 | Water on a Flat Rock: The Cherokee Love Story of John and Annie Coker
Publication Date: May 26, 2005Water on a Flat Rock gives readers an intimate portrayal of John and Annie Coker, from their marriage in 1819 through the Trail of Tears and the Civil War, and opens with words from Annie herself:"Osiyo.I am Annie.I have come here to this place in the woods to tell you my story.I am glad you have come, hungry for the story that was lost.Learn that we are not so different, you and I.Learn that tragedy, happiness and love do not change through the years - Learn about John."Readers are transported to 1800s Tennessee where 16-year-old Annie Ratliff meets and marries...
 |  | Private Pleasures (Pleasures Series)
Release Date: July 5, 2005| Series: Pleasures Series (Book 1) Nora Buckley's worst nightmare has just come true. After years of being a devoted, dutiful housewife, she's found out her husband is leaving her for a younger woman. Then her friends let her in on their delicious and dirty little secret. It's called The Channel, and it lets every woman unleash passions beyond her wildest dreams. Suddenly Nora is living out her most intimate and sensuous fantasies-and before long, she realizes she can have everything she ever wanted. ...
|  | Faceless Fury
Publication Date: May 23, 2005In 1692 twenty women were brutally murdered in Salem, Massachusetts, accused of witchcraft. Only one of them was truly the agent of hell she was purported to be. Yet, in this day and age, her powerful progeny lives on.in the lives of twins-Kiva and Christi-one evil, one good. However, the progeny of the Salem executioner George Corwin lives on as well, destined to confront the last two witches yet again, to unwittingly serve as the pawn of one, hungry for the blood of the other.Horror at its finest: Gut-wrenchingly graphic, savage and intense, explicitly evil an...
|  | Dating Game
Release Date: February 3, 2004In her 57th bestselling novel, Danielle Steel brilliantly chronicles the roller-coasterride of dating the second time around—and tells a captivating story of the surprisesone woman encounters when she’s thrust into the terrifying, exhilarating world ofthe Dating Game.Paris Armstrong never saw it coming. With two grown children anda lovely home in Connecticut, Paris was happy with her marriage, her family, herlife. So when her husband of twenty-four years said they needed to talk, Paris couldn’ t imagine what he was about to say.“I...
|  | Trouble in Paradise
Release Date: September 21, 1998Robert B. Parker and his legendary Spenser series have long been considered the ne plus ultra of detective fiction. But the critics' praise for Jesse Stone's debut in Night Passage proved there was room for an addition to the Parker literary canon. "A novel as fresh as it is boldParker's sentences flow with as much wit, grace, and assurance as ever, and Stone is a complex and consistently interesting new protagonist. His speedy return will be welcome" (Newsday).Stiles Island is a wealthy and exclusive enclave separated by a bridge from the Massachusetts coast ...
|  | The King's Daughter: A Novel
Release Date: November 23, 2010The daughter of James I, the Princess Elizabeth would not be merely her father's pawn in the royal marriage market.The court of James I is a dangerous place, with factions led by warring cousins Robert Cecil and Francis Bacon. While Europe seethes with conflict between Protestants and Catholics, James sees himself as a grand peacemaker—and wants to make his mark by trading his children for political treaties. Henry, Prince of Wales, and his sister, Elizabeth, find themselves far more popular than their distrusted father, a perilous position for a c...
|  | Black Sun: The Battle of Summit Springs, 1869 (Plainsmen)
Release Date: February 28, 2012| Series: Plainsmen (Book 4) Black SunTerry C. Johnston No one captures the glory, adventure and drama of the courageous men and women who tamped the American West like award-winning author Terry Johnston. His Plainsmen series brims with colorful characters, fierce battles and compelling historical lore.Grueling winter gave way to bloody spring as Seamus Donegan and his fellow Army scouts rode west with the Kansas Pacific Railway. Led by the legendary "Buffalo" Bill Cody, they withstood blazing hit-and-run raids by Cheynne Dog Soldiers--while trailed...
|  | Scandinavian Folk Belief and Legend (Nordic Series)
Publication Date: February 11, 1991| Series: Nordic Series Here is a rich compendium of hundreds of legends, stories, beliefs, and magic collected from oral sources in preindustrial Scandinavia. In this rural society, the people lived close to nature and believed themselves an integral part of it. This volume focuses on beliefs that illustrate the central aspects of a traditional worldview, rather than on prose narratives considered for their literary value. ...
|  | Le malade imaginaire: (The imaginary invalid) (FEP bilingual series, 5)
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|  | The Langston Hughes Reader
Publication Date: September 1, 1981This compilation of the writings of Langston Hughes is drawn from every category of his prodigious literary achievement. It combines highlights of the novels, stories, plays, poems, songs, and essays that have made him famous with many new writings that have never before been published in book form.Among the new selections are the complete libretto of his popular musical comedy "Simply Heavenly," all of the text of his pageant "The Glory of Negro History," a one-act play "Soul Gone Home," and many other stories, poems, and children's lyrics. There are gener...
|  | The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise
Publication Date: 1960One of a series of books dealing with specific Icelandic sagas, Heidrek is a medieval romance unique to Iceland, without European influence. Translated from the Icelandic by Christopher Tolkien, son of J.R.R. Tolkien, the poems appear in the text in the original Icelandic as well. ...
|  | Poems of Jules Laforgue (English and French Edition)
Publication Date: June 1, 2004He is an exquisite poet, a deliverer of nations... a father of light', said Ezra Pound in 1918 of Jules Laforgue. Among the most innovative of poets in the French language, Laforgue was an important influence on the young T S Eliot. Part-symbolist and part-impressionist, his associative method, speech-rhythms and boldly heterogenous diction make him not only one of the most individual of French poets but also among the most entertaining. Notable also for his early protests for the liberation of women, Laforgue died in Paris in 1887 aged just 27.In this revised e...
|  | Prague in Danger: The Years of German Occupation, 1939-45: Memories and History, Terror and Resistance, Theater and Jazz, Film and Poetry, Politics and War
Release Date: April 14, 2009| ISBN-10: 0374531560 | ISBN-13: 978-0374531560| Edition: First Edition A dramatic account of life in Czechoslovakia’s great capital during the Nazi Protectorate With this successor book to Prague in Black and Gold, his account of more than a thousand years of history in the great Central European capital, Peter Demetz focuses on the six years that Prague was under German occupation in World War II: from the bitter morning of March 15, 1939, when Hitler arrived from Berlin to set his seal on the Nazi takeover of the Czechoslovak government, until th...
|  | Feed Me the Sun: Collected Long Poems
Publication Date: April 1, 2010A collection of imaginative and witty poems, this work displays astonishing energy; beauty of expression; and a range of reference to contemporary life, history, art, and literature. Including both meditative and narrative poems, this volume frequently focuses on extreme situations where compassion, love, and individual determination triumph against all odds. “Daphne’s Lot” explores the life of an Englishwoman, the poet’s mother, as she is caught up in the madness of the Nigerian civil war, while “Buffalo Women”—an epistol...
|  | Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print)
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|  | The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: Volume V: Victorian Prose and Poetry
Publication Date: April 5, 1973| ISBN-10: 0195016165 | ISBN-13: 978-0195016161Selections include works by Carlyle, Mill, Ruskin, Arnold, Pater, Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest), Hopkins, and 100 pages each of Browning and Tennyson. ...
|  | Jersey Law: A Novel
Release Date: June 14, 2011“There are no doubt more qualified lawyers around here. Most probably across the river in Philadelphia. But know what? Me and Mickie have got them scratching their heads. They’re thinking, How come those two guys keep winning their cases?” —from chapter two of JERSEY LAW NOT SINCE THE SOPRANOS HAS THE UNDERBELLY OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY BEEN BROUGHT SO VIVIDLY TO LIFE. Meet Mickie and Junne. That’s Mickie Mezzonatti and Salvatore “Junne” Salerno of Camden, New Jersey, a lovable pair of cops-turned-attorneys who def...
|  | When Butterflies Kiss
Publication Date: October 28, 2001Ten writers-all rising stars-weave a collective novel, chapter by chapter. The story, before it's written, is completely unknown. The first writer creates a brother named Dante, whose biggest desire is to lie tangled in the sweetness of a woman. His life is a chaotic mix of testosterone-charged competition and romantic fiascoes. He could go on this way, dodging his boys' challenges and running from commitment, but for the enigmatic nightmares that torment him at night.When Butterflies Kiss defies convention with its multiple authors and fresh insight. One by...
|  | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine: Murder in Hollywood & Murder with a Twist: Great Mystery Series
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|  | The Fire Thief Fights Back
Release Date: April 1, 2008| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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