 | The Outside World
Release Date: March 30, 2004From the best-selling author of The Ladies Auxiliary, a hilarious new novel about two Orthodox Jewish families brought together by the marriage of their children.Tzippy Goldman’s mother has been planning her wedding since before she was born. Her four younger sisters want her to marry the crown prince of Boro Park. But Tzippy, approaching spinsterhood at the age of twenty-two, has other ideas. Tzippy has been on one too many blind dates in the lobby of the Brooklyn Marriott. She is hungry for experience and longs to escape the suffocating expectations of rel...
 |  | The Art of Blessing the Day: Poems with a Jewish Theme
Release Date: September 19, 2000Winner of the 2000 Paterson Poetry PrizeAbout Marge Piercy's collection of her old and new poems that celebrate the Jewish experience, the poet Lyn Lifshin writes: "The Art of Blessing the Day is an exquisite book. The whole collection is strong, passionate, and poignant, but the mother and daughter poems, fierce and emotional, with their intense ambivalence, pain and joy, themes of separation and reconnecting, are among the very strongest about that difficult relationship."These striking, original, beautifully sensuous poems do just that. Ordinary moments--a ...
|  | Anthology: Childhood
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|  | Birds of Paradise: A Novel
Publication Date: May 7, 2012“A full-course meal, a rich, complex and memorable storythat will leave you lingering gratefully at [Abu-Jaber’s] table.”—Ron Charles, Washington PostAt thirteen, Felice Muir ran away from home to punish herself for some horrible thing she had done—leaving a hole in the hearts of her pastry-chef mother, her real estate attorney father, and her foodie-entrepreneurial brother. After five years of scrounging for food, drugs, and shelter on Miami Beach, Felice is now turning eighteen, and she and the family she left behind must reckon wi...
|  | A Cousin's Promise (Indiana Cousins, Book 1)
Publication Date: March 1, 2009Willkumm to the lush and lavish Amish country where Wanda Brunstetter’s new romantic series, Indiana Cousins, begins with A Cousin’s Promise. Loraine Miller finds herself torn between the love of two good men—Wayne Lambright who, crippled after a tragic accident, feels himself unworthy of her love; and Jake Beechy who, after having abandoned her to explore the English world, returns to renew their courtship. To which man will she pledge her love and loyalty—for better or worse, until death they do part?(20090301) ...
|  | Critical Impact (Love Inspired Suspense)
Publication Date: October 5, 2010| Series: Love Inspired Suspense The bomb wasn't supposed to be real. But the mock-disaster explosion to test emergency procedures killed two people in a small Maine town. And all evidence points to shy makeup artist Anna Barker as the prime suspect. When Deputy Sheriff Stu McCabe is assigned to investigate the case, Anna hopes he'll prove her innocent. But with a harrowing past of his own, Stu seems to trust no one. Something that might save both their lives when the real killer plans to make critical impact—again. --This text refers to the Kindle Editi...
|  | The Birth
Publication Date: December 2001"In the glorious heavenly realm, the angels eagerly strain to understand what new thing God is about to do as Gabriel passes through the Door--The forces of good and evil are about to clash." The Birth tells the tale of the incarnation as seen from both realms--heaven and earth. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Love Heist
Publication Date: March 9, 2010Homeless as a teenager, Lyric Brody soon discovers the finer things in life comes with a high price tag. When she meets a handsome drug dealer name Diesel, she soon gets caught up in his web of deception, lies and sexual escapades. In her quest to exist in a world of opulence, her new found strength helps her to devise a plan that will give her the independence she yearns. Unfortunately, obtaining her goal will require her to betray the only man she has ever truly loved. So, she uses her beauty and intelligence to mastermind her scheme. The wheels are set in mo...
|  | Slant of Light (The Daybreak Series)
Publication Date: April 8, 2012| Series: The Daybreak Series Set during the brink of the Civil War, this beautifully written novel traces James Turner, a charming, impulsive writer and lecturer; Charlotte, his down-to-earth bride; and Cabot, an idealistic Harvard-educated abolitionist as they are drawn together in a social experiment deep in the Missouri Ozarks. Inspired by utopian dreams of building a new society, Turner is given a tract of land to found the community of Daybreak: but not everyone involved in the project is a willing partner, and being the leader of a remote farming communi...
|  | Under the Stone Paw
Publication Date: January 2006Anne Le Clair, a successful, young attorney, has managed to remain free from her family’s gothic past—until now. When she inherits her murdered Aunt’s antique necklace however, she finds no escape from its secrets. Under the Stone Paw is a thrill ride from the upper crust of New York society to the forbidden tunnels underneath the Sphinx, from a time before Jesus and Mary Magdalene sought to free humanity to our own time when a shadowy consortium of powerful individuals threaten to control it. ...
|  | Blood Mountain
Release Date: July 1, 1999New from the acclaimed author of Once A Marshal...Stranded in the bleak northern Rockies, a band of settlers is viciously savaged by a group of merciless outlaws rampaging through the mountains. But when the villains cross the wrong man, nothing on earth will stop him from paying every one of them back...in blood.*Stark realism combined with a classic good-against-evil Western story ...
|  | Nectar in a Sieve (Signet Classics)
Release Date: January 1, 2002| Series: Signet Classics Named Notable Book of 1955 by the American Library Association, this is the very moving story of a peasant woman in a primitive village in India whose whole life was a gallant and persistent battle to care for those she loved."Comparable in many ways to Cry, the Beloved Country...if anything...better." (Saturday Evening Post) ...
|  | The Complete Euripides: Volume IV: Bacchae and Other Plays (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
Publication Date: February 23, 2009| Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations Collected here for the first time in the series are three major plays by Euripides: Bacchae, translated by Reginald Gibbons and Charles Segal, a powerful examination of the horror and beauty of Dionysiac ecstasy; Herakles, translated by Tom Sleigh and Christian Wolff, a violent dramatization of the madness and exile of one of the most celebrated mythical figures; and The Phoenician Women, translated by Peter Burian and Brian Swamm, a disturbing interpretation of the fate of the House of Laios following the tragic ...
|  | La ninera / The Nanny (Spanish Edition)
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| | By Appointment Only
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|  | War Primer
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| | Oxford Book of Irish Verse
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|  | A Companion to Spanish Surrealism (Monograf
Publication Date: October 7, 2004| Series: Monograf...
|  | Chaste Passions: Medieval English Virgin Martyr Legends
Publication Date: May 2000Virgin martyrs make up one of the largest categories of medieval saints. To judge by their frequent appearances in art and literature, they also figure among the most venerated.The legends of virgin martyrs, retold in various ways through the centuries, illuminate trends in popular piety, values, and literary tastes. Chaste Passions contains eighteen English virgin martyr legends, each of a different saint and each translated in its entirety into colloquial, modern English prose. Faithful in tone and meaning to the originals, Karen Winstead's lively translations all...
|  | The Naked Face
Publication Date: August 7, 1985Judd Stevens is a psychoanalyst faced with the most critical case of his life.If he does not penetrate the mind of a murderer he will find himself arrested for murder or murdered himself...Two people closely involved with Dr. Stevens have already been killed. Is one of the doctor's patients responsible? Someone overwhelmed by his problems? A neurotic driven by compulsion? A madman? Before the murderer strikes again, Judd must strip away the mask of innocence the criminal wears, uncover the inner emotions, fears, and desires, to expose... ...
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