 | The Common Man
Publication Date: April 9, 2010 The Common Man, Maurice Manning’s fourth collection, is a series of ballad-like narratives, set down in loose, unrhymed iambic tetrameter, that honors the strange beauty of the Kentucky mountain country he knew as a child, as well as the idiosyncratic adventures and personalities of the oldtimers who were his neighbors, friends, and family. Playing off the book’s title, Manning demonstrates that no one is common or simple. Instead, he creates a detailed, complex, and poignant portrait—by turns serious and hilarious, philosophical and speculat...
 |  | The Virgin Missile Crisis
Publication Date: May 26, 2012This October marks the 50th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis, and to celebrate an entire generation's escape from nuclear annihilation here comes The Virgin Missile Crisis, a comic novel that revisits those seven days when teenagers the world over faced the unsettling prospect of being part of the biggest virgin sacrifice in human history. ...
|  | No More Secrets
Publication Date: March 1991This is a novel of tremendous insight and appeal.Robert CormierMandy Baker was sexually abused when she was eight.Now, eight years later, Mandy is experiencing problems that she cannot solve on her own.In this candid, stirring novel, Weinstein writes sensitively and believably about an important, timely issue.Publishers WeeklyI was afraid this novel would be a graphic and uncomfortable story of sexual abuse.But no.The author doesn't give the gory details of the attack on Amanda when she was eight.Instead, she focuses on how this experience, which Amanda's family a...
|  | The Governess and Mr. Granville (Love Inspired Historical)
Publication Date: September 4, 2012| Series: Love Inspired Historical Dominic Granville needs a wife—whether he wants one or not! And governess Serena Somerton intends to find one for him. A marriage of convenience would provide the wealthy widower's five children with a mother's tender care. And yet none of Dominic's prospective brides can meet Serena's increasingly high standards.Unconventional, certainly. Outspoken, to be sure. Even so, Miss Somerton's quirks can't curb Dominic's growing interest in the spirited young woman. After his wife's death, Dom...
|  | Song of the Ovulum (Children of the Bard)
Publication Date: June 28, 2011| Series: Children of the Bard (Book 1) It has been fifteen years since Billy and Bonnie Bannister helped repel the demonic assault on Heaven. Now they and Ashley Foley sit in a maximum security prison where the authorities conduct experiments on them to learn the secrets of long life. Earlier, the world’s acceptance of dragonkind crumbled, and the Enforcers took the infant twins born to Billy and Bonnie and stole Excalibur, hoping to develop a weapon to battle the dragons that are sure to try to rescue their allies. All the while, a great secret from the...
|  | The Betrayal: The Lost Life of Jesus: A Novel
Release Date: June 10, 2008There is an alternate story of the life of Jesus. One the early Church fathers found so menacing they outlawed the books that documented it, ordered them burned, and threatened anyone found copying them with death. International bestselling authors and award-winning archaeologists Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear put more than thirty years of exhaustive research into this fascinating novel. In A.D. 325, Brother Barnabas is a student of the ancient holy texts. These books paint a portrait of Jesus that is radical, heretical, and irresi...
|  | Stealth
Publication Date: April 1, 2010A coming-of-age story is given a creative twist in this intimate, offbeat, and strangely affecting novel. The young narrator, age 11, lives with his aged father in a disheveled furnished flat in Cairo. Exceptionally attuned to the moods, habits, and silent yearnings of the adults around him, the boy decides to get organized and become an expert on adult behavior. Surreptitiously, he listens in on adult conversations, observes adult mannerisms, and guesses about comments he's not supposed to understand—and then he starts to sneak into ne...
|  | A Deadly Game
Publication Date: September 12, 2012Fiction. A Deadly Game is an action-adventure story inspired by a youth soccer team from California. Their silliness, quirks, and attitudes are captured in this exciting adventure.. Coaching his son's team is Tony Roberts, a retired CIA agent. His former boss, Simon, is relentless in his persuit of Tony coming back for one more "secret operation." They need Tony to find his old nemisis, Carlos Ramirez, a well known drug dealer and terrorist living in Mexico. Tony and his soccer team are used as pawns being played by way ofan International Soccer Tournament...
|  | Gaslight: Victorian Thriller (Drama)
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|  | Cernuda. Prosa II. Obras completas, Vol III (Libros Del Tiempo) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 1994| Series: Libros Del Tiempo (Book 72) El tercer tomo de la Obra completa de Luis Cernuda reune la extensa obra dispersa e inedita que abarca la narracion, el teatro, la critica y algunos textos miscelaneos mas personales. Esta variedad revela la amplitud de la base sobre la que se construyo la obra poetica y critica de Cernuda. Son textos imprescindibles para conocer a fondo la riqueza del proceso creativo y contemplativo del autor. Este conocimiento se pone de manifiesto especialmente en los textos ineditos presentados en este tomo: un cuento totalmente desc...
|  | Blank Darkness: Africanist Discourse in French
Publication Date: February 15, 1986| ISBN-10: 0226526224 | ISBN-13: 978-0226526225"Blank Darkness: Africanist Discourse in French is a brilliant and altogether convincing analysis of the way in which Western writers, from Homer to the twentieth century have . . . imposed their language of desire on the least-known part of the world and have called it 'Africa.' There are excellent readings here of writers ranging from Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Sade, and Céline to Conrad and Yambo Ouologuem, but even more impressive and important than these individual readings is Mr. Miller's wide-rangin...
| | Intellectual Women and Victorian Patriarchy
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|  | Letters from Prague, 1939-1941
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|  | Par Le Feu (French Edition)
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|  | Stonehenge: Atlantis Series Book 2
Publication Date: January 25, 2012What if the only way for you to get your happily ever after was to give your heart to another?Would you do it?Could you betray your heart to be with the one you love? This is Lilly’s problem. Stonehenge picks up where Atlantis leaves off, and follows Lilly even further down the rabbit hole of her mind.There she meets new people, experiences new places, and encounters a whole new challenge as she strives for her one true goal - to be with Elliott forever. Stonehenge is Book 2 in the Atlantis Series ...
|  | Conundrum: an architectural mystery (Volume 1)
Publication Date: April 3, 2012"An exciting, engrossing tale of greed, deceit and murder" - THE KIRKUS REVIEW When a Harvard Architecture School superstar plunges off the balcony at a graduation party, the police see an accident, not foul play. But fellow-student Iris Reid knows that any jealous member of the ruling clique would have relished pushing him off. Twenty years later, a reunion is luring the same cast of characters back to Cambridge. The opening night dinner is being held in a Modernist house that Iris has designed. She hopes to untangle the events that led to her friend's death. ...
|  | Braun: Three Complete Novels OMNI
Release Date: April 28, 1997Jim Qwilleran and his two sleuthing cats, Koko and Yum Yum, set out to solve three mysteries in and around the Casablanca apartment building, the Pickax Theatre Club, and Moose County, in an omnibus anthology of three novels. ...
|  | Dracula (Step-Up Adventures)
Release Date: April 12, 1982| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up String garlic by the window and hang a cross around your neck!The most powerful vampire of all time returns in our Stepping Stone Classic adaption of the original tale by Bran Stoker. Follow Johnathan Harker, Mina Harker, and Dr. Abraham van Helsing as they discover the true nature of evil.Their battle to destroy Count Dracula takes them from the crags of his castle to the streets of London... and back again. ...
|  | Benjamin McFadden and the Robot Babysitter
Release Date: November 17, 1998| Age Level: 5 and up "Drawing or writing, Bush's pen is loaded with wit." Welcome to the spaceship home of Benjamin McFadden--where tennis is played in spacesuits, books are read in zero gravity, and robot babysitters have eight arms and are preprogrammed to send you to bed at 8:00 p.m. sharp. But the night his parents go to the Rings of Saturn Preservation Dance, Benjamin McFadden isn't ready for bed. Taking matters into his own hands, he reprograms Babysitter, and his own private party is soon underway--until Benjamin is finally ready to rest. The only hitch...
|  | Hunda e Kukulles | The Doll's Nose (Albanian Edition)
Publication Date: May 11, 2007Mary wants to play with her friends Clara and Ana, but they're playing with their dolls, and Mary doesn't have a doll.Her mother suggests that she make one using wool and cotton and other things that they have around the house.So Mary makes a beautiful doll, but then she realizes: Her doll has to breathe, and how will it sneeze? What can she use for her lovely doll's nose?!Meri do te luaje me shoqet e saj Klaren dhe Anen, por ato po luajne me kukullat e tyre dheMeri nuk ka kukull. Mami i thote te beje nje kukull me lesh dhe pambuk dhe me gjera te tjeraqe kane ne...
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