 | The Long Knives are Crying (Lakota Westerns)
Publication Date: September 30, 2008The second novel in Joseph M. Marshall III s acclaimed Lakota Western series begins ten years later, in 1875, as Sitting Bull begins gathering thousands of Lakota to face the growing problem of white incursion. What follows is a sweeping tale of the Battle of the Little Bighorn (the Greasy Grass), including the days and weeks leading up to the conflict and the remarkable defeat of General George Armstrong Custer and the 7th Cavalry. Told for the first time from the Native perspective through the eyes of Cloud, the story also weaves in the lesser-known but ...
 |  | La Sombra del Viento (Vintage Espanol) (Spanish Edition)
Release Date: February 3, 2009| Series: Vintage Espanol Un amanecer de 1945, un muchacho es conducido por su padre a un misterioso lugar oculto en el corazón de la ciudad vieja: el Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados. Allí encuentra La Sombra del Viento, un libro maldito que cambiará el rumbo de su vida y le arrastrará a un laberinto de intrigas y secretos enterrados en el alma oscura de la ciudad. Ambientada en la enigmática Barcelona de principios del siglo XX, este misterio literario mezcla técnicas de relato de intriga, de novela histórica y de comedia d...
|  | The Didymus Contingency: A Time Travel Thriller
Publication Date: February 12, 2007IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, AND WITNESS ANY EVENT, WHERE WOULD YOU GO? When Dr. Tom Greenbaum faces that question after successfully discovering the secret to time travel, he knows the time, place and event he will witness: the death and failed resurrection of Jesus Christ. Dr. David Goodman, Tom's colleague and closest friend follows Tom into the past, attempting to avert a time-space catastrophe, but forces beyond their control toss them into a dangerous end game where they are tempted by evil characters, betrayed by friends, pursued by an assassin from...
|  | Murcheston: The Wolf's Tale
Publication Date: February 5, 2000Shrouded within the dark corners of imagination, the werewolf holds a supreme place in fable and folklore-the nightbeast, stalking its prey under the light of a full moon. Such is the popular conception. But what of the beast himself? In the novel The Wolf's Tale, a werewolf documents his own case of lycanthropy. Amid the gothic backdrop of Victorian London, the author presents three gentlemen and one woman as they share the telling of this tale-the tale of Edgar Lenoir, Duke of Darnley: aristocrat and werewolf.When Lord Darnley learns that Elizabeth is preg...
|  | Phoenix at Sunrise
Publication Date: June 16, 2012I was born and raised in one of America's finest small towns: Saint Helens, Oregon. After that, my parents got divorced and I dropped out of college and kind of wrecked everything else in my life. I'm getting ahead of myself, but that's the truth of it, more or less. I had no idea what I wanted in life, but I'd always heard that you have to go chasing for it. Like, go confidently in the direction of your dreams or something. I decided that my dreams were anywhere but where I stood, so I went running after them.So I moved to Phoenix and met this girl Caroline an...
|  | The Lonely Hearts Club
Publication Date: February 1, 2008Take three friends, add two ex-lovers and several new ones, then mix with more secrets than any of them know--and the result is a recipe for explosive rivalries and incendiary romance.Candace Lory is a high-power commodities trader and swinging playgirl who meets her match when she hooks up with older, butch corporate attorney, Parker Jones, an associate of Candace's ex-lover, Liz Ramsey. Parker is as much a swinger as Candace but try as they might, the two can't seem to stop repeating their one night stand.Brenda Beal writes best-selling erotic romance nove...
|  | Deadly Trail (Matt Jensen: The Last Mountain Man, No. 2)
Release Date: April 1, 2008He'd done the old man proud. By leaping into the path of danger, Matt Jensen foiled a train robbery in Colorado, and the governor himself presented him with a public reward. But what started on the rails has stayed on the rails - and taken on a life of its own. Now, a frustrated outlaw and his murderous posse have struck again - this time kidnapping the governor's niece. With the power of the law behind him, Matt Jensen, the last mountain man, is riding toward a town called Braggadocio. That's where Matt will learn how to put a bad man down - and to make sure he st...
|  | Scarlet Vice (Nexus)
Release Date: April 22, 2010| Series: Nexus Beautiful, voluptuous, and supposedly innocent, K'Tai is also too headstrong for her own good. Obliged to flee her village in a hurry in order to avoid the application of a switch to her curvaceous bottom, she finds herself in a far worse situation—at the mercy of lascivious slavers, cruel priests, and sadistic nuns, each determined to inflict ever more severe punishments and indignities upon her. ...
|  | Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children: Adapted for the Theatre by Salman Rushdie, Simon Reade and Tim Supple (Modern Library Paperbacks)
Release Date: February 18, 2003| Series: Modern Library Paperbacks The original stage adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, winner of the 1993 Booker of Bookers, the best book to win the Booker Prize in its first twenty-five years.In the moments of upheaval that surround the stroke of midnight on August 14--15, 1947, the day India proclaimed its independence from Great Britain, 1,001 children are born--each of whom is gifted with supernatural powers. Midnight’s Children focuses on the fates of two of them--the illegitimate son of a poor Hindu woman and the ...
|  | Turcaret (Absolute Classics)
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|  | An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories (Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, & True Stories, Volume 1)
Publication Date: October 23, 2006Comic artist Ivan Brunetti, the creator of Schizo, offers a best-of anthology of contemporary art comics, along with some classic comic strips and other historical materials that have retained a “modern” sensibility. As with Chris Ware’s selections for his best-selling McSweeney’s anthology, Brunetti’s choices make for a highly personal book (“my criteria were simple: these are comics that I savor and often revisit”) that serves as a broad historical overview of the medium and a round-up of some of todayȁ...
|  | Cien y 1 poemas de amor...: Que a un amor lejano le pido (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: October 8, 2009La poesía de este joven poeta hondureño sale con una naturalidad impecable, sin rebuscar mucho en las metá-foras, más bien dejando en la descripción de su verso libre el puro sentimiento que sirvió de génesis. Va nave-gando entre aguas azules y cielo despejado, sembrando esperanza unas veces, evocando al dolor en otras. ...
|  | American Drama and the Postmodern: Fragmenting the Realistic Stage
Publication Date: June 18, 2011| ISBN-10: 1604977574 | ISBN-13: 978-1604977578This study seeks to reunite American drama with more of the mainstream of American literature using contemporary literary theories of feminism, Derrida, Lacan, as well as the nature of language. It also focuses on the theatrical ways that plays work through performance and staging. This reveals how contemporary playwrights see themselves not as authors, but as parts of a team of designers, actors, and directors. Stage directions are largely omitted, but knowledge of original productions--both as seen live and r...
|  | Ibsen's Foreign Contagion: Henrik Ibsen, Arthur Wing Pinero and Modernism on The London Stage,1890 - 1900
Publication Date: December 15, 2011| ISBN-10: 1936320320 | ISBN-13: 978-1936320325..Matos's important book provides a well-researched, well-written ,and fascinating discussion of the notion of contagion from Ibsen and into Pinero and Jones. Professor Gregory Tague, St Francis College, editor of Origins of English Literary Modernism,1870-1914 The Independent Theatre's production of Ghosts at the Royalty Theatre, London in 1891 precipitated one of the most famous theatrical quarrels in European theater history. Although many have commented on the extremity of the response from the conserva...
|  | Snowmen at Night
Release Date: September 23, 2002| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Have you ever built a snowman and discovered the next day that his grin has gotten a little crooked, or his tree-branch arms have moved? And you've wondered . . . what do snowmen do at night? This delightful wintertime tale reveals all! Caralyn Buehner's witty, imaginative verse offers many amusing details about the secret life of snowmen and where they go at night, while Mark Buehner's roly-poly snowmen are bursting with personality and charm. From the highly successful team that created such winning titles as Fan...
|  | Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four: Four-Three-Two-One?
Publication Date: August 5, 2009| Grade Level: P and up...
|  | A Dragon's Tail (Jane and the Dragon)
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|  | Snowmobiles (Wild Rides!)
Publication Date: January 1, 2006| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
| | Pittsburgh Penguins (NHL Today)
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|  | Polyhedra Dice Games, Grades K-6
Release Date: January 12, 1999| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Features 40 challenging math games using Polyhedra and regular dice (sold separately). Includes instructions and game sheets.Based on NCTM Standards.(Reproducible)96 pp. ...
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