 | 8 Simple Rules for Marrying My Daughter: And Other Reasonable Advice from the Father of the Bride (Not that Anyone is Paying Attention)
Release Date: April 8, 2008Following the stunning success of 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter -- which was adapted into a TV show for ABC -- W. Bruce Cameron returns with an even more hilarious look at fatherhood, capturing the predicament of the forgotten man in the tux at his little girl's wedding. As Cameron explains, modern weddings are much like royal coronations, only more expensive. Aside from the writing of checks, there is not much fathers understand about them. Why can't guests successfully eat, drink, and dance unless the whole event is as carefully choreographed as a...
 |  | Homecoming Weekend: A Novel (Zane Presents)
Release Date: September 4, 2012| Series: Zane Presents If you thought Las Vegas was where “what happens” stays, you have not been to homecoming at a historically black college or university, which means you have missed out. Until now, that is. Curtis Bunn’s novel, Homecoming Weekend, provides readers a provocative, engrossing and humorous journey to an HBCU campus for those two days of reminiscing, partying, sex, romance, laughs and even tears. There is nothing quite like homecoming. It is a combination of a massive family reunion and festival, a sentimental and reaffirming...
|  | The new black (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
Publication Date: January 25, 2012| Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series Smart, grounded, and lyrical, Evie Shockley's the new black integrates powerful ideas about "blackness," past and present, through the medium of beautifully crafted verse. the new black sees our racial past inevitably shaping our contemporary moment, but struggles to remember and reckon with the impact of generational shifts: what seemed impossible to people not many years ago--for example, the election of an African American president--will have always been a part of the world of children born in the new millennium. All of t...
|  | Theirs Was the Kingdom
Publication Date: September 1, 2009The eagerly awaited reissue of the second novel in R. F. Delderfield's classic God Is an Englishman series Theirs Was the Kingdom is a stirring saga of England in the late 19th century, as the Industrial Revolution takes hold, forever changing the landscape of England and her people. The 1880s in England were a laissez-faire decade of national optimism and prosperity, of rampant colonialism, typhoid epidemics, and a Diamond Jubilee. This follow-up novel to God Is an Englishman continues the saga of the Victorian giant of commerce Adam Swann, his tough-minde...
|  | Doctor in Petticoats (Sophie's Daughters)
Publication Date: July 1, 2010| Series: Sophie's Daughters (Book 1) Doctor Alex Buchanan is a wanted man--a deseter from the army stalked by a bounty hunter--but he'd rather be dead than inflict any more pain on his patients. Beth McClellan is idealistic, believing the nursing training she received will be enough to help her serve as doctor to her home town in West Texas. When Alex and Beth meet in a stagecoach accident, they find that they work well together. But are his demons and her dreams too deeply rooted for either of them to pay the price required for a future together? ...
|  | The Coming: A True Story of Horror
Publication Date: July 12, 2012AMERICA HAS BEEN ATTACKED!Now under control of the one known as the Supreme Leader, his evil agenda can only be stopped by God's messengers.Cole Garrett is one of those messengers. Called "The Chosen", they have been given the answer to the greatest mystery the world has ever known; the identity of "The Beast." But not only the identity, but also actual proof of the very existence of God!Now hiding from the assassins ordered to kill them, Cole and the others must avoid detection as they continue to warn others of "THE COMING."Though this book may be viewed as a...
|  | The Commodore (Aubrey/Maturin series, no. 17)
Publication Date: 19959 Compact Discs, Unabridged ...
|  | The Night Battles: Witchcraft & Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries
Publication Date: March 1, 1992Based on research in the Inquisitorial archives, the book recounts the story of a peasant fertility cult centred on the benandanti. These men and women regarded themselves as professional anti-witches, who (in dream-like states) apparently fought ritual battles against witches and wizards, to protect their villages and harvests. If they won, the harvest would be good, if they lost, there would be famine. The inquisitors tried to fit them into their pre-existing images of the witches’ sabbat. The result of this cultural clash which lasted over a century, ...
|  | Earthworks
Publication Date: June 24, 2008A new collection of Poems by reknown poet Eric Basso. ...
|  | The Sense of the Song of Roland
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|  | The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Belfast 1962-1972
Publication Date: June 1, 2006| ISBN-10: 0199287317 | ISBN-13: 978-0199287314This is the first full-length study of the extraordinary period of intense poetic activity in Belfast known as the Ulster Renaissance--a time when young Northern Irish poets such as Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, James Simmons, and Paul Muldoon began crafting their art, and tuning their voices through each other. Drawing extensively upon new archival material, as well as personal interviews and correspondence, The Ulster Renaissance argues that these poets' friendships and rivalries were crucial to...
|  | Song ci jing hua lun xi (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | Who Is Mary?: Three Early Modern Women on the Idea of the Virgin Mary (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe)
Publication Date: August 1, 2009| Series: The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe For women of the Italian Renaissance, the Virgin Mary was one of the most important role models. Who Is Mary? presents devotional works written by three women better known for their secular writings: Vittoria Colonna, famed for her Petrarchan lyric verse; Chiara Matraini, one of the most original poets of her generation; and the wide-ranging, intellectually ambitious polemicist Lucrezia Marinella. At a time when the cult of the Virgin was undergoing a substantial process of redefinition, these texts cast fascina...
|  | The World of Charles Dickens: The Life, Times and Works of the Great Victorian Novelist
Publication Date: March 6, 2012Two centuries after his birth, Charles Dickens remains a beloved author whose works seem timeless--yet if ever a man was the product of his times, it was he. The virtues and vices of the Victorian Age Dickens so memorably set forth mirrored his own life, from his poverty-stricken childhood to his dizzying rise to fame. In The World of Charles Dickens, eminent scholar Martin Fido traces that complex and fascinating history in all its drama, tragedy, and triumph. ...
|  | Love Means Courage
Publication Date: October 12, 2009Len Parker is laid off during the recession in the early eighties and decides to go back to college at home in rural Michigan, where he reconnects with his best friend from high school, Ruby. He's overjoyed when she marries Cliff Laughton and overcome with sorrow when she dies an untimely death, leaving behind her husband and two-year-old son.Out of work again, Len finds a job at Cliff Laughton's sorely neglected farm. Cliff is still mourning his wife, struggling to raise his son, and has little enthusiasm or energy left for work. Len immediately begins to w...
|  | Kissing the Gunners Daughter
Publication Date: May 1, 1993Investigating the murder of a socialite family, Inspector Wexford is forced to face his own deepest feelings. Called "one of Rendell's darkest and most suble character studies" (SF Chronicle). ...
|  | Aliens in Underpants Save the World
Release Date: March 6, 2012| Age Level: 4 and up A zany picture book adventure featuring aliens in (what else?) underpants!Aliens love underpants, It’s lucky that they do,For undies helped save our universe,Sounds crazy but it’s true!The beloved aliens from Aliens Love Panta Claus are back—and this time they are on a mission to save the world! Get ready for another pants-tastic adventure in this wacky picture book from winning author and illustrator team Claire Freedman and Ben Cort. ...
|  | The Flying Tortoise: An Igbo Tale
Publication Date: August 15, 1994This humorous traditional tale from the Igbo people of Nigeria features the trickster tortoise, Mbeku, and shows how the tortoise got his rough, checkered shell as a result of Mbeku's greediness and cunning. ...
|  | Hattie Big Sky
Release Date: December 23, 2008| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Alone in the world, teen-aged Hattie is driven to prove up on her uncle's homesteading claim.For years, sixteen-year-old Hattie's been shuttled between relatives. Tired of being Hattie Here-and-There, she courageously leaves Iowa to prove up on her late uncle's homestead claim near Vida, Montana. With a stubborn stick-to-itiveness, Hattie faces frost, drought and blizzards. Despite many hardships, Hattie forges ahead, sharing her adventures with her friends--especially Charlie, fighting in France--through letters an...
|  | Larousse World Mythology
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