 | Dreams of Joy: A Novel
Release Date: February 7, 2012#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn her most powerful novel yet, acclaimed author Lisa See returns to the story of sisters Pearl and May from Shanghai Girls, and Pearl’s strong-willed nineteen-year-old daughter, Joy. Reeling from newly uncovered family secrets, Joy runs away to Shanghai in early 1957 to find her birth father—the artist Z.G. Li, with whom both May and Pearl were once in love. Dazzled by him, and blinded by idealism and defiance, Joy throws herself into the New Society of Red China, heedless of the dangers in the Communist regime. Devastate...
 |  | Spit Toon's Saloon: Rinnce and Spit Toon, Proprietors. Sad Songs and Funny Tales on Tap
Publication Date: July 6, 2010Call him Spit; everyone does, except his mother who still calls him Salvatore. Salvatore Spittell Toon, D.M.D., is a dentist who wants to stop swimming upstream in saliva and to get out of the mouth and into the world. His dreams take him to a special place. Located in a nondescript neighborhood on the other side of town, it gives no signs of warmth or welcome. Peeling paint creates the illusion of a pockmarked exterior, and the unlit neon sign in the window pushes you away, rather than drawing you in. It is the kind of place you discover serendipitously, stumbl...
|  | Ragged Rainbows (G K Hall Large Print Romance Series)
Publication Date: May 2001| Series: G K Hall Large Print Romance Series She had lived in the shadow of her movie-star mother. Now Shay Kendall is being forced to stand on her own and come to terms with her past.2 cassettes. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | A Taste of Reality
Publication Date: February 2, 2004An Essence BestsellerA Black Expressions Book Club SelectionThe #1 Blackboard bestselling author of It's a Thin Line returns with a moving and triumphant novel about a woman who, against all odds, battles the most blatant kind of workplace discrimination while dealing with a crumbling marriage and a trusted friend's betrayal. ...
|  | Remember (Redemption)
Publication Date: August 31, 2009| Series: Redemption (Book 2) A fresh new look for the best-selling series from America’s number-one inspirational novelist, Karen Kingsbury. Fans will enjoy a personal note from Karen and Gary Smalley as well as discussion questions for book group use. Revisit the Baxter family in all their life-changing events, or share the series with someone who hasn’t discovered it yet.The Redemption series won Christian Retailing’s 2005 Retailer’s Choice Award for Best Series! Convinced she could make it on her own, Ashley Baxter has kept the...
|  | Darwin's Theory: Complete novella series
Publication Date: August 18, 2011My name is Darwin De Groi and I’m in love with Peter Forbes. For years I lived in pain, watching Peter but never having him.Then Peter learned he wasn’t going to be Human anymore—he was going to become Lesser-Bred.In Atlanta, dragon-Human hybrids kind of go along with the scenery, so for me Peter losing his humanness was no big deal. After all, I now had Pete and my world was perfect.Or so I thought.I mean, I knew love wouldn’t be a walk in the park, but seriously--top secret metaphysical experiments, underground Lesser-Bred societ...
|  | Beach Town
Publication Date: January 1, 2008Kira Drake lives in the closet to protect her skyrocketing movie career. Controlled by her mother and her domineering agent, Kira's love life consists of hidden affairs and short liaisons. She is miserable until a location shoot takes her to Ocean Beach, California, an idyllic seaside town. Away from her mother and agent, Kira savors her freedom and is charmed by the liberal locals who seem to embrace everyone. Flynn McFadden, a veterinary student and surfing instructor, quickly catches Kira's eye, and the women fall for each other almost immediately. But whe...
|  | The Dunciad (revised first edition) (2nd Edition)
Publication Date: January 11, 2009| ISBN-10: 1408204169 | ISBN-13: 978-1408204160| Edition: 2 A paperback edition of Pope's notoriously difficult - and notoriously brilliant - The Dunciad in Four Books. This new edition of Pope's Dunciad is clearly presented and benefits from a number of features:Explanatory notes are included on the same page as Pope's text and are written in a clear styleThe prose sections - an integral part of the work - have been annotated as fully as the verseA substantial introduction offers a stimulating and helpful approach to the work, and the bi...
|  | Bard: The Odyssey of the Irish (Celtic World of Morgan Llywelyn)
Publication Date: March 15, 1987| Series: Celtic World of Morgan Llywelyn This is the tale of the coming of the Irish to Ireland, and of the men and women who made that emerald isle their own. ...
|  | The World of King Arthur
Publication Date: November 2000A survey of, and companion to, all things connected with the Arthurian legend. The author has examined archaeological evidence and medieval texts, and provides quotes from contemporary sources, a timeline, numerous sidebars and special features on key figures and events. ...
|  | How Firm a Foundation in Scripture and Song
Publication Date: August 1999From one of the world's leading authors on apologetics,this tribute to Christianity's great old hymns will release arefreshing shower of memories.Each of the 28 hymns selected for thisvolume detail the rich history and background of the music, and thecomposer.The author is particularly effective in weaving scripturalthreads into his study of each song, showing how the writers of ourclassic hymns loved the Bible and its meaning for our lives.Suitable as a gift for music lovers, or a teaching tool for churchstudy groups, HOW FIRM A FOUNDATION IN SCRIPTURE AND SONG ...
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|  | Victorian Poetry, Europe, and the Challenge of Cosmopolitanism
Publication Date: July 28, 2011 The scope and complexity of the encounter with Europe in Victorian poetry remains largely underappreciated despite recent critical attention to the genre’s global and transnational contexts. Providing much more than colorful settings or a convenient place of self-exile from England, Europe—as destination and idea—formed the basis of a dynamic, evolving form of critical cosmopolitanism much in tune with attempts to theorize the concept today. Christopher M. Keirstead’s Victorian Poetry, Europe, and the Challenge of Cosmopolitanism s...
|  | Bergson and Russian Modernism: 1900-1930 (SRLT)
Publication Date: December 20, 1998| Series: SRLT Bergson and Russian Modernism provides a portrait of the early twentieth-century intersection of literature, philosophy, and art, showing how the Russian reception of Bergsonian philosophy helped to define Russian Modernism. By drawing on various works of Russian religious thought, Symbolism, Post-Symbolism, and the absurd, Fink examines Bergson's appeal to Russian modernists interested in breaking free of traditional concepts of time and space and in reclaiming the direct link with reality that had been broken by nineteenth-century rationali...
|  | Bede:Ecclesiastical History, Books IV-V.Lives of the Abbots. Letter to Egbert. (Loeb Classical Library No. 248)
Publication Date: January 1, 1930| ISBN-10: 0674992733 | ISBN-13: 978-0674992733Bede 'the Venerable,' English theologian and historian, was born in 672 or 673 CE in the territory of the single monastery at Wearmouth and Jarrow. He was ordained deacon (691–2) and priest (702–3) of the monastery, where his whole life was spent in devotion, choral singing, study, teaching, discussion, and writing. Besides Latin he knew Greek and possibly Hebrew.Bede's theological works were chiefly commentaries, mostly allegorical in method, based with acknowledgment on Jerome, Augustine, Ambrose,...
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|  | Turtle Knows Your Name
Publication Date: September 30, 1993Though none of his friends can remember Upsilimana Tumpalerado's name, Granny insists that he learn and use it. "At the heart of this wonderful retelling of a West Indian folktale is the importance of names in black culture. Strong in rhyme and rhythm, this is great for reading aloud and even better for story telling".--Booklist. Full color. ...
|  | Cole Hamels (Blue Banner Biographies)
Publication Date: June 17, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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