 | In One Person: A Novel
Release Date: May 8, 2012A compelling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love—tormented, funny, and affecting—and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character of In One Person, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a century) of his life as a “sexual suspect,” a phrase first used by John Irving in 1978 in his landmark novel of “terminal cases,” The World According to Garp. His most political novel since The Cider House Rules and A Prayer fo...
 |  | Plain Truth
Release Date: August 7, 2007Before Nineteen Minutes, The Tenth Circle, and Perfect Match there was Plain Truth: “an absorbing and affecting novel” (Entertainment Weekly) about life in a bucolic setting that is anything but simple.Not one to shy away from the tough issues that makes her novels so compelling, Jodi Picoult’s recent bestsellers tackled themes from sexual abuse to stem cell research to intense parent-child relationships. Her eager fans have come to expect hard-hitting topics, and Picoult never disappoints. In Plain Truth, a shocking murde...
|  | Stones of My Accusers
Publication Date: January 1, 2004A captivating stand-alone sequel to The Brother's Keeper, Stones of my Accusers reveals the transforming difference Christ's mercy makes through the lives of several compelling characters.Joab and Jorah are each traveling separately to find a prostitute named Rivkah and inform her of her son Nathanael's death.Joab has been commissioned to take Nathanael's words to Rivkah ('Tell her, No stones.').Jorah, a sister of Jesus, secretly plans to get revenge on Rivkah.Through the story of the stones and the sacrifice of a Roman official, each characters life is forev...
|  | The Seventh Stone
Publication Date: November 30, 20115-star Reviews: “I found myself staying up way past my normal bedtime. Murder, kidnapping, dark tunnels and scary skinwalkers keeps the story moving at a fast clip.” “Thinking person's thriller – Read it!” NEW THRILLER NOVEL ASKS READERS, WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE? It has the action of Indiana Jones and the history of Dan Brown, but The Seventh Stone takes thriller novels to a new level as it asks the reader, “What do you believe?”Pamela Hegarty’s new thriller is action-packed with a mysterious shaman, a bru...
|  | Everything Means Nothing To Me
Publication Date: July 23, 2007In the tradition of Hermann Hesse and Charles Bukowski, David M. Carew writes dark, searing novels set in the "underground" of a great American city-Nashville. Carew's 2001 debut, Voice from the Gutter, was hailed "a minor masterpiece . . . an existential novel you will not soon forget" by Tennessean book reviewer Roy E. Perry.Now Carew returns with an impassioned new tale of love, loss, betrayal, and redemption. When the sad, lonely, half-mad writer John Werrick meets mysterious singer/songwriter Eva Downing in a Nashville club, it sparks a tragic, haunted lov...
|  | Hardboiled and Hard Luck
Publication Date: June 9, 2005Banana Yoshimoto's depiction of the lives of Japanese youth has changed her country's literature and earned international acclaim. In Hardboiled & Hard Luck, this internationally best-selling author delivers two tales of resonant grace, of young women coming to terms with change and heartbreak. In "Hardboiled," the narrator is hiking in the mountains on an anniversary she has forgotten about, the anniversary of her ex-lover's death. As she nears her hotel, a sense of haunting falls over her. That night she dreams of her ex-lover, and is visited by a woman who ma...
|  | The Book of the City of Ladies (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: January 1, 2000| Series: Penguin Classics Christine de Pizan (c.1364-1430) was France's first professional woman of letters. Her pioneering Book of the City of Ladies begins when, feeling frustrated and miserable after reading a male writer's tirade against women, Christine has a dreamlike vision where three virtues—Reason, Rectitude and Justice—appear to correct this view. They instruct her to build an allegorical city in which womankind can be defended against slander, its walls and towers constructed from examples of female achievement both from her own day and the...
|  | Honor and the epic hero;: A study of the shifting concept of magnanimity in philosophy and epic poetry
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|  | Lucretius and the Modern World (Classical Inter/Faces)
Publication Date: November 1, 2000| ISBN-10: 0715628828 | ISBN-13: 978-0715628829Lucretius’ On the Nature of Things, one of the glories of Latin literature, provides a vivid poetic exposition of the doctrines of the Greek atomist, Epicurus. The poem played a crucial role in the reinvention of science in the seventeenth century, its influence on the French Enlightenment was powerful and pervasive, and it became a major battlefield in the wars of religion with science in nineteenth-century England. But in the twentieth century, despite its vital contributions to modern thought and c...
|  | In Praise of Fertile Land: An Anthology of Poetry, Parable and Story
Publication Date: January 1, 2006Poetry. Environmental Studies. IN PRAISE OF FERTILE LAND is a unique publishing project. All sales from the book go directly to programs that preserve and protect our remaining farmlands. Included in the anthology are Lucille Clifton, Wendell Berry, Emily Dickinson, Joy Harjo, Langston Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Ebon, Jones, Maxine Kumin, Denise Levertov, Li Young-Lee, Pablo Neruda, Naomi Shihab Nye, Marge Piercy, Ntozake Shange and many others. ...
|  | Rainy season: and other longings for exile (Volume 1)
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|  | The Annotated Brothers Grimm (The Annotated Books)
Publication Date: September 17, 2004| Series: The Annotated Books Maria Tatar redefines the Grimm canon with this authoritative and entertaining collection.The Annotated Brothers Grimm celebrates the richness and dramatic power of the legendary fables in the most spectacular and unusual Grimm volume in decades. Containing forty stories in new translations by Maria Tatar—including "Little Red Riding Hood," "Cinderella," "Snow White," and "Rapunzel"—the book also features 150 illustrations, many of them in color, by legendary painters such as George Cruikshank and Arthur Rackham;...
|  | Defending Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Old South: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History & Culture)
Publication Date: March 5, 2003| ISBN-10: 0312133278 | ISBN-13: 978-0312133276| Edition: First Edition Within decades of the American Revolution, the Northern states had either ended slavery or provided for its gradual abolition. Slavery, however, was entrenched in the South and remained integral to American politics and culture. Nationally, it was protected by the U.S. Constitution, federal laws, and Supreme Court decisions, and slaveowners dominated all three branches of the federal government. From the time of the Revolution until the Civil War (and beyond), Southern thinkers offered ...
|  | Jerusalem, Part 1: 1-704
Release Date: December 15, 2010| ISBN-10: 3110222191 | ISBN-13: 978-3110222197| Edition: 1 The first volume of the Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae covers the inscriptions of Jerusalem from the time of Alexander to the Arab conquest in all the languages used for inscriptions during those times: Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, Syrian, and Armenian. The approximately 1,100 texts have been arranged in categories based on three epochs: up to the destruction of Jerusalem in the year 70, to the beginning of the 4th century, and to the end of Byzantine rule in the 7th century. ...
|  | Love's Paradise (Arabesque)
Publication Date: October 18, 2011| Series: Arabesque In a dazzling new novel in the Mamma Lou series, matchmaker Louise Gates helps two adversaries turn their simmering anger into fiery passion.For historian Sheri Summers, Crescent Island is an unspoiled treasure, and she hopes to keep it that way. If that means shutting down a new beachfront project that could destroy the historic site, so be it. Sheri can deal with developer Jordan Hamilton's anger. But what she doesn't count on is their combustible chemistry.…Jordan has powerful allies, and asks Mamma Lou to help arrange a t...
| | Susannah Beware (Formerly Nine Buck's Row)
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|  | Dataset, Inc.: A Corporate Intrigue
Publication Date: October 30, 2000Dataset, Inc. is a multinational software company, the leader in its particular niche market but something is wrong. The development of the next generation of Windows-based software is badly behind schedule, and the companys competitive position is in jeopardy. The companys owner, suspecting that the delays are deliberate, bugs the office of the Chief Executive Officer. A boardroom rift follows and a deadly, high-stakes international struggle ensues for mastery of the software business.Meanwhile Jim Thornton, a mid-level manager in Dataset, Inc., is thrust i...
|  | Nancy Drew The New Case Files Boxed Set: Vol. #1 - 3
Release Date: November 8, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Play Ball (Scrappers)
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|  | Carolina Panthers (Inside the NFL)
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