 | Those Pearly Gates: A Homegrown Novel
Publication Date: September 13, 2005| Series: Homegrown The heartwarming saga of Imo Lavender and her spirited family continues in a third installment of the beloved Homegrown series.Life is moving on for Imogene Lavender, and reluctantly she leaves her farm in rural Georgia to follow her new husband, Reverend Peddigrew, into town to live in the parsonage. Her struggle to adjust is not what she expects when she begins feeling the all-too-perfect presence of the Reverend's late wife. The move also leaves Imo's niece Loutishie resentful and stretching her faith to find a way back to her belove...
 |  | The Painted Bird
Publication Date: August 9, 1995Originally published in 1965, The Painted Bird established Jerzy Kosinski as a major literary figure. Kosinski's story follows a dark-haired, olive-skinned boy, abandoned by his parents during World War II, as he wanders alone from one village to another, sometimes hounded and tortured, only rarely sheltered and cared for. Through the juxtaposition of adolescence and the most brutal of adult experiences, Kosinski sums up a Bosch-like world of harrowing excess where senseless violence and untempered hatred are the norm. Through sparse prose and vivid imagery, K...
|  | An Unexpected Light: Theology and Witness in the Poetry and Thought of Charles Williams, Micheal O'siadhail, and Geoffrey Hill (Princeton Theological Monograph Series)
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|  | An Iridescent Sky
Publication Date: April 6, 2012Michael Hayden finds himself in an Earth-like world where evil does not exist. Eressa is a world of abundance and beauty where love and friendship are her peoples' highest values. Michael finds his body has been healed of rapid aging. And now, with a near millennial lifespan, Michael must find a way to heal his soul from the affects of violence and deprivation.The door to paradise is opening for Michael and the people of Earth. But, can Earth-kind live in paradise? ...
|  | Demon Blood: Enlightenment (Volume 1)
Publication Date: May 24, 2012If you're looking for an epic horror novel,Demon Blood: Enlightenment is it.The story follows several strangers coming together to prevent the end of the world. A lonely drifter, following the gruesome murder of his wife and unborn child, is struggling to find his purpose in a world filled with evil and insanity, as he searches for the entity that led his life astray. A low-budget horror producer—and recent widow—has traveled across the states to seek out a man she believes to know the truth about her husband's mysterious suicide. Two brothers are ...
|  | The China Oil Plot: Operation Ace in the Hole
Publication Date: April 26, 2012Spy Fiction Mixed with the Realities of Today's Oil-Thirsty World After 20 years working for the U.S. Army Research Center, Bret Lee, a 44-year-old chemical engineer, retires to look for work in private industry, only to learn that in the tough 2010 economy, he's unable to find a job in his chosen field.But thanks to a quasi-government contact from his past, he's offered a high-paying job with a Venezuelan fertilizer company just outside Caracas.There's only one catch: he has to become a spy. Bret and his Chinese wife, Chu-Lin, accept the challenge, and both b...
|  | Something Wicked
Publication Date: December 6, 2001Mourning the loss of her long-time girlfriend (to a man),Scotty,an urban lesbian, seeks rest and recuperation deep in the English countryside.But rumours of witchcraft and child pornography take real and violent shape before Helen, a local librarian,helps our heroine to solve the crimes and reconsider romance. ...
|  | Moonlit Tours
Release Date: October 8, 2008Moonlit Tours is the story of three metropolitan cab drivers with diverse backgrounds that pool their resources to create a get-rich-quick scheme of questionable legality.Their enterprise, Moonlit Tours, offers deluxe, safari-like excursions into the city’s soft underbelly where decadence, moral oblivion, and depravity are close enough for their jaded, affluent patrons to witness in vivid detail.Despite careful planning, however, the three are unable to insulate their clients from this spectacle of sin.By providing a bridge between cultural poles the na&#x...
|  | Ancient Mysteries Described: Engravings Of Apocryphal New Testament Subjects
Publication Date: September 10, 2010THIS 18 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Ancient Mysteries Described, by William Hone. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564599043. ...
|  | Silvae (I Tatti Renaissance Library)
Publication Date: July 30, 2004| Series: I Tatti Renaissance Library (Book 14)Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance and a leading figure in the circle of Lorenzo de'Medici "il Magnifico" in Florence. His "Silvae" are poetical introductions to his courses in literature at the University of Florence, written in Latin hexameters. They not only contain some of the finest Latin poetry of the Renaissance, but also afford unique insight into the poetical credo of a brilliant scholar as he considers the works of his Greek and Latin predecessors as well ...
|  | Guide to the Blue Tongue: POEMS (Illinois Poetry Series)
Publication Date: February 19, 2002| Series: Illinois Poetry Series Shimmering with saturated color and heat, "Guide to the Blue Tongue" is an intoxicating sequence of memory poems about growing up in the tropics, threaded through the myth of Caliban from Shakespeare's "The Tempest". Caliban is the monstrous native, in love with what he cannot possess, lost to his own sense of identity. In Virgil Surez's vision, the island of Caliban's imprisonment merges with the island of Cuba, where the carboneros make charcoal and sell it door-to-door by the pound, young boxers crackle with caged energy,...
|  | The Indistinct Human in Renaissance Literature (Early Modern Cultural Studies)
Release Date: March 13, 2012| ISBN-10: 0230340474 | ISBN-13: 978-0230340473This volume explores the differences that separate man from other forms of life. Building on the increased attention paid in recent criticism to both plant and animal life in the Renaissance, as well as the instability of categories such as 'human' and 'animal,' the essays in this engaging collection argue for recognition of the persistently indistinct nature of humans, who cannot be finally divided ontologically or epistemologically from other forms of matter. ...
|  | Hesiod: Volume II, The Shield. Catalogue of Women. Other Fragments. (Loeb Classical Library No. 503) (v. 2)
Publication Date: March 1, 2007| ISBN-10: 0674996232 | ISBN-13: 978-0674996236This volume, which completes the new Loeb Classical Library edition of Hesiod, contains The Shield and extant fragments of other poems, including the Catalogue of Women, that were attributed to Hesiod in antiquity. None of these is now thought to be by Hesiod himself, but all have considerable literary and historical interest. The Catalogue of Women is a systematic presentation in five books of a large number of Greek legendary heroes and episodes, organized according to the genealogy of the heroes' mortal moth...
|  | The Annotated Sherlock Holmes; Volumes 1 & 2
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|  | How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse (The Heroic Misadventures of Hiccup the Viking)
Publication Date: April 1, 2007| Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | The Return of the Buffaloes
Release Date: March 1, 1996| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Dispatched to learn what has become of the buffalo herds that sustain their people, two Great Plains Native American scouts encounter a mysterious spirit woman who helps them out of their predicament. 20,000 first printing. ...
|  | Sports Great Kurt Warner (Sports Great Books)
Publication Date: April 2003| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | A Perfect Day for It
Publication Date: October 1, 2002| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up What's the perfect thing to do on a crisp winter day? Bear certainly seems to be up to something. But what? His friends can't help being curious, so they secretly follow him up the snowy trail to the top of the mountain. And when they get there, Bear gives them a BIG, slip-sliding, downhill surprise!Come along with Bear and his friends for an avalanche of fun--and a foldout surprise--in this new story from internationally acclaimed picture book creator Jan Fearnley. ...
|  | A Great Miracle Happened There: A Chanukah Story
Release Date: September 15, 1995| Age Level: 4 and up Share the magic of Chanukah0n the first night of Chanukah, a young boy invites a friend to his family's annual celebration. The boy's friend has never celebrated Chanukah, one of the most meaningful of the Jewish holidays, and his curiosity sparks a spirited retelling of the historic events commemorated by the Festival of Lights."Henry, a Christian boy, is invited to the home of his Jewish friend to participate in the first night of Hanukkah with the family.After the lighting of the candles and the recitation of the prayers, the boys hear...
|  | Seven Little Postmen (A Little Golden Book)
Release Date: June 11, 2002| Age Level: 2 and up This lively poem by the author of Goodnight Moon tells the tale of one little boy’s letter. What happens after the boy drops it into the mailbox? How does it get to his grandma’s house? Children will enjoy this rollicking tale of the seven little postmen who got the mail through. ...
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