 | Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Release Date: October 8, 2002Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague.Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it.For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago.Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder.Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you, ...
 |  | Man Swappers: A Novel
Release Date: March 6, 2012Disturbingly sexy and devilishly delicious, Man Swappers explores the taboo topic of women openly sharing other women’s men. Man Swappers is about carefree and adventurous women who embrace their sexualities without embarrassment, guilt, ridicule, or shame. By day, bombshell sisters Porsha, Persia, and Paris do everything together. They work hard, travel far, and are always on the prowl for their next relationship. And getting the attention from the opposite sex has never been a problem for these vixens. In fact, they’ve had more than their share of men...
|  | Baby with the Bathwater
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|  | Just Down the Road
Release Date: April 3, 2012Harmony, Texas, is a place where dreams are born. As the townspeople face unexpected endings and new beginnings, they also come face to face with themselves—and what’s most important in life... When Tinch Turner lost his wife, he gave up on living. Now he spends his nights brooding, boozing, and brawling. When one of his escapades lands him in the ER, he finds himself staring up at the beautiful new doctor in town. For the first time in years, he feels a spark, but Addison Spencer wants nothing to do with the unruly rancher—or any man for tha...
|  | I'll Watch the Moon: A Novel
Release Date: June 1, 2003Award-winning novelist Ann Tatlock once again lovingly crafts a story that will touch readers' hearts while illuminating a powerful spiritual truth. I'll Watch the Moon is the story of Catherine Tierney, angry at a God whom she no longer believes exists, and her painful journey back to faith. It is also the story of her friendship with Josef Karski, who teaches her how to trust in God as he reveals his own story of surviving the horrors of Auschwitz.And finally, it is the story of Nova Tierney, Catherine's daughter, and the threads that bind their lives together. An...
|  | The Rescue (The English Garden Series #2)
Publication Date: January 1, 2009Lori Wick’s bestselling English Garden series (more than 720,000 copies sold) is filled with engaging characters and stories. Now with fresh, new covers, each of the four books in the series will hold a favorite spot on the nightstand or bookshelf of any reader who loves a great romance.The Rescue, book two in the series, is set in 1811 England. When Anne Gardiner slips from a ladder into the arms of a stranger, her father, Colonel Gardiner, deems the innocent embrace cause for immediate marriage.Weston eventually sees that the “marriage”...
|  | Halo: Glasslands
Release Date: September 25, 2012| Series: Halo The Covenant has collapsed after a long, brutal war that saw billions slaughtered on Earth and her colonies. For the first time in decades, however, peace finally seems possible. But though the fighting's stopped, the war is far from over: it's just gone underground. The UNSC's feared and secretive Office of Naval Intelligence recruits Kilo-Five, a team of ODSTs, a Spartan, and a diabolical AI to accelerate the Sangheili insurrection. Meanwhile, the Arbiter, the defector turned leader of a broken Covenant, struggles to stave off civil war among ...
|  | Comte de Gabalis
Publication Date: December 1, 2005When you have been enrolled among the Children of the Philosophers... you will straightaway discover that the Elements are inhabited by most perfect beings. Unhappy Adam's sin has deprived his unfortunate posterity of all knowledge of these beings and all intercourse with them. [T]he Element of Fire... was not created to remain useless and empty. -from "Discourse II" Sir Edward Lytton's based his strange novel Zanoni upon this esoteric work. Alexander Pope, in his dedication to The Rape of the Lock, sings its praises.But let the reader beware! This book "of ...
|  | D'aulaire's Book of Greek Myths
Release Date: September 19, 1962| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up "For any child fortunate enough to have this generous book...the kings and heroes of ancient legend will remain forever matter-of-fact; the pictures interpret the text literally and are full of detail and witty observation."--Horn Book. "The drawings...are excellent and excitingly evocative."--The New York Times. ...
|  | Intimate Exchanges, Volume I (v. 1)
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|  | Life Is a Dream: And Other Spanish Classics (Eric Bentley's Dramatic Repertoire)
Publication Date: May 1, 2000| Series: Eric Bentley's Dramatic Repertoire This wonderful collection of Spanish drama from the golden age features four plays translated into English by Roy Campbell, and expertly edited by Eric Bentley: Siege of Numantia (Miguel de Cervantes), Fuente Ovejuna (Lope de Vega), The Trickster of Seville (Tirso de Molina) and Life Is a Dream (Calderon de la Barca). Includes an introduction by Bentley. ...
|  | On the Nature of Things, Translated by Martin Ferguson Smith (Hackett Classics Series)
Publication Date: September 3, 2001| ISBN-10: 0872205878 | ISBN-13: 978-0872205871Martin Ferguson Smith's work on Lucretius is both well known and highly regarded. However, his 1969 translation of De Rerum Natura--long out of print--is virtually unknown. Readers will share our excitement in the discovery of this accurate and fluent prose rendering. For this edition, Professor Smith provides a revised translation, new Introduction, headnotes and bibliography. ...
|  | The Profession of Bookselling, a Handbook of Practical Hints for the Apprentice and Bookseller (Thoemmes Press- Thoemmes Library of Printing and the Book Trade)
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|  | Tibullus: Elegies. Text, Introduction and Commentary by Robert Maltby (ARCA)
Publication Date: September 1, 2002| ISBN-10: 0905205995 | ISBN-13: 978-0905205991A new edition of the Augustan poet Albius Tibullus and a major commentary by Robert Maltby, the first in English since K F Smith (1913) to treat Tibullus' entire oeuvre within a single cover. It takes full account of up-to-date scholarship on this learned, elegant and, until recently, much underestimated poet. The text is based on that of A G Lee (1990), variations from which are listed at the end and discussed in the notes. The Introduction includes a short history of the text and an assessment of recent T...
|  | Sins of the Fathers (Chief Inspector Wexford Mysteries, No. 2)
Release Date: December 12, 1986It was a brutal, vicious crime -- sixteen years old. A helpless old woman battered to death with an axe. Harry Painter hung for it, and Chief Inspector Wexford is certain they executed the right man. But Reverend Archery has doubts . . . because his son wants to marry the murderer's beautiful, brilliant daughter. He begins unravelling the past, only to discover that murder breeds murder -- and often conceals even deeper secrets . . . ...
|  | The Law Clerk
Publication Date: January 31, 2012Benjamin Bains is a young man with a promising future law career in Miami, Florida.Seduced by the money given to him for a "simple favor" he finds himself in the middle of a blackmail scheme. Not only may he lose his license to practice law and face jail time, he may lose his life, if he doesn't play every card just right. ...
|  | Mariposa: A Quantico Novel
Publication Date: January 3, 2012| Series: Quantico In an America driven to near bankruptcy with crushing foreign debt, the Talos Corporation stands out as a major success story—training soldiers and security forces from around the world and providing logistics and troops for nearly all branches of the United States government. But Talos has another plan in mind—the destruction of the federal system and constitutional law. Three FBI agents are all that stands between Talos's CEO Axel Price and the subversion of our nation. Nathan Trace, one of a team of four who created and progr...
|  | Daniel X: Game Over
Release Date: June 5, 2012| Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Mixed Up Fairy Tales
Publication Date: September 1, 2004| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up This hilarious split-page novelty book allows the reader to mix and match different combinations of fairy tales creating thousands of outlandish stories. Do you know the story of the ugly duckling who was bossed around by two horrid stepsisters and climbed a beanstalk at the top of which was a bowl of porridge? Or Snow White, who was laughed at by ducks and fell asleep in Baby Bear's bed after eating Little Red Riding Hood's granny? Illustrated by award-winner Nick Sharratt, this ingenious split-page book lets c...
|  | Pequeno dragon aprende a volar/ Little Dragon learns to fly (Pequeletra) (Spanish Edition)
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