 | Her Own Rules
Publication Date: May 1996Forced to see a psychiatrist, Meredith Stratton traces her past,discovering that she had been placed in an orphanage when she was fouryears old, and follows her roots to England to find her mother, meetinga man who holds the key to her past--and her future. 300,000 firstprinting. $500,000 ad/promo. Tour. ...
 |  | The Bishop's Daughter (Daughters of Lancaster County, No. 3)
Publication Date: July 1, 2006Leona is Bishop Jacob Weaver's daughter and a dedicated teacher in a one-room Amish schoolhouse. After her father's tragic accident, Leona's faith wavers. How could God allow something like this to happen to one of His servants? Outlander Jimmy Scott comes to Pennsylvania in search of his real family. When he is hired to paint an Amish schoolhouse, Jimmy and Leona find themselves irresistibly drawn to each other. Can anything good come from the love between an Amish woman and an English man? What secrets will be revealed and what miracles await God's people in L...
|  | From Whence They Came: Prostitution to Papacy - A Christian Goddess Tale
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|  | Great Classic Ghost Stories: Unabridged Tales
Publication Date: November 1, 2011This collection of short ghost stories includes some of the best-known classics in the genre, as well as some that may be new to ghost story fans. This title includes: "The Damned Thing" by Ambrose Bierce, "The Empty House" by Algernon Blackwood, "The Consequences" by Willa Cather, "How It Happened" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "A Ghost" by Guy De Maupassant, "The Shell of Sense" by Olivia Howard Dunbar, "Ligeia" by Edgar Allen Poe, "The Signal-Man" by Charles Dickens, "The Secret of the Growing Gold" by Bram Stoker, "The Fullness of Life" by Edith Wharton, an...
|  | Horrors!: 365 Scary Stories
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|  | The Other Canyon
Publication Date: February 2002Carla is a "sensitive"—a woman vulnerable to the vibrations and energies of metal that most people can’t feel. She has settled into a comfortable Southern California nest to minimize her vulnerability and to prepare for her upcoming marriage to the über-normal Michael. When she comes into possession of a silver necklace that was probably stolen from the Navajo reservation, Carla cannot ignore the signs that compel her to leave her comfortable nest. With her ever-indulgent best friend Lucy, Carla embarks on a journey to Canyon de Chelly to return ...
|  | Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas, and Power
Publication Date: February 7, 1990| ISBN-10: 0520069544 | ISBN-13: 978-0520069541| Edition: First Edition The history of medieval Europe is incomplete if it does not take Iceland into account. Jesse Byock's reassessment of medieval Iceland uses all the available sources--the medieval Icelanders' historical writings, extensive saga literature, and intricate laws--to explore the way Iceland's social order functioned. ...
|  | The Primacy of Vision in Virgil's Aeneid
Publication Date: January 2, 2006One of the masterpieces of Latin and, indeed, world literature, "Virgil's Aeneid" was written during the Augustan 'renaissance' of architecture, art, and literature that redefined the Roman world in the early years of the empire. This period was marked by a transition from the use of rhetoric as a means of public persuasion to the use of images to display imperial power. Taking a fresh approach to Virgil's epic poem, Riggs Alden Smith argues that the Aeneid fundamentally participates in the Augustan shift from rhetoric to imagery because it gives primacy to v...
|  | Performance in the Texts of Mallarme: The Passage from Art to Ritual
Publication Date: March 1, 1993Performance in the Texts of Mallarmé offers a new theory of performance in the poetic and critical texts of Stephane Mallarmé, a theory challenging the prevailing interpretation of his work as epitomizing literary purism and art for art's sake.Following an analytical presentation of the concepts of ritual and performance generally applied, Mary Shaw shows that Mallarmé perceived music, dance, and theater as ideal languages of the body and therefore as ideal forms of ritual through which to supplement and celebrate poetic texts. She focuses on pre...
|  | Prose and Poetry (The German library)
Publication Date: December 31, 1984| Series: The German library Includes The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, selections from The Book of Hours (Books 1, 2, and 3), New Poems, Duino Elegies, and The Sonnets to Orpheus. ...
|  | Das Nibelungenlied (German Edition)
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|  | Romanticism and Gender
Publication Date: October 22, 1992| ISBN-10: 0415906644 | ISBN-13: 978-0415906647Current descriptions of literary Romanticism are almost entirely grounded on the writings of six male poets. Yet between the years 1780 and 1830, women writers produced at least half of the literature published in England. Taking twenty women writers of the Romantic period, Romanticism and Gender explores an alternative literary tradition. Anne Mellor analyzes the ideological investments and generic choices within the writing of a wide range of women. Here she identifies a distinct ideology which stands in c...
|  | Dos Veces Junio / Two Times June (Contemporanea / Contemporary) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | An Irresistible Bachelor
Release Date: July 5, 2011Art conservator Callie Burke's new assignment is restoring a masterpiece owned by ruthless, wealthy, and sexy politico Jack Walker. When she's persuaded to move into Jack's sprawling estate to finish the job, a mere business proposition turns into something far more complicated-and passionate. ...
|  | Baynard's List
Publication Date: June 19, 2011October 1262 should have been a quiet month, that melancholy time following the death of summer dedicated to the chores of readying Ludlow for the onset of winter and the hard months ahead. But the game of spies is afoot. A valuable list identifying the secret supporters of both King Henry and his rival for power Simon de Montfort has disappeared following the murder of Henry’s master spy in the west of England. Whoever possesses that list obtains a significant advantage in the open war that is soon to break out between them.Stephen Attebrook, the part-t...
|  | Pendulum to the Past
Publication Date: March 1, 2011Chris, a young man, stands next to an elderly grounds keeper, in an old Virgina cemetery. He is telling a remarkable story of the connection of two graves that lay before them. Chris' father, Ben, a retired deputy sheriff, was seriously wounded while employed as a security guard for a very high end research institute. Due to his serious, dimensioning condition, he is used in an experiment that produces strange, unexpected results which subsequently changes the lives of those around him. No one could know the journey Ben would take until almost a year later when...
|  | Extensions (Nunatak First Fiction)
Publication Date: October 1, 2010| Series: Nunatak First Fiction (Book 30) When she makes the chance discovery of a framed sepia photograph of her grandmother and her twin sister, RCMP Constable Arabella Dryvynsydes decides to investigate how a picture taken in 1914 in the mining town of Extension, B.C. wound up at a garage sale in small-town Saskatchewan almost one hundred years later. As Arabella sifts through caches of long-forgotten letters and unearths long-buried memories, she pieces together the heartbreaking truth of her family history and resolves a nearly century-old murder. In her...
|  | Tales from a Not-So-Talented Pop Star (Dork Diaries #3)
Release Date: June 7, 2011| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | The Haunted Bike (Eek! Stories to Make You Shriek)
Release Date: May 7, 1996| Age Level: 5 and up...
|  | The Best Princess Stories in the World (Best Stories)
Release Date: August 1, 2008| Age Level: 3 and up...
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