 | Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005
Release Date: October 7, 2008 The poems in Robert Hass's new collection—his first to appear in a decade—are grounded in the beauty and energy of the physical world, and in the bafflement of the present moment in American culture. This work is breathtakingly immediate, stylistically varied, redemptive, and wise. His familiar landscapes are here—San Francisco, the Northern California coast, the Sierra high country—in addition to some of his oft-explored themes: art; the natural world; the nature of desire; the violence of history; the power and limits of language; and...
 |  | Watch Me Die
Release Date: June 21, 2011In Spindler's thrilling new psychological drama, one woman's journey to recovery becomes her worst nightmare... Before Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, stained-glass restoration artist Mira Gallier had it all: a thriving business doing work she loved and an idyllic marriage to the perfect man. But the devastating storm stole her beloved husband - his body swept away by floodwaters, never to be found.Now, after years of pain and turmoil, it looks as if Mira is finally on the verge of peace and emotional stability. But her life, like the magnifice...
|  | Third Starlighter (Tales of Starlight)
Publication Date: October 3, 2011| Series: Tales of Starlight (Book 2) Adrian Masters journeys into the wilderness of Starlight, the dragon planet, in search of his brother Frederick who has built a refuge for runaway slaves. Carrying the comatose body of Marcelle and accompanied by two liberated slave girls, Adrian has to find medical help for Marcelle, but the slave master dragons will kill him on sight if he comes out of hiding. Adrian hopes to join his brother and devise a plan to rescue other humans enslaved on Starlight. Since he cannot leave Marcelle alone, he...
|  | The Littlest Warrior
Publication Date: August 28, 2009The Littlest Warrior is a book about HOPE and ANTICIPATION. Life will never, on this earth, be free of sorrow and loss-both of which were factors in the writing of this book.Sharp turns we could never expect may toss us into stormy seas that we are not prepared to navigate; and one of the worst imaginable is the loss of a child.In times like these, God and heaven are far away.Your tears may flow as this tiny soul is whisked away; but you will travel with him to a place where goodness and pleasure are plentiful; where dreams are reality and love flourishes; wh...
|  | The Keepers of the House
Release Date: November 11, 2003Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1965, The Keepers of the House is Shirley Ann Grau’s masterwork, a many-layered indictment of racism and rage that is as terrifying as it is wise.Entrenched on the same land since the early 1800s, the Howlands have, for seven generations, been pillars of their Southern community. Extraordinary family lore has been passed down to Abigail Howland, but not all of it. When shocking facts come to light about her late grandfather William’s relationship with Margaret Carmichael, a black housekeeper, the community is outraged...
|  | More Full of Weeping
Publication Date: February 25, 2012From the grimy streets of 1920s Glasgow to the peat fires of the Outer Hebrides during the Great Depression, More Full of Weeping is the story of Hugh MacSoirbheas.He begins life as that rarest of things: a happy orphan, learning Gaelic from a caretaker at the orphanage, the woman who named him and whose daughter becomes Hugh’s closest friend. Though desperate to remain where he is, he is intrigued when he learns that he is to be taken in as a foster child on a Gaelic-speaking island off the Scottish coast.Little does he know that on this remote crof...
|  | Doom 3: Worlds on Fire (Bk. 1)
Release Date: February 26, 2008| Series: Doom 3 The year is 2144...and the battle over Earth's precious resources has raged for a century. With global economies in ruins and all-out world war more than a possibility, the U.S government turned to the Union Aerospace Corporation, giving it carte blanche on the legendary red planet of Mars in a desperate bid to construct an off-world outpost that might provide resources, a military advantage...as well as something so secret that even members of government don't have a clue about it.... Special Ops Marine Lieutenant John Kane was once a careeris...
|  | La Rebelion de Atlas (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 2006| ISBN-10: 9872095159 | ISBN-13: 978-9872095154Esta es la cautivante historia de un hombre que prometi...
|  | Horse's Neck
Publication Date: August 1985Townshend explores life's "razor-edged pathways" in this bold, impressionistic work of autobiographical fiction, with "intriguing experimental writing packed with vivid imagery" (Library Journal) that strikingly mirrors the musical compositions Tommy and Quadrophenia. As he recalls his childhood, the decadent indulgences of success, and a new discovery of life itself, Townshend re-creates in fiction a powerful personal odyssey from the inside out. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | The Women in Black
Publication Date: December 1993Madeleine St John weaves a fairytale which illuminates the extraordinariness of ordinary lives. ...
|  | Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their Texts
Publication Date: April 5, 2004| ISBN-10: 0691116970 | ISBN-13: 978-0691116976Nearly all of us have studied poetry and been taught to look for the symbolic as well as literal meaning of the text. Is this the way the ancients saw poetry? In Birth of the Symbol, Peter Struck explores the ancient Greek literary critics and theorists who invented the idea of the poetic "symbol." The book notes that Aristotle and his followers did not discuss the use of poetic symbolism. Rather, a different group of Greek thinkers--the allegorists--were the first to develop the notion. Struck extensively revi...
|  | Blue Fever
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|  | Translating Modernism: Fitzgerald and Hemingway
Publication Date: September 23, 2010In Translating Modernism Ronald Berman continues his career-long study of the ways that intellectual and philosophical ideas informed and transformed the work of America’s major modernist writers.Here Berman shows how Fitzgerald and Hemingway wrestled with very specific intellectual, artistic, and psychological influences, influences particular to each writer, particular to the time in which they wrote, and which left distinctive marks on their entire oeuvres. Specifically, Berman addresses the idea of "translating" or "translation&quo...
|  | Yesterday's Memories(By Request 2's)
Publication Date: May 1, 2003| Series: By Request 2's Forgetting the past can destroy the future . . .Nothing but memories . . .Father: UnknownTara Taylor QuinnThe only thing Anna knows about herself is her name and that she's pregnant. At least, that's what the doctors told her. She was in an accident, and when she regained consciousness, she had no memory of who she was. She also has no idea who the father of her baby is. Jason Whitaker sees Anna on TV and recognizes her. She's Anna Hayden, the woman he still loves. The woman who rejected him three months ago.The woman who can't remember h...
|  | A Spring/Easter Collection Anthology: Sweet
Publication Date: March 21, 2011Love's Sweet Journey by Cindy CarrierJuliet must reach Denver in time to claim her inheritance if she is to care for her younger siblings. Stormy Tucker is on his way to jail, a handsome young outlaw with a remorseful heart.Can their journey with a U.S. Marshal possibly lead to faith and love?A Polish Heart by Stephanie Burkhart Darrin Riverton, an architect from the United States is assigned to a challenging project which requires a trip to Poland. His first sight of his translator heats his blood. With Sofia as his guide, Darrin discovers new things about hi...
|  | Favorite Scary Stories of American Children (Grades 3-6)
Publication Date: December 19, 2005| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Everybody loves a scary story, and nobody more than kids, but these tales collected from kids themselves are particular favorites. These are the traditional scary stories kids tell most often and most often ask to be told. ...
|  | The Secret Cave
Publication Date: August 1, 2006| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up Tucked in the cliffs, close by the shining sea, the cave lies silent, still. Could there be pirates, or mermaids, or even a sea-dragon deep inside? This beautiful and richly atmospheric book about the power of a child's imagination will continue to delight after a thousand bedtime readings. ...
|  | Two on One (Lorimer Sports Stories)
Release Date: November 4, 2005| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses (Scribner's Illustrated Classics)
Publication Date: November 30, 1987| ISBN-10: 0684188775 | ISBN-13: 978-0684188775For nearly a century, Scribner has exemplified the very best in publishing by pairing classic texts with the illustrative giants of the time, such as N. C. Wyeth and Maxfield Parrish. With the same commitment to the high standards established by the series' founders, Atheneum Books for Young Readers is expanding the Scribner Illustrated Classics line over the next several years to include such modern-day classics as Jack London's The Call of the Wild and White Fang, J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, and The Stories ...
|  | The Boxcar Children
Release Date: January 1, 1942| Grade Level: 2 and up...
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