 | Cold Sassy Tree
Publication Date: November 2, 1984The one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, is that word gets around - fast. When Grandpa E. Rucker Blakeslee announces one July morning in 1906 that he's aiming to marry the young and freckledy milliner, Miss Love Simpson - a bare three weeks after Granny Blakeslee has gone to her reward - the news is served up all over town with that afternoon's dinner. And young Will Tweedy suddenly finds himself eyewitness to a major scandal. Boggled by the sheer audacity of it all, and not a little jealous of his grandpa's new wife, Will nevertheless approve...
 |  | Ambientes: New Queer Latino Writing
Publication Date: May 27, 2011As the U.S. Latino population grows rapidly, and as the LGBTQ Latino community becomes more visible and a more crucial part of our literary and artistic heritage, there is an increasing demand for literature that successfully highlights these diverse lives. Edited by Lázaro Lima and Felice Picano, Ambientes is a revolutionary collection of fiction featuring stories by established authors as well as emerging voices that present a collective portrait of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender experience in America today. With a preface by Picano and an intr...
|  | Death Without Company: A Walt Longmire Mystery
Release Date: February 27, 2007Walt investigates a death by poison in this gripping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Cold Dish and As the Crow Flies, the second in the Walt Longmire Mystery Series, the basis for LONGMIRE, the hit A&E original drama series Fans of Ace Atkins, Nevada Barr and Robert B. Parker will love Craig Johnson, New York Times bestselling author of Hell Is Empty and As the Crow Flies, who garnered both praise and an enthusiastic readership with his acclaimed debut novel featuring Sheriff Walt Longmire, The Cold Dish, the first in the Walt L...
|  | Echoes (The Glenbrooke Series #3)
Release Date: May 14, 2004In this dramatic contemporary romance by bestselling author Robin Jones Gunn, Lauren Phillips enters the wild, uncharted territory of the Internet on her home computer and "connects" with a man known only as "K.C." As she struggles to recover from a broken engagement, Lauren keeps busy by working full time and striving to finish her college degree. But her correspondence with K.C. quickly becomes the thing she loves most...and the source of dreams she cannot bear to relinquish. When the opportunity comes for them to meet after a year of corresponding, Lauren faces a...
|  | Christian Mythmakers: C. S. Lewis, Madeleine L'Engle, J. R. R. Tolkien, George Macdonald, G. K. Chesterton, Charles Williams, John Bunyan, Walter Wangerin, Robert Siegel, a
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|  | In Endless Morn of Light: Moral Freedom in Milton's Universe
Publication Date: August 24, 2010John Milton (1608-1674) is best known today for his two epic poems, Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, but he wrote a great many other works, both poetry and nonfiction, all infused with his particular philosophy and theology of the Christian religion. Well-known scholar Michael R. Collings here examines one of Milton's major themes--human liberty and choice--and shows how it permeates all the master's writings. Complete with bibliography, notes, and index. ...
|  | The Vampire Lectures
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|  | Alliance In Blood (Partnership in Blood)
Publication Date: May 1, 2008| Series: Partnership in Blood Can a desperate wizard and a bitter, disillusioned vampire find a way to build the partnership that could save their world? In a world rocked by magical war, vampires are seen by many as less than human, as the stereotypical creatures of the night who prey on others. But as the war intensifies, the wizards know they need an advantage to turn the tide in their favor: the strength and edge the vampires can give them in the battle against the dark wizards who seek to destroy life as they know it.In a dangerous move and show of good wil...
|  | The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets
Release Date: March 27, 2007Set in 1950s London, The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets centers around Penelope, the wide- eyed daughter of a legendary beauty, Talitha, who lost her husband to the war.Penelope, with her mother and brother, struggles to maintain their vast and crumbling ancestral home—while postwar London spins toward the next decade’s cultural revolution. Penelope wants nothing more than to fall in love, and when her new best friend, Charlotte, a free spirit in the young society set, drags Penelope into London with all of its grand parties, she sets in motion great change...
|  | The American Indian: Perspectives for the Study of Social Change (Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures)
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|  | Angora Matta: Fatal Acts of North-South Translation/Actos Fatales De Traduccion Norte-Sur
Publication Date: September 4, 2003| Series: Music Culture Angora Matta is a bilingual (Spanish/English) and interdisciplinary work that adopts performative writing to reflect on the transnational politics of culture. Part I is an introduction co-authored by a tango-opera librettist and a central character in her libretto, offering two contending versions of how this book came into being. Part II is the libretto for the tango-opera Angora Matta, a critical view of Argentina's contemporary history conceived as a surreal and tragic thriller. Part III contains feminist scholarly essays written ...
| | Blaue Katzen (Fiction, Poetry & Drama) (German Edition)
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|  | Loving promises: Especially for you
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|  | What A Book Can Do: The Publication and Reception of Silent Spring (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book)
Publication Date: May 30, 2005| Series: Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book In 1962 the publication of Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" sparked widespread public debate on the issue of pesticide abuse and environmental degradation. The discussion permeated the entire print and electronic media system of mid-twentieth century America. Although Carson's text was serialized in the "New Yorker," it made a significant difference that it was also published as a book. With clarity and precision, Priscilla Coit Murphy explores the importance of the book form for the author, her edito...
|  | Tales of Tears and Laughter: Short Fiction of Medieval Japan
Publication Date: August 30, 1993| ISBN-10: 0824815696 | ISBN-13: 978-0824815691The stories in this collection constitute just a small portion of a vast body of some four hundred short narratives known as otogizoshi.They represent a cross section of medieval Japan in its richness and complexity, a panoply of life teeming with all the possibilities and contradictions of the age. ...
|  | The Classics: All You Need to Know, from Zeus's Throne to the Fall of Rome
Release Date: July 8, 2010It's no myth: this lively refresher course fills in all you need to know about ancient studies-from Zeus's throne to the fall of Rome-in pithy little quips. It covers the impressive advances made by Greek and Roman societies, from language to medicine, from art to architecture. You'll learn: The Greek alphabet, from alpha to omegaThe history and characteristics that define Greek and Roman architecture and its influence on modern buildingGreek and Latin words, which make up more than 30 percent of the words in the English language, and how you can build your vocabula...
|  | Johanna Lindsey Collection 2: Heart of a Warrior, The Pursuit, and A Man to Call My Own
Publication Date: October 25, 2005Heart of a Warrior (Narrator: Laural Merlington, Director: Ruth Bloomquist, Engineer: Jill Sovis): Brittany Callaghan thinks she's dreaming when a blond, nearly seven-feet-tall Nordic god shows up on her doorstep in her tiny California town. She is taken aback when Dalden, a spectacular Viking who is a long way from home, needs her help - and is willing to pay for it. Dalden is a warrior to the depths of his soul - a man who will fight fearlessly and relentlessly for what he wants. And now, what he wants most of all is Brittany . . .The Pursuit (Narrator: Mi...
|  | Robert Ludlum's the Arctic Event (Center Point Platinum Fiction (Large Print))
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|  | Marvel Masterworks: Sgt. Fury, Vol. 3
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|  | Robin Hood (A Stepping Stone Book)
Release Date: September 24, 1991| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up Life in Sherwood Forest has never been livelier than with this selection of tales of the fun-loving outlaw and his merry men. A fast-moving adaptation of the classic adventure will delight older slow readers as well as kids reading on grade level. ...
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