 | Silver Lining (Urban Christian)
Release Date: July 26, 2011| Series: Urban Christian After exchanging vows with a prominent physician, Marlissa Scott-Jennings is prepared to enjoy the life most women dream about, but only a few achieve until demons from her past resurface with a vengeance. Overnight, the perfect life she'd hoped for crumbles and leaves her finding comfort in alcohol. Leon Scott had it all: a loving wife, children and a thriving business until tragedy strikes and he trades it all in for a bottle in a brown paper bag. After too much to drink leads to a night in a motel room, M...
 |  | Wicked Appetite
Release Date: September 14, 2010Life in Marblehead has had a pleasant predictability, until Diesel arrives. Rumor has it that a collection of priceless ancient relics representing the Seven Deadly Sins have made their way to Boston’s North Shore. Partnered with pastry chef Lizzie Tucker, Diesel bullies and charms his way through historic Salem to track them down—and his criminal mastermind cousin Gerewulf Grimorie. The black-haired, black-hearted Wulf is on the hunt for the relic representing gluttony. Caught in a race against time, Diesel and Lizzie soon find out that more isn...
|  | Robert Ludlum's the Bourne Deception
Release Date: June 9, 2009After Bourne is ambushed and nearly killed while in Indonesia, he fakes his death to take on a new identity and mission- to find out who is trying to assassinate him. In the process, Bourne begins to question who he really is and what he would become if he no longer carried the Bourne identity. Across the globe, an American passenger airliner is shot down over Egypt-apparently by an Iranian missile-leaving the world wondering if it was an accident or an act of aggression. A massive global team lead by Soraya Moore is assembled to investigate the attack before the si...
|  | The Accomplice: A Novel
Release Date: September 4, 2012In this stellar debut by journalist turned Washington insider and political writer Charles Robbins, an eager politico finds himself on the rise only to discover the perilous costs of success. When Henry Hatten wangles a job as communications director for Nebraska SenatorTom Peele’s presidential campaign, he breathes a huge sigh of relief. Smarting over a recent gubernatorial campaign in which his pulling a political punch may have cost his boss the race, he’s thrilled to be back in action.This time around, Henry is determined to shuck his ethi...
|  | Killing Game (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation)
Release Date: October 25, 2005| Series: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (Book 7) The machinations of a new supervisor may have altered Gil Grissom's team of skillful CSIs, as Catherine Willows, Nick Stokes, and Warrick Brown are reassigned from the graveyard shift to the swing shift. That doesn't mean, however, that their paths will never cross. During the course of their separate investigations, the teams must unite again to investigate two distinct murders -- atrocities that are oddly aligned as they share much of the same collective evidence. Despite the different M.O.s, the CSIs are uncov...
|  | The New Oxford Book of Sixteenth-Century Verse (Oxford Books of Prose & Verse)
Publication Date: May 7, 2009| Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse The sixteenth century has long been acknowledged the Golden Age of English verse - with such names as Shakespeare, Donne, and Spenser to its credit it could hardly be otherwise. Hailed as a veritable treasure house (London Review of Books) and magnificent, heartening (The Observer), this brilliant anthology includes both undisputed masterpieces and brilliant but hitherto neglected gems. It is the first to reveal the full range and diversity of the centurys poetic riches. Readers will find poems from a who's who of English v...
|  | La leyenda de los soles (Tierra Firme)
Publication Date: December 31, 1993| Series: Tierra Firme La leyenda de los soles es una historia situada en el año 2027 en la ciudad de México. La urbe agoniza; no hay árboles ni agua y escasea la energía eléctrica. El sol ya no es visible en las calles y la contaminación hace de los crepúsculos manchones de luz ocre. El terror cubre la ciudad. En sus calles, una pareja es testigo de una trama cósmica y realista urdida con los mitos aztecas y el panorama poco halagüeño de la ciudad más grande del mundo. ...
|  | Strange Interlude
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|  | The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: November 1, 2001| Series: Penguin Classics Oscar Wilde-witty raconteur, flamboyant hedonist, and self-destructive lover-is most familiar as the author of brilliant comedies, including The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, and the decadent novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. This selection of critical writings reveals a different side of the great writer-the deep and serious reader of literature and philosophy, and the eloquent and original thinker about society and art. This illuminating collection includes "The Portrait of Mr. W. H.," "In Defense of Dorian Gray," re...
|  | Penguin's Poems for Life (Penguin Hardback Classics)
Publication Date: November 1, 2007| Series: Penguin Hardback Classics Taking its inspiration from Shakespeare's idea of the 'seven ages' of a human life, this new anthology brings together the best-loved poems in English to inspire, comfort and delight readers for a lifetime. Beginning with babies, the book is divided into sections on childhood, growing up, making a living and making love, family life, getting older, and approaching death, ending with poems of mourning and commemoration. Ranging from Chaucer to Carol Ann Duffy, via Shakespeare, Keats, and Lemn Sissay, this book offers someth...
|  | Bucolicas - Edicion Bilingue (Letras Universales / Universal Writings) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Forces in Modern and Postmodern Poetry (Studies in Modern Poetry)
Publication Date: November 2, 2007| ISBN-10: 0820451347 | ISBN-13: 978-0820451343Forces in Modern and Postmodern Poetry examines the works of classic authors in the modern and postmodern literary tradition, including Stephane Mallarme, Wallace Stevens, Samuel Beckett, Gertrude Stein, Charles Olson, Paul Celan, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky, and John Ashbery, all from a comparative perspective. The concepts, modern and postmodern, are not used to provide definitive answers but to raise questions concerning the status of representation, issues of the self, and the use...
|  | Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories (Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural)
Publication Date: September 10, 2007| Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural This is a book to be read by a blazing fire on a winter's night, with the curtains drawn close and the doors securely locked. The unquiet souls of the dead, both as fictional creations and as 'real' apparitions, roam the pages of this haunting new selection of ghost stories by Rex Collings. Some of these stories are classics while others are lesser-known gems unearthed from this vintage era of tales of the supernatural. There are stories from distant lands - 'Fisher's Ghost' by John Lang is set in Australia and...
|  | Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled
Release Date: December 22, 1997In a blend of intimate memoir and passionate advocacy, Nancy Mairs takes on the subject woven through all her writing: disability and its effect on life, work, and spirit. ...
|  | Greenery: Ecocritical Readings of Late Medieval English Literature (Manchester Medieval Literature)
Release Date: January 18, 2011| ISBN-10: 0719072492 | ISBN-13: 978-0719072499Humankind has always been fascinated by the world in which it finds itself, and puzzled by its relations to it. Today that fascination is often expressed in what is now called "green" terms, reflecting concerns about the non-human natural world, puzzlement about how we relate to it, and anxiety about what we, as humans, are doing to it. So called green or eco-criticism acknowledges this concern. Greenery reaches back and offers new readings of English texts, both known and unfamiliar, informed by eco-critic...
|  | Scorpion Winter
Release Date: July 31, 2012 In the frozen wastes of Siberia, a silver artifact is stolen from a dead man . . . In the Middle East, the carefully planned strike on a terrorist leader goes disastrously wrong . . . Two seemingly unrelated incidents have placed the former CIA covert operative-turned-freelance spy, code-named Scorpion, in a desperate position: joining forces with a beautiful woman to prevent the assassination of a powerful Ukrainian politician. But treachery breeds terror in the long shadow of a dangerous Russia, as Scorpion finds himself caught in a lethal trap sprung by an un...
|  | The Rocket's Trail
Release Date: July 20, 2009That "one small step for man" in July 1969 was made possible by a small group of Germans captured by the Americans at the end of WWII. The Rocket's Trail is about one of these men, his direct links to crimes against humanity, and how US Cold War Warriors went to extreme lengths to cover them up.The story is revealed through the eyes of Jim Black, an English scientist drafted in to the secret post-war intellectual reparations programme. Black's personal ambition leads him into a deception that denies the German rocket scientists to Britain and delivers them to Ameri...
|  | Fools Rush In (Sam McCain Mysteries)
Publication Date: March 8, 2009| Series: Sam McCain Mysteries "Sam McCain is the kind of hero any small town could take to its heart."-Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review In America's heartland, Sam seeks justice for a black college student who's found dead in a car trunk at the drive-in, while thousands gather in the nation's capital for the March on Washington with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition....
|  | Torn (The Missing, Book 4)
Release Date: August 23, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up Still reeling from their experiences in Roanoke in 1600, Jonah and Katherine arrive in 1611 only moments before a mutiny on Henry Hudson’s ship in the icy waters of James Bay. But things are messed up: they’ve lost the real John Hudson, and they find what seems to be the fabled Northwest Passage—even though they are pretty sure that that route doesn’t actually exist. Will this new version of history replace the real past? Is this the end of time as we know it? With more at stake than ever before, Jonah and Katherine s...
|  | DK Readers: Star Wars: Epic Battles
Publication Date: February 18, 2008| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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