 | One Pink Line
Publication Date: October 20, 2011**CONGRATULATIONS to One Pink Line - WINNER of the 2012 Eric Hoffer da Vinci Eye Award for outstanding cover art**Can the love of a lifetime be forever changed by one pink line? Dina Silver's tender, absorbing novel, One Pink Line, is the warmhearted, wry story of love, loss and family, as seen through the prism of one singular, spirited young couple who find themselves in a predicament that changes the course of their lives, and those closest to them. With heart, humor and compassion, this debut work of women's fiction is certain to stir anyone who relishes...
 |  | Thunder of Heaven (Martyr's Song, Book 3)
Publication Date: August 30, 2005The world's worst fears have dawned. Nothing stands in the way of total destruction...except the love of one woman. Deep in the Amazon jungle a young American woman and the son of plantation owners fall madly in love. For Tanya and Shannon, life is a paradise most only dream about.But today paradise ends.The jungle has hatched more than idyllic love. It has also spawned insidious evil. An evil shrouded in a plot so diabolically brilliant that all of America will be brought to her knees at the hands of a few terrorists.The plan is executed to perfection....
|  | Bound by Guilt
Publication Date: February 21, 2011Roxi Gold has been shuttled from one foster home to another for most her life. She longs for a family and will do anything to fit in even if it's against the law. Soon she's traveling the country in an RV, stealing rare books from unsuspecting bookstores. She knows it's wrong, but if she refuses, she'll be put out on the streets.Police officer Abby Dawson has seen the worst of society, and not just at work. Her ex-husband wrested her daughter away from her in a bitter custody battle. The job she once loved has become a chore, the world isn't any safer, and ...
|  | The Haj
Release Date: May 1, 1985Leon Uris retums to the land of his acclaimed best-seller Exodus for an epic story of hate and love, vengeance and forgiveness and forgiveness. The Middle East is the powerful setting for this sweeping tale of a land where revenge is sacred and hatred noble. Where an Arab ruler tries to save his people from destruction but cannot save them from themselves. When violence spreads like a plague across the lands of Palestine--this is the time of The Haj. ...
|  | 1.58 Seconds
Publication Date: November 2, 2010Dr Alfred Sparman was born to a lower class family in Guyana and migrated to Brooklyn, NY in his early childhood. In "1.58 Seconds", he uses some of the struggles that he encountered as he journeyed from being a security guard to one of the best interventional cardiologists in the Caribbean. "1.58 seconds" fictionally expresses the integral relationship between living and dying. This fictional novel takes you through nerve ending near death episodes, from the 9mm sig semi-automatic pistol pointed at the chest of a potential patient at point blank range...to ...
|  | Air Battle Force
Release Date: March 29, 2011 In military circles it's known as Air Battle Force—an air combat unit of the future, under the command of aerial warfare expert Major General Patrick McLanahan, capable of launching stealthy, precision-guided firepower to anywhere on the globe within hours. And now McLanahan and his warriors have their first target. Driven from Afghanistan, the parasitic forces of the deposed Taliban regime have decided to feed on a new host—an isolated, oil-rich Central Asian neighbor that's ripe for the conquering. The battle for control of the world's largest oil d...
|  | The Bedford Anthology of World Literature Book 6: The Twentieth Century, 1900-The Present
Publication Date: February 25, 2003| ISBN-10: 031240266X | ISBN-13: 978-0312402662| Edition: First Edition The Bedford Anthology of World Literature doesn’t just surround an unsurpassed collection of western and world literature with generous literary, historical, and cultural contexts — it also gives students the help they need to explore an entire world of literature. ...
|  | Ents of Fangorn (Middle Earth Role Playing/MERP #3500)
Publication Date: June 1987| Series: Stock No. 3500 ENTS OF FANGORN includes: * 4 FULL-COLOR PAGES: a 2 page spread of Fangorn, the southern Misty Mountains, and Dunland, plus a 1 page view of the area to the east (including the Wold and Dol Guldur region) and a map of Lorien, which lies to the north. * MAJOR LAYOUTS: detailed maps of Wellinghall, the Falls of Mist, the Town and Fortress of Tir Limlight, and the Caverns of Pain. * THE ENTS OF FANGORN: powerful tree-herds. * THE BARZ THRUGRIM: a treacherous band that threatens travels through the Wold. ...
|  | Intercultural Communication: A Reader
Publication Date: January 1, 2011| ISBN-10: 0495898317 | ISBN-13: 978-0495898313| Edition: 13 This eye-opening reader explores how communication values and styles can be similar or different for members of various cultures and communities. INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION: A READER focuses on practical strategies you can use to communicate more effectively in a variety of contexts, including interpersonal, rhetoric, group, business, education, health care, and organizational. This broad-based, highly engaging reader, compiled by the authors who defined the course, includes a balanced selectio...
|  | God of Dirt: Mary Oliver and the Other Book of God
Publication Date: June 25, 2004Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for American Primitive, Mary Oliver has published twelve books of poetry and five books of essays. Her poems are quoted in everything from Web sites to hymn books. Earthlight, a “Magazine of Spiritual Ecology,” has declared her an “earth saint.”In this engaging study, Mann shows Oliver to have keen eyes and ears for reading the book of nature. Readers will discover that the correspondence between Oliver’s poetry and traditional religious language provides a fresh perspective from which to enjoy her...
|  | The Mystical Poems of Rumi 1 (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works. Persian Heritage)
Publication Date: March 15, 1974| Series: UNESCO Collection of Representative Works. Persian Heritage (Book 3) Rumi, who wrote and preached in Persia during the thirteenth century, was inspired by a wandering mystic, or dervish, named Shams al-Din. Rumi's vast body of poetry includes a lengthy poem of religious mysticism, the Mathnavi, and more than three thousand lyrics and odes, many of which came to him while he was in a state of trance. A.J. Arberry, who selected four hundred of the lyrics for translation and annotated them, calls Rumi "one of the world's greatest poets. In profundity of...
|  | When God is a Customer: Telugu Courtesan Songs by Ksetrayya and Others
Publication Date: April 15, 1994How is it that this woman's breasts glimmer so clearly through her saree? Can't you guess, my friends? What are they but rays from the crescents left by the nails of her lover pressing her in his passion, rays now luminous as the moonlight of a summer night?These South Indian devotional poems show the dramatic use of erotic language to express a religious vision. Written by men during the fifteenth to eighteenth century, the poems adopt a female voice, the voice of a courtesan addressing her customer. That customer, it turns out, is the deity, whom the courtes...
|  | Little Pictures of Japan (My Travelship)
Publication Date: 1925Friends of Moon and Winds... so were the Japanese poets called who wrote the tiny poems that comprise the greater part of this book. Dewdrops of smallest compass are they, yet mirroring in vivid flashes the whole of Japanese life. In few words of primitive, child-like simplicity these old sages sang, for the little hokku poems are gems of only three lines comprising no more than seventeen syllables, the tiniest poems in the world. These minute gems, however, usher one into that atmosphere of tender sympathy with all that has life, that world of benign serenity where dwe...
|  | Childhood: An Autobiographical Fragment (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, & Art)
Publication Date: December 30, 2007| Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, & Art A celebrated poet's early years.Translated from the original Kindheit, written between 1958 and 1980, and published in German in 2003, David Dollenmayer's edition makes this remarkable story available to a much-deserved wider audience. Moses Rosenkranz came from impoverished roots in the rural Bucovina and gained acclaim for his poetry only late in life. He became an intimate of poet Paul Celan, with whom he was interned in a fascist work camp during World War II.With his richly detailed recollections,...
|  | Romantic Complexity: Keats, Coleridge, and Wordsworth
Publication Date: December 23, 2008In Romantic Complexity, Jack Stillinger examines three of the most admired poets of English Romanticism--Keats, Coleridge, and Wordsworth--with a focus on the complexity that results from the multiple authorship, the multiple textual representation, and the multiple reading and interpretation of their best works.Specific topics include the joint authorship of Wordsworth and Coleridge in the Lyrical Ballads, an experiment of 1798 that established the most essential characteristics of modern poetry; Coleridge's creation of eighteen or more different versions ...
|  | A Gendered Collision: Sentimentalism and Modernism in Dorothy Parker's Poetry and Fiction
Publication Date: July 2000Parker was perceived as a marginal modernist at best, and a sentimentalist at worst. In exploring of the Parker paradox, thisstudy draws on feminist assessments of twentieth-century modernism to recontextualize the scene of Parker’s literaryproduction. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition....
|  | The Visconti Devils
Publication Date: September 1, 2006A MATCH MADE IN HEAVENMaggie Pacelli didn’t believe in love at first sight.She was about to lose all belief in true love.But that all changed when she met Michael LeClaire, the new curator at the Beinecke Library at Yale.Michael is fascinated with the new tarot deck that Maggie is painting—and he also seems to be fascinated with Maggie.Maggie can’t believe how perfect he is for her—or how hard she’s falling for him.A DATE WITH HELLWhen Michael shows Maggie the rare 15th century Visconti tarot cards in the Beinecke’s archives an...
|  | Dead Sleep
Release Date: July 1, 2002They are called "The Sleeping Women." A series of unsettling paintings in which the nude female subjects appear to be not asleep, but dead. Photojournalist Jordan Glass has another reason to find the paintings disturbing...The face on one of the nudes is her own-or perhaps the face of her twin sister, who disappeared and is still missing. At the urging of the FBI, Jordan becomes both hunter and hunted in a search for the anonymous artist-an obsessed killer who seems to know more about Jordan and her family than she is prepared to face... ...
|  | Playing with Fire (Skulduggery Pleasant, Book 2)
Release Date: August 25, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 5 and upSkulduggery and Valkyrie are facing a new enemy: Baron Vengeous, who is determined to bring back the terrifying Faceless Ones and is crafting an army of evil to help him. Added to that, Vengeous is about to enlist a new ally (if he can raise it from the dead): the horrible Grotesquery, a very unlikable monster of legend. Once Vengeous is on the loose, dead bodies and vampires start showing up all over Ireland. Now pretty much everybody is out to kill Valkyrie, and the daring detective duo faces its biggest challeng...
|  | Ben's Robot (Orca Echoes)
Release Date: May 1, 2010| Grade Level: 2 and up...
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