 | How to Sell: A Novel
Release Date: April 27, 2010Bobby Clark is just sixteen when he drops out of school to follow his big brother, Jim, into the jewelry business. Bobby idolizes Jim and is in awe of Jim’s girlfriend, Lisa, the best saleswoman at the Fort Worth Deluxe Diamond Exchange. What follows is the story of a young man’s education in two of the oldest human passions, love and money. Skilled at the art of persuasion, Bobby is drawn to Lisa, but also to the myriad scams and frauds of the jewelry trade, where the power to appraise also means the power to bait and switch and cheat like hell....
 |  | Secret of the Prince's Tomb (AIO Imagination Station Books)
Publication Date: December 16, 2011| Age Level: 7 and up...
|  | A Royal Ring of Gold : Stories from the Life of Mungo
Publication Date: June 1, 1999St Mungo, or Kentigern, has long been one of Scotland's favourite saints for the warm, caring personality which shines through the legends. His mother was a young princess who was cast adrift in a boat by her father. She and her newborn child were rescued by the monk Serf, who brought the boy up in his monastery. Because the boy trotted after him everywhere, Serf gave him the nickname "mungo" meaning "dear one," or "little dog". When he died in AD 612, Mungo was bishop of Glasgow and much-loved for his holiness and wisdom. His tomb soon became known as a place o...
|  | The Spirit of the Vampire
Release Date: October 8, 2007Judging between evil spirits and good ones, Junior is faced with the reality of the real world. As a vampire his style is flashy, but when it comes to his spirit it is ordained. With flying saucers and friends, he makes the spirit live on and finds that his has reached the forever boundary mark of the times. ...
|  | Aspects of the Heart
Publication Date: August 14, 2012All the world's a stage and Laura Stafford is on her way to proving it. The successful playwright from Down Under has been commissioned to produce her smash hit play Aspects of the Heart for an American debut in Los Angeles. Laura arrives in the States eager to meet the challenge. When she learns that an independent film maker wants to acquire movie rights to her play, she's over the moon. The elation is short-lived when she recognizes the producer as the woman with whom she had a short, intense affair. Facing Campbell Hurst after all these years brings back ...
|  | The Dreamer in the Dream
Publication Date: June 16, 2012A superbly original collection of short stories with an esoteric bias. Each story explores in different situations, often humorous, a paradoxical edge of experience, when the inner and outer life is about to transform; at any stage in life. These stories, light-hearted and profound, were rough hewn by the well known mind-body-spirit author Alan Jacobs, and turned into literary gems by Jane Adams, an artist, poet and author. They express this fertile dialogue, in the inner life. They include two childrens' stories for the ever young in spirit. Major influenc...
|  | Just So Stories
Publication Date: April 27, 2011This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a broad and representative collection of classic works. ...
|  | A Surrey State of Affairs: A Novel
Release Date: March 29, 2012Constance Harding's comfortable corner of Surrey is her own littlepiece of heaven. She lives in a chocolate box house complete with anAga and a parrot, her bell-ringing club is set to dominate theintercounty tournament, and she is sure she can get her son, Rupert, tosettle down if she just writes the perfect personal ad for him.Naturally, things turn disastrous rather quickly. And she's about tolearn that her perfect home conceals a scandal that would make thevicar blush.Her Lithuanian housekeeper's undergarments keep appearing in herhusband's study and her daught...
|  | Tree and Leaf: Including the Poem Mythopoeia
Publication Date: July 1989Repackaged to feature Tolkien's own painting of the Tree of Amalion, this collection includes his famous essay, 'On Fairy-stories' and the story that exemplifies this, 'Leaf by Niggle', together with the poem 'Mythopoeia' and the verse drama, 'The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth', which tells of the events following the disastrous Battle of Maldon.Fairy-stories are not just for children, as anyone who has read Tolkien will know. In his essay On Fairy-Stories, Tolkien discusses the nature of fairy-tales and fantasy and rescues the genre from those who would relegate it to ...
|  | Songs of gods, songs of humans: The epic tradition of the Ainu
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|  | Social Authorship and the Advent of Print
Publication Date: October 1, 2003How did academic and literary writers living in rural Britain in the 1680s establish their careers and find audiences for their work? What factors influenced the choices of essayists and dramatists who lived outside London and the university cities? Who read the works of regional poets and natural scientists and how were they circulated?In this engaging study of the development of literary industry and authorship in early modern Britain, Margaret Ezell examines the forces at work at a time when print technology was in competition with older manuscript authors...
|  | The Spiritual History of Ice: Romanticism, Science, and the Imagination
Release Date: November 10, 2009| ISBN-10: 0230619711 | ISBN-13: 978-0230619715At the turn of the nineteenth century, crystallographers, glaciologists, and polar explorers for the first time demonstrated that frozen shapes are not dead but bearers of vital powers.Aware of this new scientific information, Romantic figures in England and America--including Coleridge and Poe, Percy and Mary Shelley, Emerson and Thoreau--challenged traditional representations of ice as waste and celebrated crystals, glaciers, and the poles as revelations of life as well as models of poetic composition.The Spi...
|  | Anthony Burgess and Modernity
Release Date: October 28, 2008This book provides a variety of new perspectives and contexts for exploring Burgess’s literature and music. A range of international scholars and critics explore the writer’s novels, music and linguistic productions to explore and define how Burgess contributed to modernist and postmodernist art. The scholars who contributed to the book provide original explorations of Burgess’s work and the theological, psychological, linguistic, literary and musical contexts in which Burgess’s achievements can best be understood. It will appeal...
|  | Love and Death
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|  | Mystery at Blackbeard's Cove
Publication Date: October 15, 2004| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Tales in Time: Volume Two: The Littleberg Stories (v. 2)
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|  | The Utah Jazz (Team Spirit (Norwood))
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|  | For the Love of Judo (For the Love of Sports)
Publication Date: February 2002| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | Garfield and the Mysterious Mummy (Planet Reader, Chapter Book)
Publication Date: May 1, 1998 ...
|  | Les Miserables (Stepping Stones(TM))
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