 | Waiting for Summer's Return (Waiting for Summer's Return Series #1)
Publication Date: June 1, 2006All alone on the Kansas prairie, Summer Steadman has few options. With her husband and children lost to illness, she has no desire to continue on farther west to where she and her husband planned to build their future. Instead, she seeks employment in a small Mennonite community in order to be near the graves of her family. Widower Peter Ollenburger, the local gristmill owner, needs someone to teach his young son. When he hears of a "learned woman" in town, he believes she is the answer to his prayers. He soon discovers, however, that helping this outs...
 |  | Demon Demon Burning Bright: Whisperings Paranormal Mystery
Publication Date: January 1, 2012The sequel to Dead Demon Walking. "I would tear the world apart for Rio. Would you do the same for Royal?" Royal disappears. He is a demon with inhuman abilities who moves between worlds at will. He could be anywhere. He leaves me a clue that takes me to Bel-Athaer, home of the Gelpha, but the High House councilors kick me out. I'm going back in. I'll find the mysterious Seer who sent Royal a message, and while I'm there I'll do my damndest to save the young High Lord from the Burning man and find the boy's companion, and at the same time elude assassins who ...
|  | Girl with a Pearl Earring: A Novel
Release Date: September 30, 2003In seventeenth-century Delft, there's a strict social order—rich and poor, Catholic and Protestant, master and servant—and all know their place. When Griet becomes a maid in the household of the painter Johannes Vermeer, she thinks she knows her role: housework, laundry, and the care of his six children. She even feels able to handle his shrewd mother-in-law; his restless, sensual wife; and their jealous servant. What no one expects is that Griet's quiet manner, quick perceptions, and fascination with her master's paintings will draw her inexorably...
|  | Bajo la garra de piedra / Under the Stone Paw (Spanish Edition)
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|  | The Bookshop
Publication Date: September 15, 1997In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bookshop - the only bookshop - in the seaside town of Hardborough. By making a success of a business so impractical, she invites the hostility of the town's less prosperous shopkeepers. By daring to enlarge her neighbors' lives, she crosses Mrs. Gamart, the local arts doyenne. Florence's warehouse leaks, her cellar seeps, and the shop is apparently haunted. Only too late does she begin to suspect the truth: a town that lacks a bookshop isn't always a town that ...
|  | The Uncollected Wodehouse
Publication Date: May 1992For all fans of the incomparable and outrageously funny portrayer of English upper-class life, here is a necessary addition to the Wodehouse shelf. Taken mostly from old newspapers and magazines, these previously uncollected articles and short stories were written early in Wodehouse's literary career. Included are the only mystery story Wodehouse ever wrote, the first of his many articles for Punch, a hilarious spoof of the advertising world, amusing accounts of British public school life, and many other collector's delights. ...
|  | A Fanny Full of Soap: The Story of a West End Musical
Publication Date: April 1, 2008A hilarious novel from well-known actress Nichola McAuliffe. ...
|  | Chwedlau Gwerin Cymru Welsh Folk Tales (Welsh and English Edition)
Publication Date: January 1996This handsome, bilingual volume is a unique way into the fascinating world of Welsh legends and folk tales. It includes Witches, princes, pirates and saints - sixty-three individual tales in all, each with its own beautiful illustration. As well as relating all the tales, the book also provides an authoritative explanation of the folk narrative tradition in Wales, and contains a map showing the location of each tale. Its bilingual format also makes it of particular interest to Welsh learners. Mae'r gyfrol hardd, ddwyieithog hon yn llwybr unigryw i mewn i fyd cyf...
|  | Three Plays: Philoctetes, The Horatian, Mauser (SB-The German List)
Publication Date: October 1, 2011| Series: SB-The German List Despite being widely acknowledged as one of the most important German dramatists since Bertolt Brecht, Heiner Müller (1929–95) still remains relatively unknown in the English-speaking world. This collection of plays aims to change that, presenting new translations and opening up his work to a larger audience. Collected here are three of his plays—Philoctetes, The Horatian, and Mauser—whose poetic texts evidence the influence of Shakespeare, classical Greek tragedy, and avant-garde political theater...
|  | They Worshiped Him
Publication Date: January 1, 2001| ISBN-10: 0788018469 | ISBN-13: 978-0788018466In today's ""hurry-up"" world, it seems we rarely take the time to think of other people and ""walk a mile in the other man's shoes."" If we did, what would we see? They Worshiped Him revisits the nativity story from the perspective of the people who were actually there. In this dramatic retelling, we glimpse the innermost thoughts and feelings of some of the very common people whose lives were forever changed by a most extraordinary event. What did the shepherds feel? What did others think of them? Were they...
|  | Clement Marot: A Renaissance Poet Discovers the Gospel : Lutheranism, Fabrism and Calvinism in the Royal Courts of France and of Navarre and in the (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought,)
Publication Date: January 1, 1994| ISBN-10: 9004099093 | ISBN-13: 978-9004099098Clement Marot (1496-1544), a poet of distinction, is a witness to the effect of the Bible on French-speaking courts. He was admired by Francis I, and protected by Margaret of Navarre and by Renee, the French Duchess of Ferrara. His translations of the Psalms came to dominate Huguenot worship, inspiring many imitators, not least in English. His commitment to Lutheran theology shines through his personal poetry, once his Scriptural allusions are recognized and interpreted. This work is an expansion and recastin...
|  | In Praise of Japanese Love Poetry
Publication Date: June 1994| Series: In Praise of "This book is enigmatic...We are afforded the luxury of sinking deeply into the emotions of love gained and love lost." -- Woodnotes Haiku Journal. ...
|  | The Beautiful Strangers
Publication Date: November 1981Poetry celebrating the extraordinary people he has met in a lifetime of writing and traveling... ...
|  | The Women of Primrose Creek (Omnibus): Bridget/Christy/Skye/Megan
Release Date: February 26, 2002 BridgetShe lost her husband to the Civil War; now, starting a new life out West, she never dreamed his best friend, Trace Qualtrough, could spark a forbidden passion.ChristyAll she wanted was a secure, steady home life in Primrose Creek. Lawman Zachary Shaw was hardly husband material -- but he surely sent her heart pounding wildlyŠ.SkyeLumber baron Jake Vigil took a chance on Skye's sweet and healing love. Now, their delicate bond faces the ultimate test when a business deal threatens to tear them apart.MeganA shocking revelation greets M...
|  | Cowboy Boots and Unfinished Business (Siren Publishing Menage Amour)
Publication Date: August 5, 2010[Menage Amour: Erotic Cowboy Menage Romance, M/F/M/M/M, Multiple Partners, BDSM, sex toys] The Remingtons are faced with tremendous loss. Their father is gunned down in front of them and after the smoke clears, the only thing left is their need for revenge and their desire to protect those they love. Leaving their lover in Italy, the Remington brothers return to Missouri with a plan to lure their enemies to their familiar homestead. Once there, they meet up with Veronica Leigh, an intelligent operative who seeks more than retribution for Wilson Remington's dea...
|  | Radiance
Release Date: August 31, 2010| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Ever's younger sister, Riley, has crossed the bridge into the afterlife and has been assigned the task of enticing Radiant Boy, an elusive soul who's been haunting a castle in England for centuries, to cross the bridge into the afterlife with her. --This text refers to the Library Binding edition....
|  | The New York Yankees (America's Greatest Teams)
Publication Date: September 2009| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Deion Sanders, This Is Prime Time
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|  | Monica Seles (Sports Superstars (Rosen))
Publication Date: September 1996| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
| | American Football (Picture Library)
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