 | Little Girls: A Short Story Novella
Publication Date: March 1, 2012"It had been a little over two days since fifteen-year-old Shanice had seen real sunlight, or another person. Despondent, she sat silent on the basement floor, her jeans soiled with the red sediment from the brick walls that lined the damp basement."The place is Oakland. The year is 2004. Little Girls: A Short Story Novella is a collection of linked short stories that focus on a group of characters whose connection to each other is the sex trade in the Oakland Bay Area.More than a collection about prostitutes or prostitution, Little Girls examines the complexit...
 |  | Out to Canaan (The Mitford Years, Book 4)
Release Date: October 24, 2006Thousands of readers have come home to Mitford, the little town with the big heart, whose endearing and eccentric residents have become like family members. But now change is coming to the hamlet. Father Tim, the Episcopal rector, and his wife Cynthia are pondering retirement; a brash new mayoral candidate is calling for aggressive development; a suspicious realtor with plans for a health spa is eyeing the beloved house on the hill; and, worst of all, the Sweet Stuff Bakery may be closing. Meanwhile, ordinary people are leading the extraordinary lives that hundr...
|  | The Christmas Singing: A Romance from the Heart of Amish Country
Release Date: October 4, 2011After Gideon coldly broke her heart, can the warmth of the season revive Mattie’s hopes? Mattie thought her childhood sweetheart adored her until he abruptly ended their engagement on Christmas Eve. Three years later, will learning the truth behind his rejection restore her Christmas joy – or open the door to even deeper heartbreak? Spend Christmas with the Amish in this story of love, romance, heartache, and restoration.Experience the holidays with the Plain folk and discover the power of second chances in this touching story from the ...
|  | Swift, Lord, You Are Not
Publication Date: July 1, 2003Some poets begin very early to write great poetry. Arthur Rimbaud wrote one of his best poems at 15, Percy Shelley published his first book of poetry at 18. But Kilian McDonnell, O.S.B., did not start until he was 75, after decades of writing as a professional theologian. Now 82 he gives us Swift, Lord, You Are Not, poems of the struggle to find God waiting for the silence of God to break. He does not write pious verse, or inspirational poetry, but of wrestling with the illusive God. His themes are mostly biblical and monastic. He closes with an essay "Poet:...
|  | Hard Roads paperback
Publication Date: August 1, 2007There's something about a hard road that calls a body to wander. You want to know what's waiting down there just past the far edge of the horizon. What darkness hides beyond that fish hook of a blind curve scything out to the left. It calls you and all you can do is wander on down.HARD ROADS offers two brand new novellas from Nova Scotia's hardest working horror writer, Steve Vernon.In the first tale, Trolling Lures, you will take a drive down a lonesome Nova Scotia hardtop road and you'll find yourself running into a troll, a suicide, and a hint of divine int...
|  | Vampire's Waltz
Publication Date: April 2001ChristineJFerranti never asked to be pregnant. Now something is after her unborn baby. Christine must make a choice--turn her back on a child she never wanted, or fight to save her daughter no matter the consequence. ...
|  | A Moth to the Flame: The Story of the Great Sufi Poet Rumi
Publication Date: December 7, 2006In A Moth to the Flame, the first novel about the life of the Sufi Poet Rumi, based on original sources in both Farsi and English, we discover the key moments that shaped his genius. Although this story happened a long time ago, during another time of war between Islam and the West, this tale of an individual life fully lived is the tale of every life. In the tradition of Siddhartha or The Last Temptation of Christ, his story is the mythic story of the human soul. We watch his faith tested, and we witness his meeting with the beloved which overturned his wor...
|  | Greek Tragedies, Volume 2 The Libation Bearers (Aeschylus), Electra (Sophocles), Iphigenia in Tauris, Electra, & The Trojan Women (Euripides)
Publication Date: February 15, 1960| ISBN-10: 0226307751 | ISBN-13: 978-0226307756In three paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer a selection of the most important and characteristic plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides from the nine-volume anthology of The Complete Greek Tragedies. Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred choice of more than three million readers for personal libraries and individual study as well as for classroom use. ...
|  | Black Men, Obsolete, Single, Dangerous?: The Afrikan American Family in Transition (English and English Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 1991Here is the seminal and critical work that helped solidify Haki Madhubuti as an informed, passionate, and caring commentator on Black life, culture, relationships, and the development and stability of the Black community. In Black Men, an integral text for anyone with vested interest in building healthy, thriving Black families and communities, Madhubuti takes aim at some of the critical issues facing the African American family. He offers useful, pointed, practical solutions for overcoming these obstacles and challenges. ...
|  | The Alchemist (The Yale Ben Jonson Series)
Publication Date: September 10, 1974| Series: The Yale Ben Jonson Series (Book 7) Renaissance comedy, first produced in 1610. Includes modernized English text, critical and explanatory notes and Introduction. From the Yale Ben Jonson edition. ...
|  | 100 Essential Modern Poems by Women
Publication Date: April 4, 2008Presents the masterpieces of fifty great women poets in the English language over the past 150 years. Like the widely praised 100 Essential Modern Poems, this accessible volume is filled with wisdom and insights to delight. Includes ideas about courage and endurance, life and death, faith and hope, and the continuing search for meaning, as well as the favorite subjects of love, marriage, family dynamics, and nature. Selected by Joseph Parisi, former longtime editor of Poetry magazine, with Kathleen Welton, the collection features such acclaimed poets as Emily D...
|  | Dear Love...
Release Date: July 6, 2006Dear Love... is a pulsating heartthrob. Matthew Brna takes you on a tunnel of love ride with charming passionatepoetry written with exceptional and eloquent expressions.The authorunguardedly bares his soul to the world with these polished delicatepoems.The poems switch from soft and tender to gripping vines ofcoiling passion.As beautiful as an awe inspiring sunset, Dear Love...is blissfully tinted showing the dashing writing ability of the author. This is a perfect gift book for those in love or for those who love. Wonderfully done.Sherry Russell GMS - Books on ...
|  | Une fleur dans la mer (French Edition)
Publication Date: September 26, 2011In this poignant poetic work Ibrahima Fall tells the story of the sinking of The Joola, Senegal's national ferry, and the loss of his three daughters in this tragedy. The Joola capsized off the coast of The Gambia on September 26, 2002 and the disaster resulted in the deaths of more than 2,000 people.The sinking of the ferry Joola is thought to be the second-worst non-military maritime disaster in number of lives lost."Une fleur dans la mer" (A flower in the water) is filled with heart-felt emotions and vivid memories of the author's daughters. ...
|  | Wonmun sihwa chongnim (Kkachi tongyanghak) (Korean Edition)
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|  | The Fathers of the Church: Saint Augustine - Four Anti-Pelagian Writings
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|  | Black Lace
Release Date: October 25, 2005The last thing Lacy Green needs is trouble—and handsome Mayor Drake Randolph has "danger" written all over him . . . especially when "His Fineness" accidentally runs her off the road. Despite Drake's sensuous charm, irresistible magnetism, and unwavering determination to make amends, she's thinking it might be smart to play it safe and keep her distance . . . if only his lips weren't so inviting. But trouble comes from a different source when Lacy, as the head of Detroit's Environmental Protection Department, launches an investigation into the activities o...
|  | One Star Awake: Return of the Unknown Soldier, a novel
Publication Date: August 24, 2009When a soldier makes it home…In a world once again torn by the madness of war, Miranda Lorelei Blake’s recurring dreams have drawn her into an epic healing journey ofalmost biblical proportions.As her close friends rally to help her adapt to the psychic rescuer role that has been thrust upon her, she discovers that her guide in the dream world is the infamous Captain Hook. Yet without him, she cannot fi nd her way through the labyrinth.Miranda and her new love interest, Jim McBain, are not the only starcrossed lovers in this karmic convergence. ...
|  | Acts of War (Tom Clancy's Op-Center, Book 4)
Release Date: March 1, 1997Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik are About to Declare War on the Competition. . . .THE OBJECTIVE: A fourth consecutive New York Times bestseller for Tom Clancy's Op-CenterTHE HARDWARE:A blockbuster thriller armed with cutting-edge technology (a.k.a. everything a Clancy fan wants)THE PREDICTION:A SLAM-DUNK In Tom Clancy's all-new, original novel, OP- CENTER:Acts of War, Syrian terroristshave attacked a dam inside the borders of Turkey, threatening the water supply of theirvery homeland.It is not insanity, but the first step in a deceptively simple plan:to forceall-o...
|  | Nano Wars: What happens when your military becomes obsolete... overnight?
Publication Date: July 1, 2009Nano Wars is a techno-thriller of a world unknowingly gripped in conflict by the emergence of dark uses of nano technology and the amazing nano based devices and weaponry it brought with it, a new era of hybrid soldiers and warfare. Any force armed with this technology is invisible to their enemy, able to kill hundreds, thousands, in seconds and can penetrate any facility at will. The problem, this technology was introduced by the wrong side and it is DATIS's job to recreate itself, fast. DATIS is scrambling to meet this challenge by creating a new hybrid army m...
|  | Gregor y la Profecia de la Destruccion/Gregor and the Prophecy of the Bane (Cronicas de las Tierras Bajas II) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 3, 2008| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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