 | Secret Love (Arabesque)
Publication Date: February 1, 2009| Series: Arabesque Celebrity actress Diamond Swain needs a peaceful place to hide out from the news-hungry paparazzi—a place like Whispering Pines. And yet from the moment she arrives at the remote Texas ranch, Diamond finds herself at odds with its rugged owner, Jake Madaris—a man who challenges her to care about more than making it to the top.Jake doesn't have time to babysit some Hollywood star. Then he comes face-to-face with beautiful, compassionate Diamond and is drawn into a whirlwind, secret romance. But is what he shares with her strong e...
 |  | Secret Life of Bees
Publication Date: March 3, 2003Lily has grown up believing she accidentally killed her mother when she was four. She not only has her own memory of holding the gun, but her father's account of the event. Now fourteen, she yeams for her mother, and for forgiveness. Living on a peach farm in South Carolina with her father, she has only one friend: Rosaleen, a black servant whose sharp exterior hides a tender heart. South Carolina in the sixties is a place where segregation is still considered a cause worth fighting for. When racial tension explodes one summer afternoon, and Rosaleen is arreste...
|  | Corrigan (New York Review Books Classics)
Release Date: June 30, 2002| Series: New York Review Books Classics Corrigan is at once a mordant comedy of manners and a very modern morality play. Since her husband's death, the increasingly frail Mrs. Blunt has had only her trips to his grave to look forward to. Her raucous housekeeper's conversation, and cooking, are best forgotten. Nadine, her daughter, is an infrequent, uneasy visitor. Then one day a charming, wheelchair-bound Irishman shows up at Mrs. Blunt's door in search of charitable contributions. Corrigan is an arch manipulator, Mrs. Blunt is his mark, and before long we realize...
|  | Awakenings
Publication Date: September 1993Awakenings, by Martha J. Ross-Rodgers, portrays the life of a poor adolescent who faces the hardships of today's society. Betty, a 15-year-old high school student, has dreams of great material wealth, which starkly contrasts with the lifestyle that she and her mother currently live. Like so many of the youth today, Betty sees quitting high school and entering the work force as the quickest path to making her dream a reality. It is only after a brief experience with the "real world" however, that she realizes that educating the mind and body as the true key to ...
|  | The Secret of Scarlett Cove (An Honors Club Story)
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|  | The Last Disciple
Publication Date: May 23, 2005What if the Antichrist has already been revealed? The first book in a gripping new series by best-selling authors Sigmund Brouwer and Hank Hanegraaff explores the lives of Christians who struggle to survive and spread the Gospel during the climactic turbulence of “the last days.” With the enemy seeking to decipher the code of John's letter, Revelation, and destroy the church, believers must cling to the hope Revelation provides as they face the greatest of all persecutions. In this spellbinding story of faith and fulfilled prophecy, readers discove...
|  | Battle Cry - Adventures in the Kingdom of Heaven
Publication Date: January 10, 2011James Proctor and his best friend, Justin Sloan, have a vision to make an impact on the city of Redloub. Enlisting the help of their small church's youth group, the two teenagers plan a series of outreach events at Redloub City Park. But when Justin is killed suddenly in a car wreck, James and his family discover a cultic gang's sinister plot to drive out every last Christian influence in the city. James himself becomes the primary target of Kivuli, a Fallen prince of darkness intent on possessing James' brother, Ryan, and using him to fulfill his plans.Pete...
|  | The Digby Poems: A New Edition of the Lyrics (University of Exeter Press - Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies)
Publication Date: August 15, 2009| ISBN-10: 0859898172 | ISBN-13: 978-0859898171| Edition: New The Digby Poems are the twenty-four short lyrics of Oxford Bodleian MS Digby 102—a remarkable sequence of late medieval poetry that until now had only been edited once in its entirety, and that more than a century ago. With this new edition, Helen Barr includes, for the first time, a full critical apparatus, a substantial introduction, and annotation to each of the twenty-four poems in the Digby manuscript. Gathering new evidence that suggests that this sequence was probably written by a ...
|  | Greenmantle
Publication Date: June 1, 2011Richard Hannay is tasked to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world and takes off on a hair-raising journey through German-occupied Europe to meet up with his old friend Sandy Arbuthnot in Constantinople, where they must thwart the Germans' plans to use religion to help them win the war. In Greenmantle John Buchan clearly asserts his mastery of the genre of the espionage thriller, by drawing on his wide first-hand knowledge of the worlds of politics and secret intelligence. Set during World War I, Greenmantle is a powerful meditati...
|  | Aeschylus: Oresteia
Publication Date: October 24, 2002| ISBN-10: 0198149670 | ISBN-13: 978-0198149675This new and close translation of Aeschylus' Oresteia tries to preserve its theatrical and poetic qualities: introductory and explanatory matter emphasizes the interconnection of scenes, ideas, and language that distinguishes this unique work, the only trilogy to survive from Greek tragedy. ...
|  | Playbook for Christian Manhood: 12 Key Plays for Black Teen Boys
Publication Date: January 22, 2008Pastor and founder of the Benjamin E. Mays Male Academy, Rev. Dr. James C. Perkins knows what a critical time in life the early tween and teen years are for African American boys. So he has compiled a game plan for black males ages 12-15 that supplies twelve essential lessons to sustain them in their growth from young boys to men of integrity and godly character. The "plays" he outlines include identity, purpose, and spirituality, as well as practical approaches to financial responsibility, relationships, sexuality, leadership, and more--all packaged in a pl...
|  | Aus Den Geleisen (Fiction, Poetry & Drama) (German Edition)
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|  | Surrealist Voice of Robert Desnos
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|  | Printing the Middle Ages (Material Texts)
Publication Date: August 6, 2008| ISBN-10: 081224091X | ISBN-13: 978-0812240917In Printing the Middle Ages Siân Echard looks to the postmedieval, postmanuscript lives of medieval texts, seeking to understand the lasting impact on both the popular and the scholarly imaginations of the physical objects that transmitted the Middle Ages to the English-speaking world. Beneath and behind the foundational works of recovery that established the canon of medieval literature, she argues, was a vast terrain of books, scholarly or popular, grubby or beautiful, widely disseminated or privately p...
|  | Stainless: A Modern Romance
Publication Date: January 18, 2012Resurrecting a horrifying and romantic narrative that broke fresh ground for its genre, this newly rereleased novel sets a vampire story in contemporary Los Angeles—the pleasure dome of late 1990s sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll culture. Unlike the vampires that came before her, Justine does not shun crosses, she watches horror movies on television, and she sets upon her prey in an almost apologetic way, never killing her victims but leaving them unconscious instead. She soon finds herself entwined in a very human sexual relationship with Keith, a down-on...
|  | Goodnight, Dragons
Release Date: February 14, 2012| Age Level: 3 and up Everyone needs a cuddle. Maybe dragons more than most. These fire breathers are no match for the daring dragon tamer who arrives at bedtime to put them to sleep. Destined to become a classic bedtime story, Goodnight, Dragons is as warm and comforting as a steaming mug of hot cocoa. ...
|  | Painter and Ugly
Release Date: January 20, 2011| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Painter and Ugly are best friends. They run together, they swim together, they eat out of the same dinner bowls. When one calls out, "Yip," the other answers back. They are inseparable! That is, until they are forced apart and put on two different teams for the junior Iditarod. But nothing can keep them apart. When during the race Painter finds a boy musher alone, stranded on the trail, he calls out, "Yip!" and Ugly answers his call. These old friends team up to finish the race, together again, side by side. Robert B...
|  | The Secrets of the Black Sea: Buck Danny 2
Publication Date: May 16, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | The Prince and the Pauper (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: December 1, 1997| Age Level: 18 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Rex's Secret: A Courageous Critters
Publication Date: February 5, 2004Rex's Secret is a story about a red fox named Rex. He is sad when his best friend leaves one summer because humans have moved into the forest. He cannot seem to find another friend until a new fox family arrives. Rex and Sara become great friends and play together the rest of the summer. However, on the first day of school, Rex finds out something about Sara that he did not know. Now he has to choose between his new friend and admitting a secret of his own in front of the entire school and the class bully, Francie. What will he do? ...
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