 | Joseph Anton: A Memoir
Release Date: September 18, 2012On February 14, 1989, Valentine’s Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been “sentenced to death” by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being “against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran.” So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced underground, moving from house to house, with the constant presence of an armed police protection team. He was asked to choose a...
 |  | Message From Nam
Release Date: April 2, 1991As a journalist, Paxton Andrews would experience Vietnam firsthand. We follow her from high school in Savannah to college in Berkeley and then to work in Saigon.For the soldiers she knew and met there, Viet Nam would change their lives in ways they could never have imagined. For the men in her life, Viet Nam would change their lives in ways hey could not escape or deny. Peter Wilson, fresh from law school, was a new recruit who would confont his fate in Da Nang. Ralph ...
|  | Barefoot Over Stones
Release Date: April 12, 2010What would it take to destroy your closest friendship? asks this enthralling debut novel about love, loss, and friendship by a sparkling new Irish writer Alison and Ciara meet at college in Dublin and soon become firm allies, sharing an apartment and facing the world together. Ciara is all that Alison aspires to be—sassy, confident, and fearless. Although their backgrounds could not be more different, they find solace and humor in each other’s company. That is, until gorgeous Dan Abernethy, a young medical student, enters their lives, and...
|  | Cutting Through
Publication Date: December 8, 2005A New York Times Bestselling Author The sweet core of every life is surrounded by many protective layers. In other words: getting to the good stuff means cutting through the . . . ! And for childhood friends Julia, Krissy and Laura, there's a lot to cut through! Each grew up with grandiose dreams of happily-ever-after, only to find that real life had another plan. They had grown apart - but now, in the fourth decade of their lives, a chance meeting brings them back together again. There's nothing like sisters-in-arms when a serious dose of reality is needed ...
|  | Little Wild Flower, Book 1
Publication Date: March 9, 2012Jane Abigail Reeves is Little Wild Flower.Raised as a city girl; in 1977, at the age of fifteen, her father moves Jane and her entire family to a farmhouse in the heart of a rural Amish community in Indiana as a respite for her alcoholic mother.Finding life on the farm more complicated than city life, Jane shuns herself from her family and neighbors, until she stumbles upon Elijah, the Amish boy next door.As she slowly ventures out of her comfort zone, she begins to mimic her family's acceptance of Amish living, and realizes it's a practical solution for squelc...
|  | Hi I'm a Social Disease: Horror Stories
Publication Date: January 17, 2012This collection of short stories by author Andersen Prunty features "Room 19", a post-apocalyptic nightmare based on Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' song "From Her to Eternity", appearing for the first time anywhere, and "Market Adjustment", about one man's battle with the wealthy, previously available only in a very limited edition. Also includes: "The Dust Season", "The Man With the Face Like a Bruise", "The Photographer", "The Night the Moon Made a Sound", and "The Funeralgoer." ...
|  | Odd Hours: An Odd Thomas Novel
Release Date: April 28, 2009#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Only a handful of fictional characters are recognized by first name alone. Dean Koontz’s Odd Thomas is one such literary hero, who has come alive in readers’ imaginations as he explores the greatest mysteries of this world and the next with his inimitable wit, heart, and quiet gallantry. Now Koontz follows Odd as he is drawn onward, to a destiny he cannot imagine. Haunted by dreams of an all-encompassing red tide, Odd is pulled inexorably to the sea, to a small California coastal town where nothing is as it seems. ...
|  | Levanter
Publication Date: April 23, 2012Michael Howell lives the good life in Syria, just three years after the Six Day War. He has several highly profitable business interests and an Italian office manager who is also his mistress. However, the discovery that his factories are being used as a base by the Palestine Action Force changes everything - he is in extreme danger with nowhere to run. ...
|  | Dhalte Saaye: Zindagi Naama (Urdu Edition)
Publication Date: October 20, 2006Autobiography of the known Urdu writer Muniruddin Ahmed. ...
|  | Green River Rising: A Novel
Publication Date: October 1994A relentless thriller is set in a penitentiary torn apart byvicious riots--just as Dr. Ray Klein wins his parole--forcing him tochoose between freedom and those he cares about, including the woman heloves. A first novel. 100,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo. Firstserial, Granta....
|  | Twenty Tellable Tales: Audience Participation Folktales for the Beginning Storyteller
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|  | Parting the Veil: The Art of Nene Thomas (Art Treatments Subjects)
Publication Date: July 1, 2005| Series: Art Treatments Subjects Parting the Veil is the first book dedicated to the art of Nene Tina Thomas. There are three editions of this book—a paperback, a hardcover, and a special leather-bound limited edition. ...
|  | Ten Centuries of Spanish Poetry: An Anthology in English Verse with Original Texts, from the 11th Century to the Generation of 1898
Publication Date: April 30, 1955 Ten Centuries of Spanish Poetry introduces readers to the dazzling array of poetry Spain has produced since the eleventh century. Editor Eleanor L. Turnbull has selected the best translations of each work or, if none were available, translated them herself. She also provides a concise introduction to each poet or genre that traces the evolution of Spanish literature. First published in 1955 under the guidance of Spanish poet, critic, and educator Pedro Salinas, this delightful collection begins with the earliest works of Spanish literature—simple songs...
|  | Re-Reading Sappho: Reception and Transmission (Classics and Contemporary Thought)
Publication Date: August 1999| Series: Classics and Contemporary Thought (Book 3) Re-Reading Sappho reflects the recent fascination with Sappho's "afterlife." The essays examine the changing interpretations of scholars and writers who have read the fragmentary remains of Sappho's poetry. As the contributors explore the ways that each generation creates its own Sappho, the Sapphic tradition itself becomes an index to changing sensibilities and cultural norms about sexuality, gender roles, and notions of fema le authorship.A legendary literary figure, Sappho has attracted readers, critics, and...
|  | George Eliot and Victorian Historiograph
Publication Date: July 25, 2000In this study of George Eliot's fiction, textual attempts to imagine a coherent and unified national past are seen as producing a contradictory vision of Englishness. It is a historiographical national identity, constructed in the image of predominant, and conflicting, trends in the Victorian writing of history. The inherent uncertainty caused by the shift between different perceptions of English history leads, in the later fiction, to an abandonment of contemporaneous grand narratives. The consequence is a history that anticipates a more modern, radical philos...
|  | Wicked Burn (Berkley Sensation)
Release Date: May 1, 2012| Series: Berkley Sensation He wanted all of her… Vic Savian knows what he wants when he sees it. And what he wants is his sexy neighbor, Niall Chandler. When he finds her in the hallway of their building being harassed by an aggressive suitor, Vic steps in—and finds himself greatly rewarded… And did she ever let him have it… Sleeping with her gorgeous neighbor—when she didn’t even know his last name—was the craziest thing Niall’s ever done. Now, she can’t seem to get enough of Vic, or what he st...
|  | Pursuit: An Inspector Espinosa Mystery (Inspector Espinosa Mysteries)
Release Date: January 24, 2006| Series: Inspector Espinosa Mysteries When his daughter disappears and a patient emerges as the prime suspect, a troubled psychiatrist comes to Espinosa for help, in the fifth novel in the beguiling Brazilian crime series A hospital psychiatrist feels he's being stalked by a young patient. For as long as possible, he convinces himself that the young man is harmless, but when the doctor's daughter disappears and the patient goes missing, too, he calls on Espinosa for help. Soon after, the patient turns up dead.With his death begins a chain of other deaths, eac...
|  | Ice Palace
Publication Date: October 20, 2003| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Every year a glittering palace made from blocks of ice rises several stories above the wintry landscape of Saranac Lake, New York. The workers who build the palace, which is the centerpiece of the annual winter carnival, come from the village and from a nearby prison, Camp Gabriels.Inspired by this real-life event and told in the voice of a young girl who lives nearby, the account of the preparation and creation of the palace and of the festive days that follow gains special poignancy from the fact that the narra...
|  | Alaskan Ice Climbing (US) (Footprint Reading Library: Level 1)
Publication Date: September 8, 2008| ISBN-10: 1424043956 | ISBN-13: 978-1424043958| Edition: 1 Many people visit Alaska to see the beautiful national parks. One group of visitors wants to fly into a national park and go skiing. However, the weather turns bad. Will the visitors be able to get to the park? What will they do there? ...
|  | Prehistoric Life (Discovery Box)
Publication Date: August 1997| Age Level: 6 and up...
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