 | The Memory of Running
Release Date: December 27, 2005Every decade seems to produce a novel that captures the public’s imagination with a story that sweeps readers up and takes them on a thrilling, unforgettable ride. Ron McLarty’s The Memory of Running is this decade’s novel. By all accounts, especially his own, Smithson "Smithy" Ide is a loser. An overweight, friendless, chain-smoking, forty-three-year-old drunk, Smithy’s life becomes completely unhinged when he loses his parents and long-lost sister within the span of one week. Rolling down the driveway of his parents’ house in Rho...
 |  | El canto del agua: Una novela (Spanish Edition)
Release Date: September 16, 2003Esta novela vibrante y provocativa explora los sueños y las luchas de tres generaciones de mujeres dominicanas.Graciela, nacida en las cercanías de Santo Domingo al final del siglo diecinueve, es una aventurera testaruda que se cria durante la ocupación de los Estados Unidos.Demasiada pobre para viajar mas allá de su imaginación y frustrada con la monotonía de su vida, se ve afectada en sus relaciones amorosas y en su relación con su hija Mercedes.Mercedes, abandonada a los trece años por Graciela, acude a la religió...
|  | The Poetry of John Greenleaf Whittier: A Readers' Edition
Publication Date: June 1, 2000William Jolliff, Professor of English at George Fox University has selected 55 of John Greenleaf Whittier's more than 500 poems with the intention of turning readers into Whittier fans. His guiding focus for this edition is "readability by contemporaries." A biographical and critical introduction and the indentification of themes in each section are important guides. William Jolliff's brief introductions to the poems themselves give specific historical background and interpretive help when necessary. Includes Snow-Bound, "Icabod," "Telling the Bees," "The Barefo...
|  | Dakota Texts
Publication Date: June 1, 2006Ella Deloria (1889–1971), one of the first Native students of linguistics and ethnography in the United States, grew up on the Standing Rock Reservation on the northern Great Plains and was trained by Franz Boas at Columbia University. Dakota Texts presents a rich array of Sioux mythology and folklore in its original language and in translation. Originally published in 1932 by the American Ethnological Society, this work is a landmark contribution to the study of the Sioux tribes. ...
|  | Unfinished Gift, The: A Novel
Publication Date: June 1, 2010Patrick Collins is seven years old, and on his Christmas list are only three items. He wants the army to find his father. He wants to leave his grandfather's house. And, for reasons even he doesn't understand, he wants the soldier that's tucked away in his grandfather's attic.Set at Christmastime in 1943, The Unfinished Gift tells in an engaging, simple style the story of a family, and reminds us of the surprising things that affect powerful change in our hearts--like a young boy's prayers, a shoebox full of love letters, and even an old wooden soldier, long for...
|  | The Living Dead 2
Publication Date: September 14, 2010Two years ago, readers eagerly devoured The Living Dead. Publishers Weekly named it one of the Best Books of the Year, and Barnes & Noble.com called it "The best zombie fiction collection ever." Now acclaimed editor John Joseph Adams is back for another bite at the apple -- the Adam's apple, that is -- with 43 more of the best, most chilling, most thrilling zombie stories anywhere, including virtuoso performances by zombie fiction legends Max Brooks (World War Z, The Zombie Survival Guide), Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead), and David Wellington (Monster I...
|  | Sixty Days and Counting
Release Date: October 30, 2007By the time Phil Chase is elected president, the world’s climate is far on its way to irreversible change. Food scarcity, housing shortages, diminishing medical care, and vanishing species are just some of the consequences. The erratic winter the Washington, D.C., area is experiencing is another grim reminder of a global weather pattern gone haywire: bone-chilling cold one day, balmy weather the next.But the president-elect remains optimistic and doesn’t intend to give up without a fight. A maverick in every sense of the word, Chase starts organizing...
|  | The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Publication Date: February 1988More than 700,000 copies sold. Basis for the world-acclaimed film. "A meditation on life, on the erotic, on the nature of men and women and love . . . full of telling details, truths large and small."People ...
|  | The Ghost Wore Yellow Socks
Publication Date: December 19, 2008His romantic weekend in ruins, shy twenty-something artist Perry Foster learns that things can always get worse when he returns home from San Francisco to find a dead body in his bathtub. A dead body in a very ugly sportscoat--and matching socks. The dead man is a stranger to Perry, but that's not much of a comfort; how did a strange dead man get in a locked flat at the isolated Alton Estate in the wilds of the "Northeast Kingdom" of Vermont? Perry turns to help from "tall, dark and hostile" former navy SEAL Nick Reno--but is Reno all that he seems? ...
|  | Case Histories
Publication Date: January 2005A major event: a new novel by the Whitbread Award winner, her first novel since Emotionally Weird, and probably her most commercial book yet.In Cambridge, Jackson Brodie, a private investigator and former police detective, is quietly contemplating life as a divorced father when he is flung into the midst of three resurrected old crimes: a child who mysteriously disappeared from a tent in her back garden; an unidentified man who marched into an office and slashed the throat of a young girl; and a young woman found sitting in her kitchen next to the body of her hu...
|  | South of Deadwood / Too Tough to Brand / A Gun for Kilkenny
Release Date: November 4, 2008South of DeadwoodTake the stagecoach into Deadwood with Ranger Chick Bowdrie to bring a notorious killer back to Texas - and justice. When he meets a beautiful young woman convinced Curly Starr can clear her brother's name, Bowdrie agrees to help. But first he must elude the rest of Starr's gang who wait for the legendary lawman and his prisoner to leave town - so they can kill them both! Too Tough to BrandTexas Ranger Chick Bowdrie was called to the O Bar O Ranch when the foreman, Bert Ramey, disappeared with $15,000.But from what Bowdrie can tell, Ramey is no ...
|  | Frogs and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: April 6, 2007| Series: Penguin Classics Marrying deft social commentary to a rich, earthy comedy, the three comedies collected in Aristophanes' "The Frogs and Other Plays" offers a unique insight into one of the most turbulent periods in Ancient Greek history. This "Penguin Classics" edition is translated by David Barrett with revisions, an introduction and notes by Shomit Dutta. The master of ancient Greek comic drama, Aristophanes combined slapstick, humour and cheerful vulgarity with acute political observations. In "The Frogs", written during the Peloponnesian War, Dionysus...
|  | Africa Bible Commentary: A One-Volume Commentary Written by 70 African Scholars
Publication Date: June 27, 2006The Africa Bible Commentary is a unique publishing event---the first one-volume Bible commentary produced in Africa by African theologians to meet the needs of African pastors, students, and lay leaders. Interpreting and applying the Bible in the light of African culture and realities, it furnishes powerful and relevant insights into the biblical text that transcend Africa in their significance. The Africa Bible Commentary gives a section-by-section interpretation that provides a contextual, readable, affordable, and immensely useful guide to the entire Bible. ...
|  | Recapturing Sophocles' Antigone (Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches)
Publication Date: August 13, 1998| ISBN-10: 0847692175 | ISBN-13: 978-0847692170In this book, Wm. Blake Tyrrell and Larry J. Bennett examine Sophocles' Antigone in the context of its setting in fifth-century Athens. The authors attempt to create an interpretive environment that is true to the issues and interests of fifth-century Athenians, as opposed to those of modern scholars and philosophers. As they contextualize the play in the dynamics of ancient Athens, the authors discuss the text of the Antigone in light of recent developments in the study of Greek antiquity and tragedy, and th...
|  | The Fathers of the Church: Saint Augustine - Four Anti-Pelagian Writings
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|  | Moderato Cantabile (Minuit "Double") (French Edition)
Publication Date: September 1, 1980| Series: Minuit "Double" « Qu''est-ce que ça veut dire, moderato cantabile ?- Je ne sais pas. »Une leçon de piano, un enfant obstiné, une mère aimante, pas de plus simple expression de la vie tranquille d''une ville de province. Mais un cri soudain vient déchirer la trame, révélant sous la retenue de ce récit d''apparence classique une tension qui va croissant dans le silence jusqu''au paroxysme final.« Quand même, dit Anne Desbarèdes, tu pourrais t''en souvenir une fois pour toutes. Moderato...
|  | Nora Roberts Sign of Seven CD Collection: Blood Brothers, The Hollow, The Pagan Stone
Publication Date: June 29, 2009| Series: Sign of Seven Blood Brothers: Every seven years, on the seventh day of the seventh month, strange things happen. It began when three young boys - Caleb, Fox, and Gage - went on a camping trip to the Pagan Stone. This modern-day legend draws reporter and author Quinn Black to Hawkins Hollow with the hope of making the eerie happening the subject of her new book. It is only February, but Caleb Hawkins, descendent of the town founders, has already seen and felt the stirrings of evil. Cal will need the help of his best friends, but surprisingly he must re...
|  | Stagestruck: A Peter Diamond Investigation (Peter Diamond Investigations)
Release Date: June 12, 2012| Series: Peter Diamond Investigations Pop diva, Clarion Calhoun, has packed the house with a celebrity appearance in Bath's Theatre Royal production of I Am a Camera. But within moments of her much-anticipated onstage appearance, she's pulled out of character as she screams and claws at her face. When tainted stage makeup is found to have caused the disfiguring burn, fingers point to her makeup artist. Detective Peter Diamond investigates when the makeup artist is found dead, pushed from a catwalk far above the stage. As Diamond digs deeper...
|  | W.I.T.C.H. Graphic Novel: The Power of Friendship - Book #1
Release Date: May 5, 2005| Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Light Foot/Pies ligeros
Publication Date: October 28, 2007| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: K and up Once upon a time no creatures on Earth died. But they had baby after baby, and before long the world grew crowded. Death decided to solve the problem by challenging everyone to a skip-rope contest — as an immortal, Death won every time, and one by one everyone succumbed to her dare. Soon, every living being knew Death. This intriguing fable is based on Francisco Toledo's series of engravings of Death, a dominant figure in Mexican culture. Toledo, the heir to the great generation of Mexican artists that inclu...
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