 | Before I Forget
Publication Date: March 20, 2009This powerful novel of three generations of black men bound by blood — and by histories of mutual love, fear, and frustration — gives author Leonard Pitts the opportunity to explore the painful truths of black men's lives, especially as they play out in the fraught relations of fathers and sons. As 50-year-old Mo tries to reach out to his increasingly tuned-out son Trey (who himself has become an unwed teenaged father), he realizes that the burden of grief and anger he carries over his own estranged father has everything to do with the struggles he e...
 |  | City of Bohane: A Novel
Release Date: March 13, 2012* Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Book Award in the First Novel category * A blazingly original, wildly stylish, and pulpy debut novel "City of Bohane, the extraordinary first novel by the Irish writer Kevin Barry, is full of marvels. They are all literary marvels, of course: marvels of language, invention, surprise. Savage brutality is here, but so is laughter. And humanity. And the abiding ache of tragedy." —Pete Hamill, The New York Times Book Review (front page) Forty or so years in the future. The once-great city of Bohane on the west...
|  | Hot and Bothered
Release Date: March 25, 2008In the "new" old south, pedigree and money still mean plenty...especially when you have neither. P.I. Charlotte deShawn and her friends Prissy, BrieAnna, and Bebe know all too well what it's like to be on the outside looking in, having grown up with more questions than answers about the parents they each lost at an early age. For Charlotte, enduring condescending looks and whispers only made her more determined to ignore social standing. So why should it be a problem when wealthy hotel owner Griff Parish wants to hire her to find the missing heir to his family for...
|  | For Such a Time As This
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|  | A Texas Legacy Christmas (Texas Legacy Series #4)
Publication Date: September 1, 2007Zack Kahler heads back to Texas with a homeless eight-year-old pickpocket named Curly in tow. But soon Zack finds his hands full as he tries to run a newspaper, recover from a lost love, and keep his unruly charge out of trouble. Boardinghouse worker and life-long outcast Alice Hawkins has had her fair share of hurt and rejection. When Zack and Curly show up on her doorstep, more than one wounded heart is stirred with love. But soon a life-threatening illness and misunderstanding threaten to destroy all their hopes. Can the love of Christmas present a mirac...
|  | By Way of the Wilderness (Lions of Judah Series #5)
Publication Date: August 1, 2005The always-compelling story of Moses, told as only master storyteller Gilbert Morris can deliver it. Readers will feel the sand beneath their feet as they follow Moses through his days in Pharaoh's court, his exile in the desert in Midian, his return to Egypt and confrontation with Pharaoh, to leading his people into the desert on their quest to reach the Promised Land. Lions of Judah Book 5. ...
|  | Fever
Publication Date: October 1, 2011A deadly strain of flu has mysteriously mutated, causing the deaths of millions throughout Ireland and beyond. But the infected don't stay dead for long, rising up to become flesh-eating monsters.In a quarantined lab just outside Belfast, lab worker Ellis and security guard Abe fight their way through corridors of the living dead, determined to expose a gruesome truth.Aging conspiracy theorist Tom wracks his brain to figure out what went wrong.Meanwhile, a young child and her two unlikely wards find themselves in the middle of a cat and mouse game involving t...
|  | The Riverside Anthology of Children's Literature
Publication Date: December 12, 1985| ISBN-10: 039535773X | ISBN-13: 978-0395357736| Edition: 6 An anthology of nursery tales and rhymes, nonsense verse, poetry, folklore, mythology epics, fiction, and non-fiction from a variety of sources. ...
| | The Project
Publication Date: June 1, 2012A nuclear bomb is buried in eastern North Carolina. It remains deep underground inside a limestone aquifer, beneath a 1961 B-52 crash site. The warhead is now being secretly recovered for the King of Saudi Arabia. The leader of the Sunni Muslim world has decided to by-pass his weakened American allies. He has created his own plan to address the nuclear ambitions of the Shiite Mullahs in Iran.Khalid has retained a covert American paramilitary group to use modern tunnel boring technology to retrieve the enriched uranium.They will have it processed into three small...
|  | Mornings Like This: Found Poems
Release Date: April 26, 1996In Mornings Like This, Annie Dillard extracts and rearranges sentences from old--and often odd--books, and composes ironic poems--some serious, some light--on the heartfelt themes of love, nature, nostalgia, and death. Clever, original, sometimes humorous, and often profound, this collection is sure to charm her fans, both old and new. ...
|  | Psalms Under a London Sky: A collection of poetry (Arabic Edition)
Publication Date: April 14, 2010A collection of Arabic and English poetry, small in size yet grand in its imagery and music, it captures the spirit of humanity as the verses write themselves effortlessly like a natural flow of thoughts. Inspired by the battle of Karbala, 680 AD, Psalms under a London sky transcends the boundaries of life, death, heaven and earth with the power to resonate in the hearts of readers from all walks of life. ...
| | Zhongguo xian dai shi da liu pai shi xuan =: Zhongguo xiandai shida liupai shixuan (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | Supreme Justice: A Novel of Suspense
Release Date: May 19, 1999A black Supreme Court justice. An assassin's bullet. A young U.S. attorney puts it on the line for the truth.When conservative Supreme Court justice Farrell Douglas is gunned down, it falls to young black U.S. attorney Marshall Jackson to investigate America's most important, and inflammatory, case. Together with his childhood friend, tough Irish cop Danny Cavanaugh, Marshall discovers that the conspiracy behind the assassination runs deeper than he ever imagined. Marshall's troubles really begin when he realizes that his fraternal twin, Moses, a gangster on the str...
|  | Ora the Sea Monster (Stone Arch Readers - Level 3 (Quality)))
Publication Date: August 1, 2009| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | Lance Armstrong: Determined to Beat the Odds (Awesome Values in Famous Lives)
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|  | Tom Brady: Never-Quit Quarterback (Sports Leaders Series)
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| | Ready, Set, Swim! (Rainbow Fish & Friends)
Publication Date: July 2002 ...
|  | Mr. Nonsense (Mr. Men and Little Miss)
Release Date: March 23, 1998| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | The Cooking of Greece (Superchef)
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|  | Climbing Everest: Tales of Triumph and Tragedy on the World's Highest Mountain
Release Date: May 1, 2003| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Climbing Everest is a stunning illustrated history of climbing on the world's highest mountain. Divided into six chapters and featuring six sidebars and maps, this volume is packed with information and reads like the best page-turner. Triumphant summits and tragic failures are all here. Each chapter focuses on a famous climb by portraying the climber or climbing team in fascinating detail. Chapter 1 features George Mallory, the golden mountaineer of the 1920s whose unexplained death on Everest rocked Great Britain and th...
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