 | The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Release Date: April 21, 2004With the publication of her first novel, THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers' finest work, an enduring masterpiece first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1940. At its center is the deaf-mute John Singer, who becomes the confidant for various types of misfits in a Georgia mill town during the 1930s. Each one yearns for escape from small town life. When Singer's mut...
 |  | Ahab's Wife: Or, The Star-gazer: A Novel (P.S.)
Release Date: May 19, 2009| Series: P.S.A magnificent, vast, and enthralling saga, Sena Jeter Naslund's Ahab's Wife is a remarkable epic spanning a rich, eventful, and dramatic life. Inspired by a brief passage in Moby Dick, it is the story of Una, exiled as a child to live in a lighthouse, removed from the physical and emotional abuse of a religion-mad father. It is the romantic adventure of a young woman setting sail in a cabin boy's disguise to encounter darkness, wonder, and catastrophe; the story of a devoted wife who witnesses her husband's destruction by obsession and madness. Ultim...
|  | Who's Loving You
Release Date: June 1, 2010New York Times bestselling author Mary B. Morrison sizzles with her edgy, new novel Who's Loving You. When Honey Thomas receives a sudden stroke of good luck, she gets a second chance--and the man of her dreams. But as Honey is about to discover, anything worth having in life comes with a high price... After police officer Sapphire Bleu steals $100,000,000 from seedy pimp Valentino James, she gives half of the money to prostitute and madam Honey Thomas. Now with her pimp in jail and enough money to make a fresh new start, Honey can leave her old life behind in Vegas...
|  | Valley of Dreams (Wild West Wind)
Publication Date: November 1, 2011| Series: Wild West Wind (Book 1) Exciting New Series by Beloved Author Lauraine SnellingAddy Lockwood's mother died when she was little, so Addy traveled with her father's Wild West Show and became an amazingly skillful trick rider, likened by some to the famous Annie Oakley.When her father died, she continued to work with the show, having nowhere else to go.Now Addy has discovered that "Uncle" Jason, the show's manager, has driven the show into debt, and he's absconded with what little money was left.Devastated, Addy decides to try to find the hi...
|  | Girls of Riyadh: A Novel
Release Date: July 5, 2007A bold new voice from Saudi Arabia spins a fascinating tale of four young womenattempting to navigate the narrow straits between love, desire, fulfillment, and Islamic tradition In her debut novel Rajaa Alsanea reveals the social, romantic, and sexual tribulations of four young women from the elite classes of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Originally released in Arabic in 2005, it was immediately banned in Saudi Arabia because of the controversial and inflammatory content, while black-market copies of the novel were widely circulated. The daring originality of Girls of Riyad...
|  | Sinful in Satin
Release Date: September 28, 2010Celia's quiet life ends when her mother, a famed London courtesan, dies, leaving her a small house in town-and a darkly handsome, reputedly dangerous tenant.Watch a Video ...
|  | Multiple Choice
Release Date: June 17, 2004 March Monroe and her daughter Olivia are going to college. Not together at the same school, of course, just at the same time. March knows that Olivia is going, naturally, since she and her husband have just made their first exorbitant tuition payment. But Olivia doesn’t exactly know the arrangement . . . yet. It’s not as if March plans never to tell her; she just figures she’ll wait a bit––until they’ve had a little time to miss each other. So imagine Olivia’s surprise when one day she shows up for training at a local radio stati...
|  | The Inquisitor: A Novel
Publication Date: October 9, 2002I hereby record those events which took place in and around the city of Lazet relating to the assassination of our venerable Brother Augustin Duese in the year of the Incarnate Word, 1318.So writes Brother Bernard, an Inquisitor of Heretical Depravity, following the discovery of his superior's dismembered corpse.At a time when heresy is a heinous offence, routed out with ruthless determination, Brother Bernard is accustomed to dispensing harsh justice.But as he attempts to make sense of this shocking crime, he himself becomes an object of persecution-thanks t...
|  | The Baby's Bodyguard (Love Inspired Suspense)
Publication Date: August 2, 2011| Series: Love Inspired Suspense A SHOCKING DISCOVERY When an anonymous text message arrives with photos of tiny hands and feet—and GPS coordinates—Florida cop Ethan Clark believes it’s a prank. Then he follows the coordinates to an abandoned toddler. Handing Janie Doe over to caring child services worker Kelsey Rogers, Ethan thinks his job is done…until the little girl turns out to be a kidnap victim. To protect the child, Ethan and Kelsey stumble into an investigation that digs up a tragedy from Ethan’s past. Will they unco...
|  | Escape from Vampire Park (Graveyard School)
Publication Date: July 1998| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Just Me
Publication Date: May 1, 2012Wild child Ian Wiley has to grow up and take the reins of the hundred year old family business when tragedy strikes. Can she let go of her reckless ways long enough to conform? After all, she is a Wiley and with that name comes a legacy.Cassidy Harland is a little surprised that she came within an inch of picking up a gorgeous stranger in a bar while on vacation, but weeks later when she runs into that stranger again she is shocked to find out she’s the new head of the company. ...
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|  | He Who Lifts the Skies (Thorndike Christian Historical Fiction)
Publication Date: August 1, 2007| Series: Thorndike Christian Historical Fiction Powerful imagery creates a 'you are there' immersion in the story of the post-Flood world. Kacy Barnett-Gramckow fans raved about her extraordinary job of moving the Flood off the Sunday School flannelgraph board and into life in the Heavens Before. Now, she continues to flesh out the Bible's brief account of the rise of Nimrod and the Babel rebellion with scintillating characters and a wealth of imaginative detail. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | The Poetic Edda
Publication Date: 1986The Poetic Edda comprises a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holding an important place in Nordic culture, literature, and heritage. Its tales of strife and death form a repository, in poetic form, of Norse mythology and heroic lore, embodying both the ethical views and the cultural life of the North during the late heathen and early Christian times. Collected by an unidentified Icelander, probably during the twelfth or thirteenth century, The Poetic Edda was rediscovered in Iceland in the seventeenth century by Danish scholars. Even then its value as poetry...
|  | Song of the Heart: Selected Poems by Ram
Publication Date: 1995| Series: Texas Pan American Series Ramon Lopez Velarde (1888-1921) was one of the most Mexican of Mexican poets, whose sense of history found expression in many poems, including his best-known "La suave Patria" ("Sweet Land"). This bilingual collection, drawn primarily from Poesias completas y el minutero, offers English-language readers our first book-length introduction to his poetry. Often called a "poet of the provinces," Lopez Velarde gives us a glimpse into a slower and more gentle way of life. His poems present the contrast between city and hometown and between ...
| | Yeats and the Rhymers' Club (American University Studies Series IV, English Language and Literature)
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|  | A Dangerous Man
Publication Date: March 1, 2007Eleanor has always been looked on askance as 'the bossy American' by London society, the very antithesis of British virtue and propriety. Now, at the death of her husband, she has been appointed trustee to his estate, and the proverbial fur is flying. Infuriated, her mother-in-law sends Lord Anthony Neale to put an end to Eleanor's nefarious gold-digging ways.Anthony and Eleanor clash immediately. He thinks she's a siren who uses beauty to entrap men. She thinks he's a haughty, cold English snob. Despite their initial misgivings, they are increasingly drawn to ...
|  | If I Ruled the World
Release Date: June 16, 2005In every ghetto there is that one who stands out above the rest.In this unforgettable novel, her name is Harlem. Harlem Jones is a twenty-six-year-old bad-ass female who owns her own home, her own car, and her own business. And no, some drug dealer didn't front her the money for any of it.Nor did she have to sell herself to get what she’s got.Harlem came up the hard way.She had the perfect family until her mother fell prey to an addiction and Harlem’s whole world fell apart.After several life-changing encounters, Harlem seems to have lost everything.But...
|  | Grave Sins (Cin Craven, Book 2)
Release Date: February 3, 2009In the arms of her lover Michael, Cin Craven has found satisfaction for her most primal longings, reaching heights of pleasure no mere human could ever imagine. She has also found a purpose for her unearthly powers. Cin is a member of The Righteous, a band of slayers that hunts down vampires who inflict evil upon the world. With Michael by her side, Cin’s latest mission brings her face-to-face with Marrakesh, a beautiful, half-mad vampire queen charged with slaughtering humans. If she’s found guilty, Marrakesh will pay with her life. But Cin is...
|  | Option Delta
Publication Date: January 1, 2000| Series: Rogue WarriorIn six spectacular New York Times bestsellers, covert combat master Richard Marcinko has blown the lid off the classified world of SpecWar ops. Now, the commando's credo "kill-or-be-killed" is pushed to the brink in a shattering new conflict....The Rogue Warrior is invading Germany with a blitzkrieg of bravado. His secret assignment: recover a pair of U.S. ADM's -- Atomic Demolition Munitions -- lost in the Rhine Valley. Yet, what begins as a simple SEAL mission explodes in his face when terrorists visit the cache site. With militar...
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