 | A Scattered Life
Release Date: August 23, 2011“McQuestion writes with a sharp eye and a sure voice, and as a reader, I was willing to go wherever she wanted to take me.”—Carolyn Parkhurst, author of The Dogs of BabelFree-spirit Skyla Plinka has found the love and stability she always wanted in her reliable husband, Thomas. Settling into her new family and roles as wife and mother, Skyla finds life in rural Wisconsin satisfying, but she can’t seem to quell her growing sense of restlessness. Skyla’s only reprieve is her growing friendship with neighbor Roxanne, who has five kids (...
 |  | The Fiercer Heart: A Novel of Love and Obsession
Publication Date: September 27, 2005This is the story of an American love affair.Intimate and painfully real, this epic tale from the pages of history is based on the lives of vivacious and iron-willed Diana Bullitt, a Southern woman from an illustrious colonial family, and General Philip Kearny, one of the Union's legendary military leaders, a dissolute and passionate man descended from two centuries of New York aristocracy.In antebellum America, a time when appearances are paramount, Kearny introduces his beautiful young bride to a mesmerizing world of opulence and power. But Diana's tra...
|  | Aldus Shrugged
Publication Date: June 29, 2012Aldus Shrugged is your antidote to Ayn Rand.Tea Party?Where were you from 2000-2006 when we needed you? Birthers. Racists. Paul Ryan. Irrational party of NO! Take the antidote.NOW! Seth Kimball has just buried his father and he needs to wake up to the political climate that has engulfed him, and to the realities of his fast-changing Brooklyn neighborhood.John Gall's billion-dollar arena project is tearing up the roads and the fabric; and the progress is threatening the livelihoods of millions. If you like President Obama, and if fox news makes you sick, you wil...
|  | White Sleeper
Publication Date: April 12, 2011When Arkansas experiences a wave of rare fatal diseases, the CDC sends disgraced doctor Dave Richards to investigate, and he knows this is the case that could save his career. When he teams up with FBI agent Paula Mushari, Richards thinks he may have found the person who can help him find the answers. But as they dig deeper, they begin to get a sinister glimpse into what they are dealing with-a vengeful sect, led by the son of a late white supremacist, intent on destroying a nation. As Richards fights to save his job, he and Mushari must race against the clock...
|  | Counting Sleeping Beauties
Publication Date: April 1, 2010| ISBN-10: 1770095446 | ISBN-13: 978-1770095441A fictional account of a Jewish family’s journey from Nazi Germany to post–World War II South Africa, this breathtaking novel follows their everyday struggles living in Johannesburg in the 1950s. Through the voices of Hannah, the daughter of the house, her mother Susan, grandmother Leah, and domestic worker Sina, the story explores the cultural and generational parallels and differences and the unraveling of a family. The stories of Leah in the shtetl in Lithuania, Sina in her village outside Pieter...
|  | The Vault (Tyler Locke)
Release Date: February 28, 2012| Series: Tyler Locke A RUTHLESS MASTERMIND IGNITES A TICKING-BOMB RACE TO UNEARTH A KING’S LEGENDARY GOLD . . . IN THIS “ELECTRIFYING BLEND OF HISTORY, MYTH, AND SCIENCE” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE ARK. Military engineer Tyler Locke’s commute on a Seattle ferry is plunged into terror when an anonymous caller claims that his father has been kidnapped—and that a bomb on the boat’s car deck is set to detonate in minutes. Disabling the device alongside classical language expert Stacy Benedict̵...
|  | Nathan der Weise (Reclams Universal-Bibliothek) (German Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 2000| Series: Reclams Universal-Bibliothek (Book 3) This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing...
|  | God's Imagination
Publication Date: March 17, 2011Appealing to all ages, God's Imagination is an inspirational poem partnered with pictures."My inspiration for God's Imagination actually came from my children watching Baby Einstein.We were watching 'World of Animals' and I would point out the animal and my son would name it and my daughter, still a baby, was also learning. This was both educational and fun for us," says author Maribeth Zuesi.She remembers as a child reading and learning The Creation Story, in which God created the world in seven days. "The Creation Story came to mind and the next thing I know...
|  | Corona, Corona
Publication Date: September 6, 1993This collection of poetry ranges from one-horse Mexican towns to the beach at Thorpeness. By the author of "Acrimony", which was a Poetry Book Society choice, and "Nights in the Iron Hotel". ...
|  | Good-Night Willie Lee Ill See You in the
Publication Date: November 1, 1987Vivid poems of “breakdown and spiritual disarray.” Writing these, Walker says, “led me eventually into a larger understanding of the psyche, and of the world.” What finally marks this volume is the strong sense of change and, ultimately, of forgiveness as a part of growth. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
|  | Picassos Stierkampfe im Kontext surrealistischer Diskussionen um Mythos und Stierkampf (Edition Wissenschaft) (German Edition)
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|  | Making Piece: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Pie
Publication Date: March 20, 2012"You will find my story is a lot like pie, a strawberry-rhubarb pie. It's bitter. It's messy. It's got some sweetness, too. Sometimes the ingredients get added in the wrong order, but it has substance, it will warm your insides, and even though it isn't perfect, it still turns out okay in the end."When journalist Beth M. Howard's young husband dies suddenly, she packs up the RV he left behind and hits the American highways. At every stop along the way—whether filming a documentary or handing out free slices on the streets of Lo...
|  | Y2K -- It's Already Too Late
Publication Date: June 1998The only novel about the Year 2000 computer crisis....
|  | A Place of Darkness
Release Date: October 2, 2001Some transgressions may never be forgiven -- as Lieutenant Bak remains out of favor with the powers of Kemet. While in transit from his exile in Buhen to a new posting, the disgraced policeman stops at the capital in hopes of investigating a troubling case of relics plundered from ancient tombs and smuggled through the southern frontier. Instead, he is sent to the partially built memorial temple of the divine Queen Maatkare Hatshepsut, where a series of fatal accidents and whispers of a malign spirit are plaguing the construction effort. Can the thefts and these ...
|  | The Millennial Detective: Essays on Trends in Crime Fiction, Film and Television, 1990-2010
Publication Date: September 19, 2011International in scope and varied in its theoretical approaches, this collection of ten new critical essays examines the prevailing trends in recent crime fiction. Of particular interest are shifting, and increasingly globalized, conceptions of crime, as well as the genre's response to technological, legal, and social changes at the end of the 20th century. Employing critical tools new to crime-fiction studies, the essays also gesture toward a future for genre scholarship. ...
|  | Artemis the Loyal (Goddess Girls)
Release Date: December 6, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Tales of Wisdom & Wonder
Publication Date: April 2, 2006| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up How can a blind man see more than his companion, the hunter? And how do fishes find themselves swimming in the grass of a forest? Nothing is quite as it seems in this unusual collection of tales from around the world.Beautifully captured by Niamh Sharkey s quirky and perceptive illustrations, these tales remind us of how vast and mysterious our world is, and how our lives can be transformed in the most unexpected circumstances. ...
|  | The Dragon's Scales (Step-Into-Reading, Step 3)
Release Date: May 19, 1998| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | Whose Shoes?: A Shoe for Every Job
Publication Date: February 1, 2010| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: P and up What do you want to be when you grow up? People work in various jobs. Very often, clothes fit the job. The right shoes, for example, can make a job easier or safer. A nurse wouldn't wear construction boots, and a construction worker wouldn't wear ballet slippers. There is the right shoe for every job. Steve Swinburne explores various occupations through a simple, lively text and bright, colorful photographs. The book includes a guessing game that invites young readers to guess which shoe matches which job. This e...
|  | Richard Scarry's Animal Nursery Tales (Picture Book)
Release Date: September 12, 2006| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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