 | River Rising: A Cherokee Odyssey
Publication Date: August 28, 1998Follow an unforgettable cast of characters through an incredible saga exposing one of America's darkest hours.Share the pain of the Cherokees driven from their beloved forests, winding rivers and mountain cabins.Endure with them the hardships in the concentration camps and on the Trail of Tears as they are forced to march halfway across a frozen continent in the harshest winter in years.Woven throughout this irrepressible tale of tragedy & tribulation you will discover the humor & the passion, the love & the hatred, the strengths & the weaknesses of a noble p...
 |  | A Boogie Down Story
Publication Date: March 1, 2008A Boogie Down Story is a gripping fast paced drama jumping off at the beginning of the Hip Hop era. The explosion of the culture is a visual backdrop. Up in the Bronx where the people are fresh, The Blue Circle was the favorite hangout for b-boys and girls. As the culture grows so does the bond between four friends. Dawn, Keya, Forster, and Cash. Dawn juggles real love with her parents’ self centered dreams. Keya is from a decent family, but her life transforms as she struggles with being a single teen parent. Forster and Cash are diehard friends, not even doug...
|  | Leading Lean
Release Date: May 13, 2005Leading Lean--The Making of a Kaizen Event, by JerroldSolomon (Shingo Prize Winning Author of Who’s Counting? A Lean Accounting Business Novel) is the second in a series of business novels about the Lean transformation process at Tricor Electronics, a fictional company.It follows the characters originally introduced in Who’s Counting? and exposes the human interactions that occur during any Leantransformation. Leading Lean illustrates the angst people go through when asked to change, demonstrates the teamwork and leadership required, exposes the paradigms ...
|  | The Weekend Visitor (Alex Peres Mysteries)
Publication Date: March 1, 2006| Series: Alex Peres Mysteries The latest Alex Peres mystery begins with a mini-mystery currently providing cocktail party conversation to many of Provincetown's gay community: are young, beautiful, sexy, Irish Maureen Delaney and 40-ish plain-jane Mary Sloan lovers or is Maureen simply a boarder? Opinion is about evenly divided, with numerous snickers and snide remarks. But titillation rapidly turns to united outrage when word gets out that Maureen has been attacked by an unidentified man after leaving a local bar.Maureen's attorney retains Alex to investigate...
|  | Dust to Dust: The Secret of Divine Intervention
Publication Date: January 20, 2010My story is the prefix to what would become the oldest book upon our shelves. And honestly, having lived through such an amazing experience, it took very little coercing to encourage me to retell my story. My husband Frank was sitting across the table from me, nodding his head with that special smile that had warmed my heart for more than thirty years. Leaning back slightly in my chair, staring into my six children's hungry eyes, I felt no resistance to complying with their request. My gaze turned toward the dining room window, through which we could see the...
|  | Desperadoes
Release Date: January 16, 1997At age 65, Emmett Dalton, the sole survivor of the infamous Dalton gang makes a living by selling his outrageous adventure stories to Hollywood. Desperadoes details his memories of the murders, bootlegging and thievery he and his posse committed. The grit and excitement of these violent times are expertly evoked by the sharp pen and authentic voice of HarperCollins' bestselling author Ron Hansen. ...
|  | A Dark Anatomy: A Mystery
Release Date: May 21, 2012In 1740s England, the roots of evil run deep... The year is 1740. George II is on the throne, but England’s remoter provinces remain largely a law unto themselves. In Lancashire a grim discovery has been made: a squire’s wife, Dolores Brockletower, lies in the woods above her home at Garlick Hall, her throat brutally slashed. Called to the scene, Coroner Titus Cragg finds the Brockletower household awash with rumor and suspicion. He enlists the help of his astute young friend, doctor Luke Fidelis, to throw light on the case. But this is a ...
|  | Southern Paiutes: Legends, Lore, Language and Lineage
Publication Date: June 2, 1992| ISBN-10: 088714070X | ISBN-13: 978-0887140709| Edition: 1st This is a unique collection of information about the Southern Paiutes, which covers mythology and folklore, traditional crafts, historical stories, and information about the Paiute language. LaVan Martineau began collecting a lot of the information in this book during the 1940s from individuals still maintaining the old ways, while their culture eroded beneath their feet. These elders willingly shared this information with Mr. Martineau. Little did he realize that within a few decades almost no on...
|  | Obra po
Publication Date: January 1, 1988| Series: Archivos César Vallejo es uno de los nombres célebres de la literatura hispanoamericana y está hoy ampliamente difundido a escala internacional; a pesar de ello, su obra no es tan conocida como la resonancia del nombre pudiera hacernos creer. A ello contribuye, intrínsecamente, la textura difícil y sorprendente de muchos de sus poemas. ...
|  | Chretien de Troyes: Cliges (German Edition)
Publication Date: August 22, 2006This is the first modern German translation of Chr tien de Troyes' Clig s. An introduction, commentary and bibliography make the text accessible for German-speaking readers. ...
|  | Beyond The Beach: The Wit and Wisdom of Nevil Shute
Publication Date: January 3, 2012Bill Levy's "Beyond the Beach: The Wit and Wisdom of Nevil Shute" offers readers the opportunity to experience Nevil Shute. British novelist Nevil Shute (1899-1960) is remembered primarily for his novel "On the Beach."But he wrote over twenty other fascinating novels that are still extremely relevant today. The book is divided into two sections.The first section, “Beyond the Beach,” is an overview of Nevil Shute’s life and career and consists of (1) a biographical sketch of Nevil Shute including a brief analysis of his work, and (2) a dis...
|  | Victorian Literature and the Victorian State: Character and Governance in a Liberal Society
Publication Date: December 11, 2003Studies of Victorian governance have been profoundly influenced byDiscipline and Punish, Michel Foucault's groundbreaking genealogy of modern power. Yet, according to Lauren Goodlad, Foucault's analysis is better suited to the history of the Continent than to nineteenth-century Britain, with its decentralized, voluntarist institutional culture and passionate disdain for state interference. Focusing on a wide range of Victorian writing—from literary figures such as Charles Dickens, George Gissing, Harriet Martineau, J. S. Mill, Anthony Trollope, and H...
|  | Sentimental Modernism: Women Writers and the Revolution of the Word (A Midland Book)
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|  | De Profundis (Clasicos de la literatura series) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: September 1, 2008| Series: Clasicos de la literatura series For lovers of timeless classics, this series of beautifully packaged and affordably priced editions of world literature encompasses a variety of literary genres, including theater, novels, poems, and essays. Los lectores tomarán un gran placer en descubrir los clásicos con estas bellas y económicas ediciones de las grandes obras literarias. Esta selección editorial cuenta con títulos que abarcan todos los géneros literarios, desde teatro, narrativa, poesía y el ensayo. ...
|  | Caliente
Publication Date: October 15, 2009This is a collection of stories. When a girl wants hot and spicy, she finds herself a latin lover. In J.M. Jeffries' Partners in Crime, Vincent Mendoza is a CIA agent in charge of his first mission. He must liberate top-secret documents and turns to a jailed cat burglar, Cleo Harris, to help him. To gain her freedom, Cleo must help the steamy agent. Little does Vincent know that the ravishing thief will steal his heart in the process. In Monique Lamont's Instructing Layla, Marcelo Alcindor's former dance partner, Layla Washington, is back in his life after s...
|  | Buffy the Vampire Slayer Vol. 13: Haunted
Publication Date: September 6, 2002A sinister presence stirs in the charred rubble of what used to be Sunnydale High. It seems the ghost of the former Mayor has a bone to pick with Buffy. ...
|  | Saluki Marooned
Publication Date: October 4, 2011Peter Federson lives in Chicago and is burned out on modern technology and life in the 21st Century. He takes a train ride to his alma mater-SIUC-and through a strange series of events, finds himself re-living the last few weeks of spring quarter 1971. He's determined to win the girl he should have married in the first place, not flunk out of school because of a poor algebra grade like the firs...t time, and change his miserable future. But can he? Peter struggles with his pathologically nervous nature, and struggles with something else inside himself that re...
|  | Chapter and Hearse : And Other Mysteries
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|  | Persephone and the Pomegranate: A Myth from Greece
Release Date: September 1, 1993Demeter refuses to allow spring to appear until she has been reunited with her daughter Persephone, who has been abducted to the Underworld by Pluto. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | More Star Tales (North American Indian Stories)
Publication Date: January 1991| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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