 | The Guns in the Closet
Publication Date: October 1996stories collected over the last twenty years...
 |  | A Perfect Mother
Publication Date: December 31, 2007Three sisters—Frances, Maggie, and Diane—are living complicated lives alongside their widowed and unhappy father, Harry. Frances is a shy and awkward woman who reluctantly decides she must end her relationship with the ideal man because he has three daughters. Maggie, too, is suffering from a recent break with her boyfriend and moves back home to find solace, while Diane admits to her sister to having an affair despite being married with children. Will the family overcome their various issues and come together once again? ...
|  | The Right Blood
Publication Date: July 2, 2012The invasion has begun. The Zaagotes are attacking the Empire of Tire Elween, the territory of New Earth, and the vast, unknown, unexplored lands of the tribes. These invaders and the trackers, the strange creatures who serve them, hunt and kill everyone and everything on the planet that is not like them; but Mentor's world becomes more dangerous than ever when one Zaagote in particular, Fade, the most feared adversary of all, pursues him. Hunted by the emperor's elite force of imperial killers and by his own people for an act of treason he has not committed, Me...
|  | The Paradise Snare (Star Wars, The Han Solo Trilogy #1) (Book 1)
Release Date: May 5, 1997Here is the first book in the blockbuster trilogy that chronicles the never-before-told story of the young Han Solo. Set before the Star Wars movie adventures, these books chronicle the coming-of-age of the galaxy's most famous con man, smuggler, and thief.The first book in this exciting new Han Solo series begins with a recounting of Han's late teen years and shows us how he escaped an unhappy adopted home situation to carve out an adventurous new life for himself as a pilot. Han Solo, the handsome rogue, is every girl's dream man, and every boy's hero.The Paradise ...
|  | Street Life
Release Date: June 1, 2007Street Life is a journey into the struggle of a young black male raised in America's inner city streets. Not since Donald Goines and Claude Brown has there been a story written from the male perspective about the inner city streets that compares. As the merry-go-round of life in the hood is relived, explanations will become evident for the events and circumstances that lead so many to the prison-gates. In this true to life story a vivid, colorful picture is painted of why growing up in an environment where happiness is sought in the bottom of liquor bottles, needles...
|  | Murder in the Rue Chartres: A Chanse MacLeod Mystery (An Alyson Mystery)
Publication Date: November 1, 2007| Series: An Alyson Mystery Murder hits the Big Easy. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Chanse MacLeod returns to a different, shattered New Orleans in an attempt to rebuild his own life and face his own future. When he discovers that his last client before the storm was murdered the very night she hired him to find her long-missing father, he is drawn into a web of intrigue and evil that surrounds the Verlaine family.Greg Herren is the author of six mysteries set in the city of New Orleans, including Murder in the Rue Dauphine and Murder in the Rue St. An...
|  | Home, Away
Publication Date: August 1, 2010Praise for Home, Away:"This is a charming tale filled with sounds, scenes, and sensibilities that are real and vivid. Fatherhood, childhood, baseball, and marriage are all portrayed with profound and moving truthfulness."--Mario M. Cuomo, former governor of New York"Inspiring, outrageous, soaring, devastating. Anyone who's ever played baseball or watched it, anyone who's ever been a father or had one, is in for a treat."--Mike Farrell, actor (M*A*S*H, Providence) and author of Just Call Me MikeHow much is a father's love worth? Jason Thibodeaux has a $42 ...
|  | Legendary Hawai'i and the Politics of Place: Tradition, Translation, and Tourism
Publication Date: December 22, 2006| ISBN-10: 081223975X | ISBN-13: 978-0812239751Hawaiian legends figure greatly in the image of tropical paradise that has come to represent Hawai'i in popular imagination. But what are we buying into when we read these stories as texts in English-language translations? This is the question that Cristina Bacchilega poses in her examination of how stories labeled as Hawaiian "legends" have been adapted to produce a legendary Hawai'i primarily for non-Hawaiian readers or other audiences.With an understanding of tradition that foregrounds history and change...
|  | A Cleaned Window: Haiku Poetry
Publication Date: May 2, 2011A BOOK OFHAIKU POETRY it is to feel the wind and soundstold in three linesit is to view memory momentsin words and pictures ...
|  | Complete Guide to Starting a Used Bookstore: Old Books into Gold
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|  | Dante's Divine Comedy: Paradise (v. 3)
Publication Date: September 1, 1998| Series: Dante's Divine Comedy (Book 3) The Divine Comedy is perhaps the greatest Christianclassic ever written, and probably the greatest adveture story evertold.Dante wrote it to entertain, guide, and enrich ordinaryreaders, not just the intellectual elite.This clear new version withunique aids makes the fascinating story accessible to such readerstoday.Those who love Dante best as a storyteller and teacher will find inthis book what they have been waiting for...the freshest, clearest,most exact, and most readable Divine Comedy in the English language,wi...
|  | Functional and Systemic Linguistics: Approaches and Uses (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs)
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|  | Die Lyrik Max Holzers: Aussagemoglichkeiten surrealer Bildlichkeit (German Edition)
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|  | Modernism and Theory: A Critical Debate
Publication Date: December 11, 2008| ISBN-10: 041546157X | ISBN-13: 978-0415461573| Edition: 1 Modernism and Theory boldly asks what – if any – role theory has to play in the new modernist studies. Separated into three sections, each with a clear introduction, this collection of new essays from leading critics outlines ongoing debates on the nature of modernist culture. This collectionexamines aesthetic and methodological links between modernist literature and theory. addresses questions of the importance of theory to our understanding of ‘modernism’ and...
|  | Crime Classics: The Mystery Story from Poe to the Present
Release Date: November 1, 1991Spellbinding worksby such maters as Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan doyle, Dashiell Hammet, Dorothy Sayers and Agatha Christie, as well as delightful gems from less familiar writers such as Cornell Woolrich and intriguing tales by authors not usually associated with mytery writing - Flannery O'Connor, Jorge Luis Borges and William Faulkner. Burns and Sullivan introduce the anthology by tracing the history of the genre and providing a biography of each author. ...
|  | Otherworld Chronicles #2: The Seven Swords
Release Date: January 2, 2013| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Hoop Crazy
Publication Date: June 1994A smooth-talking man who claims to have played basketball with Chip's father creates dissension on the Valley Falls high school team and plans to use Big Chip's pottery formula in his latest scam. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | The Prose Edda: Tales from Norse Mythology (Dover Books on Literature & Drama)
Publication Date: July 21, 2006| Series: Dover Books on Literature & Drama The wellspring for modern knowledge of Norse mythology, these legends of gods and heroes were created to preserve the Vikings' narrative style from European influence. Edda means "poetic art," and this guidebook for Icelandic poets has been a timeless inspiration for generations of writers, including Wagner, Borges, and Tolkien. ...
|  | Dash the Sea Turtle
Publication Date: July 13, 2010| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Dash tried so very hard to keep up with the rest, but something was different--he couldn't get out of the nest! See what happens when little Dash learns that being different isn't always bad. Sometimes it can make you the fastest sea turtle in the bunch! Children and adults will love how Dash the Turtle reminds them that we must all learn to use our differences, not fear them. ...
|  | Meet Me at the Moon
Release Date: March 29, 2012| Age Level: 2 and up A heartwarming love story between mother and child When Mama Elephant must leave Little One to ask the skies for rain, the young elephant is worried. Who will care for Little One? Who will sing Mama's special songs? When will she return? Mama is very reassuring - Little One will hear her song on the wind and feel her love in the warmth of the sun, and, after the rains come, they will meet where the moon sets. Exquisitely illustrated and supremely comforting, Meet Me at the Moon is a mother and child love story to be enjoyed again and again. ...
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