 | The Dog Stars
Release Date: August 7, 2012“Leave it to Peter Heller to imagine a postapocalyptic world that contains as much loveliness as it does devastation. His hero, Hig, flies a 1956 Cessna (his dog as copilot) around what was once Colorado, chasing all the same things we chase in these pre-annihilation days: love, friendship, the solace of the natural world, and the chance to perform some small kindness. The Dog Stars is a wholly compelling and deeply engaging debut.” —Pam Houston, author of Contents May Have Shifted A riveting, powerful novel about a pilot living in a wo...
 |  | Secret Love (Arabesque)
Publication Date: February 1, 2009| Series: Arabesque Celebrity actress Diamond Swain needs a peaceful place to hide out from the news-hungry paparazzi—a place like Whispering Pines. And yet from the moment she arrives at the remote Texas ranch, Diamond finds herself at odds with its rugged owner, Jake Madaris—a man who challenges her to care about more than making it to the top.Jake doesn't have time to babysit some Hollywood star. Then he comes face-to-face with beautiful, compassionate Diamond and is drawn into a whirlwind, secret romance. But is what he shares with her strong e...
|  | Three Plays
Release Date: April 5, 2005Published together for the first time are three of Ayn Rand's most compelling stage plays. The courtroom drama Night of January 16th, famous for its open-ended verdict, is presented here in its definitive text. Also included are two of Rand's unproduced plays, Think Twice, a clever philosophical murder mystery, and Ideal, a bitter indictment of people's willingness to betray their highest values-symbolized by a Hollywood goddess suspected of a crime....
|  | On Hummingbird Wings: A Novel
Publication Date: April 11, 2011"But Mother is always dying," is Gillian Ormsby's sarcastic response when her younger, favored sister tells her that she has to go take care of their hypochondriac mother. Much against her will, since she and her mother never have gotten along, Gillian arrives in California to find the garden and yard dead, the blinds all drawn, and her mother indeed in bed--waiting to die. But when Gillian talks with the doctor, he assures her there's no medical reason behind her mother's state.Now on a mission to restore her mother to health, Gillian insists Mother get out o...
|  | The Sea Dragon: The Omni Chronicles (Omni Chronicles (Authors Choice))
Publication Date: December 19, 2000| Series: Omni Chronicles (Authors Choice) p>The Omni Chronicles take you back to the beginning-the real beginning that no one ever told you about. But then you didn't really need to know before now.But things will begin to happen soon and you can keep one step ahead of the game if you are the least bit curious about how any one specific man could reach such world power that we will call him THE ANTICHRIST?No, Jesus (the firstborn Son of God) didn't have a twin brother and this man won't pretend to be Jesus, he will claim to be just who he really is-the fir...
|  | Illumination Night
Release Date: February 5, 2002Beginning on the night of the Grand Illumination, a festival of lanterns held each summer on Martha’s Vineyard, this novel is a modern chronicle of a marriage and a bittersweet exploration of an extraordinary passion. Illumination Night follows the lives of a young blond giant who is as beautiful as he is frightening; an old woman at the end of her life whose last mission is to save her granddaughter’s soul; a family torn apart by a wife’s fears and a husband’s unrealized desires—and the high school girl who comes to Martha’s V...
|  | No Surrender, No Retreat
Publication Date: July 25, 2012Sequel to No Quarter Archangel Chronicles: Book 2 Seventy years after it began, the war between angels and demons is over. Archangels Gabriel and Michael reunite at last, but a dangerous new challenge stands in the way of their happiness: someone is kidnapping angels and selling them as trophies on the black market. When Raphael, Archangel of Healing, goes missing, his tearful lover joins with the Brotherhood of Archangels and their lieutenants to rescue him. Without Raphael's healing touch, disease spreads quickly through the world's human population. The situ...
|  | FLICKERING MEMORIES: FOLKLORE IN THE BEAR LAKE VALLEY. Volume II.
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|  | Lucan: Spectacle and Engagement (Oxford Classical Monographs)
Publication Date: May 15, 1997| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Good Poems for Hard Times
Release Date: August 29, 2006Chosen by Garison Keillor for his readings on public radio's The Writer's Almanac, the 185 poems in this follow-up to his acclaimed anthology Good Poems are perfect for our troubled times. Here, readers will find solace in works that are bracing and courageous, organized into such resonant headings as "Such As It Is More or Less" and "Let It Spill." From William Shakespeare and Walt Whitman to R. S. Gwynn and Jennifer Michael Hecht, the voices gathered in this collection will be more than welcome to those who've been struck by bad news, who are burdened by stress...
|  | The Mysteries of Paris and London (Victorian Literature & Culture)
Publication Date: May 1992| Series: Victorian Literature & Culture In this ambitious and exciting work Richard Maxwell usesnineteenth century urban fiction- particularly the novels of Victor Hugo and CharlesDickens- to define a greater genre, the novel of urban mysteries. His title comesfrom the "mystery mania" that captured both sides of thechannel.In The Mysteries of Paris and LondonMaxwell employs a sweeping vision of the nineteenth century and a formidable graspof both popular culture and high culture to decode popular mysteries of the era andto reveal man's evolving consiousness of the ...
|  | Approaching Authority: Transpersonal Gestures in the Poetry of Yeats, Eliot, and Williams
Publication Date: June 1, 1997This study examines the principal gestures of modernist poetic speakers attempting to identify, mediate, and project cultural authority. To effect this mediation and hence to speak with a voice of authority, the poetic speakers must engage in "transpersonality." ...
|  | The History of the Hobbit
Publication Date: October 26, 2007A beautiful boxed set: the definitive examination of how Tolkien came to write his original masterpiece, including the complete unpublished draft and little-known illustrations and unpublished maps, along with a new edition of the classic work itself.First published in 1938, The Hobbit is a story that “grew in the telling,” and many characters and events in the published book are completely different from what Tolkien first wrote to read aloud to his young sons as part of their “fireside reads.” For the first time, The History of the Ho...
|  | The Heritage of Armenian Literature, Vol. 2: From the Sixth to the Eighteenth Century
Publication Date: December 2002| ISBN-10: 0814330231 | ISBN-13: 978-0814330234The second of a three-volume comprehensive anthology of Armenian literature in English translation, this work covers the medieval period. ...
|  | The Ipcress File
Publication Date: 1995Len Deighton's classic first novel, whose protagonist is a nameless spy - later christened Harry Palmer and made famous worldwide in the iconic 1960s film starring Michael Caine. The Ipcress File was not only Len Deighton's first novel, it was his first bestseller and the book that broke the mould of thriller writing. For the working class narrator, an apparently straightforward mission to find a missing biochemist becomes a journey to the heart of a dark and deadly conspiracy. The film of The Ipcress File gave Michael Caine one of his first and still most celebrated st...
|  | Essential Web of Spider-Man - Volume 1
Publication Date: September 14, 2011| Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Snow Treasure
Release Date: October 5, 2006| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up In the bleak winter of 19 0, Nazi troops parachuted into Peter Lindstrom's tiny Norwegian village and held it captive. Nobody thought the Nazis could be defeated—until Uncle Victor told Peter how the children could fool the enemy. It was a dangerous plan. They had to slip past Nazi guards with nine million dollars in gold hidden on their sleds. It meant risking their country's treasure—and their lives. This classic story of how a group of children outwitted the Nazis and sent the treasure to America has ca...
|  | Jealousy and Dragons
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|  | The Sluggers Club: A Sports Mystery
Publication Date: March 15, 1993| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up When their equipment starts disappearing, the best hitters from Halbertson’s Flowers Little League team form the Sluggers Club to investigate the mystery. “Walker equips his story with well-drawn characters and nimble, humorous dialogue. Enthusiasm for baseball pervades the book, especially the detailed and energetic game scenes. Baseball fans in particular will find this tale a winner.”--Booklist ...
|  | Running (Tell Me about Sports)
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