 | Just Wanna Testify: A Novel
Release Date: May 10, 2011Familiar faces and places meet fresh twists and turns in this enthralling novel from acclaimed author Pearl Cleage. Atlanta’s West End district has always been a haven and home to a coterie of unique characters—artists and thinkers, dreamers and doers. Folks here know one another’s names, keep their doors unlocked, and look out for their neighbors. Anyone planning to sell drugs, vandalize, or rob a little old lady should think twice before hitting this part of town. And Blue Hamilton, West End’s unofficial mayor and longtime protector...
 |  | Manhunt
Release Date: November 29, 2005 A woman with a talent for numbers, Alexandra Scott wanted to escape the rat race and go someplace where the men outnumber the women. Trading in her Wall Street job and fancy condo for a rundown cabin in the woods. She's now Alaskan Wilderness Woman. It isn't long before she finds exactly what she's looking for: one sexy pilot named Michael Casey. But this confirmed bachelor has no intentions of getting caught in any woman's crosshairs—especially a hunter as appealing as Alex. It'll take skill, determination, and a little romantic persuasion for this big...
|  | The Suppressed Sister: A Relationship in Novels by Nineteenth- And Twentieth-Century British Women
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|  | Wonders Never Cease
Publication Date: May 11, 2010Welcome to Los Angeles, the City of Angels, where traffic never stops, people never sleep, and wonders never cease. It's a brilliant plan, if Kemp McAvoy says so himself—and Kemp never hesitates to point out his own brilliance. Kemp is a night nurse for a beautiful but aging movie star in a medically induced coma. And with the help of her agent and a struggling young publisher, he's concocted a can't-fail scheme that will make them all rich. Olivia Hayden is about to receive a heavenly visitor—an angel with a message for all humankind. All it takes...
|  | Dead Six
Release Date: September 27, 2011Michael Valentine, veteran and former member of an elite private military company, has been recruited by the government to conduct a secret counter-terror operation in the Persian Gulf nation of Zubara. The unit is called Dead Six. Their mission is to take the fight to the enemy and not get caught. Lorenzo, assassin and thief extraordinaire, is being blackmailed by the world's most vicious crime lord. His team has to infiltrate the Zubaran terrorist network and pull off an impossible heist or his family will die. When Dead Six compromises his objective, ...
|  | Positive Match
Release Date: July 1, 1998Caduceus 21 is the future of health care. Few people know its balance sheet is fueled by a hidden trade in human organs. Only one person suspects where the organs are coming from.But Dr. Nguyen-Anh Dupree can't prove his dark suspicions without help. Enter Maggie Sepulveda, a hard-charging investment banker at Marx Dillon & Neil. She is about to land the deal of her career, financing the expansion of Caduceus 21; but the more she learns about her new client, the more her elation turns to fear. Soon Dupree and Maggie are drawn together, running for their lives as the...
|  | No Graves As Yet: A Novel (World War I)
Release Date: July 26, 2005| Series: World War I Through Anne Perry’s magnificent Victorian novels, millions of readers have enjoyed the pleasures and intrigue of a bygone age. Now, with the debut of an extraordinary new series, this New York Times bestselling author sweeps us into the golden summer of 1914, a time of brief enchantment when English men and women basked in the security of wealth and power, even as the last weeks of their privileged world were swiftly passing. Theirs was a peace that led to war.On a sunny afternoon in late June, Cambridge professor Joseph Reavley is summ...
|  | The Locusts Have No King
Release Date: June 1, 1998No one has satirized New York society quite like Dawn Powell, and in this classicnovel she turns her sharp eye and stinging wit on the literary world, and "identifiesevery sort of publishing type with the patience of a pathologist removing organsfor inspection." Frederick Olliver, an obscure historian and writer, is having anaffair with the restively married, beautiful, and hugely successful playwright, LyleGaynor. Powell sets a see-saw in motion when Olliver is swept up by the tastelesspublishing tycoon, Tyson Bricker, and his new book makes its way onto to the bes...
|  | The 64 Sonnets
Publication Date: April 1, 2004| ISBN-10: 1589880145 | ISBN-13: 978-1589880146| Edition: 1st Paul Dry Books Ed John Keats is among the greatest English poets. (He himself imagined he would be counted so!) For some readers, his odes define the essence of poetry. We also discover in Keats a great composer of sonnets. Here, for the first time published in a separate edition, are all sixty-four sonnets, the first written when Keats was eighteen, the last just five years later. Reading these poems, you'll experience the wonder of Keats's growing poetic powers; you'll feel the "shock of recogn...
|  | The Making of the Alice Books: Lewis Carroll's Uses of Earlier Children's Literature
Publication Date: April 2000Analysing Lewis Carroll's "Alice" books in the context of children's literature from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century, Ronald Reichertz argues that Carroll's striking originality was the result of a fusion of his narrative imagination and formal and thematic features from earlier children's literature. "The Making of the Alice Books" includes discussions of the didactic and nursery rhyme verse traditionally addressed by Carroll's critics while adding and elaborating connections established within and against the continuum of English-language children...
|  | The Little Carthaginian. Pseudolus. The Rope (Loeb Classical Library)
Publication Date: May 1, 2012| Series: Loeb Classical Library The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences c. 205–184 bc, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and are cornerstones of the European theatrical tradition from Shakespeare and Molière to modern times. This volume presents three of the twenty-one plays in new translation. ...
|  | The Ultimate Youth Drama Book
Publication Date: June 30, 2001From the producer of the "Adventures in Odyssey" radio series, the authoritative guide to a state-of-the-art youth drama program. These ideas will help schools, churches, and youth groups: € Set a budget € Write their own skits € Recruit and train actors € Run rehearsals € Work with props, lighting, and sound As an outstanding bonus, 25 included scripts can be photocopied and performed without paying an additional fee. ...
|  | Architectonics of Imitation in Spenser, Daniel, and Drayton
Publication Date: September 8, 2000This ground-breaking study explores the treatment of the boundaries between poetry and historyin three epic literary works:Spenser's Faerie Queene, Samuel Daniel's Civil Wars, and Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion. David Galbraith argues that each of the three national poems enters into a dialogue with classical and more contemporary predecessors and that this relationship has profound implications for understanding the English Renaissance. He explores the importance for each poem of various aspects of the relationship between England and Rome and the significa...
|  | The Year with Grandma Moses
Publication Date: October 15, 2000| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up A unique introduction to an important American Artist.When Grandma Moses looks out her window,she sees a world of spotted cows,a world of thunderstorms, rain-drenched fields,and hand-washed laundry flapping in the wind. This stunning picture book introduces children of all ages to the work of legendary artist Grandma Moses. Beginning in the spring -- full of thunderstorms and scenes of laundry flapping in the wind -- Nikola-Lisa's lyrical text captures the seasons on a farm and highlights the simple yet wonderful...
|  | Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation
Publication Date: July 1, 1987The dawn of humanism in the Renaissance presented privileged women with great opportunities for personal and intellectual growth. Sexual and social roles still determined the extent to which a woman could pursue education and intellectual accomplishment, but it was possible through the composition of poetry or prose to temporarily offset hierarchies of gender, to become equal to men in the act of creation.Edited by Katharina M. Wilson, this anthology introduces the works of twenty-five women writers of the Renaissance and Reformation, among them Marie Dentiè...
|  | Greek Lives (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: April 1, 2009| ISBN-10: 0199540055 | ISBN-13: 978-0199540051| Edition: 1st Reissue Here, Plutarch introduces the major figures and periods of classical Greece, detailing the lives of nine personages, including Lycurgus, Solon, Themistocles, Cimon, Alexander, Pericles, Nicias, Alcibiades, and Agesilaus. Oxford presents the most comprehensive selection available, superbly translated and accompanied by a lucid introduction, explanatory notes, bibliographies, maps, and indexes.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spect...
|  | Discourses, Books 1-2 (Loeb Classical Library)
Publication Date: January 1, 1925| ISBN-10: 0674991451 | ISBN-13: 978-0674991453| Edition: Reprint Epictetus was a crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during Nero's reign (54–68 CE) who heard lectures by the Stoic Musonius before he was freed. Expelled with other philosophers by the emperor Domitian in 89 or 92 he settled permanently in Nicopolis in Epirus. There, in a school which he called 'healing place for sick souls', he taught a practical philosophy, details of which were recorded by Arrian, a student of his, and survive in four books of Discourses and a smaller Encheiridion, a ha...
|  | The Edge (FBI Series)
Release Date: August 1, 2000| Series: FBI Series An FBI agent's sister disappears after an attempted suicide. When Savich and Sherlock join the search, they discover a startling connection to a puzzling murder-and put their lives on the line to uncover the truth. ...
|  | A Promise of Spring
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|  | The Attenbury Emeralds: The New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery (Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mysteries)
Release Date: January 4, 2011| Series: Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mysteries In 1936, Dorothy L. Sayers abandoned the last Lord Peter Wimsey detective story. Sixty years later, a brown paper parcel containing a copy of the manuscript was discovered in her agent’s safe in London, and award-winning novelist Jill Paton Walsh was commissioned to complete it. The result of the pairing of Dorothy L. Sayers with Walsh was the international bestseller Thrones, Dominations. Now, following A Presumption of Death, set during World War II, comes a new Sayers-inspired mystery featuring Lord Pete...
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