 | The Homesteaders In the Beginning
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 |  | Changing Habits
Release Date: January 31, 2012They were sisters once.In a more innocent time, three girls enter the convent. Angelina, Kathleen and Joanna come from very different backgrounds, but they have one thing in common—the desire to join a religious order.Despite the seclusion of the convent house in Minneapolis, they're not immune to what's happening around them, and each sister faces an unexpected crisis of faith. Ultimately Angie, Kathleen and Joanna all leave the sisterhood, abandoning the convent for the exciting and confusing world outside. The world of choices to be made, of risk...
|  | Dusk: A Novel (Modern Library Paperbacks)
Release Date: April 28, 1998| Series: Modern Library Paperbacks With Dusk (originally published in the Philippines as Po-on), F. Sionil Jose begins his five-novel Rosales Saga, which the poet and critic Ricaredo Demetillo called "the first great Filipino novels written in English." Set in the 1880s, Dusk records the exile of a tenant family from its village and the new life it attempts to make in the small town of Rosales. Here commences the epic tale of a family unwillingly thrown into the turmoil of history. But this is more than a historical novel; it is also the eternal story of man's to...
|  | Call HO: Surviving the Surgical Cut
Publication Date: December 15, 2005Based on real-life experience in teaching hospitals, Call HO is a novel that explores the excitement, brutality, and horror of surgical training in the United States. Four surgical interns struggle to deliver the best health care possible while navigating a minefield of incompetent superiors, belligerent patients, and stifling bureaucracy. Nothing they learned in medical school has prepared them for the difficult choices they must now make. Despite grueling hours and impossible situations, intense bonds are formed, and the interns discover what it truly mea...
|  | Caregiver
Publication Date: October 24, 2011It's 1991, and Dan Calzolaio has just moved to Florida with his lover, Mark, having fled Chicago and Mark's addictions to begin a new life on the Gulf Coast. Volunteering for the Tampa AIDS Alliance is just one part of that new beginning, and that's how Dan meets his new buddy, Adam.Adam Schmidt is not at all what Dan expected. The guy is an original--witty, wry, and sarcastic with a fondness for a smart black dress, Barbra Streisand, and a good mai tai. Adam doesn't let his imminent death get him down, even through a downward spiral that sees him thrown in ...
|  | The Last Apache Girl
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|  | Lincoln Legends: Myths, Hoaxes, and Confabulations Associated with Our Greatest President
Release Date: October 12, 2007In the more than 140 years since his death, Abraham Lincoln has become America's most revered president. The mythmaking about this self-made man began early, some of it starting during his campaign for the presidency in 1860. As an American icon, Lincoln has been the subject of speculation and inquiry as authors and researchers have examined every aspect -- personal and professional -- of the president's life. In Lincoln Legends, noted historian and Lincoln expert Edward Steers Jr. carefully scrutinizes some of the most notorious tall tales and distorted ideas a...
|  | Best-Loved Folktales of the World
Publication Date: 1982792 pages - illustrated by Jill Schwarz - 200 Tales from around the world. ...
|  | Eyewitness Christmas
Publication Date: March 6, 2012About this play:In a humorous blend of biblical and modern culture, an aspiring journalist named Luke is trying to break into the periodical, National Scroll, with a fantasy Christmas article, but editor Liebowitz rejects it, demanding facts and authenticity.In a second attempt, Luke conducts four interviews to learn exactly what happened that first Christmas night.What he discovers changes everything. Candle Star Christmas Productions is a series of simple-to-produce Christmas plays designed for small churches or schools.Each one immerses viewers in a powerful...
|  | The Mysterious Stranger (Literary Classics)
Publication Date: September 1995| Series: Literary Classics In his last years, Mark Twain had become a respected literary figure whose opinions were widely sought by the press. He had also suffered a series of painful physical, economic, and emotional losses. "The Mysterious Stranger", published posthumously in 1916 and belonging to Twain's 'dark' period, belies the popular image of the affable American humorist. In this anti-religious tale, Twain denies the existence of a benign Providence, a soul, an afterlife, and even reality itself. As the Stranger in the story asserts, 'nothing exists;...
|  | Henry James: Complete Stories 1874-1884 (Library of America)
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|  | New European Poets
Release Date: March 18, 2008A major anthology spanning the diversity of the latest poetry to come out of Europe New European Poets presents the works of poets from across Europe. In compiling this landmark anthology, Wayne Miller and Kevin Prufer enlisted twenty-four regional editors to select 270 poets whose writing was first published after 1970. These poets represent every country in Europe, and many of them are published here for the first time in English and in the United States. The resulting anthology collects some of the very best work of a new generation of poets who have come ...
|  | Bits from an old book shop,
Publication Date: 1904This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition. --This text refer...
|  | Music in the Renaissance
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|  | Victorian Poets and Romantic Poems: Intertextuality and Ideology (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)
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|  | Peau Noire Masques Blancs (French Edition)
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|  | The Right Madness
Release Date: August 29, 2006James Crumley is one of the most revered practitioners of post-Chandler crime fiction, praised by the likes of Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly as a major influence. C. W. Sughrue is Crumley's most indelible creation. Now Sughrue is back, in a searing thrill ride of a novel that has the seen-it-all Montana private eye trying to find out which of a small-town shrink's bizarre patients has made off with some highly confidential files. Fast-paced, brutal, melancholy, and ruefully funny, The Right Madness is Crumley at his uncompromising best. ...
|  | The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes
Publication Date: 1994320 PAGES, HARDCOVER WITH DUST JACKET. THIS IS PART OF AN EXCLUSIVE BOOK OF THE MONTH CLUB SET. ...
|  | Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand (Commissaire Adamsberg, Book 4)
Release Date: July 31, 2007A #1 bestselling author in France, Fred Vargas repeatedly captivates her many admirers across the globe with suspenseful mysteries featuring Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg, ?a Gallic cousin to Ruth Rendell?s Chief Inspector Wexford? (The Washington Post). In the same way that Donna Leon?s Commissario Brunetti and Andrea Camilleri?s Inspector Montalbano have won countless fans on this side of the Atlantic due to Penguin?s robust commitment to the best international mystery writing, Vargas?s Commissaire Adamsberg is poised to conquer America in a series of novel...
|  | Unwitting Wisdom: An Anthology of Aesop's Fables
Publication Date: August 5, 2004| Grade Level: P and up For over 2,500 years the simple stories and wry humor of Aesop's fables have entertained children and adults alike. Their lessons have seeped into the very fabric of our language, as evidenced by expressions such as "sour grapes" and "a wolf in sheep's clothing."Through the centuries many artists have risen to the challenge of interpreting their favorite tales. In this magnificent edition, award-winning illustrator Helen Ward has chosen a dozen of her favorite fables, painstakingly creating with words and breathtaking watercolors a da...
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