers are privy to the private thoughts of these intellectual heavyweights. Sure, their letters expound on philosophical, political, social, and cultural subjects with imagination and wit, but more often they focus on the quotidian: health, news of friends and family, mutual p...
| | Aunt Epp's Guide for Life: Miscellaneous Musings of a Victorian Lady Release Date: April 27, 2010Engaging, frank and utterly delightful—the irresistible compilation of one forthright Victorian lady’s opinions and sage advice on every conceivable subject.Adultery, bunions, evolution and garlic: these are just a few of the topics that Christopher Rush’s great-great aunt Elspeth Marr expounded upon in a series of lifelong musings that were shockingly frank and progressive for her time. Born in 1871, Elspeth Marr was married but childless (perhaps by choice) and lived in the Kingdom of Fife, Scotland. Throughout her lifetime, she wrote copious l...
| | Mittelhochdeutsches Lesebuch (de Gruyter Texte) (German Edition) Publication Date: July 18, 2005| Series: de Gruyter Texte With the help of this reader, students of German language and literature as well as interested non-specialists can gain insight into the German literature of the High Middle Ages (ca. 1150-1350). In addition to well-known authors from the heyday of courtly literature, the reader also includes texts from the fields of law and the natural sciences, thus providing access to the various aspects of medieval culture. ...
| | Don't Cry for Me (Rebel Ridge Novels) Publication Date: September 18, 2012| Series: Rebel Ridge Novels Mariah Conrad has come home. Badly wounded on active duty in Afghanistan and finally released stateside, she has no family to call on and nowhere to gountil Quinn Walker arrives at her bedside. Quinn
her brother-in-arms, ex-lover and now maybe her future.Quinn brings Mariah to his log cabin in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky to rest and recuperate both physically and emotionally. While she's incredibly grateful, Mariah is also confused and frustrated. She's always stood on her own two feet, but now even...
| | Possession in Death (In Death Series) Release Date: November 30, 2010| Series: In Death Series (Book 39) “The devil killed my body. I cannot fight, I cannot find. I cannot free her. You must. You are the one. We speak to the dead.” Immediately after hearing these words, uttered to her by an old Romanian woman bleeding to death in the street, detective Eve Dallas begins to notice that her latest case has come with a number of interesting side-effects: visions of the deceased, instant familiarity with rooms she’s never seen before, and fluency in Russian. Likewise, there appears to be a force inside of her, a ...
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