 | Mercury Rests
Release Date: October 23, 2012| Series: Mercury (Book 3) Mercury Rests: The epic conclusion to the Mercury trilogy!After foiling an attempt to destroy the universe, Mercury has gonemissing. And with the devil already putting the final fiendish toucheson his next scheme to bring about the apocalypse, all that standsbetween Lucifer and his dreams of a hellfire holocaust are two misfithumans: jaded religion reporter Christine Temetri and mild-manneredforensic analyst Jacob Slater. But the pair soon realize that the Prince of Darkness has set hissights higher than they can reach; he’s pla...
 |  | Beneath a Starlet Sky
Release Date: April 26, 2011The New York Times bestselling authors of Celebutantes return with a dazzling new novel set among the star-studded crowds of the Cannes Film Festival, where everyone’s hoping to discover, sign, screw or become the Next Big Thing. And a three-picture deal would be nice. Lola Santisi—CEO of a struggling fashion line, reformed Actorholic and daughter of Hollywood Royalty—is now not only bicoastal, she’s Bi-Lolar: That is the condition which causes her to swing like a pendulum between the opposing poles of ...
|  | Church and State
Publication Date: November 1, 2008With the passage of the Freedom From Religion Act, it is now against the law for public officials to talk about God in public. There are also two more bills pending: one would strip churches of their tax-exempt status, while the second would remove the phrase In God We Trust from all currency. For President Dan Vermeulen, a newly converted Christian, this is the ultimate challenge. Can he remain silent and still be true to God, or does his faith demand action? The question is suddenly answered with the mysterious appearance of Joshua Moses Talbert, a modern-...
|  | The Tavern in the Morning (Hawkenlye Mysteries)
Publication Date: June 7, 2002| Series: Hawkenlye Mysteries At the end of a dark and dreary market day, Goody Anne's inn at Tonbridge is finally settling down for the night.But while Anne's serving maid and boy finish up their chores, a man lies dying in the guest chamber-poisoned by a piece of pie made by Goody Anne herself.Josse d'Acquin, a knight with a knack for solving mysteries, is troubled by the news of the stranger's death.Josse has been a regular visitor to Goody Anne's, and he hates to think that Anne-or her fine cooking-has fallen suspect.He rides off to the scene of the crime an...
|  | Awake My Soul and Sing: Poems Inspired by Favorite Hymns with CD (Audio) (Helen Steiner Rice Products)
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|  | Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom of Christ
Publication Date: November 1, 1995By the same author of the "Dark Night of the Soul" this scarce and little-known book was written while St. John was imprisoned.These stanzas reflect the importuning of soul blessed with the light and love of God.Reading this remarkable book will give comfort and calm joy. ...
|  | Bruce Coville's Book of Nightmares: Tales to Make You Scream
Publication Date: February 1995| Age Level: 9 and up A collection of spine-chilling and unexplainable adventures thattruly qualify as nightmares includes ""There's Nothing Under the Bed,""by Bruce Coville, and other tales of terror by Jane Yolen, MarkGarland, Mary Downing Hahn, and Michael Markiewicz....
|  | The Sound Of One Horse Dancing
Publication Date: October 14, 2011Twenty-seven-year-old Tim Halladay is a rising star in the three-martini lunch world of Madison Avenue in the early 1970s. In only five years, Tim has become a vice-president at the first ad agency he interviewed with, in charge of some of the most prestigious accounts listed in Advertising Age. But a week before Thanksgiving, his life takes a serious hit. After a hard-drinking, sex-filled night, Tim, the "golden boy", arrives late to work. He suddenly finds himself fired without explanation. With three hundred dollars in his savings account, Tim wonders how...
|  | Ammonite
Release Date: April 30, 2002Change or die. These are the only options available on the planet Jeep. Centuries earlier, a deadly virus shattered the original colony, killing the men and forever altering the few surviving women. Now, generations after the colony has lost touch with the rest of humanity, a company arrives to exploit Jeep–and its forces find themselves fighting for their lives. Terrified of spreading the virus, the company abandons its employees, leaving them afraid and isolated from the natives. In the face of this crisis, anthropologist Marghe Taishan arrives to test a n...
|  | Tenbow
Release Date: December 27, 2005At the foot of the Wind River Mountains and just east of the continental divide was Tenbow Valley, eighty miles of rich, watered graze on the way to Oregon territory. From Cheyenne, Jack Stillman has come to Tenbow to solve a string of murders. Each victim was a landowner in the valley, and each killing was carried out with a deadly, long range rifle. Taking on the guise of a gambler, Stillman is quick to line up his suspects and start prying open their secrets. But while greed is the likeliest reason for the murders, the killer keeps striking--even when Stillm...
|  | Henny Penny/Brainy Bird Sb-Apov (Another Point of View)
Publication Date: January 1996| ISBN-10: 0811466329 | ISBN-13: 978-0811466325Juxtaposes the traditional tale of Henny Penny and her friends with a retelling in which the animals' more careful analysis of the situation helps them avoid a sad ending. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Euripides: Hecuba (Classical Texts)
Release Date: December 1, 1991| ISBN-10: 0856682373 | ISBN-13: 978-0856682377Hecuba, in slavery after Troy's fall, fails to dissuade Odysseus, whose life she once saved, from sacrificing her daughter to honour his dead friend, Achilles; but the girl dies proudly, true to her royal blood in surmounting degradation. Then Hecuba learns of her sons' treacherous murder by a former ally; out of her terrible loss comes determination for revenge, which she claims as a right but how just is her horrific cruelty? How credible against her earlier characterisation? The play has striking effects: the...
|  | The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
Publication Date: January 1, 2001These mad immortal stories, now surfaced from the literary underground, have addicted legions of American readers, even though the high literary establishment continues to ignore them. In Europe, however (particularly in Germany, Italy, and France where he is published by the great publishing houses), he is critically recognized as one of America's greatest living realist writers.Charles Bukowski was born in Andernach, Germany in 1920 and brought to America at the age of two. Eighteen or twenty books of prose and poetry, Bukowski, after publishing prose in St...
|  | The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs
Publication Date: March 15, 2005| ISBN-10: 0674017560 | ISBN-13: 978-0674017566From the antiquity of Homer to yesterday's Naked Lunch, writers have found inspiration, and readers have lost themselves, in a world of the imagination tinged and oftentimes transformed by drugs. The age-old association of literature and drugs receives its first comprehensive treatment in this far-reaching work. Drawing on history, science, biography, literary analysis, and ethnography, Marcus Boon shows that the concept of drugs is fundamentally interdisciplinary, and reveals how different sets of connections...
|  | The Forgiven: A Novel
Release Date: September 25, 2012In this stylish, haunting novel, journalist and novelist Lawrence Osborne explores the reverberations of a random accident on the lives of Moroccan Muslims and Western visitors who converge on a luxurious desert villa for a decadent weekend-long party. David and Jo Henniger, a doctor and children's book author, in search of an escape from their less than happy lives in London, accept the invitation of their old friends Richard and Dally to attend their annual bacchanal at their home deep in the Moroccan desert – a ksar they have acquired and ...
|  | The Undertaker's Widow
Release Date: March 2, 1999A cold-blooded murder. A beautiful suspect. An honest judge forced to do the unthinkable.New York Times bestselling author Phillip Margolin is a master of legal suspense. In this explosive novel, a simple case of self-defense becomes a nightmare in which justice itself is held hostage.Judge Richard Quinn is young, idealistic, and honest to a fault. That's why he's handed the most sensational homicide case in Oregon history. Locked in a race for the U.S. Senate, Ellen Crease gunned down the intruder w...
|  | The Man Who Was Thursday
Publication Date: April 17, 2012This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare s finesse to Oscar Wilde s wit, this unique collection brings together works as diverse and influential as The Pilgrim s Progress and Othello. As an anthology that invites readers to immerse themselves in the masterpieces of the literary giants, it is must-have addition to any library...
|  | Death Comes As Epiphany: A Catherine LeVendeur Mystery
Publication Date: January 5, 2002Catherine LeVendeur is a young scholar come to conquer her sin of pride at the Convent of the Paraclete, famous for learning, prayer, and its abbess, the fabled Heloise. When a manuscript the convent produced for the great Abbe Suger disappears, rumors surface saying the book contains sacrilegious passages and will be used to condemn Heloise's famous lover, Peter Abelard.To save her Order, and protect all she holds dear, Catherine must find the manuscript and discover who altered the text. She will risk disgrace, the wrath of her family and the Church, and co...
|  | Detective Fiction: A Collection of Critical Essays
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|  | Myths and Legends (Stories for Young Children)
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