 | Brunner and Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing (Two Volume Set) Twelfth Edition
Publication Date: 2010| ISBN-10: 0781785901 | ISBN-13: 978-0781785907| Edition: Twelfth, North American Edition, Two Volume Set Now in its 12th edition, Brunner and Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing is designed to assist nurses in preparing for their roles and responsibilities in the medical-surgical setting. This leading textbook focuses on physiological, pathophysiological, and psychosocial concepts as they relate to nursing care. Brunner is known for its strong Nursing Process focus and its readability. This edition retains these strengths and incorporates enhanced visua...
 |  | Our Nig: or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (Vintage)
Release Date: December 20, 2011| Series: Vintage With a New Introduction and Notes by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Richard J. EllisA fascinating fusion of two literary models of the nineteenth century, the sentimental novel and the slave narrative, Our Nig, apart from its historical significance, is a deeply ironic and highly readable work, tracing the trials and tribulations of Frado, a mulatto girl abandoned by her white mother after the death of the child's black father, who grows up as an indentured servant to a white family in nineteenth-century Massachusetts.This definitive edition of Ou...
|  | Running with the Demon (Word and the Void)
Release Date: May 1, 2007| Series: Word and the Void Twenty years ago, Terry Brooks turned fantasy fiction on its head with The Sword of Shannara, the first fantasy novel to make the mainstream bestseller lists, and the first in an unbroken string of thirteen bestselling books. Now, in Running with the Demon, Brooks does nothing less than revitalize fantasy fiction again, inventing the complex and powerful new mythos of the Word and the Void, good versus evil still, but played out in the theater-in-the-round of the "real world" of our present. On the hottest Fourth of July weekend ...
|  | The Sight of the Stars
Release Date: November 23, 2004New York Times bestselling author Belva Plain beguiles us once again with a novel that explores the bonds that sustain families—and the lies that can shatter them forever.Sweeping through the pivotal events of twentieth-century America, The Sight of the Stars chronicles four generations of one remarkable family as they journey through years of love, loss, sacrifice, and unimaginable betrayal.Dressed in a brand-new suit, with one hundred and fifty dollars in his pocket, Adam Arnring says good-bye to his family and boards a train for the fabled West. The ye...
|  | Night Over Water
Publication Date: July 3, 2012On a bright September morning in 1939, two days after Britain declares war on Germany, a group of privileged but desperate people gather in Southhampton to board the largest, most luxurious airliner ever built - the Pan American Clipper - bound for New York. The passengers include a fascist English aristocrat fleeing with his family and a fortune in jewels; a German scientist escaping from the Nazis; a murderer under FBI escort; a beautiful young woman heading for a new life; and a handsome, charming, unscrupulous thief. They will be in the air for thirty hours,...
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|  | The Mahabharata
Publication Date: April 15, 1997| ISBN-10: 0231110553 | ISBN-13: 978-0231110556| Edition: Rev Sub Intended to be a treatise on life itself, this epic poem embraces religion and ethics, polity and government, philosophy and the pursuit of salvation. This collection of more than 4,000 verses is supplemented by a glossary, genealogical tables, and an index correlating the verses with the original Sanskrit text. ...
|  | Christpower
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|  | The Cambridge Companion to the Epic (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Publication Date: May 24, 2010| Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature Every great civilisation from the Bronze Age to the present day has produced epic poems. Epic poetry has always had a profound influence on other literary genres, including its own parody in the form of mock-epic. This Companion surveys over four thousand years of epic poetry from the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh to Derek Walcott's postcolonial Omeros. The list of epic poets analysed here includes some of the greatest writers in literary history in Europe and beyond: Homer, Virgil, Dante, Camões, Spenser, Milton,...
|  | Diwan of Abu'l-Ala
Publication Date: May 31, 19421915. An effort has been made to render in this book some of the poems of Abu'l-Ala the Syrian who was born 973 years before Jesus Christ and some forty-four before Omar Khayyam.But the life of such a man could not be told within the space at our command; it will, with other of his poems, form the subject of a separate volume. ...
|  | Art Poetique (Poesie/Gallimard) (French Edition)
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|  | Dirges for My Homeland: A collection of war and other poems
Publication Date: May 12, 2004Dirges for my homeland is a collection of poems inspired by the experiences of the author with the Liberian civil war and his life as a refugee in the diaspora. Saah's poems on war are chillingly powerful, poignant and moving. He uses his work to promote peace and reconciliation among his fellow Liberians and other war-affected populations. He writes passionately about his experiences in the Liberian civil war, as well as about his hopes and dreams for peacetime Liberia. Saah writes with flare and simplicity that transports his readers to scenes of his experienc...
|  | British Artists and the Modernist Landscape (British Art and Visual Culture Since 1750 New Readings) (British Art and Visual Culture Since 1750 New Readings)
Publication Date: November 2003| ISBN-10: 0754600734 | ISBN-13: 978-0754600732In this detailed study of the landscapes and rural scenes of Britain and France made by artists like George Clausen, Philip Wilson Steer, Augustus John, Laura Knight, J.D. Fergusson and Spencer Gore, Ysanne Holt investigates the imaginary geographies behind the pictures and reconsiders the relationship between national identity, "Englishness" and the native landscape. Combining close investigation of important works with a broader enquiry into the appeal of the Mediterranean for an age preoccupied with cultural...
|  | If the Dead Rise Not (Bernie Gunther Novels)
Release Date: March 18, 2010| Series: Bernie Gunther NovelsAn instant classic in the Bernie Gunther series, with storytelling that is fresher and more vivid than ever.Berlin, 1934: The Nazis have secured the 1936 Olympiad for the city but are facing foreign resistance. Hitler and Avery Brundage, the head of the U.S. Olympic Committee, have connived to soft-pedal Nazi anti- Semitism and convince America to participate. Bernie Gunther, now the house detective at an upscale Berlin hotel, is swept into this world of international corruption and dangerous double-dealing, caught between the wa...
|  | Robin Cook : Three Complete Novels : Outbreak ; Mortal Fear ; Mutation
Release Date: September 15, 1993The bizarre and deadly world of high-tech medicine run amok comes alive in a trio of Cook's best-selling horror tales--Outbreak, Mortal Fear, and Mutation....
|  | Follow Me Down
Publication Date: June 7, 2011It begins with an envelope. Twenty years old, maybe more, with the dust of the dead-letter office still clinging to the stained, fraying paper. It arrives in the mailbox of Lucy with the address of a vacant neighborhood lot barely legible on the front. Inside she finds only a photograph of a man she does not recognize, but whose face captivates her instantly. She hunts for him, feeling for blind answers in the boroughs of her soul and city. The details of her world — of a neighborhood decaying and maimed in daylight, yet pulsing with some hidden life in dar...
| | The Last Camel Died at Noon (Amelia Peabody Mysteries)
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|  | Traitor (2099)
Publication Date: January 2000| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | The Gorgons Gaze # 2 (Companions Quartet)
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| | Quarterback Crisis (Zach Riley)
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