 | Kicking and Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul, and Rock and Roll
Release Date: September 18, 2012 Two sisters. Two voices. One Heart. The mystery of "Magic Man." The wicked riff of "Barracuda." The sadness and beauty of "Alone." The raw energy of "Crazy On You." These songs, and so many more, are part of the fabric of American music. Heart, fronted by Ann and Nancy Wilson, has given fans everywhere classic, raw, and pure badass rock and roll for more than three decades. As the only sisters in rock who write their own music and play their own instruments, Ann and Nancy have always stood apart—certainly from their male counterparts but also from thei...
 |  | Welfare Wifeys: A Hood Rat Novel (Hood Rat Novels)
Release Date: September 28, 2010| Series: Hood Rat Novels After the deaths and arrests of his entire crew and an informant-fueled investigation into his past, the man known on the streets as Animal relocates to Texas and finds fame and stardom as the newest act signed to the notorious Big Dawg Entertainment. His girlfriend, Gucci, is thrilled when she gets the news that he’s coming back to New York on a promotional tour, but when she discovers the hidden agenda behind his homecoming nothing can prepare her for the life-altering consequences that will come of it. There goes the ne...
|  | Losers and Keepers in Argentina: A Work of Fiction (Jewish Latin America)
Publication Date: January 1, 2001| Series: Jewish Latin America Rifke Schulman, a Russian Jew, came to Argentina in 1889 at the age of eighteen and helped set up the small agricultural colony called Moises Ville. Rifke's journal and the accompanying short stories introduce Bela Pelatnik, a victim of the white slave trade; Henoch Rosenvitch, the love of Rifke's life; Leah Uberman on her way to attend Moises Ville's centennial celebration; and many others. The book spans the last hundred years and examines the experience of Jewish immigrants in both North and South America, some of whom were n...
|  | Cane River
Release Date: April 17, 2001Lalita Tademy was a successful corporate vice president at a Fortune 500 company when she decided to embark upon what would become an obsessive odyssey to uncover her familys past. Through exhaustive research, interviews, and the help of professional genealogists, she would find herself transported back to the early 1800s, to an isolated, close-knit rural community on Louisianas Cane River. Here, Tademy takes historical fact and mingles it with fiction to weave a vivid and dramatic account of what life was like for the four remarkable women who came before her. Be...
|  | What She Left for Me (Peterson, Tracie)
Release Date: October 1, 2005| Series: Peterson, Tracie When Jana returns from a missions trip, she discovers that her pastor husband has left with his secretary...along with their bank account. Humiliated, penniless, pregnant, and very much alone, Jana reluctantly turns to her mother, Eleanor, in desperation. Eleanor is haunted by her own guilt and pain, and the arrival of her daughter only serves as a daily reminder of the memories she has long kept hidden away. Will a delightfully eccentric aunt become a catalyst between these two women? Will they allow God's spirit--and God's people--to ...
|  | In the Dead of Winter: Ivy Towers Mystery Series #1
Publication Date: July 1, 2008Samantha "Ivy" Towers returns to Winter Break, Kansas, where she spent her summers as a child, to make funeral arrangements for her Aunt Bitty. While there, she begins to suspect her aunt's death, which resulted from a fall in her bookshop, wasn't an accident after all. Childhood friend Amos Parker, now sheriff of Winter Break, seems anxious to get Ivy out of town. A missing book, a message scrawled by an unknown person, and an extra coffee cup leave Ivy with more questions than answers. ...
| | Northern Shadows: An Illustrated Guide to Canadian Vampires
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|  | Una Vez Argentina (Narrativas Hispanicas) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 15, 2004| ISBN-10: 843396853X | ISBN-13: 978-8433968531| Edition: Segunda El libro cuenta la historia sentimental y politica de una familia venida de todas partes, y de un pais con una cultura migratoria o errante que empieza a ser la de nuestro mundo. Mitad personajes y mitad vidas olvidadas, de antepasados fundadores desciende , varias generaciones mas tarde, el joven narrador de la novela, quien ofrece un inteligente y personal relato de la construccion nacional de la Argentina contemporanea, de su srecuerdos de infancia y de su propia iniciacion como escrito...
|  | The Book of Pirates (Dover Children's Classics)
Publication Date: October 27, 2000| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | The Divine Comedy
Publication Date: November 17, 1977| ISBN-10: 0393044726 | ISBN-13: 978-0393044720| Edition: First Edition This single volume, blank verse translation of The Divine Comedy includes an introduction, maps of Dante's Italy, Hell, Purgatory, Geocentric Universe, and political panorama of the thirteenth and early fourteenth century, diagrams and notes providing the reader with invaluable guidance.Described as the "fifth gospel" because of its evangelical purpose, this spiritual autobiography creates a world in which reason and faith have transformed moral and social chaos into order. It is on...
|  | The Sacred Paw: The Bear in Nature, Myth, and Literature
Release Date: June 1, 1992The 'Sacred Paw' looks at the long and profound relationship between bears and humans. The bear is deeply embedded in the human psyche ... from teh fearsomely grizzly, to the paternal Smokey, to the beloved Teddy. Bear images are as widespread in our culture as were the myths and legends about bears that formed a crucial part of early societies. A symbol of harmony in nature, the bear was regarded by our ancestors with a mixture of awe, fear, and veneration. In many ways, the bear is like man, combining strength with dexterity and possessing skill in using tools as ...
|  | Great Short Works of Herman Melville (Perennial Classics)
Release Date: March 2, 2004| Series: Perennial Classics Billy Budd, Sailor and Bartleby, the Scrivener are two of the most revered shorter works of fiction in history. Here, they are collected along with 19 other stories in a beautifully redesigned collection that represents the best short work of an American master.As Warner Berthoff writes in his introduction to this volume, "It is hard to think of a major novelist or storyteller who is not also a first-rate entertainer . . . a master, according to choice, of high comedy, of one or another robust species of expressive humour, or of some sp...
|  | Best Lesbian Erotica 2011
Publication Date: December 1, 2010| Series: Best Lesbian Erotica InBest Lesbian Erotica 2011, women find love and lust in all the rightplaces - kitchens, cars, dance clubs, dungeons, and even a flowerbed.This year's guest judge is the anything-but-shy Lea DeLaria, themulti-talented writer, stand-up comic, singer, and actor. She hasselected work from some of the best-known writers of lesbian eroticfiction as well as debuts of startling new talents. A 1958 Mercury ParkLane rides like a sexual time machine in D.L. King's "Walk Like a Man."In Betty Blue's "The Garden of Earthly Delights," a lost...
|  | Anne will ein Zwilling werden. ( Ab 7 J.). Geschichten und Bildergeschichten von Anne und Hannes. (Fiction, Poetry & Drama) (German Edition)
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|  | sexions
Publication Date: March 15, 2005In this deeply evocative début anthology, Renée Sigel takes the reader on a journey through a richly textured labyrinth of truth and contradiction. Her words and imagery delve into the core nature of self - of belonging, of sexuality, of displacement: Five African Songs and Sexions, selections from life and love, alternately weave through the intense and tenacious fabric of the African soul and its convergence with suburban ordinariness. Hottentot Venus traces the tragic true life story of a young woman, Sara Baartman, which mirrors the current reali...
|  | From Dickens to Dracula: Gothic, Economics, and Victorian Fiction (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: November 5, 2007| ISBN-10: 0521045797 | ISBN-13: 978-0521045797| Edition: 1 Ranging from the panoramic novels of Dickens to the horror of Dracula, Gail Turley Houston examines the ways in which the language and imagery of economics, commerce and banking are transformed in Victorian Gothic fiction, and traces literary and uncanny elements in economic writings of the period. Houston shows how banking crises were often linked with ghosts or inexplicable non-human forces and financial panic was figured through Gothic or supernatural means. In Little Dorrit and Villette char...
| | Vulgate Version of the Arthurian Romances
Publication Date: June 1979| ISBN-10: 0404176305 | ISBN-13: 978-0404176303This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in ...
|  | Spider-Man: Spider-Man versus Hydro-Man (I Can Read Book 2)
Release Date: May 3, 2011| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Zack Files 13: The Misfortune Cookie
Release Date: September 8, 1998| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | DC Super Friends Magnet Book (DC Super Friends) (Magnetic Play Book)
Release Date: August 10, 2010| Age Level: 2 and up...
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