 | A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Release Date: August 5, 2008This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came throug...
 |  | Bachelors Anonymous (The Collector's Wodehouse)
Release Date: August 16, 2012| Series: The Collector's Wodehouse The Collector's Wodehouse series continues --three more sparkling classics from the master of hijinks and social comedy P. G. Wodehouse is recognized as the greatest English comic writer of the twentieth century. Launched on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death, each Overlook Wodehouse is the finest edition of the master's work ever published.Much-married American movie mogul Ivor Llewellyn depends on his friends at Bachelors Anonymous to keep him out of romantic entanglements. But when devoted bachelor Trout takes it upon...
|  | Monarch Beach
Release Date: June 19, 2012Anita Hughes' Monarch Beach is an absorbing debut novel about one woman’s journey back to happiness after an affair splinters her perfect marriage and life—what it means to be loved, betrayed and to love again. When Amanda Blick, a young mother and kindhearted San Francisco heiress, finds her gorgeous French chef husband wrapped around his sous-chef, she knows she must flee her life in order to rebuild it. The opportunity falls into her lap when her (very lovable) mother suggests Amanda and her young son, Max, spend the summer with her at the St. R...
|  | The Book of Summers
Release Date: May 29, 2012For nine-year-old Beth Lowe, it should have been a magical summer-sun-kissed days lounging in rickety deck chairs, nights gathered around the fire. But what begins as an innocent vacation to Hungary ends with the devastating separation of her parents. Beth and her father return home alone, leaving her mother, Marika, behind. Over the next seven summers, Beth walks a tightrope between worlds, fleeing her quiet home and distant father to bask in the intoxicating Hungarian countryside with Marika. It is during these enthralling summers that Beth comes to lif...
|  | Handle with Care: A Novel
Release Date: September 15, 2009 Things break all the time. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Promises break. Hearts break.Every expectant parent will tell you that they don't want a perfect baby, just a healthy one. Charlotte and Sean O'Keefe would have asked for a healthy baby, too, if they'd been given the choice. Instead, their lives are made up of sleepless nights, mounting bills, the pitying stares of "luckier" parents, and maybe worst of all, the what-ifs. What if their child had been born healthy? But it's all worth it because Willow is, well, funny as it seems, perfect. She's...
|  | Wedding Belles
Release Date: September 2, 2008The New York Times bestselling author of The Red Hat Club fearlessly takes on mothers and daughters, wedding madness, and midlife passion in this frank, funny, and fabulous new novel.Georgia, Linda, Diane, Teeny, and Pru have been best friends since high school, and never have they needed one another more. Georgia’s precious twenty-eight-year-old daughter, Callie, has gone and gotten engaged. Usually this would be cause for celebration. After all, this is the South, where dreams of white dresses and wedding bells are as important as finding the perfect ha...
|  | The Seat Beside Me
Release Date: June 1, 2006That strange, snoring, legroom-invading person next to you on the airplane -- have you ever imagined owing your life to him? Nancy Moser tells the gripping story of five passengers and their seatmates who get casually acquainted -- then plunge headlong into an icy river in a sudden plane crash. The moments that follow are more intense than any they have ever lived, changing the way the passengers see God and the meaning of life itself. This book reveals the eternal impact a brief interaction can have and the drastic measures it takes for some to reexamine their soul...
|  | A Flickering Light (Portraits of the Heart, Book 1)
Release Date: April 14, 2009Returning to her Midwest roots, award-winning author Jane Kirkpatrick draws a page from her grandmother's photo album to capture the interplay between shadow and light, temptation and faith that marks a woman's pursuit of her dreams.She took exquisite photographs, but her heart was the true image exposed. Fifteen-year-old Jessie Ann Gaebele loves nothing more than capturing a gorgeous Minnesota landscape when the sunlight casts its most mesmerizing shadows. So when F.J. Bauer hires her in 1907 to assist in his studio and darkroom, her dreams for a career in photog...
|  | Beasts of No Nation: A Novel (P.S.)
Release Date: August 15, 2006| Series: P.S.In this stunning debut novel, Agu, a young boy in an unnamed West African nation, is recruited into a unit of guerrilla fighters as civil war engulfs his country. Haunted by his father's own death at the hands of militants, Agu is vulnerable to the dangerous yet paternal nature of his new commander. While the war rages on, Agu becomes increasingly divorced from the life he had known before the conflict started—a life of school friends, church services, and time with his family still intact. In a powerful, strikingly original voice that vivi...
|  | Preacher's Fury (The First Mountain Man)
Release Date: January 1, 2012| Series: The First Mountain Man In the Montana Territory, a band of Assiniboine Indians give Preacher shelter for the winter, and a beautiful woman named Raven's Wing makes the sheltering even better - once preacher gets things straight with a jealous brave who wants to lift his scalp. Across the border is another wanderer and another tribe. Preacher's old enemy, Willie Deaver, plies a band of Indians with the deadliest combination possible: whisky, guns and bullets - then directs them to try out their killing tools on the Assiniboine. The raid reaps a harvest o...
|  | The World and Other Places: Stories
Release Date: June 20, 2000With language as dazzling as the wondrous visionary landscapes they evoke, these seventeen works transport the reader to worlds in which sleep is illegal, the lives of lonely department store clerks are transformed by fairies, the rich wear coal jewelry on an island of diamonds, and the living laminate their dead. Here is a universe where rooms go missing, women give birth to their lovers, and the young contemplate God's creative powers through pet tortoises. ...
|  | Hermes: Guide of Souls (Dunquin Series)
Release Date: March 1, 1996| Series: Dunquin Series (Book 24) Translated by Murray Stein ...
|  | The Poetry of Greek Tragedy
Publication Date: March 20, 2003Is Sophocles the poet "more important" than Sophocles the moralist, Sophocles the student of character, or Sophocles the storyteller? In this acclaimed work, eminent classicist Richmond Lattimore examines the complex and varied ways in which Greek poetry contributes to Greek drama. While acknowledging the difficulty of separating poetry—especially in translation—from other aspects of language, Lattimore offers keen insight into plays by Aeschylus ( The Suppliant Maidens,The Persians,The Seven against Thebes,Prometheus Bound), Sophocles ( Ajax,Oed...
|  | Volpone: Based on the Elizabethan Classic by Ben Jonson
Publication Date: December 1, 2011Based on the Elizabethan classic by Ben Jonson! Volpone is a greedy, miserly, old man who lives for excess. He wants everything he sees and he won't be statisfied until he has it all! But what happens when he takes it too far? Find out in this great modern text version that'll have audiences rolling in the floor with laughter! Check out www.blackboxtheatrepublishing.com for more great plays!!! ...
|  | Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: A Reading Guide (Reading Guides to Long Poems)
Publication Date: July 26, 2011| Series: Reading Guides to Long Poems Designed for students who are new to Spenser's masterpiece, as well as for instructors who seek strategies for teaching it, this guide offers an innovative introduction toThe Faerie Queene and its complex construction. Through a representative selection of excerpts from the poem, Andrew Zurcher lays out the skills and interpretive methods students will need to absorb key themes and techniques. He includes relevant contexts and related texts, which not only enhance the reading experience for newcomers but also help develop ...
|  | James Joyce and the Mythology of Modernism
Publication Date: November 30, 2007James Joyce and the Mythology of Modernism examines anew how myth exists in Joyce's fiction. Using Joyce's idiosyncratic appropriation of the myths of Catholicism, this study explores how the rejected religion still acts as a foundational aesthetic for a new mythology of the Modern age starting with A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and maturing within Ulysses. Like the mythopoets before him-Homer, Dante, Milton, Blake-Joyce consciously sets out to encapsulate his vision of a splintered and rapidly changing reality into a new aesthetic which alone is ...
|  | Ariel
Publication Date: 1988| ISBN-10: 0292703961 | ISBN-13: 978-0292703964| Edition: 1 First published in 1900 Uruguay, Ariel is Latin America's most famous essay on esthetic and philosophical sensibility, as well as its most discussed treatise on hemispheric relations. Though Rodó protested the interpretation, his allegorical conflict between Ariel, the lover of beauty and truth, and Caliban, the evil spirit of materialism and positivism, has come to be regarded as a metaphor for the conflicts and cultural differences between Latin America and the United States. Generations of statesm...
|  | Los hijos de los dias (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: April 16, 2012Sabia usted... ... que el episodio mas popular del catecismo catolico, Adan y Eva mordiendo la manzana, en la Biblia no figura? ... que el griego Eratostenes midio la cintura del mundo, hace dos mil trescientos anos, y se equivoco en noventa kilometros? ... que Aristoteles escribio sobre la mujer que es un hombre incompleto , y Santo Tomas de Aquino, que es un error de la naturaleza ? ... que hasta 1990 la homosexualidad fue una enfermedad mental, segun la Organizacion Mundial de la Salud? ... que al entierro de Karl Marx acudieron solo once personas, contando...
|  | Western Weddings: Rocky Mountain Bride\Shotgun Vows\Springville Wife (Harlequin Historical)
Publication Date: May 1, 2008| Series: Harlequin Historical (Book 895) Rocky Mountain Bride by Jillian Hart Savannah Knowles arrives in Montana expecting to marry Nate Brooks, but he has never heard of her! Can this quiet man find room in his heart for lonely Savannah? Shotgun Vows by Kate Bridges Milly Thornbottom has a crush on Mountie Weston Williams, and one stolen kiss changes their lives! After they’re marched straight to the altar, can her crush possibly develop into more? Springville Wife by Charlene Sands Grace Lander returns to Springville to pick up the pieces of her life a...
|  | Case of Spirits: A Sergeant Cribb Investigation (Sergeant Cribb Investigations)
Release Date: September 1, 2009| Series: Sergeant Cribb Investigations The spiritualist movement has captivated a segment of society: manifestations, the occult, and “sensitives” are in vogue. But the séance sites seem to be targeted for burglaries. Then, while Cribb is on the case, someone murders the medium. ...
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