 | The Trigger: A Novel on the Revelation
Publication Date: May 16, 2011“You must not fail.”Three individuals from three continents find their lives merged in a single divine purpose: to win the last unreached people group on earth and usher in the Second Coming of Christ. They must succeed in order to fulfil the trigger for the return of the Lamb as declared in Matthew 24:14.In their way stands the legion of demonic principalities intent on destroying the plan. Against the backdrop of unprecedented persecution and the onslaught of cataclysmic events, Pastor Josh must remain steadfast to carry out the priority reve...
 |  | Eerie Archives Volume 6
Publication Date: March 8, 2011| Series: Eerie Archives Eerie Archives is back and more beastly than ever with a sixth specter-packed volume! Collecting issues #28-#32 of the legendary horror magazine, Eerie Archives Volume 6 includes work from such legendary artists as Gardner Fox, Vaughn Bode, Richard Corben, Frank Frazetta, and others, illustrating stories by some of comics' most beloved writers, including Archie Goodwin, Nicola Cuti, and Doug Moench. Pick up one of these lovingly produced monsters and see why Eerie Archives has made multiple appearances on the New York Times bestseller l...
|  | Texas Standoff: A Novel of the Texas Rangers
Release Date: August 30, 2011| Series: Texas Rangers Newly married and dreaming of settling down on his ranch on the Guadalupe River, Texas Ranger Andy Pickard is dispatched to central Texas to investigate a series of murders and cattle thefts. Pickard and his new partner, Logan Daggett, soon learn that the two biggest cattlemen in the region are at each others’ throats—and that one or the other is blamed for each act of violence. After getting to know the ranchers, however, Ranger Pickard suspects that neither is guilty.Adding fuel to the fire is the rise of the "regulators," a ...
|  | Murder, Mortarboards & Mackerel: An Academic Mystery
Publication Date: June 8, 2012Ben Messing, a professor in the English department at Oakham College, has been murdered. Every one of his colleagues is a suspect. But whodunit?! This novel charts the intrigues of the faculty members of the English department at Oakham College as they attempt to solve the murder mystery, as they entangle themselves in a complex, convoluted series of (mis)adventures, where the solution to the mystery could result in yet another murder. Either a satirical farce or a farcical satire, this send up of the English department is part murder mystery, part literary nove...
|  | Beowulf: A Verse Translation (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: April 29, 2003| Series: Penguin Classics Beowulf stands at the head of English literature; a poem of historical interest and epic scope. Although the first manuscript of Beowulf dates from around the year 1000 CE, it is thought that the poem existed in its present form from the year 850. Beowulf's adventures themselves stand in front of the wide historical canvas of 5th and 6th century Scandinavia. Against this heroic background of feuding and feasting, Beowulf first kills the monster Grendel and her mother, and later defends his people against a dragon in a battle that leaves ...
|  | Buying the Wind: Regional Folklore in the United States (Phoenix Books)
Publication Date: August 15, 1972| ISBN-10: 0226158624 | ISBN-13: 978-0226158624This anthology of regional folklore displays the abundance, humor, and continuing vigor of the American oral tradition. The collection explores rich and distinctive lore of Maine Down-Easters, Pennsylvania Dutchmen, Southern mountaineers, Louisiana Cajuns, Illinois Egyptians, Southwest Mexicans, and Utah Mormons. Their tales, songs, riddles, proverbs, games, superstitions, and customs provide a wealth of living folklore presented here as it was recorded in the field. And this unvarnished folklore fact—...
|  | The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales
Publication Date: November 1987"Tatar's main concern is with the enduring hold of the tales on children's imaginations. Why should they enjoy stories about other children sent out to die in a wood, or being victimized by cruel stepmothers, or given impossible tasks to perform, and (if female) forced to marry frogs or bears? . . . The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales--related in language that is sharp, lively, and free of jargon--is delightful evidence that Grimm scholarship can give pleasure to the general reader." --Janet Adam Smith, New York Review of Books "For scholars, students, an...
|  | Ninety-Two Poems...y Halevi
Publication Date: April 1, 2000This is the first publication in English of Franz Rosenzweig's 1927 translation of and commentaries on ninety-two poems and hymns of the greatest medieval "singer of Zion," Yehuda Halevi (born circa 1080). Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) is widely recognized as one of the greatest Jewish philosophers of the modern period and his Star of Redemption is considered one of the most important twentieth-century contributions to Jewish--and Christian--theology.Rosenzweig's original and brilliant commentaries open a window into the final developments of his own thought: hi...
|  | Now and Rome: Lucan and Vergil as Theorists of Politics and Space (Continuum Studies in Classical Reception)
Publication Date: September 27, 2012| ISBN-10: 1441170022 | ISBN-13: 978-1441170026Discussion of themes such as spatiality, temporality and sovereignty in Latin literature, drawing upon key contemporary critical theorists. ...
|  | Altazor & Temblor de cielo / Altazor & Tremor of Heaven (Letras De America / Letters of America) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | THE FOUR SEASONS JAPANESE HAIKU SECOND SERIES
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| | Alice to the Lighthouse: Children's Books and Radical Experiments in Art
Publication Date: April 1987| ISBN-10: 0312004087 | ISBN-13: 978-0312004088| Edition: 1st Alice to the Lighthouse is the first and only full-length study of the relation between children's literature and writing for adults. Lewis Carroll's Alice books created a revolution in writing for and about children which had repercussions not only for subsequent children's writers--Stevenson, Kipling, Nesbit, Frances Hodgson Burnett and Mark Twain--but for Virginia Woolf and her generation. Virginia Woolf's celebration of writing as play rather than preaching is the twin of the Post-Impressionist ...
|  | Unfinished Business: Screenplays, Scenarios, and Ideas
Publication Date: August 1998Film Criticism. Screenplays. Internationally renowned director Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Aventura, Blow-Up, The Passenger), who has said that his thoughts "are almost always films" while his films are records of "thoughts in the making," here offers an eclectic collection of pieces ranging from short screenplays, to personal memoirs, to incisive meditations on the nature of cinema. The cumulative effect is a sort of montage of the workings of the author's mind, his thought-films and film-thoughts, projected simultaneously (in a clear and precise translation by An...
|  | The World's Greatest Letters: From Ancient Greece to the Twentieth Century
Publication Date: September 1, 2004This handsome and elegant anthology of famous historical letters covers all aspects of human life—emotional, creative, and intellectual. Hundreds of letters organized by topic are featured from well-known men and women such as Joan of Arc, Hernán Cortés, Albert Einstein, and Virginia Woolf. Revealing not only the history of the age but the personality of the writer, these famous letters from leaders, lovers, and thinkers describe some of the most monumental cultural and social happenings in the modern world, such as Columbus's letter describi...
|  | Princess Charming (Legendary Lovers #1)
Release Date: January 31, 2012In Nicole Jordan’s dazzling new Regency series, the scandalous Wilde cousins seek true love by imitating history’s legendary lovers . . . beginning with Ashton Wilde, Marquis of Beaufort, who takes on the daunting role of Prince Charming to an unlikely Cinderella.Thanks to the mischievous meddling of his matchmaking sister, Ashton Wilde meets a damsel in distress during the midnight magic of a lavish ball. But Maura Collyer isn’t looking for a prince—or an intimate pairing with any member of the scandalous noble Wilde family.Intrigued by ...
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|  | Tough Customer: A Novel
Release Date: August 10, 2010Colleagues, friends, and lovers know Dodge Hanley as a private investigator who doesn’t let rules get in his way—in his private life as well as his professional one. If he breaks a heart, or bends the law in order to catch a criminal, he does so without hesitation or apology.That’s why he’s the first person Caroline King—who after a thirty-year separation continues to haunt his dreams—asks for help when a deranged stalker attempts to murder their daughter . . . the daughter Dodge has never met. He has a whole bagful of grudging...
|  | Sherlock Holmes: The Published Apocrypha
Publication Date: 1980The Sherlockian fraternity has long been waiting for some authentic news of Holmes and Watson, and the wait ends with Sherlock Holmes: The Published Apocrypha. Included in this collection are two parodies in which Conan Doyle gently pokes fun at his own creation and the methods of deduction he has made universally famous; two non-Holmes stories in which "an amateur reasoner of some celebrity" writes letters to the London newspapers offering solutions to intriguing mysteries; and two plays that brougth Sherlock Holmes to the stage ...
|  | Justice League of America: The Greatest Stories Ever Told
Release Date: February 1, 2006Superman. Batman. Wonder Woman. Green Lantern. The Flash.Aquaman. Martian Manhunter. Green Arrow. Black Canary.They are the Worlds Greatest Super-Heroes, and they compose the Justice League of America. For over 45 years, this all-star team of DCs greatest characters has entertained generations of comics fans. And now, this exciting new collection reprints eight of their greatest tales in one volume, covering nearly every era and incarnation of the League!From classic adventures of the Silver Age, to stories that formed the basis of the best-selling IDENTITY CRIS...
|  | Black Belt Club #3: Beware of the Haunted Eye
Publication Date: April 1, 2007| Age Level: 7 and up...
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