 | My Little Town (Prairie Home Companion)
Publication Date: October 4, 2011| Series: Prairie Home Companion “It’s been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my home town . . .” Lake Wobegon has been Garrison Keillor’s fictional home town—and America’s—for almost 40 years. Many of us have grown up with “the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.” The Chatterbox Café, the Sidetrack Tap, the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility, the Bunsens and the Krebsbachs, the Lake Wobegon Whippets—these are places, people, and sports teams we know and love, th...
 |  | An Angel's Story
Publication Date: October 25, 2004Spiritual beings populate the stories of Scripture. Angels singing. Demons infecting. Heavenly hosts fighting . . . Ignore the armies of God and Satan and you ignore the heart of Scripture. Ever since the snake tempted Eve in Eden, we've known: there is more to this world than meets the eye.In this classic Christmas novella, best-selling author Max Lucado imagines the spiritual conflict that surrounded the coming of Christ. Surely there was much. If Satan could pre-empt Christ in the cradle, there'd be no Christ on the cross.Journey back in time to the very ...
|  | The Journey of Escape
Publication Date: July 3, 2003The Journey Of Escape is the second novel in the series of continuing adventures aboard the sailboat Escape. It focuses on the experiences Emerald and her friends encounter while sailing through the balmy South Pacific Islands. Although it is a work of fiction, the Ports of Call and many of the events are based on the author's own travels while she and her husband lived on their thirty eight-foot sailboat, TORII. The journey takes the reader through many frightening experiences, dealing with dangerous characters, vivid rescues and heart warming relationships. It...
|  | The Cutting Season
Publication Date: May 18, 2007Dr. Xenon Pearl cuts brains for a living, and he's as good as it gets. His direct, sometimes abrasive style is forgivable in light of his skill with a scalpel, and tempered by his compassion for his patients and his friends. He is a dutiful son to his widower father, a doting grandchild to a grandfather who was once a rabbi, and he has even met the girl of his dreams. Everything is on-track for this medical golden boy. The other side of this motorcycle-riding, brilliant doctor facade is a side that Xenon (aka Zee) hides even from his father. Secretly trained sin...
|  | The Tapestry of Spirit
Publication Date: March 12, 2012“While there are many that journey who seek, not all that travel will find, for they are bound by what they have been taught and not of what they know.”-- from The Tapestry of Spirit. An enchanting, allegorical tale with insights of enduring relevance, The Tapestry of Spirit presents an artfully layered story of an orphan boy following a dream -- a dream of a meeting in the East with a mystical figure known as the Mage. A seemingly coincidental encounter the day after the dream introduces the boy to an old man, summoned by the power of the boy&...
|  | The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems (Signet Classic Poetry Series)
Release Date: March 4, 2003| Series: Signet Classic Poetry Series Alexander Pope enjoyed in his lifetime a fame and fortune that few poets have received. Known for his brilliant epigrams, he was an uncompromising social critic and razor-sharp satirist of fashionable society’s foibles. His poetry was characterized by a graceful mastery of the English language, a biting wit, and a moral alertness that ranged from contemptuous to compassionate to dryly humorous. Considered England’s greatest living poet by the age of 25, Pope would be hailed by Lord Byron as “the greatest name...
|  | Tales and Traditions of the People of Old: Na Mo'Olelo a Ka Po'E Kahiko
Publication Date: January 1993This book completes the trilogy based on a series of articles Kamakau wrote in Hawaiian language newspapers in the 1860s and 1870s. It takes the reader on a tour of the Hawaiian islands, stopping along the way to tell tales associated with each site. The stories, some full of mischief, bring to life the ancestral chiefs and gods of Hawaii. Kamakau describes the origins of Hawaii and its people, taking pains to trace the genealogies of the chiefs. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | Ovid: Tristia. Ex Ponto. (Loeb Classical Library, No. 151) (Vol 6) (English and Latin Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 1924| ISBN-10: 0674991672 | ISBN-13: 978-0674991675Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE–17 CE), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus by his Ars Amatoria, and was banished because of this work and some other reason unknown to us, and dwelt in the cold and primitive town of Tomis on the Black Sea. He continued writing poetry, a kindly man, leading a temperate life. He died in exile.Ovid's main s...
|  | English Poems, Original and Translated from the Norse and Welsh: Edited By D. C. Tovey (Classic Reprint)
Publication Date: August 2, 2012English Poems of Gray in chronological order and has illustrated them from Gray scorrespondence. So much biographical detail will be found in the notes, that the account of the poets life in the Introduction is necessarily short. If therein one or two circumstances are less briefly treated, this is because they have needed hitherto to be more exactly stated. The editor wishes to thank Dr Aldis Wright, Vice Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, Dr Henry Jackson, Mr J. M. I mage and Mr W. C. D. Whetham, Fellows of that College, the Rev. W. C. Green, translator o...
|  | Poems from Iqbal: Renderings in English Verse with Comparative Urdu Text
Publication Date: February 24, 2005| ISBN-10: 0195799747 | ISBN-13: 978-0195799743Allama Muhammad Iqbal was acknowledged during his lifetime as the most important poet of Muslim India in the twentieth century, both for the quality of his verse and for the influence exercised by his ideas. Since his death in 1938, his fame has continued to grow and has reached the West through a number of English studies and translations. Most of the latter have been his philosophical poetry in Persian. This volume contains a rendering in English of over a hundred poems chosen from the four collections of...
|  | Urban Myths: 210 Poems: New & Selected
Publication Date: May 1, 2006| ISBN-10: 0702235571 | ISBN-13: 978-0702235573Winner 2006 CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry (Victorian Premier's Literary Awards)Urban Myths: 210 Poems brings the best work to date from a poet considered one of the most original of his generation in Australia, together with a generous selection of new work. Smart, wry and very stylish, John Tranter’s poems investigate the vagaries of perception and the ability of language to converge life, imagination and art so that we arrive, unexpectedly, at the deepest human mysteries.JUDGES REPORT - Victorian Premier's L...
|  | Felicity
Publication Date: December 1, 2011This volume of poetry is all about happiness. There still is the quirky flavour that Initially NO puts into her poetry, but this is a volume of poetry that can be certain won’t upset or confront. Just nice rhythms and ways of expressing love and joy for humanity and nature in this book. ...
|  | Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
Release Date: April 9, 2002The ostensible purpose of a library is to preserve the printed word. But for fifty years our country’s libraries–including the Library of Congress–have been doing just the opposite, destroying hundreds of thousands of historic newspapers and replacing them with microfilm copies that are difficult to read, lack all the color and quality of the original paper and illustrations, and deteriorate with age. With meticulous detective work and Baker’s well-known explanatory power, Double Fold reveals a secret history of microfilm lobbyists, form...
|  | Disenchanted Modernity in Robert Kroetsch's The Studhorse Man
Publication Date: April 16, 2010This book undertakes a detailed reading of Robert Kroetschs The Studhorse Man [1969], examining this Canadian novel in its transnational historical and socio-cultural context. Key subject headings are biology and culture, sex and gender, eugenics and contraception, writing and reading. The overarching theme is disenchanted modernity in the twentieth-century, the systematic displacement of the divine and natural order by a humanly ordained social regime, and by forms of social engineering that brought to bear the full force of modern science, invasively to alte...
|  | More Than Sorrow
Publication Date: September 4, 2012Once, Hannah Manning was an internationally-renowned journalist and war correspondent. Today, she’s a woman suffering from a traumatic brain injury. Haunted by her memories, Hannah goes to her sister’s small-scale vegetable farm in Prince Edward County, Ontario to recover and spend time with her ten-year-old niece, Lily.Hannah retreats into the attic full of boxes and mouldy letters that have accumulated for more than two centuries. As she reads about the original settlers of this land, she is increasingly drawn to the space beneath the old hous...
|  | Termination Dust
Release Date: May 1, 1996The virgin landscape along the Yukon River has hardly changed since the gold rush began in 1897. Frostbiting winds slice the rugged terrain, and, like a shroud, the first dusting of snow covers the low hills. Braving thick snow on the Top of the World Highway - where one slip could mean a fall down thousands of feet - Detective Alex Jensen is hunting a cold-blooded killer. His only witness is Jim Hampton, a rugged canoeist whose vacation has abruptly ended. And Jensen's only clue is an 1898 journal - detailing an eerily similar murder - that Hampton discovered on the...
|  | Philippa Fisher's Fairy Godsister
Release Date: July 14, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Brave Little Golden Book (Disney/Pixar Brave)
Release Date: May 15, 2012| Age Level: 2 and up...
|  | Cinderella (Puffin Pied Piper)
Release Date: October 22, 1993| Age Level: 4 and up...
|  | Paul Bunyan (Read-It! Readers: Tall Tales Green Level)
Publication Date: January 1, 2005| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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