 | Stay a Little Longer
Publication Date: April 30, 2010Rachel Watkins has her hands full.Her mother had been the town midwife, but when her daughter Alice died under her care, she refused to assist in a childbirth ever again.Since thenRachel has assumed the work. She also takes care of Alice's six-year old, Charlotte, because the child's father was lost in World War I. But Rachel's principal job is running the boardinghouse that is the family's main source of income. One day, Charlotte befriends a stranger ill with influenza, a man who has taken refuge in an old cabin in the woods nearby. Although badly scarred by...
 |  | Only by Your Touch
Publication Date: October 2003USA Today bestselling author Catherine Anderson takes readers to a quaint wilderness town, where together, a man and a woman find a second chance at life-and love...Determined to give her son Jeremy the childhood he deserves, Chloe Evans has left a tough past behind to start over in the charming town of Jack Pine, Oregon. But protecting Jeremy becomes a dicey proposition when he seeks out the most dangerous man in town, Ben Longtree, to heal his sick puppy. Chloe has been warned to stay away from Ben. But there's something about him that intrigues her... --Thi...
|  | Marriage of Inconvenience (Love Inspired Historical)
Publication Date: October 2, 2012| Series: Love Inspired Historical Proposing to the Earl of Aynsley seems a sensible—if unconventional—solution to Miss Rebecca Peabody's predicament. As a married woman, she will be free to keep writing her essays on civil reform. Meanwhile, the distinguished widower will gain a stepmother for his seven children and a caretaker for his vast estate.But the earl wants more than a convenient bride. He craves a true partner, a woman he can cherish. To his surprise, the bookish Miss Peabody appears to have every quality he desires…except the wi...
|  | Ghost Music
Publication Date: October 1, 1997Alice McVeigh's second novel set in the world of a symphony orchestra is the story of how two orchestras compete for one source of funding, and how the arrival of a young cellist with a haunted past is used to tip the balance. ...
|  | Enter the Valley: UFOs, Religious Miracles, Cattle Mutilations, and Other Unexplained Phenomena in the San Luis Valley
Publication Date: February 15, 1999Renowned UFOologist Chris O'Brien blew the lid off the San Luis Valley-now he takes you even deeper into the world's most mysterious locale.The picturesque patch of land that stretches from Southern Colorado into Northern New Mexico, known as the San Luis Valley, has been home to some of the most astounding occurrences in North American history. More strange sightings have been reported within the SLV's radius that in any other part of the country. Shrouded in mystery, a brave few have dared to explore the vast territory-Chris O'Brien is one of those people...
|  | Speak Texan in 30 Minutes or Less
Publication Date: June 20, 2009In a parody of Berlitz phrasebooks, veteran Lone Star journalist Lou Hudson has spilled the beans on how best to wrap one’s tongue around Texaspeak so that even recovering Yankees can make their way in this whole other country. <P>Finally there's hope for that brother-in-law from Hoboken and your banker from Duluth. Folks like them will be able to make themselves understood to Texans without having to revert to notepads and hand gestures. <P>Speak Texan not only is a pronunciation guide but also a handy work that provides numerous insights ...
|  | Gallows Thief: A Novel
Release Date: May 10, 2005The year is 1820. Rider Sandman, a hero of Waterloo, returns to London to wed his fiancÉe. But instead of settling down to fame and glory, he finds himself penniless in a country where high unemployment and social unrest rage, and where men—innocent or guilty—are hanged for the merest of crimes. When he's offered a job as private investigator to re-open the case of a painter due to be hanged for a murder he didn't commit, Sandman readily accepts—as much for the money as for a chance to see justice done in a country gone to ruins. Soon, however, h...
|  | The Book of Strangers
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|  | Remind Me Again Why I Need A Man
Release Date: May 1, 2007 Amelia Lockwood doesn't mean to sound greedy. She's got a fabulous career in television, a posh apartment, and four fiercely loyal and wickedly funny friends. The only thing she's missing is a husband. So she swallows her pride, signs up for dating boot camp, and enlists the help of a professional—an acidic New Yorker with a black belt in "tongue fu"—who'll help Amelia apply proven business-marketing principles to finding her dream man. Amelia's first assignment is to track down all the lovers she's ever lost—from the guy who dumped her during L...
|  | Collected Poems, 1908-1956
Publication Date: January 1, 1986Sassoon's fame as a novelist and autobiographer, and the success of his posthumously published Diaries, have somewhat obscured his achievement as a poet. Apart from the famous War Poems of 1919, which firmly established his reputation, he published eight volumes of verse during his lifetime. This collected edition represents his own choice of the poems he wished to preserve. It was first published in 1947 and subsequently enlarged to include the late poems in Sequences. ...
|  | The Woman's Tale: A Journal of Inner Exploration
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|  | Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ovid and the Ovidian Tradition (Approaches to Teaching World Literature)
Publication Date: September 1, 2010| ISBN-10: 160329063X | ISBN-13: 978-1603290630| Edition: 1 Ovid and his influence are studied in classrooms as various as his poetry, and this Approaches volume aims to help instructors in those diverse teaching environments. Part 1, "Materials," is fittingly collaborative and features brief overviews designed to give nonspecialists background on the more challenging aspects of teaching Ovid. Contributors examine his life and legacy, religion, and relation to the visual arts as well as his afterlife in the Latin classroom, in various translations, and ...
|  | Cuatro Poetas En Guerra (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Spinsters Abroad: Victorian Lady Explorers
Publication Date: June 1989What spurred so many Victorian women to leave behind their secure middle-class homes and undertake perilous journeys of thousands of miles, tramping through tropical forests, caravanning across deserts, and scaling mountain ranges? And how were they able to travel so freely in exotic lands, when at home such independence was denied to them? This book draws upon the diaries and writings of more than 50 such women to describe their experiences and aspirations. Many of the journeys they made are re-constructed - Mary Gaunt's voyage along the West African coast, Mary K...
|  | Modernism, Narrative and Humanism
Publication Date: November 24, 2008| ISBN-10: 0521099129 | ISBN-13: 978-0521099127| Edition: 1 Paul Sheehan attempts to redefine Modernist narrative for the twenty-first century. According to Sheehan, Modernism presents a major form of critique of the fundamental presumptions of humanism. By pairing key Modernist writers with philosophical critics of the humanist tradition, he shows how Modernists sought to discover humanism's inhuman potential. He reveals the crucial link between the Modernist novel's narrative concerns and its philosophical orientation in a book that will be of interes...
|  | The Agon of Modernism: Wyndham Lewis's Allegories, Aesthetics, and Politics
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|  | Two for the Dough (Stephanie Plum, No. 2) (Stephanie Plum Novels)
Release Date: May 29, 2007| Series: Stephanie Plum Novels Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is still learning the ropes at her cousin Vinnie's bail bond office, so when she sets out on the trail of Kenny Mancuso--a suspiciously wealthy, working class Trenton boy who has just shot his best friend--the stakes are higher than ever. That Mancuso is distantly related to vice cop Joe Morelli--who is trying to beat Stephanie to the punch--only makes the hunt more thrilling…. Taking pointers from her bounty hunter pal, Ranger, and using her pistol-packing Granda Mazur as a decoy, Stephanie is...
|  | Young Cam Jansen and the Baseball Mystery
Release Date: May 1, 1999| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Hang Gliding (Action Sports)
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|  | The Story of Figure Skating: A Treasure for Figure Skating Fans to Cherish
Release Date: October 19, 1998| Age Level: 10 and up From its beginnings in Europe to the contemporary skating scene and the stars of the 1998 Winter Olympics, this book tells the story of figure skating, with its memorable moments, its fashions and its jumps and spins.' ...
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