 | Selling My Soul (Urban Christian)
Release Date: February 23, 2010| Series: Urban Christian "Church Sex Scandal!" the front page of The Washington Times screamed. Barely off the plane from Africa for two minutes and some American sensationalism is there to greet her. Glad not to be in public relations anymore, Trina Michaels plans to ignore the headline. Until she recognizes the faces of the accused.When she returns from her two-year mission trip in Mozambique, Trina realizes that other than longing to see her mother and her best friend, her heart aches to fly back to the place that now feels more like home than anywhere she'...
 |  | Messages to Ground Zero: Children Respond to September 11, 2001
Publication Date: December 2002| ISBN-10: 0606254358 | ISBN-13: 978-0606254359This is a collection of letters, poetry, and art by children in response to September 11th. All were sent to other children reflecting inocent support, outreach, and caring. This book is an archive of what children were thinking and feeling through their honest and heartful messages. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Mercy Train: A Novel (Reading Group Gold)
Release Date: May 8, 2012| Series: Reading Group Gold A rich, luminous novel of three remarkable women connected across a century by a family secret and by the fierce brilliance of their love Samantha’s mother has been dead almost a year when the box arrives on her doorstep. In it, she finds recipe cards, keepsakes, letters—relics of her mother Iris’s past. But as Sam sifts through these family treasures, she uncovers evidence that her grandmother, Violet, had a much more difficult childhood then she could have ever imagined. And Sam, a struggling new mother herself, begins...
|  | Stories of the Sea: Told by Sailors
Publication Date: July 27, 2002This book was digitized and reprinted from the collections of the University of California Libraries.Together, the more than one hundred UC Libr --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
|  | The Divine Comedy, Vol. 3: Paradise
Release Date: February 4, 1986This vigorous translation of Inferno preserves Dante's simple, natural style, and captures the swift movement of the original Italian verse. Mark Musa's blank verse rendition of the poet's journey through the circles of Hell re-creates for the modern reader the rich meanings that Dante's poem had for his contemporaries. Musa's introduction and commentaries on each of the cantos brilliantly illuminate the text. @HolyHaha I have to climb a mountain now? You got to be kidding me. Is this a joke? Who the hell came up with story? VIIIRRRGGGILLLLLLLLLLL! From Twittera...
|  | Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Release Date: November 14, 2006A New York Times Notable BookOn the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin. As is his habit–he has purchased hundreds of women–he asks a madam for her assistance. The fourteen-year-old girl who is procured for him is enchanting, but exhausted as she is from caring for siblings and her job sewing buttons, she can do little but sleep. Yet with this sleeping beauty at his side, it is he who awakens to a romance he has never known. Tender, knowing, and slyly comic, Memories of My Melancholy Wh...
|  | Dreams of Isis: A Woman's Spiritual Sojourn
Publication Date: January 1, 1995Drawing on her travels in modern-day Egypt and her lifelong study of Egyptian mythology and art, Normandi Ellis takes us on a moving autobiographical journey through the sacred sites and rituals of Egypt's past, revealing their restorative and transformative power for contemporary women like herself. Ellis's spell-binding prose weaves a tapestry of the personal past and the spiritual eternal in this exploration of the secret wisdom of ancient Egypt. ...
|  | Euripides and the Tragic Tradition (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)
Publication Date: September 1987| ISBN-10: 0299107604 | ISBN-13: 978-0299107604| Edition: First “The most extensive scholarship to appear on this Greek dramatist in many years, Michelini’s work will be important to specialists and students of classical literature, literary theory, and both English and comparative literature.”—Modern Greek Studies --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | Anteparadise, A Bilingual edition
Publication Date: August 8, 1986Here is a major work by a Chilean poet thought by many to be the most brilliant and important new voice in the Spanish language. In its first American edition, this poetry is presented in Spanish and Enlgish, so that readers of both languages may listed to Zurita's voice.Anteparadise can be read as a creative response, an act of resistance by ayoung artist to the violence and suffering during and after the 1973 coup that toppled the democratically elected Allende government. Zurita thus follows the example of several Latin American pets such as the Peruvian C&...
|  | Alfonsina Storni: Poesa : Editores Mexicanos Unidos (Spanish Edition)
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|  | "No sue
Publication Date: April 9, 2012No sueñes en voz baja, mucho menos en silencio, que lo que tu alma sueña alcanzar, lo oigan los demás y lo compartan; tú nunca sabes quien se puede enamorar de tus sueños y te ayudaráa realizarlos. Nunca pongas en pausa tus anhelos, mucho menos los dejes dormir; antes bien, alborótalos como el viento al polen, que vuelen,que impregnen muchos corazones por si un día te diera por serles infiel, o por creerte los obstáculosque algunos ponen, otros te recuerden el amor que les profesabas y te reconcilies con ellos. Nunca...
|  | Conferencia De Los Pajaros (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Collected Prose
Publication Date: December 1, 1990| ISBN-10: 0935296921 | ISBN-13: 978-0935296921| Edition: 1st In The New Yorker, George Steiner referred to Paul Celan's prose as "a handful of speeches and a parable, which are transforming the landscape of poetic theory and the philosophy of language."He was talking about this volume of essays, published letters, responses to questionnaires, speeches, and a parable. The prose of Celan is an "indispensable volume for those who would wish to understand the 20th century." ...
|  | In August Company: The Collections of the Pierpont Morgan Library
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|  | Classical Myth (7th Edition)
Publication Date: July 7, 2011| ISBN-10: 0205176070 | ISBN-13: 978-0205176076| Edition: 7 Comprehensive and scholarly, this well-designed text presents Greek and Roman myths in a lively and easy-to-read manner. The material has been rearranged to make it easier to find and the new edition has been streamlined. It features fresh translations, numerous illustrations (ancient and modern) of classical myths and legends, and commentary that emphasizes the anthropological, historical, religious, sociological, and economic contexts in which the myths were told. It a...
|  | Dead Reckoning (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood, Book 11)
Release Date: March 27, 2012| Series: Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood (Book 11) With her knack for being in trouble's way, Sookie witnesses thefirebombing of Merlotte's, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotteis now known to be two-natured, suspicion falls immediately on theanti-shifters in the area. Sookie suspects otherwise, but her attentionis divided when she realizes that her lover, Eric Northman, and his"child" Pam are plotting to kill the vampire who is now their master.Gradually, Sookie is drawn into the plot-which is much more complicatedthan she knows... ...
|  | Shadow Magic
Publication Date: August 14, 2012With a past soaked in sin and darkness slowly closing in around him to claim his soul, Drogan only wants to live his life in solitude. Years in the king?s service and his numerous deeds directed by the crown have left Drogan with horrendous nightmares and immeasurable guilt? Serena is a witch, cursed and forever alone. She accepts her future. Until she meets Drogan. With Drogan a passion deep and unyielding awakens inside her. She is willing to sacrifice herself for his love, but can he put his past to rest and embrace the future? ...
|  | Daughter of Time:A Time Travel Romance
Publication Date: October 1, 2011Daughter of Time is appropriate for readers from young teens to adults and is a prequel to the After Cilmeri series: A medieval man with an uncertain destiny, Llywelyn, the Prince of Wales, faces treachery and deceit at the hands of friends and foes alike ... A modern woman with a troubled past, Meg's life is in tatters when she slips through time and into medieval Wales ... Only by working together can Meg and Llywelyn navigate the shifting allegiances that threaten the very existence of Wales--and creat...
|  | Quiller KGB (Quiller Adventure)
Publication Date: April 1994| Series: Quiller Adventure The resourceful British agent joins forces with the Soviets inorder to uncover a deadly plot, nicknamed Operation Trumpeter, whichmay change the ultimate fate of East and West Germany. Reprint. ...
|  | Around the World
Release Date: October 11, 2011| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up A Scott O'Dell Award-winning graphic novelist follows three dauntless adventurers on a Jules Verne-inspired challenge: circling the world, solo!As the nineteenth century wound down, a public inspired by the novel Around the World in Eighty Days clamored for intrepid adventure. The challenge of circumnavigating the globe as no one ever had before--a feat assuring fame if not fortune--attracted the fearless in droves. Three hardy spirits stayed the course: In 1884, former miner Thomas Stevens made the journey on a bicy...
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