 | Just Between Us
Release Date: January 3, 2006 From international bestselling author Cathy Kelly, a heartwarming story of three sisters who are about to discover that -- even within a close-knit Irish family -- looks can be deceiving. Look at them go!In the Irish Country town of Kinvarra, the Miller girls are generally perceived to have it all. Single mother and brilliant attorney Stella looks like a Renaissance Madonna and is about to get a second chance at love. TV soap opera writer Tara has just married the love of her life -- the charming Finn -- after a whirlwind six-month romance. And shy, beautiful ...
 |  | Last Will and Testament
Publication Date: December 2, 2003After five years, Virginia Freer's charming, lying, light-fingered con-man husband was back. He had come, as usual, for money, but Virginia was too preoccupied to mind. The death of an elderly friend was posing problems, for there was something suspicious about her will. Then, suddenly, the most valuable legacy vanished and people began to die violently. ...
|  | Windy City Danger (Red Rock Mysteries #11)
Publication Date: February 17, 2006| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Bryce and Ashley Timberline are normal 13-year-old twins, except for one thing—they discover action-packed mystery wherever they go. Whether it's tracking down a missing groom or uncovering a drug-dealing ring, Bryce and Ashley never lose their taste for adventure. Wanting to get to the bottom of any mystery, these twins find themselves on a nonstop search for the truth. ...
|  | Legion
Release Date: February 1, 2011Jesus asked the man his name, and he answered, “Legion, for we are many.”--Mark 5:9A young boy is found horribly murdered in a mock crucifixion. Is the murderer the elderly woman who witnessed the crime? A neurologist who can no longer bear the pain life inflicts on its victims? A psychiatrist with a macabre sense of humor and a guilty secret? A mysterious mental patient, locked in silent isolation?Lieutenant Kinderman follows a bewildering trail that links all these people, confronting a new enigma at every turn even as more murders surface. Why d...
|  | The Essential Guide to Warfare: Star Wars
Release Date: April 3, 2012| Series: Star Wars THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO THE ULTIMATE INTERGALACTIC BATTLEFIELD Like many a great epic, Star Wars is rooted in a rich history of armed conflict. Now, for the first time, the facts, figures, and fascinating backstories of major clashes and combatants in the vast Star Wars universe have been documented in one fully illustrated volume. Extensively researched and inventively written, Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Warfare combines action-filled narrative with encyclopedic knowledge that: • explores notable military units and group...
|  | The Case of Comrade Tulayev (New York Review Books Classics)
Release Date: June 30, 2004| Series: New York Review Books Classics One cold Moscow night, Comrade Tulayev, a high government official, is shot dead on the street, and the search for the killer begins. In this panoramic vision of the Soviet Great Terror, the investigation leads all over the world, netting a whole series of suspects whose only connection is their innocence—at least of the crime of which they stand accused. But The Case of Comrade Tulayev, unquestionably the finest work of fiction ever written about the Stalinist purges, is not just a story of a totalitarian state. Marke...
|  | Havoc's Sword: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure (Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures)
Publication Date: December 12, 2003| Series: Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures Dewey Lambdin's lovable but incorrigible rogue, Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, is back to cut a wide and wicked swatch through the war-torn Caribbean in an entirely new high seas adventure. It's 1798, and Lewrie and his crew of the Proteus frigate have their work cut out for them. First, he has rashly vowed to uphold a friend's honour in a duel to the death. Second, he faces the horridly unwelcome arrival of HM Government's Foreign Office agents (out to use him as their cat's-paw in impossibly vaunting schemes agains...
|  | Avodah: An Anthology of Ancient Poetry for Yom Kippur (Penn State Library of Jewish Literature)
Publication Date: June 5, 2005| Series: Penn State Library of Jewish Literature Avodah: Ancient Poems for Yom Kippur is the first major translation of one of the most important genres of the lost literature of the ancient synagogue. Known as the Avodah piyyutim, this liturgical poetry was composed by the synagogue poets of fifth- to ninth-century Palestine and sung in the synagogues on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Although it was suppressed by generations of Rabbis, its ornamental beauty and deep exploration of sacred stories ensured its popularity for centuries. Piyyut literature can t...
|  | Sacrifice Your Love: Psychoanalysis, Historicism, Chaucer
Publication Date: July 15, 2002| Series: Medieval Cultures (Book 31) Historicism and its discontents have long been central to the work of Louise Fradenburg, one of the world's most original and provocative literary medievalists. Sacrifice Your Love brings this interest to bear upon Chaucer's writing and his world, rethought in light of a theory of sacrifice and its part in cultural production. Fradenburg writes the "history of the signifier"-a way of reading change in the symbolic order-and its role in making sacrifice enjoyable.Sacrifice Your Love develops the idea that sacrifice is a mode...
|  | I am a tourist.
Publication Date: June 21, 2012When every other aging marketing or advertising guru decides to cash in by publishing a "how to" book for young starry-eyed creative people eager to use their talents to hawk soda and shampoo, Andrew Lok, a former creative director of Ogilvy and BBDO in China, sails upstream into the dark and dense world of poetry. This is his first anthology, which is based on stories drawn from almost two decades of wandering the world creating commercials. ...
|  | Modern Korean Poetry
Publication Date: December 1995| ISBN-10: 0875730574 | ISBN-13: 978-0875730578A companion volume to the Classical Korean Poetry, this anthology provides the reader a bird's eye view of modern, 20th century Korean poetry, thus completing the sampling of the Korean poetry beginning with the 12th century through the present. ...
|  | The Currency of Eros: Women's Love Lyric in Europe, 1540-1620 (Women of Letters)
Release Date: June 22, 1990| ISBN-10: 0253331498 | ISBN-13: 978-0253331496| Edition: First Edition "Professor Jones' book uniquely fills a huge hole in gender studies in the Renaissance. Its easy clarity of argument, its scrupulous care for detail, its just plain good story telling, and its theoretical sophistication make it an obvious candidate for the status of standard work." —Maureen Quilligan".. full of fine insights... a fine addition to a growing body of work on Renaissance women writers." —Renaissance Quarterly"In this forceful and perceptive study... Jones has fuse...
|  | Heine (Jewish Thinkers Series)
Publication Date: September 1988Heinrich Heine is one of Germany's greatest writers of verse and prose. His agile mind and brilliant wit expressed themselves in lyric and satiric verse, travel writing and essays on literature, art, politics, and history. He was a great satirist and thinker—but not a philosopher. One of his most perceptive admirers, Friedrich Nietzsche, said of him, "he possessed that divine malice without which perfection, for me, is unimaginable." Born into a world changed forever by the French Revolution, Heine grew up in a Düsseldorf that formed part of the Napo...
|  | Tomoshibi Light: Collected Poetry by Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko
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|  | In Her Defense
Release Date: April 3, 2001Frank O'Connell's need to live on the edge cost him his family, his home, and a partnership in his father-in-law's prestigious D.C. firm. Then Ashley Bronson walks into his life. The murder of a former cabinet official has just propelled her from the society column to the front page, and, inexplicably, she wants Frank to defend her. Frank thinks his biggest challenge is defending a client against the prosecution's overwhelming evidence. He's got a lot to learn. Subsumed in a defense in which ethics are bent and morals compromised, a desperate Frank hits upon an ins...
|  | Transformers Prime: Autobots versus Zombies
Publication Date: September 4, 2012| Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Gus Beezer with the Hulk (Marvelous Adventures of Gus Beezer)
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|  | TO BE A DRAGONET IS TERRIFIC!
Publication Date: June 1, 2010To Be A Dragonet is Terrific! is a fairy tale which centres around a family of dragons who live in a cave. Their son Hookie's unusual hobby of crocheting causes his parents to worry about his future as a dragon. Scaring princesses and killing knights would be more suitable. Befriending a sparrow, meeting a princess and getting involved in a knights' tournament is just the beginning of this amazing adventure. ...
|  | East of the Sun and West of the Moon
Publication Date: August 1, 1989| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up This retelling of a classic Scandinavian fairy tale is rich with mysterious castles, ugly trolls, and heartwarming romance. ...
|  | Fundamental Hockey (Fundamental Sports)
Publication Date: June 1995| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
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