 | Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection
Release Date: April 10, 2012 From the bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically and The Know-It-All comes the true and truly hilarious story of one person’s quest to become the healthiest man in the world. Hospitalized with a freak case of tropical pneumonia, goaded by his wife telling him, “I don’t want to be a widow at forty-five,” and ashamed of a middle-aged body best described as “a python that swallowed a goat,” A.J. Jacobs felt compelled to change his ways and get healthy. And he didn’t want only to lose weight, or finish a tria...
 |  | Losing Hope (Sienna St. James)
Release Date: August 28, 2012| Series: Sienna St. James From the acclaimed author of Like Sheep Gone Astray and Secret Place comes a riveting new series with twists and turns to the end. ...
|  | Mending Fences
Publication Date: January 1, 2010For ten years Emily Dobbs and Marcie Carter have been the closest of friends. They've raised their kids together, shared joy and heartache, exchanged neighborhood gossip over tea. But when Marcie's son, now a college freshman sports star, is arrested for date rape, the bond between the families could be shattered forever.As the Carters try to deal with the unthinkable, Emily discovers her daughter has been hiding a terrible secret…a secret that threatens the futures of both families. Recently divorced, Emily struggles to keep it all together—to s...
|  | To Win Her Heart
Publication Date: May 1, 2011Having completed his sentence for the unintentional crime that derailed his youthful plans for fame and fortune, Levi Grant looks to start over in the town of Spencer, Texas. Spencer needs a blacksmith, a trade he learned at his father's knee, and he needs a place where no one knows his past. But small towns leave little room for secrets...Eden Spencer has sworn off men, choosing instead to devote her time to the lending library she runs. When a mountain-sized stranger walks through her door and asks to borrow a book, she steels herself against the attraction he ...
|  | The Crown and the Crucible (The Russians, Book 1)
Release Date: February 1, 2001Follows the friendship of a peasant girl and the daughter of a prince and Imperial minister in Russia during the 1870s. Russians book 1. ...
|  | In The Company of Musicians
Publication Date: January 28, 1999This exceptional debut book follows the failings and victories of the musicians of the Fairlands who, by their music, wage a battle against the despair and fear of Sorg, master of the Outerlands. Their King, the Elohier, trains his musicians to war in a peculiar way. They do not fight with sword, they fight with song. Sorg, terrified of this music, does all in his power to destroy it. But the music is powerful and mysterious, and even the nefarious winged Workers of Sorg cannot stand against it. This refreshing and compelling book is compiled of seven short ...
|  | The Wolf King
Release Date: February 27, 2001In The Silver Wolf, Alice Borchardt brought the brutality and decadent splendor of Dark Ages Rome brilliantly to life in the remarkable tale of Regeane, a beautiful young shapeshifter fighting to live and love as both woman and wolf. Night of the Wolf looked back even further in time, to the days of Julius Caesar, when a woman's beauty bewitched a wolf—and awakened the man who had been slumbering for millennia in the beast's savage heart . . . a man named Maeniel, who would become Regeane's soul mate. Now Borchardt takes the saga of these two extraordinar...
|  | Back Roads
Publication Date: May 31, 2004An intense, vibrant debut novel set among the back roads of Pennsylvania's mining countryHarley Altmyer should be in college drinking Rolling Rock and chasing girls. He should be freed from his closed-minded, stricken coal town, with its lack of jobs and no sense of humor. Instead, he's constantly reminded of just how messed up his life is. With his mother in jail for killing his abusive father, Harley is an orphan with the responsibilities of an adult and the fiery, aggressive libido of a teenager. Just nineteen years old, he's marooned in the Pennsylvania back...
|  | The Spy (Isaac Bell Adventure)
Release Date: May 31, 2011| Series: Isaac Bell Adventure One man wants to destroy the world. One man can save it. Isaac Bell is on the case. ...
|  | Walking to Gatlinburg: A Novel
Release Date: March 1, 2011A stunning and lyrical Civil War thriller, Walking to Gatlinburg is a spellbinding story of survival, wilderness adventure, mystery, and love in the time of war.Morgan Kinneson is both hunter and hunted. The sharp-shooting 17-year-old from Kingdom County, Vermont, is determined to track down his brother Pilgrim, a doctor who has gone missing from the Union Army. But first Morgan must elude a group of murderous escaped convicts in pursuit of a mysterious stone that has fallen into his possession.It’s 1864, and the country is in the grip of the blo...
|  | The Tribes of Palos Verdes: A Novel
Publication Date: August 15, 1998Medina Mason is a defiant, awkward newcomer to the affluent beach community of Palos Verdes, California. As her parents' marriage disintegrates and her beloved brother falls prey to the temptations of drugs and the lunacy of their mother, Medina surfs to survive, finding a bitter solace in the rough comfort of the waves. This is the moving story of growing up "different," of the love between siblings, and of one girl's power to save herself. ...
|  | Edinburgh: A Novel
Publication Date: November 9, 2002Twelve-year-old Fee is a gifted Korean-American soprano in a boys' choir in Maine whose choir director reveals himself to be a serial pedophile. Fee and his friends are forced to bear grief, shame, and pain that endure long after the director is imprisoned. Fee survives even as his friends do not, but a deep-seated horror and dread accompany him through his self-destructive college daysand after, until the day he meets a beautiful young student named Warden and is forced to confront the demons of his brutal past....
|  | Staging Nation: English Language Theatre in Malaysia and Singapore
Publication Date: October 12, 2004Staging Nation examines the complex relationship between the theatrical stage and the wider stage of nation building in postcolonial Malaysia and Singapore. ...
|  | Modern African Poetry and the African Predicament
Publication Date: December 1, 1978| ISBN-10: 0064919161 | ISBN-13: 978-0064919166To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com. ...
|  | Daisy Sisters (Spanish Edition) (Andanzas / Adventures)
Publication Date: March 1, 2012| Series: Andanzas / Adventures (Book 764) Despues de haberse carteado durante tres anos, pero sin haberse visto jamas, Elna y Vivi, dos jovenes suecas de apenas diecisiete anos, por fin van a conocerse. En el caluroso verano de 1941, en plena guerra mundial, juntas emprenderan un viaje en bicicleta hasta la frontera de Suecia -pais que por el momento se mantiene neutral- con Noruega, ocupada por las tropas nazis. El mundo les espera, pero las dos ignoran que, durante ese viaje, el encuentro con dos militares sera determinante para el futuro de una de ellas. La...
|  | Wonderful You
Release Date: July 1, 1998Twenty-eight, single, and struggling to keep her little shop of handicrafts afloat, Zoey Enright is pleasantly surprised when a knockout audition for a home-shopping network lands her an impressive job as an on-air saleswoman. Little does she know, Delaney O'Connor, the company's CEO, is bringing his only grandson and the hero of Zoey's childhood, Ben Pierce, home from Europe to run the network. Ben's one true passion was Grand Prix racing -- until he laid eyes on Zoey again, all grown up and more beautiful than ever. But he also must face his haunted past and the n...
|  | The Hound of the Baskervilles (Signet Classics)
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|  | Juniper Berry
Release Date: April 24, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and upBe careful what you wish for. Young Juniper Berry knows her mother and father aren't the same people they used to be. Of course, they're no longer struggling actors—they're now the most famous movie stars in the world. But it's more than that. She can't shake the feeling that something isn't quite right with them. And one rainy night, in the shadowy and sinister woods behind their mansion, she discovers she's right. Now, it's up to Juniper to overcome her own demons in order to save the ones who couldn't....
|  | Alien Rescue Kit (Activity Kit)
Publication Date: March 1, 2012Who on earth can resist this adorable alien? Lost among the stars, it's found its way here to go home with you! Alien Rescue Kit contains orphan Extraterrestrial and Caregiver's Guide with nurturing advice. It's your own Close Encounter of the Cuddly Kind! Kit box measures 3-1/2'' wide x 2-1/2'' high x 1-5/8'' deep. ...
| | Jenna and the Troublemaker
Publication Date: October 1986| Age Level: 3 and up The Troublemaker helps Jenna accept her problems by letting her see some of the problems that other people have. ...
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