 | The Last Man: A Novel (Mitch Rapp)
Release Date: November 13, 2012| Series: Mitch Rapp An invaluable CIA asset has gone missing, and with him, secrets that in the wrong hands could prove disastrous. The only question is: Can Mitch Rapp find him first? Joe Rickman, head of CIA clandestine operations in Afghanistan, has been kidnapped and his four bodyguards executed in cold blood. But Mitch Rapp’s experience and nose for the truth make him wonder if something even more sinister isn’t afoot. Irene Kennedy, director of the CIA, has dispatched him to Afghanistan to find Rickman at all costs. Rapp, however, isn’t...
 |  | Finding Our Way Home: A Novel (A Snowglobe Connections Novel)
Release Date: March 13, 2012| Series: A Snowglobe Connections Novel When the road home becomes daunting—sometimes a very capable girl on a bicycle can help find the way. “Charming, surprising, familiar, and just downright wonderful.”—Allie Pleiter, author of Yukon Wedding and Bluegrass Blessings When principal ballerina Sasha Davis suffers a career-ending injury at age thirty-eight, she leaves her Boston-based dance company and retreats to the home of her youth in Minnesota. But Sasha’s injuries limit her as much as her mother’s recent death haun...
|  | Lost Mission (Center Point Christian Mystery (Large Print))
Publication Date: March 1, 2010| Series: Center Point Christian Mystery (Large Print) <big><p align="center">What haunting legacy awaits deep beneath the barrios and wealthy enclaves of Southern California?</big>An idyllic Spanish mission collapses in the eighteenth century atop the supernatural evidence of a shocking crime. Twelve generations later the ground is opened up, the forgotten ruins are disturbed, and rich and poor alike confront the onslaught of resurging hell on earth. Caught up in the catastrophe are...• A humble shopkeeper compelled t...
|  | The Echo Chamber: A Novel
Release Date: August 4, 2011An evocative and exquisitely written debut novel about family, empire and money.Impressive in its scope and ambition, this first novel is at once a family saga, a book that reimagines the myth of the empire, and a history of objects. The Echo Chamber is narrated by fifty-four- year-old Evie Steppman, who grew up in Nigeria in the 1950s during the last decade of British rule. As a child, Evie exhibited extraordinarily acute powers of hearing; now, alone in an attic in Scotland that is filled with objects from her past and with her powers of hearing starting to fa...
|  | Diary of a Medical Student: Hospital of Horrors
Publication Date: May 6, 2010THE TRUE MADHOUSE DAYS Having lived through the true Madhouse days, I can tell you an amzing story not recorded elsewhere. It is about the snake-pit era of the 1950s when our state hospitals like Manteno were reaching their peak populations. At the time our society swept the mentally ill into institutions thought of as benign and benevolent. But in fact they were not so kind and benevolent. Very few people knew about it at the time. But I knew, because I was there. As an idealistic medical student, intent on helping patients with serious mental illness, I went to...
|  | El Dorado Shuffle
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|  | The Classical Tradition (Harvard University Press Reference Library)
Publication Date: October 25, 2010| ISBN-10: 0674035720 | ISBN-13: 978-0674035720 How do we get from the polis to the police? Or from Odysseus’ sirens to an ambulance’s? The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. In this volume, some five hundred articles by a wide range of scholars investigate the afterlife of this rich heritage in the fields of literature, philosophy, art, architecture, history, politics, religion, and science. Arranged alphabetically from Academy to Zoology, the essays&mdas...
|  | Cakes and Ale
Release Date: December 5, 2000Cakes and Ale is a delicious satire of London literary society between the Wars. Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected by Edward Driffield's wife to pen the official biography of her lionized novelist husband, and determined to write a bestseller. But then Kear discovers the great novelist's voluptuous muse (and unlikely first wife), Rosie. The lively, loving heroine once gave Driffield enough material to last a lifetime, but now her memory casts an embarrissing shadow over his career and respectable image. Wise, witty, deeply sat...
|  | The Antigone (Large Print Edition)
Publication Date: August 21, 2008This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. ...
|  | Drama for All Seasons
Publication Date: July 1, 2000| ISBN-10: 0788017640 | ISBN-13: 978-0788017643Esther Danielson is gifted with a dynamic creativity, which is expressed through refreshing dramatic material. She writes interesting, appealing scripts which hold the audience. The sketches involve believable characters whose conversation is natural, often humorous, and quite insightful. Phil CrosbyMinister of Music and Senior AdultsParkway Baptist ChurchSt. Louis, Missouri In a time when our culture is becoming dominated by visual modes of communication such as television, movies, videos, and computer games, c...
|  | My Brother Johnny (Aurora New Fiction)
Publication Date: April 1, 2008| Series: Aurora New Fiction “[Francesco] D’Adamo’s prose is straightforward, almost reportorial; he chooses hauntingly poetic images.”—Publishers WeeklyA new young adult novel about war and its consequences from award-winning author Francesco D’Adamo. D’Adamo has written several books for teenagers, including the novel Iqbal, which attracted widespread press and media. ...
|  | Cuentos y relatos en verso/ Tales and Novels in Verse (Letras Universales/ Universal Writings) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | A Research Guide to English Translation of Chinese Verse
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|  | Last Voyage: Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli
Publication Date: October 1, 2010This first appearance of Pascoli’s poems in English translation provides an introduction to his work for the English-speaking reader. The first section of the book includes some of Pascoli’s brief lyric poems, many of them displaying his innovative use of image narrative. We see scenes of country life in his village near Barga, Italy, in the Apuan Alps, at the end of the 19th century. We see the aurora borealis, chickens, donkeys, women hanging laundry, the new railway and men crushing wheat.The second part of the book consists of three somewhat f...
|  | Happily Ever After (Arabesque)
Release Date: October 1, 1994| Series: Arabesque Five years after their impetuous marriage had ended in divorce, author Cal Samuels reenters Lauren Taylor's life, offering a legacy for their son, a child he never knew they had, and a new chance at love. Original. ...
|  | Once Upon a Dream
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|  | No Sanctuary
Publication Date: July 1, 2003| ISBN-10: 0843951036 | ISBN-13: 978-0843951035Rick would do anything for his girlfriend. He'd even spend his vacation in the wilderness, walking the trails around Fern Lake. After what happened last time, it's the one place in the world he'd prefer not to go. But Bert is a woman with a passion for the outdoors - and a passion for other things too. Rick would follow her to hell and back - which is what he's about to do. Gillian is off on vacation too, only her idea of a holiday is a little weird. She likes breaking into people's homes while they are away and...
|  | Creepy Carrots!
Release Date: August 21, 2012| Age Level: 4 and up The Twilight Zone comes to the carrot patch in this clever picture book parable about a rabbit who fears his favorite treats are out to get him. Jasper Rabbit loves carrots—especially Crackenhopper Field carrots. He eats them on the way to school.He eats them going to Little League.He eats them walking home.Until the day the carrots start following him...or are they? Celebrated artist Peter Brown’s stylish illustrations pair perfectly with Aaron Reynold’s text in this hilarious picture book that...
|  | Haunted Cleats (Screammates)
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|  | Food and Energy: Striking a Healthy Balance (Mission: Nutrition)
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