| It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism Publication Date: May 1, 2012 Acrimony and hyperpartisanship have seeped into every part of the political process. Congress is deadlocked and its approval ratings are at record lows. America’s two main political parties have given up their traditions of compromise, endangering our very system of constitutional democracy. And one of these parties has taken on the role of insurgent outlier; the Republicans have become ideologically extreme, scornful of compromise, and ardently opposed to the established social and economic policy regime. In It’s Even Worse Than It Looks, ...
| | The Journals of Lewis and Clark (Signet Classics) Release Date: July 5, 2011| Series: Signet Classics In the spring of 1804, Lewis and Clark set out on a voyage launched by Thomas Jefferson, to explore the wilderness between the Missouri River and the Pacific coast. This volume contains the vivid daily record of their epic trek. ...
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| | Summerland: A Novel Release Date: June 26, 2012A warm June evening, a local tradition: the students of Nantucket High have gathered for a bonfire on the beach. But what begins as a graduation night celebration ends in tragedy after a horrible car crash leaves the driver of the car, Penny Alistair, dead, and her twin brother in a coma. The other passengers, Penny's boyfriend Jake and her friend Demeter, are physically unhurt - but the emotional damage is overwhelming, and questions linger about what happened before Penny took the wheel. As summer unfolds, startling truths are revealed about the survivors and the...
| | Ricochet (Love Inspired Suspense) Publication Date: September 4, 2012| Series: Love Inspired Suspense When Molly Hamilton returns to her beloved summer camp, she finds nothing but trouble. First she hits a dead body in the road before arriving. Then she discovers the camp director is missing. If that isn't stressful enough, Molly's new boss is none other than Nick White, the man who once broke her heart. Nick and Molly know there's something dangerous going on at Camp Hope Springs. But as the former teenage sweethearts try to uncover the mystery, they discover even more hidden secrets—about the camp and them...
| | Fanny Crosby Still Lives Release Date: November 30, 2002This fictionalized biography sheds light on Fanny Crosby, who wrote thousands of hymns still regularly sung in churches across the country. ...
| | Felicia's Favorite Story Publication Date: November 1, 2002| Age Level: 3 and up It's bedtime, but before Felicia goes to sleep she wants to hear her favorite story, the story of how she was adopted by Mama Nessa and Mama Linda. And so Felicia's parents tell her how they flew off in a big silver airplane to meet the baby girl who was waiting for them, and how they loved her from the very first moment they saw her. ...
| | The Living Aristophanes ...
| | The Voice in You & Me: How Listening to your Heart can take You beyond all Drama Publication Date: August 17, 2012Born and raised in Germany by a catholic mother and a protestant step-father, the author learned at a young age that her biological father had been a catholic priest. At age 23, alone in an apartment, she declared to God that she wanted to stop believing in Him, but had an unexpected response which changed her life. Following God’s Voice in her heart led her to listen to a revelation given to Rev Sun Myung Moon.However, her personal life is not the Leitmotif, but the importance of getting in touch with the inner Voice and developing a very personal and...
| | Daybreak: The Dawning Within Publication Date: March 27, 2008The true human being of destiny is perennially seeking out soul. For the poet that summary of feelings is in form and meter, a love song and fluency of the heart.Some have suggested my poetry is akin to Emily Dickinson, as I have aspired to join the mystical and romantic, binding heaven and earth, body and soul, in pensive imagery.Poetry is a loving frequency with no memory and a passion to remember. ...
| | Empty Texas ...
| | Women's Experience of Modernity, 1875-1945 Publication Date: December 30, 2002InWomen's Experience of Modernity, 1875–1945, literary scholars working with a variety of interdisciplinary methodologies move feminine phenomena from the margins of the study of modernity to its center. Analyzing such cultural practices as selling and shopping, political and social activism, urban field work and rural labor, radical discourses on feminine sexuality, and literary and artistic experimentation, this volume contributes to the rich vein of current feminist scholarship on the "gender of modernism" and challenges the assumption that modern...
| | A Literary Review (Penguin Classics) Release Date: March 26, 2002| Series: Penguin Classics Ostensibly, A Literary Review is a straightforward commentary by Søren Kierkegaard on the work of a contemporary novelist. On deeper levels, however, it becomes the existential philosopher's far-reaching critique of his society and age, and its apocalyptic final sections inspired the central ideas in Martin Heiddeger's influential work Being and Time. Embraced by many readers as prophetic, A Literary Review and its concepts remain relevant to our current debates on identity, addiction, and social conformity....
| | Paris Journal,1965-70 Publication Date: July 28, 1988| Series: Paris Journal This volume begins with the French elections of 1956 and concludes with a portrait of an aging, lonely President Charles de Gaulle. Flanner shows readers a Paris (and, from a Parisian perspective, a world) very much in flux-politically, socially, and artistically. Edited by William Shawn; Index. ...
| | Zero Break Publication Date: March 20, 2012Openly gay Honolulu homicide detective and surfer Kimo Kanapa'aka investigates the murder of a young lesbian mother at the same time he and his partner consider having children themselves. Zero break refers to the deep-water location where waves first begin, often far offshore. For Honolulu homicide detective and surfer Kimo Kanapa'aka, it means his most dangerous case yet. A young mother is murdered in what appears to be a home invasion robbery, leaving behind a complex skein of family and business relationships, and Kimo and his detective partner Ray Donne m...
| | Wages of Sin (Cin Craven, Book 1) Release Date: July 29, 2008Dulcinea Craven descends from a long line of witches, and she has just inherited wild, untrained magical powers that she has no idea how to control. Now a ruthless vampire and an age-old demon are determined to enslave Cin and steal her power for their own. Her only hope is The Righteous, a band of warrior vampires who slay the rogue undead. Among them is Michael, a fierce swordsman who inflames Cin’s most primal hungers. Showing her a sensual pleasure beyond anything in the mortal realm, she must choose between the human existence she has always known, ...
| | A Place in Time Publication Date: July 10, 2009Wes is a typical, self centered 17 year old from present-day Denver. Emma is a deeply religious 16 year old girl, traveling the Oregon Trail with her family in 1850. When they both are caught in a mysterious electrical storm they find themselves together on the Wyoming prairie some time before 1843. Alone, they realize they must rely on each other for survival. A Place in Time is a love story that transcends time and reveals the journey of discovery for two young people from very different worlds. As they learn to get along and begin to trust each other, neithe...
| | The History of St. Giles and St. James: Volume 1 Release Date: July 12, 2001This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1852 edition by Bernh. Tauchnitz Jun., Leipzig. ...
| | Essential Doctor Strange, Vol. 1 (Marvel Essentials) Publication Date: July 23, 2008| Grade Level: P and up Relive the Marvel's Master of the Mystic Arts' earliest adventures! Featuring appearances by his arch-foes Baron Mordo, the Dread Dormammu, Nightmare, Aggamon, the House of Shadows, Loki, the Mindless Ones, and more! Collecting Strange Tales #110, #111 and #114-168. ...
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