 | The Bondwoman's Narrative
Publication Date: April 1, 2003Tells the story of Hannah Crafts, a young slave working on a wealthy North Carolina plantation, who runs away in a bid for freedom up North. ...
 |  | Amigoland: A Novel
Publication Date: August 23, 2010In a small town on the Mexican border live two brothers, Don Fidencio and Don Celestino. Stubborn and independent, they now must face the facts: they are old, and they have let a family argument stand between them for too long. Don Celestino's good-natured housekeeper encourages him to make amends - while he still can. They secretly liberate Don Fidencio from his nursing home and travel into Mexico to solve the mystery at the heart of their dispute: the family legend of their grandfather's kidnapping. As the unlikely trio travels, the brothers learn it's neve...
|  | The Marriage of Saints: A Novel (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series)
Publication Date: September 25, 2006| Series: American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series (Book 52) No matter how they tell it, wax and plaster saints have nothing on flesh and blood.Just ask Sao Esperitu, a young woman with the clean eyes and the healing power.Sometimes a miracle looks like a bloody dog in the driveway, needing to be healed. Other times it’s a Native American ex-con on a Harley, needing to be saved.Bo Notices has spent his life running from responsibility until he gets religion and a saint for a wife. But Sao and Bo’s new stake in happiness doesn...
|  | A Season of Angels LP
Release Date: June 28, 2011Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy—three willing but sometimes wayward angels— are each given someone’s prayer to answer….Shirley: She’s sent to answer the prayers of nine-year-old Timmy Potter, who longs for a new father, although his mother, Jody, has vowed never to trust any man again… Goodness: She knows Monica Fischer longs for a husband and home of her own, but the young woman has practically given up on finding the right man to stand by her side…Mercy: Can Mercy bring hope back into Leah Lundberg’s life? This materni...
|  | The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman, Volume 1: C Prologue-Passus 4; B Prologue-Passus 4; A Prologue-Passus 4
Publication Date: March 1, 2006"A work of enormous importance. Of all the poems of the English Middle Ages, Piers Plowman is the one that most deserves and needs annotation of the fullest and best possible kind, both because it is a text of unrivaled literary quality and interest, and because it is characteristically knotty and deploys a language of unusual richness, density, and allusiveness. Much of this allusiveness is to areas of learning that are not at every modern reader's fingertips. A particular difficulty is the existence of the poem in three authorial versions of almost desperate ...
|  | Demon Rock
Publication Date: March 23, 2012"Human rights are for humans. . . " Welcome to Demon Rock - prison for the supernatural. A new government has issued that all supernatural beings need be detained at Demon Rock, located on an island away from the general public and away from the rule of law. Prisoner 207, a Shape-shifter arrives at the island and soon discovers that there is more to Demon Rock than what is on the surface as he plans his escape but when 207 enrages the Master vampire, it is not escape that he need worry about, but rather survival. Demon Rock is a fast paced thrill ride and idea...
|  | Jerusalen. Caballo de Troya 1 (Caballo De Troya / Trojan Horse) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: November 15, 2011| Series: Caballo De Troya / Trojan Horse El autor pone al descubierto una documentacion secreta clasificada como top secret por el Pentagono con nuevos y sorprendentes datos sobre la figura y la obra de Jesus de Nazaret. Las revelaciones que aporta son tan rigurosas como desconcertantes. ...
|  | Manhood: The Longest Moan
Release Date: March 27, 2007 This is a tale of youthful ambition, of four cats on a mission to be nothing less than stars. Ty is a writer who pines for love. David is a dancer who burns with lust. Browny is a singer who yearns for the kiss of celebrity. Face is an actor whose role it is to emote the biggest of lies. Together, in the mean and rhythmic streets of New York City , they seek their fame, fortune and prize. Some want to know of love's ultimate sigh, and some find the rainbow. All find unexpected surprises in a story about dreams, lust, and the meaning friendship, the test of diseas...
|  | Callie's Dilemma
Publication Date: September 21, 2011While attending a convention for authors and fans of chick lit, Callie Delaney, closeted reigning queen of mainstream romance, meets Dale Kirby, irresistible fitness instructor for the health club at the hotel that's hosting the event. She also inadvertently walks into the prelude to a murder. Although Callie is unaware of the significance of what she sees, the killer is not, and he embarks on a relentless campaign to eliminate the only witness to his crime. With help from Dale's LGBT family, the women set out to uncover the motivation for the threats agai...
|  | As You Like It (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
Release Date: June 22, 2004| Series: The New Folger Library Shakespeare Each edition includes:• Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play• Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play• Scene-by-scene plot summaries• A key to famous lines and phrases• An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language• An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play• Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare booksEssay by Susan Snyder ...
|  | The Influence of Seneca on Elizabethan Tragedy
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|  | Childlike Achilles: Ontogeny and Phylogeny in the Iliad
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|  | War & Love, Love & War: New and Selected Poems
Publication Date: October 29, 2010A rich, far-ranging, powerful selection of a lifetime’swork by the Israeli poet Aharon Shabtai, “one of themost exciting writers working in Hebrew today”(Ha’aretz).War & Love, Love & War presents a poetic biography of one of Israel’s livingliterary masters, an artist whom the National Book Award–winner C. K. Williamshas called “one of the most exciting poets writing anywhere, and certainly themost audacious.” The book moves from shockingly potent political poems tolove lyrics that are as explosive and s...
|  | Albrecht Durer's Renaissance: Humanism, Reformation, and the Art of Faith (Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Civilization)
Publication Date: November 19, 2003| Series: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Civilization David Hotchkiss Price, a specialist in Renaissance cultural and ecclesiastical history, has broken new ground with this comprehensive analysis of Renaissance humanism as the foundation for Dürer's religious art and, in particular, for Dürer's reception of the Reformation movements. Price also offers an innovative study of the relationships between text and image, and a pioneering assessment of the representation of Jews in Dürer's religious art.David Price is Associate Professor of H...
|  | The Christmas Matchmaker (Zebra Regency Romance)
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|  | One True Vow: Love Stories of Faith and Commitment
Publication Date: October 1, 2001"For better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health...
|  | The Magic of Christmas (Heartspell)
Publication Date: November 1, 2004| Series: Heartspell With the help of saintly Gentleman Jack Oakes, love warms the hearts of a miner and a laundress, turning a 19th-century California mining camp golden in the glow of the season, in Emma Craig's "Jack of Hearts". An angel becomes a matchmaker to earn her wings in "The Shephards and Mr. A handsome man with curiously pointed ears fulfills a lonely woman's wish and learns that the spirit of the season is alive and well in modern-day New Orleans, in "The Yuletide Spirit" by Kathleen Nance. And in Stobie Piel's "Twelfth Knight", two honorable t...
|  | Off Season - Unexpurgated Hard Cover Edition
Publication Date: March 1, 2005"Who's the scariest guy in America? Probably Jack Ketchum, the outlaw horror writer whose terrifying firstnovel is finally available uncut from Overlook Connection Press. -- Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly, Nov. 19, 2004.When Off Season, a novel of horror and cannibalism in modern day Maine, was first released in 1980, it took readers by storm and sold over 250,000 copies! However, the original edition was edited and content was removed from the story at the publisher's request. The whole effect of the book was deemed to intense, in particular the ending--wh...
|  | Grave Descend (Hard Case Crime (Mass Market Paperback))
Publication Date: November 1, 2006| Series: Hard Case Crime (Mass Market Paperback) (Book 26) SOMETHING’S GOING DOWN OFF THE COAST OF JAMAICADiver James McGregor is used to being hired to explore sunken ships. But there’s something strange about the wreck of the luxury yacht Grave Descend. No one who was aboard tells quite the same story about what happened. Then there’s the matter of the mysterious cargo they were carrying…In one of the most beautiful places on Earth, a sinister plot is about to unfold. And if McGregor’s not careful, he may find himsel...
|  | Un gato en el palomar (Cat Among the Pigeons)
Publication Date: May 30, 2005In a palace in Ramat, a prince entrusts a package of jewels to his pilot, in the hope that he can smuggle them to England. The pilot, in turn, hides them in his sister’s baggage. But before the packet reaches its destination the prince and the pilot are both dead. Then Joan, the pilot’s sister, travels to England with her daughter Jennifer where she will be attending boarding school. Description in Spanish: En el sultanato de Ramat se ha producido una grave insurrección: el príncipe Alí Yusuf confía las fabulosas joyas de la familia...
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