 | New Year: a novel
Publication Date: January 1, 2010This is a novel of hope, reconciliation and new beginnings. It is the story of an American father and his Amerasian born son living in Korea. Living at oppsite ends of It is not without some soul-searching and a great deal of understanding on the part of his American wife that they get together as a family. The father is an aspiring politician in Philadelphia. Put in shock and a moral dilemma by the sudden knowledge of his son conceived while a soldier stationed in Korea, the father weighs his political future against his responsibilities to himself and his w...
 |  | Beautiful as Yesterday: A Novel
Publication Date: July 7, 2009Mary and Ingrid are sisters who were born and brought up in China but now reside in the United States. Mary is the older of the two; seemingly a devoted wife, mother, and churchgoer. Yet she is tormented by adultery, a grudge toward her parents, and her despair at work. Her estranged sister Ingrid has never settled for anything; she prefers her bohemian friends’ culture to her own, and is haunted by her college boyfriend’s tragic death. When their widowed mother travels to the United States for the first time, they can’t avoid a family get-toge...
|  | With Love, Libby (Coming Home to Brewster)
Publication Date: January 1, 2006| Series: Coming Home to Brewster The concluding book in the popular Coming Home to Brewster series follows the faith journey of Libby Marsden, who faces the question, "What happens when a dreamcomes true?" After she accomplishes her goal of writing a book Libby must figureout if her desire to write has clouded her understanding of purpose.Vicki Johnson has big dreams for her daughter, Angie, who isabout to graduate from high school. Only after Angie is in college will Vickiexplore her personal passions and plans. But when Angie reveals ambitions ofher own, V...
|  | Ride With the Devil
Publication Date: November 1, 1999 Daniel Woodrell's shattering coming-of-age novel brilliantly captures the lawless universe of war as seen through the eyes of a young secessionist.The 1860s: While the great battles of the Civil War rage in the East, Jayhawkers and bushwhackers wage their own vicious heartland war, savaging all in their wake without conscience or pity. Where the First Kansas Irregulars ride, no one is safe.At sixteen, Jake Roedel joins this piratical band, and partakes in brutality excused in the name of retribution. But as friends fall and families flee, he questions h...
|  | McSweeney's Issue 29 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)
Publication Date: December 23, 2008 ...
|  | Starting From Here
Release Date: September 4, 2012Sixteen-year-old Colby Bingham’s heart has been broken too many times. Her mother has been dead for almost two years, her truck driver father is always away, her almost girlfriend just dumped her for a guy, and now she’s failing chemistry. When a stray dog lands literally at her feet, bleeding and broken on a busy road, it seems like the Universe has it in for Colby. But the incident also knocks a chink in the walls she’s built around her heart. Against her better judgment, she decides to care for the dog. But new connections mean new oppor...
|  | Angels in the Gloom: A Novel (World War I)
Release Date: October 31, 2006| Series: World War I With this latest entry in a bestselling series that evokes all the passion and heroism of history’s most heartbreaking conflict–the war that was meant to end all wars–Anne Perry adds new luster to her worldwide reputation.Angels in the Gloom is an intense saga of love, hate, obsession, and murder that features an honorable English family–brothers Joseph and Matthew Reavley and their sisters, Judith and Hannah.In March 1916, Joseph, a chaplain at the front, and Judith, an ambulance driver, are fighting not only the Ge...
|  | Ibsen Plays: Five
Publication Date: September 1, 2000| Series: World Classics "Meyer's translations of Ibsen are a major fact in one's general sense of post-war drama. Their vital pace, their unforced insistence on the poetic centre of Ibsen's genius, have beaten academic versions from the field" (George Steiner)The two epic plays in this volume stand, together with Peer Gynt and The Pretenders, at the fulcrum of Ibsen's career. Brand (1865) stated sharply and vividly the necessity of following one's private conscience and 'being oneself'. It created an immediate sensation and was hailed by Strindberg as 'the...
|  | 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
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|  | Stagecraft of Aeschylus: The Dramatic Use of Exits and Entrances in Greek Tragedy
Publication Date: January 12, 1978| ISBN-10: 0198140061 | ISBN-13: 978-0198140061In this book, Taplin looks for clues to Aeschylus's stagecraft in the texts of the plays themselves, analyzing the exits and entrances that occur throughout his works. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | The song lore of Ireland;: Erin's story in music and verse,
Publication Date: 1911This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuab...
| | Shi pin bian du (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | The Innocent (Volume 1)
Publication Date: August 25, 2012A disastrous first marriage leaves a bitter taste in Flynn Hawthorne’s mouth.After his promiscuous wife walks out in front of a carriage and is killed, he vows to never entangle himself with another woman. Preparing for her first Season should be a time of happy excitement, but not for Carolyn Wentworth.The frozen fear on her mother’s face and secret undercurrents which force her to lock her door each night have Carolyn convinced that she wants no part of marriage. When Flynn chances upon Carolyn at a quiet country stream an impetuous kiss ends ...
|  | Nell's Cowboy & Lone Star Baby (Heart Of Texas Vol. 3)
Publication Date: February 1, 2008Nell's cowboy:Nell Bishop, widowed mother of two children, is turning her property into a dude ranch. And one of her first guests is Travis Grant, an Easterner known for his books about the West. Her kids are crazy about him—and she could fall for him herself. But it's too soon for her.…Lone star baby:Wade McMillen might be a minister, but he's also a man. An unmarried and very attractive one. So is it as a man that he responds to Amy Thornton when she shows up in Promise, pregnant and alone? Or as a man of God? Maybe it's both.… ...
|  | Blue Belle
Release Date: July 4, 1995 Burke is one of the most cold-blooded yet strangely honorable heroes in the history of crime fiction, an outlaw who makes his living by preying on the most vicious of New York City’s bottom-feeders, those who thrive on the suffering of children. In Andrew Vachss’s tautly engrossing novel Burke is given a purse full of dirty money to find the infamous Ghost Van that is cutting a lethal swath among the teenage prostitute...
|  | Angel of Death (Sean Dillon Series)
Publication Date: April 15, 2010| Series: Sean Dillon Series (Book 4) Jack Higgins presents this explosive story of international terrorism ripped from today's headlines... They call themselves "January 30," after the date of a British massacre in Belfast. They are allied with no one, killing American diplomats and KGB agents, Arabs and Israelis, IRA gunmen and Loyalist soldiers. But they are definitely the enemies of peace - and they are plotting an assassination that will shatter the uneasy truce that reigns in Ireland.Former IRA enforcer Sean Dillon must hunt down January 30 before they k...
|  | Disney's 5 Minute Princess Stories (Disney's Princess Backlist)
Release Date: September 2, 2001| Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Magic Spell (My Secret Unicorn)
Publication Date: May 1, 2007| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | School for Princes: Stories from the Panchatantra
Publication Date: April 24, 2012| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up How can a king knock some sense into his silly sons so that they grow up sensible young men? A wise man tells the king that he can do the job in six weeks. Every time one of the boys says or does something rash, the sage will put him back on the straight and narrow by telling him a cautionary tale - the story of a proud hare, or perhaps an owl, or a crow… This collection of fables, known as the Panchatantra and familiar all over Asia, were first told, then written down in Sanskrit over 2,000 years ago. Jamila ...
| | Mountain Biking (All Action)
Publication Date: March 1992 ...
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