 | Dark and Perfect Angels: A Collection of Poems
Publication Date: July 1, 1996poems by author of CARRY ME LIKE WATER, et al...
 |  | Deadline (The Godmothers)
Release Date: April 12, 2012| Series: The Godmothers No sooner have Toots Loudenberry and her three best friends - Sophie, Ida, and Mavis - returned from providing some much-needed psychic advice to the First Lady of California, when another situation demands their attention. Troubled Hollywood starlet Laura Leigh is missing. Toots' daughter, Abby, has both a personal and professional stake in the story. Not only is she editor-in-chief at gossip magazine The Informer, but entertainment attorney Chris Clay, Abby's would-be beau, was the last person seen with Laura. And now he's missing, too. ...
|  | Orphan Train: A Novel
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|  | Monster
Publication Date: April 15, 2005Some monsters are real. Miles away from the hectic city, Reed and Rebecca hike into the beautiful Northwestern woods. They are surrounded by gorgeous mountains, waterfalls, and hundreds of acres of unspoiled wilderness. During their first night of camping, an unearthly wail pierces the calm of the forest. Then something emerges from the dense woods. Everything that follows is a blur to Reed—except the unforgettable image of a huge creature carrying his wife into the darkness. Enter into deep wilderness where the rules of civilization no longer apply. A w...
|  | Summon the Shadows (Shadow of Dreams Series #2)
Publication Date: May 1, 2002Eighteen months ago, Katie Webster lived a life that most people can only dream of. She'd shaken off the shadows of her past. Discovered a faith that sustained her through every obstacle. And married Ben Webster owner of the fabled five-star hotel chain, The Hamilton Place, in a whirlwind storybook romance. Life finally seemed so right. And then...everything exploded. Days after Katie and Ben discovered an illegal escort service operating out of their New York City hotel, Ben's car was bombed. His body was never found. Now Katie has stepped into the role of CEO a...
|  | A Heartbeat Away
Publication Date: April 1, 2003You think it’s never going to happen to you. I know because that’s how I was—untouchable. Bad things only happen to someone else. Or if something bad actually did happen, it was always something the doctor could fix with fiberglass or a pill.That’s the way it was with my family—at least until the year I turned thirteen.When their young daughter, Kristin, is kidnapped, Gary and Angie Marshall struggle to make sense of the unthinkable. Who could do such a thing? And why Kristin? As more time passes in their desperate search for their daug...
|  | The Last Keepers of the Covenant
Publication Date: May 12, 2009People dying by the millions! Infrastructures falling apart! Nature going berserk! What in the world is going on?We are at warnot only in the Middle Eastbut with aliens we cannot see and whose tactics are most often beyond our detection. It is a cosmic war that will determine the destiny of every human being that has ever existed on planet earth. The signs of this war are widespread disease, violence, natural disasters, worldwide terrorism, economic crisis, religious intolerance, and political struggles. Its final consequences will be bigreally big for the loser...
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|  | Michael Palmer CD Collection: The Sisterhood, Side Effects, The Society
Publication Date: January 29, 2006The Sisterhood:Inside Boston Doctors Hospital, patients are dying. In the glare of the operating room, they survive the surgeon's knife. But in the dark, hollow silence of the night, they die. Suddenly, inexplicably, horribly. A tough, bright doctor will risk his very life for a dedicated young nurse who unknowingly holds the answers. Side Effects:Kate Bennett. A bright hospital pathologist with a loving husband and a solid future. Until one day her world turns dark. A strange, puzzling illness has killed two women. Now it endangers Kate's closest friend. So...
|  | Fatal Care
Release Date: November 1, 2001With "fascinating forensics and insider insights," (People), Leonard Goldberg and his heroine, forensic pathologist Joanna Blalock, have thrilled fans of medical suspense with the latest technologies...and newest terrors.In this brand-new paperback original, Joanna follows a trail of unexplained deaths to a biogenetic laboratory-where scientists are making unprecedented leaps in gene therapy...at the cost of human life."Non-stop enjoyment... Joanna Blalock is a great character." (Affaire de Coeur)"Goldberg has the anatomy of ingenious murders down pat." (K...
|  | MacCallister (Eagles Legacy, Book 1)
Release Date: April 1, 2011The Legend Lives! The Scottish Highlands, 1885. Two men, brandishing knives, attack a young woman outside a pub. Duff MacAllister steps in and saves her - killing one of the assailants. Big mistake. The attacker was the sheriff's son, and now MacAllister is marked for death. His only hope: America. Here, in the sprawling land of dreams, Duff hopes to start a new life with his American cousins. Unfortunately, the sheriff's deputies are tracking him down - with nine of the deadliest cutthroats money can buy. Blazing a trail of blood and bullets all the way to the Roc...
|  | The Bruce Trilogy: A Superb Trilogy About Scotland's Greatest Hero (Coronet Books)
Publication Date: March 1, 1985| Series: Coronet Books This trilogy tells the story of Robert the Bruce and how, tutored and encouraged by the heroic William Wallace, he determined to continue the fight for an independent Scotland, sustained by a passionate love for his land. ...
|  | On the Natural History of Destruction (Modern Library Paperbacks)
Release Date: February 17, 2004| Series: Modern Library Paperbacks During World War Two, 131 German cities and towns were targeted by Allied bombs, a good number almost entirely flattened. Six hundred thousand German civilians died—a figure twice that of all American war casualties. Seven and a half million Germans were left homeless. Given the astonishing scope of the devastation, W. G. Sebald asks, why does the subject occupy so little space in Germany’s cultural memory? On the Natural History of Destructionprobes deeply into this ominous silence. ...
|  | On Entering the Sea: The Erotic and Other Poetry of Nizar Qabbani (Poetry Series)
Publication Date: October 1, 2006In this collection of poems by one of the Ar ab world''s greatest love poets, the author pays homage to th e grace and beauty of women and takes on those who dare to i mpose taboos on women and love. ' ...
|  | The Myths of Love: Classical Lovers in Medieval Literature
Publication Date: October 1, 1990This study seeks to define the medieval literary conventions governing allusions to certain Ovidian and Virgilian tales of love in the works of Boccaccio, Machaut, Froissart, and Chaucer. Using evidence from the Latin mythographers, it addresses several much-debated critical issues in medieval scholarship: questions of narrative voice, thematic unity, and purpose. Its principal contribution is to the discussion and evaluation of the French and Italian poems of love to which Chaucer was most heavily indebted. The author suggests that the love poems of Boccacci...
|  | There Are Things We Live Among: Essays on the Object World
Publication Date: September 1, 2012Literary Nonfiction. Conversational, humane, and forthright, Jennifer Moxley brings her remarkable strengths as a poet to bear on the essay tradition. At once literary and personal, THERE ARE THINGS WE LIVE AMONG follows the thread connecting texts and objects in her life, from her girlhood saddle to her mother's sewing machine, from her favorite books to an old set of frying pans. As she suggests, these things serve variously as accomplishments, talismans, fetishes, and keepers of lost life. Our attachments prove as diverse as our possessions, and yet, in ...
|  | The New Oxford Guide to Writing
Release Date: April 28, 1994Many books on writing tell you how to think more creatively, how to conjure up an idea from scratch.Many, once you have an idea, show you how to express it clearly and elegantly. And many handbooks offer reliable advice on the use of commas, semicolons, and so forth.But The New Oxford Guide to Writing does all three, so that no matter where you find yourself in the writing process--from the daunting look of a blank page, to the rough draft that needs shaping, to the small but important questions of punctuation--you will find what you need in one handy volume. High...
|  | Selected Works (New Riverside Editions)
Publication Date: April 25, 2002| ISBN-10: 0395980755 | ISBN-13: 978-0395980750| Edition: 1 The first book of its kind to pair the writings of Emerson and Fuller, this text plays a major role in illuminating the contributions of both men and women to American Transcendentalism. In addition to a generous selection of Emerson's essays, the complete text of Margaret Fuller's Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and a selection of Fuller's dispatches from Europe, the volume contains copious contextualizing footnotes and an excellent introduction. Readers also explore the struggles of both writer...
|  | A World of My Own (The mariner's library)
Publication Date: May 1994| Series: The mariner's library Originally published in 1970, Robin Knox-Johnston's A World of My Own has become a treasured classic - the dramatic account of the first nonstop, single-handed voyage around the world, for which Knox-Johnston won the Sunday Times Golden Globe trophy. On June 14, 1968, Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almost unnoticed out of Falmouth harbor while Knox-Johnston's family and a few friends waved goodbye to the solitary twenty-nine-year-old figure at the helm. His was an incredible adventure, a feat of endeavor and seamanship which will be u...
|  | Don't Touch That! (Easy-to-Read Spooky Tales)
Release Date: October 14, 2008| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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