 | What a Sista Should Do
Publication Date: June 3, 2005A powerful and spiritually satisfying novel from a compelling new voice about three courageous women who must confront the harsh realities of their lives through faith and prayer. Pam Lyons has a husband who places more trust in money and marijuana than in God. Yvonne Hastings is a minister's wife whose husband's infidelity and physical abuse brings their marriage to a crossroads. Taylor Johnson is a single mother who is looking for a good Christian man to help raise her son, but is unable to rid herself of the guilt left over from her promiscuous past. The secr...
 |  | Eleven Minutes: A Novel (P.S.)
Release Date: March 29, 2005| Series: P.S.Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that "love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer. . . ." A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune. Maria's despairing view of love is put to the test when she meets a handsome young painter. In this odyssey of self-discovery, Maria has to choose between pursuing a ...
|  | The Silver Hand (The Song of Albion)
Publication Date: August 24, 2010| Series: The Song of Albion (Book 2) "Before Albion is one, the hero feat must be performed and Silver Hand must reign." The great king, Meldryn Mawr, is dead, and his kingdom lies in ruins. Treachery and brutality rule the land, and Albion is the scene of an epic struggle for the throne. Lewis is now known as Llew in this Otherworld, and he has become a threat to the usurper Meldron. Exiled and driven from the clan, he must seek the meaning behind a mysterious prophecy--the making of a true king and the revealing of a long-awaited...
|  | Outsourced
Release Date: June 12, 2007In the 21st Century war and espionage have been transformed. With the CIA on the ropes, the armed forces stretched thin, and the need for special operations capabilities at an all-time high, the United States government has turned to private corporations to help shoulder the load. Companies such as Blackwater USA, Triple Canopy and Abraxas field over 50,000 private soldiers and spies who conduct missions formerly restricted to the military and the CIA. National security has been outsourced. In Outsourced Camille Black, a former CIA ...
|  | Cuentos de Jack London (Biblioteca Juvenil) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: March 15, 2010| ISBN-10: 6074570574 | ISBN-13: 978-6074570571| Edition: 1 st Descripcion en Espanol: Seleccion de cuentos de Jack London de una amplia gama de temas. Aqui hay aventuras, paisajes exoticos y lejanos, tormentas de mar y de nieve, pero tambien hay una interesante incursion en la condicion humana y en su manera de contemplar la vida. Descripcion in English: Jack London was a great story teller. We have posted a collection of what many consider his best short stories, exploring adventures, exotic places, storms but mainly, exploring the human being. ...
|  | Black As Snow
Publication Date: December 4, 2012Sebastian Black is gorgeous and charismatic — and he’s telepathic. So when his prophetess mother, Kitty Black, declares him “New Man,” their tiny spiritual movement mushrooms. But when disciples die and Christian militants declare war on this “false messiah,” Sebastian runs, seeking refuge. On his journey, he meets “common” people with unforgettable histories: an aging lesbian couple; a Mexican handyman; an anorexic woman; a meth addict; a gay teenager; an unthinking college jock. As Sebastian’s ...
|  | The Prince (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: September 21, 1992| Series: Dover Thrift Editions Classic guide to acquiring and maintaining political power is refreshing in its directness, yet often disturbing in its cold practicality. Starkly relevant to the political upheavals of the 20th century, this calculating prescription for power remains today, nearly 500 years after it was written, a timely and startling lesson in the practice of autocratic rule. ...
|  | Selected Poems (Oxford Poets)
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| | Slowly But Dearly
Publication Date: June 30, 2004ANOTHER PLANETin tall grasseswe are thinkingof what we are insunshine wonderingwhere we came fromamong flowers listeningto sounds of birds, black birds trilling lasciviouslyextending themselves toward usbeside the pond we are dutifullyimagining what our life will be likeafter we are dead and will have no wish tothink or feel or worry about anything anymorein the sky we fondly speculate about dear lovedones who are lost far away probably also lookingfor us among the tall grasses of our displaced thinkingwe who are still thinking beside the pond as the frogscroak...
|  | Feminist Revolution in Literacy: Women's Bookstores in the United States (Studies in American Popular History and Culture)
Publication Date: April 27, 2006| ISBN-10: 0415975964 | ISBN-13: 978-0415975964| Edition: 1 This book examines the history of women's bookstores in the US from the 1970s to the 1990s. It establishes that women's bookstores played an important role in feminism by enabling the dissemination of women's voices and thereby helping to sustain and enrich the women's movement. They improved women's literacy - their abilities to read, write, publish, and distribute women's voices and visions - and helped women to instigate a feminist revolution in literacy. ...
|  | A Cultural History of the Modern Age: Renaissance and Reformation
Publication Date: March 31, 2008| Series: Cultural History of the Modern Age (Book 1)Historian, philosopher, critic, playwright, journalist, and actor, Egon Friedell was a key figure in the extraordinary flowering of Viennese culture between the two world wars. His masterpiece, A Cultural History of the Modern Age, demonstrates the intellectual universality that Friedell saw as guarantor of the continuity and regeneration of European civilization.Following a brilliant opening essay on cultural history and why it should be studied, the first volume begins with an analysis of the transform...
|  | Keats's Odes and Contemporary Criticism
Publication Date: June 30, 1998"A penetrating account not simply of the poems themselves but of the theoretical positions that have informed their reading during the past forty years. . . . [O'Rourke] is particularly shrewd in suggesting the dialogue between New Criticism and post-structuralism that has been played out in their lines."--Frances Ferguson, Johns Hopkins UniversityJames O'Rourke examines the ways in which the modern reception to Keats’s major odes reveals the investments made in these poems by successive generations of critical schools, particularly New Criticis...
|  | Toolbox
Publication Date: March 1999| ISBN-10: 1879378191 | ISBN-13: 978-1879378193| Edition: Bilingual A bilingual edition (Spanish/English) of Caja de herramientas, aseries of imaginative storiesor fantastic reflectionson the natureof things that help us to organize our lives, such as the hammer, thescrewdriver, the piece of string, by a promising Mexican writer. ...
|  | Perfect Kisses
Publication Date: June 26, 2007"School For Scandal" - Susan Johnson: James Bell, Viscount Ormond, is a shameless rake, infamous for his skills in seduction - and Claire Russell doesn't intend for her sister to become his latest conquest. That is why she's come to the viscount's private masked ball. The flagrant sensuality and unabashed decadence on display there are shocking, but they are nothing compared to the scandalous fire Claire feels when James makes a wholly improper suggestion...improper, indecent, and very, very tempting..."Mischief And The Marquess" - Sylvia Day: Justin, the Marqu...
|  | A Good Conviction
Publication Date: March 29, 2012A Good Conviction is a terrifying story ripped from today's headlines ... and from many more storiesthat have never been told. Joshua Blake comes to New York City, expecting to enter law school, but is instead arrested and convicted of a murder he did not commit by a prosecutor who knew he was innocent. Prosecutors who withhold or invent evidence are a cancer on the American justice system, and it happens far more often than we wantg to believe. ...
|  | The Abbot's Gibbet: A Knights Templar Mystery (Knights Templar Mysteries (Avon))
Release Date: April 25, 2006| Series: Knights Templar Mysteries (Avon) The knights templarThey were warrior monks, dedicated to the protection of pilgrims in the Holy Land -- until an avaricious king savagely destroyed the order. One knight, however, escaped the stake, vowing justice for his murdered brothers.A gathering of evilWith scores of merchants streaming into Devon to participate in the Tavistock fair of 1319, a goodly amount of unlawful activity is expected. No one, however, anticipates a murder. The guests of Abbot Robert Champeaux, former Knight Templar Sir Baldwin F...
| | Adventures of the One Inch Boy: Issun Boshi (Japanese Fairy Tales (Unnumbered))
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|  | Skateboarding
Publication Date: July 6, 2006From the Push Off, to the Tick Tack Attack, from the Backside Ollie Grab to the Pop Shove It - whether you skateboard already and just want some insider tips, or you are interested in learning from scratch, this book is for you. Discover everything you need to know, from basic techniques to advanced skills and tactics. Includes: a look at the best equipment to buy; how to choose a board and look after it properly; customising equipment; and skate competitions and skate parks around the world Learn from the best! Pick up tricks from the experts, get up close to s...
|  | Farm Mouse (Patchwork Mice Series)
Release Date: January 1, 2005| Age Level: 3 and up...
|  | I Can Go Fishing (Welcome Books: Sports)
Publication Date: March 2003| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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