 | Love Amid the Ashes: A Novel
Publication Date: March 1, 2011Readers often think of Job sitting on the ash heap, his life in shambles. But how did he get there? What was Job's life like before tragedy struck? What did he think as his world came crashing down around him? And what was life like after God restored his wealth, health, and family?Through painstaking research and a writer's creative mind, Mesu Andrews weaves an emotional and stirring account of this well-known story told through the eyes of the women who loved him. Drawing together the account of Job with those of Esau's tribe and Jacob's daughter Dinah, Love ...
 |  | The New Oxford Book of Christian Verse (Oxford Books of Verse)
Publication Date: March 4, 1981| ISBN-10: 0192134264 | ISBN-13: 978-0192134264Questions are discussed in Professor Davie's introduction and answered implicitly on every page of his collection of over 260 poems. This anthology embraces everything from the Anglo-Saxon 'The Dream of the Rood' to the works of modern poets. The book also includes a selection of congregational hymns. ...
|  | Dream of Love (American Dreams, Book 3)
Publication Date: April 1, 2008In this third and final book in the series, the Davidson family continues to help slaves to freedom as conductors on the Underground Railroad. With one son, Seth, a war photographer for a newspaper in the North and their other son, Thomas, fighting for the Confederacy, Richmond and Carolyn pray for both sons' safety. Meanwhile, the Davidsons are in financial trouble and about to lose their land. Cherity Waters has the ability to help them, but when she discovers Seth, the man she hoped to marry, with his old girlfriend Veronica, Cherity jumps to conclusions and...
|  | Harvest Tales and Midnight Revels; Stories for the Waning of the Year
Publication Date: September 1, 1998Harvest Tales and Midnight Revels is the surprising and thoroughly entertaining result of a ten-year odyssey of creative play. The 19 stories and poems presented here, along with beautiful original illustrations, were collected over the course of a Halloween story-writing party, thrown by a special community of creative adults, that spanned ten consecutive years. Each is a unique gem of a tale originally read aloud at the party and included in this volume for its readability and tested appeal. Some horrific, some laugh-out-loud funny, some deeply disturbing...
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|  | Medieval Latin: An Introduction and Bibliographical Guide
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|  | Death in Venice
Release Date: May 31, 2005| ISBN-10: 0060576170 | ISBN-13: 978-0060576172| Edition: Reprint The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael Henry Heim Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, Death in Venice tells the story of Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venice in search of spiritual fulfillment that instead leads to his erotic doom. In the decaying city, besieged by an unnamed epidemic, he becomes obsessed ...
|  | Lost Realms of Gold: South American Myth (Myth & Mankind , Vol 10, No 20)
Publication Date: October 1998| Series: Myth & Mankind , Vol 10, No 20 Focusing on both the ancient (Inca) and living (Yanomami)cultures of South America, this volume captures the South Americanmythmakers' fascination with shape shifting and magic. Includes thetale of the first Inca, who built the city of Cuzco on the spot wherehis staff disappeared into the ground, and the sky people, whodiscovered the rainforest teeming with animals. ...
|  | Friedrich Schiller: Crime, Aesthetics, And The Poetics Of Punishment
Publication Date: April 2005| ISBN-10: 0874138957 | ISBN-13: 978-0874138955Schiller's fascination with crime and criminals is well-documented, but little work has been done on his engagement with punishment as retributive or restorative gesture. This study examines the affinity between the pursuit of symmetry in social penal discourse and the symmetry that pleases the aesthetic spectator in Schiller's drama, fiction, and theoretical essays. Beginning with a reassessment of the pivotal essay Die Schaubuehne als eine moralische Anstalt betrachtet, in which Schiller advances the stage as a ...
|  | Xian hong di ge chang: Da lu dang dai nu shi ren xiao ji (Er ya cong shu) (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | Selected Letters of Rebecca West
Publication Date: February 9, 2000| Series: Henry McBride Series in Modernism and Mo From the time that George Bernard Shaw remarked that "Rebecca West could handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely", West's writings and her politics have elicited strong reactions. This collection of her letters the first ever published has been culled from the estimated ten thousand she wrote during her long life. The more than two hundred selected letters follow this spirited author, critic, and journalist from her first feminist campaign for women's suffrage when she was a teenag...
|  | Arbor Alma/the Giving Tree (Latin Edition)
Publication Date: July 1, 2002| Age Level: 1 and up | Grade Level: P and up An evocative parable, The Giving Tree-the story of a lifelong relationship between a boy and the tree who happily responds to the boy's every need -is retold in Latin in Arbor alma. This edition features the original artwork of Shel Silverstein and a translation in a style that echoes the spirit of The Giving Tree.The Giving Tree is Shel Silverstein's simple yet profound telling of a lifelong relationship between a boy and a nurturing tree. The boy becomes an old man, and, from branches to trunk, diminishes the tree'...
|  | Seeker of Shadows
Release Date: May 29, 2012NANCY GIDEON CONTINUES HER COMPELLING, SENSUAL NEW SERIES WITH A SEDUCTIVE TALE OF FORBIDDEN ALLEGIANCE AND REDISCOVERED LOVE. His town. Susanna Duchamps came to New Orleans to settle a debt and to temporarily escape the controlled constraints of her life among the Chosen. What she finds is an opportunity to make miraculous strides with her research into Shifter genetics . . . and an unexpected, but never forgotten, man from her complicated past. Her rules. Shifter club owner Jacques LaRoche is fiercely protective of his freedom. Stripped of his memories of a former...
|  | Best Lesbian Erotica 2003
Publication Date: November 11, 2002| Series: Best Lesbian Erotica Series Best Lesbian Erotica 2003 is as hot as ever, featuring writers whose steamy, thought-provoking stories carry on the tradition of previous contributors, such as Dorothy Allison, Pat Califia, Heather Lewis, Joan Nestle, and Cecilia Tan. ...
|  | Romantic in Spain (Lost & Found)
Publication Date: June 7, 2001| Series: Lost & Found "I travel for the sake of traveling, to escape from myself and others. I travel to make a dream come true, quite simply, or to change skin if you like."In May 1840, Théophile Gautier, the enfant terrible of the French Romantic movement, set off by coach from Paris for a journey to Spain. Hired by the journal La Presse to send back regular installments of his travelogue, Gautier recorded his experiences and impressions with extraordinary vividness and enthusiasm. The end result was the book Voyage en Espagne (1845), an enthralling piec...
|  | GM,DS!A Dangerous Billion Dollar Blunder
Publication Date: August 15, 2007GM,DS! (Good Men, Do Something!), subtitle: A dangerous billion dollar blunder. Man's mind is bludgeoned by the meaning of tghe first n uclear bomb: one bomb, one bomber, one city, one day.Five thousand years of warfare changed in a flash. GM,DS! is a dramatization of a true story.Actual events, dates and persons, threaded together byfictional protagonist, Freedom Of Information Act info, government microfilm and other illustrations, of the development and selection of the USA's first dedicated atomic bomber which invited the Korean War, at the start of the C...
|  | Fall-Down Artist
Release Date: October 1, 1997"A fall-down artist" is a person who collects insurance as compensation for a fictitious injury. Investigator Carroll Dorsey has become a specialist in such cases, working for lawyers and insurance companies to separate the honest from the frauds. What he begins to find is not individual chicanery, but an elaborate and sinister pattern. Dorsey works out of his home city of Pittsburgh, traveling to the depressed steel mill towns of the Allegheny/Monogehela Valley. Unemployment has bred desperation and anger among the hard men who worked the mills when the Pittsbur...
|  | Murder on the House: A Haunted Home Renovation Mystery (Haunted Home Repair Mystery)
Release Date: December 4, 2012| Series: Haunted Home Repair Mystery Bed-and-breakfast—with a side of ghosts. Word has spread that contractor Mel Turner can communicate with the spirits of the dead, and she’s having a hard time maintaining a low profile. She decides to embrace her reputation for the chance to restore a historic house that calls to her. The new owners, who hope to run a haunted bed-and-breakfast, want Mel to encourage the ghosts that supposedly roam the halls to enhance the house’s paranormal charm. The catch: Mel has to spend one night in the house...
|  | Murder Under Cover: A Bibliophile Mystery
Release Date: May 3, 2011| Series: BIBLIOPHILE MYSTERY (Book 4) When she receives an exquisite copy of the Kama Sutra from her best friend, Robin, to appraise and restore, Brooklyn Wainwright anticipates both recreating a beautiful book and spicing up her love life. But then Robin's apartment is ransacked, and the great guy she recently met is murdered in her bed. Now Robin is the #1 suspect. Obviously, exploring the Kama Sutra's bliss will have to wait until after Brooklyn finds the killer... ...
|  | Fairy Haven and the Quest for the Wand (Disney Fairies)
Release Date: March 9, 2010| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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