 | The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, the Crossing, Cities of the Plain (Everyman's Library)
Release Date: September 28, 1999(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Available together in one volume for the first time,the three novels of Cormac McCarthy's award-winning and bestselling Border Trilogy constitute a genuine American epic. Beginning with All the Pretty Horses and continuingthrough The Crossing and Cities of the Plain, McCarthy chronicles the lives of twoyoung men coming of age in the Southwest and Mexico, poised on the edge of a worldabout to change forever.Hauntingly beautiful, filled with sorrow and humor, TheBorder Trilogy is a masterful elegy for the American frontie...
 |  | Voyage of St Brendan
Publication Date: December 31, 1981A translation from the Latin of one of the most famous and enduring stories of western Christendom, the Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis, written in Ireland perhaps as early as the year 800. While the routes of St. Brendan's journeys remain a subject of controversy, the tale itself is of great interest - a strongly integrated text which derives from several centuries of Irish literary tradition. ""A worthwhile book in every respect."" - Choice. ""A fascinating book."" - The Irish Times. ...
|  | Hearts Unlocked: A Cherryvale Thanksgiving Romance (Volume 1)
Publication Date: September 11, 2012From the popular Seasons of Cherryvale, this Thanksgiving romance novella will warm your heart like grandma's pies fresh from the oven. Young social worker, STEPHANIE ALLAN, is new on the job and determined to make it on her own. When handsome movie star, BRANDON MCCALLISTER arrives, he spices things up, triggering all her hot buttons. Will she set aside her pride and open her heart to his playful persistence? Welcome to Cherryvale, where neighbors care, gardeners share, and God allows do-overs. Brick-lined streets, and charming 1900's era storefronts lure...
|  | The Missing Ingredient (Mystery and the Minister's Wife) (Mystery and the Minister's Wife (Unnumbered))
Publication Date: September 1, 2010| Series: Mystery and the Minister's Wife (Unnumbered) When the Taste Network rolls into Copper Mill to film a popular cooking show, the town is in for big excitement, big personalities -- and one very big mystery! A recipe for disaster. Kate Hanlon is thrilled about reconnecting with her childhood friend, Susannah Applebaum, now the host of Great Chefs of the South. But when the network's producer mysteriously disappears, all clues point to Susannah as somehow being involved. Susannah pleads her innocence, but how well does Kate really know her friend afte...
|  | Dangerous Melody (Love Inspired Suspense)
Publication Date: October 30, 2012| Series: Love Inspired Suspense Stephanie Gage's father has been kidnapped—by a dangerous man who wants to make a trade. Her beloved dad for a multimillion-dollar family heirloom that's gone missing. Either Stephanie finds the valuable violin or her father dies. But to track it down, she must rely on Tate Fuego—the man who broke her heart years ago. Stephanie knows that Tate's reasons for helping have nothing to do with her.And that the handsome demolitions expert knows more about destroying things than saving lives. But trusting Tate ...
|  | Who Censored Roger Rabbit
Release Date: October 12, 1982“Who’d want to kill a dumb cartoon bunny?”That’s what Eddie Valiant wants to know.He’s the toughest private eye in Los Angeles, and he’ll handle anything – if you’re human.If you’re a Toon, that’s another story.Eddie doesn’t like Toons – those cartoon characters who live side-by-side with humans.Not the way they look, and especially not the way they talk: word-filled balloons come out of their mouths and then disintegrate, leaving dust all over his rug.Eddie will work for a Toon ...
|  | New Life (Hesperus Classics)
Publication Date: May 1, 2003| Series: Hesperus Classics Considered by many to be the masterpiece of Dante’s youth, New Life is one of the finest poetical works and the first example of the modern novel in Italian. At the age of 9, Dante met and fell in love with Beatrice. Although she died very young, she remained his lifelong muse. New Life is Dante’s profound attempt to reconcile the deep anguish he suffered after her loss and to capture something of her eternal beauty, seeing her as the universal figure of woman. Incorporating poems and prose, and distinguished by Dante’...
|  | Dark Red: The Beginning of the End
Publication Date: December 1, 2011Dr. Argo Masters, a psychotherapist in NYC, has just finished with his last patient for the day when he discovers a prospective client in his waiting room. It’s late but he decides to see him. From the first instant of the intake he senses something is very different.When asked how he heard about Argo, the mysterious visitor provides details indicating an unexplainable level of knowledge. The client speaks obliquely about his personal history until finally, when pressed, stating that he is Satan. Argo takes this as clear evidence of psychosis, but his...
|  | Craftsman of the Cumberlands: Tradition and Creativity
Release Date: February 14, 2003| ISBN-10: 081319038X | ISBN-13: 978-0813190389" Why do people consider aesthetic qualities as well as utilitarian ones in the making of everyday objects? Why do they maintain traditions? What is the nature of their creative process? These are some of the larger questions addressed by Michael Owen Jones in his book on craftsmen in the Cumberland Mountains of eastern Kentucky. Concentrating on the work of one man, woodworker and chairmaker Chester Cornett, Jones not only describes the tools and techniques employed by Cornett but also his aspirations and valu...
|  | The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publication Date: August 1, 1983The forty-seven stories in this collection, selected by Singer himself out of nearly one hundred and fifty, range from the publication of his now-classic first collection, Gimpel the Fool, in 1957, until 1981. They include supernatural tales, slices of life from Warsaw and the shtetls of Eastern Europe, and stories of the Jews displaced from that world to the New World, from the East Side of New York to California and Miami. ...
|  | Miller: the Hermit & the Love Thief (Cloth) (UNESCO collection of representative works)
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|  | Poesias Ineditas u Olvidadas (University of Exeter Press - Exeter Hispanic Texts)
Publication Date: January 1, 1996| ISBN-10: 0859893391 | ISBN-13: 978-0859893398| Edition: 1 A selection of poems from a poet writing at the turn of the twentieth century. ...
|  | The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
Publication Date: May 9, 1991A volume of songs, rhymes and poems from "The Red Book". They tell of Tom's encounters with Goldberry, with Old Man Willow, who tries to trap Tom inside his trunk, with the Badger-folk, and with the ghostly Barrow-wight, as well as with a princess, trolls, dwarves and legendary beasts. ...
|  | Read with Me: Best Books for Preschoolers
Publication Date: May 1, 2012This authoritative guide—with a core focus on reading readiness and helping position children to succeed in school—offers more than 300 age-appropriate and subject-specific book selections from librarians for reading time with children. From board and picture books to hot new books, these recommendations reflect family, community, play, and the environment. Mirroring a child's world as they grow and mature, chapters include segments on reading together, friendship, places near and far, and making believe. These titles have been culled from the Am...
|  | Granta 115: The F Word (Feminism) (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)
Publication Date: June 14, 2011| Series: Granta: The Magazine of New Writing (Book 115) Women in the twenty-first century - from Kent to Accra - still live in a world in which the balance of power remains tipped towards men.This bold, political issue of Granta will explore this dynamic from a wide variety of literary genres and perspectives. Rachel Cusk provides a startlingly honest account of a marriage, its breakdown, and the aftermath;Caroline Mooreheadgives voice to women who took part in the French Resistance--and were sent to Nazi death camps for their involvement. Urvashi Butalia writ...
|  | Never Until Tomorrow
Publication Date: January 2001Talia Stevens is a genetic researcher who's orderly life doesn't leave much room for romance. She fills her daystrying to find the disease responsible for her mother's death and caring for a father who always puts his work first. Arin McClintock is on a mission from the future, sent back in time to establish contact with the scientist who invented time-travel. He is a man determined to maintain the self-control and discipline he has taught himself to use in all aspects of his life. Yet, from the moment they meet, sparks fly and Arin and Talia's lives are turned ...
|  | Soukaina
Publication Date: April 20, 2010Twenty-six-year-old Soukaina, a native ofMorocco, has never left her country. Employed at a school,she seeks a worthy man with whom to spend the rest of herlife. Married for eleven years and the father of three, Adamhas lived a life of contradictions. Residing worlds apart,Soukaina and Adam find solace from each other through theirletters.With his wife and children away in thewife's home country, Adam combats his loneliness bycorresponding with Soukaina. As they write letters back andforth, they discover they are soul mates and vow to sharetheir dreams, their ...
|  | The Rising Force (Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice, Book 1)
Release Date: May 3, 1999| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | Fox Tales for Kids: Fifteen Fairy Stories About Foxes for Children
Publication Date: January 26, 2012Fifteen short stories about foxes are selected from several books of fairy tales from various sources. These tales are designed to be fascinating reading for young children. The tales are: (1) The Fox-Physician, (2) The Fox and the Wolf, (3) The War of the Wolf and the Fox, (4) The Fox and the Lapp, (5) Tamamo, the Fox Maiden, (6) Old-Man and the Fox, (7) Laughing Eye and Weeping Eye, or the Limping Fox, (8) The Fox and the Blackbird, (9) Why Reddy Fox Has No Friends, (10) Reddy Fox Disobeys, (11) Reddy Fox, the Boaster, (12) All About the Little Small Red H...
|  | My Surf Tricks (Olas Surfing Books)
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