 | She's Gone Country
Publication Date: August 23, 2010Shey Darcy, a 39-year-old former top model for Vogue and Sports Illustrated led a charmed life in New York City with a handsome photographer husband until the day he announced he'd fallen in love with someone else.Left to pick up the pieces of her once happy world, Shey decides to move back home to Texas with her three teenage sons.Life on the family ranch, however, brings with it a whole new host of dramas starting with differences of opinion with her staunch Southern Baptist mother, her rugged but overprotective brothers, and daily battles with her three so...
 |  | Island
Publication Date: November 14, 2001From one of Britain’s best-kept secrets, the novelist whom the Independent said “writes better than almost anyone of her generation,” comes this brooding tale of the murderous ties that bind a mother and daughter. Abandoned at birth and shuttled among foster homes, Nikki Black decides at twenty-eight to seek out her birth mother, intent on killing her. Nikki’s vengeance takes her to a remote island off the coast of Scotland, where both the beaches and the inhabitants are full of artifacts from the past that haunt the present. Here she...
|  | The Story We Find Ourselves In: Further Adventures of a New Kind of Christian (J-B Leadership Network) (Book 2)
Publication Date: April 18, 2008| Series: J-B Leadership Network (Book 30) After many years as a successful pastor, Brian McLaren has found, as more and more Christians are finding, that none of the current strains of Christianity fully describes his own faith. In The Story We Find Ourselves In -- the much anticipated sequel to his award-winning book A New Kind of Christian-- McLaren captures a new spirit of a relevant Christianity, where traditional divisions and doctrinal differences give way to a focus on God and the story of God's love for this world. If you are searching for a deeper li...
|  | Terminal Justice (The Barringston Relief Chronicles, Book 1)
Release Date: February 1, 1998HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO SAVE THOUSANDS OF LIVES? WOULD YOU BREAK THE LAW? LIE, CHEAT, STEAL? WOULD YOU KILL?After an event that shattered his world, David O’Neal courageously sets out to rebuild his life as a speech writer for Barringston Relief’s wealthy and powerful founder–a man committed to bringing food, medicine, and help to thousands around the world. A man capable of great compassion…and tremendous fury. Then suddenly, David realizes AJ Barringston is much more dangerous than he appears.DO THE ENDS EVER JUSTIFY THE MEANS?A bla...
|  | The Inquest (Hardscrabble Books-Fiction of New England)
Publication Date: May 31, 2006| Series: Hardscrabble Books-Fiction of New England In 1830, Experience "Speedy" Goodrich died after undergoing an abortion in Burlington, Vermont. This tragedy and the resulting inquiry provide the foundation for Jeffrey D. Marshall's meticulously researched first novel. From the vibrant intellectual life of the University of Vermont to the public outcry over grave-robbing medical students in search of subjects for dissection, and from the progressive social movements of the day to the commercial bustle of a thriving inland port, Marshall offers a compelling po...
|  | Boys of Life
Publication Date: August 1, 1991In this powerful novel, the acclaimed author of The Salt Point portrays a coming of age overshadowed by an ominous infatuation with a dangerous man. Owen, Kentucky, just isn't big enough for Tony Blair. Bored with small-town life, already a problem drinker at 17, Tony is restless--ideal prey for Carlos Reichart, a Warhol-esque filmmaker. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Miss McGhee
Publication Date: May 10, 2007When Mary McGhee moved to a small Alabama town shortly after the Second World War, she was sure she could change her life for good: a new job, a new place, and a chance for a new life. But then she met Lila Dubose, the wife of her new employer.Set in the shadow of the civil rights movement, Miss McGhee is a sweeping tale of forbidden love in a turbulent time. Miss McGhee is a runner-up for the first annual Bywater Prize for Fiction. ...
|  | The Witkiewicz Reader
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|  | La tejedora de suenos; Llegada de los dioses (COLECCION LETRAS HISPANICAS) (Letras Hispanicas / Hispanic Writings) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Year of Blessings: (Benediction)
Publication Date: October 29, 2010Bringing together benedictions written throughout the year for Sunday services at Ecclesia Church in Houston, this collection features poems that speak a good word into our everyday lives-our happiness, doubts, suffering, and love.With contributions from Donald Collins, Joseph Down, Hank Gibson, Julie Gillaspie, Samuel Paul Gillaspie, Stephen Gillaspie, Claudia Elizabeth McCotter, Deji Osinulu, Bonnie McGrane Pirnie, Paul Randall, Will Taylor, J Wakeham, Bradley Winkler, Mike Yager, and Jayme Yeo. 100% of the proceeds from the sale of this book go directly t...
|  | Confessions from a Rebel
Publication Date: August 31, 2009If only I could, through my words, electro-shock humanity back into functioning, into sensing, intoliving, and into loving, I would. This book is a drop of rain in the sea compared to what we, an emotionally starved world, need. Yet it is my mere simple attemptto contribute to humanity. If this book touches one person, and moves him or her for a split second, I am a satisfied man. What we needis a renaissance of love. ...
|  | The Castle of Otranto and Hieroglyphic Tales (Everyman Paperback
Publication Date: March 15, 1993| Series: Everyman's Library Part of the "Everyman" series, which includes a themed introduction, a chronology, a plot summary and selected criticism. This book includes "The Castle of Otranto", the first Gothic novel and "Hieroglyphic Tales", a collection of oriental fables ...
|  | Time and Narrative, Volume 1 (Time & Narrative)
Publication Date: September 15, 1990| ISBN-10: 0226713326 | ISBN-13: 978-0226713328| Edition: Reprint Time and Narrative builds on Paul Ricoeur's earlier analysis, in The Rule of Metaphor, of semantic innovation at the level of the sentence. Ricoeur here examines the creation of meaning at the textual level, with narrative rather than metaphor as the ruling concern.Ricoeur finds a "healthy circle" between time and narrative: time is humanized to the extent that it portrays temporal experience. Ricoeur proposes a theoretical model of this circle using Augustine's theory of time and Aristo...
|  | Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method
Publication Date: August 31, 1983| ISBN-10: 0801492599 | ISBN-13: 978-0801492594| Edition: Reprint Gerard Genette builds a systematic theory of narrative upon an anlaysis of the writings of Marcel Proust, particularly 'Remembrance of Things Past.' Adopting what is essentially a structuralist approach, the author identifies and names the basic constituents and techniques of narrative and illustrates them by referring to literary works in many languages. ...
|  | The Warrior of Bast
Publication Date: September 24, 2010Tira has always been fascinated by ancient Egypt, but circumstances and finances have kept her from becoming an archeologist. Her dream of seeing her older sister drug free is shattered by Luci's murder by a drug dealer. Tira must run to be safe from the killer. A crumpled flyer offers an escape...The answer is in your stars. Tira flees her pursuers and reaches a brownstone where two elderly women cast her horoscope. She is offered refuge but must undertake a dangerous quest. She will be unable to speak of her world, or anything alien to the culture she en...
|  | Law of Attraction: A Novel
Release Date: March 27, 2012IT’S THE BIGGEST CASE OF HER CAREER. BUT IF SHE WINS IT, SHE COULD LOSE EVERYTHING. The victim she tried to protect is dead. Her lover—no, her ex-lover—is defending the accused killer. For domestic-violence prosecutor Anna Curtis, all of her cases are important—but this one is personal. This time, nothing will stop her from bringing the defendant to justice. Unless he kills her first. From the gilded lobbies of Washington’s most powerful law firms to the darkened alleys of its poorest neighborhoods, Law of Attraction is a fascinating ...
|  | Real Murders (Aurora Teagarden Mysteries, Book 1)
Release Date: December 4, 2007Though a small town at heart, Lawrenceton, Georgia, has its dark side-and crime buffs. One of whom is librarian Aurora "Roe" Teagarden, a member of the Real Murders Club, which meets once a month to analyze famous cases. It's a harmless pastime-until the night she finds a member killed in a manner that eerily resembles the crime the club was about to discuss. And as other brutal "copycat" killings follow, Roe will have to uncover the person behind the terrifying game, one that casts all the members of Real Murders, herself included, as prime suspects-or potentia...
|  | Spider-Man: Spider-Man Phonics Fun (My First I Can Read)
Release Date: October 5, 2010| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Stink and the World's Worst Super-Stinky Sneakers (Book #3)
Release Date: February 12, 2008| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Paul Bunyan
Publication Date: August 1, 2006| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Paul Bunyan was never "stumped," and no job was ever too big for him and his blue ox to handle. From Michigan to Minnesota, from North Dakota to the Pacific Northwest, wherever Paul went, he liked to do things in a big way. In Esther Shepard's classic collection, originally published in 1924 and now available in this handsome new edition, the Paul Bunyan stories are superbly told in folksy narrative and robustly illustrated with Rockwell Kent's line drawings. These twenty-one tales abou...
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