 | Red Jacket: A Lute Bapcat Mystery
Publication Date: September 18, 2012| Series: A Lute Bapcat Mystery Woods Cop mystery author Joseph Heywood takes readers to an era when people had to be as hard as the lives they lived. Meet Lute Bapcat, orphan, loner, former cowboy, Rough Rider, beaver trapper, a man who in 1913, with the enthusiastic recommendation by Theodore Roosevelt, himself, becomes one of the Michigan’s first civil service game wardens. His territory: The Keweenaw Peninsula, the state’s industrial center. Featuring a stunning array of characters, fascinating historical detail, and Heywood’s tradema...
 |  | Life Everlasting (An Alexia Lindale Novel)
Publication Date: August 2, 2011| Series: An Alexia Lindale Novel (Book 2) With her client's husband somewhere between this world and the next, attorney Alexia Lindale makes an everlasting choice. The youngest son of a family consumed by greed, Baxter Richardson lingers on this earth in a coma. His wife wants him dead to protect her secrets. His brother wants him dead to gain control of the family empire. And though Baxter's father fights to keep him alive, even he has ulterior motives. But Baster has a surprising ally. A classically trained painist, Ted Morgan believes music can be use...
|  | The Call: A Novel
Publication Date: May 20, 2010The story of Abraham's famous Call from God jumps from the pages of the Bible in an action-packed Biblical fiction novel that remains stridently faithful to the Biblical text.The people, places and events of the story come to life like never before. Abram is not like other Sumerians.He questions the prevailing religion of his day.When his beautiful wife, Sarai, proves unable to have children, Abram's father Terah calls it a curse from the gods for Abram's unbelief.Urged to go to the temple of the moon-god, Abram agonizes over desperate choices: divorce Sarai, wo...
|  | Twilight in DjakartA
Publication Date: November 16, 2011Jakarta's darker hues are brought to light as Mochtar Lubis touches upon the fragile truths of politics, poverty, corruption and crime. Through the eyes of a fictional character, Suryono, Lubis plunges into the depths and unmasks Jakarta, revealing more to the cultural beauty and vivacious lifestyle. ...
|  | Weeping Underwater Looks a Lot Like Laughter
Release Date: February 4, 2010 A smart, darkly funny, yet poignant debut novel about coming of age without coming undone.Seventeen-year-old George Flynn-an all-around decent guy-has just moved with his family to Des Moines, a place where he knows no one and is pretty much nobody. Despite this inauspicious start to his junior year, he soon finds his niche, falling in with the unique, enchanting Schell sisters. Emily, an aspiring actress and free spirit, becomes the object of George's mostly unrequited yearnings. But it's Katie, with her quirks, her scathing deadpan humor, and her brav...
|  | African American Folktales (Stories from the American Mosaic)
Publication Date: March 20, 2009| ISBN-10: 0313362955 | ISBN-13: 978-0313362958| Edition: First Edition African American culture has a rich tradition of folktales. Written for students and general readers, this volume gathers a sampling of the most important African American folktales. Included are nearly 50 tales grouped in thematic chapters on origins; heroes, heroines, villains, and fools; society and conflict; and the supernatural. Each tale begins with an introductory headnote, and the book closes with a selected, general bibliography. Students learning about literature and language...
|  | About God, the World and People
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|  | The Eternal Husband and Other Stories (Modern Library Classics)
Release Date: January 3, 2012| Series: Modern Library Classics From Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, and Anna Karenina, which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, The Eternal Husband and Other Stories brings together five of Dostoevsky’s short masterpieces. Filled with many of the themes and concerns central to his great novels, these short works display the full range of Dostoevsky’s genius. The centerpiece of this collection, the short novel The Eternal Husband, describes the al...
|  | Making Love to the Minor Poets of Chicago: A Novel
Publication Date: August 21, 2001The Yucca Mountain Project deep in the Nevada desert is the first planned long-term nuclear storage facility. The project is designed to contain nuclear waste for ten-thousand years, the amount of time it will take for the waste to no longer be radioactive. It is an ambitious project, especially in light of the fact that in this century alone we lacked the foresight to anticipate Y2K. Given this daunting responsibility, the project employs an artist, a botanist and an architect to contribute visual warnings to the site, in a manner decipherable to future gene...
|  | Words Have Frozen Over (Visible Poets)
Publication Date: July 2001| Series: Visible Poets "de Burine's poetry is built almost entirely on imagery, where metaphor is poetic structure, and the freedom of the vision itself becomes a source of meaning. The legacy of the Surrealists is immediately apparent." Susan Wicks - Introduction. Underlying the remarkable combination of image and pattern in these poems, there is also a recognisable human context - childhood, intimate relationships, aging, loss, AIDS, the Niverais landscape of her youth, the bars of the city, the town hall are all present. ...
|  | Song ci duo ying =: Song ci duo ying (Zhonghua wen ming bao ku) (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | Modern Poetry after Modernism
Publication Date: November 27, 1997In this book, James Longenbach develops a fresh approach to major American poetry after modernism. Rethinking the influential "breakthrough" narrative, the oft-told story of postmodern poets throwing off their modernist shackles in the 1950s, Longenbach offers a more nuanced perspective. Reading a diverse range of poets--John Ashbery, Elizabeth Bishop, Amy Clampitt, Jorie Graham, Richard Howard, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, Robert Pinsky, and Richard Wilbur--Longenbach reveals that American poets since mid- century have not so much disowned their moderni...
|  | The Seductive One (The Marcelli Sisters of Pleasure Road, Book 3)
Release Date: October 28, 2003For the Marcelli sisters of California wine country, the season is ripe for romance!Of all the Marcelli sisters, the one who dreams of running the family's winery is Brenna -- and she's about to get her chance. But taking the helm at Marcelli Winery is tougher than she bargained for -- especially when she butts heads with her grandfather, whose Old World ways dictate that a male should inherit the business. In need of some fast capital in order to prove her grandfather wrong, Brenna turns to Nic Giovanni, her family's nemesis....Years ago, she ended her secret...
|  | Apollo's Fault (Timeswept)
Publication Date: March 1996| Series: Timeswept Following her faithful Shar-Pei puppy, Apollo, beautiful Taylor James is transported back in time to turn-of-the-century San Francisco, where her newfound love with Nathaniel Stuart is threatened by the great earthquake....
|  | VALIS
Release Date: October 18, 2011| Series: Valis “Dick is one of the ten best American writers of the twentieth century, which is saying a lot. Dick was a kind of Kafka steeped in LSD and rage.”—Roberto BolañoWhat is VALIS? This question is at the heart of Philip K. Dick’s ground-breaking novel, and the first book in his defining trilogy. When a beam of pink light begins giving a schizophrenic man named Horselover Fat (who just might also be known as Philip K. Dick) visions of an alternate Earth where the Roman Empire still reigns, he must decide whether he is crazy...
|  | Journal of a Schoolyard Bully: Cyberbully
Release Date: September 4, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up In the tradition of the mega successful DIARY OF A WIMPY KID and DORK DIARIES, JOURNAL OF A SCHOOLYARD BULLY: CYBERBULLY by Farley Katz chronicles the life of Niko Kayler, habitual trouble-maker. For the second time in the series, Niko Kayler makes a triumphant return from bully rehab and must once again put the nerds in their places--but what happens when the tables are turned? After his mom transfers jobs and towns, Niko Kayler, notorious calculating bully, gets a second chance to be good, or be evil. Though he tri...
| | Deion Sanders, This Is Prime Time
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|  | Mikey's Nightwatcher Scrapbook (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Spotlight))
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|  | I Spy Little Toys
Publication Date: September 1, 2011| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Survival! Desert (Time for Kids Nonfiction Readers)
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