 | A Durable Fire (Langani Trilogy)
Release Date: April 22, 2008| Series: Langani Trilogy In the first years of Kenyan independence, three young women return to the East African highlands where they shared a carefree childhood. Hannah is struggling to preserve her heritage at Langani Farm, where a series of unexplained and violent attacks threaten her security and recent marriage. Sarah is studying elephant behavior in an area made dangerous by armed poachers, using her work as a salve for the death of her childhood sweetheart. Camilla, the international fashion icon, abandons her career in London and is drawn back to Kenya by...
 |  | There Shines Forth Christ
Publication Date: August 1983The author, a monk of Portsmouth Abbey, in Rhode Island, shares his thoughts on God, life and the world through the gift of poetry. Author Sheldon Vanauken has described Stead's poetry as "the finest Christian poetry in English in our times." ...
|  | Calico Canyon: Lassoed in Texas, Book 2 (Truly Yours Romance Club #24)
Publication Date: July 1, 2008Let yourself be swept away by this fast-paced romance, featuring Grace Calhoun, an instructor of reading, writing, and arithmetic, who, in an attempt to escape the clutchs of a relentless pursuer, runs smack dab into even more trouble with the 6R's - widower Daniel Reeves, along with his five rowdy sons. When a marriage is forced upon this hapless pair - two people who couldn't dislike each other more - an avalanche isn't the only potential danger lurking amid the shadows of Calico Canyon. Will they make it out alive? Or end up killing each other in the process?...
|  | Island Beneath the Sea: A Novel (P.S.)
Release Date: April 26, 2011| Series: P.S.Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue—the daughter of an African mother she never knew and a white sailor who brought her into bondage—ZaritÉ, known as TÉtÉ, survives a childhood of brutality and fear, finding solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and in her exhilarating initiation into the mysteries of voodoo. When twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island in 1770, he discovers that running his father's plantation is neither glamorous nor easy. Marriage also proves problematic when, eig...
|  | Leo Africanus
Publication Date: March 25, 1998"I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope, I am now called the African, but I am not from Africa, nor from Europe, nor from Arabia. I am also called the Granadan, the Fassi, the Zayyati, but I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road, my country is the caravan, my life the most unexpected of voyages."Thus wrote Leo Africanus, in his fortieth year, in this imaginary autobiography of the famous geographer, adventurer, and scholar Has...
|  | The Crazed
Release Date: January 6, 2004A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post, Los Angeles times, and San Jose Mercury News Best Book of the YearHa Jin’s seismically powerful new novel is at once an unblinking look into the bell jar of communist Chinese society and a portrait of the eternal compromises and deceptions of the human state. When the venerable professor Yang, a teacher of literature at a provincial university, has a stroke, his student Jian Wan is assigned to care for him. Since the dutiful Jian plans to marry his mentor’s beautiful, icy daughter, the job requires delic...
|  | Uncle Merl's Bar & Grill: or, Just Another Friday Night... In Newark!
Publication Date: May 10, 2011Welcome to a comedic urban fantasy about dragons and demons, mortals and magic, vampires and… baseball?Yes, baseball!You'd be surprised how much baseball has to do with human history - and you can hear it all from the dragons hanging out at Uncle Merl's Bar & Grill in Newark!But as Merlin the bartender will tell you, don't try to talk to them when they're watching a Mets game.Yes, supernatural sports fans, welcome to the opening game of the End-of-the-World Series!From the depths of the underworld, from the ninth circle of hell, please welcome the visitin...
|  | Raising the Devil: Satanism, New Religions, and the Media
Release Date: October 5, 2000Raising the Devil reveals how the Christian Pentecostal movement, right-wing conspiracy theories, and an opportunistic media turned grassroots folk traditions into the Satanism scare of the 1980s. During the mid-twentieth century, devil worship was seen as merely an isolated practice of medieval times. But by the early 1980s, many influential experts in clinical medicine and in law enforcement were proclaiming that satanic cults were widespread and dangerous. By examining the broader context for alleged "cult" activity, Bill Ellis demonstrates how the image of co...
|  | Oedipus and the Fabrication of the Father: Oedipus Tyrannus in Modern Criticism and Philosophy
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|  | Rajkahini
Publication Date: April 4, 2006Novel on the Rajput heroes, courage. mixes history, epics, local traditions ...
|  | The Fiddle Rose: Poems 1970-1972 (Jewish Holocaust Studies)
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|  | Characterization and Individuality in Wolfram's 'Parzival'
Publication Date: January 26, 2012Wolfram's Parzival is one of the great medieval romances, but the complexities and obscurities of source, language and the Grail symbol have led to a virtual neglect by scholars of the problems of structure and characterisation. Medieval characterisation tended towards idealisation, symbolism and the view that the individual could be considered a member of a class or type; in Wolfram however the beginnings of individual characterisation can be seen. This 1966 book studies the types and techniques of character-portrayal in Parzival and of the emergence of the...
|  | ABC of Reading (New Directions Paperbook)
Publication Date: October 28, 2010| Series: New Directions Paperbook (Book 1186) Ezra Pound’s classic book about the meaning of literature, with a new introduction by Michael Dirda.This important work, first published in 1934, is a concise statement of Pound’s aesthetic theory. It is a primer for the reader who wants to maintain an active, critical mind and become increasingly sensitive to the beauty and inspiration of the world’s best literature. With characteristic vigor and iconoclasm, Pound illustrates his precepts with exhibits meticulously chosen from the classics, an...
|  | The Witches' Companion
Release Date: August 27, 1996"The Mayfair family is a huge imaginative refuge for me; it is living and growing in my mind all the time."--Anne RiceIn the spellbinding tradition of her bestselling The Vampire Chronicles, the prolific Anne Rice has created the sensuous saga of the Mayfair witches. Resonant with supernatural suspense, mesmerizing eroticism, and lush detail, The Witching Hour, Lasher, and Taltos have bewitched the imaginations of readers everywhere. Now comes the definitive touchstone guide to the history and mystery of this magnificent dynasty of witches.Just as she did with Th...
|  | Lucian, Volume IV (Loeb Classical Library No. 162) (English and Greek Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 1925| ISBN-10: 0674991796 | ISBN-13: 978-0674991798Lucian (ca. 120–190 CE), the satirist from Samosata on the Euphrates, started as an apprentice sculptor, turned to rhetoric and visited Italy and Gaul as a successful travelling lecturer, before settling in Athens and developing his original brand of satire. Late in life he fell on hard times and accepted an official post in Egypt.Although notable for the Attic purity and elegance of his Greek and his literary versatility, Lucian is chiefly famed for the lively, cynical wit of the humorous dialogues in w...
|  | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Publication Date: October 1, 2007Ron Hansen re-creates the real West with his imaginative telling of the life of the most famous outlaw of them all, Jesse James, and of his death at the hands of the upstart Robert Ford. James, a charismatic, superstitious, and moody man, holds sway over a ragged gang who fear his temper and quick shooting. Robert Ford, a young gang member torn between worshiping Jesse and taking his place, guns him down in cold blood and lives out his days tormented by the killing. ...
|  | Evidence: An Alex Delaware Novel
Release Date: February 23, 2010| Series: Alex Delaware In a half-built mansion in Los Angeles, a watchman stumbles onto the bodies of a young couple—murdered and left in a gruesome postmortem embrace. Veteran homicide cop Milo Sturgis is shocked at the sight: a twisted crime that only Milo and psychologist Alex Delaware can hope to solve. While the female victim’s identity remains in question, her companion is ID’d as eco-friendly architect Desmond Backer, notorious for his power to seduce women. The deeper Milo and Alex dig for clues, the longer the list of suspects grows....
|  | Tales from the Hood (Sisters Grimm, Book 6)
Publication Date: March 1, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Paris, 1850 (The Vampire Plagues II)
Publication Date: September 1, 2005| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Tomie dePaola's Mother Goose
Release Date: October 2, 1985| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up "Bobby Shaftoe, Old Mother Hubbard, Simple Simon, Jack Sprat, Little Miss Muffet . . . they are all here, along with 200 others . . . From start to finish a treasure house of delight." --Booklist starred review Tomie dePaola's collection of traditional rhymes is a visual treat for both children and parents. His cheerful, humorous style enlivens 200 rhymes that star both the familiar Mother Goose cast of characters and those not as well known. Some pages are devoted to one rhyme--including all the verses--while other p...
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