 | 50 Essays: A Portable Anthology
Publication Date: September 17, 2010| ISBN-10: 0312609655 | ISBN-13: 978-0312609658| Edition: Third Edition 50 Essays: A Portable Anthology is the best-selling value-priced reader in the country because its virtues don't stop at the price. Its carefully chosen selections include enough classic essays to reassure instructors, and enough high-interest and high-quality contemporary readings to keep things lively and relevant for students. The editorial apparatus is more extensive than in competing value readers, but still is flexible and unobtrusive enough to support a variety of approaches...
 |  | Catholic Philosopher Chick Makes Her D
Publication Date: March 1, 2012In a massive change of lifestyle, former NYC fashion writer Catelyn Frank travels to Texas to start a doctorate in Catholic Thomistic philosophy and search for Truth, Beauty, and the Perfect Guy. ...
|  | The Christmas Journey (Love Inspired Historical)
Publication Date: October 13, 2009| Series: Love Inspired Historical Philadelphia lawyer Ryland Lassiter is everything Josephine Wylie wants--for a brother-in-law! As the sole supporter of her family, Josie's plans for herself have always had to wait. But Ryland will be ideal as the new head of the Wylie clan...once he finally realizes how perfect he is for Josie's sister.Ry knows it's time to settle down. The newly appointed guardian to a friend's daughter, he's ready for a home and family. All he needs is a bride...and Josie's sister is not the Wylie who has caught his eye. If only Josie w...
|  | The Mystery Cave/The Palm Tree Manhunt/One Stormy Day/The Mystery Thief/Teacher Trouble/Screams in the Night (Sugar Creek Gang 7-12)
Publication Date: August 1, 1997| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up This set includes books 7-12 in the Sugar Creek Gang Series: The MysteryCave, Palm Tree Manhunt, One Stormy Day, The MysteryThief, Teacher Trouble, and Screams in the Night. Thetales and travels of the Sugar Creek Gang have passed the test of time, delightingyoung readers for more than fifty years. Great mysteries with a message, TheSugar Creek Gang series chronicles the faith-building adventures of a groupof fun-loving, courageous Christian boys. Your kids will be thrilled, chilled, andinspired to grow as the...
|  | The Pray'n Mantis
Publication Date: July 27, 2010What would it be like if you were chosen by God to fight in a battle for him? Plucked from their home at an early age, Phoenix and Joseph Toby are trained as warriors and begin a life of righteous battle. Through the years of struggles and uncertainty they meet a group of people destined to help them overcome the evil spirits sent forth from hell. Joined by Cosmo, Wisdom, Vera, Risen, Faithful, Mistress, Trumpeter and Lady Mantis, they find the strength they need to do battle for good. Phoenix's strength is tested to the utmost, and he must pray to overcome his...
|  | Charlie No Face
Publication Date: January 22, 2011When eleven-year-old Jackie meets every kid’s greatest nightmare–disfigured hermit Charlie No Face–his life is changed forever. Despite nagging questions about the death of his mother when he was an infant, the summer of 1959 is shaping up as the best vacation of Jackie’s short life. He has friends, baseball, his father’s unanticipated vacation from work, and the hunt for Charlie No Face to fill his days. But in a few short weeks, Jackie’s life is turned upside down. He moves in with a distant relative whose shadowy ...
|  | Olympian Plays: A Comprehensive Introduction to Greek Mythology Written in Television Script Form
Publication Date: June 1, 1989| ISBN-10: 0961967404 | ISBN-13: 978-0961967406| Edition: Rev Most people think of the immortals nd mortals in Mythology as staid and remote individuals, as remote from them in character as they are in time. But if one reads Mythology as a panarama of life, then the personages become very personal.For example, Zeus is the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, but he is also a father who loses his very own son and is helpless to do anything about it.Aphrodite is the Goddess of Love, but she is also a victim of love in her tragic liaison with Adonis.Hermes is the con...
|  | To Palestine with Love
Publication Date: June 11, 2010| ISBN-10: 9963610374 | ISBN-13: 978-9963610372'To Palestine with Love' is the expression, through both poetry and painting, of one woman's reaction to situations and places that had a profound impression on her, from traffic and city lights to woodlands and mountains, from the glories of Al-Hambra, to the harsh reality of personal tragedy in Palestine. Author and illustrator Najwa Kawar Farah, who turned 86 years old in 2009, relates emotions of love, grief and longing in this moving collection of poetry. Najwa's life experience in Palestine and the Middle...
|  | The Collected Poetry (CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature translated from the French)
Publication Date: October 22, 1991| Series: CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature translated from the French Leopold Sedar Senghor was not only president of the Republic of Senegal from 1960 to 1981, he is also Africa's most famous poet. A cofounder of the Negritude cultural movement, he is recognized as one of the most significant figures in African literature. This bilingual edition of Senghor's complete poems made his work available for the first time to English-speaking audiences. His poetry, alive with sensual imagery, contrasts the lushness and wonder of Africa's past with the ...
|  | Polskaia poeziia v russkikh perevodakh: Vtoraia polovina XVII-pervaia tret XVIII veka (Russian Edition)
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|  | Une fleur dans la mer (French Edition)
Publication Date: September 26, 2011In this poignant poetic work Ibrahima Fall tells the story of the sinking of The Joola, Senegal's national ferry, and the loss of his three daughters in this tragedy. The Joola capsized off the coast of The Gambia on September 26, 2002 and the disaster resulted in the deaths of more than 2,000 people.The sinking of the ferry Joola is thought to be the second-worst non-military maritime disaster in number of lives lost."Une fleur dans la mer" (A flower in the water) is filled with heart-felt emotions and vivid memories of the author's daughters. ...
|  | The Postmodern (The New Critical Idiom)
Publication Date: January 9, 2005| ISBN-10: 0415280656 | ISBN-13: 978-0415280655| Edition: New Ed Simon Malpas investigates the theories and definitions of postmodernism and postmodernity, and explores their impact in such areas as identity, history, art, literature and culture. In attempting to map the different forms of the postmodern, and the contrasting experiences of postmodernity in the Western and developing worlds, he looks closely at:* modernism and postmodernism* modernity and postmodernity* subjectivity* history* politics.This useful guidebook will introduce students to a rang...
|  | Harriet Martineau, Victorian Imperialism, and the Civilizing Mission
Publication Date: January 1, 2010| ISBN-10: 0754668312 | ISBN-13: 978-0754668312In her in-depth study of Harriet Martineau's writings on the evolution of the British Empire in the nineteenth century, Deborah A. Logan elaborates the ways in which Martineau's works reflect Victorian concerns about radically shifting social ideologies. To understand Martineau's interventions into the Empire Question, Logan argues, is to recognize her authority as an insightful political commentator, historian, economist, and sociologist whose eclectic studies and intellectual curiosity positioned her as a s...
|  | VICTORIAN FAIRY TALES CL
Publication Date: January 8, 1987This is an anthology of fairy tales written by some of the most notable writers of the Victorian period, including Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling and Edith Nesbitt. ...
|  | The Wedding Bargain
Release Date: December 8, 1999| Series: Avon Romantic TreasureLondon's most scandalous beauty, Pandora Effington, intends to marry a hero—not one of those boring, run-of-the-mill bachelor lords who leave her cold. No, the husband she desires must be someone special, someone whose touch sends delicious shivers down her spine, and who will do absolutely everything in his power to win her love. Someone like . . . Maximillian Wells. The dashing Earl of Trent cannot believe his ears . . . or his eyes. Here before him stands beautiful Pandora Effington, and the fiery, unattainable heire...
|  | A Creed Country Christmas (Hqn)
Release Date: October 27, 2009| Series: Hqn Celebrate the holidays with the Creed forefathers—Montana men who built the family homestead and established a legacy of love…In the unforgiving Montana wilderness of 1910, widowed rancher Lincoln Creed is up against more than rustlers, wolves and the coming winter storms. His young daughter has needs beyond the beans and bacon he can barely cook. Lincoln must find little Gracie a governess, a lady who can teach and cook—yet won't set her sights on him.Disowned for her refusal to marry, twenty-five-year-old Juliana Mitchell share...
|  | Finding Home: Duncan' Bride / Chain Lightning / Popcorn and Kisses
Publication Date: April 1, 2001Romance Anthology ...
|  | Freefall to Desire (Kimani Romance)
Publication Date: December 21, 2010| Series: Kimani Romance (Book 217) Three years ago Brianne Kenyon suffered the unthinkable: her fiancé disappeared while hiking the Rocky Mountains, never to be seen again. Heartbroken beneath an avalanche of grief, Brianne's not sure what her path holds. But just when she starts to regain her foothold on life, sexy Alex Thorpe returns to town—and her pain reaches its peak. But so does her desire.Alex Thorpe knows why beautiful Brianne doesn't want to have anything to do with him—and he doesn't blame her. After all, he was her former fianc...
|  | The Last Cavalier (Silhouette Romances)
Publication Date: September 12, 2006| Series: Silhouette Romances The battle was raging, the air hot with smoke, loud with rifle fire. Then the air turned dim with an eerie mist, and for Jason Tarkenton, captain of the Confederate cavalry, the true nightmare began.Vickie Knox was today's woman dressed like yesterday's, wearing Yankee garb to play a part. But playacting ended when a Reb stepped out of the mist and took her prisoner--for real.They never should have met, never should have battled--never should have loved. But something had gone wrong with time itself, weaving together past and ...
|  | West Point's Sentinel Event
Publication Date: May 2002West Point's Sentinel Event is the fourth in a series of fictional medical thriller novels that deal with untoward incidents, mishaps, and catastrophic outcomes, known as sentinel events, that in reality turn out to be nefarious deeds perpetrated by people from different walks of life.The first novel in the series, Sentinel Event, introduced Jacob M. Stein, MD, a resident of New Hampshire, who is a physician surveyor for the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.He was asked to investigate a sentinel event—an operating-room death in a sm...
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