 | The Lighthouse
Publication Date: March 1, 2012Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012"The Lighthouse" begins on a North Sea ferry, on whose blustery outer deck stands Futh, a middle-aged, recently separated man heading to Germany for a restorative walking holiday.Spending his first night in Hellhaus at a small, family-run hotel, he finds the landlady hospitable but is troubled by an encounter with an inexplicably hostile barman.In the morning, Futh puts the episode behind him and sets out on his week-long circular walk along the Rhine. As he travels, he contemplates his childhood; a complicated friendship...
 |  | My Tummy Talked in Church Today: And 51 Other Poems and Devotions for Adults Who Love Children
Publication Date: September 2007My Tummy Talked in Church Today is a collection of 52 devotions for parents, grandparents, teachers, and pastors. Each devotion includes a poem, Scripture, reflection, and prayer. Each poem is written from a child's delightful perspective about children's experiences related to church. ...
|  | Polar State Parables
Publication Date: January 6, 2004From Ketchikan to Prudhoe Bay and all point's in-between, parabolic happenings, places and things lead the cheechako or the sourdough to a closer awareness of God's tremendous creativity in the largest state in the world. Travel with the author's friends as their experiences point to a wondrous God. ...
|  | Fallen Stars, Bitter Waters - America Has Fallen, The Antichrist Reigns...
Publication Date: 2000Fiction ...
|  | Criminal Macabre Omnibus Volume 1
Publication Date: August 23, 2011| Series: Criminal Macabre Omnibus (Book 1) In 2003 Steve Niles, creator of the 30 Days of Night comic series, launched a series of occult detective stories featuring the monstrously hard-boiled Cal McDonald. A pill-popping alcoholic reprobate, Cal is the only line of defense between Los Angeles and a growing horde of zombies, vampires, possessed muscle cars, mad scientists, werewolves, and much more weirdness!This volume collects the first two Criminal Macabre trades, the one-shot story Love Me Tenderloin, and Criminal Macabre: Supernatural Freak Machine - n...
|  | Dark Hills to Westward: The Saga of Jenny Wiley
Publication Date: November 24, 1994A fictionalized account of Jenny Wiley's captivity and escapebased on her own narrative. Thomas and Jenny Wiley had pioneered landon Walker's Creek in Bland County, Virginia. On October 1, 1789, whileThomas was away, a small band of Indians, seeking revenge for a recentdefeat at the hands of white settlers, attacked the Wiley cabin andkilled and scalped Jenny's three older children and her brother.Jenny, seven months pregnant, was taken captive along with her babyson, Adam.Then began a nightmare flight through the wilderness into the darkKentucky hills to w...
|  | The Last Prince of Ireland
Publication Date: March 15, 2001The history of Ireland is studded with tragedies, but none is more poignant, or more decisive, that the battle of Kinsale. There the Gaelic nobility who held sway over Ireland for two thousand years were finally and resolutely crushed by the English invaders. There would follow four hundred years of English domination.The Last Prince is Donal Cam O'Sullivan, still determined after the battle not to surrender his homeland. He flees with his clan toward an inland stronghold, as the Gaelic nation is ripped apart not only by war but by the seed of betrayal planted...
|  | Sighting of a Dolphin
Publication Date: April 1, 2010Matthew's mother disappears one night, but leaves behind Fluke, a plastic dolphin, who becomes Matthew's constant companion.Fluke is a life-saving rope, in the middle of an ocean of family turbulence, who cops the blame for Matthew's breaches of behaviour.Ten years later, on the far south coast of New South Wales, a scarred dolphin swirls towards thirteen year old Matthew after a shark attack. Is it Jo Jo, the performing dolphin Matthew's mother connected with as a child, who washed out of the Snapper Rocks Sea Baths in 1960?Saving dolphins becomes Matthew's pa...
|  | Ralph Compton Skeleton Lode (Ralph Compton Western Series)
Release Date: June 7, 2011| Series: Ralph Compton Western Series Arlo Wells and Dallas Holt are two ex-cowpunchers who've hit a patch of bad luck-until a dying friend tells them of a lost gold mine. They jump at the chance to get the fortune. But Arlo and Dallas aren't the only ones who know about the mine-and their streak of bad luck is about to turn into a fight for survival... ...
|  | Twins and the Double (Art and Imagination)
Publication Date: October 1993| Series: Art and Imagination Facing the other in the guise of twin or double, one might sense a threat to the idea of personal identity, yet people are teased and delighted by the odd prospect of becoming "otherwise". Twins arouse a sense of awe in many societies around the world. Jacob and Esau, Horus and Set, Jekyll and Hyde - all these and many more are recurrent pairs who lure us into the world found through the looking glass. The author sets out to bring together genetics, psychology, mythology and art in order to clarify the lore and reveal the enigma of ...
|  | The Theatre and Films of Martin McDonagh (Critical Companions)
Release Date: April 15, 2012| ISBN-10: 1408136112 | ISBN-13: 978-1408136119Martin McDonagh is one of the world's most popular dramatists. This is a highly readable and illuminating account of his career to date that will appeal to the legions of fans of his work for the stage and of his films Six Shooter and In Bruges. As a resource for students and practitioners it is unrivalled, providing an authoritative and enquiring approach to his work that moves beyond the tired discussions of national identity to offer a comprehensive critical exploration. Lonergan provides a detailed analysis of...
|  | Delie (Poesie/Gallimard) (French Edition)
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|  | The Art of Making Tea (A Missouri poets chapbook)
Publication Date: June 18, 1998| Series: A Missouri poets chapbook Elizabeth Jones Hanley's deceptively simple poems collect images, echoes, and memories of a family of three generations together and their quiet life in a small town in Missouri. ...
|  | The Anniversary Waltz: A novel
Publication Date: May 15, 2012At their sixtieth anniversary party, Adam Carlson asks his wife, Elizabeth, for their customary waltz. After the dance they gather the family and share their story—a story of love and courage overcoming adversity and thriving in the face of overwhelming odds. It’s the summer of 1946, and Adam has just returned from the war to his home in Reunion, Montana. At a town festival he meets Elizabeth Baxter, a young woman going steady with his former high school rival and now influential banker, Nathan Roberts. When Adam and Elizabeth share a waltz...
|  | The Third Victim
Release Date: January 30, 2001The past isn't over....An unspeakable act has ripped apart the idyllic town of Bakersville, Oregon, and its once-peaceful residents are demanding quick justice. But though a boy has confessed to the horrific crime, evidence shows he may not be guilty. Officer Rainie Conner, leading her first homicide investigation, stands at the center of the controversy. It's hitting too close to home, bringing back her worst nightmares, threatening to expose her secret sins. But with the boy's life at stake, she won't let anything stop her from finding the real killer. With th...
|  | Dreams of the Dead (Nina Reilly)
Release Date: April 24, 2012| Series: Nina Reilly A TANGLED LEGAL BATTLE. A MURDEROUS FAMILY GAME. A NIGHTMARE NINA REILLY BELIEVED WAS LONG BURIED. Two years ago, Nina Reilly had to defend Jim Strong against charges of murder, after which the sociopath—who devastated many lives, including Nina’s—vanished and was presumed dead. Now Philip Strong, Jim’s father and millionaire owner of a Tahoe ski resort, has come to Nina with a letter from his fugitive son, demanding his share of the profits from the pending sale of Philip’s resort. Nina’s certain it’...
|  | Absolute Instinct (Jessica Coran Novels)
Release Date: August 3, 2004| Series: Jessica Coran Novels Even an experienced forensic pathologist like Jessica Coran is shocked when she learns that a woman has been killed-and her spine has been removed from her body. Complicating the case is the fact that one man has already been convicted for a similar crime, years earlier. Is there a copycat killer loose? Or does this mean that the man on death row is innocent? Jessica Coran is his only chance for freedom and the only person who can catch the killer...Watch your back, Jessica. ...
|  | Shoedog
Publication Date: September 1, 2004From "the poet laureate of the D.C. crime world" ("Esquire") comes this powerful early novel, now available in paperback for the first time--the noirish story of how a Washington, D.C., liquor store heist shows a drifter named Constantine what it means to be a shoedog. Martin's Press. ...
|  | The Illuminating World of Light with Max Axiom, Super Scientist (Graphic Science) (Graphic Library: Graphic Science)
Publication Date: January 1, 2008| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Deion Sanders (Millbrook Sports World)
Publication Date: September 1, 1997| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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