 | The Smoke That Thunders Publication Date: April 26, 2012Chikankata is a Salvation Army mission in the middle of the barren Zambian bush. While the mission's volunteers enjoy some basic comforts provided by the Army's reservoir and utilities, life for the villagers in the surrounding regions is harsh beyond ...
 |  | Dark Dreamer: A Dark Vista Romance Publication Date: April 1, 2007Best selling horror author Rowe Devlin has had two flops in a row and keeps falling in love with straight women. Seeking inspiration and a fresh start, she abandons life in Manhattan for an old Victorian house in Maine. But Dark Harbor Cottage is a far cry from the tranquil writing environment she envisioned. For a start, the place is haunted, and the ghost is none too friendly. To make life even more difficult, her neighbors are a huge distraction. The Temple twins, Phoebe and Cara, are identical and profoundly alluring, and Rowe is soon under their spell, una...
 |  | The Sacred Shore (Moon Island) Publication Date: October 6, 2004| Series: Moon Island In the third installment in this acclaimed lesbian romance series, Jennifer Fulton brings together an ensemble cast in a story that combines themes of love and loss, renewal and spirituality and of course her trademark humor and sensuality. Successful tech industry survivor, Merris Randall does not believe in love at first sight until she meets songwriter, Olivia Pearce. But Olivia is deeply scarred from a damaging relationship, and has no plans to love again. Thrown together in a sensuous paradise thousands of miles from home, each woma...
 |  | Double Plays to Dreams: The Road to the CIF Baseball Championship Release Date: May 18, 2009When the 2008 baseball season started, Coach Frank Pontello and his staff had minimal expectations for the Viewpoint High School varsity team. Five starters from the previous years division championship runner ups graduated, including the top three pitchers, and there was little reason to be optimistic. The first half of the season confirmed their worst fears, as shoddy defense and poor pitching produced a .500 team. The players and coaches persevered, however, and in one of the most incredible turn of events in the ninety-five-year history of Southern Section...
 |  | I No Longer Play the Game Publication Date: October 2004Kevin Styles is the best college football player in the nation. But he gets caught up in the world of celebrity excitement. He must learn who his real friends are and whom to trust. Otherwise, he may lose all that stands before him.I No Longer Play the Game focuses on the relationship between star football player Kevin Styles and his girlfriend Chantel Dupree. Styles has difficulty expressing his feelings properly and therefore, can't make a true commitment to her. He can't stop playing the game. ...
 |  | To My Children's Children Publication Date: January 1, 2006This powerful and widely acclaimed autobiography of Sindiwe Magona's early years in South Africa, announced the arrival of a major new black writer. Here she gives an account of her eventful first 23 years and tells a candid, unself-pitying story of triumph and endurance in the face of hardships relentlessly reinforced by the apartheid system. ...
 |  | The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism (Cambridge Introductions to Literature) Publication Date: May 21, 2007| ISBN-10: 0521535271 | ISBN-13: 978-0521535274More than a century after its beginnings, modernism still has the power to shock, alienate or challenge readers. Modernist art and literature remain thought of as complex and difficult. This introduction explains in a readable, lively style how modernism emerged, how it is defined, and how it developed in different forms and genres. Pericles Lewis offers students a survey of literature and art in England, Ireland and Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century. He also provides an overview of critical thoug...
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 |  | The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories Publication Date: May 11, 2010Every short story in this wonderfully varied collection has in common some diversion in history, some alternate reality from what we know, resulting in a very different world. In addition to original stories specially commissioned from bestselling writers such as James Morrow, Stephen Baxter, and Ken MacLeod, there are genre classics from Kim Stanley Robinson, Harry Turtledove, and George Zebrowski: over 20 stories in all. ...
 |  | The Double Reckoning of Christopher Columbus, 3 August-12 October 1492: Poems ...
 |  | Blurry Joy: Poems of Love and Celebration Publication Date: October 17, 2005Blurry Joy: Poems of Love and Celebration contains over 100 contemporary love poems and sad love poems from Derek P. Day. ...
 |  | Poems Publication Date: May 1, 2012This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy thi...
 |  | Kingdom Keepers: Disney After Dark (The Kingdom Keepers) Release Date: September 1, 2009| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
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 |  | Incredible Inventions Release Date: March 3, 2009| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: 1 and upInventions can be big, like roller coasters, or small, like crayons. And inventors can be scientists or athletes or even boys and girls! It's hard to imagine life without Popsicles, basketball, or Band-Aids, but they all started with just one person and a little imagination. With sixteen original poems selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins and Julia Sarcone-Roach's imaginative artwork, Incredible Inventions celebrates creativity that comes in all shapes and sizes. What will you invent today?...
 |  | Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt! (Unforgettable Americans) Release Date: January 27, 1997| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
 |  | Traveler: Poems Release Date: August 30, 2011The poems in Devin Johnston’s Traveler cross great distances, from the Red Hills of Kansas to the Rough Bounds of the Scottish Highlands, following weather patterns, bird migrations, and ocean voyages. Less literally, these poems move through translations and protean transformations. Their subjects are often next to nothing in several senses: cloud shadows racing across a valley before dusk, the predawn expectation of a child’s birth, or the static-electric charge of clothing fabric. Throughout, Johnston offers vivid glimpses of the phenomenal world: ...
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