 | The Lost Daughter
Release Date: March 1, 2008"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones From the author of The Days of Abandonment, The Lost Daughter is Elena Ferrante's most compelling and perceptive meditation on womanhood and motherhood yet. Leda, a middle-aged divorce, is alone for the first time in years when her daughters leave home to live with their father. Her initial, unexpected sense of liberty turns to ferocious introspection following a seemingly trivial occurrence. Ferrante's language is as finely tuned and intense as ever, and she treats her theme wi...
 |  | Forbidden (The Books of Mortals)
Release Date: September 13, 2011| Series: The Books of Mortals Fleeing pursuit, with only moments to live, a young man named Rom stumbles into possession of a vial of blood and a piece of cryptic writing. When consumed, the blood will bring him back to life. When decoded, the message will lead him on a perilous journey that will require him to abandon everything he has ever known and awaken humanity to the transforming power of true life and love. But the blood will also resurrect hatred, ambition, and greed at terrible risk. The first book in a thrilling series set in a desolate future, FOR...
|  | Calibur
Publication Date: June 5, 2012Free falling. One of the most extreme sports in the world. Well, both worlds actually. Anyway, below me, I could see herrather, the speck I assumed to be her. I wanted to scream, but no one would have been able to hear me. My ship was a thousand feet above me, and she was just as equally far below me. ...
|  | If Looks Could Kill
Release Date: October 15, 1992When murders, seemingly taken from the pages of her own books, begin occuring, best-selling author Chris Jackson relies on a burned-out ex-cop to keep her from becoming the next victim. Reprint. ...
|  | Wiregrass Country: A Florida Pioneer Story (Pioneer Series of Westerns , No 1) (Cracker Western)
Publication Date: September 1, 1998| Series: Cracker Western It is 1835 in the rugged frontier of the Florida Territory - known as "wiregrass country" from the wild grass found there. Treff Ballowe and his adopted family, the Dovers, are struggling to keep Three Springs Ranch thriving under threat of rustlers and renegade Indians. Ace and Amaly Dover moved to Florida in 1816 and managed to withstand the subtropical weather, insects, and wild animals to accumulate a large herd of beef cattle. Now the family is being further tested as another Seminole War is brewing, and outlaws are on the ris...
|  | Charlotte Street: A Novel
Release Date: October 23, 2012 Jason Priestley (no, not that Jason Priestley) is in a rut. He gave up his teaching job to write snarky reviews of cheap restaurants for the free newspaper you take but don't read. He lives above a video-game store, between a Polish newsstand and that place that everyone thinks is a brothel but isn't. His most recent Facebook status is "Jason Priestley is . . . eating soup." Jason's beginning to think he needs a change. So he uncharacteristically moves to help a girl on the street who's struggling with an armload of packages, and she smiles an incredible smil...
|  | Kensuke's Kingdom
Publication Date: September 1, 2007| ISBN-10: 1854599690 | ISBN-13: 978-1854599698Hugely popular dramatization of hugely popular story. ...
|  | Prayer Book Parallels Voulme 2 (pbk)
Publication Date: January 1, 2000The two volumes of Prayer Book Parallels are aids to the study of the development of the American book from as many points of view as possible. They include liturgical texts and related historical documents. Volume One contains the texts of the public services of the American Church arranged in parallel columns--from the colonial period to the present--to enable comparative study. The two volumes are of great value to seminarians, clergy, church historians, and anyone interested in the development of the present Prayer Book. ...
|  | High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006
Release Date: May 29, 2007 No other writer can match the impressive oeuvre of Joyce Carol Oates. High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006 gathers short fiction from the acclaimed author's seminal collections and includes eleven new tales that further demonstrate the breathtaking artistry and striking originality of an incomparable talent who "has imbued the American short story with an edgy vitality and raw social surfaces" (Chicago Tribune)....
|  | A Poet to His Beloved: The Early Love Poems of William Butler Yeats
Release Date: April 3, 2007As a young man, William Butler Yeats was deeply affected by the idea of romantic love, or, as he called it, "the old high way of love." Characteristically, much of his early poetry that which was written prior to 1910, is poetry that belongs to courtship.When Yeats was twenty-three years old, he met and fell in love with the beautiful Irish nationalist, Maud Gonne. Although she repeatedly refused to marry Yeats, Maud would become the object of his passion and his poetry. The emotional power in many of Yeats' early poems is shaped by the one-sidedness of his affair ...
|  | Ballads of Irish chivalry: Songs and poems
Publication Date: 1872This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition....
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|  | Confessions of a Wall Street Shoeshine Boy: A Novel
Release Date: June 24, 2008 Brazilian-born Gil is trying to find the American Dream. In the meantime, he polishes the shoes of the superrich and powerful on Wall Street—high-rolling traders as uninhibited as they are ruthless. Gil sees things as few other people do—from the ground up—and his perspective on the day-to-day insanity of the trading floor is priceless. But this fly on the wall overhears one or two things that maybe he shouldn't. And when a Glossy magazine journalist, desperate for a big break, persuades him to be an undercover source for what may be the biggest ...
|  | Blue Heaven
Release Date: June 23, 2009“A nonstop thrill ride.” —Harlan Coben A twelve-year-old girl and her younger brother are on the run in the Idaho woods, pursued by four men they have just watched commit murder—four men who know exactly who William and Annie are. And where their mother lives. “Grade ‘A’ . . . don’t miss it.” —Rocky Mountain NewsRetired policemen from Los Angeles, the killers easily persuade the local sheriff to let them lead the search for the missing children. Now there’s nowhere left for William and Ann...
|  | Peter and the Starcatchers
Release Date: April 25, 2006| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Spider-Man: Menace of the Molten Man
Release Date: December 22, 2009| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Dragons Realm
Publication Date: December 22, 2007Childrens fantasy of dragons , faries , unicorns and the hidden world of Draqgons Realm. Enter the creature man and you have a mix for fighting, control of the world and the finial battle for Dragons Realm ...
|  | DK Classics: King Arthur (DK Classics)
Publication Date: June 1, 1998| Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Jonathan Park: The Winds of Change (Jonathan Park Radio Drama)
Publication Date: October 17, 2005| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Pilgrims of Promise (Journey of Souls, No. 3)
Publication Date: July 6, 2005Unsuccessful in their mission to reach Jerusalem and to rescue her from Islam, Wil and a band of children begin the journey back home. They have endured starvation, disease, and the horrors of watching their young comrades die or be killed on their pilgrimage.Where was God? Why did the Church not prevent such a misadventure? Vivid and haunting, the final book in this trilogy reveals some of humanity's most atrocious acts toward the innocent, and yet simultaneously some of the greatest kindness. It is strangely not all that different from today.Download the Reade...
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