 | My Heart May Be Broken, but My Hair Still Looks Great
Release Date: August 29, 2006 Welcome to Salt Lick, Texas, home of big hair,big ranches, and two of the biggest busybodies everto wield a blow-dryer—Debbie Sue and Edwina,also known as the Domestic Equalizers. Their motto:Don't run over him—get over him! Their mission: Track down and expose your straying man. And theywon't stop until female domestic justice is served.Debbie Sue Overstreet and Edwina Perkins-Martin have never encountered a problem that couldn't be fixed with a strong margarita, a whole lot of hairspray, and an ear for gossip. They've learned that you'll only fin...
 |  | A Garden in Paris
Release Date: April 1, 2005Mary Kathleen Davis finds the framed motto in the back of a dusty antique shop, and it haunts her. After 26 years as the trophy wife of a powerful man, Mary is a widow with no sense of identity. She finds herself wondering ''what might have been,'' and torments herself with guilt over her treatment of an old flame. She has the notion that if she can return to Paris with her increasingly distant daughter, perhaps she'll be able to reconcile with the past and find a new future. The trip to Paris will change everything for these two women, in ways neither could imagin...
|  | Three Ages of Woman
Publication Date: March 25, 2004Jennifer wants to tell her mother she's sorry for running away from home when she was a teenager, for staying away for ten years, and for all the things that happened between them. But now that she's ready to apologise, her mother has Alzheimer's and doesn't even remember what Jennifer has done - let alone who Jennifer is. In a desperate need for redemption, Jennifer brings her mother to live with her, her new husband, and her teenage daughter in hopes that she will remember her mother's life for her and that during one of those rare, lucid moments they can fi...
|  | Through the Fire (Mystery and the Minister's Wife Series #1)
Publication Date: September 9, 2008Escape to the charming town of Copper Mill, Tennessee. Nestled in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, Copper Mill is a place of tradition and tranquility, where neighbors work together and life moves at a slower pace. But when Kate Hanlon and her husband Paul, the new pastor of Faith Briar Church, move in, they quickly find out that small town life is anything but boring. The mysteries that Kate discovers in Copper Mill are puzzling, but she always uses her quick, curious mind and the help of her friends to figure out the answer. Come see how faith ...
|  | Ghost Watch (Vin Cooper, Book 4)
Publication Date: April 1, 2011Scarred by the death of a fellow agent last year, Special Agent Vin Cooper volunteers for the most dangerous job going: personal security for bent politicians in Afghanistan. But when his principal is blown up by a suicide bomber, Cooper is reassigned. Now he's babysitting a pair of spoilt hip-hop superstars, flown to a top-secret base in Rwanda to perform a sympathy gig for the US military. It's bad enough that the pair, once lovers, now hate each others guts. But then their UN chopper is forced down into the Congo jungle and things take a serious turn for the...
|  | The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton (Modern Library)
Release Date: November 13, 2007| Series: Modern Library John Milton is, next to William Shakespeare, the most influential English poet, a writer whose work spans an incredible breadth of forms and subject matter. The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton celebrates this author’s genius in a thoughtfully assembled book that provides new modern-spelling versions of Milton’s texts, expert commentary, and a wealth of other features that will please even the most dedicated students of Milton’s canon. Edited by a trio of esteemed scholars, this volume is the definiti...
|  | Shantaram
Publication Date: October 1, 2006*One of AudioFile's Best Audiobooks of 2007 * [Read by Humphrey Bower] This mesmerizing first novel tells the epic journey of Lin, an escaped convict who flees maximum security prison in Australia to disappear into the underworld of contemporary Bombay, a hidden society of beggars and gangsters, prostitutes and holy men, actors and exiles. Accompanied by his guide and faithful friend, Prabaker, Lin searches for love and meaning while running a clinic in one of the city's poorest slums and serving his apprenticeship in the dark arts of the Bombay mafia. The ke...
|  | Lost Goddesses of Early Greece: A Collection of Pre-Hellenic Myths
Release Date: August 3, 1992For thousands of years before the classical myths were recorded by Hesiod and Homer, the Goddess was the focus of religion and culture. In Lost Goddesses of Early Greece, Charlene Spretnak recreates, the original, goddess-centered myths and illuminates the contemporary emergence of a spirituality based on our embeddedness in nature. ...
|  | Three Colors Trilogy: Blue, White, Red
Publication Date: January 15, 1998Krzystof Kieslowski's Three Colors trilogy earned him the deserved reputation as "one of the world's premier film-makers' (Independent). In these films, based on the colors of the French flag and the principles of liberty, equality and fraternity--the three ideals of the French Revolution--Kieslowski has crafted three parables of contemporary existence. In Blue, Julie loses her child and husband in a car crash. In order to shield herself from the intensity of her grief, she strips away all remnants of her former life. This attempt is doomed to failure as mus...
|  | The Circle
Publication Date: April 2008| ISBN-10: 0887345956 | ISBN-13: 978-0887345951Originally published in 1921.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
|  | Poetry From The Heart
Publication Date: October 28, 2011"If you've been searching for that one poetry book that has it all - spirituality, meditation, praise and worship, comedy and downright hilarity and more, - look no farther, foryour journey ends with Poet Sandra Taylor's new book, "Poetry From The Heart." Ruby J. Thomas Judge Pro Tem, Pres.& Founder, Save Our Students Academy and Author of Jeremy Williams Takes A Time Out"Poetry From The Heart," is a collection of poetry derived from everyday life experiences. This poetry is inspiring, empowering and causes us to think and brings us laughter.It helps us see ...
|  | The Yeats Brothers and Modernism's Love of Motion
Publication Date: November 15, 2008| ISBN-10: 0268022062 | ISBN-13: 978-0268022068| Edition: 1st In The Yeats Brothers, Calvin Bedient delivers a brilliant exploration of modernism through the mutual illumination provided by Ireland’s greatest poet and greatest painter. By examining the poems of the one and the paintings of the other, he recovers an often overlooked quality both artists embraced in their work—that core feature of modernism, a thoroughgoing preoccupation with motion and fluidity, that terrifying encounter with the universe conceptualized as force.Bedient...
|  | The Power of Lies: Transgression, Class, and Gender in Victorian Fiction
Release Date: September 27, 1994| ISBN-10: 0801480892 | ISBN-13: 978-0801480898Although moral earnestness has long been considered characteristic of the Victorians, Kucich maintains that English fiction in the nineteenth century was as interested in lies as in honesty. In this important book, Kucich explores the fascination with lying in novels by Anthony Trollope, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Ellen Wood, Thomas Hardy, and Sarah Grand. ...
|  | British Victorian Women's Periodicals: Beauty, Civilization, and Poetry (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters)
Release Date: March 31, 2009| Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters British Victorian Women’s Periodicals explores themes and patterns of poetry publication in a variety of women's periodicals published throughout the Victorian era to answer questions about taste, style, and the significance of poetry to our understanding of women’s lives in the nineteenth century. Ledbetter shows how the periodical’s advice about maintaining or acquiring social respectability through appropriate fashion, good behavior, and regulation of the household is seamlessly integr...
|  | Dangerous
Release Date: May 31, 2011Tall, lean and headstrong, FBI agent Kilraven lives by his own rules. And one of those rules includes keeping his hands off Jacobsville's resident sweetheart, Winnie Sinclair, no matter the temptation. Shy and innocent, Winnie couldn't handle a man like him—a merciless man with a haunted past. And this small town may hold not only the woman he fights to resist, but the answers to a cold case that is very personal to Kilraven….Winnie has had her own share of sorrow, and senses Kilraven's pain. Even though she tries to deny it, the gentle 911 operator feels ...
|  | Immortal Lovers
Publication Date: March 27, 2006One kiss is all it takes to fall under their immortal seduction..Never a Sunset by Annalee BlysseWhen opportunity knocks--flee. Victrina does, but a blood oath can not be broken--even in a land where the sun never sets.Fresh Blood by Jennifer ColganOne life in exchange for another. Will Erica Talbot give her body, her mind and her soul to a vampire to save her sister one last time?Eternity by Marie MorinEmily Hendricks has realized a dream--she's just bought a tiny Scottish castle, lock, stock and barrel. Unfortunately, it also came complete with one coffin an...
|  | Confessional Fictions: A Portrait of the Artist in the Canadian Novel
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|  | Favourite Grimm's Tales
Publication Date: October 2000| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Almost two hundred years ago the Grimm brothers published their famous collection of folk tales, including these well-known and much loved stories. Sumptuously illustrated, this collection includes: Little Red Riding Hood; The Frog Prince; Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Rumpelstiltskin, Town Musicians of Bremen and many others. ...
|  | Diogenes' Lantern
Publication Date: March 11, 2004| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up What do the exploits of a wise old philosopher, a brave young knight, and a musician prince have in common? Each of these three charming parables offers young readers a distinctive point of view and a valuable message about life. With whimsical color illustrations that are miniature works of art, these books will surely entertain young readers and adults alike. For ages six and up. In Diogenes' Lantern the eccentric (and quite funny) Greek philosopher Diogenes, who lived in the 4th century B.C., wanders the ancient...
|  | White Sox Coloring and Activity Book
Publication Date: April 30, 2009A treasurry of activities to keep young White Sox fans busy for hours.More than 20 images of current players and scenes from the ballpark to color.Crossword puzzles, word searches, and many games about the team and the history of the game of baseball. ...
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