 | Touching Home: Stories and Poems by Tribal College Students
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 |  | Jayber Crow
Release Date: September 18, 2001| Series: Port William Returning once again to the Port William membership, Berry has written his best novel yet, a book certain to confirm his reputation as one of America's finest novelists.. From the simple setting of his own barber shop, Jayber Crow, orphan, seminarian, and native of Port William, recallshis life and the life of his community as it spends itself in the middle of the twentieth century. Surrounded by his friends and neighbors, he is both participant and witness as the community attempts to transcend its own decline. And meanwhile Jayber lear...
|  | Rebels: The Irish Rising of 1916
Release Date: February 18, 1992"A WORK OF GREAT DRAMATIC POWER climaxing in the final hundred pages where he writes a full, searing narrative of the patriot leaders' last days . . . It's powerful stuff."--The Sunday Press (Ireland)On Easter Monday of 1916, a thousand Irish men and women, armed with pikes and rifles, took over the center of Dublin and proclaimed a republic. It was a rash, doomed, symbolic uprising, and the rebel leaders knew it. Crack British troops killed and wounded hundreds of the rebels in the week of fighting, and British artillery shells left Dublin's city center in rui...
|  | The Lighthouse Keeper
Publication Date: February 15, 2001The beloved bestseller that will shine in your heart forever...From the acclaimed author of The Last Valentine comes an unforgettable story about family, loss, and eternal love. Bestselling writer James Michael Pratt once again touches our emotions and our spirit as only a great writer can...Ten-year-old Peter O'Banyon's life changes forever when his family dies in an accident. Orphaned, he goes to live with his garrulous Uncle Billie, the keeper of the Port Hope Island Lighthouse in Massachusetts. There, as the beacon leads sailors home, Peter learns an as...
|  | Larry Bond's Red Dragon Rising: Shadows of War
Release Date: September 28, 2010| Series: Larry Bond's Red Dragon Rising More than twenty years ago, Larry Bond helped Tom Clancy write Red Storm Rising, the iconic techno thriller of the Cold War era. Now he returns (with Jim DeFelice) to start a classic series for our era, Larry Bond's Red Dragon Rising, which imagines the globe torn apart by climate change and its economic and geopolitical fallout. In book one of this four-book series, rapid climate change leads to mass riots in China, and a new communist premier seeks to relieve pressure by marching on traditional Chinese enemies in Sout...
|  | The Malacca Conspiracy
Release Date: June 24, 2010Set in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the United States, The Malacca Conspiracy is a bone-chilling tale of terrorism on the high seas, of political assassination and nuclear brinkmanship. And for Zack and Diane---your favorite JAG characters from Don Brown's popular Navy Justice Series---a story of hope for a longstanding romance that is now or never. When a dastardly plot is hatched in the Malaysian seaport of Malacca to attack civilian oil tankers at sea, to drive up the price of crude oil futures, and to assassinate the Indonesian president and use fat wind...
|  | Black Market Medicine
Publication Date: July 1, 2011Black Market Medicine ….is a novel I began working on many years ago when I became frustrated with changes occurring in the delivery of primary care in the U.S. I guess you could say I was and am pretty angry about the public’s lack of awareness of the amount of training and hard work that goes into becoming a doctor. You don’t really hear from primary care doctors about their concerns mainly because they are working long hours and don’t really have the time or energy or money to lobby Congress.So you may already be getting bored with...
|  | Strikeout, a Novel About Baseball, Broadway and the Brotherhood in the 19th Century
Publication Date: April 1, 2012John Ward--pitcher turned shortstop, author, lawyer and president of the first union for professional athletes--was married to the glamorous Helen Dauvray, a child star who re-invented herself on the Paris stage and as a leading lady and a wealthy producer on Broadway. On Albert Spalding's World Tour, Ward captained a team that played by the pyramids and across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower. Coming home for the 1889 season as conquering heros, the players started their rebellion against the autocratic owners led by Spalding. This unique historical novel moves...
|  | Trail/Revenge of the Mountain Man (The Last Mountain Man)
Release Date: January 1, 2007| Series: The Last Mountain Man You Can Teach An Old Dog New Tricks...With A Six-Gun!When gold is discovered near the little town of No-Name, Colorado, thecitizens are overjoyed at their good fortune...until trouble gallops downMaine Street on a horse straight out of Hell. For gold's closest companionsare greed and murder, and every two-bit gunslick from the Atlantic to theRockies is beating a path to the gold strike--which is practically on thedoorstep of Smoke Jensen. They're looking to get rich quick...and nevermind how it's done.But this legendary mountain ma...
|  | Adele and Co.: A Novel
Publication Date: February 1986This is the first full-length novel featuring Yates' finest comic creation, Bertram 'Berry' Pleydell. The popular character of Ad¿le is based on the author's first wife, Bettine, a highly gregarious American dancer and actress. Written in response to massive public demand for the Berry stories, this is regarded as one of Yates' best books. Amongst the madcap escapades of the Pleydell clan as they career about the French countryside you will find 'crime, criminals, and some of the funniest writing in the English language'. --This text refers to an out of pr...
|  | Inside Little Britain
Release Date: June 26, 2007Written together with friend and journalist Boyd Hilton, this is a look at a year in the lives of Matt Lucas and David Walliams—the good, the bad, the mundane, and the monumental. The year covered includes a mammoth nine-month Spinal Tap-esque tour where Little Britain goes in search of Great Britain. This milestone book offers an unrivaled close-up of a classic British comedy act, as it happens, at the height of its powers. But it is also a journey into their pasts, reflecting on how they achieved their success. It covers their childhoods, family life, and e...
|  | Contemporary Greek Theatre
Publication Date: January 1, 1999| ISBN-10: 1900850281 | ISBN-13: 978-1900850285Contemporary Greek plays by Loula Anagnostaki, George Skourtis, Dimitris Kehaidis and Elaini Haviara. ...
|  | Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls
Publication Date: October 1, 2010Fiction. Winner of the 6th Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction, chosen by Ben Marcus. In this darkly hilarious debut collection, misfit women and girls in every strata of society are investigated through various ill-fated jobs. One is the main course of dinner, another the porn star contracted to copulate in space for a reality TV show. They become futuristic ant farms, get knocked up by the star high school quarterback and have secret abortions, use parakeets to reverse amputations, make love to garden gnomes, go into air conditioning ducts to confront ...
|  | Peeling Apples (Sullivan's Creek)
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|  | Baudelaire: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
Release Date: November 2, 1993| Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Modern poetry begins with Charles Baudelaire (1821-67), who employed his unequalled technical mastery to create the shadowy, desperately dramatic urban landscape -- populated by the addicted and the damned -- which so compellingly mirrors our modern condition. Deeply though darkly spiritual, titanic in the changes he wrought, Baudelaire looms over all the work, great and small, created in his wake. ...
|  | Desprendimientos (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: August 19, 2009Poesía escrita en español; de estilos variados unidos en un libro con el alma a cara lavada. ...
|  | Prurient Interests
Publication Date: June 15, 2000| ISBN-10: 0231110677 | ISBN-13: 978-0231110679 0 Debate about what constitutes obscenity and how -- if at all -- it should be regulated has been at the center of the "culture wars" of the past two decades. While literature abounds on the contemporary politics of obscenity, there has been little inquiry into the historic origins of these issues. Focusing on New York City in the first half of the twentieth century, Andrea Friedman'sPrurient Interests considers the ways in which the evolution of obscenity debates in decades past has significantly affected today...
|  | Once and Again (Petal, Georgia)
Publication Date: September 4, 2012| Series: Petal, Georgia This time, he plans to do it with class. Style. And more than a little groveling... Petal, Georgia, Book 1 Seven years ago, Lily Travis was only too glad to see her hometown of Petal, Georgia, in her rearview mirror. Thanks to her father running off with a twenty-year-old, though, here she is, trying to pick up the pieces. First order of business: meet with her brother's teacher in a quest to pull his grades out of a downward spiral. Nathan Murphy is pretty much resigned to his bachelor status--until he looks up from ...
|  | Sudden Death
Release Date: July 1, 2005Edgar-nominated author David Rosenfelt returns with his hero, Andy Carpenter, who must defend a football player accused of murder.The Giants' running back Kenny Schilling stands accused of killing Troy Preston, a wide receiver for the Jets.As Andy investigates, he finds that Troy is not the only football player who was killed after contact with Kenny--and his snooping starts to set off alarms with a drug king. ...
|  | Scream Team #3: The Big Foot in the End Zone
Publication Date: October 1, 2012| Age Level: 7 and up...
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