 | How Full Is Your Bucket? Positive Strategies for Work and Life
Publication Date: August 10, 2004How did you feel after your last interaction with another person? Did that person -- your spouse, best friend, coworker, or even a stranger -- "fill your bucket" by making you feel more positive? Or did that person "dip from your bucket," leaving you more negative than before? The #1 New York Times and #1 BusinessWeek bestseller, How Full Is Your Bucket? reveals how even the briefest interactions affect your relationships, productivity, health, and longevity. Organized around a simple metaphor of a dipper and a bucket, and grounded in 50 years of research, th...
 |  | The Wanderers
Release Date: April 1, 2007A novel exploring conditions in the afterlife with "Questions for Discussion" for reading groups.A group of recently deceased Americans wander in a realm between heaven and hell, learning about their true natures and past lives. ...
|  | La tumba (Contemporanea/ Contemporary) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: April 1, 2007| Series: Contemporanea/ Contemporary La tumba es una de las obras que liquidaran el pasado... Una novela extraordinaria Juan Rulfo ...
|  | A Race Against Death: (Five Star First Edition Mystery)
Publication Date: August 2006| Series: Five Star First Edition Mystery In the midst of a brutal heatwave, the hospital workers at James Madison University Hospital are outraged by the death of a young woman from a botched abortion. They say the cold-blooded surgeon Dr. Odom is a murderer. But hospital bosses defend him, putting Lenny Moss in the middle of the most dangerous campaign of his career. As tempers flare and laundry workers pass out from the heat, a brutal murder sends Lenny down a dark path that threatens his job...and his life. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | Finally
Publication Date: November 1, 2010From author Lynn Galli comes two original short stories. See how the Virginia clan series started with "Finally" and enjoy a new stand-alone tale in "Objection." Epilogues to all the Virginia friends' books are included. Finally - Willa Lacey is confident, smart, and ambitious. A few months away from being granted venture capital to start her software company, she's barely able to maintain her day job, attend to her family, and keep up with friends. It's been a long process, but her hard work is about to pay off. So, why is it that all she can think about is...
|  | Antigone's Wake: A Novel of Imperial Athens
Publication Date: April 1, 2007Athens, 440 BC. Under Pericles, the democracy is building its imperial legacy in blood, stone, and ballots. Ruling the stage, Sophocles premieres the tragedy of Antigone, earning renown that propels him to an honorary generalship. But the honor turns serious when war breaks out with the powerful island of Samos. Can Sophocles the playwright now direct real soldiers in a war that will decide the fate of Athens' sea empire? --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | Rimbaud: Visions and Habitations
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|  | North (The Faber Library)
Publication Date: March 18, 1996One of a series of titles first published by Faber between 1930 and 1990, and in a style and format planned with a view to the appearance of the volumes on the bookshelf. This is a collection of poetry, by the winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature, which articulates a vision of Ireland. ...
|  | The Lamp of Experience. Whig History and the Intellectual Origins of the American Revolution
Publication Date: January 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 0865971595 | ISBN-13: 978-0865971592American Founding and Constitution ...
| | Bestseller!: Books That Everyone Read, 1900-39
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| | Cultural Climate and Linguistic Style: Change in English Fictional Prose from the Late Victorian to the Early Modern Period
Publication Date: October 1989| ISBN-10: 0333438299 | ISBN-13: 978-0333438299| Edition: illustrated edition This book explores the relation between culture and syntax at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. It acknowledges a shift of sensibility during the period from the sureness of empiricism to the doubt and uncertainty of idealism. Added to this, there was also a transfer from a pragmatic and extrovert "Weltanschauung" to a syntax characterized by a subjective appeal to the imagination. The analysis of particular syntactic features in a random selection of nov...
|  | Quantum Poetics: Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and the Science of Modernism
Publication Date: January 28, 1997| ISBN-10: 052157305X | ISBN-13: 978-0521573054Quantum Poetics examines the Modernist appropriation of scientific metaphors as part of a general search for the preverbal origins of poetry. The poetic possibilities offered by developments in scientific discourse intrigued Yeats, Eliot and Pound, writers intent on remapping the general theory of poetry. Using models supplied by physicists, Yeats sought for the basic units of poetic force, both through his sequence A Vision and through his belief in, and defense of, the purity of symbols. Daniel Albright de...
|  | The Book of the Knight of the Tower: Manners for Young Medieval Women (Studies in Arthurian and Court)
Release Date: May 25, 2006| ISBN-10: 1403969914 | ISBN-13: 978-1403969910| Edition: First Edition In 1372 a French knight compiled a book of stories to teach his three daughters how to be good wives and good Christians. Here these tales are retold and interspersed with commentary about life in the late Middle Ages--what people wore, how they prayed, what they hoped for in this life and the next. The knight's stories range from the shockingly bawdy to the deeply pious. They include devils and miracles, fashionable ladies and haughty knights, lecherous monks and disobedient wives--all told...
|  | Best Lesbian Bondage Erotica
Publication Date: August 28, 2007Tristan Taormino presents a cornucopia of lesbian kink — tantalizing tales rich in variety and saucy details of girls put in their place — and held there firmly. In Skian McGuire’s “Phoebe’s Undercover Bon Voyage,” a group of well-equipped tops indulge a friend’s cop fetish before she — a real cop — goes undercover. In Elaine Miller’s “Fee Fie Foe Femme,” a girly-girl reaps a sweet punishment for refusing to mess up her raspberry pink lipstick. Whether readers dream of surrendering to a lover o...
|  | Highland Beast
Release Date: September 1, 2010"The Beast Within" by Hannah Howell - Gybbon MacNachton spends his days searching for the Lost Ones - demons with the powerful MacNachton bloodline who are being hunted. When he stumbles upon Alice Boyd, living like a wild animal in the forest, she stirs a primitive lust deep within him - a lust that can only be sated by their explosive union..."The Vampire Hunter" by Heather Grothaus - As the last survivor of her family of witches, Beatrix Levenach must protect the townspeople from vampires. But when her life is in danger, she is forced to accept help from Ald...
|  | Shroud for a Nightingale (Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Series #4)
Release Date: September 4, 2001The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse and comfort the suffering. But when one of the students plays patient in a demonstration of nursing skills, she is horribly, brutally killed. Another student dies equally mysteriously, and it is up to Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard to unmask a killer who has decided to prescribe murder as the cure for all ills.The New York Times called Shroud for a Nightingale "mystery at its best." ...
|  | The Iron Clew: A Leonidas Witherall Mystery (Leonidas Witherall Mystery Series)
Publication Date: August 1, 1992| Series: Leonidas Witherall Mystery Series The mysterious arrival and subsequent disappearance of a package sets Leonidas off on a furious chase around Dalton, where he is only briefly interrupted by the discovery of the corpse of banker Fenwick Balderston, who has been bashed over the head with a small bust of William Shakespeare. ...
|  | The Magical World of Charles Williams
Publication Date: May 15, 2002Charles Williams was a member of the famous Inklings literary circle, which included figures like C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. He was also a lay theologian and a longtime member of a Christian magical order. In the years since his death, awareness of his unusual imaginative fiction has steadily increased. In the present volume, Gareth Knight shows how Williams’ fiction and poetry reaffirm "a definition of magic as acts of the spiritual will and imagination induced by the power and wisdom of the Holy Spirit," as opposed to the fallen magic of the corrup...
|  | Greek Myths
Release Date: November 9, 2010| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up A gorgeous collection of classic Greek myths welcomes readers of all ages into a legendary world of beauty, tragedy, and miracle.Enter a world where anything is possible. A god might be a mountain or a shower of gold. A nymph may be a stream or an echo in the wind. The myths of ancient Greece are full of such wonders, as well as a host of courageous heroes, cunning heroines, and terrible monsters. Ann Turnbull’s compelling prose enlivens sixteen of the most celebrated myths, from the sadness of Persephone to ...
|  | The Quiz Book 3 (American Girl Library)
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