 | In Revere, in Those Days
Release Date: October 14, 2003| Series: Vintage Contemporaries In this richly evocative novel--the moving story of one boy's coming of age--acclaimed author Roland Merullo will make you nostalgic for a small Massachusetts city called Revere even if you've never been there. Providing a window into an unspoiled America of forty years ago, In Revere welcomes you to the fiercely loyal and devoted Italian-American family of the Benedettos.Although he was orphaned as a child, young Anthony Benedetto was always surrounded by family, and the vibrant warmth of the Revere community. His Uncle Peter, a...
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 | Lucia, Lucia: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Release Date: June 29, 2004| Series: Ballantine Reader's Circle It is 1950 in glittering, vibrant New York City. Lucia Sartori is the beautiful twenty-five-year-old daughter of a prosperous Italian grocer in Greenwich Village. The postwar boom is ripe with opportunities for talented girls with ambition, and Lucia becomes an apprentice to an up-and-coming designer at chic B. Altman’s department store on Fifth Avenue. Engaged to her childhood sweetheart, the steadfast Dante DeMartino, Lucia is torn when she meets a handsome stranger who promises a life of uptown luxury that career girls ...
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 | The Ahriman Gate: Some Gates Should Not Be Opened
Release Date: August 1, 2005This supernatural thriller tells the incredible story of a young Marine and his sister who discover information connecting the U.S. Government with UFO's. ...
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 | The Secular Monastery
Publication Date: September 28, 2011There’s been an apparent terrorist attack on a government laboratory that has been conducting controversial experiments using the smallpox virus. Professor David Turner is surreptitiously tasked by a wary president to investigate the incident independent of a formal commission appointed for the purpose. The assignment makes him an emissary to a powerful watchdog organization that provides indispensable assets but also subjects him to their scrutiny. Seeking to assure his independence, David enlists an American student with Iranian parentage to help ...
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 | While Justice Wept (Volume 1)
Publication Date: June 14, 2012There are drug dealers being murdered all over the country and now a body has been found in the nation's capital. The son of a prominent weapons manufacturer is missing from the scene of one of these murders and a strange calling card has been left on the corpse. The clues point to the Russians, the Colombians and some even lead to Al Qaeda. Meanwhile one man, an elderly billionaire, left partially paralyzed by an impaired driver, has made it his life's work to create an America that is more accountable and just. His disdain for the current judicial system has ...
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 | Lonely Vigil: Coastwatchers of the Solomons (Bluejacket Books)
Publication Date: September 5, 2006| Series: Bluejacket Books Called a stirring tale of forgotten heroes splendidly told by a master narrator, this saga of the valiant coastwatchers of the Pacific War exemplifies that rare combination of careful research and exciting narrative style that became a hallmark of Walter Lord's best-selling books. Though their importance has long been acknowledged, the coastwatchers had received relatively little attention until the publication of this book in 1977. The remarkable band of individualists, operating deep behind Japanese lines in the dark days of 194...
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 | Chaucer: Sources and Background
Publication Date: June 23, 1977Professor Miller has provided one of the most comprehensive collections of primary source material available for the study of Chaucer's works. He has brought together selections from a large number of writers regarded by Chaucer and his contemporaries as authorities in matters ranging from reading to romantic love, chivalric ideals to anti-feminist charges, marriage to human destiny. The selections are drawn from works which Chaucer is known to have used, as well as other works representing significant medieval attitudes toward matters with which he, like many ...
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 | Concentric Circles
Publication Date: January 25, 2006Before and since his enforced exile, Yang Lian has been one of the most innovative and influential poets in China. Widely hailed in America and Europe as a highly individual voice in world literature, he has been translated into many languages. Yang Lian has written that Concentric Circles is 'the most important piece since I came out from China', and that it is emphatically not a political work, but instead a work focused on 'deep reality' and the nature of how humans understand that reality through the medium of language. The book, like the sections of whi...
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 | CROSS-CULTURAL VISIONS IN AFRICAN AMERIC: FROM SPATIAL NARRATIVE TO JAZZ HAIKU
Publication Date: September 22, 2006Yoshinobu Hakutani traces the development of African American modernism, which initially gathered momentum with Richard Wright's literary manifesto "Blueprint for Negro Writing" in 1937. Hakutani dissects and discusses the cross-cultural influences on the then-burgeoning discipline in three stages: American dialogues, European and African cultural visions, and Asian and African American cross-cultural visions.In writing Black Boy, the centerpiece of the Chicago Renaissance, Wright was inspired by Theodore Dreiser. Because the European and African cultural ...
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 | Intimate Letters of England's Queens
Publication Date: July 2, 2009Intimate Letters of England's Queens opens with the letters of Catherine of Aragon to her daughter, Mary, and the letter she wrote to her husband Henry VIII shortly before her death in 1501.This fascinating collection of letters allows the reader an insight into the private thoughts and feelings of these women, from the bitter anger expressed by Anne Boleyn in her letter to Cardinal Wolsey to her heartfelt attempt to save herself from death whilst imprisoned in the Tower in May 1536. ...
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 | The Memoirs of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier (Library of Latin America)
Publication Date: October 29, 1998| Series: Library of Latin America On December 12, 1794, Fray Servando Teresa de Mier preached a sermon in Mexico City that led to his arrest by the Inquisition. He was exiled to Spain--only to escape and spend ten years traveling throughout Europe, as none other than a French priest. So began the grand adventure of Fray Servando's life, and of this gripping memoir. Here is an invitation hard for any reader to resist: a glimpse of the European "Age of Enlightenment" through the eyes of a fugitive Mexican friar. In this memoir, one sees a portrait of manners ...
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 | Selected Shorts: Tales of Betrayal (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story)
Publication Date: October 1, 2007| Series: Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story Recorded live at the Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City and at venues across the United States, these audio anthologies feature short stories from the Selected Shorts program that airs nationwide. More than 300,000 listeners tune in to this offering weekly to hear some of their favorite tales read aloud by an assortment of distinguished actors. Abraham prepares to slay Isaac; siblings fall in love with the same man; a Thai man hides his secret guilt from his best friend on draft ...
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 | The Celtic Warrioress and the Lycan
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 | Death by Espionage: Intriguing Stories of Betrayal and Deception
Publication Date: September 1, 1999A collection of nineteen stories of revenge, betrayal, and treachery from the International Association of Crime Writers and some of the world's most well-known authors. There are assassins and seducers, stolen plans, and intricate games of cat and mouse. The universal rule, however, is that no one gets to write their memoirs. ...
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 | S Is for Snowman
Release Date: August 17, 2011| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up 'White snowy Angels with wide sweeping wings --- Let's find the wonders that God's winter brings.'Children explore the delights of winter from A to Z in this charming book that celebrates the season's blessings: from the sparkle of lights to the warmth of a quilt and the scent of fresh-baked cookies. As children review the alphabet, they discover the joy and beauty of wintertime, whether revealed in the bustle of the holidays or the quiet of a snowy walk.S is for Snowman is the latest installment in Ms. Wargin's alpha...
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 | The Mirth of College
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 | Foxes Out Foxed
Publication Date: March 1, 2009My story has our squirrel heroes headed out on another adventure as they travel back to the field to save Betty Bunny. She is trapped in a hole guarded by Francis Fox and his mean friends. Will they get there in time? When they get there, how will they free Betty?Come along as Tony and his family make new friends. They meet Sid and Sally Skunk and find out why nobody in the fields crosses a skunk! They find a new squirrel friend; another flying squirrel named Suzy. Meet Luke, a young deer and his sister Hayley. But watch out, you never know when to run or hide....
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 | Loopy
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 | Fish Eyes: A Book You Can Count On
Publication Date: August 17, 1992| Age Level: 2 and up Brightly colored fish introduce young children to counting and basic addition in this fun and simple concept book. “A visual treat from start to finish.”--Booklist ...
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 | Ant and the Grasshopper; A retelling of Aesop's fable (My 1st Classic Story)
Publication Date: August 1, 2011| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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