 | The Armageddon Letters: Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro in the Cuban Missile Crisis
Publication Date: September 14, 2012| ISBN-10: 1442216794 | ISBN-13: 978-1442216792In October, 1962, the Cuban missile crisis brought human civilization to the brink of destruction. On the 50th anniversary of the most dangerous confrontation of the nuclear era, two of the leading experts on the crisis recreate the drama of those tumultuous days as experienced by the leaders of the three countries directly involved: U.S. President John F. Kennedy, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, and Cuban President Fidel Castro. Organized around the letters exchanged among the leaders as the crisis deve...
 |  | Om-Kas-Toe: Blackfeet Twin Captures an Elkdog : Autographed (Amazing Indian Children)
Publication Date: April 2000| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Sweeping Up Glass
Release Date: August 4, 2009Destined to be a classic, Sweeping Up Glass is a tough and tender novel of love, race, and justice, and a ferocious, unflinching look at the power of family.Olivia Harker Cross owns a strip of mountain in Pope County, Kentucky, a land where whites and blacks eke out a living in separate, tattered kingdoms and where silver-faced wolves howl in the night. But someone is killing the wolves of Big Foley Mountain–and Olivia is beginning to realize how much of her own bitter history she’s never understood: Her mother’s madness, building toward a fiery ...
|  | The Pillars of the Earth
Release Date: December 18, 2007 Ken Follett is known worldwide as the master of split-second suspense, but his most beloved and bestselling book tells the magnificent tale of a twelfth-century monk driven to do the seemingly impossible: build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has ever known. Everything readers expect from Follett is here: intrigue, fast-paced action, and passionate romance. But what makes The Pillars of the Earth extraordinary is the time—the twelfth century; the place—feudal England; and the subject—the building of a glorious cathedral. Follett has...
|  | Picturing Religious Experience: George Herbert, Calvin, and the Scriptures
Publication Date: November 10, 2011Little has been said about the relationship of Herbert’s writings to those of John Calvin, yet the latter were abundant and influential in Herbert’s Church of England. Accordingly Picturing Religious Experience studies Herbert’s poetry in relation to those writings, particularly regarding “spiritual conflicts,” which the poet himself said would be found depicted in his book of poems. Much more than is generally realized, Calvin wrote about the experience of living the Christian life – also Herbert’s subject in many ...
|  | The Contemplative Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
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|  | In Praise of Churches
Publication Date: March 1, 1998John Betjeman's delightful evocation in verse and prose, of the church and church life, is gracefully rendered in 80 watercolor paintings. No one has captured as completely that intimate world, with its clergy, congregation, architecture, and ritual, than the late poet laureate. ...
|  | Secrets of Doctor Taverner, The
Publication Date: July 1, 2011Death hounds, shape shifters, and vampires are among the patients treated by the Holmes-like Dr. Taverner and his assistant Dr. Rhodes in this work of supernatural fiction by acclaimed spiritualist and occult writer Dion Fortune.First published in 1926, the adventures of Dr.Taverner and Dr. Rhodes take readers across the marshy moonlit fields of nightfall, hunting spirits and keeping watch over souls. Suffering from vampirism? Being stalked by a death hound? Haunted by past life debts? Family under a suicidal curse? From across the countryside patients and their...
|  | The Second Death of Goodluck Tinubu: A Detective Kubu Mystery
Publication Date: August 17, 2009| Series: Detective Kubu Two vicious murders, only hours apart.Normally a peaceful wilderness retreat, the Jackalberry bush camp has suddenly become a ghastly crime scene-and the details are still emerging when Detective David "Kubu" Bengu is assigned to the case. Zimbabwean teacher Goodluck Tinubu and another tourist have been found bludgeoned to death, while another guest at the camp-rumored to be a dissident wanted in Zimbabwe-has disappeared without a trace. With the local police unable-or unwilling-to provide much assistance, Detective Kubu relies on his...
|  | Coyote Wisdom: The Power of Story in Healing
Release Date: March 1, 2005An in-depth look at the therapeutic and transformative powers of storytelling in Native American and other cultures• Explores how to create a healing state of mind using stories• Includes healing stories from Native American traditions and other cultures from around the world• By the author of the bestselling Coyote MedicineStories are powerful sources of meaning that shape and transform our lives. We tell stories to track our process of personal and spiritual growth and to honor and respect the journeys we have made. Through stories we are provid...
|  | The Poetry of Rumi Illustrated Journal J1-RUM
Publication Date: January 1, 2008Nothing but the highest quality components go into the creation of these extraordinary Journals. With full-color illustrations and inspirational words throughout, these Journals will hold all of life's memories. Translations by renowned Rumi scholar Coleman Barks.Cover quote reads, Every object, every being, is a jar full of delight. Be a connoisseur. 126 unlined pages with full-color illustrations, quotes and inspirational words. High-quality, opaque paper. Hardcover lay-flat case binding. Ribbon marker. Measures 7 x 8.5 inches. ...
|  | La muchacha ebria y otros poemas. En la voz de David Huerta (Entre Voces) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: December 31, 2002| Series: Entre Voces Ademas del poema que lleva el nombre del disco compacto, aqui David Huerta da voz a Los ruidos del alba, Los hombres del alba, Praga, mi novia y Responso por un poeta descuartizado, entre otros mas. Poemas donde la soledad, la vida y la muerte, son temas alimentados por el talento de este poeta guanajuatense, y donde se escucha la rebeldia contra cualquier tipo de injusticia. ...
|  | sustreča z BANAPARTAM (Byelorussian Edition)
Publication Date: May 3, 2012"Date with Bonaparte" from Yurai Kasich is a reissue for the 200 Anniversary of the War of 1812 between France and Russia.Eternalobsessed with the theme "War and Peace" at the crossroads of Belarus. The lyrics, translations, history of ancient Lithuania. ...
|  | Driven Back to the Text : The Premodern Sources of Levina's Postmodernism
Publication Date: June 2001| ISBN-10: 0820703257 | ISBN-13: 978-0820703251The first extended study to discuss Levinas both as a Jew and a Philosopher. ...
|  | The Modernism Handbook (Literature & Culture Handbooks)
Publication Date: August 4, 2009| ISBN-10: 0826488439 | ISBN-13: 978-0826488435| Edition: 1 Literature and Culture Handbooks are an innovative series of guides to major periods, topics and authors in British and American literature and culture. Designed to provide a comprehensive, one-stop resource for literature students, each handbook provides the essential information and guidance needed from the beginning of a course through to developing more advanced knowledge and skills. Written in clear language by leading academics, they provide an indispensable introduction to key topics, inclu...
|  | Mapping the Edge: A Novel
Release Date: February 12, 2002Anna, a self-sufficient and reliable single mother, packs her bags one day for a short vacation to Italy. She leaves her beloved daughter at home in London with good friends. When Anna doesn’t return, everyone begins to make excuses, until the likelihood that she might not come back at all becomes chillingly clear. In this dazzling work of suspense, Sarah Dunant interweaves parallel narratives that are stretched taut with tension even as they raise difficult questions about love, trust, and accountability. We are challenged, unnerved, and ultimately exhil...
|  | The Alcoholics
Release Date: January 4, 1993Dr. Peter S. Murphy runs a clinic to cure alcoholics. But his charges believe that the only thing that will fix them is another drink. To this bitter struggle of wills, add an orderly who doubles as a quack practitioner, a nurse who is both alluring and ingeniously sadistic, and a misplaced patient whose main problem is his lack of a frontal lobe, and the result is one of Jim Thompson's most harrowingly funny yet deeply sympathetic novels. ...
|  | Never Buried: A Leigh Koslow Mystery (Volume 1)
Release Date: April 1, 1999A young advertising executive finds her life in turmoil--she just lost her job, she may or may not have a boyfriend, and she's trying to help her cousin through a pregnancy. If that weren't enough, she wakes up to find a strange man lying in her backyard hammock. The fact that he is dead, and apparently has been embalmed for years, doesn't exactly help. With lots of time on her hands and a knack for nosing around, the young woman finds herself in the middle of a classic murder mystery. But can she solve the riddle before the killer puts her six feet under?. ...
|  | Steel City Confessions
Publication Date: March 1999Carroll Dorsey's client is parish priest Tom Crimmins, who denies gunning down the husband of the lovely, lascivious lady with whom he'd been having a decidedly non-celibate relationship. But his motives are powerful, his alibi's puny, and a vindictive ex-nun insists she can prove he is the murderer. What's more, Dorsey himself has become the target of a virulent vendetta: D.A. Douglas Turner plans to use his enormous power to see that Dorsey loses his clients, and his license...and it might even cost him his life. ...
|  | The Boscombe Valley Mystery From the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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