 | Sins of the Mothers
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 |  | The Poets' Jesus: Representations at the End of a Millennium
Publication Date: December 20, 2001Poets have always been the medium through which a culture talks of, and to, its gods. Now, in this learned but lively commentary, Peggy Rosenthal shows us the astonishing range of poetic encounters with Jesus. With a special emphasis on twentieth-century poetry, Rosenthal draws from an unprecedented range of world poetry--from Africa, the Arab world, and the Far East to Latin America and the West--to give readers an understanding of how different times and different cultures have affected the way poets refigure Jesus and of how poets' fascination with the m...
|  | Elizabeth's Book
Publication Date: December 13, 2006Back in the early 1920's, a girl named Elizabeth Anne Stockwell is born to two well to do parents, but Elizabeth is no ordinary girl. By the time she was ten, she had been prone to outbursts of anger and fits of maniacal rage that doctors couldn't explain. Believing that her condition was caused by the Devil, she is ultimately sent to one of the worst hospitals in the country, Espedrella State Hospital. Her only escape from the constant torture that was her treatment was writing. Legend has it that when Elizabeth died suddenly in the hospital her evil spiri...
|  | Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: The First Death
Publication Date: February 27, 2008Anita Blake's adventures began with the novel Guilty Pleasures, where the vampires of the St. Louis area tried to recruit the veteran vampire hunter to help them solve a peculiar mystery. But there were many mysteries about Anita Blake's past that were left unanswered...until now.Laurell K. Hamilton and Jonathon Green have finally released the official prequel to the long-running novel series, written exclusively for comics, and featuring the adventures of a younger Anita Blake as she teams up with popular characters Edward and Jean-Claude for a vampire hun...
|  | El marino que perdio la gracia del mar / The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea (Spanish Edition)
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|  | The Far Side of the Sky
Release Date: June 5, 2012November 9, 1938—Kristallnacht—the Nazis unleash a night of terror for Jews all across Germany. Meanwhile, the Japanese Imperial Army rampages through China and tightens its stranglehold on Shanghai, a city that becomes the last haven for thousands of desperate European Jews.Dr. Franz Adler, a renowned surgeon, is swept up in the wave of anti-Semitic violence and flees to Shanghai with his daughter. At a refugee hospital, Franz meets an enigmatic nurse, Soon Yi “Sunny” Mah. The chemistry between them is intense and immediate, but Su...
|  | An alphabet of amorous alliterations
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|  | Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola: Commentary on a Poem of Platonic Love
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| | Para Vivir Un Gran Amor / To live a great love (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: June 30, 2005Tenderness, beautiful expression of love, sweetcomprehension and expression of the world by this distinguished brazilian poet in the shape of poems that are short stories, and short stories that are very poetic, and keeping its graceful and fresh view despite the passage of time. ...
|  | sexions
Publication Date: March 15, 2005In this deeply evocative début anthology, Renée Sigel takes the reader on a journey through a richly textured labyrinth of truth and contradiction. Her words and imagery delve into the core nature of self - of belonging, of sexuality, of displacement: Five African Songs and Sexions, selections from life and love, alternately weave through the intense and tenacious fabric of the African soul and its convergence with suburban ordinariness. Hottentot Venus traces the tragic true life story of a young woman, Sara Baartman, which mirrors the current reali...
|  | History of Reading (Reaktion Books - Globalities)
Publication Date: April 3, 2004| ISBN-10: 1861891601 | ISBN-13: 978-1861891600Steven Roger Fischer’s fascinating book traces the complete story of reading from the time when symbol first became sign through to the electronic texts of the present day. Describing ancient forms of reading and the various modes that were necessary to read different writing systems and scripts, Fischer turns to Asia and the Americas and discusses the forms and developments of completely divergent dimensions of reading.With the Middle Ages in Europe and the Middle East, innovative re-inventions of readin...
|  | Dangerous Games (Tempting SEALs)
Release Date: February 6, 2007Navy SEAL Clint "Iceman" McIntire didn't earn his nickname by being a coward. Or a quitter. Having crushed an infamous drug cartel in Colombia, Clint was nothing short of an American hero. Now he's home, on a much-needed leave, but instead of some R&R, he finds himself neck-deep in trouble with his best friend's little sister, Morganna Chavez, the only woman who has the power to bring him to his knees. . .Morganna has been secretly working with the DEA to uncover a thriving date-rape drug, which leads her to a shadowy faction that is more deadly than anythin...
|  | DK Readers: Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Jedi in Training
Publication Date: July 20, 2009| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | 1,001 Facts About Pitchers (Major League Baseball (Paperback DK))
Publication Date: May 3, 2004| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Mind-Boggling Word Puzzles (Dover Children's Activity Books)
Publication Date: March 18, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey
Publication Date: March 11, 2010The Shelf2Life Children's Literature and Fiction Collection is a charming set of pre-1923 nursery rhymes, fairy tales, classic novels and short stories for children and young adults.From a tardy white rabbit, spirited orphan and loyal watchdog to a dreamer named Dorothy, this collection presents an assortment of memorable characters whose stories light up the pages.The young and young at heart will delight in magical tales of fairies and angels and be captivated by explorations of mysterious islands.The Shelf2Life Children's Literature and Fiction Collection a...
|  | Gcse English Text Guide - to Kill a Mockingbird
Publication Date: September 1, 2007This book contains everything you need to write better GCSE English essays on Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird', all presented in a helpful and entertaining way to make study and revision easier.There are clear notes on the plot, characters, themes and historical background, plus practice questions to make sure you understand the main points. There's also a section of exam advice to help you improve your grades. ...
|  | Plato and the Socratic Dialogue: The Philosophical Use of a Literary Form
Publication Date: June 28, 1998| ISBN-10: 0521648300 | ISBN-13: 978-0521648301This book offers a new interpretation of Plato's early and middle dialogues as the expression of a unified philosophical vision. Whereas the traditional view sees the dialogues as marking successive stages in Plato's philosophical development, we may more legitimately read them as reflecting an artistic plan for the gradual, indirect and partial exposition of Platonic philosophy. The magnificent literary achievement of the dialogues can be fully appreciated only from the viewpoint of a unitarian reading of the ...
|  | La Zorra Negra
Publication Date: January 1, 1990| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | Fish (Living Nature)
Publication Date: January 2004| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
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