 | You Get What You Play For: A Novel
Release Date: August 7, 2012Screenwriter and new voice to fiction Jeff Farley delivers a nostalgic Brooklyn coming-of-age tale about finding love, holding on to dreams, and learning to forgive. It’s 1992, Brooklyn, New York. All of the girls had bamboo earrings—at least two pair. Charisse Hawkins, adored and admired by her best friends and one of the smartest and most sought after girls in high school, has dreams of becoming a doctor. Her mother, who works tirelessly to support her, is proud she’s on the right path. Then she meets him, Jamal Butler, a part-time college stud...
 |  | This Is How It Goes: A Play
Release Date: February 10, 2005Belinda and Cody Phipps appear a typical Midwestern couple: teenage sweethearts, children, luxurious home. Typical except that Cody is black--"rich, black, and different," in the words of Belinda, who finds herself attracted to a former (white) classmate. As the battle for her affections is waged, Belinda and Cody frankly doubt the foundation of their initial attraction, opening the door wide to a swath of bigotry and betrayal. Staged on continually shifting moral ground that challenges our received notions about gender, ethnicity, and even love itself, This Is...
|  | Those Born at Koona
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|  | The Last Day: A Novel
Release Date: September 1, 2009I meet Jesus on the day I get home from the war.I’m on the beach, but I don’t know how I got here.My mind is as dark as the night. . . . I spend the whole night on the beach. But when the sun’s faint light begins to bend around the Earth, I see him. ... There, coming toward me, out of the light, is a man. . . . Behind the man a faint curtain of light rises to the sky out of the ocean. He wears the light like a robe, though I see he’s dressed like me. Jeans and a T-shirt, no shoes. And that he’s older than I am, a lot older, maybe m...
|  | Christmas Notes
Publication Date: November 1, 2011Max Fox has been downon his luck and lacking hope and spirit. It has been this way for sometime now because of his decisions, and other uncontrollable forces,namely the economy. This Christmas, Max is about to receive a change ofheart by way of a little orphan girl. Seanna became an orphan because ofa car accident that also left her, a five-year-old little girl, unableto speak. Still, this disability will not stop her from spreading hermessage. See how simple it is for her one-word notes to change lives,including those of Max and his wife, Jenny. ...
|  | Ghosts Werewolves Witches & Vampires
Publication Date: September 1, 2001A collection of riveting short stories about four of the best-known creatures in paranormal mythology--witches, werewolves, vampires and ghosts. Although the accounts are dramatized, each is based on events believed to be true. Above all, they're fun to read, full of memorable characters. ...
|  | The Death of Kings (Emperor, Book 2)
Release Date: June 23, 2009From the author of the bestselling The Dangerous Book for Boys The acclaimed author of Emperor: The Gates of Rome returns to the extraordinarylife of Julius Caesar in a new novel that takes us further down the path to glory . . . asCaesar comes into his own as a man, warrior, senator, husband, leader.In a sparselysettled region of North Africa, a band of disheveled soldiers turn their eyes towardone man among them: their leader, Julius Caesar. The soldiers are Roman legionaries.And their quarry is a band of pirates who dared to kidnap Julius Caesar for ranso...
|  | Conquest: A Kydd Sea Adventure (Kydd Sea Adventures)
Publication Date: November 1, 2011| Series: Kydd Sea Adventures (Book 12) Newly victorious at the Battle of Trafalgar, England now rules the seas and is free to colonize the furthest reaches of the world. Captain Thomas Kydd joins an expedition to take Dutch-held Cape Town, a strategic harbor that will give England a rich trade route to India. With enemies lurking on all sides, Kydd and his men must defend the fragile colony while braving Africa’s vast and hostile hinterland. When Renzi learns too much about the enemy’s plans, even Kydd may not be able to save him. ...
|  | Death of a Drug
Publication Date: November 17, 2010“Death of a Drug” takes place in 1996. Inhaber-Taft was one of the top global pharmaceutical companies, with a long history of scientific breakthroughs in the treatment of diseases. The corporation’s top-notch marketing and sales division turned these chemical compounds into blockbuster drugs. But the ethical, albeit stodgy culture begins to change when a valid post-marketing clinical trial, conducted with the drug MELAVOX, reveals the highest dose of the drug causes heart attacks and stroke. This presents a challenge to both the sales ...
|  | El comite de la muerte (Narrativa Historica / Historic Narratives)
Publication Date: September 28, 2005| Series: Narrativa Historica / Historic Narratives Una vez a la semana un grupo de medicosse reune en el Hospital General de Suffolk para valorar si las muertes ocurridas en ese centro podrian haberse evitado. Ase tribunal, al que se conoce como Comite de la Muerte, traza de ese modo el destino de los individuos que desean dedicar su vidaa la practica de la Medicina... ...
|  | Legion (The Exorcist, No. 3)
Publication Date: August 1, 1990The Exorcist and The Exorcist Part II were tremendous movie box office successes, and The Exorcist III: Legion will prove to be no exception. When this frightening film is released this summer, scores of moviegoers will make Legion a paperback bestseller! ...
|  | Family Jensen: Helltown Massacre (Family Jensen 2)
Release Date: May 1, 2011| Series: Family Jensen 2 One Family. One Cause. One Deadly Mistake...A woman and an iron horse put Matt Jensen in the crosshairs of a man out to reap a fortune with a new railroad through Paiute land. First Cyrus Longacre steals the land. Next he frames Matt Jensen for the murder of a beautiful woman. The final step is to keep Matt's father and grandfather far away from Nevada Territory...Preacher and Smoke are otherwise engaged - until some hired killers get their attention. Suddenly, the elder Jensens have a hunch young Matt is in trouble and together they're ridi...
|  | Death Quest: Mission Earth Volume 6
Publication Date: June 1, 1989| Series: Mission Earth (Book 6) Action filled intergalactic espionage. Alien assassin Soltan Gris will stop at nothing to destroy Fleet Officer Jettero Heller and sabotage his mission to save Earth from drowning in its own environmental problems, while, at the same time, he's forced to play husband to two wives and keep up with a teenage nymphomaniac. To add to his troubles, Heller has unearthed the long-lost son of Delbert John Rockecenter on a pig farm! A rip-roaring motorboat chase tops off this sixth action-filled installment of intergalactic espionage. &qu...
|  | Circle of Song: Songs, Chants, and Dances for Ritual and Celebration
Publication Date: April 1994This ceremonial songbook contains over 300 songs and chants (with music and lyrics) from many traditions as well as dances, rituals and meditations to help us celebrate with others and deepen our communion with the sacred. The material is presented by themes along with other text and guidelines to inspire individual and group creativity. Also includes an extensive index and beautiful illustrations. ...
|  | Shakespeare: The Life, The Works, The Treasures
Release Date: October 29, 2007Hailed as the world's greatest playwright, William Shakespeare has captured the hearts and minds of more audiences than any other. No other writer's works are more performed or more often quoted. Produced in association with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and beautifully illustrated with both contemporary pictures from Shakespeare's time and photographs of RSC performances, Shakespeare: The Life, The Works, The Treasures brings the poet's life alive. It delves into the likely sources that inspired him to write such masterpieces as The Merchant of Venice, Othello...
|  | Ancient Mysteries Described: Especially The English Miracle Plays, Founded On Apogryphal New Testament Story
Publication Date: July 16, 2011This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy thi...
|  | Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon: Selected Poems
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|  | Touch of Darkness (Darkness Chosen, Book 2)
Release Date: August 7, 2007From New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd comes the second book of DARKNESS CHOSEN, a seductive series about an ancient, dark evil that lives in the modern world ... A thousand years ago, a brutal warrior struck a terrifying bargain. In return for the ability to change at will into a cold-hearted predator, he promised his soul, and the souls of his descendants, to the devil. Handsome, powerful Rurik Wilder battles darkness -- the darkness without, and the darkness within. For he possesses the power to transform himself into a fierce bird of p...
|  | Red Harvest
Release Date: July 17, 1989When the last honest citizen of Poisonville was murdered, the Continental Op stayed on to punish the guilty--even if that meant taking on an entire town. Red Harvest is more than a superb crime novel: it is a classic exploration of corruption and violence in the American grain. ...
|  | The Man Who Was Thursday
Publication Date: October 14, 2011This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
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