 | The Shroud of the Thwacker
Release Date: September 13, 2006Known to millions for his television and film roles, Chris Elliott is one of the most beloved comedians of his generation. With his novel The Shroud of the Thwacker, Elliott delivers a laugh-out-loud parody that will delight mystery lovers as well as his devoted fans.Set in New York City in 1882, the story hilariously chronicles the adventures of police chief Caleb Spencer and his two cohorts, Evening Post reporter Liz Smith and mayor Teddy Roosevelt, as they unravel the mystery of the world’s first (and most bizarre) serial killer: Jack the Jolly Thwacke...
 |  | Second Sunrise: A Lee Nez Novel
Publication Date: November 1, 2002| Series: Lee Nez Novels Sixty years ago New Mexico patrolman Lee Nez and his partner foiled the hijacking of an American military convoy transporting nuclear material. At the end of the firefight, all of the soldiers and Lee's partner were dead-and Lee's life was forever transformed. Now a nightwalker, the Navajo equivalent of a vampire, Lee lives with one foot in the human world and one in a world full of monsters. In 2002, Lee Nez is a cop again, now known as Leonard Hawk. His more-than-human abilities have made him the target of murderous Navajo witches-...
|  | Men of Men (Ballantyne Novels)
Release Date: October 31, 2006| Series: Ballantyne Novels It was called The Devils's Own: a steep scar in the African earth, around which men toiled with picks, shovels, and dreams of the milky treasures that would become prized, polished diamonds. In this demonic race, native tribesmen became miners. Sometimes they became thieves. And then they became rebels.Zouga Ballantyne, an African-born Englishman, sees the Devil's Own mine as his ticket to the North: a realm of waterfalls and fertile plains, teeming wildlife, and seeded fields of gold. But what happens in the diamond mines of the fled...
|  | The Shadows of Power
Release Date: April 29, 2003A small nation that bolsters the terrorist cause is flexing its military muscle in a far corner of the world. On a mission to the now-volatile Mediterranean, F/A-18 pilot Lieutenant Ed Stovic shoots down an Algerian MiG at the climax of a dramatic, high-stakes dogfight and becomes an overnight hero in the eyes of his countrymen ... and the target of a zealot's revenge. Suddeny Stovic and his loved ones have been marked for death by an enraged avenger, a pawn of powerful Islamic extremists with devastating plans for America.But there is another player in the shadow...
|  | Stargate SG-1: A Matter of Honor: SG1-3
Publication Date: February 8, 2007| Series: Stargate Sg-1 (Book 3) On a quest to bring colleagues home, O'Neill must face his past. ...
|  | Le Fonctionnement De LA Metaphore Dans Les Chants De Maldoror (Romance Monographs, Inc) (French Edition)
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|  | The Ceremonial Musicians of Late Medieval Florence
Release Date: April 14, 2009The Ceremonial Musicians of Late Medieval Florence follows the development of Florentine musical ensembles, describing their duties and repertories, placing them in their political and social context, and tracing their changes through the years of the Florentine Republic. From the 13th through the 16th centuries, the city of Florence was the most powerful in Europe. It was a center of finance and trade, as well as art and music. The Republic employed musicians to perform for the enormous number of ceremonial events each year. These musicians were the most visible ...
|  | Race, American Literature and Transnational Modernisms (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: May 8, 2008| ISBN-10: 0521884055 | ISBN-13: 978-0521884051| Edition: 1 Modernist poetry crosses racial and national boundaries. The emergence of poetic modernism in the Americas was profoundly shaped by transatlantic contexts of empire-building and migration. In this ambitious 2008 book, Anita Patterson examines cross-currents of influence among a range of American, African American and Caribbean authors. Works by Whitman, Poe, Eliot, Pound and their avant-garde contemporaries served as a heritage for black poets in the US and elsewhere in the New World. In tracing thes...
|  | Queen of Song and Souls
Release Date: September 28, 2010The Fourth Chapter in C. L. Wilson’s Breathtaking Epic Tale of Magic, Passion, and Destiny Two lovers, two hearts, one soul. Only joined can they be truly complete. Only joined can they survive the darkness.The Fey King Rain and his truemate Ellysetta share a passionate love unrivaled in the history of their world—and a forbidden power that made them outcasts from the Fading Lands. As war looms and the evil mages of Eld threaten to rip their world asunder, they must fight to defend the very kingdom and people who reviled them. Only by trust...
|  | The Cattle King's Mistress
Publication Date: November 2000Nathan King, powerful head of his legendary family's cattle empire, has everything -- except a woman to share his life. Miranda Wade has nothing -- except a past she is determined to leave behind, and the hope that her new job at King's Eden will give her a fresh start. Their two lives collide! Nathan wants her, but doubts she will cope with outback life. Miranda wants him, but believes her past will deny her any chance at a future with a King . . . ...
|  | NightWind, Book One, HellWind Trilogy
Publication Date: December 1, 2003NIGHTWIND lays bare the hidden desires of an abandoned woman's soul. For those women who have ever known the brutish sneer of a handsome man; the knowing smirk of a beautiful woman; the disdain of strangers or the disregard of family, this tantalizing tale of supernatural love and passion will have her cheering for Lauren Fowler and wishing for a visit from Syntian Cree. But be careftil what you wish for, dear one, for the NightWind is listening! ...
|  | Bluegate Fields: A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel (Mortalis)
Release Date: September 29, 2009| Series: Mortalis Inspector Thomas Pitt is shocked. The body of a boy, clearly from the upper classes, has been found in the filthy sewers of Bluegate Fields, one of London’s most dangerous slums. What’s more, the unfortunate boy had been violated before he was murdered. So vile a case is hardly a topic for drawing-room conversation.But when the Waybournes, the boy’s family, refuse to answer the police’s questions, Inspector Pitt begins to wonder what secrets they are trying to hide. Pitt’s wife and helpmeet, Charlotte, is determ...
|  | Arthur Conan Doyle: Beyond Baker Street (Oxford Portraits)
Publication Date: April 13, 2000| Series: Oxford Portraits Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) is best known for his Sherlock Holmes stories and novels, yet he considered them only a small part of his literary output. He expected to be remembered for his historical fiction, especially The White Company. He also wrote science fiction novels, short stories, and horror tales. He was knighted for a pamphlet he wrote justifying England's actions during the Boer War, in which he served as a physician in a field hospital. After one of his sons was killed during World War I, he turned to spiritualism for...
|  | Salamandastron (Redwall, Book 5)
Release Date: September 15, 2003| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Everything I Know About Monsters : A Collection of Made-up Facts, Educated Guesses, and Silly Pictures about Creatures of Creepiness
Release Date: September 1, 2002| Age Level: 4 and up Where did all these monsters come from?The closet, the basement, under the bed, the outhouse, even the school furnace room! But mostly, they came from a healthy imagination, just like yours!Using a patented system of made-up facts and educated guesses, Everything I Know About Monsters reveals all the gory details about creatures of creepiness: what they eat (dirty socks), what's in their brains (not much), and how to scare them out of the basement (stand at the top of the stairs, bang pots and pans together, and yell very loudly).So ...
| | Teaming Up (Soccer Stars)
Publication Date: May 1999| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | How to Become a Perfect Knight in Five Days! (Rainy Day Readers)
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|  | The Sled and other Fox and Rabbit Stories (First Flight Books Level One)
Release Date: December 10, 1999| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | The Christmas Surprise (Templar)
Publication Date: September 1, 2001| Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Lions (Powerkids Readers: Safari Animals)
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