 | Fatality
Publication Date: August 2, 2012A novel. Edward Hogg, a thirteen year old boy in 1950 Brooklyn, discovers that he's being accessed by the shifting, malicious, imbecilic world of the unsuccessfully dead. He has a crazed enemy in the fifteen year old son of Annabella Parenti,the corrupt local holder-of-seances, and when he agrees to work for Annabella, hoping to contact his recently dead mother, hell breaks loose. Fast, elegiac, brutal and haunted. ...
 |  | Dead Sea
Publication Date: July 1, 2007With zombies taking over the cities, a group of humans escapes the carnage by taking a small Coast Guard ship out to sea, but there's no getting away—even in the wide ocean. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | Annapolis
Release Date: March 30, 2010From the days of pirate raids on the Chesapeake to swift-boat actions in Vietnam, the Staffords and their traditional rivals, the Parrishes, struggle with foreign enemies and each other to build a navy and a nation. They march across the deserts of Tripoli, sail into the South Seas to battle the British and dally with the native girls, fight aboard the Merrimac and the Monitor, fly into the battle of Midway, and look into the living faces of all four men on Mount Rushmore. When Stafford descendant Susan Browne sets out to film a documentary about her fa...
|  | 101 Reasons to Vote NO in 2012: Simple Truths We All Need to Know
Publication Date: June 10, 2011Don't raise your voice. Improve your arguement! 2012 will be the most important election of our lifetime. For millions of Americans, that truth is already known. But for many, the radical policies of the Obama administration have either been hidden or presented falsely. The liberal media, along with other socialist organizations funded by George Soros, had made a concerted effort to put "the anointed one" in power so he could do their bidding. Now, as we move toward the 2012 elections, they are preparing to spend billions of dollars to keep him in power. Many o...
|  | Out of the Fire
Publication Date: February 1, 2007Ann Covington was at the top of the world.Not only is she a prominent attorney and lesbian romance writer, but now she can even add ‘screenwriter’ to her resume now that one of her books was going to be made into a movie. There was a time when she would list her relationship with her partner of ten years, Kathy, as one of her many accomplishments.But even though things with Kathy have grown strained - Ann takes her commitment to Kathy seriously and assures herself that they are just going through a rough spot. Then in walks Casey Duncan, the actres...
|  | Ambush Valley (Wheeler Western)
Publication Date: August 1, 2008| Series: Wheeler Western Yuma Prison is a fetid hellhole filled with the dregs of humanity - killers, thieves and backstabbers who'd kill over a scrap of meat. Now it's home to Frank Morgan, who's posing as an inmate. A ruthless outlaw named Cicero McCoy has buried a fortune in stolen bank money in a harsh, desolate little piece of hell known as Ambush Valley. To get Cicero to lead him to the loot, Frank has become Cicero's new best friend behind bars - and co-plotter of a daring breakout. Soon, the last gunfighter and a stone-cold killer are blazing away at ...
|  | The Complete Poems of D. H. Lawrence
Publication Date: September 5, 1994| ISBN-10: 1853264172 | ISBN-13: 978-1853264177Lawrence's reputation as a novelist has often meant that his achievements in poetry have failed to receive the recognition they deserve. This edition brings together, in a form he himself sanctioned, his Collected Poems of 1928, the unexpurgated version of Pansies, and Nettles, adding to these volumes the contents of the two notebooks in which he was still writing poetry when he died in 1930. It therefore allows the reader to trace the development of Lawrence as a poet and appreciate the remarkable original...
|  | Women's Poetry in France, 1965-1995: A Bilingual Anthology (Contemporary French Poetry in Translation)
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|  | 6 Eulen Und 6 Mause (Poetry and Drama) (Poetry & Drama) (German Edition)
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|  | Kindheit Im Dritten Reich: Der Zweite Weltkrieg Und Seine Folgen (Childhood in the Third Reich: World War II and Its Aftermath in English with Translation into German)
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|  | Reading the 21st Century: Books of the Decade, 2000-2009
Publication Date: July 25, 2012The first decade of the twenty-first century was noteworthy for war, terror, religious revival, economic collapse, and a technological revolution that prompted countless critical responses and gave rise to a paradox: writing flourished, but reading declined. Reading the 21st Century investigates the urgent themes, major works, and crisis of reading in an era of instant communication. In wide-ranging and innovative criticism, Stan Persky examines international non-fiction and fiction to engage with both the triumphs and tensions of reading and writing today. Eva...
|  | Xenophon's Mirror of Princes: Reading the Reflections
Publication Date: February 4, 2011| ISBN-10: 0199563810 | ISBN-13: 978-0199563814Xenophon is perhaps best known as the leader of the Ten Thousand on the Anabasis, the famous march of the Greek army through hostile territory to the Black Sea. However, he was also a prolific author, and in this study Vivienne J. Gray focuses upon the ways in which his literary practices shape images of leadership in his narrative works. Gray surveys the views on leadership that Xenophon credits to Socrates, and illustrates in detail his construction of leadership models through the close examination of sel...
|  | Literature and the Writing Process, Backpack Edition (Myliteraturelab)
Publication Date: August 27, 2010| ISBN-10: 0205730728 | ISBN-13: 978-0205730728| Edition: 1 Literature and the Writing Process Backpack Edition combines the best elements of a literature anthology with those of a handbook to guide students through the interrelated process of analytical reading and critical writing.Text writing assignments use literature as a tool of critical thought, a method for analysis, and a way of communicating ideas. This approach emphasizes writing as the focus of the book with literature as the means to write effectively. A two-par...
|  | Roman Literature and Society (Pelican)
Release Date: July 31, 1980| Series: Pelican From the plays of Plautus and Cicero's criminal cases in the 2nd century B.C. to the satires of Juvenal and the histories of Suetonius in the 2nd century A.D., this introductory survey of Roman literature places the major Latin works surviving today against the background of the society in which they were written. For the uninitiated, Professor Ogilvie assumes no knowledge of the Latin language, but explains to the student and general reader alike where the works of the lyric poets like Catullus and Horace, historians like Sallust and Livy, dramat...
|  | Arabella
Release Date: August 1, 2009Georgette Heyer had a handful of unforgettable heroines, of which Arabella is one of the most engaging. Daughter of a modest country clergyman, Arabella Tallant is on her way to London when her carriage breaks down outside the hunting lodge of the wealthy Mr. Robert Beaumaris. Her pride stung when she overhears a remark of her host's, Arabella pretends to be an heiress, a pretense that deeply amuses the jaded Beau. To counter her white lie, Beaumaris launches her into high society and thereby subjects her to all kinds of fortune hunters and other embarrassments. W...
|  | Peter and the Sword of Mercy (Starcatchers)
Release Date: October 13, 2009| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Gus Learns to Fly: Self-Defense Is Self-Discovery
Publication Date: June 1, 2012| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Gus is a 7-year-old boy taking an Aikido class with other kids. He is mad because a boy at his new school is bullying him and he's not sure what to do. He tells his friend, Zoe, who is in Aikido class with Gus, and she shares how she dealt with a bully using Aikido.Gus also talks to his Aikido teacher, Kimberly Sensei and seeks her advice. KimberlySensei tells Gus about the Japanese samurai who started Aikido; his name wasO Sensei. WhenO Senseiwas a kid, he was little and sick. Once his dad got beat up by rob...
|  | The Kids Campfire Book: Official Book of Campfire Fun (Family Fun)
Publication Date: February 1, 1998| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | The Fox and the Hound: Hide and Seek (Little Golden Book)
Release Date: August 22, 2006| Age Level: 2 and up...
|  | The Kids' Multicultural Cookbook (Kids Can!)
Publication Date: April 15, 2008| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up In this hands-on introduction to foods from around the world, children ages seven to fourteen will learn about other cultures through recipes for more than 75 ethnic dishes. They will also get an introduction to many diverse cultures by learning games, traditions and customs of children from around the world. All recipes include clear step-by-step instructions and no-fuss ingredients found in most grocery stores. The book is fully illustrated and also includes photos of children the author met on her travels while ...
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