 | Curse of the Spider King: The Berinfell Prophecies Series - Book One
Publication Date: November 3, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up...
 |  | Daring Bride (Brides of Montclair #13)
Release Date: July 31, 1997Craig Cavanaugh opened his briefcase and drew out the folder containing the manuscript. It was getting dark when he finished reading. No question, he thought, Kitty Traherne can write.Her face came back into his mind. He saw the pain in her eyes, heard the urgency in her voice, as he recalled the passion with which she had told him her reason for writing this highly controversial book.A slight flush had swept over her pale face as she said, 'I think this country is in danger of being drawn into another foreign war, Mr. Cavanaugh.'Kitty Traherne, who had been a fiel...
|  | The Gospel According to Satan: or A Satanic Parody of the Bible
Publication Date: March 5, 2007What if Satan were the good guy and God were the bad guy? How would the Bible read then? Certainly the whole context would be changed and an entire new light would be shed on what we have been told was the 'holy bible.' Thus, The Gospel According to Satan is exactly that--the characters are inverted (as if they may not have been originally) and Satan is the good guy and God is the bad guy. You'll discover who really evolved the world, what happened with Adam and Eve in the Garden, the Satanic Psalms, all those proverbs you have wondered about, Silaas the old te...
|  | The Last Man: A Novel
Release Date: May 22, 2012A woman goes missing, sending a young nuclear engineer on a quest deep into the Judean desert to the legendary fortress of Masada, where secrets are concealed When a young Israeli woman suddenly goes missing, her boyfriend, an American nuclear engineer, suspects her disappearance is connected to her tantalizing theory about the haunting fortress of Masada. He decides to travel to Herod’s 2000 year old mountain fortress to see if her theory was right. There, he makes a discovery so astonishing that forces from the dark side of Israeli intell...
|  | Beyond Instinct
Publication Date: May 19, 2011Vaughn Elliott is a member of the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Force. Someone high up in the United States government has pulled rank, hand-selecting her to oversee security for a visit by congressional VIPs to the West African nation of Mali. The question is, who picked her for the job and why?Sage McNally, a career diplomat, is the political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Mali. As control officer for the congressional visit, she is tasked to brief Vaughn regarding the political climate in the region. The two women are instantly attracted to ea...
|  | The Free Negress Elisabeth
Publication Date: April 1, 2009Elisabeth Samson, a free black Surinamese woman who lived in 18th-century Dutch Guyana, is the central character in this compelling novel. Challenging the prevailing racial stereotypes by demonstrating her intelligence and business acumen, she is determined to marry a white man in defiance of all established norms and conventions. Set amidst the rich backdrop of the Golden Age of Suriname, this biographical account depicts the complex social and racial stratifications which were features of slave colonies of the era as well as this remarkable woman who overcame...
|  | Mission Into Light
Publication Date: January 21, 2001What starts out as a phone call and job offer to Arizonan Mike Green quickly evolves into a mystifying adventure into the unknown. Mike is recruited into a San Deigo-based Defense Department research team called the "Joint Reconnaissance Study Group." The group includes ten women and men, all well-trained and dedicated. The "JRSG" and its friends gather intelligence information on unusual phenomena: UFOs, crop circles, dolphin intelligence, deep-memory DNA theories, near-death experiences, "Earth changes" involving "pole shifts," and Native American culture ...
|  | Reap the Whirlwind: The Plainsmen
Release Date: January 1, 1994| Series: Plainsmen (Book 9) As the Sioux and the Cheyenne amass along the northern frontier, army scout Seamus Donegan heads north to Fort Fetterman and Brigadier General George C. Crook prepares to face off against Crazy Horse....
|  | Aeschylus Plays: I: The Persians , Prometheus Bound , The Suppliants and Seven Against Thebes (Classical Dramatists)
Publication Date: September 16, 1991| Series: Classical Dramatists Classic plays reissued in the new Methuen Greek Classics series in a new distinctive styleThe Persians; based on the destruction of the Persian invaders in 480BC, breaks with the Greek tradition of purely dramatising myths to deals with the recent past and with characters who would have been familiar to its first audience in 472BC; Prometheus Bound stages the stand off between the original rebel and hero Prometheus and almighty Zeus; Suppliants, follows the plight of Danaus and his daughters, in flight from a fateful marriage...
|  | The Scenebook for Actors: Great Monologs And Dialogs From Contemporary And Classical Theatre
Publication Date: June 1990| ISBN-10: 0916260658 | ISBN-13: 978-0916260651| Edition: 1st Scenebook for Actors is a Meriwether Publishing publication. ...
|  | Crimson Eros
Publication Date: February 1, 2005This book is a combination of love, accomplishments, and regrets. Author Lolette Kuby says, "In poems love is purified; it's there for its own sake, to celebrate that which is loved." Some people ask themselves how they should feel or look to others to help them understand their feelings. Kuby searches within, and then releases her feelings. Through her book, Inwit, Kuby helps the reader understand and experience every feeling she has. ...
|  | Nice Morning for It, Adam
Publication Date: April 1, 2005| ISBN-10: 0864734735 | ISBN-13: 978-0864734730A powerful intellect is brought to bear on a world of continual change and curiosity in this luminous poetry collection. ...
|  | Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008
Release Date: March 15, 2012Right up until his death in 2008, John Leonard was a lion in American letters. A passionate, erudite, and wide-ranging critic, he helped shape the landscape of modern literature. He reviewed the most celebrated writers of his age—from Kurt Vonnegut and Joan Didion to Toni Morrison and Thomas Pynchon. He championed Morrison’s work so ardently that she invited him to travel with her to Stockholm when she accepted her Nobel Prize. He also contributed many pieces on television, film, politics, and the media, which continue to surprise and impres...
|  | Making of the English Bible
Publication Date: October 11, 2001The King James Bible, the most famous English-language Bible, was the culmination of centuries of work by various translators, most notably John Wycliffe in the fifteenth century and William Tyndale in the sixteenth. In this enthralling account of the tumultuous politics surrounding the translation of the Bible into vernacular languages, Benson Bobrick, a professor from Columbia University, shows how the achievement of Tyndale and other translators had a permanent influence on the English-speaking world. As the historian Macaulay wrote of the King James vers...
|  | Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature (Encyclopedia of World Literature)
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|  | Short Story Collection, Volume 1
Publication Date: September 14, 2011Six short stories by Smoky Trudeau ZeidelIn A Flash In 1989, Susan Trudeau-the woman who later would become known as author and Earth Mage Smoky Trudeau Zeidel, was struck by lightning. This is the remarkable tale of her ordeal, her struggle to overcome physical injuries that would have killed most people, and her triumph in learning to live a life of joy and inspiration despite chronic pain. Lesser Offenses - Jack Swanson's stepmother, Carlotta, makes a fairy tale stepmother look like Mother of the Year. Carlotta walking in on him in the bathroom is the l...
|  | The World Is Not Enough
Release Date: September 15, 2000Greed, revenge, world domination through the power of oil, high-techterrorism... Only some of the ingredients of this latest 007 adventure whichbegins outside the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, continues with aspectacular high-speed boat chase up the Thames and progresses through the highlands of Scotland before Bond faces an avalanche in the CaucasusMountains and a potential nuclear explosion in Turkey. Sir Robert King, a wealthy oil tycoon, is murdered in an unprecedentedbombing at MI6's London headquarters.M takes the attack personally andsends James B...
|  | Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood, Book 2)
Release Date: March 2, 2010| Series: Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood (Book 2) Visit our Sookie Stackhouse series feature page. ...
|  | Marvel Heroes the Battle Unfolds Fold-Out Flap Book
Publication Date: June 19, 2007 ...
|  | I Once Was a Monkey: Stories Buddha Told
Publication Date: March 31, 1999| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up A colorful introduction to Buddhist fablesA monkey, caught in a monsoon, finds shelter in a cave amid the rubble of a temple. The monkey is not alone. A lion, a jackal, a turtle, and a dove bicker in the cramped space, until a statue of Buddha comes to life. "Hush, children, hush." Buddha says. "I will tell you a story to pass the time." From the tale of the clever monkey outwidding a hungry crocodile to that of a bird and turtle rescuing a friend, the six amusing parables told by the Buddha will introduce young re...
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