 | The Other Statue
Publication Date: July 9, 2001| Series: Secrets (Book 1) The annual charity fête at Backwater Hall in Mortshire is disrupted by the mysterious death of Lord Wherewithal and the theft of the Lisping Elbow. Confusion and misgivings abound. And, alas, the Earl of Thump's stuffed thisby is found disemboweled by the edge of the lake. Dr. Belgravius and his nephew, Luke Touchpaper, attempt to tie the loose ends together and wonder why Miss Underfold was seen wearing a hat decorated with black lilies. And why was Victoria Scone dancing the tango with Horace Gollop in The Soiled Dove?Edward Gor...
 |  | Garden of Faith: A Novel
Release Date: April 2, 2002Welcome back to the charming world of Hope Springs, the small southern town at the center of bestselling author Lynne Hinton's Hope Springs trilogy. In this sequel to Friendship Cake, the same delightful women have finished the cookbook that brought them together, showing each the true meaning of friendship. Now these bonds are challenged by Margaret's sudden illness, Nadine's mourning for her lost daughter, and Jessie's desire to see the world outside the confines of a small town. Even Charlotte, the steadfast young pastor, has a spiritual crisis and finds herself...
|  | Ghost Music
Publication Date: October 1, 1997Alice McVeigh's second novel set in the world of a symphony orchestra is the story of how two orchestras compete for one source of funding, and how the arrival of a young cellist with a haunted past is used to tip the balance. ...
|  | Rune
Publication Date: February 5, 1998London is in the grip of an epidemic - across the city, people are dying in freak accidents, each body yielding strips of paper carrying indecipherable heiroglyphics. Aiming to clear his own name after being linked with the victims, Harry uncovers the most hostile takeover bid of all time. ...
|  | Vision
Publication Date: June 1, 1990Mary Bergen is a clairvoyant, able to forsee murders that will happen in the near future, but unable to prevent them from taking place. And now she is up against a power that is stronger than her own, a power that is taking her over, a power that is trying to kill her before she can identify it... ...
|  | White Bird in a Blizzard
Publication Date: January 1999Laura Kasischke's first novel, SUSPICIOUS RIVER, was hailed as"extremely powerful" (The Los Angeles Times) and "amazing...beautifullywritten" (The Boston Globe). Now Kasischke follows up her auspicious debutwith mesmerizing story of youthful passion and loss of innocence.When Katrina Connors' mother walks out on her family, Kat is surprised butnot shocked; the whole year she has been "becoming sixteen" - falling inlove with the boy next door, shedding her babyfat, discovering sex - hermother has been slowly withdrawing. As Kat and her impassive father pick upthe...
|  | Revolutionary Rose: Boston Tea to Boston Free
Publication Date: July 2, 2011In the early hours of April 19, 1775, each Minuteman heard the pounding of horses and the insistent cry, “The regulars are out! The regular’s are out!” Rose watched as her new husband jammed his legs into his breeches and yanked on his leather vest. He hammered down the stairs and grabbed his rifle, eager for battle. Was this finally the moment the militia had been waiting for? It was indeed. Eight Americans died after the “shot heard round the world” rang out at Lexington. More Americans perished sniping at the retreating Brit...
|  | The Rawhiders (Wells Fargo Trail)
Publication Date: November 1995| Series: Wells Fargo Trail (Book 4) They Must Risk Everything to Save Their Ranch and Way of LifeWhile Zac Cobb is sent undercover by Wells Fargo to investigate the robbery of cattle payrolls in Kansas, hundreds of miles away a family in Texas is in the midst of great tragedy. Four sisters, the Reddiger girls, are all that remain of a Mennonite family that fought and prayed their way through the hardships of ranching on the parched plains. The murder of their father has left them with only a herd of cattle.To save their parents' dreams, the Reddiger sisters mu...
|  | The Girl from Leam Lane: The Life and Writing of Catherine Cookson
Publication Date: May 1, 2007Born to an impoverished young Englishwoman in 1906, illegitimate and unwanted, Catherine Cookson lived a life marked by cruelty and neglect. At 22, reeling from a broken love affair, she left home in search of a new life. After five years in a workhouse laundry, she was finally able to buy a house of her own. But her struggle had barely begun. Following the loss of four babies, a nervous breakdown, and confinement in a psychiatric hospital, she was brought to the brink of suicide and forced to recognize the heart of darkness as her own. This remarkable book, now ...
|  | The Cambridge Introduction to T.S.Eliot
Publication Date: February 24, 1995| Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature An international team of leading T.S. Eliot scholars contribute studies of different facets of the writer's work to build up a carefully coordinated and fully rounded introduction. Five chapters give a complete account of Eliot's poems and plays, while others assess the major aspects of his life and thought. Later chapters place his work in historical perspective. There is a full review of Eliot studies, and a useful chronological outline. Taken as a whole, this Companion comprises an essential handbook for stude...
|  | Homer's Ancient Readers
Publication Date: June 3, 1992| Series: Magie Classical Publicarions Although the influence of Homer on Western literature has long commanded critical attention, little has been written on how various generations of readers have found meaning in his texts. These seven essays expore the ways in which the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" have been read from the time of Homer through the Renaissance. By asking what questions early readers expected the texts to answer and looking at how these expectations changed over time, the authors clarify the position of the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" in the intell...
|  | Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Hebrew Poems
Publication Date: March 14, 2011Music of a Distant Drum marks a literary milestone. It collects 129 poems from the four leading literary traditions of the Middle East, all masterfully translated into English by Bernard Lewis, many for the first time. These poems come from diverse languages and traditions--Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Hebrew--and span more than a thousand years. Together they provide a fascinating and unusual window into Middle Eastern history. Lewis, one of the world's greatest authorities on the region's culture and history, reveals verses of startling beauty, ranging from...
|  | The Renaissance (History Opens Windows)
Publication Date: September 13, 2006| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Dialogues and Essays (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: August 31, 2009| ISBN-10: 0199552401 | ISBN-13: 978-0199552405Alain de Botton's bestselling The Consolations of Philosophy--later made into a six-partTV series--has helped popularize ancient philosophy and especially the work of Seneca. This superb volume offers the finest translation of Seneca's dialogues and essays in print, capturing the full range of his philosophical interests. Here the Stoic philosopher outlines his thoughts on how to live in a troubled world. Tutor to the young emperor Nero, Seneca wrote exercises in practical philosophy that draw upon contempora...
|  | A Poisoned Season (Lady Emily)
Release Date: April 10, 2007| Series: Lady Emily London's social season is in full swing, and Victorian aristocracy is atwitter over a certain gentleman who claims to be the direct descendant of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. Adding to their fascination with all things French, an audacious cat burglar is systematically stealing valuable items that once belonged to the ill–fated queen.But things take a dark turn. The owner of one of the pilfered treasures is found murdered after the theft is reported in the newspapers, and the mysterious thief develops a twisted obsession with Lady E...
|  | The Nightingale Legacy (Legacy Series)
Publication Date: January 29, 2010| Series: Legacy Series (Book 2) On the eve of her nineteenth birthday, the vivacious Caroline Derwent-Jones looks forward to being free of her oafish guardian, Mr. Ffalkes.But Mr. Ffalkes has other plans for Caroline and her inheritance; Caroline must escape. In her flight, Caroline encounters Lord Chilton of Mount Hawke, Frederic North Nightingale, and finds herself tangled in mystery and romance.Amid murder, enigmatic secrets, and a long standing tradition of no women at Mount Hawke, Lord Chilton discovers his desire for Caroline. "Witty dialogue and bawd...
|  | Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 9 Freefall #1
Publication Date: 2011Season 8 ended with a bang when Buffy cut the world off from the hell dimensions and all supernatural influence. Great, right? Except Buffy has left her best friend, Willow, powerless, and ended the long line of vampire slayers, leaving her hated by the hundreds of girls who recently stood behind her. Newly relocated to San Francisco, Buffy can count on a fresh start, and focus on what she's good at-slaying. ...
|  | Lunchbox and the Aliens
Release Date: April 28, 2009| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Lunchbox felt odd. He wondered how he had known how to open the place where all the yummy stuff was kept. He wondered why he seemed to know so much about these strange animals he was with. He wondered how he knew he was wondering.Lunchbox is your average basset hound: round, floppy, and not too bright . . . until he’s abducted by aliens. Then he suddenly becomes a lean, mean, garbage-machine-making, uh, machine. Frazz and Grunfloz, the hapless aliens who abducted Lunchbox, have set him the task of converting Eart...
|  | Robin Hood
Publication Date: October 1, 2012The champion of the destitute and downtrodden rides again. Meet young Robin Hood before he becomes the hero of Sherwood Forest, and follow along with his band of merry men as his adventures become the stuff of legend. This lavishly illustrated picture book makes a wonderful gift title to complement Arthur of Albion and The Arabian Nights, and features nine tales including: Robin Becomes an Outlaw, Robin Meets Little John, Robin and the Widow, and Robin's Last Battle. ...
|  | Baseball Turnaround: #53 (Matt Christopher Sports Classics)
Publication Date: May 1, 1997| Grade Level: P and up...
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