 | Amnesia Alibi
Publication Date: August 8, 2012While bloodied body parts chase him in his dreams, Tim Sanderson suffers his real nightmares while awake!In this romantic suspense novel, dark memories come to light revealing that Tim killed his friend, Dave, and might have lost the love of his life, Leesa. She, like police investigators, believe Dave’s choice to drive while intoxicated got him killed. Knowing Tim was a drunken companion, she has little compassion for her husband and his injuries. Her faith is tested beyond belief. Alcoholism, spousal abuse, adultery, and a crime kept secret will eithe...
 |  | Texas Ghost Stories: Fifty Favorites for the Telling
Publication Date: May 15, 2004Storytelling World/Storytelling Magazine Award Winner"I love a book that gives me what it promises, and this one does: fifty real ghost stories, drawn from a variety of sources and told in as many voices, written so as to simulate the language and delivery of a face-to-face performance, and artfully, delightfully done."—Review of Texas Books"Scarcely a page will you turn in this collection of ghost stories in Texas without encountering a disembodied hand or a fang baby—creatures guaranteed to shock the shell of an armadillo. . . . Whether you read the ...
|  | Islam - The Dark Night Of Humanity
Publication Date: November 10, 2008Islam - the dark night of humanity - is one of the condensed segments of the whole story 'dark night of the Soul. This thought provoking and controversial segment tackles the complicated issue of Islam from the perspective that Muhammad was not a true prophet, but a fraud and a charlatan preying upon the simple and uneducated minds of his peers. To protect himself and to disqualify true future prophets, seers and saints of the Church, Muhammad addressed himself as the last prophet of God, thereby fueling the minds of his subjects all other religions are fal...
|  | Fugitives of Love
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|  | Pliny: Natural History, Volume III, Books 8-11 (Loeb Classical Library No. 353) (Bks.VIII-XI v. 3)
Publication Date: January 1, 1940| ISBN-10: 0674993896 | ISBN-13: 978-0674993891Pliny the Elder, tireless researcher and writer, is author of the encyclopedic Natural History, in 37 books, an unrivaled compendium of Roman knowledge. The contents of the books are as follows. Book 1: table of contents of the others and of authorities; 2: mathematical and metrological survey of the universe; 3-6: geography and ethnography of the known world; 7: anthropology and the physiology of man; 8-11: zoology; 12-19: botany, agriculture, and horticulture; 20-27: plant products as used in medicine; 28-3...
|  | Women Of The Kakawin World: Marriage And Sexuality In The Indic Courts Of Java And Bali
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|  | Jean Renart: The Lai De L'Ombre (French Edition)
Publication Date: November 5, 1986The 'Lai de l'ombre', by Jean Renart, is a narrative poem dating from about 1220. It is a love story, telling of the winning of a lady by a knight in a manner which is wittier than it is courtly. The present edition includes an introduction (both literary and linguistic), variants from the seven manuscript versions, commentary on paleographic, literary, linguistic and historical details, line by line, and a glossary of terms. ...
|  | Einstein's Century : Akito Arima's Haiku
Publication Date: June 18, 2001Einstein's Century: Akito Arima's Haiku is a dual language edition of contemporary Japanese haiku. This is a selected works by one of the leading Japanese haiku sensei, leader of the Ten'i school of haiku. Dr. Arima is an international leader in science, politics and haiku poetry, and this is an amazing collection of many of his best haiku, translated by the award winning haiku poet team of Emiko Miyashita and Lee Gurga. ...
| | Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine. Volume XVI - July to December, 1884.
Publication Date: 1884A monthly magazine, devoted to useful and entertaining reading. With many b/w engravings. ...
|  | Campo Santo (Modern Library Paperbacks)
Release Date: February 14, 2006| Series: Modern Library Paperbacks “W. G. Sebald exemplified the best kind of cosmopolitan literary intelligence–humane, digressive, deeply erudite, unassuming and tinged with melancholy. . . . In [Campo Santo] Sebald reveals his distinctive tone, as his winding sentences gradually mingle together curiosity and plangency, learning and self-revelation. . . . [Readers will] be rewarded with unexpected illuminations.”–The Washington Post Book WorldThis final collection of essays by W. G. Sebald offers profound ruminations on many themes co...
|  | Traditional Oral Epic: The Odyssey, Beowulf, and the Serbo-Croatian Return Song
Publication Date: October 28, 1993| ISBN-10: 0520084365 | ISBN-13: 978-0520084360John Miles Foley offers an innovative and straightforward approach to the structural analysis of oral and oral-derived traditional texts. Professor Foley argues that to give the vast and complex body of oral "literature" its due, we must first come to terms with the endemic heterogeneity of traditional oral epics, with their individual histories, genres, and documents, as well as both the synchronic and diachronic aspects of their poetics.Until now, the emphasis in studies of oral traditional works has been ...
|  | The Unbearable Lightness of Dragons: A Novel of the Light Dragons
Release Date: May 3, 2011| Series: Light Dragons View our feature on Katie MacAlister’s The Unbearable Lightness of Dragons.Ysolde Bouchier is still coming to terms with the dragon part of her, while at the same time trying to free a friend of Baltic-her Black Dragon lover-from the weyr, get Baltic to meet with the dragons who want him dead, rescue a half-dragon damsel in over her head, raise the shade of the man everyone says killed her, and once and for all clear Baltic's name of the murder charges that continue to plague him. For Ysolde, being a dragon is starting to bite. ...
|  | Enemy Lover
Release Date: May 25, 2010When you have no alternative, then you call in L.O.S.T. Because with the Last Option Special Team, it’s do or die. . . . It’s Jax Cassidy’s first mission for L.O.S.T.—one that will give the former cop who went rogue a chance to prove herself. Her assignment: gain the trust of assassin Marcus Cross . . . eliminate him . . . then take down Marcus’s mentor, Joseph Lazarus, a man with a bold eye on the White House. But the woman who’s known by her team for being a femme fatale succumbs to passion, only to discover Cross’s deadly...
|  | Tumbling Through Time
Release Date: January 29, 2008In her sparkling and hilarious debut, author Gwyn Cready introduces Persephone "Seph" Pyle, a total control freak who plans for everything -- until a pair of killer heels sends her back in time and into the arms of a ruggedly handsome sea captain straight from the pages of a romance novel. Wandering the Pittsburgh airport before a business trip, Seph decides to kill time with some preflight shopping -- anything to get her mind off Tom Fraser, her irresistible, dimple-chinned coworker turned travel buddy. So when a pair of to-die-for pink stilettos calls her name...
|  | Redeeming Vows
Publication Date: December 17, 2010Forher own safety, modern day, single mom, Lizzy McAllister is forced to bow to the medieval men who surround her when she's thrust back in time to the sixteenth century against her will. When Lizzie finds herself trapped in time with Fin, the one man she finds both irresistible and maddening, she agrees to combine forces with him to rid Scotland of the evil witch, Grainna. Finlay MacCoinnich's attraction to Lizzie sizzles the very air they breathe. Tearing down the solid walls the woman has built around her won't be easy, but he's willing to do anything to...
|  | Accursed Bloodline
Publication Date: October 26, 2007Accursed Bloodline is a tale of horror, intrigue, and romance. Set in 1800 Romania, the story centers on the life of an age-old vampire named Vladmar Deveroux. He was known by townspeople as the handsome and wealthy Lord of Castle Deveroux, a secluded man who rarely ventured past the castle walls. Never seen in the daylight hours, his mysterious lifestyle allowed him few friends and a host of unknown enemies. Sounds typical, you might think. However, the mystical chain of events that gradually unfold are anything but typical. When an unexpected visitor arriv...
|  | The Summons / The Brethren
Release Date: October 10, 2006The Summons Once Judge Atlee was a powerful figure in Clanton, Mississippi–a pillar of the community who towered over local law and politics for forty years. Now the judge is a shadow of his former self, a sick, lonely old man who has withdrawn to his sprawling ancestral home. Knowing the end is near, Judge Atlee has issued a summons for his two sons to return to Clanton to discuss his estate. The summons is typed by the judge himself, on his handsome old stationery, and gives the date and time for his sons Ray and Forrest to appear in his study. But the ...
|  | Twister on Tuesday (Magic Tree House, No. 23)
Release Date: March 27, 2001| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Old Man's Cave (Bone, Vol. 6)
Publication Date: August 1, 2007| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up A showdown with the rat creatures and a secret ceremony by moonlight; revelations and battles: The Bone cousins are in the thick of it again!The thrilling BONE saga continues in book six. As war spreads through the valley, the Bone cousins join Gran'ma Ben and Lucius at Old Man's Cave to make a stand against the rat creatures.But not everything goes as planned. By the end of the book, Phoney Bone is strapped to a stone altar and about to be sacrificed; Thorn is lying lifeless nearby; and the rumblings of an earthq...
|  | The Adventures of Spider: West African Folktales (BookFestival)
Publication Date: November 2, 1992| Grade Level: 3 and up...
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