 | Round House, The: A Novel
Release Date: October 2, 2012 One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface as Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil, and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. In one day, Joe's life is irrevocably transformed. He tries to heal his mother, but she will not leave her bed and slips into an abyss of solitude. Increasingly alone, Joe finds himself thrust prematurely into an adult world for which he is ill prepared. While hi...
 |  | Hometown Cinderella (Love Inspired Historical)
Publication Date: February 7, 2012| Series: Love Inspired Historical After years traveling in Europe with her musician husband, all that widow Mara Keller wants is security for her son. A half-share in her father's Maine farmhouse is the only refuge she has left, even if her resentful stepmother treats Mara as little more than a servant. But there is one bright spot: the unexpected kindness of neighbor Gideon Jakeman.A widowed farmer with a teenage daughter, Gideon hardly pictures himself as anyone's Prince Charming. Especially a woman of Mara's refinement. Yet his quiet, rugged ...
|  | Hunter Brown and the Eye of Ends (Codebearers #3)
Publication Date: January 11, 2011| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up In Hunter Brown and the Eye of Ends, the heart-pounding conclusion of Hunter’s previous adventures begins with an even bigger surprise—his memory is gone. With no knowledge of his last visit to Solandria, Hunter must fight to piece together the growing puzzle of his past under the constant surveillance of an intimidating detective, who isn’t all that he seems. But what begins as a harmless search for memories quickly leads him into a deadly hunt for his missing father and a lost relic, the E...
|  | The House of Belonging
Publication Date: December 1997| ISBN-10: 0962152439 | ISBN-13: 978-0962152436| Edition: First Edition "The House of Belonging" is David Whyte's fourth book of poetry, following "Songs for Coming Home", "Where Many Rivers Meet", and "Fire in the Earth".His fifth volume of poetry, "Everything is Waiting for You" was published in 2003.He is the author of two best-selling books of prose, "The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America", and "Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity". These books and a highly acclaimed audio lecture series a...
|  | Oedipus and Akhnaton: Myth and History- The Tragic Events in the Life of the Royal House of the Hundred-Gated Thebes
Publication Date: June 1960Was Oedipus, the parricide who sired children by his mother, a product of the subconscious mind as Freud thought? Was he a mythological figure? Or was he a real, historical person? Such questions have provoked interest among historians and authors for centuries. In Oedipus and Akhnaton, Immanuel Velikovsky identifies the scene and all the personages of the Greek Oedipus legend with the life patterns of the family of the Egyptian King Akhnaton, reputedly the first monotheist during the most famous famous period of Egyptian history. As a feat in unraveling myth, lore...
|  | The Road to Mecca
Publication Date: January 1, 1993Are aging Miss Helen's bizarre sculptures, fashioned from beer cans and old headlights, evidence of artistry or insanity? South Africa's preeminent playwright Athol Fugard explores the backwaters of human creativity in this inquiry into the transformative power of art. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | German Theater Before 1750: Sachs, Gryphius, Schlegel, and others (German Library)
Publication Date: January 1, 1992| ISBN-10: 082640703X | ISBN-13: 978-0826407030| Edition: 1 An illustrative selection of German dramas from the baroque age and the early Enlightenment (i.e. prior to Lessing), by Sachs, Gryphius, Schlegel, and others. ...
|  | The Shimmering Light: An Anthology of Isma'ili Poems
Publication Date: March 15, 1997Although a large body of the great poetry of the Islamic world has been translated into English, except for a few fragments, the poetry of the Isma'ilis is still only accessible in the original.This anthology should enable lovers of devotional and mystical poetry to sample the great range and depth of Isma'ili poetry. The selection spans 1000 years of Isma'ili history, from the time of the Fatimid caliphate to the present day. It includes both sophisticated and popular verses from the Isma'ili poets of Arabia, Africa, Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia, China, In...
|  | Poesia de la Edad de Oro, II. Barroco (Clasicos Castalia)
Publication Date: January 1, 2003Es bien sabido que el Barroco, como todos los grandes cambios culturales, esta ocasionado por una serie de concausas de todo tipo, politicas, religiosas, esteticas y de pensamiento, que aparecen estrechamente unidas entre 1600 y 1700. Orozco nos dice que las formas barrocas ""son producto de unos determinantes vitales e ideologicos que suponen una especial actitud, no solo ante el arte, sino ante el mundo en toda su complejidad"".Todos los estudiosos de la cultura barroca han insistido en los profundos cambios que experimenta la sociedad del siglo XVII, cambi...
|  | Shout Ha! To The Sky (Salt Companions to Poetry S.)
Publication Date: January 4, 2010| Series: Salt Companions to Poetry S. Shout Ha! to the Sky explores history and contemporary life from a Maori person's perspective, and seeks to restore possibilities removed through the forces of colonialism. The poetry is intimate, wry, funny, angry and always loving. It weaves into and dialogues with multi-genre work by a range ofPacific authors such as Anne Salmond, Albert Wendt, Haunani-Kay Trask, Witi Ihimaera, and the late Hone Tuwhare, as well as writing from outside the Pacific by Anna Seward, W.B.Yeats, Ezra Pound, Keats, Vijay Seshadri, Dante Ali...
|  | The Passions of Modernism: Eliot, Yeats, Woolf, and Mann
Release Date: January 12, 2010Upending the traditional view of modernism as defined by skepticism and emotional detachment, Anthony Cuda argues for a perspective that emphasizes instead its deep commitment to understanding human vulnerability, powerlessness, and the unpredictable energies of passion. In The Passions of Modernism, Cuda explores how four modernist writers--T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, Virginia Woolf, and Thomas Mann--conceptualize passion, how they dramatize its upheavals and illuminations, and how it affects their ideas about the creative act. Cuda argues that many literary scho...
|  | AT ROMMEL'S SIDE: The Lost Letters of Hans-Joachim Schraepler
Publication Date: September 2009Erwin Rommel, Hitler's so-called 'Desert Fox', is possibly the most famous German Field-Marshal of WWII. He is widely regarded as the one of the most skilled commanders of desert warfare and, in contrast to other leaders of Nazi Germany, is considered to have been a chivalrous and humane officer.The letters of his adjutant provide a unique picture of Rommel during his time in Libya. Hans-Joachim Schraepler was by Rommel's side in North Africa for ten crucial months in 1940-41. During that time, he wrote to his wife almost every day. In most cases, the correspo...
|  | Into the Dreaming
Release Date: August 29, 2006Between the Highlander and Fever worlds lies a place beyond imagining.This new edition of the novella contains more than 100 pages of bonus material, including:• a deleted scene fromKiss of the Highlander• a proposal for a never-published romance• an alternate opening version of The Dark Highlander• a sneak peek at art from the upcoming graphic novelFever Moon For the first time in hardcover, here is #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning’s novella Into the Dreaming, a tale of Highland fantasy, star-crossed lovers,...
|  | Sunlight Moonlight
Publication Date: January 1, 1997In Sunlight, handsome alien Micah is trapped on Earth after he crash lands and falls in love with beautiful woman, while in Moonlight, the vampire Navarre seeks for a woman brave enough to enter his world....
|  | Vlad (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: September 1, 2011El voivoda de Transilvania, padre de Vlad Dracula y su hermano Radu, firmo un tratado con Murad Han, sultan de Rum, por el cual los dos jovenes serian llevados a Edirne como rehenes de los turcos a cambio de no pelear contra sus dominios. Primero Vlad estudia en el enderun kolej como alumno privilegiado. Pasados unos anos y tras unas rencillas con Mehmet, hijo del sultan, Vlad es trasladado al infierno de Tokat, un lugar donde el aprendizaje cambia de perspectiva, donde las torturas que le infligieron y de las que fue testigo, eran las ensenanzas que impart...
|  | River's End
Release Date: May 1, 2000The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Villa and Carolina Moon presents her most seductively suspenseful tale yet—a story of one woman’s shattered innocence, the terrifying search for truth, and a heart’s journey toward healing…RIVER’S ENDOlivia’s parents were among Hollywood’s golden couples…until the night a monster came and took her mother away forever. A monster with the face of her father…Sheltered from the truth, an older Olivia only dimly recalls her night of terror—but her recurring night...
|  | Geronimo Stilton and the Kingdom of Fantasy #4: The Dragon Prophecy
Publication Date: September 1, 2012| Age Level: 7 and up...
|  | Will Shortz Presents I Can KenKen! Volume 2: 75 Puzzles for Having Fun with Math
Release Date: November 25, 2008 ...
|  | Ultimate Sports, Grades 1 - 2: Level 3 (Extreme Readers)
Release Date: June 1, 2006| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | 365 Bedtime Stories: A New Story For Every Day of the Year
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