 | Three Strong Women
Release Date: August 7, 2012In this new novel, the first by a black woman ever to win the coveted Prix Goncourt, Marie NDiaye creates a luminous narrative triptych as harrowing as it is beautiful. This is the story of three women who say no: Norah, a French-born lawyer who finds herself in Senegal, summoned by her estranged, tyrannical father to save another victim of his paternity; Fanta, who leaves a modest but contented life as a teacher in Dakar to follow her white boyfriend back to France, where his delusional depression and sense of failure poison everything; and Khady, a penniless wid...
 |  | Jacob's Dream - Part One: The Vision (Pt. 1)
Publication Date: November 2002Jacob's Dream: The Vision is an apocalyptic epic about a man named Jacob and his vision of the End of the Age and the Second Coming. It is a profound parable about God redeeming one hardened soul for his purposes. ...
|  | Living in an Awakened World: A Spiritual Adventure into the Near Future
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|  | The Inside Ring: A Novel
Release Date: May 3, 2005From a bluff overlooking Georgia’s untamed Chattooga River, an assassin fires three shots. The President of the United States is wounded; his best friend and a Secret Service agent are killed. Two days later, a man in Landover, Maryland, commits suicide and in the man’s home is overwhelming evidence that he was responsible for the assassination attempt.General Andy Banks, the Secretary of Homeland Security, is nursing a guilty conscience. Only days before the assassination attempt on the President, Banks had received a note with a dire warning: “Eag...
|  | Swallow Savannah: A South Carolina Story
Publication Date: January 1, 2009Bluff County, S.C. 1950While Frank Finklea and his muckmates were sloughing trees out of the primal ooze, engineers in silver safety helmets stood off to the side drawing imaginary lines in the air. There was talk they were building the world s biggest bomb factory. That s why there was so much secrecy surrounding the project. The feds had bought up 300 square miles of rural South Carolina so it would have plenty of buffer if anything went wrong.And there was plenty that could go wrong.Finklea s survival instincts drew him out of the swampland to become one o...
|  | Gears of War: Jacinto's Remnant
Release Date: July 28, 2009| Series: Gears of War Based on the blockbuster Xbox game, this is the stunning story of the men and women who stood between a planet and total destruction–and now have to face the consequences of their actions.After a brutal fifteen-year war for survival, the Coalition of Ordered Governments is forced to destroy mankind’s last city in a final bid to stop the Locust Horde. As the survivors flee Jacinto, they must contend with the last of the Locust, bent on vengeance, as they struggle to stay alive in an icy wilderness. Marcus Fenix, Dom Santiago, and t...
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|  | The Odyssey (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: December 23, 1998| Series: Dover Thrift Editions Excellent prose translation of the ancient epic poem recounts the adventures of Odysseus on his homeward voyage from the Trojan War. The clever hero circumvents the wrath of Poseidon to overcome an incredible array of obstacles, including a fantastic cast of adversaries — Cyclops, the one-eyed giant; the enchantress Circe; plus cannibals, sirens, and many other monstrous creatures. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative. ...
|  | Plays: Vol.1 (Oneworld Classics)
Publication Date: October 1, 2011| Series: Oneworld Classics The first volume of the complete theatrical works by one of the greatest and influential Italian authors of the 20th century Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and seems real for you today, is going to be—like the reality of yesterday—an illusion tomorrow.The first of three volumes collecting the complete plays of Luigi Pirandello, this volume contains some of Pirandello's most famous plays, including Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV, Each in His Own Way, and The Life That ...
|  | Visiting Walt: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Walt Whitman (Iowa Whitman Series)
Publication Date: October 1, 2003| Series: Iowa Whitman Series Available October 2003Poets to Come! . . . Not to-day is to justify me and answer what I am for,But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known, Arouse! for you must justify me.—Walt Whitman, “Poets to Come”Consider him sensational, mystical, erotic, and expansive; consider him the good gray poet, the moral crusader, the prophet of Democracy and the enemy of social injustice; or consider him libertarian, unsavory, and controversial. However we may view Walt Whitman, there is no denyin...
|  | Destinos o caminos (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: April 29, 2006Que quedo en tu corazon cuando en su despedida quedaron tantas poesias sin decir? Cuantas veces al dudar tu alma te has preguntado si aquel amor que comparte en estos momentos tu vida es tu destino o tan solo un camino mas que experimentar? Cuantas veces esperaste solo un indicio de aquel amor que esperas? Cuantos caminos hay que recorrer para encontrarse con el destino? Asi, entre tantas preguntas que solo respondieron las experiencias de la vida, nace esta obra, escrita con el silencio del alma. ...
|  | At the Seams
Publication Date: September 25, 1998Poetry ...
|  | Literary and Cultural Theory: From Basic Principles to Advanced Applications
Publication Date: August 23, 2000| ISBN-10: 0395929199 | ISBN-13: 978-0395929193| Edition: 1 This clear, succinct primer for literary theory provides students with a useful guide to contemporary theory and methodologies. Theoretical overviews summarize each literary approach for clarification and Application Essays by well-known scholars, on works by authors such as Shakespeare, Austen, Melville, Faulkner, and Angelou, represent the stated principles. The text helps students generate consistent, well-focused analyses based on any of ten critical methodologies, including New Criticism, Ps...
|  | The Letters of St. Boniface
Publication Date: May 15, 2000| Series: Records of Western Civilization Series St. Boniface, the early eighth-century English cleric who became known as "Apostle to the Germans," was an important agent in the conversion of the North German tribes from paganism to Christianity. His efforts were devoted as well to organizing and concentrating all of Germanic Christendom under the leadership of Rome. He numbered among his correspondents the popes as well as colleagues in England, France, and Rome. His letters provide unique insights into the religious, ecclesiastical, political, and social hist...
|  | Elizabeth's Wolf (Wolf Breeds, Book 4)
Release Date: June 30, 2005| Series: Wolf Breeds, Book 4 She brought him back from death and made him live again. Dash thought himself alone, a soldier, a fighting machine and no more. Elizabeth made him realize he was a man. Danger surrounds the woman his soul marked as his mate, death and blood and a treachery that goes beyond even his worst nightmares. But he will protect her and what she claims as her own. He was created to kill, trained to do it efficiently, and only a man bound to her, heart and soul, will have the strength to save Elizabeth and her prized possession.He was a lone wolf...
|  | True Evil: A Novel
Release Date: September 25, 2007 True evil has a face you know and a voice you trust.... A Southern doctor is pulled into a terrifying ring of murderous secrets -- in this powerhouse thriller from New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles Dr. Chris Shepard has never seen his new patient before. But the attractive young woman with the scarred face knows him all too well. An FBI agent working undercover, Alex Morse has come to Dr. Shepard's office in Natchez, Mississippi, to unmask a killer. A local divorce attorney has a cluster of clients whose spouses have all died under mysterious circum...
|  | Eyes Wide Open: A Novel
Release Date: July 12, 2011 A horrible family tragedy that may not be what it seems . . . A past encounter with an infamous killer turns deadly today . . . An ordinary man must risk his own family to find the truth. Jay Erlich's nephew has been found at the bottom of a cliff at Morrow Bay. It's all just a tragic suicide, until secrets from the past begin to rear up again. Did a notorious killer, jailed for many decades, have his hand in this? Years ago, Jay Erlich's older brother, Charlie, a wayward child of the sixties, set out for California, where he fell under the sway of a chari...
|  | Cinder-Elly (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)
Publication Date: April 1, 1997| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. In this rap version of the traditional fairy tale, the overworked younger sister gets to go to a basketball game and meets a star player, Prince Charming. ...
|  | Us v Them: Journeys to the World's Greatest Football Derbies
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|  | All about Hockey
Release Date: November 23, 1998| Age Level: 8 and up Stick handling? Slap shot? Spearing? This is the language of hockey, a sport fast growing in popularity. Here George Sullivan explains not only the game's terms, but its equipment, rules, tactics and skills, in clear, easy-to-follow text and dramatic photographs. This companion to All About Baseball, All About Basketball, and All About Football describes the history of the sport, and the organization of its professional leagues, as well as international hockey competitions, and it profiles six of the greatest players of all time. ...
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