 | Thunder and Rain: A Novel
Publication Date: April 3, 2012Third generation Texas Ranger Tyler Steele is the last of a dying breed-- a modern day cowboy hero living in a world that doesn't quite understand his powerful sense of right and wrong and instinct to defend those who can't defend themselves. Despite his strong moral compass, Ty has trouble seeing his greatest weakness. His hard outer shell, the one essential to his work, made him incapable of forging the emotional connection his wife Andie so desperately needed.Now retired, rasing their son Brodie on his own, and at risk of losing his ranch, Ty does not know h...
 |  | Swan Song (Felony & Mayhem Mysteries)
Release Date: October 15, 2006Hurrah! With the Nazi's routed, the British can sing Wagner again. The company assembled in Oxford for the first post-war production of Die Meistersinger is delighted, but their happiness is soured by word that the odious Edwin Shorthouse will be singing a leading role.Nearly everyone in the company has reason to loathe Shorthouse, but who could have had the feindish ingenuity to kill him in his own locked dressing room? Answering that question will require a certain finesse, a certain je ne sais quoi, a certain eccentric professor of English Literature with a p...
|  | Gypsy Pie
Publication Date: October 7, 2001Debra Crosby, a street-smart survivalist, finds herself thrown into a world she cannot fathom, and put on a quest that challenges her sense of reality. Debra and her unlikely partner, Renee, travel through an alternate universe to track down the leader of the 'Phagi, known as vampires in our world, to save him and their own reality from destruction. The girls' drastically opposing outlooks on and positions in life play heavily into the story and add an element of psychology to the book.Can two girls with so little in common, and so far from everything they kn...
|  | The Truelove (Vol. Book 15)(Aubrey/Maturin Novels)
Publication Date: May 17, 1992| Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels (Book 15) The fifteenth installment in Patrick O'Brian'swidely claimed series of Aubrey/Maturin novelsis in equal parts mystery, adventure, andpsychological drama.A British whaler has been captured by an ambitious chief in the sandwich islands at French instigation, and Captain Aubrey, R. N., Is dispatched with the Surprise to restore order. But stowed away in the cable-tier is an escaped female convict. To the officers, Clarissa Harvill is an object of awkward courtliness and dangerous jealousies. Aubrey himself is won over and i...
|  | Summertime: A Novel
Release Date: May 7, 2002For a year, Venetia Summers has been buffered from single motherhood by her boy-friend, David, but when work takes him to a Brazilian rain forest, things begin to unravel. Phone lines crackle, e-mails languish unanswered, and long-distance love proves to be a bewildering experience. Meanwhile, Venetia’s children and dogs run wilder than ever, brother Desmond’s outrageous wedding takes over her home, and her relationship with an eccentric new neighbor gets off to an unfortunate start. Still, there are the everyday rewards, not least among them the dazzling...
|  | Caleb's Crossing: A Novel
Release Date: May 3, 2011Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure.The narrator of Caleb's Crossing is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless and curious, she yearns after an education that is closed to her by her sex. As often as she can, sh...
|  | You Can't Keep Jesus In The Nativity Scene
Publication Date: January 1, 2001| ISBN-10: 0788018396 | ISBN-13: 978-0788018398You Can't Keep Jesus In The Nativity Scene is an exciting and inspirational Christmas pageant for congregations of any size. Two main characters (Ms. Arranger and Mr. Lost N. Foundit) converse about Jesus and where he can be found as various groups of children sing the message of the Christmas story. The characters (and the audience) come to the realization that Jesus is a real, living presence, not just a figurine in a nativity scene. Best of all, this is a practical, ready-to-use program that comes with a c...
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| | Aeschylus and Sophocles: Their Work and Influence
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|  | Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction
Release Date: September 2, 2008| ISBN-10: 1555975089 | ISBN-13: 978-1555975081Graywolf reissues one of its most successful essay collections with two new essays and a new foreword by Charles BaxterAs much a rumination on the state of literature as a technical manual for aspiring writers, Burning Down the House has been enjoyed by readers and taught in classrooms for more than a decade. Readers are rewarded with thoughtful analysis, humorous one-liners, and plenty of brushfires that continue burning long after the book is closed. ...
|  | Taming Natasha & Luring A Lady (Harlequin Special Releases)
Publication Date: January 1, 2008The first time single-father Spence Kimball set eyes on Natasha Stanislaski, he was floored by her exotic beauty. But the former ballet dancer turned toy shop owner had a fiery temperament that kept men safely at bay. Sensing a hidden wound, Spence and his little girl joined forces to find a way into her closely guarded heart. For Spence realized he'd do anything to tame Natasha's fears…and show her how to love.Luring a Lady Nothing in Sydney Hayward's background of wealth and privilege prepared her to take the helm of her family's corporation, and her n...
|  | Indefensible
Release Date: December 28, 2010When Elise Vanderzell plummets from her bedroom balcony one gorgeous summer night, her children awaken to a nightmare.Their mother is dead.Their father is charged with her murder.Lawyer Kate Lange knows all about nightmares. She's survived the darkest period of her troubled life and the wounds are still raw. Now she's been handed a case that seems utterly unwinnable: defending her boss, high-profile lawyer Randall Barrett. A prosecutor's dream suspect, Randall is a man who was cuckolded by his ex-wife. A man who could not control his temper. A man who had argue...
|  | Black Wings Has My Angel
Publication Date: June 30, 2011One of the best crime novels of the 50’s, and a sublime example of American Noir, is BLACK WINGS HAS MY ANGEL by Elliott Chaze, whose earlier war novel, THE STAINLESS STEEL KIMONO, was much admired by Ernest Hemmingway. Chaze took the standard dime store crime novel and turned it into an edgy piece of literature. His use of complex sentences, long descriptive passages, and characters who continue to surprise us throughout the narrative prove that the American crime novel was capable of greater depths.The story follows the turbulent love affair of a pair ...
|  | Prime Suspect (Prime Suspect (Harper))
Release Date: January 17, 2012| Series: Prime Suspect (Harper) (Book 1) The moment Jane Tennison takes over Scotland Yard's investigation into the death of sex worker Della Mornay, two grim facts become immediately clear to her. First, that the constabulary's old boy club is determined to hinder, harass, and undermine the new female Detective Chief Inspector at every turn. And second, that their murder victim isn't Della Mornay. Now the police are a step behind, and a madman is loose on the streets of London. To apprehend the criminal stalking women through the city's shadows, Tennison will ...
|  | Five Shots and a Funeral
Publication Date: November 1999| Series: Early Cases of Ben Drake Follow cigar-smoking, bourbon-drinking detectiveBen Drake as he returns in this collection of murder-packedmystery capers. Includes "The Silent Ventriloquist," Death Plays aFoul Game," A Cold-Blooded Kidnapping," "Midnight Train toNowhere," and the highly-anticipated case of "Raspberry Jack."Full-color cover and seven interior illustrations by Paul Pope. ...
|  | Dummy's Murder Between Hands and other mystery short stories: 12 Classical, Humorous, Satirical Mysteries
Publication Date: July 16, 2002A collection of 12, some new, some previously published satirical, and/or politically incorrect mysteries which will challenge your mind, tickle your funnybone, and shock your sensibilities.The judges of World Wide Writers' Contest comments as appearing in Writers' Forum regarding Dummy's Murder Between Hands, "A marvelously funny murder mystery in the classic Agatha Christie mold. The narrator is a kind of Lord Peter Wimsey who solves the murder and has his readers in stitches on the way a take-off of the classic murder mystery." ...
| | Dragonbreath #3: Curse of the Were-wiener
Release Date: November 8, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Where's the Baby?
Publication Date: May 1, 1996| Age Level: 2 and up...
|  | Straight Up
Publication Date: February 21, 2008Verity Drummond—florist by trade and a fantasist by nature—deals with the end of her marriage by writing Straight Up, a novel in which a man on a mountaineering expedition (bearing a striking resemblance to her ex) dies all alone in a hole in the ice, starving, wretched, and with his broken bones poking through his skin. Meanwhile in Hollywood, Jasmine and Patrice want to adapt Straight Up for the screen. When Verity goes to meet them, somehow, between the dead man on the mountain and her inability to admit that she's just another d...
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