 | Notes on Blood Meridian: Revised and Expanded Edition (Southwestern Writers Collection)
Publication Date: September 1, 2008| Series: Southwestern Writers Collection Blood Meridian (1985), Cormac McCarthy's epic tale of an otherwise nameless "kid" who in his teens joins a gang of licensed scalp hunters whose marauding adventures take place across Texas, Chihuahua, Sonora, Arizona, and California during 1849 and 1850, is widely considered to be one of the finest novels of the Old West, as well as McCarthy's greatest work. The New York Times Book Review ranked it third in a 2006 survey of the "best work of American fiction published in the last twenty-five years," and in 2005 Time...
 |  | The Chakra Diaries
Publication Date: November 22, 2010Balance your own chakras as you learn how these "energy centers" affect love and loss, health and happiness, life and death for the participants in a chakra workshop. You'll laugh, cry and and maybe even jump for joy as you experience their transformation with them! Whether you're an avid yogi or yogini or have never heard of chakras, you'll find this look at the human condition and the miracles that can happen through forgiveness, love and energy healing to be both enlightening and entertaining. Th...
|  | Sins of the Mother: A Novel
Release Date: August 9, 2011A SWEEPING FAMILY DRAMA ABOUT MOTHERS, DAUGHTERS, AND THE TENUOUS BONDS THAT HOLD THEM TOGETHER. ...
|  | Endless Night
Publication Date: June 1, 1994A cop's daughter, Jody is sleeping over at a friend's when the killers break in. They slaughter the family but Jody escapes, killing a man on the way out. All rapist and murderer Simon Quist has to do now is dispose of the one eyewitness to the massacre. And he can't wait to get his hands on Jody. ...
|  | Christmas Books: A Christmas Carol and Other Stories (Fine Edition)
Publication Date: August 1, 2010| Series: Fine Edition Dickens' definitive Christmas tales including A Christmas Carol and four other stories are collected in a beautifully produced volume with cloth covers by leading illustrator Joe McLaren. The Christmas Books were first published in a single volume in 1852, bringing together five stories which Charles Dickens wrote specially for the Christmas season, beginning in 1843 with A Christmas Carol. Over the next three years Dickens published "The Chimes," "The Cricket on the Hearth," and "The Battle of Life." There was no story in 1847 but ...
|  | Beaufort
Release Date: February 24, 2009Beaufort. To the handful of Israeli soldiers occupying the ancient crusader fortress, it is a little slice of hell—a forbidding, fear-soaked enclave perched atop two acres of land in southern Lebanon, surrounded by an enemy they cannot see. And to the thirteen young men in his command, twenty-one-year-old Lieutenant Liraz “Erez” Liberti is a taskmaster, confessor, and the only hope in the face of attacks that come out of nowhere and of missions seemingly designed to get them all killed. But in their stony haven, Erez and his soldiers have crea...
|  | Ride With the Devil
Publication Date: November 1, 1999 Daniel Woodrell's shattering coming-of-age novel brilliantly captures the lawless universe of war as seen through the eyes of a young secessionist.The 1860s: While the great battles of the Civil War rage in the East, Jayhawkers and bushwhackers wage their own vicious heartland war, savaging all in their wake without conscience or pity. Where the First Kansas Irregulars ride, no one is safe.At sixteen, Jake Roedel joins this piratical band, and partakes in brutality excused in the name of retribution. But as friends fall and families flee, he questions h...
|  | G.I. Joe Movie Prequel: Retaliation (G. I. Joe (Graphic Novels))
Publication Date: May 15, 2012| Series: G. I. Joe (Graphic Novels) Snake Eyes and Roadblock. Perhaps the most dangerous of all the JOEs - their combination of stealth, cunning, power, and raw courage is nearly unmatched. But these two forces of might can't always see eye-to-eye. But when Storm Shadow and his ninja enter the picture, these two JOEs will have to put aside their differences if they want to stop the enemy. The history of these characters is explored and never-before-revealed secrets set the stage for the summer's most anticipated action movie!From IDW, the publisher who brought ...
|  | Winona's Web (Thorndike Senior Lifestyle)
Publication Date: February 1998| Series: Thorndike Senior Lifestyle Timeless Lakota wisdom and a midlife romance are at the center of this novel of love and empowerment. Dr. Meggie O'Connor, a New York psychologist, seeks a simpler life and moves to a peninsula off Lake Michigan. The quiet of her new life is soon disturbed, however, by the arrival of a most unusual patient--Winona Pathfinder, an elderly Sioux medicine woman. ...
|  | The Somnambulist: A Novel
Release Date: January 6, 2009 Once the toast of good society in Victoria's England, the extraordinary conjurer Edward Moon no longer commands the respect that he did in earlier times. Still, each night he returns to the stage of his theater to amaze his devoted, albeit dwindling, audience, aided by his partner, the Somnambulist—a silent, hairless, hulking giant who, when stabbed, does not bleed. But these are strange, strange times in England, with the oddest of sorts prowling London's dank underbelly. And the very bizarre death of a disreputable actor has compelled a baffled police co...
|  | The Pawnee Ghost Dance Hand Game: Ghost Dance Revival and Ethnic Identity
Publication Date: September 28, 1996The Ghost Dance religion that swept through the Plains Indian tribes in the early 1890s was embraced wholeheartedly by the Pawnees. It was a message of hope to a people devastated by the attacks of enemy tribes, the encroachment of white settlers, and the outbreak of epidemics. For the Pawnees, who were looking to the U.S. government and trying unsuccessfully to farm their land, the Ghost Dance movement promised salvation: a restoration of the Indian dead, the buffalo, and the old times.Alexander Lesser shows how the Ghost Dance brought about a partial rev...
|  | Cinq Nouvelles Nouvelles
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|  | Poetic Commentary: Poetry About Life and Love
Publication Date: June 11, 2010Poetic Commentary is a moving and thrilling anthology of poetry that weaves positive Christian messages with personal life experiences and ideals. Now, more than ever, one needs a positive and caring message about life. This book is based on life experiences, both joyous and tragic. The poem, "Understanding" touts the importance of seeing life through another person's eyes. Have you ever had a life-changing epiphany? "Self love means honoring the spirit and the gift that God gave you; The poem "Love Yourself" expertly captures the sentiment-with graceful and me...
| | Pinocchio: Pinocchio Commedia - A Commedia Dell'Arte Adaptation of Carlo Collodi's Classic Story
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|  | Night of the Huntress (The Brotherhood of Blood, Book 2)
Release Date: January 30, 2007Bishop has been a vampire for 700 years and though he wishes nothing more than to live his life in peace, getting humans to believe that vampires are not monsters is a difficult task, and vampire hunters like The Reaper make it even more difficult. Believing that a vampire killed her mother, Irina leads a band of vigilantes, determined to rid the world of these monsters. What no one knows is that Irina herself is half–vampire. Determined to deny that side of her, Irina captures Bishop, believing he can lead her to the vampire responsible for her mother's ...
|  | Ryan: Pravus (Volume 5)
Publication Date: July 24, 2012Phoebe's world stops turning, making life a daily challenge for Ryan. Just when hope enters the equation, a vampyre stranger is found spying on her, outside her bedroom window. Within hours the playing field changes, the rules forsaken. One man betrays, another attempts to save the day by taking on the adversary, and Phoebe is handed the key of kings. When all is lost, everything is gained. This is book 2 in the Pravus Spinoff Neuri Romance series. Includes bonus story: Arelstin's LairTo avoid spoilers while experiencing this series please make sure you read th...
|  | The Mazovia Legacy
Publication Date: June 10, 2003This classic spy thriller combines fascinating history, deft storytelling, and psychological depth. ...
|  | The Crimson Comet
Release Date: September 26, 2006| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and upCount the stars up in the sky. The Man-in-the-Moon is flying by . . . On a night when Nora just can't get to sleep, she looks out at the moon and watches it turn dark. How could this happen? Together with her brother, Jack, Nora sets off into the sky aboard Jack's rocket. Up and up and up— The rocket lands on the moon! But will Nora and Jack be able to give the moon back its light before morning comes? Dean Morrissey has fashioned a modern-day fairy tale complete with an ingenious red rocket that co...
|  | Weird Planet #2: Lost in Las Vegas (A Stepping Stone Book(TM))
Release Date: March 28, 2006| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | DK Readers: The Story of Chocolate
Publication Date: January 3, 2005| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
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