 | Live by Night: A Novel
Release Date: October 2, 2012 Boston, 1926. The '20s are roaring. Liquor is flowing, bullets are flying, and one man sets out to make his mark on the world. Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent Boston police captain, has long since turned his back on his strict and proper upbringing. Now having graduated from a childhood of petty theft to a career in the pay of the city's most fearsome mobsters, Joe enjoys the spoils, thrills, and notoriety of being an outlaw. ...
 |  | Holidays in Heck
Publication Date: November 1, 2011P.J. O'Rourke is one of today's most celebrated political humorists, and has been hailed as "the funniest writer in America" by both Time and The Wall Street Journal. Two decades ago he published the classic travelogue Holidays in Hell, in which he traversed the globe on a fun-finding mission to what were then some of the most desperate places on the planet, including Warsaw, Managua, and Belfast.In Holidays in Heck, P.J. embarks on supposedly more comfortable and allegedly less dangerous travels--often with family in tow--which mostly leave him wishing he w...
|  | Treasures for Teachers
Publication Date: October 1, 1994The prayer poems in Treasures for Teachers reflect experiences--both highs and lows--that teachers encounter throughout the school year.Some poems will bring tears to your eyes; others will elicit a chuckle.All of the poems serve to encourage and affirm teachers in their challenging professions.Journaling pages are included so that teachers can vent their own frustrations, record their own joys and discover their own treasures. ...
|  | A Billion Reasons Why
Publication Date: February 1, 2011 There are a billion reasons Kate should marry her current boyfriend. Will she trade them all to be madly in love? Katie McKenna leads a perfect life. She has a fulfilling job, a cute apartment, and a wedding to plan with her soon-to-be fiancé, Dexter. She can think of a billion reasons why she should marry Dexter. He’s everything she wants in a husband. And then in walks Luc DeForges, her bold, breathtaking ex-boyfriend. Only now he’s a millionaire. And he wants her to go home to New Orleans to sing for a friend’s wedding. As his d...
|  | The House That Kay Built
Publication Date: April 28, 2005Kay Dillion and her seven-year-old daughter Becky are preparing to move on with their lives. After months of living with her brother, Kay finds the perfect apartment to begin her life anew. But Kay soon discovers she’s entered the pits of hell—and there will be no escape.Horrifying images and nightmarish visions gradually drag Kay deeper and deeper into her own embittered soul. What was once a reality fades to a blur, and Kay grows increasingly unsure of her own existence. To heal her horrific past of endless torture and sexual abuse, Kay must confro...
|  | Agnes: Karolus Chronicles II
Publication Date: September 7, 2012Charlemagne not only united most of Europe by 800 AD, he launched a Carolingian Renaissance of art, architecture, music and learning.He recruited scholars from Italy and the British Isles to teach Christianity, establish scriptoria and teach court and clergy to read and write.This is a fictional coming-of-age story set in his court. When the King discovers a 9-year-old kitchen maid flourishing a scribe's large plume, he impulsively orders her to attend school with his own children.Five years later Agnes is a kitchen-maid who can read and write Latin, at hom...
|  | The Great Secret (Stories from the Golden Age) (English and English Edition)
Publication Date: September 8, 2008| Series: Stories from the Golden Age Boldly go to worlds where no one has gone before. Fanner Marston was raised a slave as a child, became a petty street thief as a teen, and now masters his own craft and crew as a grown man. He's also gone completely mad.Driven by privation, with a vicious greed and slavering lust for power, Marston alone of forty men has survived the perilous trek through a blistering desert to the magical city of Parva, where legend says a secret awaits which will give him absolute control over the Universe. However, Marston finds th...
|  | Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor's Son (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: January 27, 2009| Series: Penguin Classics For the 150th anniversary of the birth of the "Jewish Mark Twain,"a new translation of his most famous works Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor's Son are the most celebrated characters in all of Jewish fiction. Tevye is the lovable, Bible-quoting father of seven daughters, a modern Job whose wisdom, humor, and resilience inspired the lead character in Fiddler on the Roof. And Motl is the spirited and mischievous nine-year-old boy who accompanies his family on a journey from their Russian shtetl to New York, and whose comical, poign...
|  | Istanbul (Poetry of Place)
Publication Date: June 2, 2008| Series: Poetry of Place Istanbul, capital of two great empires, confluence of Asia and Europe, has called forth poetry throughout her long history, from paupers and sultans, natives and visitors alike. The silhouette of thousand-year-old domes and tapering minarets, the sunsets reflected nightly in a thousand palace windows and the bustle of her markets have inspired Sultan Süleyman, W. B. Yeats and Nâzim Hikmet, amongst others, to salute one of the world's most remarkable cities. ...
|  | Ciel Brule Tentative (Poesie/Gallimard) (French Edition)
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|  | Transatlantic Solidarities: Irish Nationalism and Caribbean Poetics (New World Studies)
Publication Date: February 4, 2009| Series: New World Studies Despite their prominent place in twentieth-century literature in English, novelists and poets from Ireland and the anglophone Caribbean have long been separated by literary histories in which they are either representing a local, nationalist tradition or functioning within an international movement such as modernism or postcolonialism. Redressing this either/or framework, Michael Malouf recognizes an integral history shared by these two poetic and political traditions, arising from their common transatlantic history in relation to...
|  | Valery's Graveyard: Le Cimetiere Marin, Translated, Described, and Peopled (Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures)
Publication Date: November 22, 2010| ISBN-10: 1433113341 | ISBN-13: 978-1433113345| Edition: First printing Valéry's Graveyard is in two parts. The first part presents the French text of Paul Valéry's poem Le Cimetière marin(The Graveyard by the Sea) and a facing English translation, followed by a descriptive account of the poem that sets out its main structural and dynamic features and traces its narrative. The second part consists of nine short chapters on selected themes of the poem in their relation to the poet's thought, including certain of his scientific con...
|  | Early English Metre (Toronto Old English Studies)
Publication Date: November 5, 2005| ISBN-10: 080203831X | ISBN-13: 978-0802038319| Edition: 15 Thomas A. Bredehoft's Early English Metre is a reassessment of the metrical rules for English poetry from Beowulf to Layamon. Bredehoft offers a new account of many of the most puzzling features of Old English poetry – anacrusis, alliteration patterns, rhyme, and hypermetric verses – and further offers a clear account of late Old English verse as it descended from the classical verse as observed in Beowulf. He makes the surprising and controversial discovery that Ælfric?s ...
|  | The Mighty Storm
Publication Date: September 7, 2012It's been twelve years since Tru Bennett last saw Jake Wethers, her former best friend and boy she once loved. Jake Wethers, sexy, tattooed and deliciously bad lead singer, and brains behind The Mighty Storm, one of biggest bands in the world, left Tru with a broken heart when he moved from England to America with his family when they were both fourteen. Sent to interview Jake for her music column by the magazine she works for, they are both unprepared for the sparks that fly the instant they reconnect. Only, there’s a complication to their instant f...
|  | Prince of Darkness
Release Date: April 26, 2005A stranger has come to Middleburg, Maryland, a visitor from abroad with a mysterious purpose. But this quaint, affluent community has dark secrets of its own. And when the interloper, Peter Stewart, becomes involved with the bewitching, seductive ward of noted local author Kate More, the townfolk fear the chilling past they are hiding will no longer be safe. For Middleburg has a colonial history of malevolent sorceries and obscene sacrifice. And when the terrible pot is stirred, murder may be the least of the evils to emerge from the unholy brew. ...
|  | Artsy-Fartsy (The Aldo Zelnick Comic Novel Series)
Publication Date: October 1, 2010| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Lightning Inside You
Release Date: May 19, 1992Threads of seven colors are stretched on the great prairie.What is it? It runs through the valleys clapping its hands."Rainbow" and "butterfly" are the answers to these two Native American riddles, typically drawn from the world of nature.Long hidden from view, the American Indian riddling tradition is revealed in all its variety in this carefully researched collection -- the first of its kind -- presenting 140 riddles translated from twenty different languages, including Aztec, Comanche, Maya, Onondaga, Pawnee, and Quechua.Here are examples of courtship riddling, h...
|  | The Sisters Club
Release Date: April 8, 2008| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Jimmie Johnson: Nascar Driver (Behind the Wheel)
Publication Date: June 30, 2007| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Welcome To My Neighborhood! A Barrio ABC
Publication Date: August 1, 2010| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up An ABC introduction to a little girl's neighborhood in all its rich detail.M is for las muralistas, making murals of island vistas. Waterfalls that hide brick walls. Rainforest full of tropical trees.N is for the noisy neighbors who sit on the stoop and catch the breeze.When Ava's friend Chien visits her in the Barrio, she takes him on a tour of all of her favorite things about the neighborhood. From fire hydrants to ice cream trucks, bodegas to vacant lots, the sights and sounds of the Barrio -- even the less perf...
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