 | The Covenant
Release Date: September 15, 2005Living in terror-torn Jerusalem, Elise Margulies constantly fears for the safety of her loved ones. Confined to bedrest during a difficult pregnancy, she happily awaits the return of her husband and little girl from a ballet recital, only to find that her worst fears have finally been realized. All seems lost until a phone call to her grandmother in America unexpectedly revives a decades-old oath, creating a force that transends time and place, to rescue her loved ones. Over the course of five terror- and hope-filled days, the ties that bind two generations fo...
 |  | Kinflicks: 20th Anniversary Edition
Release Date: April 1, 1996In her first novel, Alther traces the troubled, funny, heartbreaking coming of age of Ginny Babcock Bliss during the l950s and '60s. The daughter of one of the first families in Hullsport, Tennessee, Ginny bounces from one identity to another, adopting the values, politics, lifestyle, even sexual orientation of each new partner. In "Kinflicks," Alther reels through the ups and downs of Ginny's life by dividing her narrative into two sequences: Ginny herself narrates the adventures of her past while a third-person narrator takes over to describe her present, when sh...
|  | Ben Hur (Radio Theatre)
Publication Date: June 18, 2007| Series: Radio Theatre An unforgettable account of betrayal, revenge, redemption, Focus on the Family Radio Theatre's production of Ben-Hur tells the tale of a nobleman who fell from Roman favor and was sentenced to live as a slave—all at the hands of his childhood friend, Messala. Once nearly brothers, any hope of reconciliation is dashed after Messala is seriously injured during a vicious chariot race won by the vindictive Ben-Hur. But what makes this adaptation of Lew Wallace's best-selling story unforgettable is the changed man Ben-Hur becomes after...
|  | No Safe Harbor (Edge of Freedom)
Publication Date: October 1, 2012| Series: Edge of Freedom (Book 1) The Thrill of Romantic Suspense Meets the Romance of 1800s AmericaLured by a handful of scribbled words across a faded letter, Cara Hamilton sets off from 1896 Ireland on a quest to find the brother she'd thought dead. Her search lands her in America, amidst a houseful of strangers and one man who claims to be a friend--Rourke Walsh.Despite her brother's warning, Cara decides to trust Rourke and reveals the truth about her purpose in America. But he is not who he claims to be, and as rumors begin to circulate about an underg...
|  | About-Face Space Race (Astrokids)
Publication Date: October 1, 2001| Age Level: 7 and up...
|  | I Am Scrooge: A Zombie Story for Christmas
Publication Date: October 1, 2011Marley was dead—again. From the author of Yellow Blue Tibia, it's the Dickensian Zombie Apocalypse—God Bless us, every one! The legendary Ebenezeer Scrooge sits in his house counting money. The boards that he has nailed up over the doors and the windows shudder and shake under the blows from the endless zombie hordes that crowd the streets hungering for his flesh and his miserly braaaaiiiiiinns! Just how did the happiest day of the year slip into a welter of blood, innards, and shambling, ravenous undead on the snowy streets of old London town?...
|  | Codez2Codez: A Watts and Compton Saga (Volume 2)
Publication Date: December 4, 2011Aleta is making her presence known with her Raw and Real Life page turners. Karen Williams, author of Thug In Me. A trail of love, sex, deceit, revenge, murder, and betrayal drips across every page of this electrifying saga. Take a ride through two of Southern California's most notorious neighborhoods, Watts and the City of Compton and witness first hand how cold there streets are.Debo is back on the streets of Compton, bangin' may no longermay be his top priority but coming up in the dope game is. It don’t take Debo long to fall in love with the allu...
|  | Hell's Highway
Publication Date: December 20, 2011FBI Agents Cameron Ross and Andrea Sullivan found the unexpected when they met amongst the warm red rocks and cliffs of Sedona—each other. That commitment, along with their ingenuity, courage and resolve, will be tested along the most barren of stretches in California’s Mojave Desert.Someone is using the bleak highways to dump women’s bodies, but in a landscape where an inviting road can curve into a sand-choked mirage, and a true oasis can be invisible under a white-hot sun, clues can blow away in the wind.In this sequel to Devilȁ...
|  | Wild Pitch
Release Date: September 16, 2002This is what happens when a washed-up one-time pitching phenom and all-around jerk gets a second chance-and discovers that none of it is exactly what he expected it to be.Showtime Charlie Stoddard now occupies himself at card shows, one-night stands, and nearby watering holes. His ex-wife still talks to him, but keeps her distance (about 3,000 miles); his son won't even do that-all in all, a life filled with peaches and cream. And then a decidedly unorthodox therapist starts working on his arm, and Charlie begins to dream again . . . especially now that the ...
|  | The Canvas Barricade
Publication Date: April 6, 2007| ISBN-10: 0968802494 | ISBN-13: 978-0968802496In print for the first time, Donald Jack's comedy The Canvas Barricade was the first modern play performed on the main stage of the Stratford Festival (1961). The original cast included Peter Donat, Kate Reid, Jack Creley, Amelia Hall, Zoe Caldwell, and Bruno Gerussi.Misty Woodenbridge, a painter, has rejected the materialism of modern society for life in a tent by the Ottawa River, where he lives as carefree as the fabled grasshopper, eating stolen apples and painting masterpieces. But as summer draws to...
|  | Calderon: The Physician of his Honour; El Medico de su Honra (Hispanic Classics)
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|  | A Companion to Theatre in Australia
Publication Date: November 24, 1995A comprehensive reference book, never before attempted, which covers theatre in Australia in all its forms since 1788. Some 1300 entries, alphabetically organised and ranging in length from 200 to 7000 words, cover Australian and visiting personalities who have influenced Australian cultural history; genres from melodrama and the classics to pantomime, musical theatre, circus and performance art. Longer entries include historical accounts of colonial theatre, industrial relations, touring conditions, acting style, management dramatic criticism, set design, ...
|  | Best Short Stories: A Dual-Language Book (Dover Dual Language German)
Publication Date: April 1, 1997| ISBN-10: 0486295613 | ISBN-13: 978-0486295619Students of German language and literature will welcome this collection of 5 stories by one of the greatest modern writers. Included are "The Metamorphosis," "The Judgment," "In the Penal Colony," "A Country Doctor" and "A Report to an Academy." Original German texts accompanied by new, literal English translations on facing pages. ...
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|  | Great Occasions: Readings for the Celebration of Birth, Coming-Of-Age, Marriage, and Death
Publication Date: January 1, 2003Birth, maturity, marriage and death: These are the four cornerstones of human life, the great occasions. Over 650 memorable selections to commemorate the milestones of life. Poetry and prose from a broad spectrum of highly regarded writers, including Aiken, Pound, Dickinson, Seneca, Blake, Buddha, Bronte, Marcuse, Stevens, Sexton, Tagore, Lippman, Sandburg, Sarton, Pasternak, Lao Tzu, Yevtushenko, Yeats and many more.This treasury of words pays tribute to the watershed events of life. Prose and poetry selections are sorted by the occasion they...
|  | Duty and Character
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|  | The Legend of Zelda, Vol. 8: The Minish Cap
Release Date: December 1, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Dust 'n' Bones: Ten Ghost Stories
Publication Date: September 1, 2012| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Kids should be prepared to be scared! This collection contains 10 terrifying tales—some classic chillers, and some brand-new bloodcurdlers. Making classic ghost stories accessible to a younger audience, this book contains 10 tales, five retold favorite ghost stories—from Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow to Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart—and five original ghost stories by Chris Mould. Illustrated throughout in color and black and white, th...
|  | Sky Dogs
Publication Date: September 1995Combining authentic language, period detail, and passages of tribal legend, Yolen tells the story of the day three horses arrive in Blackfeet territory. To a people who have never before seen them, these horses seem like mysterious large dogs sent from the Blackfeet creator-god. An ALA Notable Book. Full color. ...
| | Chinese Fairy Tales
Publication Date: May 1998| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Both adults and children will enjoy this captivating collection of authentic Chinese fairy tales, featuring talking animals, princesses in peril, clever cowherds, and other engaging characters. Based on legends, ghost stories, and myths, the stories include "The Flower-Elves," "The Dragon-Princess," "The Bird with Nine Heads," and many others. 25 black-and-white illustrations. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
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