| The Bingo Palace (P.S.) Release Date: August 22, 2006| Series: P.S.At the crossroads of his life, Lipsha Morrissey is summoned by his grandmother to return to the reservation. There, he falls in love for the very first time—with the beautiful Shawnee Ray, who's already considering a marriage proposal from Lipsha's wealthy entrepreneurial boss, Lyman Lamartine. But when all efforts to win Shawnee's affections go hopelessly awry, Lipsha seeks out his great-grandmother for a magical solution to his romantic dilemma—on sacred ground where a federally sanctioned bingo palace is slated for construction. L...
| | El Retorno de los Guerreros (Las Ense Publication Date: April 1, 2001| Series: Ense~nanzas Toltecas (Book 1) ¿Qué significa la libertad para Ud.? ¿Actuar en forma independiente? ¿Confiar en Ud. mismo? ¿Seguir los dictados de su corazón? Theun Mares introduce en el Sendero del Guerrero la historia y las técnicas Toltecas, además muestra los pasos de cómo adquirir la verdadera libertad. Estas técnicas poderosas actúan como herramientas certeras para lograr vivir eficaz y plenamente. ...
| | The Jewels of Paradise Release Date: October 2, 2012Donna Leon has won heaps of critical praise and legions of fans for her best-selling mystery series featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti. With The Jewels of Paradise, Leon takes readers beyond the world of the Venetian Questura in her first standalone novel.Caterina Pellegrini is a native Venetian, and like so many of them, she’s had to leave home to pursue her career. With a doctorate in baroque opera from Vienna, she lands in Manchester, England. Manchester, however, is no Venice. When Caterina gets word of a position back home, she jumps at the opportuni...
| | The Marrying Kind Publication Date: June 5, 2012Wedding planner Adam More has an epiphany: He has devoted all his life’s energy to creating events that he and his partner Steven are forbidden by federal law for having for themselves. So Adam decides to make a change. Organizing a boycott of the wedding industry, Steven and Adam call on gay organists, hairdressers, cater-waiters, priests, and hairdressers everywhere to get out of the business and to stop going to weddings, too. In this screwball, romantic comedy both the movement they’ve begun and their relationship are put in jeopardy when Steven&...
| | Surfacing Release Date: March 16, 1998Part detective novel, part psychological thriller, Surfacing is the story of a talented woman artist who goes in search of her missing father on a remote island in northern Quebec. Setting out with her lover and another young couple, she soon finds herself captivated by the isolated setting, where a marriage begins to fall apart, violence and death lurk just beneath the surface, and sex becomes a catalyst for conflict and dangerous choices. Surfacing is a work permeated with an aura of suspense, complex with layered meanings, and written in b...
| | From Fear to Faith (Revised) Publication Date: January 1, 2002God wants to be intimately involved in your life and help you have victory over your fears and your troubles. ...
| | Caffeine Publication Date: November 15, 2011Brandon Dauphin feels like a dying ember. He's jobless and feels worthless, and falling in love has only made his problem worse.In an authoritarian and overstimulated 22nd-century America, all he can do to relieve his pain is indulge in the computer-simulated fantasies of a network called Dynamic Reality...until a virus takes control of the simulation.Unable to return to the real world, Brandon finds that the virus shares his questions about existence, and that she will stop at nothing for her answers. ...
| | Rose Marie Publication Date: February 1, 2010"Rose Marie" follows in the footsteps of the classic poetic novel, Dante's "Inferno". The adventure is written in rhyming verse to bring to vivid life the horrific tale of a lone rose named Rose Marie who must trust in God her Father to deliver her from the evil clutches of jealously misguided flowers and an devilish entity called Evil who seeks her total destruction! Through this inspirational parable you will learn to trust in God your Father even when things are at their darkest, and there is no way out! ...
| | The Inhabited Woman Publication Date: July 1, 1995Lavinia is The Inhabited Woman: accomplished, independent, and fiercely modern. She is sheltered and self-involved, until the spirit of an Indian woman warrior enters her being, then she dares to join a revolutionary movement against a violent dictator andthrough the power of lovefinds the courage to act.The Wisconsin edition is for sale only in North America. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
| | Simply Carnal (House of Pleasure) Release Date: January 31, 2012| Series: House of Pleasure No passion is too decadent and no desire is too exotic at Madame Helene's Pleasure House - an exclusive brothel in Regency England that offers the ultimate in erotic delights...Powerful Seduction: Christian Delornay has observed so many illicit liaisons at his mother's house of pleasure he regards sex as merely an enjoyable pastime, certainly not an act of love. So when a young widow arrives in search of work, Christian hires her as his assistant with the intention of instructing her in the ways of sensual seduction...Passionate Surre...
| | Money for Nothing Release Date: May 10, 2007The action is mostly set at Rudge Hall, home to the obese miser Lester Carmody, and at Healthward Ho, a health farm run by 'Chimp Twist, along with his cohorts 'Soapy' and 'Dolly' Molloy. who were all previously encountered in "Sam The Sudden" (1925) and would return in "Money in the Bank' (1946). Hugo Camody, Lester's nephew, and his friend Ronnie Fish, would appear later in Blandings Castle, home of Ronnie's uncle Lord Emsworth, in "Summer Lightening" (1929) and "Heavy Weather" (1933). --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition....
| | Christina Rossetti, a Biography Publication Date: 1994Why is Christina Rossetti, one of the finest nineteenth-century poets, still so invisible today? This is the central question addressed in this important new biography. ...
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| | By Love Undone Release Date: September 30, 2008Scandal's daughter . . . Madeleine Willits was shunned by London society for a scandal that was no fault of hers, and forced to seek a paid position in the country. So when Quinlan Bancroft, Marquis of Warefield, comes to direct the household during his uncle's illness, Maddie is determined to detest the nobleman on sight. But though the marquis is easy to dislike, the man himself is a different matter. Small wonder, then, that Maddie quite forgets herself when he enfolds her in a sweet embrace . . . Meets the noble lord . . . Caught kissing his uncle's lovely...
| | Lost Dogs Publication Date: July 3, 2012Long out of print, Jeff Lemire's Xeric-Award-winning Lost Dogs now returns in a newly remastered edition, soaked with blood and ink. This 104-page mythic yarn follows a family man who's larger than life... but even he may not be powerful enough to prevent the loss of everything he's ever known. Bold, brutal, and emotionally raw, Lost Dogs represents an acclaimed storyteller's first professional work - an early exhibition of the gifts that have made Lemire's Essex County and Sweet Tooth so phenomenally popular. ...
| | Knights of the Red Cross Publication Date: August 11, 2000book description: George Adams nervously responds to his first basement fire. The heat is more intense than he'd expected. George abandons Lt. Donovan when his cross-threaded air hose comes loose. Donovan fights the fire alone, and George hates himself for making another mistake. He fears he might not have what it takes to be a firefighter. Don French is a 48 year-old volunteer firefighter that is burning out. He would love to be a firefighter full-time but can't afford to leave his job with the phone company. He has pursued the American Dream and now feels t...
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| | The Book of Mermaids Publication Date: January 1, 2006| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up If you have ever wondered what Mermaid life was really like, you can now journey under the sea into the everyday life of these enchanting creatures with this lavishly illustrated guide to Mermaid art, culture, fashion and magic. ...
| | The Shot Heard 'Round the World Release Date: September 30, 2010| Age Level: 5 and up If you lived in Brooklyn in 1951, your life revolved around the Brooklyn Dodgers.Come summertime you bled Dodger blue. And it was in that summer of '51 that "Dem Bums" -- what we lovingly called our Dodgers -- caused their biggest stir of all.For the young Brooklyn Dodger fan in this story, the summer of 1951 was a summer for heroes. The Dodgers, with players like Jackie Robinson, Carl Erskine, and Clem Labine, faced off against the New York Giants in a pennant race that no one had seen the likes of and no one would ever forget.On October...
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