 | Halls of Fame: Essays
Publication Date: April 1, 2003“John D’Agata is an alchemist who changes trash into purest gold.” —Guy Davenport, Harper’sJohn D’Agata journeys the endless corridors of America’s myriad halls of fame and faithfully reports on what he finds there. In a voice all his own, he brilliantly maps his terrain in lists, collage, and ludic narratives. With topics ranging from Martha Graham to the Flat Earth Society, from the brightest light in Vegas to the artist Henry Darger, who died in obscurity, Halls of Fame hovers on the brink between prose and po...
 |  | A Lineage of Grace: Five Stories of Unlikely Women Who Changed Eternity
Publication Date: September 17, 2009In this compilation of the five books in the best-selling Lineage of Grace series by Francine Rivers, we meet the five women whom God chose—Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, Bathsheba, and Mary. Each was faced with extraordinary—even scandalous—challenges. Each took great personal risk to fulfill her calling.Each was destined to play a key role in the lineage of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the World.2009 Retailer's Choice Award winner! ...
|  | Dangling on a String
Publication Date: April 30, 2001Tina Marsh is a young, intelligent, and attractive woman on the move. She wants it all -- a successful career, a loving husband, and wonderful children. In her picture perfect version of life, Bruce, the guy who loves her, isn't perfect enough. But Johnny, a college man, shows promise. They marry. Unfortunately as the years wear on, their love wears thin. They divorce. Tina continues her search for the perfect love. She finds only heartache as one affair after another falls apart. Then a wiser, mature Tina makes a phone call to an old friend that puts her on t...
|  | Ten Thousand Charms (Crossroads of Grace #1)
Release Date: May 1, 2006Unfit for Love?Pregnant—by a man who will never know or care. Gloria, born into a life of prostitution, sees only one solution: get rid of the child. But then she meets John William MacGregan, a miner, left with a newborn daughter and no one to care for her when his wife died during childbirth. So John and Gloria strike a deal. Gloria will care for Kate, and John will eventually raise her son. There is no offer of, nor seeking for, a hand in marriage. When John leaves the mines to seek his fortune in the new Oregon Territory , Gloria, Kate, and baby Danny mus...
|  | Yearly Harvest: A True Story of Christmas
Publication Date: June 2, 2008Yearly Harvest A True Story of Christmas by Ryan Callaway Jin Duyen, who often writes articles for prominent magazines, is assigned to do a story on the origins of Christmas' many traditions. After some research, she traces them back to Selah, a remote town in the Midwest. Jin travels there in hopes of finding something interesting for her article, and finds so much more.Amy Carson, a private investigator from a nearby town, decides to look into several cases of missing children which have gone unsolved. The authorities have ceased their own searches, so with li...
|  | Mexico sediento (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: May 1, 2008Martín Moreno's forceful prose and endless imagination raises a red flag to the possibility of a looming drought, like those that have gripped the Valley of Mexico since pre-Columbian times and served as the detonator to the War of Independence and the 1910 Revolution. Can we take the necessary measures to avoid a future catastrophe? 1810, 1910... 2010? Brimming with political intrigue and an awakening environmental awareness, the novel offers a crystal ball for the possible future of Mexico. Description in Spanish: Martin Moreno da la voz de alarma respecto...
|  | His Name Is John (Elliott Smith Mystery, No. 1)
Publication Date: June 10, 2008Elliott Smith wakes up in the hospital with a head injury...and an invisible companion. At first, he's convinced "John" is just a figment of a damaged brain, but when he's fully recovered John is still around; and desperate to find out who he is. Reluctantly, Elliott agrees to help, and discovers Chicago PD has a John Doe on their hands with six bullets in him—who died in the ER at the same time Elliott was there.As Elliott digs deeper into the mystery of John, he stumbles on a body hidden behind a wall for 80 years, meets a sexy artist who could become ...
|  | Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates: Fiction, Fact and Fancy Concerning the Buccaneers and Marooners of the Spanish Main
Publication Date: June 1989| ISBN-10: 0848807588 | ISBN-13: 978-0848807580But with ``Blackbeard'' it is different, for in him we have a real, ranting, raging, roaring pirate per se -- one who really did bury treasure, who made more than one captain walk the plank, and who committed more private murders than he could number on the fingers of both hands; one who fills, and will continue to fill, the place to which he has been assigned for generations, and who may be depended upon to hold his place in the confidence of others for generations to come. --This text refers to the Paperback edit...
|  | Drawing Down a Daughter
Publication Date: January 1, 1982Harris' work cuts across the boundaries between poetry and prose to tell a tale of sexual politics, pregnancy, and motherhood. Preparing to give birth, Harris's dream mother speaks to her unborn daughter through journals, letters, stories, and eloquent imaginings, all the while calling up a cast of characters from Canada and the Caribbean. ...
|  | The American Novel Now: Reading Contemporary American Fiction Since 1980
Publication Date: February 9, 2010The American Novel Now navigates the vast terrain of the American novel since 1980, exploring issues of identity, history, family, nation, and aesthetics, as well as cultural movements and narrative strategies from over seventy different authors and novels.Discusses an exceptionally wide-range of authors and novels, from established figures to significant emerging writersToni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, Louise Erdrich, Don DeLillo, Richard Powers, Kathy Acker and many moreExplores the range of themes and styles offered in the wealth of contemporary American fi...
|  | Short Sips: Coffee House Flash Fiction Collection 2
Publication Date: March 31, 2012In our ever changing world we seem to become busier with less time to relax and enjoy the little things. We have rare occasions, of mere minutes, to ourselves. This collection of 99 flash fiction pieces is for just those moments. Let these authors take you on a ride through suspense, dreams, fantasy, space, and beyond. Pick up the morning coffee, open this book to any story and read before rushing off to school or work. ...
|  | Too Wicked To Kiss (Zebra Debut)
Release Date: March 1, 2010| Series: Zebra Debut His Touch Holds Her Captive...From the ravens circling its spires to the gargoyles adorning its roof, Blackberry Manor looms ominously over its rambling grounds. And behind its doors, amid the flickering shadows and secret passageways, danger lies in wait... To His Every Dark Desire...Evangeline Pemberton has been invited to a party at the sprawling estate of reclusive Gavin Lioncroft, who is rumored to have murdered his parents. Initially, Gavin's towering presence and brusque manner instill fear in Evangeline...until his rakish features and ...
|  | Gone
Release Date: December 26, 2006From New York Times bestseller Lisa Gardner, author of Alone and The Killing Hour, comes a thriller that goes from heartbreaking to heartstopping in the blink of an eye.…When someone you love vanishes without a trace, how far would you go to get them back? For ex-FBI profiler Pierce Quincy, it’s the beginning of his worst nightmare: a car abandoned on a desolate stretch of Oregon highway, engine running, purse on the driver’s seat. And his estranged wife, Rainie Conner, gone, leaving no clue to her fate.Did one of the ghosts from Rainie’...
|  | Akiko in the Castle of Alia Rellapor
Release Date: November 12, 2002| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Rapunzel
Publication Date: February 1, 2000| Age Level: 5 and up A retelling of the traditional tale in which a beautiful girl with long golden hair is imprisoned in a lonely tower by a witch. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | La noche que se cayo la luna (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: September 15, 2009| Age Level: 2 and up A whoosh from her grandfather’s blowgun causes Luna, the moon, to tumble from the sky and fall to pieces in the dark ocean. To save herself, she enlists the help of little fish to glue her back together. At last she rises, beautiful and round again, taking her new friends with her to create the Milky Way. Pat Mora and artist Domi have taken the traditional Mopan Maya (Belize) myth — in which the moon is a young weaver and the Milky Way a fish — and transformed it into a magical story of friendship and imagination. ...
|  | Illinois Football SportsMysteries, Vol. I (Carole Marsh Illinois Books)
Publication Date: September 1990Great for any sports player or fan; especially popular withreluctant boy readers!Features choose-your-own-ending stories usingIllinois football teams and locations.Free teacher's guide gives specificsuggestions and instructions on how to get max educational value fromthis book....
| | Wayne Gretzky: The Great One (Book Report Biographies)
Publication Date: September 1999| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | The Pirate Queen
Publication Date: February 25, 2006In the sixteenth century, Granuaile, the Pirate Queen, warrior and leader, was the terror of the North Atlantic and the most feared woman in Ireland. Heading a large army and a fleet of ships, she lived by trading and raiding and demanding tribute from all who sailed through her territory. Told partly through letters written to her son Tibbot, it charts the gradual decline of the Gaelic chieftains and traditions of Ireland as Elizabeth Tudor, the 'Virgin Queen' of England, extended her power throughout Ireland by bribery and slaughter. It is a story of imme...
|  | The Silver Branch
Publication Date: December 1994More than a century after The Eagle of the Ninth leaves off, two cousins join the Roman side in the fight against a tyrannical British emperor. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
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