 | Whitethorn: Poems (LSU Press Paperback Original)
Publication Date: February 7, 2011| Series: LSU Press Paperback Original In ''Poem for Jenne,'' which opens Jacqueline Osherow's ambitious and challenging new collection, a neighbor has planted larkspur and delphinium in the poet's yard and is tending them hoping to bring color and light into a household stricken by personal tragedy. As the bright blue, star-shaped flowers bloom for a second time, the poet writes, ''earth's reaching for her heavens, I for words / or any chink of rapture I can claim.'' The pervasive theme, in this poem and throughout Whitethorn, is that human suffering may be...
 |  | Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers
Release Date: March 2, 2000Winner of the 1997 Appalachian Studies Award Appalachian Writers Association 1999 Book of the Year Winner of the Susan Koppleman Award of the Popular Culture Association for Best Edited Collection in Women's Studies Joyce Dyer is director of writing and associate professor of English at Hiram College, Ohio." ...
|  | True Colors
Release Date: January 5, 2010Women across America laughed, cried, and reconnected with their friends after reading Kristin Hannah’s smash hit, Firefly Lane. Now, in True Colors, she explores the poignant, powerful, complex world of sisters… The Grey sisters had only each other when their mother died years ago. Their stern, unyielding father gave them almost no attention. Winona, the oldest, needs her father’s approval most of all. An overweight dreamer, she never felt at home on the sprawling horse ranch that had been in her family for three generations. Aurora, the middle,...
|  | What Are Friends for (Five Star Expressions)
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|  | Island of Lost Girls: A Novel
Release Date: April 22, 2008 While parked at a gas station, Rhonda sees something so incongruously surreal that at first she hardly recognizes it as a crime in progress. She watches, unmoving, as someone dressed in a rabbit costume kidnaps a young girl. Devastated over having done nothing, Rhonda joins the investigation. But the closer she comes to identifying the abductor, the nearer she gets to the troubling truth about another missing child: her best friend, Lizzy, who vanished years before. From the author of the acclaimed Promise Not to Tell comes a chilling and mesmerizing tale of sh...
|  | Wrestling With God
Publication Date: August 31, 2011The Bible is full of persons who wrestle with God. As they stumble in their lives, they love and adore their Lord. They also scheme, lie, cheat, steal, quarrel, and fornicate. Abraham, the faith model for Jews, Christians, and Muslims, tells Sarah to lie; Sarah scolds God for ignoring her; Amnon rapes his sister; Judas recognizes Jesus unconditional love for him; Mary thinks that by distancing himself from her, Jesus hammered a spike into her breast; Peter s wife crawls into their bed and snuggles up; Jesus relatives think he is crazy. In a word, as seekers o...
| | The books of Clive Barker
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|  | The Dragon and the Raven
Publication Date: July 2002In a time of chaos and Viking onslaught, Alfred the untested Saxon king, must fight to save his ravished land. The tale unfurls through the eyes of a young thane, Edmond, who becomes Alfred's friend and mightiest warrior. When Danes over run the land and the Saxons capitulate, this young knight trains and leads a devoted corps of pike-men to recapture the kingdom.On his adventures Edmond is captured by the Pagan Danes, raises the siege of Paris, meets the Pope and still finds time to fall in love. Henty successfully weaves this plot of intrigue and suspense into th...
|  | Das Foucaultsche Pendel (Fiction, Poetry and Drama) (Fiction, Poetry & Drama) (German Edition)
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|  | The Dawn is At Hand
Publication Date: January 1, 1992| ISBN-10: 0714529214 | ISBN-13: 978-0714529219The distinguished composer Malcolm Williamson set her poems as a choral symphony under the title 'The Dawn is at Hand', for the official celebrations of the Australian bi-centenary. He said, 'Kath Walker has distinguished herself as the spokesperson of world justice.' ...
| | Shi fa gai shu (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | Rules of Engagement (Warner Forever)
Publication Date: May 1, 2004| Series: Warner Forever We, the undersigned, confined to spinsterhood through no fault of our own, hereby declare to guide our beloved niece Eliza Merriweather through the upcoming season and secure for her one, if not several, offers of marriage. We vow to consult the magnificent handbook Rules Of Engagement and follow its advice to the letter.Our mission will be difficult, for Eliza is a very independent-minded young woman and a worthy adversary. Already she has hatched a scheme of her own and persuaded Magnus MacKinnon, possessor of mesmerizing silver eyes an...
|  | Colton: Rodeo Cowboy (Harlequin American Romance)
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|  | Cordially Yours, Brother Cadfael
Publication Date: October 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 0879727748 | ISBN-13: 978-0879727741 Detective, monk, father, herbalist, Crusader, sailor, Celt, friend—author Ellis Peters bestows all these attributes on her twelfth-century Benedictine monk-detective Brother Cadfael. As a detective, Cadfael uses his analytic mind to solve crimes and administer justice. As a man of God, he also dispenses mercy along with his famous cordials. Why, essays ask, is a cloistered monk solving murders? How can an author combine a valid detective and an effective he...
|  | The Mysterious Island (Secrets of Droon #3)
Publication Date: August 1, 1999| Age Level: 7 and up Splursh! Ka-thoom! Eric, Julie, and Neal are sailing with Princess Keeah. Suddenly, they are caught in the middle of a magical ocean storm. They are shipwrecked on an island that belongs to one of Lord Sparr's witches. Now Eric, Julie, Neal, and Princess Keeah have to get off the island before Lord Sparr gets them! ...
|  | Marvels
Publication Date: January 6, 2010| Grade Level: 4 and up Welcome to New York. Here, burning figures roam the streets, men in brightly colored costumes scale the glass and concrete walls, and creatures from space threaten to devour our world. This is the Marvel Universe, where the ordinary and fantastic interact daily. This is the world of MARVELS. Collecting MARVELS #0-4. ...
|  | The Minotaur (MythQuest, 1)
Release Date: January 14, 2003| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Muay Thai Boxing (Mixed Martial Arts (Rosen))
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| | The Gymnastics Almanac
Publication Date: September 1998Introduces gymnastics, including history, especially Olympic history, biographies of famous women gymnasts, events, competitions, and tips on getting started. ...
|  | Freshwater Fishing (Blazers)
Publication Date: August 1, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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