 | Mystery Midrash: An Anthology of Jewish Mystery & Detective Fiction
Publication Date: September 1, 1999Twelve of today’s top mystery authors bring you all-new stories that present the complexities of modern Jewish life against a riveting backdrop of crime and deception--and a little bit of humor as well. Lapsed faith, interfaith relations, golems, and more add to the intrigue in these tantalizing mysteries.Will a husband get the answer he is looking for in subjecting his wife to an adultery-testing ritual from the Torah? How do composer Franz Schubert and a youth from the local synagogue get involved in an old murder mystery?What is an anti-Semite on de...
 |  | The Writer in the Jewish Community: An Israeli-North American Dialogue (Nursing Administration Quarterly Series)
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|  | Animal Eye (Pitt Poetry Series)
Publication Date: February 28, 2012| Series: Pitt Poetry Series “Paisley Rekdal’s quiet virtuosity with rhyme and cadence, her syntactic fidelity to thought and sensation, her analytical intelligence that keeps homing in and in, her ambitious sentences and larger formal structures that try to embody with absolute accuracy the difference between what we ought to feel and what we really do feel—all these make her unique in her generation: no one sounds like she does, and her concern about the ‘post’ in postconfessional is as much a sign of her earnest desire to ho...
|  | Heartbreaker (Thorndike large print Americana series)
Publication Date: June 1997| Series: Thorndike large print Americana series A woman. Her teenage daughter. A handsome, laid-back, chauvinistic rancher. And the savagery of unseen forces at large in the mountain wilds of Utah. New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards is here at her passionate best as she tracks the perils of the wilderness, the hidden face of violence, and--most awesome of all--the powerful feelings that evolve between men and women when lives are at stake.Lynn Nelson is beautiful, harried--and divorced. A thirty-f...
|  | The Elijah Project (Elijah Project, The)
Release Date: April 4, 2011| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Love and War (North and South Trilogy)
Release Date: June 1, 2000| Series: North and South Trilogy (Book 2) The bestselling saga that has sold more than 5 million copies. The books that inspired the smash-hit television miniseries. Beautifully repackaged for the Dutton hardcover release of On Secret Service--John Jakes's long-awaited return to the Civil War years......
|  | Rogue Warrior: Domino Theory
Release Date: February 28, 2012| Series: Rogue Warrior When the Rogue Warrior travels to India to help supervise security arrangements for the upcoming Commonwealth Games, he and his team find themselves up to their skivvies in terrorists of all types—Pakistanis. But it’s not just the Games that are being targeted for disruption—Demo Dick and his young bucks uncover a plot to steal all seventy nuclear warheads the Indians have amassed for war against the Pakistanis.The Rogue Warrior must overcome various obstacles to prevent disaster: a high-tech remote controlled attack...
|  | O Alienista (Classicos Da Literatura Brasileira) (Portuguese Edition)
Publication Date: August 2, 2006| Series: Classicos Da Literatura Brasileira A sarcastic criticism of the science of its day, O Alientista tells the story of psychiatrist Simão Bacamarte, who convinces the town of Itaguaí to pay for an assylum, and begins to fill it with residents he believes insane. While the assylum at first has a few patients, it grows quickly until, after a revolt by many in the town is fought off, it includes 4/5ths of the town!Realizing something is wrong, Bacamarte releases those committed saying that those committed are infact normal. Instead, he concludes,...
|  | Once upon a Dead Man (Wheeler Large Print Western)
Publication Date: May 15, 2009| Series: Wheeler Large Print Western Old Marshal Boomhauer's been murdered-and the town of Lone Pine has something to hide. Sheriff Ben Stillman isn't going home until he's served up some justice-whether it's by the rules or not. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | El complejo de dinero (Largo recorrido) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: April 1, 2010| Series: Largo recorrido (Book 8) In the early twentieth century, a young upper-class German woman with a comfortable life and an arranged marriage checks into a peculiar psychiatric clinic in order to cure her constant money problems. Once there, she will share her days and her escapades with an extravagant array of psychiatric patients who are as entertaining as they are irritating. A principios del siglo XX una joven alemana de clase alta, de vida alocada y casada por conveniencia, ingresa en una peculiar clínica psiquiátrica para curarse de ...
|  | Scripts of Hope & Restoration
Release Date: October 1, 2006(Lillenas Publications). Hopeless. Desperate. Alone. God is working in the midst of our messy, doubt-filled and at times very bad life experiences, but that's not always clear to us. This book is a ministry-based collection featuring powerful scripts of testimony to God's grace, as well as celebrations of His promise of healing and renewal. Sketches run from 3 to 7 minutes. ...
|  | Love and Sensual Poems for the Soul
Publication Date: June 14, 2000The book is filled with poems of sensual love. Words to encourage and elate the soul. ...
| | Poems of Boris Pasternak
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|  | Applemere Summer
Publication Date: January 1, 2006A heart-warming story about an innovative idea to save one family's business What more could she want? Jennie Pencarek is living next to her beloved Applemere House with her bookseller husband Richard and their children. But Jennie's life is turned upside down when she hears that Pencarek Books is in trouble. Bankruptcy looms until Jennie has a brilliant new idea ? a steam-powered travelling bookshop bus, which ploughs its way down the Kentish lanes to bring romance, mystery and the classics to people's doorsteps. ...
|  | The Canadian Postmodern: A Study of Contemporary English-Canadian Fiction (Studies in Canadian literature)
Publication Date: April 13, 1989| Series: Studies in Canadian literature This book studies the work of some of Canada's most prominent fiction writers in the context of postmodernism. Hutcheon shows that in Canada, this cultural phenomenon has not only found particularly fertile ground on which to develop but has also taken a distinctive form. She examines contemporary cultural theory and the writings of Margaret Atwood, Clark Blaise, George Bowering, Leonard Cohen, Timothy Findley, Jack Hodgins, Robert Kroetsch, Michael Ondaatje, Chris Scott, Susan Swan, Audrey Thomas, Aritha van Herk, and ...
|  | Plato and the Internet (Postmodern Encounters)
Publication Date: January 10, 1998We live in a knowledge economy. Competition now straddles the world, and competitive advantage will be produced from now on by knowledge and creativity. Acquiring and managing knowledge better has become a political imperative. And yet - what is knowledge? The arguments have changed little since Plato. Arguing against sceptics who claim we have no knowledge at all, philosophers have focused on knowledge of facts, on how to distinguish true knowledge from mere belief. But the knowledge economy is less interested in knowledge about facts as in know-how - the I...
|  | Introduction Au Surrealisme (French Edition)
Publication Date: October 29, 1971| ISBN-10: 0320063097 | ISBN-13: 978-0320063091Text in French. Softcover 5" X 8 3/4" 251 pages. ...
| | A Genealogy of the Modern Self: Thomas De Quincey and the Intoxication of Writing
Publication Date: August 1, 1995As this book's title suggests, its main argument is that Thomas De Quincey's literary output, which is both a symptom and an effect of his addictions to opium and writing, plays an important and mostly unacknowledged role in the development of modern and modernist forms of subjectivity. At the same time, the book shows that intoxication, whether in the strict medical sense or in its less technical meaning ("strong excitement," "trance," "ecstasy"), is central to the ways in which modernity, and literary modernity in particular, functions and defines itself. In...
|  | Destiny (Serendipity)
Release Date: January 3, 2012| Series: Serendipity (Book 2) Dear Readers,Welcome back to the town of Serendipity.DESTINY is the second in my contemporary romance series that I began in SERENDIPITY. In Destiny, you will learn more about the town of Serendipity, the Barron brothers, and the past they've tried so hard to run from ... and in some cases, to hide.. Like any other town, Serendipity has its secrets, scandals, pain, heartache and love, but there is also an implied promise of fortune and good luck, along with people at changes and crossroads in their lives.You already met Ethan ...
|  | The Scorpio Illusion
Release Date: June 1, 1994Amaya Bajaratt is beautiful, elusive, deadly—and she has set in motion a chilling conspiracy that a desperate government cannot stop. An accomplished assassin and mistress of disguise and deception, she has set in motion the boldest act of terrorism yet conceived.Tyrell Hawthorne was a navalintelligence officer—one of the best—until therainswept night in Amsterdam when his wife was murdered, an innocent victim of the games spies play.Since then he's been sailing charters in theislands. Now he's called out of retirement for one last assignment. For ...
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