 | Lady Jasmine: A Novel
Publication Date: June 2, 2009Juicy Jasmine Larson Bush is at it again -- battling her past in order to save her future.With her own lies, she nearly destroyed her marriage to Pastor Hosea Bush. Why, Jasmine was forced to reveal every secret she'd ever kept from her husband, right down to her real age, weight, and shoe size! She thought she had told Hosea everything.But when Jasmine is blackmailed with a terrible truth from her past that she "forgot" to tell Hosea, more than just her marriage is in jeopardy.Surprisingly, her first instinct is to tell the truth. Jasmine knows, however, that t...
 |  | Heaven's Hell
Release Date: March 4, 2010Heavens Hell is the gripping tale of the striking beauty Heaven Jacy, and the hell she endures in the cold cruel world, at her young, tender age. Suffering at the hands of abuse from her father and her older, controlling, boyfriend Khalil, Heaven yearns and dreams of the day of her escape. Her prayers are answered when she is introduced to Khalil s boss, Street King turned Businessman, Gavin Lucas, known in every hood in Jersey, as the infamous G. G becomes Heavens knight in shining armor, sweeping her off of her feet into a whirlwind of passion, exotic getaways, a...
|  | Wonder Reborn: Creating Sermons on Hymns, Music, and Poetry
Publication Date: July 27, 2010This book explores an issue at the nerve of the long term health of all churches: how godly wonder can be reborn through renewed attention to the place of beauty in preaching and worship. The book opens with an exploration of the theological and cultural difficulties of defining beauty. It traces the church's historical ambivalence about beauty and art and describes how, in our own day, the concept of beauty has been commercialized and degraded. Troeger develops a theologically informed aesthetic that provides a counter-cultural vision of beauty flowing from th...
|  | Hens Dancing: A Novel
Release Date: April 9, 2002Hilarity and tenderness abound in this novel narrated in pages torn from the diary of one Venetia Summers, a thirty-something divorced mother of three who resides in rural England and is owner of, among other things, controlling shares in her ex-husband’s pet mortuary and numerous pairs of oddly colored Wellingtons. While Venetia’s life may not be as glamorous as the one she left behind in the city ten years ago, it certainly isn’t dull. She has two exuberant young boys and one splendid baby girl–known simply as The Beauty–to feed and ...
|  | The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (New York Review Books Classics)
Release Date: December 31, 2004| Series: New York Review Books Classics Spain has produced two books that changed world literature: Don Quixote and Lazarillo de Tormes, the first picaresque novel ever written and the inspired precursor to works as various as Vanity Fair and Huckleberry Finn. Banned by the Spanish Inquisition after publication in 1554, Lazarillo was soon translated throughout Europe, where it was widely copied. The book is a favorite to this day for its vigorous colloquial style and the earthy realism with which it exposes human hypocrisy.The bastard son of a prostitute, Laza...
|  | RLE: China: The Classical Theatre of China
Publication Date: April 4, 2005| ISBN-10: 0415361702 | ISBN-13: 978-0415361705| Edition: 1 First published in 1957. Besides tracing the history and development of the Peking Theatre, this volume explains acting techniques, stage costume and symbolism, musical forms and the various types of plays. ...
|  | American War Poetry: An Anthology
Publication Date: March 14, 2006 American War Poetry spans the history of the nation. Beginning with the Colonial Wars of the eighteenth-century and ending with the Gulf Wars, this original and significant anthology presents four centuries of American men and women-soldiers, nurses, reporters, and embattled civilians-writing about war.American War Poetry opens with a ballad by a freed African American slave commenting on a skirmish with Indians in a Massachusetts meadow. Poems on the American Revolution follow, as well as poems on "minor" conflicts like the Mexican War and the Spanish-Americ...
|  | The Body's Fire
Publication Date: July 2002The Body's Fire is a collection or original poems and"shaped" poems addressing several recursive themes, including theHolocaust, love, friendship, urban life, the human condition, andnature. ...
|  | Forbidden Colors - Haiku & Tanka
Publication Date: April 20, 2012Steven Carter is a retired emeritus professor of English. He is the only two-time winner of UNESCO's Nuove Lettere International Poetry and Literature Prize. In 2010 he was awarded the Eric Hoffer Foundation's Montaigne Medal. Snow Moon, his chapbook of haiku/haibun, was recently released by Alba Publishng. ...
|  | Birth of the Cool
Publication Date: March 4, 2002A stunningly illustrated cultural history of the American underground in the forties and fifties and of the artists at its core - Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, William Burroughs, Jackson Pollock, and more. The idea of 'cool' is one of the most pervasive forces in modern culture - but what is it? Where does it come from? Who invented it? Birth of the Cool is the first serious examination of how cool came about - its meaning, its heroes and its place in the world, from the gritty avant-garde fringes of the culture in after-hours joints in Harlem and cold water ...
|  | Mapping Frontiers Across Medieval Islam: Geography, Translation and the 'Abbasid Empire (Library of Middle East History)
Release Date: August 30, 2011| ISBN-10: 184885451X | ISBN-13: 978-1848854512The story of the 9th-century caliphal mission from Baghdad to discover the legendary barrier against the apocalyptic nations of Gog and Magog mentioned in the Quran, has been either dismissed as superstition or treated as historical fact. By exploring the intellectual and literary history surrounding the production and early reception of this adventure, Travis Zadeh traces the conceptualization of frontiers within early 'Abbasid society and re-evaluates the modern treatment of marvels and monsters inhabiting medi...
|  | Death Before Dishonor (G Unit)
Release Date: January 9, 2007| Series: G Unit <center>ONE REASON TO LIVE.THREE REASONS TO DIE.</center>Trill Johnson has five years of jail time under his belt, two women trying to get inside his pants, and one mission in his heart of hearts: Get the suckers who sold him out. And get 'em good.Sunni James will do anything for Trill. Lie, cheat, steal. Even risk losing her successful beauty salon to save him from the mean streets of Richmond.Precious Pay will do anything for Trill, too. She cribbed his kid while he did his time, so now she wants Trill to pay for the leg she los...
|  | The Conference of the Birds
Publication Date: September 16, 2012| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Lavishly illustrated by award-winning illustrator, Demi, this magical and inspiring story of the adventures of a flock of wayfaring birds in search of their king will delight children with its tales of overcoming fear, physical hardship, and inner limitations. Based on an 800 year old classical parable, and retold by mother of three, Alexis York Lumbard, it will provide parents with a unique opportunity to teach moral and spiritual development to their children. ...
|  | Drive to the Hoop (Jake Maddox)
Publication Date: January 2, 2011| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | La Volta a La Gallia D' Asterix / Asterix and the Banquet (Catalan Edition)
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|  | Enid Blyton's Bedtime Stories for Children (Enid Blyton's Anthologies)
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|  | A KIDNAPPED SANTA CLAUS - FANTASY CLASSICS (Annotated)
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|  | Do Lions Like Lettuce? (Animal Flappers Books)
Publication Date: February 1, 2007| Grade Level: Pre and up...
|  | Sheep on the Farm
Publication Date: January 1, 2006| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Woolly Mammoth (Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals)
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