 | Pacify Me: A Handbook for the Freaked-Out New Dad
Release Date: May 12, 2009Anyone who’s seen Judd Apatow’s smash hit Knocked Up knows that many modern men are still clinging to their inner child. So what happens when this man-child finds out that he’s an expectant father? The obvious: he freaks out. Written for the new fathers who know more about Mr. Spock than Dr. Spock, My Life Is Over empathetically shatters the myths and fears new fathers really feel. Using the power and wisdom of hindsight, Chris Mancini humorously and candidly shares his own personal journey of becoming a new father and covers the entire process&...
 |  | Encouraging Verse for Friends (Helen Steiner Rice Collection)
Publication Date: July 1, 2009| Series: Helen Steiner Rice Collection Find the inspiration you need in this collection of poems from celebrated American poet, Helen Steiner Rice. Her simple and elegant verse will connect you to the heart of the Father in a powerful way. This beautiful, full-color design and go-anywhere format makes the perfect gift! ...
|  | Covenant
Publication Date: March 27, 2012Do you believe in angels? Do you believe there is good & evil in this world? The primary character of Covenant, Sam McBride, hadn't given it much thought until he woke up one morning on a beach & had an encounter with a Savior. A recovering alcoholic & new follower of Jesus Christ, Sam begins a new life that is not without hardships and conflicts, angels and demons. Daniel Martin brings God's powerful, extravagant love into the life of a 21st century town that could be your town. Real, imperfect people make choices and put their faith in themselves or God - an...
|  | Vanishing
Publication Date: September 1, 2003Petrol gauge broken, anxiety and tempers flaring, young lovers Rex and Saskia pull in at a service station on their way to a holiday the South of France to refuel. As soon as they stop the tension is relieved. Rex buries two coins in a crack at the base of fence post as a secret sign of their love: Saskia goes off to buy a couple of cold drinks and vanishes. Eight years later Rex is still haunted by her. Then one day he sees scrawled in the grime on the roof of a yellow car parked below his window two lines: REX YOU ARE SO SWEET SANDRA and WHEN I WRITE THIS...
|  | Wretched: (This Is My Sorry)
Publication Date: May 1, 2008"Her use of the narrative voice and first-person descriptions make readers feel as though they're reading her personal journal." - The Journal Inquirer"I am sure Katherine Marple will be a name to look out for in the literary world for years to come." - Maria Savva (author of "A Time to Tell")"Wretched was thought-provoking, emotional, engaging..." - Well Read Reviews"Wretched (This is My Sorry) by Katherine Marple is one of the most beautiful stories I've ever read. I cannot recall the last time I felt for a character in a book as I did in this one. " - Kevis He...
|  | Friedrichsburg: Colony of the German Furstenverein (Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture)
Publication Date: May 1, 2012Founded in 1846, Fredericksburg, Texas, was established by German noblemen who enticed thousands of their compatriots to flee their overcrowded homeland with the prospect of free land in a place that was portrayed as a new Garden of Eden. Few of the settlers, however, were prepared for the harsh realities of the Texas frontier or for confrontation with the Comanche Indians. In his 1867 novel Friedrichsburg, Friedrich Armand Strubberg, a.k.a. Dr. Schubbert, interwove his personal story with a fictional romance to capture the flavor of Fredericksburg, Texas, during...
|  | The Stornoway Way
Release Date: April 25, 2007Meet R Stornoway, drink-addled misfit, inhabitant of the Hebridean Isle of Lewis, and meandering man fighting to break free of an island he just can’t seem to let go of… ...
|  | ARISTOPHANES Wasps (Clarendon Paperbacks)
Publication Date: December 1, 1988Wasps was first performed at the festival of the Lenaia early in 422 B.C.It is arguably one of Aristophanes' most entertaining and characteristic works, and the lack of serious difficulties in the text makes it accessible to the less advanced student of Greek.This edition, first published in 1971, is intended for students and scholars, stressing the comic and dramatic qualities of the play while treating the text more as a performance script than as a work of literature.In addition to the revised Greek text, MacDowell includes a lively introduction, full app...
|  | Icons of Justice: Iconography & Thematic Imagery in Book Five of the Faerie Queen
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|  | One Hundred Frogs: From Renga to Haiku to English
Release Date: May 2, 1995No other Asian poetic form has so intrigued and beguiled the English-speaking world as the Japanese haiku. Even before World War I such imagist poets as Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, and John Gould Fletcher were experimenting with the form. At that time, Pound well described the haiku as "an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time." Indeed, it is the haiku's sense of immediacy and its precision that continue to appeal to poets and poetry lovers today. In recent decades there has been an upsurge of interest in the haiku, leading to a number of c...
|  | Legitimizing the Artist: Manifesto Writing and European Modernism 1885-1915 (Toronto Italian Studies)
Publication Date: December 27, 2003| Series: Toronto Italian Studies In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the production of literary and cultural manifestoes enjoyed a veritable boom and accompanied the rise of many avant-garde movements. Legitimizing the Artist considers this phenomenon as a response to a more general crisis of legitimation that artists had been struggling with for decades. The crucial question for artists, confronted by the conservative values of the dominant bourgeoisie and the economic logic of triumphant capitalism, was how to justify their work in term...
|  | Meditations from a Movable Chair
Release Date: April 6, 1999The twenty-five luminous and intensely personal essays in this collection are, like Andre Dubus's celebrated short stories, a testament to the author's vulnerability, vision, and indestructible faith. Since losing one leg and the use of the other in a 1986 accident, Dubus has experienced despair, learned acceptance, and, finally, found joy in the sacramental magic of even the most quotidian tasks.Whether he is writing of the relationship with his father, the rape of his beloved sister, his Catholic faith, the suicide of a gay naval officer, his admiration for fello...
|  | Deeper Than Midnight (The Midnight Breed, Book 9)
Release Date: June 28, 2011Book 9 in the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling Midnight Breed vampire romance seriesDELIVERED FROM THE DARKNESS, A WOMAN FINDS HERSELF PLUNGED INTO A PASSION THAT IS DEEPER THAN MIDNIGHT. At eighteen, Corinne Bishop was a beautiful, spirited young woman living a life of privilege as the adopted daughter of a wealthy family. Her world changed in an instant when she was stolen away and held prisoner by the malevolent vampire Dragos. After many years of captivity and torment, Corinne is rescued by the Order, a cadre of vampire warriors embroiled ...
|  | Operation: L.O.V.E. - Commercial Cover
Publication Date: March 23, 2009NAVY, COAST GUARD, AIR FORCE, ARMY, & MARINESFive sweet romantic stories delving into the world of Special Operations from authors whose family and friends are part of the military community. The memorable twists in FUNNY BONE, B&B BIVOUAC and ANGEL FROM ABOVE will tug at your heartstrings, while the action and adventure of MISSION: DEVIL DOG and SO OTHERS MIGHT LIVE will get your heart pumping. OPERATION:L.O.V.E. - Locate, Observe, Vector, and Encounter - may it share optimal methods for securing the sweetheart of your dreams. ...
|  | An Incomplete Revenge (Maisie Dobbs Book 5)
Release Date: November 25, 2008A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWith the country in the grip of economic malaise, Maisie Dobbs is relieved to accept an apparently straightforward assignment to investigate a potential land purchase. Her inquiries take her to a picturesque village in Kent during the hop-picking season, but beneath its pastoral surface she finds evidence that something is amiss. Mysterious fires erupt in the village with alarming regularity, and a series of petty crimes suggest a darker criminal element at work. A peculiar secrecy shrouds the village, and ultimately Maisie must draw ...
|  | Play to the End
Release Date: April 25, 2006Once Toby Flood played a Bond-like hero in a Hollywood film. Now he’s serving a sentence in a crippled traveling production of a newly unearthed Joe Orton play—a play that might have saved Toby’s career if only someone enjoyed watching it. Painfully, the show’s swan song is coming in Brighton, where Toby’s wife happens to be living happily with another man in anticipation of a divorce decree. Then, almost as if he were scripted, a stranger enters the scene....A stalker is frightening Toby’s wife, Jenny, who believes the man is p...
|  | It's All Greek to Me (The Time Warp Trio)
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|  | Arabian Nights
Publication Date: September 1989Features "The Bird Who Speaks", "Scheherazade", "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves", and "The Fisherman and the Genie". ...
|  | The Year of the Pig: Tales from the Chinese Zodiac
Publication Date: January 1, 2007| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | The Fox and the Hen
Publication Date: March 2, 2010| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up Oh, no! Henrietta Hen laid her very first egg today—but sly Red Fox has tricked her into giving it to him! And now he plans to gobble it all up.But Henrietta doesn’t want her precious egg boiled, poached, scrambled, or fried. Whatever will she do? Together, Henrietta and her friends on the farm hatch a cunning plan to fool Red Fox--and save her egg from becoming an omelet. A wittily told tale, beautifully enhanced by Eric Battut’s charming and earthy illustrations. ...
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