 | Ghost Anthology
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 |  | Small Gods
Release Date: September 26, 1994Lost in the chill deeps of space between the galaxies, it sails on forever, a flat, circular world carried on the back of a giant turtle— Discworld —a land where the unexpected can be expected. Where the strangest things happen to the nicest people. Like Brutha, a simple lad who only wants to tend his melon patch. Until one day he hears the voice of a god calling his name. A small god, to be sure. But bossy as Hell. ...
|  | A Child of A Crack Head
Publication Date: April 6, 2012He watched as she screamed and yelled with every strike that the man, made to her face. From her mouth, she spit blood that was rolling down her face. He continued to watch the 6'2" dark skin man repeatedly hit and kick the woman in the stomach, again and again. Noooo stop! please stop!" as she yelled his closed fist went upside her head. Michael knew he had to do something to stop the man from beating the beautiful brown skin woman, with tears running down his own face he yelled, Daddy stop! Daddy stop!, as he ran his 6 year old frame between his father and mo...
|  | The Last Prophecy
Release Date: November 30, 20041945: While liberating a concentration camp, an American medical unit uncovers something beneath a body-laden trench. Sixty years later, the survivors of that unit are systematically murdered because of what they saw. The Present: Enter former Palestinian-American detective Ben Kamal and his Israeli counterpart, Danielle Barnea. Working for the United Nations, Ben and Danielle are forced to return to the Middle East to investigate a massacre in a Palestinian village. The quickly learn that the roots of that massacre lie elsewhere, in another era, on another con...
|  | The Katyn Order: A Novel
Publication Date: May 1, 2011The German war machine is in retreat as the Russians advance. In Warsaw, Resistance fighters rise up against their Nazi occupiers, but the Germans retaliate, ruthlessly leveling the once-beautiful city. American Adam Nowak has been dropped into Poland by British intelligence as an assassin and Resistance fighter. During the Warsaw Uprising he meets Natalia, a covert operative who has lost everything—just as he has. Amid the Allied power struggle left by Germany’s defeat, Adam and Natalia join in a desperate hunt for the 1940 Soviet order authorizing th...
|  | The Crimson Rooms
Publication Date: January 4, 2011From the author of the #1 international bestseller, The Rose of Sebastopol--an unforgettable historical novel. Still haunted by the death of her brother James seven years ago in World War I, Evelyn Gifford is shocked when a young nurse named Meredith and her six-year-old son appear on her London doorstep. Meredith claims the child is James's son, and the grief-stricken Evelyn welcomes them into her home.At the same time Evelyn, a struggling attorney, is defending a veteran charged with murdering his wife. She believes her client is innocent, just as she s...
|  | How To Spin Gold
Publication Date: May 21, 2009First paperback edition of this modern transformtion of the Rumpelstiltskin fairytale. Written as the autobiography of a mysteriously deformed girl who runs away from her medieval village and becomes the apprentice and successor to "The Wise Woman of the Western Woods," the book blends magical realism and psychological wisdom. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Sophocles, 2 : King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Penn Greek Drama Series)
Publication Date: January 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 0812216660 | ISBN-13: 978-0812216660| Edition: Performance Script The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Arist ...
|  | From Up Here
Publication Date: November 25, 20084m, 4f / Dramatic ComedyKenny Barrett did something that has everyone worried. He wishes he could just make it through the rest of his senior year unnoticed, but that's going to be hard since he has to publicly apologize to his entire high school. At home, his mother is struggling with a rocky start to her second marriage and a surprise visit from her estranged sister. A new play about a family limping out the door in the morning and coming home no matter what.Nominated for the 2008 Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards, From Up Here premiered at Manha...
|  | Rabindranath Tagore: The Myriad-Minded Man
Release Date: March 3, 2009Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)--poet, philosopher, painter, novelist, playwright, composer, traveller, political commentator and Asia’s first Nobel Laureate--was one of his era’s cultural icons. Proclaimed as the greatest poet India has ever produced, Tagore left an astonishing legacy undimmed nearly 70 years after his death. But he was also an enigmatic, complex and contradictory figure, torn between India’s spiritual values and the spirit of the West. In this definitive biography, Krishna Dutta and Andrew Robinson explore the man b...
|  | A Good Journey (Sun Tracks, An American Indian Literary Series, Vol 12)
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|  | Hawthorne's Literature for Children
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|  | Menacing Virgins: Representing Virginity in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Publication Date: May 1, 1999The essays in Menacing Virgins delineate the nexus of religious, political, economic, and aesthetic values that produce the Western European myth of virginity and examine how those complex cultural forces animate, empower, discipline, disclose, mystify, and menace the virginal body. The collection includes readings of Icelandic poems, Margaret Cavendish's Assaulted and Pursued Chastity, seventeenth-century dramatic song, and the iconography of Italian wedding chests. ...
|  | The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays
Publication Date: August 5, 2009| ISBN-10: 0810124882 | ISBN-13: 978-0810124882| Edition: 1 Bringing together the thoughts of one of American literature’s sharpest cultural critics, this compendium will open the eyes of a whole new audience to the work of Lionel Trilling. Trilling was a strenuous thinker who was proud to think “too much.” As an intellectual he did not spare his own kind, and though he did not consider himself a rationalist, he was grounded in the world.This collection features 32 of Trilling’s essays on a range of topics, from Jane A...
|  | Not Just the Greek's Wife (Harlequin Presents)
Publication Date: September 18, 2012| Series: Harlequin Presents (Book 3089) Ariston Spiridakou had one reason and one reason only for marrying Chloe: he needed a biddable bride to provide the requisite heir. Yet three years later Chloe's status as good Greek wife is a distant memory—and her defiance has had her cast out of Ariston's life.…Infuriatingly, Chloe now finds herself at Ariston's mercy—but his help comes with a wicked price: the unyielding condition that he won't even consider her request until she's shared his bed…and is expecting his baby!...
|  | Enchantment: Hope Chest (Ballad Romances)
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|  | The Godwulf Manuscript
Release Date: December 5, 1992Spenser earned his degree in the school of hard knocks, so he is ready when a Boston university hires him to recover a rare, stolen manuscript. He is hardly surpised that his only clue is a radical student with four bullets in his chest. The cops are ready to throw the book at the pretty blond coed whose prints are all over the murder weapon but Spenser knows there are no easy answers. He tackles some very heavy homework and knows that if he doesn't finish his assignment soon, he could end up marked "D" -- for dead. ...
|  | Un Pez, Dos Peces, Pez Rojo, Pez Azul/One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: December 2005| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up Summary:0About the Author:•0Author:Dr. SeussIllustrator:0Publisher:Lectorum Pubns Inc (J)Published Date:12/01/2005Format:HardcoverISBN:1930332831#of pages:#N/A ...
|  | Matt Kenseth (Blazers)
Publication Date: September 1, 2008| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
| | Mark Twain's Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
Publication Date: November 1999| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up When JOAN OF ARC was first published in Harper's magazine in 1895, the reading public did not recognize Mark Twain behind it. It is ostensibly a translation of Sieur Louis de Conte's memoirs, the one person who was with Joan during the three important stages of her life: as a visionary village peasant, as a military genius and as the defendant at her trial. The narrator, quiet, retiring and sentimental, is quite unlike the true author. Twain was fascinated by Joan. He spent 12 years in research and made many attemp...
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