 | The Long Song: A Novel
Release Date: April 26, 2011Finalist for the 2010 Man Booker PrizeThe New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearIn her follow-up to Small Island, winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction, Andrea Levy once again reinvents the historical novel. Told in the irresistibly willful and intimate voice of Miss July, with some editorial assistance from her son, Thomas, The Long Song is at once defiant, funny, and shocking. The child of a field slave on the Amity sugar plantation in Jamaica, July lives with her mother until Mrs. Caroline Mortimer, a recen...
 |  | Flash and Bones: A Novel
Release Date: July 31, 2012THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Producer of the FOX television hit Bones KATHY REICHS accelerates the suspense in NASCAR country, where Dr. Temperance Brennan reignites a stalled federal case with explosive forensic clues—to murder. She lived for speed—and vanished without a trace. . . . As 200,000 fans pour into town for Race Week, a body is found in a metal drum near Charlotte Motor Speedway—a discovery that has NASCAR crewman Wayne Gamble urgently seeking out Tempe at the Mecklenburg County ME’s office: twelve years ago, his sister, Cind...
|  | Passport Diaries: A Novel
Release Date: May 2, 2006Kia Carson, a Los Angeles district attorney with beauty, brains, taste, and style, is about to turn thirty-five. There's just one problem with her picture-perfect life -- she's not got one eligible man in sight. Well, thank God she has her career . . . at least until she gets suspended from her job. To regain her sense of purpose, she plans a restorative girl's night out -- all the way to Europe. In this fresh and funny Los Angeles Times bestseller, Kia embarks on what becomes a defining journey to London, Paris, and Greece, where she finds a little bit of trouble, a...
|  | Return (Redemption)
Publication Date: August 31, 2009| Series: Redemption (Book 3) A fresh new look for the best-selling series from America’s number-one inspirational novelist, Karen Kingsbury. Fans will enjoy a personal note from Karen and Gary Smalley as well as discussion questions for book group use. Revisit the Baxter family in all their life-changing events, or share the series with someone who hasn’t discovered it yet. The Redemption series won Christian Retailing’s 2005 Retailer’s Choice Award for Best Series! This touching novel reunites readers with the Baxter family and f...
|  | Where Do I Go? (Yada Yada House of Hope Series, Book 1)
Publication Date: December 9, 2008Sometimes you find hope in the last place you look. Gabrielle Fairbanks has nearly lost touch with the carefree, spirited young woman she was shen she married her husband sixteen years ago. But when the couple moves to Chicago to accommodate Philip's ambition, Gabby longs for the chance to find real purpose in her own life. A chance encounter with a homeless woman suddenly opens a dooor she never expected. The women of Manna House Women's Shelter need a Program Director--and she has the right credentials. Gabby's in her element, feeling God's call on her lif...
|  | The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: May 31, 2011| Series: Penguin Classics "The most thrilling book I have ever read." -Kingsley AmisPart surrealistic comedy, part psychological thriller, G. K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday inventively unravels the nightmare of paradox and surprise to probe the mysteries of human behavior. The seven members of Europe's Central Anarchist Council, who, for reasons of security, call themselves by the names of the days of the week, have sworn to destroy the world. But events soon cast doubt upon their real identities, for the man called Thursday is not the passionate young ...
|  | For The Living
Publication Date: April 5, 2012(Gay / Erotica / Erotic Romance / Contemporary / Exhibitionism / Public Places) For the last year, Jay Warren has struggled to find the nerve to tell his wife he's gay. He's ashamed of hiding it all this time and he doesn't want to hurt her, so every time he gets the chance to tell her, he freezes up. The guilt has been almost unbearable, but when his wife dies suddenly, Jay's conscience threatens to eat him alive. Funeral director Scott Lawson deals with the bereaved every day of his life, and he's also all too familiar with the inside of the closet. He offers...
|  | R.S. Thomas: Conceding an Absence,Images of God Explored
Publication Date: November 15, 1996| ISBN-10: 0312160984 | ISBN-13: 978-0312160982R.S. Thomas's presentation of God has given rise to controversy and dissent. Exploring Thomas's techniques of creating his images of God, Elaine Shepherd addresses the problems surrounding the language of religion and of religious poetry. Refusing to limit herself to conventionally religious poems, and drawing on material from the earliest work to Counterpoint and beyond, she identifies the challenges with which Thomas confronts his readers. The sequence of close readings engages the reader in an exploratio...
|  | Creation Myths
Release Date: May 1, 2001Creation myths are the deepest and most important of all myths because they are concerned with both the basic patterns of existence and the ultimate meaning of life. In this book, an eminent Jungian analyst examines the recurring motifs that appear in creation myths from around the world and shows what they teach us about the mysteries of creativity, the cycles of renewal in human life, and the birth of consciousness in the individual psyche. Among the topics discussed are: • Why the creative process is often accompanied by anxiety, dep...
| | Qing qu shi hua (Cang hai cong kan) (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | On Endings: American Postmodern Fiction and the Cold War (American Literatures Initiative)
Publication Date: July 27, 2011| ISBN-10: 0813931622 | ISBN-13: 978-0813931623What does narrative look like when the possibility of an expansive future has been called into question? This query is the driving force behind Daniel Grausam’sOn Endings, which seeks to show how the core texts of American postmodernism are a response to the geopolitical dynamics of the Cold War and especially to the new potential for total nuclear conflict. Postwar American fiction needs to be rethought, he argues, by highlighting postmodern experimentation as a mode of profound historical consciousness...
|  | Reading Poetry in the Middle Grades: 20 Poems and Activities That Meet the Common Core Standards and Cultivate a Passion for Poetry
Publication Date: January 13, 2011| ISBN-10: 0325027102 | ISBN-13: 978-0325027104| Edition: 1 "As teachers today, everything we teach has to be turbo-charged with skills and the promise of advancing our students academically.Here's the cool thing:poetry can get you there.It is inherently turbo-charged.Poets distill a novel's worth of content and emotion in twenty lines.The literary elements and devices you need to teach are all there, powerful and miniature as a Bonsai tree." -Paul B. Janeczko You'd like to teach poetry with confidence and passion, but let's face it:poetry can be intim...
|  | The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen: Volume III
Publication Date: March 18, 2004| Series: Letters of Hildegard of Bingen This is the third and final volume of the complete annotated correspondence of the extraordinary nun, Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179). One of the most remarkable women of her day, Hildegard was, for more than 30 years, an unflinching advisor and correspondent of all levels of church and society, from popes and kings to ordinary lay persons, from Jerusalem to England.This present volume (letters 218-390) is noteworthy for its large collection of letters to a non-ecclesiastical audience, and because it contains letters no...
|  | To Catch an Heiress
Release Date: July 1, 1998When Caroline Trent is kidnapped by Blake Ravenscroft, she doesn′t even try to elude this dangerously handsome agent of the crown. After all, she′s been running from unwanted marriage proposals. Yes, Blake believes she′s a notorious spy named Carlotta De Leon, but for six weeks until her twenty-first birthday, when she′ll gain control of her fortune, hiding out in the titillating company of a mysterious captor is awfully convenient -- and maybe just a little romantic, too.Blake Ravenscroft′s mis...
|  | A Will To Love (Indigo: Sensuous Love Stories)
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| ![Double E Ranch [Slick Rock 2] (Siren Publishing Menage Everlasting)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EcLJ5LD5L._SL500_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-big,TopRight,35,-73_OU01_SS500_.jpg) | Double E Ranch [Slick Rock 2] (Siren Publishing Menage Everlasting)
Publication Date: January 31, 2012| Series: Slick Rock [Siren Menage Everlasting: Erotic Cowboy Menage a Quatre Romance, M/F/M/M, light bondage] Felicity Wagner drives to the Double Eagle Ranch ten minutes outside of Slick Rock, Colorado, to apply for the job of ranch hand. The moment she sets eyes on ranch owners Tom and Billy Eagle, her body awakens for the first time. Felicity is saved from an attack by one of the ranch hands, and when the sheriff, Luke Sun-Walker, is called in, he takes one look at the bruised and battered woman and knows she is the right woman for him. Luke and his life...
|  | The Minotaur
Release Date: September 1, 1990Jake Grafton, former Vietnam pilot and air-wing commander, has been assigned to the Pentagon. He soon finds himself drawn into a hunt for the Minotaur - a mole hidden in the Pentagon who is selling America's most precious defence secrets. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | The Legend of the Bluebonnet
Publication Date: October 2004| Age Level: 4 and up Childrens Book ...
|  | Ashpet: An Appalachian Tale
Publication Date: March 1994In this Appalachian variant of the Cinderella tale, old Granny helps Ashpet attend the church picnic where she charms Doc Ellison's son but loses one of her fancy red shoes. ...
|  | Chinye: A West African Folk Tale (Picture Puffins)
Publication Date: August 1, 1996| Age Level: 4 and up...
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