 | Magic Words: The Tale of a Jewish Boy-Interpreter, the World's Most Estimable Magician, a Murderous Harlot, and America's Greatest Indian Chief
Publication Date: May 1, 2012In a riveting novel of love and adventure, young Julius Meyer comes to the New World to find himself acting as translator for the famed Indian chief Standing Bear.Young Jewish immigrant Julius comes of age surrounded by the wild world of 1867 Nebraska. He befriends the mysterious Prophet John, who saves his life when the two are captured by the Ponca Indian tribe. Living as a slave, Julius meets the noble chief Standing Bear and his young daughter,Prairie Flower, with whom he falls in love. Becoming the tribe’s interpreter—its “speaker”...
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|  | Breathing Lessons: A Novel
Release Date: November 1, 2005Maggie and Ira Moran have been married for twenty-eight years–and it shows: in their quarrels, in their routines, in their ability to tolerate with affection each other’s eccentricities. Maggie, a kooky, lovable meddler and an irrepressible optimist, wants nothing more than to fix her son’s broken marriage. Ira is infuriatingly practical, a man “who should have married Ann Landers.” And what begins as a day trip to a funeral becomes an adventure in the unexpected. As Maggie and Ira navigate the riotous twists and turns, they interse...
|  | Perelandra (Space Trilogy, Book 2)
Release Date: April 1, 2003| Series: Space Trilogy, Book 2 The second book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which also includes Out of the Silent Planet and That Hideous Strength, Perelandra continues the adventures of the extraordinary Dr. Ransom. Pitted against the most destructive of human weaknesses, temptation, the great man must battle evil on a new planet -- Perelandra -- when it is invaded by a dark force. Will Perelandra succumb to this malevolent being, who strives to create a new world order and who must destroy an old and beautiful civilization to do so? Or will it throw...
|  | The Prodigal Daughter
Publication Date: January 1, 2011Hers was the ultimate ambition...The magnificant story of love and politics that continues the saga of 'Kane and Abel'. The titanic battle between two men obsessed with destroying each other follows on into the next generation. Florentyna Rosnovski, Abel's daughter, inherits all her father's drive, but none of his wealth. A woman gifted with beauty and spirit, but above all with indomitable will, she sets out in pursuit of an ambition that dwarfs both Kane and Abel, as she battles for the highest office of all... ...
|  | The Chronicles of King Conan Volume 2: Vengeance from the Desert and Other Stories
Publication Date: May 24, 2011| Series: Conan The most mighty monarch of all time is back! King Conan returns in The Chronicles of King Conan! The adventures of Conan and his family continue in "Vengeance from the Desert," "A Clash of Kings," "A Queen Reclaimed," "Bones of the Brown Man," and "The Fang of Set!" You will thrill to adventures that could only be brought to you by master scribes Roy Thomas and Doug Moench, as illustrated by the unequalled John Buscema and Ernie Chan! ...
|  | Corriendo bajo la lluvia /Running Back Through the Rain
Publication Date: April 1, 2005Born in the south of Chile, but living and writing in the U.S. for the past thirty years, Raúl Barrientos eludes the easy categories: Latin American, Latino, American. All of these, and more. Yet always a poet, turning whatever he touches into startling imagery and gritty, enduring verse. These poems trace a trajectory from the 1973 coup d'etat in Chile to a difficult end-of-millennium in Manhatten. They give the reader a privileged view of a long and continually productive career in poetry—and a glimpse of the life behind it. (20050101) ...
|  | Lieutenant Gustl (Sun & Moon Classics)
Publication Date: May 1, 2000| Series: Sun & Moon Classics (Book 37) early stream-of-consc novel, Austria, tr R Simon...
|  | A History of Reading and Writing: In the Western World
Release Date: November 24, 2009| ISBN-10: 0230001629 | ISBN-13: 978-0230001626| Edition: 1 Offering a fresh history centred on the reactions and experiences of ordinary readers and writers, Lyons deals with key turning points that occurred throughout the centuries, such as the invention of the codex, the transition from scribal to print culture, the reading revolution and the industrialisation of the book. Tracing the major historical developments across Europe and North America which revolutionized our relationship with texts, this book provides an engaging and invaluable overview of th...
|  | Lawn Order (Five Star Mystery Series)
Release Date: January 5, 2011| Series: Five Star Mystery Series "Published in 2011 by arrangement with Tekno Books and Ed Gorman"--T.p. verso. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | The Shadowed Country: Claude McKay and the Romance of the Victorians
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|  | The New Monk (Gothic Classics)
Publication Date: March 25, 2007| Series: Gothic Classics First appearing in 1798 during the scandal that followed the publication of M.G. Lewis's The Monk, The New Monk is a ruthless parody of Lewis's Gothic masterpiece.In this dismantling of the Monk tale by "R.S., Esq.", Lewis's Spanish monk Ambrosio is replaced by Joshua Pentateuch, a Methodist minister in London. Like Lewis's monk, Joshua is renowned for his piety and eloquence. But this monk is willing to sell his soul, not to possess a beautiful woman, but to get his hands on her money...and a juicy leg of mutton.Ostensibly a scathing...
|  | The History of Jason
Release Date: December 5, 2005This Elibron Classics edition is a facsimile reprint of a 1813 edition by Kegan Paul, Trench, Tr_bner & Co., Ltd., London. ...
|  | Trader of Secrets: A Paul Madriani Novel
Release Date: December 27, 2011| Series: Paul MadrianiIn California, two men argue in a parked car . . . as the plot unfolds to profitably transfer secret tech- nology into malevolent hands. In Ohio, a young woman slips away from her protectors for a morning run—unaware that the killer she’s being protected from waits in the darkness. The woman is Sarah, daughter of defense attorney Paul Madriani. Her assailant is the vengeful assassin named Liquida. Now Paul Madriani—along with his companion, Joselyn Cole, and his law partner, Harry Hinds—must venture into the vort...
|  | Clancy Gift Set CST
Publication Date: October 1, 1991Includes A Clear and Present Danger and The Cardinal of the Kremlin. ...
|  | Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade (Assassin's Creed (Unnumbered))
Release Date: June 28, 2011| Series: Assassin's Creed (Unnumbered) After his family was betrayed and disgraced by the most powerful families in Italy, young Erazo chose the path of vengeance-and entered a world of mysticism and murder beyond anything he could have imagined. But his quest is far form over... ...
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|  | Three Little Pigs: Read-Along (Another Sommer-Time Story Series)
Publication Date: April 1, 2003| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Daily Learning Drills Grade 3
Release Date: October 10, 2003| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Send My Roots Rain
Publication Date: January 1, 1995novel by Cuban-American, set in southwestern US...
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