 | After Aztlan: Latino Poets of the Nineties
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 |  | Kingdom's Hope (Kingdom, Book 2)
Release Date: May 1, 2006A Riveting Medieval Parallel to the Bible Good and evil clash. Leinad and Cedric are determined to not only survive, but claim hope and victory! In Kingdom’s Dawn, Leinad and Tess, along with all the king’s people, must escape slavery by the powerful Lord Fairos. Kingdom’s Hope finds them free and arriving in the Chessington Valley . But when they forget the king, will Kergon and the Kessons capture them for good? After many years, Kingdom’s Edge finds Cedric living a hopeless life until a stranger appears with powerful words of a new kingdom ...
|  | The Rook (The Patrick Bowers Files, Book 2)
Publication Date: August 1, 2008An arsonist has struck a top-secret research facility at a key US naval base. But it's not just a random terrorist attack. These people were after something specific. When Special Agent Patrick Bowers is called in to investigate, he is drawn into a deadly web of intrigue and deception. With his own criminology research being turned against him and one of the world's most deadly devices missing, Bowers is caught up in a race against time to stop an international assassin before it's too late.Full of fast-paced action and mind-bending plot twists, The Rook is an...
|  | The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories
Release Date: April 2, 1985This anthology has 33 stories representing the last 180 years. Some are classics by famous writers and others are little known. Besides the frightening and bloodcurdling, there are also the witty and subtle, plus those that leave a feeling of unease and fear. ...
|  | Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle No. 1)
Release Date: January 31, 2006 In which Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and courageous Puritan, pursues knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe -- in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight....
|  | The Sorrows of Young Werther
Publication Date: August 27, 2007| ISBN-10: 1599867672 | ISBN-13: 978-1599867670The Sorrows of Young Werther is an autobiographical novel which is loosely based on the life of its author, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. This publication is a classic originally published in the late 18th century thaty made Goethe one of the first major literary celebrities and was a key novel from the German literature movement known as Sturm and Drang. Largely a collection of letters written by Werther and sent to a close friend, it is an intimate account of his time in the fictional village of Wahleim. This...
|  | Punk Like Me
Publication Date: May 1, 2006A coming of age story, a love story…a brave, brilliant story of strength and seldiscovery. Twenty-one year old Nina writes lyrics and plays guitar in the rock band, Adam’s Rib, and she doesn’t always play by the rules. And, oh yeah—she has a way with the girls. Even her brother Nicky’s girlfriends think she’s hot. But the road to CBGBs in the East Village where Blondie and Joan Jett and the Indigo Girls stomped, sweated, and dreamed hasn’t always been easy. In fact, it was damn hard. There were plenty of roadblocks...
|  | Lawdog: The Life and Times of Hayden Tilden
Release Date: November 1, 2001The life and times of U.S. Marshal Hayden Tilden-a stunning new historical novel.He crossed paths with John Wesley Hardin, Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, and Saginaw Bob Magruder. This is the real West, authentically woven into the action novel of the year."Lawdog should assume its rightful place beside other Western classics."(Peter Brandvold)...
|  | Firewater (Wilderness)
Publication Date: April 1, 2003| Series: Wilderness (Book 39) Firewater - The authentic story of a tough mountain man and his battle to live free. #39 Wilderness. ...
|  | The Necropolis Railway: A Jim Stringer Mystery (Jim Stringer Mysteries)
Publication Date: January 15, 2007| Series: Jim Stringer Mysteries Bright and ambitious, young Jim Stringer moves from the English countryside to London deter- mined to become a railway man. It is 1903, the dawn of the Edwardian age, when steam runs the nation and the railways drive progress. Jim can’t believe his luck to have gotten his foot in the door at South East Railway, run out of Waterloo Station. He finds, however, that his duties involve a graveyard shift, literally—a railway line that takes coffins from London morgues to the gigantic new cemeteries being dug in the cit...
|  | Measure for Measure (Arkangel Complete Shakespeare Series)
Publication Date: May 1, 1999| Series: Arkangel Complete Shakespeare A young woman is offered the choice of saving her brother's life at the price of her own chastity. ...
|  | Czech Theatre Design in the Twentieth Century: Metaphor and Irony Revisited (Studies Theatre Hist & Culture)
Publication Date: May 1, 2007| ISBN-10: 1587295253 | ISBN-13: 978-1587295256| Edition: 1 This stimulating compilation of essays and images reveals an essential and valuable component of Czech contributions to the world of modern theatre heretofore largely unseen outside the country itself. Featuring the craft of twenty-seven of the best stage and costume designers of the twentieth century, Joe Brandesky supplies ample evidence of their consistently high quality and dynamic creativity, survival skills for a people whose national identity had been dismantled during many years of occupation...
|  | Pushkin: The Man and His Age
Publication Date: June 1995Traces the life of the revered Russian poet and national hero, who died of wounds from a duel at thirty-seven. ...
|  | Strange Passion
Publication Date: October 12, 2010In Strange Passions John Ngong Kum Ngong's vocation and prime obsession remain constant - the soul of the nation. Passion, the central symbol in this collection is the patriotic sentiment in its various manifestations. As a self-conscious artist, Ngong summons his audacious technical dexterity to sublimate the sauciness characteristic of his style and direct it towards ideological ends. The significance of his contribution is as much in the urgency, originality and authenticity of his message as in the full range and complexity of his style, and the depth an...
| | Mysteries of the Home Pb
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|  | The Analects of Confucius (Norton Paperback)
Publication Date: October 17, 1997| ISBN-10: 0393316998 | ISBN-13: 978-0393316995"This is the Confucius translation for our time."—Jonathan Mirsky, The Times [London]In this terse, brilliant translation, Simon Leys restores the human dimension to Confucius. He emerges a full-blooded character with a passion for politics and a devotion to the ideals of a civilization he saw in decline. Leys's notes draw Confucius into conversation with the great thinkers of the Western tradition. In all, this volume provides new readers the perfect introduction to a classic work. ...
|  | Miles to Go
Publication Date: October 26, 2011Max Jenkins watched enviously as the love between his employers, Rory and Chance blossomed. He never thought to have someone of his own to hold until Bo shook up Max’s world and made him question everything he believed he knew about himself.What might seem like an impossible dream for two wounded men can be a reality if they’ll only believe—in each other, and themselves.Max Jenkins has been the foreman on Chance Gallagher’s ranch long enough to know love between two men can be a powerful thing. Despite his rigid upbringing, Max ha...
|  | Honor's Kingdom (Abel Jones Mysteries)
Release Date: July 29, 2003| Series: Abel Jones Mysteries Winner of the 2002 Hammett AwardThey found the dead fellow in London, balled up in a basket of eels. Chewed upon he was, and most unsightly. He still had the proper shape of a man, if a bit whittled down and perforated. But he was not handsome on the butcher's table, even though the blood was long since out of him.In a stunning re-creation of 1860s London and Glasgow that reaches from the worst slums in Europe to the lobbies of Parliament, Owen Parry brings the past to ravishing life. In a time when casualty lists grimly mount in Amer...
|  | Swim, Boots, Swim! (Dora the Explorer)
Release Date: May 5, 2009| Age Level: 3 and up...
|  | The Lure of the Big Game
Publication Date: August 19, 2005A tennis book suited for advanced tournament players.It is an easy, but interesting read.Like other tennis literature hits such as The Inner Game of Tennis and Winning Ugly, The Lure of the Big Game describes a new angle at achieving a winning game.It is becoming a staple on every aspiring tennis player's bookshelf. The Lure of the Big Game describes highly effective baseline strategies based on applying advantageous patterns, principles to defeat players such as the big server, the lefty, and the big forehand, methods to get psyched up before every match, th...
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