 | Solar Flare
Publication Date: September 1997Without the sun's powerful gravity, our earth would fly into space. The sun keeps us from freezing to death, allows food to grow and gives us energy to fuel everything from calculators to cars. Yet this faithful lifeline also has the power to wipe us ...
 |  | Nacidos para Alentar a Otros: El escriba: Caleb... uno de los cinco hombres que silenciosamente cambi
Publication Date: April 29, 2008| Series: Nacidos para Alentar Otros Series The book tells the story of the man behind the spotlight who recorded most of the New Testament Scriptures we read today. Along the way readers will be captivated by the growth of the early church and the trials Paul suffers before he is martyred for the cause of Christ. ...
|  | Promises
Release Date: April 7, 1997With her three children, beautiful home, and loving husband, Margaret Crane is a woman others would envy. Adam's job has cushioned them nicely over the years, and it should be a time of contentment, rewards, of new challenges together. But lately Adam has been working too late, too hard, at the office. Margaret is sure it's just the rumored takeover of his company--until she meets Randi, The Other Woman...Meanwhile, Nina, the orphaned cousin the Cranes raised as their own daughter, is reveling in New York. She thinks she's found Mr....
|  | Kydd: A Kydd Sea Adventure (Kydd Sea Adventures)
Publication Date: June 1, 2008| Series: Kydd Sea Adventures When Thomas Paine Kydd, a young wig-maker from Guildford, is seized and taken across the country to be part of the crew of the 98-gun line-of-battle ship Duke William, he must learn the harsh realities of shipboard life quickly. Despite all he goes through, amid dangers of tempest and battle, he comes to admire the skills and courage of his fellow seamen, taking up the challenge himself to become a true sailor and defender of Britain at war. ...
|  | Last Train from Liguria
Publication Date: April 1, 2011A sweeping tale of consequences spanning the 1930s to the 1990s, moving between fascist Italy and modern Ireland In 1933, Bella Stuart leaves her quiet London life to move to Italy to tutor the child of a beautiful Jewish heiress and an elderly Italian aristocrat. Living at the family’s summer home, Bella's reserve softens as she comes to love her young charge, and find friendship with Maestro Edward, his enigmatic music teacher. But as the decade draws to an end and fascism tightens its grip on Europe, the fact that Alec is Jewish places his li...
|  | The Other Woman: A Novel of Suspense
Release Date: May 1, 2007Pam Leighton is a smart, ambitious, and sexy aide to a handsome Washington lobbyist named John Duke. For the last two years, she's also been his lover. It's an open secret that his glamorous and social-climbing wife, Catherine, tolerates--to a point. After the President nominates Duke for a cabinet post, Catherine sees her opportunity and delivers an ultimatum: either fire Pam or get ready for a very public, very ugly divorce. Duke's sharply honed political instincts tell him exactly what he needs to do. In one abrupt, brutal meeting, Duke ends the relationship and f...
|  | Long Gone: A Novel
Publication Date: December 11, 2001A story with a heart of gold about love and the loss of innocence at the bottom of the most minor league in baseball—the class D Alabama-Florida League in the 1950s, with a sour old maverick manager, a yearning teenage second baseman, and a black catcher masquerading as a Venezuelan. "A first-rate novel.”—Newsweek. "A sharp, unsentimental portrait of the minor league life...and Hemphill makes it all come to life, believably and memorably.”—Sports Illustrated. "So good, so true, so funny...”—New York Times Boo...
|  | The Woman in White (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: September 28, 2010| ISBN-10: 0141192429 | ISBN-13: 978-0141192420"There in the middle of the broad, bright high-road-there, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth or dropped from the heaven-stood the figure of a solitary woman, dressed from head to foot in white garments." Thus young Walter Hartright first meets the mysterious woman in white in what soon became one of the most popular novels of the nineteenth century. Secrets, mistaken identities, surprise revelations, amnesia, locked rooms and locked asylums, and an unorthodox villain made this mystery thriller a...
|  | The Red Room: Stories of Trauma in Contemporary Korea (Modern Korean Fiction)
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|  | Over Autumn Rooftops (English and Chinese Edition)
Publication Date: September 15, 2010In the six years prior to his death, Hai Zi wrote over 250 short poems, a number of poetic plays, and long poems totaling over 400 pages. Although his verse illuminates the poverty of his rural upbringing, reflects on China's literary and cultural history, and touches down on the grasslands and wheat fields of western China, he is not simply a cultural poet or a nature poet - his poetry transcends all of this. In the twenty years since his death, we have seen the publication of his complete works, at least two full-length biographies, and numerous essays a...
|  | Sentimental Songs/LA Poesia Cursi
Publication Date: April 1992Almost lost to literary history, Felipe Alfau was rediscovered in 1988 with the republication of his proto-postmodernist novel Locos; in 1990 his only other novel, Chromos (written in 1948), was published for the first time, winning great critical acclaim and a nomination for the National Book Award. His published work is now complete with Sentimental Songs, his collection of poetry.Written between 1923 and 1987 (thus predating and postdating his novels), these poems represent a lifetime's reflections and personal experiences. Unlike the novels, the poems were wri...
|  | Lovely Love Story
Publication Date: January 15, 2004A beautiful story about two lovely dinosaurs with a message as old as time itself -- that being together is better than being apart! the perfect gift for Valentine's Day Featuring animals as well as distinctly animalistic humans, Edward Monkton books are highly collectable and stylish gift books -- equally at home on a coffee table, in the bathroom, in quiet places or together places. They are perfect for giving to a loved one or for keeping for yourself. A Lovely Love Story describes a special kind of friendship between a fierce Lovely Dinosaur and a Lovely...
|  | The Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762-1800 (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
Publication Date: August 28, 1999| Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism (Book 12) A genre of supernatural fiction was among the more improbable products of the Age of Enlightenment. This book questions the historical reasons for its growing popularity in the late eighteenth century. Beginning with the notorious case of the Cock Lane ghost, a performing poltergeist who became a major attraction in London in 1762, and with Garrick's spellbinding and paradigmatic performance as the ghost-seeing Hamlet, it moves on to look at the Gothic novels of Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, M. G. Lewis, a...
|  | Klee (Pegasus)
Publication Date: April 2002| Series: Pegasus A talented violinist as well as a painter, Klee drew much of the inspiration for his abstract art from musical rhythms and structure. Like a composer, he developed and harmonized pictorial themes, weaving a complex series of signs and symbols into his painting. In this book, the art historian Hajo Duechting focuses his study primarily on Klee's decade-long tenure at the Bauhaus, where the artist's theories and practice first merged, and where he was to develop his Colour Spectrum, Square and Polyphone painting series. Illustrated throughout with ...
|  | Keywords for American Cultural Studies
Release Date: October 1, 2007| ISBN-10: 0814799485 | ISBN-13: 978-0814799482Instructors: check out keywords.nyupress.org, where you'll find a link to the Keywords Collaboratory, a wiki-based space where classes and other groups collaborate on keywords assignments that take their method, focus, or inspiration from the essays published in Keywords for American Cultural Studies. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a "keyword" is "a word that is of great importance or significance." On the web, "keywords" organize vast quantities of complex informat...
|  | The Snake, the Crocodile & the Dog (Amelia Peabody Mysteries)
Publication Date: February 1, 1994| Series: Amelia Peabody, Book 7 The delightful seventh adventure for popular heroine Amelia Peabody. The 19th-century Egyptologist and her dashing husband, Emerson, return to Amarna, where they first fell in love. When Emerson is kidnapped, Amelia must rescue her husband, find the culprit, and save her marriage. ...
|  | Pirate Soup (Critters of the Night)
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|  | Four Stupid Cupids (The Hamlet Chronicles)
Release Date: December 13, 2005| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Mayan Folktales: Folklore from Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
Publication Date: March 1999This collection of folklore offers a rich and lively panorama of Mayan mythic heritage. Here are everyday tales of village life; legends of witches, shamans, spiritualists, tricksters, and devils; fables of naguales, or persons who can change into animal forms; ribald stories of love and life; cautionary tales of strange and menacing neighbors and of the danger lurking within the human heart. These legends narrate origin and creation stories, explain the natural world, and reinforce cultural beliefs and values such as honesty, industriousness, sharing, fairness, a...
|  | The Story of Celtic
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