 | Boss Bitch (Bitch Series)
Publication Date: May 15, 2012| Series: Bitch Precious Cummings and her daughter Aaliyah Mills Carter must protect the family empire as an unknown enemy tries to step in and take the throne. Can mother and daughter get past their differences and unite as one or will they stay at odds and risk having their loved ones torn apart? The saga continues to unfold in Boss Bitch. ...
 |  | Horoscopes for the Dead: Poems
Release Date: March 20, 2012WINNER—BEST POETRY—GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYNEWSWEEK/THE DAILY BEASTNATIONAL BESTSELLER Billy Collins is widely acknowledged as a prominent player at the table of modern American poetry. And in this smart, lyrical, and mischievous collection of poetry, which covers the everlasting themes of love and loss, youth and aging, solitude and union, Collins’s verbal gifts are on full display. ...
|  | What Lies Within (5th Sam Casey Mystery)
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|  | Flight Behavior: A Novel
Release Date: November 6, 2012 Flight Behavior transfixes from its opening scene, when a young woman's narrow experience of life is thrown wide with the force of a raging fire. In the lyrical language of her native Appalachia, Barbara Kingsolver bares the rich, tarnished humanity of her novel's inhabitants and unearths the modern complexities of rural existence. Characters and reader alike are quickly carried beyond familiar territory here, into the unsettled ground of science, faith, and everyday truces between reason and conviction. Dellarobia Turnbow is a restless farm wife who gave up ...
|  | Undiscovered Country: A Novel
Publication Date: July 3, 2008Unaware that his life is about to change in ways he can't imagine, seventeen-year-old Jesse Matson ventures into the northern Minnesota woods with his father on a cold November afternoon. Perched on individual hunting stands a quarter-mile apart, they wait with their rifles for white-tailed deer. When the muffled crack of a gunshot rings out, Jesse unaccountably knows something is wrong-and he races through the trees to find his dad dead of a rifle wound, apparently self-inflicted. But would easygoing Harold Matson really kill himself? If so, why?Haunted by th...
|  | New Perspectives on the Seventeenth-Century English Religious Lyric
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|  | Moses in the Sinai
Publication Date: December 19, 2001Moses in the Sinai rewrites the books of Exodus and Numbers by way of The Arabian Nights, Nikos Kazantzakis, and Cecil B. DeMille. It makes generous use of myth and history, ancient and contemporary. The Hebrews of the novel are a varied mob of outlaws, magicians, sorcerers, aristocrats, and idolators, all content with being slaves. Moses must lead them into the Sinai against their will in the hope of serving a God whose very identity he doubts. The Hebrews of this historical and imaginative novel inhabit a world where children are born in cooking pots, mea...
|  | From Lightning to the Light
Publication Date: July 11, 2007This fast-paced science fiction story for young and old includes time travel, a teenage girl superhero, and romance. It encourages continual reliance on God. The story takes place over a 500-year time span. ...
|  | Great Balls of Fire: The Uncensored Story of Jerry Lee Lewis
Publication Date: June 1989He was the wildest mover and shaker of the rock-and-roll era. Here is the story of "The Killer", Jerry Lee Lewis, as told by his child bride Myra. From drug abuse to Bible-quoting, Lewis was on a roller-coaster through love, success, and life! A major movie release from Orin this summer. ...
|  | The Boyfriend
Publication Date: August 19, 2003Chris faced up to the fact that he was gay young man in spite of all the stories he read where he didn't fit the profile-his family wasn't loaded, he didn't drive an incredible road machine, and he was neither effeminate nor the super?jock. He didn't hate himself, and while he didn't exactly bolt out of the closet, he wasn't in a state of painful denial either. So, what did he want?Chris wanted love but that's tough to find. But that didn't matter anyway, because everything he heard and saw told him all gay men wanted was sex-and that he knew how to find.Look...
|  | El color de la magia / The Colour of Magic (Discworld) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: June 30, 2006| Series: Discworld (Book 26200) En un mundo plano sostenido por cuatro elefantes impasibles -que se apoyan en la espalda de una tortuga gigante- habitan los estrafalarios personajes de esta novela: un hechicero avaro y torpe, un turista ingenuo cuyo fiero equipaje le sigue a todas partes sostenido por cientos de patitas, dragones que solo existen si se cree en ellos, gremios de ladrones y asesinos, espadas mágicas, la Muerte y, por supuesto, un extenso catálogo de magos y demonios...En esta serie de novelas se dan cita todos los temas y situaciones d...
|  | World Mythology: The Illustrated Guide
Publication Date: June 29, 2006| ISBN-10: 0195307526 | ISBN-13: 978-0195307528The great myths of the world create meaning out of the fundamental events of human existence: birth, death, conflict, loss, reconciliation, the cycle of the seasons. They speak to us of life itself in voices still intelligible, yet compellingly strange and distant. World Mythology offers readers an authoritative and wide-ranging guide to these enduring mythological traditions, combining the pure narrative of the myths themselves with the backtground necessary for more complete understanding. Here, noted mytholo...
|  | The Comedies of William Shakespeare (Modern Library)
Release Date: June 7, 1994| Series: Modern Library This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, a...
|  | The Wisdom of Shakespeare: Twelfth Night (The Wisdom of Shakespeare Series)
Publication Date: January 2002| Series: The wisdom of Shakespeare series Written to complement the Globe Theatre's production of "Twelfth Night", this thought provoking work takes the reader into the fascinating world of Alchemy and Cabala that underlies the Shakespeare play. The author shows not only how the play is based on a profound understanding of the biblical Genesis and Revelation but also of the mystery of initiation path that lies between. The story takes on another depth of meaning when we realise that the characters represent aspects of our own psyche and spirit as well as of soc...
|  | The Word That Causes Death's Defeat: Poems of Memory (Annals of Communism)
Publication Date: October 11, 2004| Series: Annals of Communism Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), one of twentieth-century Russia’s greatest poets, was viewed as a dangerous element by post-Revolution authorities. One of the few unrepentant poets to survive the Bolshevik revolution and subsequent Stalinist purges, she set for herself the artistic task of preserving the memory of pre-Revolutionary cultural heritage and of those who had been silenced. This book presents Nancy K. Anderson’s superb translations of three of Akhmatova’s most important poems: Requiem, a commemor...
|  | The Secret Tunnel
Publication Date: October 1, 2008The Flying Scotsman, one of the world’s legendary train journeys, has many attractions for Edward “Mitch” Mitchell, from the obliging porter to the mean guard to a troop of rough-and-ready soldiers in easily lifted kilts in the third-class carriage. But Mitch may not have time for them all before they arrive in London. When the train gets stuck in a tunnel, a dead body is found in the first-class toilet! Ever-ready Mitch decides to intervene and solve the crime. With his new Belgian sidekick Benoit, he pursues the killer through a crazy kal...
|  | Terms Of Engagement (By Request 2'S)
Publication Date: March 1, 2002| Series: By Request 2's Two complete novels explore how a marriage of convenience can be downright inconvenient. In "Wanted: Wife, " Jordan Prentiss is ordered to get married or be fired. Wedding consultant Elise Sinclair is on the case, but how to mold him into the perfect groom? In "Marriage in Jeopardy, " Blake and Juliana Preston are married in name only. But when Blake's plane disappears, she has to admit he means everything to her. ...
|  | The Lady of Guadalupe
Publication Date: December 1988| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Recounts the appearance of the Lady of Guadalupe to a poor Indian farmer in Mexico in 1531. ...
|  | The Emperor and the Kite (sandcastle) (A Randolph Caldecott Medal Honor Book)
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|  | The Prayer That Makes God Smile
Publication Date: January 1, 2009| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up When Jesus said, "Let the little ones come to me," He truly meant it! This life-changing book about God's everlasting love and the power of prayer from beloved writer Stormie Omartian reassures children that their prayers are meaningful to God and that He always listens to them.Reassuring little ones that God's love is a forever love, Stormie shows kids how to give thanks for family and friends, give their wants and needs to their heavenly Father, and trust Him to do what is right for their lives. She then explain...
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