 | Queen of America: A Novel
Publication Date: December 4, 2012At turns heartbreaking, uplifting, fiercely romantic, and riotously funny, QUEEN OF AMERICA tells the unforgettable story of a young woman coming of age and finding her place in a new world. Beginning where Luis Alberto Urrea's bestselling The Hummingbird's Daughter left off, QUEEN OF AMERICA finds young Teresita Urrea, beloved healer and "Saint of Cabora," with her father in 1892 Arizona. But, besieged by pilgrims in desperate need of her healing powers, and pursued by assassins, she has no choice but to flee the borderlands and embark on an extraordinary j...
 |  | Teaching with the Norton Anthology of English Literature : A Guide for Instructors ( Sixth Ediition, Volumes 1 and 2 )
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|  | Rain
Publication Date: April 6, 2011Winner Literary Fiction category at the 2011 National Indie Excellence Awards, and silver medalist at the 2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) in the Regional Fiction: Australia/New Zealand category. Set in provincial Australia in the early sixties, Rain is a multigenerational family saga that chronicles the lives of three generations of the Wallin sawmilling dynasty. It explores the often difficult but enduring ties between mothers and daughters, men and women: the sacrifices, compromises, and patterns of emotion that repeat themselves thro...
|  | City of Ghosts: A Novel
Publication Date: March 2003A Sweeping Romantic Adventure begins when Isabel Grady marries her best friend Anna's lover and follows him halfway around the world to the inhospitable mountains of Nepal. Now, living in a ruined palace, with a husband who disappears for weeks at a time, Isabel struggles to make a new life for herself. But when Isabel learns that a visit from Anna is only months away, suddenly it seems that at every turn her ancient surroundings -- and her own past -- threaten to crush her hopes for the future.Isabel's new environment mirrors the tensions and passions of her marr...
|  | Spine Chilling Tales of Horror:A Caedmon Collection CD
Publication Date: September 1, 2002A collection of classic tales of horror from the Caedmon Collection. Includes:The Spectral Ship by Wilhelm Hauff, Performed by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving, Performed by Ed Begley The Monkey's Paw and The Interuption by W.W. Jacobs, performed by Anthony Quayle The Ghost Ship by Thomas Moore, Performed by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Bernice by Edgar Allan Poe, Performed by Vincent Price Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Performed by James Mason The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Lewis Stevenson, Performe...
|  | A Dictionary of Omens and Superstitions
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|  | Heroes, Gods & Emperors from Roman Mythology (The World Mythology Series)
Publication Date: May 1992| Series: The World Mythology Series Discusses life in ancient Rome and presents the myths that civilization has bequeathed us. ...
|  | Gender and History in Yeats's Love Poetry (Irish Studies)
Publication Date: April 1996| Series: Irish Studies This first full-length feminist treatment of Yeats shows how his experience of changes in the balance of power between men and women led him to expand the formal possibilities of love poetry. As a white, male, middle-class, Protestant citizen of the British Empire, with an acknowledged debt to canonical English writers, Yeats belonged to the dominant tradition. As a colonised Irishman, however, he was acutely conscious of repression and exclusion. Detailed examination of Yeats's work in the context of the formal conventions of love poetry a...
| | The New Dialectic: Conversational Contexts of Argument (Toronto Studies in Philosophy)
Publication Date: June 1998| ISBN-10: 0802041434 | ISBN-13: 978-0802041432Because Developments In Informal Logic Have Been Based, For The Most Part, on idealized and abstract models, the tools available for argument analysis are not easily adapted to the needs of everyday argumentation. In this book Douglas Walton proposes a new and practical approach to argument analysis based on his theory that different standards for argument must apply in the case of different types of dialogue.By refining and extending the existing formal classifications of dialogue, Walton shows that each dialogue ...
|  | General Jack's Diary, 1914-18 (Cassell Military Paperbacks)
Publication Date: November 1, 2001| Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 Captain J. L. Jack was serving with the First Cameronians, one of the earliest British regiments to arrive in France.Almost every day while serving in France and Flanders, Jack kept a secret diary.This diary is unique.It presents the detail of a regular officer's life at war during virtually the whole of the First World War on the Western Front.Jack was witness not only to the horror and wretchedness of much that happened in the trenches but also to the bravery and spirit th...
|  | Killing Johnny Fry: A Sexistential Novel
Release Date: December 26, 2007“A frankly pornographic novel, and I mean that as a compliment.”—New York Times Book Review When Cordell Carmel catches his longtime girlfriend with another man, the act that he witnesses seems to dissolve all the boundaries he knows. He wants revenge, but also something more. Killing Johnny Fry is the story of Cordell’s dark, funny, soulful, and outrageously explicit sexual odyssey in search of a new way of life. It marks new territory for the bestselling author of Devil in a Blue Dress and countless other books; it will surprise, provo...
|  | Beyond the Pale (The Darkwing Chronicles, Book 1) (Bk. 1)
Release Date: June 7, 2005The government knows that Daphne Urban is a vampire, and they have an ultimatum: spy for them, or be killed. The choice is easy. She can speak 13 languages, has a genius IQ, and has escaped detection for nearly five hundred years-making herperfect for Team Darkwing. Her first mission is to get close to Bonaventure, a shady arms dealer with an unexpected gift for seduction. But when Darius, a darkly sexy vampire slayer, begins chasing her, Darius is torn between desire and duty. For his lithe, young prey is also his ultimate temptation. ...
|  | Secrets of Seacliff House
Publication Date: June 29, 2012For the past twenty-seven years, Kayla Grayson's mother has refused to discuss Kayla's absent father or explain why the two of them have been alone in the world without relatives.A mysterious email sends Kayla to a Maryland beach town and her grandmother's home, Seacliff House.There, Kayla hopes to discover who she is and why her past has been shrouded in mystery. When Tanner Bishop discovers an old diary among his grandfather's possessions, his interest is piqued.Some of the entries speak of Pearl, a young woman who abandoned her son and fled Maine for Marylan...
|  | Deadly Laws
Publication Date: October 15, 2007Third-year law student Kayla Beck receives a chilling telephone call. A stranger has chosen her to be the rescuer of a woman he has abducted. Kayla can either attempt to rescue the woman and possibly save her life or she can ignore the call and never be bothered again. If she disregards the call, however, no one else will get a similar opportunity. The woman will die. What happens next catapults both Kayla and Denver homicide detective Bryson Coventry into a deadly world where the FBI has been hunting unsuccessfully for years; a world of unknown boundaries a...
|  | A Terrifying Taste of Short & Shivery: Thirty Creepy Tales
Publication Date: September 8, 1998| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Detective Dinosaur (I Can Read Book 2)
Release Date: January 17, 1998| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | 1000 Stickers for Girls
Publication Date: October 1, 2009| Age Level: 3 and up...
|  | At the Firefly Gate
Release Date: December 9, 2008| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Henry has always felt like an outsider and things are about to get worse when his family moves to the countryside and the prospect of a new school looms. He retreats more and more into his shell, until he meets Dottie, a frail old lady, who has tremendous spirit. He feels as though he knows her, as though they have been friends for many years. And as she tells him about her wartime romance with a Royal Air Force navigator also named Henry, our Henry is drawn into that world. In a series of mysterious, sometimes frig...
|  | Mario's Mayan Journey
Publication Date: September 1997| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up Mario awoke with a start, and when he went outside, two Mayan children were waiting for him. Join Mario and his friends as they explore the land of the ancient Maya. Full color. ...
|  | Adventure Bible, Revised, NIV
Publication Date: November 1, 2000| Age Level: 9 and up In The Adventure Bible, kids 8---12 will discover the treasure of God's Word. Filled with great adventures and exciting features, The Adventure Bible opens a fresh new encounter with Scripture for kids, especially at a time when they are trying to develop their own ideas and opinions independent of their parents. Look for these in-text features, designed to spark curiosity: * 'Life in Bible Times' helps kids understand what it was like to live in Bible times. For visual appeal, each box includes a color picture. * 'People in Bible Times...
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