| Stargazer (Book 1) Publication Date: January 1, 1988STARGAZER is the story of one man's emergence through Native American ritualinto the world of psychic and extraterrestrial experience.Throughout the bookthere is the rooted wisdom of its central personality, a visionary Navajo whoseactual name is Stargazer.The story is timeless, the event is timely.Themessage is that we are almost out of time.(Also available on audio cassette -see cassette section). ...
| | Aprons on a Clothesline (The Lake Emily Series #3) Release Date: May 17, 2005Book Three in the Lake Emily seriesIn Lake Emily, life’s greatest battles are won by the power of friendship Virginia Morgan is used to helping others–it’s who she is. A wife. A mother. A grandmother. A friend. But when Virginia suffers a debilitating stroke, she can no longer wear that apron. It is a change that sends her into the depths of hopelessness. Can she find her way to seeing that life is still well worth living? Or will she give up hope and sink deeper into despair?Meanwhile, the Morgans and Biddles discover that each season of life h...
| | The Search (Volume 1) Publication Date: August 22, 2012An author on a book tour gets trapped in a small town with a sinister innkeeper and her only way out is to follow a shepherd on a perilous journey. ...
| | Road Rage Publication Date: August 21, 2012Acclaimed novelist/Eisner-winning graphic novelist Joe Hill collaborated with his father, Stephen King, in Throttle, for the first time on a tale that paid tribute to Richard Matheson's classic tale, Duel. Now, IDW is proud to present comic-book tellings of both stories in Road Rage, adapted by Chris Ryall with art by Nelson Daniel and Rafa Garres. ...
| | Legion Release Date: February 1, 2011Jesus asked the man his name, and he answered, “Legion, for we are many.”--Mark 5:9A young boy is found horribly murdered in a mock crucifixion. Is the murderer the elderly woman who witnessed the crime? A neurologist who can no longer bear the pain life inflicts on its victims? A psychiatrist with a macabre sense of humor and a guilty secret? A mysterious mental patient, locked in silent isolation?Lieutenant Kinderman follows a bewildering trail that links all these people, confronting a new enigma at every turn even as more murders surface. Why d...
| | The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 22 Publication Date: November 1, 2011| Series: Mammoth Book of Best New Horror (Book 22) The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror series continues to be the world’s leading annual anthology dedicated solely to showcasing the best in contemporary horror fiction. The latest volume is comprised of more than 20 of the most outstanding new short stories and novellas by both contemporary masters of horror and exciting newcomers. ...
| | Condor One Publication Date: July 4, 2008The Democratic Party's 2012 nominee for President, David J. Windsor, and America are equally shocked when he is outted by his opponent just six weeks before the Fall election. Following his heart, David chooses honesty over media spin and overcomes the obstacle to win the election.Despite that success, dark forces around the world begin to plot against him, and President Windsor's security is a must. Inside and outside the White House, Secret Service Agent Shane Thompson becomes the President's shadow, always present and silent, ever vigilant.As the two men grow...
| | Lone Star Rising: The Texas Rangers Trilogy Publication Date: November 1, 2003| Series: Texas Rangers Trilogy In 1999, with Forge's publication of The Buckskin Line, Elmer Kelton launched a series of novels on the formative years of the Texas Rangers. In Texas Justice, the first three of these critically acclaimed books are now brought together in a single volume.In The Buckskin Line, Kelton introduces the red-haired boy captured by a Comanche war party after the massacre of his family. Rescued by Mike Shannon, a member of a Texas "ranging company" protecting settlers from Indian raids, the boy known as Rusty is adopted by the Shannon...
| | A Week of This: a Novel in Seven Days Publication Date: May 1, 2008Brilliant, darkly comic, and startlingly honest, this novel follow the lives of an extended family over one increasingly desperate week. Manda is a 38-year-old, tough, sarcastic woman who has yet to make peace with the town she was brought to as a teenager after her parents' messy divorce in this novel full of barbed dialogue and hilarious, deadpan descriptions of family dynamics. ...
| | Romanticism and the Rise of the Mass Public (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism) Publication Date: July 30, 2009| ISBN-10: 0521117100 | ISBN-13: 978-0521117104| Edition: 1 Dramatic changes in the reading public and literary market in early nineteenth-century England not only altered the relationship between poet and reader but prompted new conceptions of the poetic text, literary reception, and authorship. With the decline of patronage, the rise of the novel and the periodical press, and the emergence of the mass reading public, poets could no longer assume the existence of an audience for poetry. Andrew Franta examines how the reconfigurations of the literary market...
| | Acting Version of Henry W. Savage's Production of Everywoman, Her Pilgrimage in Quest of Love: A Modern Morality Play (Classic Reprint) Publication Date: July 10, 2012Everywoman is absolutely a modern play as regards characterization, action and environments, it is fashioned after the model of the ancient morality plays, those products of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries of which Everyman is the best known example. While every character in Everywoman is symbolical of various abstract virtues, vices and conditions, I have endeavored to make them also concrete types of actual men and women of the present day. It was my object to present an allegory, in the shape of a stage play, sufficiently dramatic and soul-stirring in...
| | Five Lectures on Chinese Poetry Publication Date: December 1984"To me, Chinese poetry is not material which I understand intellectually but it is an experience which approaches rapture." So remarked Professor Lu Zhiwei. Here in these lectures, Prof. Lu shares his experience with the readers. He recreates the mood and impression of famous Chinese poems so as to reveal to the reader the spirit of the genre. He introduces the reader to literary poetry and its patterns, ancient and modern folk songs, famous Chinese poets and poems written in vernacular Chinese. ...
| | By-Ways in Book-Land: Short Essays on Literary Subjects Publication Date: October 27, 2009This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. ...
| | Radical Modernism and Sexuality: Freud/Reich/D.H. Lawrence & Beyond Release Date: December 23, 2004In this bold, sweeping reassessment of Modernism, Seelow challenges standard versions of postmodernism and proposes a notion of radical modernism. He presents a provocative thesis through stimulating reconsiderations of three related but different radical moderns: Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Reich, and D.H. Lawrence. Defining sexuality as Modernism's core feature, Seelow situates Freud, Reich, and Lawrence as frontier thinkers. Starting with a history of sexuality as both phenomenon and field of study Seelow then discloses Freud's theory of sexuality's masochistic u...
| | Divine Deception Publication Date: May 20, 2011Life experience had harshly turned its cruel countenance on the young Fallon Ashby. Her father deceased and her mother suffering with a fatal illness, Fallon was given over to her uncle, Charles Ashby, until she would reach the age of independence. Abused, neglected, and disheartened, Fallon found herself suddenly blessed with unexpected liberation at the hand of the mysterious Trader Donavon. A wealthy landowner and respected denizen of the town, Trader Donavon concealed his feature of face within the shadows of a black cowl. When Fallon's secretive deliverer o...
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| | Angels of Mercy: A Mercy Allcutt Book (A Mercy Allcutt Mystery) (Volume 4) Publication Date: June 28, 2012| Series: A Mercy Allcutt Mystery Former Boston Brahmin Mercy Allcutt is excited to be renting out suites of rooms to deserving working women in her new home on Bunker Hill in Los Angeles. She considers she’s performing an act of good-heartedness, no matter how skeptical her boss, private investigator Ernie Templeton, is about her endeavor. When her housekeeper’s son is arrested for the murder of a Hollywood big-wig, Mercy presses Ernie to solve the case. She’s positive Calvin Buck is innocent. Ernie tells her he’ll do his best. She&...
| | Beisbol in Accion/baseball in Action (Sports in Action in Spanish) (Spanish Edition) ...
| | Dude, Where's My Mad Libs: Ultimate Box Set Release Date: April 29, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
| | Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts) Publication Date: November 22, 2010| ISBN-10: 0810860805 | ISBN-13: 978-0810860803Children's literature comes from a number of different sources-folklore (folk- and fairy tales), books originally for adults and subsequently adapted for children, and material authored specifically for them-and its audience ranges from infants through middle graders to young adults (readers from about 12 to 18 years old). Its forms include picturebooks, pop-up books, anthologies, novels, merchandising tie-ins, novelizations, and multimedia texts, and its genres include adventure stories, drama, science fic...
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