 | Good Graces
Release Date: May 1, 2012To this day, my sister insists it was nothing more than the unrelenting heat that drove us to do what we did that summer, but that's just Troo yanking my chain the way she always has. Deep down, she knows as well as I do that it wasn't anything as mundane as the weather. It was the hand of the Almighty that shoved us off the straight and narrow path... Whistling in the Dark--a national bestseller--captivated readers with the story of ten-year-old Sally O'Malley and her sister, Troo, during Milwaukee's summer of 1959. Now it's one year later, and Sally, who made ...
 |  | Card Sharks
Release Date: December 6, 2005Where are all the good men? Marianne and her best friend, Bijoux, are dying to know. Turns out they've been holed up around card tables, playing Texas Hold 'em. So Marianne and Bijoux decide it's time to up the ante and get in on the action. But they never imagined that Marianne would have a seriously talented poker player lurking inside her. And everyone knows what they say about lucky in cards... ...
|  | The Birthright (Song of Acadia #3)
Publication Date: February 1, 2001The Thread Binding Them Together As Sisters Is All Too Fragile...The bittersweet reunion of the Robichaud family and the Harrows in the land of the Acadians has brought two mothers and two daughters full circle. They rekindle those early bonds and experience restoration of those lost years, but time and tragedy have left their indelible imprints on all who have endured the decades of separation and uncertainty. Moving forward with their lives now means further farewells--not as devastating as the one long ago, but no less heart wrenching.Their connection, wh...
|  | Mescolanza
Publication Date: December 6, 2011In Mescolanza, Patricia Capeci Beretta shares her life experiences as a wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother with transparency. The reflections of this woman of faith as she ponders life's joys and sorrows will inspire you to turn to the Lord no matter what you may face. ...
|  | sunfall
Publication Date: May 8, 2012In the final installment of the everafter series, Valentine Darrow and Alexa Newland work to rebuild their relationship even as they find themselves at the heart of the struggle that will determine a new world order for vampires and wereshifters. To survive, they must defeat the growing threat posed by Balthasar Brenner, who has been a thorn in the side of the vampire-wereshifter Consortium for centuries.The search for Brenner leads Val and Alexa deep into the heart of the Alaskan wilderness, where they must confront Brenner’s forces and either secure peac...
|  | GODS OF EDEN
Publication Date: February 28, 2012Within the Great Ruins of Zimbabwe, anthropologist Gabe Turpin makes an impossible discovery. A secret cabal deploys a black-ops team to the site to recover Turpin's relics and leave no survivors. Gabe is relentlessly pursued across Africa, and to the mountains of Ecuador. Only Turpin holds the TRUTH, as the lives of millions hang in the balance. And the only hope is Turpin's surviving those who want to keep humankind's greatest secret from...DISCLOSURE. ...
|  | Phaedra: with New Year's Letter and Other Long Poems
Publication Date: August 30, 2012Marina Tsvetaeva's verse drama Phaedra, completed in 1927, is the most extraordinary of all literary treatments of the Phaedra legend. Angela Livingstone has translated this little-known great work for the first time into English. Three long poems written at the same time as Phaedra connect, in their depth of thought and feeling, with Tsvetaeva's intense epistolary relationships with Pasternak and Rilke, and fascinatingly fill out the themes and preoccupations of the drama. ...
|  | Traditional Chinese Plays, Volume II
Publication Date: October 15, 1972The world of traditional Chinese drama can be at once fascinating andbewildering to the uninitiated Western observer. Attuned to his owndramatic conventions, he is hard put to apprehend the delicate fusion ofpoetry, music, and subtle gesture which is the essence of Chinesetheatre. Because of these difficulties, the task of translatingtraditional Chinese drama must go far beyond the conventional literarytreatment and evoke the entire world of stagecraft and directing.Longing for Worldly Pleasures (Ssu Fan) is a lyric monologue inwhich a young Buddhist laments...
|  | Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: May 1, 1996| Series: Penguin Classics In both his life and his poetry, Charles Pierre Baudelaire pushed the accepted limits of his time. His dissolute bohemian life was as shocking to his nineteenth-century readers as his poetry. Writing in classical style but with brutal honesty, Baudelaire laid bare human suffering, aspirations, and perversions. ...
|  | In the Country of Books: Commonplace Books and Other Readings
Publication Date: February 1, 2009In the Country of Books is an inquiry into the way literature enters the lives of readers and sometimes changes them. In most commentaries on literature the experience of the reader is virtually ignored as scholars and critics attempt to discern the meaning of the text from various theoretical or cultural frameworks. Instead, this volume focuses on the experience of readers, illustrated with accounts of the author's reading experiences and current research findings. The first section of the volume presents a historical background of commonplace books-an indi...
|  | Adventure, Mystery, and Romance: Formula Stories as Art and Popular Culture (Phoenix Series)
Publication Date: July 15, 1977| ISBN-10: 0226098672 | ISBN-13: 978-0226098678In this first general theory for the analysis of popular literary formulas, John G. Cawelti reveals the artistry that underlies the best in formulaic literature. Cawelti discusses such seemingly diverse works as Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Dorothy Sayers's The Nine Tailors, and Owen Wister's The Virginian in the light of his hypotheses about the cultural function of formula literature. He describes the most important artistic characteristics of popular formula stories and the differences between this literature...
|  | The Letters of Christina Rossetti, Vol. 1, 1843-1873 (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)
Publication Date: April 22, 1997In recent years Christina Rossetti's star has soared. Rossetti (1830-1894) has come to be considered one of the major poets--not just one of the major women poets--of the Victorian era, eclipsing her famous brother. Leading critics have demonstrated how studies of Rossetti's work, her daily life, her relationships with the Pre-Raphaelites, and her interactions with other women authors of the period can help us understand the unique cultural situation of Victorian women writers. When complete in four volumes, this project will make available all of Rossetti's e...
|  | Stories from the Old Squire's Farm
Publication Date: April 1, 1995Written one hundred years ago, this collection of rich tales follows the lives of six young children living in rural Maine after the Civil War. "Some of the very best stories of New England life and character that have ever been written." -- Hartford Daily Courant ...
|  | Ride the Fire (Leisure Historical Romance)
Publication Date: November 1, 2008| Series: Leisure Historical Romance Pregnant and alone on the wild frontier, a woman must decide whether to allow a wounded, buckskin-clad stranger into her cabin--and eventually into her heart. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | The Best American Mystery Stories 2000
Publication Date: October 26, 2000| Series: Best American Mystery Stories After just three years, THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES series is already a great success, earning raves from such diverse sources as Joyce Carol Oates, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, and ELLERY QUEEN’S MYSTERY MAGAZINE. Little wonder, given the power of the Best American brand, the talent of the series editor, Otto Penzler, and the high profile of the guest editors. Now, with the legendary mystery writer Donald E. Westlake as guest editor, the 2000 edition is sure to boost the series’ popularity even more. From T...
|  | Scream Street: Attack of the Trolls (Book #8)
Release Date: July 10, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | The Legend of Dragonmoon - The Forests of Finnskogen
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|  | A Promise Is A Promise (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)
Publication Date: May 1, 1988| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Allashua and her family outwit the Qallupilluit from keeping Allashua's brothers and sisters under ice. ...
|  | Dale Jarrett: It Was Worth the Wait (World of NASCAR)
Publication Date: August 1, 2002| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Curious George Plays Mini Golf (CGTV Reader)
Publication Date: August 25, 2008| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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