| Mountain Breezes Publication Date: June 1, 1999| ISBN-10: 0875087892 | ISBN-13: 978-0875087894An anthology of most of the poetry of Amy Carmichael - 565 poems gathered from her published books. The untitled poems were given titles and all were arranged by the editors under seven major headings: Worship, Petition, Surrender, Ministry, Wartime, Encouragement and Youthful Thoughts. ...
| | Three Brides, No Groom Release Date: June 26, 2012Three women meet at their fifteen-year class reunion
and discover that their lives have taken unexpected directions.Back in their college days, Gretchen Wise had been engaged to a top law student. Carol Furness, head cheerleader, had said yes to the school's football hero. And Maddie Cobain was the girl who'd fallen for a professor.Now the three of them gather around a popular fountain on the college grounds. This fountain was where lovers met, where promises were made
and broken. So it's fitting that Gretchen, Carol and Maddie sit here to sha...
| | Texas Rich Release Date: March 12, 1987The first in Fern Michaels' best-selling Texas series, TEXAS RICH introduces us to passionately compelling Billie Ames. Young Billie was naive but a real knockout when she met Moss Coleman at the Philadelphia Navy Yard during World War II. Within a few months she was pregnant and married to him. It was a marriage that brought Billie--and her mother, Agnes--across the country to Austin, to a 250,000-acre spread called Sunbridge, and into the world of the Texas rich. ...
| | The Cat Publication Date: April 23, 2012In the distant future, a man downloads an ancient novel and instead of instantly transferring the novel into his brain, the man does something profound, he reads the text. As he reads the novel set in 1940s Townsville, he is involved in the story of Mr. Wilbur's immoral desires for Sam. 'The Cat' is perhaps Clarke's most daring novel: where innocence is betrayed, where reality is challenged, and where there is the possibility of moral redemption. ...
| | In the Sea There are Crocodiles: The True Story of Enaiatollah Akbari (Adult Edition) Release Date: August 6, 2012| Series: Adult Edition A bestseller in Italy, a beautiful, heartbreaking novel based on the true story of an Afghan boy's journey in search of safety.One night before putting him to bed, Enaiatollah's mother tells him three things: don't use drugs, don't use weapons, don't steal. The next day he wakes up to find she isn't there. They have fled their village in Ghazni to seek safety outside Afghanistan but his mother has decided to return home to her younger children. Ten-year-old Enaiatollah is left alone in Pakistan to fend for himself.In a book based on a true ...
| | A Modest Proposal: A Plan for the Golden Years (Melville Manifestos) Release Date: May 1, 2006| Series: Melville Manifestos In this scathingly funny satire, one of France’s leading philosophers observes that modern society is burdened by numerous questions of how to care for the elderly. How to pay for their staggering medical bills? How to ensure their conscientious treatment? How to simply house them all? It’s more than the resources of our culture can handle, says Régis Debray—and it’s making life difficult for everyone else. So, he makes a “modest proposal”….In the great tradition of the irreverent sat...
| | The Theatre of Apollo: Divine Justice and Sophocles' Oedipus the King Publication Date: September 1996Literary critics have consistently marginalized the role of Apollo in Sophocles' "Oedipus the King": some declare him to be inscrutable, others ignore him, and still others deny his existence altogether. In defiance of this long-standing critical consensus, this study offers a new interpretation of the play by arguing that Apollo brings about Oedipus' downfall as just punishment for his hubris. By recreating the play's original staging and debunking the interpretations of various critics, including Aristotle, Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, E.R. Dodds, Fre...
| | This Earth, That Sky: Poems (Latin American Literature and Culture) ...
| | El heroe y el cosmos (Literatura francesa) (Spanish Edition) ...
| | Touched with Fire: An Anthology of Poems Publication Date: May 1, 1985A collection of literature anthologies and reference books for Key Stage 3 onwards.This anthology has two main objectives: to introduce students to a wide range of poetry in English from the last 400 years, and to provide them with guidance on how to approach poetry examinations. The poems are divided into six collections, not by theme or by historical period, but as satisfying small anthologies of twenty-two poems each. Clear guidance is given on what is expected in an essay for a poetry examination, and actual answers are reproduced which help the student analy...
| | The Real Middle Earth: Exploring the Magic and Mystery of the Middle Ages, J.R.R. Tolkien, and "The Lord of the Rings" Release Date: October 7, 2004| ISBN-10: 1403966834 | ISBN-13: 978-1403966834J.R.R. Tolkien claimed that he based the land of Middle Earth on a real place. The Real Middle Earth brings alive, for the first time, the very real civilization in which those who lived had a vision of life animated by beings beyond the material world. Magic was real to them and they believed their universe was held together by an interlaced web of golden threads visible only to wizards. At its center was Middle Earth, a place peopled by humans, but imbued with spiritual power. It was a real realm that stretched...
| | The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child: Early Modern Times: Tests and Answer Key (Vol. 3)(Story of the World) Publication Date: September 17, 2007| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
| | Satan's Rhetoric: A Study of Renaissance Demonology Publication Date: September 1, 2001| ISBN-10: 0226501329 | ISBN-13: 978-0226501321| Edition: 1 According to Christian theology, fallen angels share key similarities with human beings because they share our outcast condition. Cast to Earth and wandering in search of respite, their chief activity is their engagement and dialogue with humanity.With this probing new contribution to the study of Christianity, Armando Maggi examines this dialogue, exploring how evil spirits interacted with mankind during the early modern period. Reading innumerable treatises on demonology written during the Re...
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| | Rising Moon (Nightcreature, Book 6) Release Date: January 2, 2007Denizens of The Big Easy know its steamy nights can hide any number of sins and secrets. Private-eye Anne Lockhart is counting on it. Her life has been in a holding pattern ever since her sister Katie disappeared without a trace…but when a clue leads Anne to a jazz club in the French Quarter, everything changes. Rising Moon's proprietor, John Rodolfo, is mysterious in his own right, a gifted musician who reaches deep into Anne's soul and whose mere presence taps into desires she can't afford to indulge... By going undercover at the Rising Moon, Anne c...
| | The Thief (The Queen's Thief, Book 1) Release Date: December 27, 2005| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up "I can steal anything." After Gen's bragging lands him in the king's prison, the chances of escape look slim. Then the king's scholar, the magus, needs the thief's skill for a seemingly impossible task -- to steal a hidden treasure from another land. To the magus, Gen is just a tool. But Gen is a trickster and a survivor with a plan of his own. ...
| | The World Series: All about Pro Baseball's Biggest Event (Sports Illustrated Kids: Winner Takes All) Publication Date: August 1, 2012 ...
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| | Two Dogs, an Emperor, and Me Publication Date: December 1999| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up A young boy recounts how two stray dogs and an eccentric man became famous residents of San Francisco in the 1860s. ...
| | Matilda Bone Release Date: March 12, 2002| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Orphaned Matilda is not at all pleased when she arrives at Blood and Bone Alley to become an assistant to Red Peg the Bonesetter. She is a religious, well-educated girl who can’t picture herself doing dirty chores or helping sickly patients. Each day is very different from her former quiet life. Matilda’s not used to being around so many people who are coming and going, laughing and eating. Not one of them seems interested in prayer or study. Self-centered Matilda thinks no one understands her. But Peg doe...
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