 | Isolation: A Novel (Faithwords)
Publication Date: September 12, 2008| Series: Faithwords With masterful storytelling, Travis Thrasher draws readers into a novel so gripping it cannot be put down. James Miller is a burned-out missionary whose time on the mission field in Papua New Guinea left him exhausted and disillusioned. His wife, Stephanie, feels like she's losing her mind. After moving to North Carolina, Stephanie begins seeing strange and frightening things: blood dripping down the walls, one of her children suffocating. Premonitions, she's sure, of what's to come. As the visions and haunting images intensify, Stepha...
 |  | Out of the Ordinary: Prayers, Poems & Reflections for Every Season
Publication Date: January 1, 2000This perennial bestseller is now available in a tenth-anniversary edition that showcases Joyce Rupp's poems, a new preface by the author, and a new design.Joyce Rupp's characteristic creativity and reverence for the Divine are on full display in this collection of prayer resources for birthdays, holidays, holy days, transitions, and many other occasions, helping readers enter more deeply and reflectively into the liturgical and seasonal celebrations of their lives.Ideal for personal use, or as a gift for loved ones celebrating a landmark occasion, this enduri...
|  | There Once was a Serpent: A History of Theology in Limericks
Publication Date: May 16, 2010This book gives a concise history of Christian theology based on a mysteriously discovered set of seventy-four limericks. Readers who already know the history of theology will read about it from an unfamiliar perspective ? and beginners will learn the basics in an accessible form. The limericks range from Gnostic theology through to the Reformation, and on to Karl Barth and Paul Tillich. If all of this seems unfamiliar, the accompanying text should help sort it all out. ...
|  | Salt: A Novel
Publication Date: September 30, 2004A West Indian novel of "generous, torrential prose" (The New York Times Book Review), winner of the 1997 Commonwealth Writers Prize.One hundred years after Emancipation, the diverse people of Trinidad—African, Asian, and European—have not settled into the New World. In Salt, an unforgettable cast of men and women strive with wit and passion to make sense of life in an evolving homeland. ...
|  | Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Part 2 : Perestroika (Angels in America)
Publication Date: January 1, 1994The second half of Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic steers the characters introduced in Millennium Approaches from the opportunistic 1980s to a new sense of community in the 1990s, as they struggle to overcome catastrophic loss. Scheduled to open on Broadway and at London's Royal National Theatre this fall. ...
|  | Brothers By Bond
Publication Date: August 16, 2012Johnny Baxter has been Mike Morgan's best friend for the last seventeen years and his adopted brother for the last fifteen. They have been attached at the hip since they were kids, all through high school and even through the Army with the buddy system. From being stationed as MP's in Germany to graduating the police Academy and riding in the same patrol car night after night, where one was found, so was the other. They shared everything. Until six months ago… when Johnny got divorced. Mike's feelings for his best friend and brother changed; became mor...
|  | Virgin River: A Barnaby Skye Novel (Barnaby Skye Novels)
Release Date: September 1, 2009| Series: Barnaby Skye Novels This is the sixteenth novel in Richard S. Wheeler’s long-running series about Barnaby Skye, the British seaman who carves out an amazing life for himself in the North American Wilderness, along with his wives and his ugly, cantankerous horse, Jawbone. In Virgin River, the famed mountain man and his two wives, Victoria of the Crows and Mary of the Shoshones, take a party of tubercular young people to the southwestern desert where they hope to be healed. Their destination is the Virgin River, where the mild, dry cli...
|  | Rasselas: Prince of Abyssinia
Publication Date: 1909This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 edition. Excerpt: ... children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? " Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives. The old man trusts wholiy to slow contrivance and gradual progression; the youth expects to force his way by genius, vigour, and precipitance. The old man pays regard to ric...
|  | Discourse and Pragmatics in Functional Grammar (Functional Grammar Series)
Publication Date: June 1997| Series: Functional Grammar Series (Book 18) Functional grammar is a linguistic theory in which language is regarded as a vehicle of communicative interaction. As such, it has a strong pragmatic orientation, and this text presents the results of some recent research into pragmatics within the functional grammar framework. ...
|  | Postmodern Marketing Two: Telling Tales
Publication Date: November 20, 1997In a sequel to Postmodern Marketing, Stephen Brown returns to the key issues and implications of postmodernism.Postmodern Marketing II is so delightful, exciting, and chock full of good ideas that I raced through it at breakneck speed. It is at once extremely clever, extremely funny, and extremely serious. - Russ Beck, The University of Utah ...
| | Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction
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|  | A Convergence of the Creative and the Critical
Publication Date: March 13, 2009| ISBN-10: 3039118781 | ISBN-13: 978-3039118786Literary modernism and its aftermath saw few more enigmatic practitioners than Henry Green. Green was a remarkably innovative and experimental novelist, while also being a keenly perceptive observer of the turbulent times in which he wrote. With his writing spanning the high-point of modernism in the 1920s, the turn towards greater social and political engagement in the 1930s and the search for new beginnings in the post-war period, Green's texts reflect some of the most important literary developments of the ...
|  | Scandal's Bride (Cynster Novels)
Release Date: March 1, 1999| Series: Cynster Novels How can an honourable lady like Lady Catriona Hennessy unite with a rake like Richard Cynster? Though charmed by his commanding presence, she cannot give up her independence. Marriage had not previously been on Richard′s agenda, but perhaps taming the lady was just the challenge he needs - if he can have the rights of the marriage bed without making any revealing promises of love?...
|  | Murder on the Thirteenth (Albert J Tretheway Series)
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|  | The Ghost in the Noonday Sun
Release Date: April 10, 2007| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and upSo begin the adventures of young Oliver Finch, born at the stroke of midnight. Believing that Oliver can spy out ghosts, Captain Scratch kidnaps him, bringing him aboard the notorious pirate vessel Bloody Hand. The ship sails the high seas in pursuit of the ghost of Gentleman Jack, who paces his grave where the pirate treasure lies buried. A despicable pirate captain, a mutinous crew, a band of sly sea ghosts—Oliver is determined to outfox them all and get safely home. It's a tale of treachery, intrigue, and su...
|  | Sheep Blast Off!
Publication Date: March 7, 2011| Grade Level: K and upWhen a mysterious spacecraft lands in a nearby pasture, the lovable, blundering sheep get in gear for the ride of their lives! Unfortunately, these sheep don’t know the first thing about piloting a spaceship . . . but there may be someone else on board who does. ...
|  | Rogues Gallery (The Batman Adventures, Vol. 1)
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|  | Detroit Pistons (NBA Champions)
Publication Date: January 31, 2008| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
| | Hockey Stars (High Interest Books)
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|  | Photo Puzzle Hunt: The Ultimate Spot-the-Differences Challenge
Publication Date: August 1, 2007| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Look first at one photo, then at the other: they’re almost the same, but not quite. And that’s the challenge and the fun of this game, which demands good concentration and a sharp eye. But one thing’s for sure: although you may have to search carefully to find the six subtle differences between the two nearly identical images, you’ll realize in a single glance what sets this collection apart. All the puzzles are carefully composed color photos, rich in detail, and wonderfully arranged in ca...
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