 | I Know This Much Is True: A Novel (P.S.)
Release Date: April 8, 2008| Series: P.S. On the afternoon of October 12, 1990, my twin brother, Thomas, entered the Three Rivers, Connecticut, public library, retreated to one of the rear study carrels, and prayed to God the sacrifice he was about to commit would be deemed acceptable. . . .One of the most acclaimed novels of our time, Wally Lamb's I Know This Much Is True is a story of alienation and connection, devastation and renewal, at once joyous, heartbreaking, poignant, mystical, and powerfully, profoundly human....
 |  | Bachelor Party (Always a Bridesmaid) (Silhouette Intimate Moments, No 656)
Publication Date: August 1, 19951995 - Silhouette Books - Intimate Moments Series - 1st Edition - Paperback -The Bachelor Party - By Paula Detmer Riggs - Like New Condition - Inside is White, Bright & Tight - Spine Solid - Collectible ...
|  | Sisterchicks Say Ooh La La! (Sisterchicks Series #5)
Release Date: October 6, 2005Childhood Friends Reunite to Rendezvous! All giggles and wiggles, Lisa and Amy sealed their friendship under the pink ruffles of a canopy bed, promising to be friends forever. They remained inseparable until an argument over Lisa’s prom date divides them. In a plan that could only be devised by their heavenly Father, Amy and Lisa end up in the same hospital emergency room years later. With their promise to always be there for each other unexpectedly fulfilled, the two friends grow close again. Amy reminds Lisa of one of their childhood promises yet to be re...
|  | One Part Angel
Publication Date: March 2006This big-hearted novel about small-town miracles is the entertaining follow-up to Shaffner’s popular debut, In the Land of Second Chances.Welcome to Ebb, Nebraska—home of the Corn Palace, the Quilting Circle, the Come Again Bed and Breakfast, and Wilma Porter and her indomitable gang of friends. Loretta Parsons, Wilma’s bestfriend and the owner of the Bold Cut Beauty Salon, called thetown “the Last Oasis of Nice.”And it is.But Ebb also has more than its share of troubles. Loretta isin a coma and her salon is burned to the ground....
|  | The Surrogate: A Novel
Publication Date: July 7, 2004The perfect candidate to carry their child...with the perfect opportunity to destroy their lives.When Kyle Dolan convinces his wife, Bethany, to hire a surrogate for their last surviving embryo, they allow themselves to hope once again.A med school student, Laurel Bergin seems perfect in every way.Problem is--Laurel Bergin is really Sable Lynde.As the pregnancy progresses, Sable's dark secrets surface, and her inner demons spill out into the Dolans' lives.In a terrifying encounter, Sable is injured and lapses into a coma.Now the Dolans face psychological and sup...
|  | The Hardest Part - Theology eked out on the Battlefield on the Omnipotence of God and Suffering
Publication Date: June 19, 2007The Sorrows of God mun' be'ard to bearIf'e really 'as love in ' is'eart,And the'ardest part i' the world to playMun surely be God's part."If ever there was a preacher of common-sense Christianity it is the Rev. G A Studdert Kennedy." Evening Standard"We doubt if any priest of our communion, or perhaps any communion at all, has such a gift of startling speech...He speaks in the language of the wayfaring man, taken up and fused with the eloquence of a master." Church Times"(Studdert Kennedy's writings)...are all charged with the love of man, and the love of life,...
|  | Out of the Silent Planet
Publication Date: May 1996| ISBN-10: 0848805631 | ISBN-13: 978-0848805630[MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.] [Read by Geoffrey Howard - aka - Ralph Cosham] Out of the Silent Planet is the first novel from Lewis's Space Trilogy, (also called the Space Trilogy,the Cosmic Trilogy and the Ransom Trilogy,) considered to be his chief contribution to the science-fiction genre. A planetary romance with elements of medieval mythology, the trilogy concerns Dr. Ransom, a linguist who, like Christ, is offered as a ransom for mankind. On a walking tour of the English countryside, Ransom falls in ...
|  | Knife Edge (The Royal Marines Saga)
Publication Date: March 1, 2005| Series: The Royal Marines Saga After the murder of his father, Lieutenant-Colonel Mike Blackwood, Ross Blackwood finds himself assigned to the Far East, taking on rebels and illegal-arms dealers in Hong Kong and Malaysia. Along the way he meets another Blackwood, his cousin Steve, who has made a life for himself in the Corp, as an explosives expert. The two Blackwoods uphold the honor of their family and their chosen profession while negotiating the fallout of Britain's post-colonial politics. ...
|  | Terminal Condition
Publication Date: November 15, 1998Imagine: you're critically injured in a horrible accident. Rushed to the emergency room, you're fighting for your life. But once you're there, no one tries to help you. Instead, you're locked in a dark room with rows of comatose patients; just lying there-- not dying, but not living either...Imagine: you're a promising young doctor at New York's most prestigious hospital. You're there to save lives, but you soon find out that the hospital is run on greed and malice, rather than compassion. Horrific human experiments are taking place. People are being robbed...
|  | The Healers: The Aesculapians, Book One
Publication Date: March 23, 2010| Series: The Aesculapians (Book 1) It's the year 2021. Medicine has become corporatized, and proprietary treatments are closely guarded secrets. The mysterious Aesculapian Healers offer complete cures of most illnesses with a money-back guarantee, but the outrageous fees have given them a reputation as medical pirates.When recent medical school graduate Wesley Anderson is approached to become a Healer, he reluctantly signs on, hoping to obtain a cure for his father's heart disease and a solution to his family's money troubles. But he soon discovers that there...
|  | Made for Sin
Release Date: January 30, 2007Two very different sisters are with one thing in common - the good fortune to find men who'll show them how heavenly sin can be...Lucy Waverton's wild escapades are the talk of the town. Fleeing the notorious Earl of Radbourne's carriage after a delicious seduction, she meets a soldier whose hard body and rebellious streak stir her newly awakened desires. Sergeant Michael Hall may be lowborn, but his every caress takes Lucy higher and higher, into a realm of pure carnal ecstasy...Searching the country for her reckless younger sister, Caroline Waverton instead fi...
|  | The Whisperers (Charlie Parker, Book 9)
Release Date: June 28, 2011“‘Oh, little one,’ he whispered, as he gently stroked her cheek, the first time he had touched her in fifteen years. ‘What have they done to you? What have they done to us all?’ ”In his latest dark and chilling Charlie Parker thriller, New York Times bestselling author John Connolly takes us to the border between Maine and Canada. It is there, in the vast and porous Great North Woods, that a dangerous smuggling operation is taking place, run by a group of disenchanted former soldiers, newly returned from Iraq. Illicit goods...
|  | The West Indies and the Spanish Main
Publication Date: March 31, 1999Coping with ill-iced claret, rotten walnuts, and withered apples, British Postal Service employee and successful Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope sailed aboard the Atrato from the English port of Southampton to Kingston, Jamaica, in November, 1858 to survey land and conclude treaties in the West Indies and Central America for the English government. In the course of his extended sojourn, he also wrote a book -- not about official business but rather about the islands he visited and the people he met; about breathtaking landscapes, exotic foods, the tropical...
|  | Ibsen Plays: Six
Publication Date: September 1, 2000| Series: Methuen World Classics "Meyer's translations of Ibsen are a major fact in one's general sense of post-war drama. Their vital pace, their unforced insistence on the poetic centre of Ibsen's genius, have beaten academic versions from the field" (George Steiner)This volume contains Ibsen's famous early epic, Peer Gynt, and the historical tragedy The Pretenders, which together with Brand and Emperor and Galilean form a magisterial quartet at the fulcrum of Ibsen's career. George Bernard Shaw praised Peer Gynt (1867) for the power of Ibsen's ...
|  | Loving Promises
Publication Date: October 1988Hardcover book ...
|  | Moment's Notice: Jazz in Poetry and Prose
Publication Date: July 1, 1992exceptional anthology of jazz stories & poems...
| | La poesie du ciel en France dans la seconde moitie du seizieme siecle (Travaux d'humanisme et Renaissance) (French Edition)
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|  | Colonial and Postcolonial Rewritings of "Heart of Darkness": A Century of Dialogue with Joseph Conrad
Publication Date: December 7, 2005Joseph Conrad's novella "Heart of Darkness" (1899) is taught and read allover the world. Everywhere, novelists and travel writers respond to it intheir own creative work. I discuss 30 responses, or rewritings, from Africa,India, the Caribbean, Australia, Europe and the US. Their perspectivesinclude those of groups who identify with Conrad's Europeans and groups whofeel close to his Africans, and increasingly those of groups who situatethemselves between these two extremes in various ways. I identify world-widedevelopments as well as themes, strategies and pa...
|  | Music and Urban Society in Colonial Latin America
Publication Date: January 17, 2011The Spanish colonial project in Latin America from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries was distinctly urban in focus. The impact of the written word on this process was explored in Ángel Rama's seminal book The Lettered City, and much has been written by historians of art and architecture on its visible manifestations, yet the articulation of sound, urban geography and colonial power - 'the resounding city' - has been passed over in virtual silence. This collection of essays by leading scholars examines the role of music in Spanish colonial urbani...
|  | Voltaire Almighty
Publication Date: November 7, 2005Voltaire Almighty provides a lively look at the life and thought of one of the major forces behind the European Enlightenment. A rebel from start to finish (1694 - 1778), Voltaire was an ailing and unwanted bastard child who refused to die; and when he did consent to expire some eighty-four years later, he secured a Christian burial despite a bishop's ban. During much of his life Voltaire was the toast of society for his plays and verse, but his barbed wit and commitment to human reason got him into trouble. Jailed twice and eventually banished by the King, ...
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