 | The Power of Horses and Other Stories
Publication Date: July 1990The fifteen stories contained in The Power of Horses portray, each in a different way, the sensitive and enduring culture of the Dakota of the Upper Plains and convey many of the basic truths that have sustained Elizabeth Cook-Lynn’s people for countless generations. Though the stories are often filled with violence and grief, they are also brimming with beauty, gentleness, charm, and humor.In these striking and memorable tales of Dakota country, Joseph grieves that the body of his middle son will never be returned to his native shores from the distant World W...
 |  | Canadian Ghost Stories
Publication Date: March 1, 2001Startling, scary stories from Vancouver Island to Newfoundland. Guaranteed to chill! ...
|  | Conner's Courage
Publication Date: August 3, 2012Sequel to Ty's Obsession Whispering Pines Ranch: Book Four John Price and Conner Burnett have been part of the Whispering Pines Ranch for the past thirty-seven years. A loving couple who have overcome every obstacle thrown at them, John and Conner are a testament to the strength of true love. But now John is in the hospital with a diagnosis of cancer, fighting for his very life. As his lover struggles, Conner looks back on when they first met. The early seventies wasn't an easy time to be a gay man, especially in a small country town. Considering John's pride,...
|  | Stations West (Yellow Shoe Fiction)
Publication Date: March 1, 2010| Series: Yellow Shoe Fiction Oklahoma is a forgotten territory of "Indians, outlaws, and immigrants" when its first Jewish settler, Boggy Haurowitz, arrives in 1859. Full of expectations, he finds the untamed region a formidable foe, its landscape rugged, its resources strained. In Stations West,four generations of Haurowitzes, intertwined with a family of Swedish immigrants, struggle against the Territory's "insatiable appetite." The challenges of creating a home amid betrayals, nature's vagaries, and burgeoning statehood prove too great. Each generation in...
|  | Mesoamerican Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs of Mexico and Central America
Publication Date: October 17, 2002An excellent resource, Handbook of Mesoamerican Mythology introduces readers to the mythology of Mexico and Central America. Its chief focus is on Mexican Highland and Maya areas, as they were, and are, of utmost importance to Mesoamerican history. An extensive and edifying introduction defines the nature of myth, the Mesoamericans as a people, and the cultural worldview that informed Mesoamerican mythology. The Handbook presents historical and mythological timelines, with each time period and cultural group fully defined. Also featured is a quick geographic...
|  | Remembered Future: Study in Literary Mythology
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| | Butter on the bacon: A modern comedy in three acts
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|  | Reheated Cabbage: Tales of Chemical Degeneration
Publication Date: September 14, 2009Never-collected tales, including outrageous early stories from the Trainspotting years, plus a raucous new novella.Reheated Cabbage gathers stories showcasing Irvine Welsh’s trademark skills: vaulting imagination, brilliant vernacular ear, scabrous humor, and the ability to create some of the most memorable characters in contemporary fiction. You can enjoy Christmas dinner with Begbie at his Ma’s and see how he greets his sister’s boyfriend and news of their engagement. You’ll discover in “The Rosewell Incident” wh...
|  | Codices Illustres: The World's Most Famous Manuscripts (Jumbo)
Publication Date: September 30, 2002| Series: Jumbo This work introduces the reader to the world of medieval miniature painting and illumination presents around 170 of the most beautiful and important medieval scripts from the 4th century to 1600. Many miniatures are reproduced in their original size, some on double-pages. Although the focus is on European handwriting (French, Dutch, German, Italian, English and Spanish) examples have also been selected to illustrate the refinement and intricacy of handwriting from non-European cultures (for example, Mexican, Persian, Indian, Ottoman). The s...
|  | Feminism and Renaissance Studies (Oxford Readings in Feminism)
Publication Date: February 10, 2000| ISBN-10: 0198782438 | ISBN-13: 978-0198782438This collection brings together essays by well-known feminist scholars from the wide range of disciplines that make up Renaissance Studies. It forms an accessible introduction to the ways in which feminism has replaced the universal, abstract 'Renaissance Man' of traditional scholarship with strategies for the analysis of the conceptual work of gender in the formation of European modernity. ...
|  | Post-Apocalypse Dead Letter Office
Publication Date: April 4, 2011A collection of undelivered letters chronicles the intersecting stories of the survivors of a mysterious event that sends the world back to a technologically pre-industrial age.With its first letter set years into a new era, Post-Apocalypse Dead Letter Office chronologically works its way back to the abrupt, unexpected end of the modern world.Through the letters of the survivors, readers pick up clues into how that mysterious end came about and piece together how society broke down and began to reinvent itself.An epistolary mosaic emerges of a world in which di...
|  | Renegade Most Wanted (Harlequin Historical)
Publication Date: June 19, 2012| Series: Harlequin Historical (Book 1095) Sitting in the finest secondhand wedding dress she can find, Emma Parker watches the clock tick down. She needs the most willing cowboy in town to become her husband before the sun sets—or she'll lose her first ever real home.Then Matthew "Singing Trigger" Suede saunters in, and his cover as the "Robin Hood of the West" is almost blown as he escapes from a bank. So Emma offers the renegade an alibi to save him from the noose…if only he'll escort her down the aisle—immediately! ...
|  | Savage Embers (Savage (Leisure Paperback))
Publication Date: February 28, 2003| Series: Savage (Leisure Paperback) PBK ...
|  | The Partner(Large Print)
Publication Date: 1997They watched Danilo Silva for days before they finally grabbed him. He was living alone, a quiet life on a shady street in Brazil; a simple life in a modest home, certainly not one of luxury. Certainly no evidence of the fortune they thought he had stolen. He was much thinner and his face had been altered. He spoke a different language, and spoke it very well. But Danilo had a past with many chapters. Four years earlier he had been Patrick Lanigan, a young partner in a prominent Biloxi law firm. He had a pretty wife, a new daughter, and a bright future. Then one cold wi...
|  | Great Detectives: A Century of the Best Mysteries from England and America
Publication Date: 1998A Century of the Best Mysteries from England and America ...
|  | Legends of Zita the Spacegirl
Release Date: September 4, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Scream Team #1: The Werewolf at Home Plate
Publication Date: May 1, 2012| Age Level: 7 and up...
|  | Baseball (Ultimate 10)
Publication Date: July 2009| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Girls Only! vol. 1
Publication Date: May 1, 2008| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Volumes 1-4 in the New York Times best-selling author's series for girls 8-13 based on their training to fulfill their Olympic dreams. ...
|  | Dark Horse (Starlight Animal Rescue)
Publication Date: January 23, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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