 | In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
Release Date: May 1, 2012“Larson is a marvelous writer...superb at creating characters with a few short strokes.”—New York Times Book Review Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, the bestselling author of Devil in the White City turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history. A mild-manne...
 |  | Hand of the Morning Star, Vol. 6: Allegiance
Release Date: August 6, 2009The world watches as super-powered beings clash in battle. But only time will reveal whether those who serve the elusive Morningstar, said to be a wise and powerful heavenly creature, fight for the cause of good or evil. Loyalty gets rewarded ... with death.As war wreaks violence on the peoples of the earth, the Tempest struggles to keep collateral damage to a minimum. The tide of battle turns when the Morningstar unleashes his fiery power, but the world begins to wonder whether his victory will usher in peace and justice, or global tyranny ...
|  | Life After Life
Publication Date: November 6, 2009Kendel wanted to find her biological family, but there was a slight problem.She was already dead, and had been living in paradise for almost 140 years.However, she had been instructed to go to LandsEnd and work with John Collins, but the work involved going back into a very unsafe world and convincing already dead people to choose to live in paradise.Which was okay, until one dark night she was mugged and ended up with partial amnesia.Knowing your own name is a plus, but not having any idea where you were for the last few years (plus a hundred) is a signific...
|  | The Dawn Country (People of the Longhouse, Book 2)
Release Date: November 29, 2011The epic tale that began in People of the Longhouse continues in this second book of the thrilling new Iroquois quartet by bestselling authors and archaeologists Kathleen O’Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear. War Chief Koracoo and Deputy Gonda of the Standing Stone People have successfully rescued their children, Odion and Tutelo, from Gannajero the Trader. Known as the Crow, Gannajero is a figure out of nightmare—a witch who steals children. Odion’s friend Wrass is still held captive, along with several other children, in Gannajero’s camp, a...
|  | Abide With Me (Unabridged)
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|  | Wide Open
Release Date: June 5, 2012Based on actual events, this is the epic story of Abilene, Kansas, at a time when the cowboy was king, might made right, and the future seemed as unsettled as the endless prairie.Abilene, 1871. Will Merritt is fiercely protective of the cattle trade that made his father’s fortune. Idolizing the cowboys who flood the streets each summer, Will and his friends are drawn to Abilene’s exotic Texastown district—a powderkeg of saloons and brothels so notorious that the mayor has hired the West’s most famous gunman, Wild Bill Hickok, to police its ...
|  | The History and Mystery of the Menger Hotel
Publication Date: June 1, 2000This is the definitive account of a beloved hotel that has played a memorable role in San Antonio's history. Generously illustrated, this is the fascinating story of the people who owned the Menger and the noteworthy folk they entertained. ...
|  | Seven Simeons: A Russian Tale
Publication Date: 2004Lithographed in the USA by Keehl Litho Corp. Weekly Reader, Editor's Choice. Condition; Like New . No dust cover, Illustrated boards. Beautiful book with BA on front board lower bottom right and WRB236 on lower right back board. No markings, pages are clean and crisp. Suggested Pulisher's Price $12.95 on top left back board. Very tiny mark/nick on front foredge, top of front board. ...
|  | Voodoo Heart
Release Date: May 29, 2007Scott Snyder’s protagonists inhabit a playfully deranged fictional world in which a Wall Street trader can find himself armed with a speargun, guarding a Dumpster outside a pawnshop in Florida; or an employee at Niagara Falls (his job: watching for jumpers) will take off in a car after a blimp in which his girlfriend has escaped.But in Snyder’s wondrous imagination there’s a thin membrane between the whimsical and the disturbing: the unlikely affair between a famous actress—in hiding after surgery—and a sporting goods salesman take...
|  | Agnon's Alef Bet Poems
Publication Date: April 1, 1998An Association of Jewish Librarians Best of the Bunch BookKnown for his ability to evoke the rich imagery of the Bible and ancient Israel, Nobel Laureate S. Y. Agnon created a witty poem for each letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Imaginative illustrations and dual-language Hebrew-English text make Agnon’s Alef Bet a much-treasured collection. ...
|  | The Flight to Italy: Diary and Selected Letters (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: October 28, 1999| ISBN-10: 0192838865 | ISBN-13: 978-0192838865This is the authentic day-to-day record of the first eight weeks of freedom as Germany's greatest poet heads for the Italy he has been yearning to see since childhood and finds himself in a new world of warmth and light. Leaving behind the difficulties of a decade in Weimar, the burden of administration, a difficult love-affair, and the frustration of not having time to work on his literary projects, he discovers himself again as a sensuous being and an artist.Goethe's fresh and spontaneous notes, sometimes ...
|  | Reading the Medieval Book: Word Image Performance in Wolfram Von Es (Poetics of Orality and Literacy)
Publication Date: December 1, 2004| Series: Poetics of Orality and Literacy "In this path-breaking book, Kathryn Starkey explores the ways—oral, visual, performative—in which Wolfram’s Willehalm epic communicates with its audience. Her astute analysis of a richly illustrated earlyWillehalm codex provides insights into the live performance the text does not preserve. Versed in communication theory, manuscript studies, and art historical scholarship, Kathryn Starkey draws our attention to an epic masterpiece in which Wolfram struggles to give meaning to religious war and celebra...
|  | Poetry from the Heart of Africa
Publication Date: April 5, 2010Poetry from the Heart of Africa is a book that takes you through a journey of unforgettable experiences. From the slums of Nairobi, Mabel Odima takes you right to a place that matters the most, your heart. This book is simply extraordinary. ...
|  | Goethe and Schubert: The Unseen Bond
Publication Date: March 1, 2003Franz Schubert set 80 of Goethe's poems to music; the resulting lieder are masterpieces ofthe song literature. Whitton discusses the cultural background of the era, describing Goethe's interest in music and musicians, and Schubert's surprisingly wide knowledge of contemporary literature. Each of the songs is treated, with translation and discussion of the background of both text and music. HARDCOVER. ...
|  | John Hay--Howells Letters: The Correspondence of John Milton Hay and William Dean Howells, 1861-1905 (Twayne's American Literary Manuscripts Series)
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|  | Amuleto (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 10, 2009La voz arrebatada de Auxilio Lacouture narra, e indaga, un crimen atroz y lejano. Auxilio, uruguaya de mediana edad, se oculta en los lavabos de mujeres durante la toma de la universidad por la policia, en Mexico, en septiembre de 1968. Recluida alli por varios dias, podra avizorar los anos ya vividos en Mexico y los anos por vivir. Rememora entonces a la poetisa Lilian Serpas, que hizo el amor con el Che, y a su infortunado hijo, a los poetas espanoles Leon Felipe y Pedro Garfias a quienes Auxilio sirvio como domestica voluntaria, y tambien aparece Arturo B...
|  | Masquerade: Vampires Realm Romance Series (Volume 10)
Publication Date: May 19, 2012Ten years have passed since Sophis and Vivek, two vampires of the Venia bloodline, came close to death at the hands of twin hunters Aleksis and Izabella Romanov. The events of that night turned Sophis and Vivek against each other, shattering their close friendship and driving them apart. Now, on the eve of a centenary Creator Day masquerade and at a time when things between them are dangerously close to separating them forever, they uncover a small army of vampire hunters in Saint Petersburg, led by their nemeses, Aleksis and Izabella. With the safety of the rul...
|  | Journey to the Center of the Earth (Barron's Graphic Classics)
Publication Date: April 27, 2007| Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | If I Were a Philadelphia Eagle
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|  | Martial Arts, Boxing, and Other Combat Sports: Fencing, Judo, Wrestling, Taekwondo, & a Whole Lot More (Olympic Sports)
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