 | Quiet as It's Kept
Release Date: June 28, 2011Will Tracy is a good, God-fearing man who had a shaky childhood as he watched his father abuse his mother. But now he’s grown and feeling confident and secure that he has finally met the woman he’s been praying God would send him to be able feel the security he’s always craved. Morgan is beautiful and appears to be the perfect Christian woman. But once Will pledges his life to her, he nearly loses his.... After a series of strange, inexplicable “accidents” plague him, he starts to wonder if the woman he married is all that she out...
 |  | The Pearl of the Antilles
Publication Date: February 1, 2001THE PEARL OF THE ANTILLES chronicles the lives of several generations of Cuban women. The story focuses on Margarita, an exile in the United States, who struggles to come to terms with her divided identity, a past she has suppressed, and her failure to share her heritage with her children. The novel explores the ways in which culture and tradition have been preserved and passed down to Cuban Americans and portrays the cultural fragmentation and deep sense of loss that Cubans living in exile and their children (who may never have set foot on Cuban soil) conti...
|  | Esprit de Corps
Publication Date: October 19, 2009This anthology explores military life of our past and present into four gay romantic military stories that will throw you back in time to WWI, WWII, the Vietnam conflict and then bring you back to contemporary times aboard Naval submarines. ...
|  | Bahotep and the Stone of Edyn
Publication Date: July 25, 2012Where the waters of truth flow through the tree of life, the fruit of wisdom grows. The gods of the ancient world had a powerful secret, known only by the devoted priests who proclaimed their will to the masses. Yet, hidden beneath the tireless sand was something even more powerful; a lost remnant of the mystical garden that grows at the heart of Creation. This is the story of Bahotep, an unfortunate soul, haunted by the darkness and enslaved by fear. He is torn from his family and delivered to a devious taskmaster who craves the immortality and power of the go...
|  | The Master and Margarita
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|  | Phaedra
Release Date: October 17, 1986Seneca's Phaedra occupies an important and influential position in the tradition of European drama. This new edition concentrates on the play's dramatic qualities, examining its Greek and Roman background. The introduction presents discussion of dramaturgy and rhetoric as well as style and textual transmission. An unusual feature is the tracing of the influence of Phaedra's story on later European literature and music. The commentary has extensive notes not only on Seneca's language, but also on plot, characterization, and the use of myth. --This text refers to ...
|  | The Long Arm ofCoincidence: The Frustrated Connection Between 'Beowulf' and 'Grettis saga'
Publication Date: May 30, 1998| ISBN-10: 0802081282 | ISBN-13: 978-0802081285| Edition: 1 Scholars in Old Norse and Old English studies have for years sought to find connections between Beowulf and Grettis saga, despite great differences in the composition, time period, and country of origin of the two works. Based on some striking surface similarities, the assumption of kinship, or genetically related analogues, has inspired scholars to make more and more daring conjectures regarding the actual relationship between the two works. Magnus Fjalldal has written a lively challenge to those n...
|  | The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost
Release Date: August 7, 2007This comprehensive anthology attempts to give the common reader possession of six centuries of great British and American poetry. The book features a large introductory essay by Harold Bloom called "The Art of Reading Poetry," which presents his critical reflections of more than half a century devoted to the reading, teaching, and writing about the literary achievement he loves most. In the case of all major poets in the language, this volume offers either the entire range of what is most valuable in their work, or vital selections that illuminate each figure's co...
|  | Mountain Tasting: Haiku and Journals of Santoka Taneda (Companions for the Journey)
Publication Date: June 1, 2009| Series: Companions for the Journey (Book 20) Mountain Tasting gathers together a wide cross section of haiku with a selection of the diaries of the wandering Japanese poet Santoka (1882—1940). Santoka lived his life in the Zen hermit poetic tradition of Japan that includes Matsuo Basho, Ryokan, and Saigyo Hoshi. The open road was to become both his home and monastery. As he said, “Days I don’t enjoy: Any day I don’t walk, drink sake, and compose haiku.”John Stevens is the author or translator of over twenty books on Buddhism,...
|  | Yeki Ye Poole Khorus (Persian Edition)
Publication Date: December 2, 2011A selection of Persian humorous poems by Gholamreza Rouhani (Ajenneh) ...
|  | History of Reading (Reaktion Books - Globalities)
Publication Date: April 3, 2004| ISBN-10: 1861891601 | ISBN-13: 978-1861891600Steven Roger Fischer’s fascinating book traces the complete story of reading from the time when symbol first became sign through to the electronic texts of the present day. Describing ancient forms of reading and the various modes that were necessary to read different writing systems and scripts, Fischer turns to Asia and the Americas and discusses the forms and developments of completely divergent dimensions of reading.With the Middle Ages in Europe and the Middle East, innovative re-inventions of readin...
|  | Countdown (Eve Duncan)
Release Date: March 28, 2006| Series: Eve Duncan When it reaches zero, you die.#1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen sets her readers’ pulses racing once again in this relentless psychological thriller of a young woman caught in a maze of secrets and stalked by a merciless killer. The countdown begins the moment you open this riveting novel that only grows more electrifying as the pages turn, more exciting as time runs out. . . .“Don’t kill her. She’s no good to us dead.” These words haunt Jane MacGuire after a shocking attack shatters her world in ...
|  | Marathon Man
Release Date: July 3, 2001William Goldman's remarkable career spans more than five decades, and his credentials run the gamut from bestselling novelist to Oscar-winning screenwriter to Hollywood raconteur. He's beloved by millions of readers as the author of the classic comic-romantic fantasy The Princess Bride. And he's notorious for creating the most harrowing visit to the dentist in literary and cinematic history--in one of the seminal thrillers of the twentieth century. . . .MARATHON MANTom "Babe" Levy is a runner in every sense: racing tirelessly toward his goals of athletic a...
|  | A Christmas Guest: A Novel (The Christmas Stories)
Release Date: November 1, 2005| Series: The Christmas Stories Anne Perry has dazzled readers for decades with her gripping Victorian novels and has won new fans with her acclaimed World War I series. Perry’s thrilling Christmas novels, recent additions to her unique repertoire, are set in the most joyous season of the year. In A Christmas Guest, Mariah Ellison, better known as the vinegar-tongued Grandmama from the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series, makes a stunning appearance in a bracing story full of devious delight . . . and certain death.For Grandmama Ellison, Christmas is no reaso...
|  | The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers: Book 6
Release Date: March 5, 2013| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Gedalia The Goldfish Who Wanted to Be Just Like the King
Publication Date: March 15, 2007| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up A little goldfish named Gedalia came upon a Jewish king who was true to Hashem's Torah, and Gedalia desperately wanted to emulate the king's ways by fulfilling the mitzvos (commandments). This endearing tale for children ages six to ten teaches the importance of living a meaningful life in a Torah way even when we feel like little fish in a big sea. Distributed by Jonathan David Publishers, Inc. ...
|  | Franklin's Birthday Party
Publication Date: June 1, 2001| Age Level: 4 and up In a burst of enthusiasm, Franklin invites all his friends to celebrate his birthday at Tamarack Play Park. But when he tells his parents, they explain that they can¹t afford to pay for everyone‹just two friends. But which two should he choose? With a little help from his parents, Franklin solves his dilemma . . . and has the best birthday party ever. ...
|  | Quick, Slow, Mango!
Release Date: January 4, 2011| Age Level: 3 and up The star of Anik McGrory's critically acclaimed Kidogo returns in a stand-alone story about delicious mangoes, silly monkeys, and taking one's own sweet time. Baby elephant Kidogo is off with his Mama to find breakfast. Kidogo loves to take his time, and wants to do everything slowly, slowly-even though Mama wants to move quickly. Meanwhile, up in the trees, a mischievous monkey named Polé Polé is always in a hurry, trying to grab all the mangoes he can. Fast and slow, these two adorable critters meet up in the luckiest way-and it'...
|  | Mysteries in Our National Parks: Escape From Fear: A Mystery in Virgin Islands National Park
Release Date: October 14, 2008| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | A Rabbit's Tale (Potter)
Release Date: October 28, 2010| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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