 | Bones Are Forever: A Novel (Temperance Brennan)
Release Date: August 28, 2012| Series: Temperance Brennan Kathy Reichs, #1 New York Times bestselling author and producer of the FOX televison hit Bones, is at her brilliant best in a riveting novel featuring forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan—a story of infanticide, murder, and corruption, set in the high-stakes, high-danger world of diamond mining. A woman calling herself Amy Roberts checks into a Montreal hospital complaining of uncontrolled bleeding. Doctors see evidence of a recent birth, but before they can act, Roberts disappears. Dispatched to the address she gave at the hos...
 |  | LOVE FINDS YOU IN DAISY, OK
Publication Date: May 1, 2012| Series: Love Finds You Love blooms in unlikely places. In 1912, two years after a tornado left many children homeless, the town of Daisy, Oklahoma, needs help with its orphanage. Enter Rena Jewel, 38 years old and still single, who longs to do something important with her life. A lover of flowers, Rena believes the letter from Daisy to be a sign from the Lord, and she promises to help. Sheriff Gene Wyatt is a widowed father struggling to control 23 unruly orphans—and to keep his own two boys from burning down the town. So when he receives word that help i...
|  | The Restorer - Expanded Edition
Publication Date: October 1, 2011SOCCER MOM IN OUR WORLD. PROMISED DELIVERER IN ANOTHER. Susan Mitchell thought she was an ordinary homemaker. She was wrong. Pulled through a portal into another world, she finds a desperate nation waiting for a promised Restorer. While she struggles to adapt to a foreign culture, she tackles an enemy that is poisoning the minds of the people, uncovers a corrupt ruling Council, and embraces a profound spiritual journey. Will this adventure demand her life? Can she find a way back to her family? She has always longed to do something important for God, but can ...
|  | Landscape and Inscape: Vision and Inspiration in Hopkins's Poetry
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|  | Peckinpah: THE WESTERN FILMS--A RECONSIDERATION (Illini books)
Publication Date: June 29, 1999| Series: Illini books This is the book that re-established Peckinpah's reputation - now thoroughly revised and updated! When critics hailed the 1995 re-release of Sam Peckinpah's masterpiece, "The Wild Bunch", it was a recognition of Paul Seydor's earlier claim that this was a milestone in American film, perhaps the most important since "Citizen Kane". "Peckinpah: The Western Films" first appeared in 1980, when the director's reputation was at low ebb. The book helped lead a generation of readers and filmgoers to a full and enduring appreciation of Peckinpah's...
|  | Lucky Stiff: A Lillian Byrd Crime Story
Publication Date: September 1, 2004There is what you believe, and then there is the truth. For Lillian Byrd, a chance encounter with an old friend means that everything she thought she knew about her shattered childhood is about to be revealed as a lie. One summer day when she was 12 years old, her best friend, Duane, left for summer camp. Later that night, flames ripped through the Polka Dot, a bar owned and run by Lillian's parents. Three bodies were found in the ashes: those of her mother, her father and Trix Hawley, a bartender and Lillian's frequent babysitter. Or so she has always thou...
|  | Pride of Carthage
Release Date: January 3, 2006This epic retelling of the legendary Carthaginian military leader’s assault on the Roman empire begins in Ancient Spain, where Hannibal Barca sets out with tens of thousands of soldiers and 30 elephants. After conquering the Roman city of Saguntum, Hannibal wages his campaign through the outposts of the empire, shrewdly befriending peoples disillusioned by Rome and, with dazzling tactics, outwitting the opponents who believe the land route he has chosen is impossible. Yet Hannibal’s armies must take brutal losses as they pass through the Pyrenees moun...
|  | Dick Francis's Gamble
Release Date: August 7, 2012One of the youngest winners of the Grand National, Nick “Foxy” Foxton suffered a near-fatal injury that cut short his career. Years later, he’s out for a day at the Grand National races when his colleague, Herb Kovack, is shot at point-blank range right in front of him. Like the police, Nick is baffled: Why would anyone kill such an apparently gentle soul? Then Nick finds a threatening note in the dead man’s coat, and he begins to doubt how well he really knew his friend. And on discovering that Herb named him beneficiary in his will, Nick ...
|  | Orphans (Oberon Modern Plays)
Publication Date: September 7, 2010| ISBN-10: 1840029439 | ISBN-13: 978-1840029437This disturbing urban drama had its world premiere at the Traverse Theatre. ...
|  | Hoops of Steel: And Other Sketches (Lillenas Drama)
Publication Date: January 9, 1997| Series: Lillenas Drama A Hicks and Cohagan sketch collection is always a welcome addition to the actor and director's library. Hoops of Steel is no exception. The scripts in this collection are fresh and are popular for competition, as well as for drama events. Performance Time: Most are 5 to 12 minutes. Suggested Use: The scripts in this collection work well for competitions and other drama events. ...
|  | King!: The Man and His Dream : A Play (Holiday Play Series)
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|  | Summer Cicadas
Publication Date: July 5, 2006Jennifer Wong, born and brought up in Hong Kong with an Oxford education in English Literature, has been published in various poetry journals locally and overseas. Summer Cicadas, her debut collection straddling Hong Kong and Oxford, is a refreshing, poetic journey of homelands, cultural upbringing, and personal identity. It is a moving account articulating the powers and transitions of youth and love. "Summer Cicadas is an extraordinary poetic reflection on place and displacement, on memory's gains and its losses, that marks the emergence of a striking new voic...
|  | Yeats, " the Wanderings of Oisin " and Irish Gaelic Literature (American University Studies Series IV, English Language and Literature)
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|  | The Feminist Bestseller: From Sex and the Single Girl to Sex and the City
Release Date: January 19, 2006Imelda Whelehan provides an overview of popular feminist fiction from the late 1960s to the end of the 1990s, looking at how key feminist texts such as The Women's Room, Kinflicks and Fear of Flying have influenced popular contemporary works such as Bridget Jones' Diary and Sex and the City. Whelehan reconsiders the links between the politics of feminist thought, action and writing and creative writing over the past thirty years and suggests that even so-called post-feminist writing owes an enormous debt to feminism's second wave. ...
|  | African Love Stories: An Anthology
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|  | My Angel, My Light As Darkness Falls
Publication Date: February 7, 2012A paranormal regency romance with vampires and ghosts. At the mercy of the darkness which terrifies her, Pru is alone except for 40,000 dead bodies. She starts screaming with no hope as the black starts to consume her. Suddenly warm strong arms embrace her and she is sheltered from the horror all around. She sleeps until the arms leave her once again alone in the dark and her screaming starts again.Luckily the dawn is coming and she has not lost her mind entirely before the first burst of light softens the dark. Then the horrors must leave as the day chases ...
|  | Bloodlands (A Novel of the Bloodlands)
Release Date: July 26, 2011| Series: A Novel of the Bloodlands It was called the New Badlands, home to the survivors of a cataclysm that altered the entire nation. Then the vampires arrived, and it was rechristened the Bloodlands. Not because of the vampire, but because of the gun-for- hire who'd decided to slay every monster in the country by any and every means necessary. ...
|  | The Short Forever (Stone Barrington)
Release Date: January 28, 2003| Series: Stone Barrington (Book 3) The unflappable Stone Barrington comes face to face with two men whose lives are wrapped in shadows and lies—and who both still feel the sting of betrayal they can never forget. Between a Rock and a Hard Place Hired by an odd client previously unknown to him, Stone arrives in London, on a mission he thinks he understands, but doesn’t. Soon he finds himself not only out of his territory, but out of his depth as well. Baffled as he is by the behavior of both his quarry and his client, Stone’s life...
| | Cinderella
Release Date: December 28, 2000| Age Level: 4 and up Cinderella's stepsisters aren't just ugly-they're bulldog-ugly! And yet they've been invited to attend the Prince's fabulous ball. Cinderella longs to go, but she doesn't have a thing to wear until her duck-billed fairy godmother magically appears. At the ball the Prince only has eyes for this lovely, mysterious pooch, but when the clock strikes midnight, the spell ends and Cinderella must flee home to her doghouse. Can the princely hound find her in time? Whose paw will fit the tiny glass slipper? Will Cinderella be doomed to scrub floors...
|  | The Wheels On The Race Car
Publication Date: March 1, 2005| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Best-selling artist James Warhola and author Alex Zane have created a fun, read-aloud picture book with rhyming text and wonderfully amusing illustrations inspired by the song THE WHEELS ON THE BUS."Racers start your engines! The drivers in the race car yell, 'Go, go, go! Go, go, go! Go, go, go!' The drivers in the race car yell, 'Go, go, go!' at the starting line."Get ready for a rambunctious race car adventure by best-selling artist James Warhola and author Alex Zane. Here at the racetrack, animals are busy from s...
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