 | Tales of the Ten Lost Tribes
Release Date: September 29, 2009Deeply melancholy with a streak of dark humor, award-winning author Tamar Yellin presents this haunting collection of linked stories that examine the heart of human longing and ask the question: Where do we belong? Taking its imagery from the legend of the exiled ten tribes of Israel, Tales of the Ten Lost Tribes follows the life-journey of an enigmatic narrator who encounters a series of displaced persons, bringing to light the narrator's own remarkable wanderlust. With each encounter the narrator inevitably moves on, dreaming of home, unable to res...
 |  | Pan Anthology of English Prose: From the Elizabethans to the Present
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|  | Firethorn (Discarded Heroes, Book 4)
Publication Date: 2012 Don your tactical gear and enter the world of black ops and espionage within the pages of Ronie Kendig’s thriller Firethorn. Former Marine Griffin “Legend” Riddell, a fugitive from injustice, finds it difficult to trust anyone. Covert operative Kazi Faron, the woman sent to free him, has a dangerous secret that may jeopardize her life, mission, and the only man she respects. As Griffin and Kazi race around the globe to save Nightshade, the danger mounts. Will they find the culprit sabotaging their black ops team? Can their newfound feelings and trust ...
|  | Celebrating the Golden Years
Publication Date: August 199896 pages ...
|  | The Amish Midwife (The Women of Lancaster County)
Publication Date: February 1, 2011| Series: The Women of Lancaster County A dusty carved box containing two locks of hair and a century-old letter regarding property in Switzerland, and a burning desire to learn about her biological family lead nurse-midwife Lexie Jaeger from her home in Oregon to the heart of Pennsylvania Amish country. There she meets Marta Bayer, a mysterious lay-midwife who desperately needs help after an Amish client and her baby die.Lexie steps in to assume Marta's patient load even as she continues the search for her birth family, and from her patients she learns the ...
|  | Mysterious Cat Stories
Publication Date: September 1994A collection of twenty-five supernatural tales that feature unpredictable and eccentric cats includes the works of Bram Stoker, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, Lilian Jackson Braun, Washington Irving, and others. ...
|  | Reprisal (Adversary Cycle/Repairman Jack)
Release Date: December 6, 2011| Series: Adversary Cycle/Repairman Jack “Who am I? Why, I’m you. Or parts of you. The best parts. I’m the touch of Richard Speck, Ed Gein, John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, and Bin Laden in all of you. I am the thousand tiny angers and fleeting rages of your day—at the car that cuts you off on the freeway, at the kid who sneaks ahead of you in line at the movies, at the old fart with the full basket in the eight-items-only express checkout at the supermarket. I’m the nasty glee in the name-callers and the long-suffering pain, the self-lo...
|  | The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: January 15, 2009| Series: Oxford World's Classics First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an Italian story of the time of the crusades.In it Walpole attempted, as he declared in the Preface to the Second Edition, "to blend the two kinds of romance: the ancient and the modern."Crammed with invention, entertainment, terror, and pathos, the novel was an immediate success and Walpole's own favorite among his numerous works.The novel is reprinted here from a text of 1798, the last that Walpole himself prepared for the press....
|  | Sheepshagger: A Novel
Publication Date: June 6, 2002 This is the story of Ianto: the feral, inarticulate, inbred, ignoble savage; haunter of mountains, killer of innocents. Ianto is a sheepshagger -- a yokel, a Welsh redneck. But Ianto is also a seer, a visionary -- the genius loci -- who comprehends nature with a Blakean intensity, and is at one with the world he lives in: the moss and lichen, the lamb and the raven, the summit and the scree. Robbed of his ancestral home -- a near-derelict hovel in the mountains of west Wales -- Ianto pledges revenge not only on the English yuppies who have turned his grandmothe...
|  | Morphology of the Folktale: Second Edition, Revised and Edited with Preface by Louis A. Wagner, Introduction by Alan Dundes (Publications of the American Folklore Society)
Publication Date: June 1968| ISBN-10: 0292783760 | ISBN-13: 978-0292783768| Edition: 2 "Morphology will in all probability be regarded by future generations as one of the major theoretical breakthroughs in the field of folklore in the twentieth century." -- Alan Dundes "Propp's work is seminal...[and], now that it is available in a new edition, should be even more valuable to folklorists who are directing their attention to the form of the folktale, especially to those structural characteristics which are common to many entries coming from even different cultures." -- Choice ...
|  | Oedipus Tyrannus
Publication Date: March 2000| ISBN-10: 0872204928 | ISBN-13: 978-0872204928Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's collaboration on this new translation combines the strengths that have recently distinguished both as translators of Greek tragedy: expert knowledge of the Greek and of the needs of the teaching classicist, intimate knowledge of theatre, and an excellent ear for the spoken word. Their Oedipus Tyrannus features foot-of-the-page notes, an Introduction, stage directions and a translation characterized by its clarity, accuracy, and power. Peter Meineck is Producing Artistic Director o...
|  | I Need to
Publication Date: August 31, 2007Author John Mali Moses has compiled some of his most compelling poetry in I Need To. Moses has been writing poetry for years and has chosen only the best poems to fill the pages of his sixty-page book. He has covered all aspects of his life, from the high moments to the low ones. This book is like opening a window into Moses' soul; it's a journey into his mind and thoughts. Almost every issue in life, whether relative through personal experience or otherwise, is covered in this book, including the issues of love, death, sadness, joy, illness, and hope. You'll...
|  | Ad Critique: How to Deconstruct Ads in Order to Build Better Advertising
Publication Date: December 14, 2011| ISBN-10: 1412980534 | ISBN-13: 978-1412980531Ad Critique teaches advertising, marketing, and management students--both the "suits" and the "creatives"--how to effectively judge and critique creativity in advertising. This textbook is an instruction manual; a facilitator of dialogue; a companion piece to classroom content. Its lessons result in actual skills that enable students to look at the creative product and embolden them to say something constructive and worthwhile. ...
|  | El Reino del Dragon de Oro (Spanish Edition)
Release Date: September 7, 2004Unas meses después que el joven Alexander Cold se internara con suabuela en el corazón del Amazonas en busca de una legendaria Bestia, vivirá otra aventura. En esta ocasión, la reportera Kate Cold acompaña a su nieto y a Nadia, la mejor amiga de Alexander, junto con los fotógrafos de la International Geographic, en un viaje a otro remoto rincón del mundo. La misión del equipo es adentrarse en un reino prohibido, oculto en los picos helados del Himalaya, y localizar el legendario dragón de oro, una estatua sagrada y o...
|  | Aldred's Marginalia (University of Exeter Press - Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies)
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|  | Aunt Dimity: Detective (Aunt Dimity Mystery)
Release Date: January 28, 2003| Series: Aunt Dimity Mystery When Lori Shepherd returns from her trip to America, she is shocked to hear that Prunella "Pruneface" Hooper has been killed. This is the first murder in the village of Finch in more than a century, and everyone is in an uproar. Before the town implodes in the wake of this scandal, Lori sets out to solve the murder. Unfortunately, nearly everyone in Finch had a reason to want Mrs. Hooper dead. With the help of the ghostly Aunt Dimity and Nicholas, the enigmatic (and charming!) self-defense instructor, Lori aligns motive, means...
| | Cosmopolitan Crimes: Foreign Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
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|  | Batman Classic: Reptile Rampage (I Can Read Book 2)
Release Date: April 17, 2012| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | X-Men Legacy Vol. 2: Sins of the Father (v. 2)
Publication Date: December 10, 2008| Grade Level: 4 and up Xavier traces his history and the history of the X-Men to the core. What he finds will shock you! And what do Rogue, Gambit, and Sebastian Shaw have to do with it? Then, Sinister's machinations finally come to a head, after decades of preparations. Can Xavier discover the secrets to the plot against his mind before he loses his sanity? Or will he become another in a long line of victims? Either way, he just may learn things about his past he'll come to regret! Guest starring Sebastian Shaw and the deadliest gator in the swamp, Gambit...
|  | The Pet Dragon: A Story about Adventure, Friendship, and Chinese Characters
Release Date: August 26, 2008| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Meet Lin and her pet dragon!When the dragon mysteriously disappears, Lin sets off on a journey to find her best friend . . . and readers set off on a journey of learning and discovery.By ingeniously integrating written Chinese characters into the illustrations as the story progresses, Christoph Niemann has created a book that is engrossing, unique, and memorable. The Pet Dragon is a playful introduction to the fascinating world of Chinese language and culture . . . and a terrific story to share with children every...
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