 | Three Musketeers, The
Publication Date: November 23, 2010AdventureCharaters 8 male, 4 female (doubling) Unit sets This adaptation is based on the timeless swashbuckler by Alexandre Dumas, a tale of heroism, treachery, close escapes and above all, honor. The story, set in 1625, begins with d'Artagnan who sets off for Paris in search of adventure. Along with d'Artagnan goes Sabine, his sister, the quintessential tomboy. Sent with d'Artagnan to attend a convent school in Paris, she poses as a young man - d'Artagnan's servant - and quickly becomes entangled in her brother's adventures. Soon after reaching Paris, d'Ar...
 |  | Though None Go with Me
Release Date: August 9, 2001One woman's costly decision will touch a lifetime of hearts. Born at the turn of the century, Elisabeth Grace LeRoy longs for something more in her life. Something only an eternal love can offer. It is a love she encounters at last---one that promises to fill her passionate heart completely and that calls forth her utmost in return. In response, Elisabeth makes the commitment that will shape her entire life: a decision to follow Christ always, no matter the cost. So begins a remarkable love story---a legacy of faith that weaves together two world wars, the Great D...
|  | Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury
Release Date: July 10, 2012 What do you imagine when you hear the name . . . Bradbury? You might see rockets to Mars. Or bizarre circuses where otherworldly acts whirl in the center ring. Perhaps you travel to a dystopian future, where books are set ablaze . . . or to an out-of-the-way sideshow, where animated illustrations crawl across human skin. Or maybe, suddenly, you're returned to a simpler time in small-town America, where summer perfumes the air and life is almost perfect . . . almost. Ray Bradbury—peerless storyteller, poet of the impossible, and one of America's most belo...
|  | Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative: The First Five Canterbury Tales
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|  | Tales of the Unanticipated 30
Publication Date: April 1, 2010| Series: Tales of the Unanticipated (Book 30) For 24 years, Tales of the Unanticipated has provided the highest quality and the widest range of subject and tone in speculative fiction, poetry, and artwork. In TOTU #30, Australian author Stephen Dedman explores the kerfuffle caused by a returning space probe. A warm tale by Eleanor Arnason relates the reflections of a homeless teddy bear. Barbara Rosen introduces us to a cat with a very special talent, while Catherine Lundoff offers a mysterious Egyptian cat sculpture. Terry Faust and Martha A. Hood serve up tw...
|  | The Winemaker
Release Date: September 4, 2012From the author of The Physician and Shaman now comes this story of a young man—the grapes he grows, the wine he fashions, the women he loves, and his struggle against an evil that seeks to destroy him. Already an international bestseller.Josep Alvarez is a young man in the tiny grape-growing village of Santa Eulália, in northern Spain, where his father grows black grapes that are turned into cheap vinegar. Joseph loves the agricultural life, but he is the second son, and his father’s vineyard will be inherited by his brother Donat, the first...
|  | If No One's Looking (A Kristin Ashe Mystery)
Publication Date: September 1, 2008A three-year-old girl is missing.That's all anyone can agree on when Kristin Ashe, a private investigator in Denver, Colorado, is drawn into the case of the disappearance of Kayla Martin.Kayla's lesbian mothers insist that Kayla was snatched out of their suburban backyard in the middle of the day, but the police suspect them of child abuse resulting in death. The case becomes more daunting when Kristin uncovers secrets in the two women's pasts and the lesbian community divides over whether to offer the couple support.With each passing day, the search for Ka...
|  | A Christmas Carol: A Pop-Up Book
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|  | Sobibor
Publication Date: April 1, 2006Sobibor is a disturbing novel that deals with eating disorders and the psychological effect of the past. Two stories are skillfully woven together about a teenage girl who is looking for answers and the secret lives of her grandparents who collaborated with the Germans at a concentration camp in Poland. Coincides with the anniversary of the Sobibor inmate uprising. ...
|  | The Growth of a Shadow: Selected Poems of Taejoon Moon
Publication Date: January 20, 2012A collection of 71 poems by Korean author Taejoon Moon, these selected works bring a deeper meaning to the ordinary aspects of everyday life through Moon’s keen observations of his surroundings combined with his use of rich details. Inviting a different level of understanding, these observations—from a woman struggling with cancer to a flower dying in a pot to a herd of black goats—demonstrate Moon’s profound engagement with the world around him and encourages the same in his readers. Not only displaying an appreciation of the beauty ...
|  | Supermodernprayerbook (Salt Modern Poets)
Publication Date: September 14, 2010| Series: Salt Modern Poets This collection is what everyone needs for modern life, a contemporary prayer book. Buy it and use it as a footprint for walking through each day, safe in the rhythms of each and every poem and the common denominator of hope they contain within. ...
| | The never-ending wrong,: And other renderings of the Chinese from the prose translations of Herbert A. Giles
Publication Date: 1902This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch 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 the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valua...
|  | The Science of Harry Potter: How Magic Really Works
Release Date: May 27, 2003| Age Level: 18 and up | Grade Level: 12 and up Can Fluffy the three-headed dog be explained by advances in molecular biology? Could the discovery of cosmic "gravity-shielding effects" unlock the secret to the Nimbus 2000 broomstick's ability to fly? Is the griffin really none other than the dinosaur Protoceratops? Roger Highfield, author of the critically acclaimed The Physics of Christmas, explores the fascinating links between magic and science to reveal that much of what strikes us as supremely strange in the Potter books can actually be explained by the conjuri...
|  | The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti 8: The Last Decade, 1873-1882: Kelmscott to Birchington III. 1878-1879. (The Correspondence D G Rossetti) (The Correspondence Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
Publication Date: August 20, 2009| ISBN-10: 1843841312 | ISBN-13: 978-1843841319On November 11, 1878, Rossetti wrote to Watts-Dunton: `Friday night exactly made a year since my return to London in 1877 & you know how well I have been the whole of that time.' Indeed, in 1878-79, Rossetti lived what might appear to be a more tranquil version of his first years at Cheyne Walk. The long breach with Ford Madox Brown finally ended, and he began to see his brother regularly again; and he managed to complete a number of commissions, and other paintings. However, as the correspondence collected h...
|  | The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance (Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
Publication Date: January 1, 1978| ISBN-10: 0674796764 | ISBN-13: 978-0674796768Northrop Frye's thinking has had a pervasive impact on contemporary interpretations of our literary and cultural heritage. In his Anatomy of Criticism, a landmark in the history of modern critical theory, he demonstrated his genius for mapping out the realm of imaginative creation. In The Secular Scripture he turns again to the task of establishing a broad theoretical framework, bringing to bear his extraordinary command of the whole range of literature from antiquity to the present.Romance, a mode of literat...
|  | Untamed Highlander: A Dark Sword Novel
Release Date: April 26, 2011| Series: Dark Sword (Book 4) Druid-born and magic-blessed, Isla is one of the deadliest she-devils ever to serve the forces of darkness. As an immortal Highland warrior, it’s up to Hayden Campbell to destroy her and her kind. But for Hayden, Isla is more than a sworn enemy. She is temptation…Taking Isla captive, Hayden hopes to avenge his kinsmen who died by Druid magic. But when he looks into Isla’s eyes, he sees the secrets of her past. When he touches her skin, he feels the passion in her soul. And soon Hayden comes to realize that this beaut...
|  | Can't Get Enough of Your Love
Release Date: March 1, 2011Sometimes A Girl Likes To Keep Her Options OpenIn her search for Mr. Right, Erlana Joy Cole has met lots of prospects, but she's never been able to narrow it down to just one. And why should she? After all, you can't ask a woman to have only one pair of shoes, right? So why settle for just one man? Instead, she's got herself her own "Earth, Wind, and Fire" of men. There's her "Earth," Roger, a white soul brother with a sweet mind and a wicked touch. There's "Wind," Karl, a tattooed entrepreneur who's straight out of Erlana's roots. And as for Juan, well, he's pure ...
|  | Vulnerable: The First Book of the Little Goddess Series
Publication Date: February 4, 2005Working graveyards in a stop & rob seemed a small price for Cory to pay in order to get her degree and get the hell out of Nor-Cal. She was terrified of disappearing into the aimless vortex that awaited the lost and the young that haunted her neck of the woods. Until the night she actually stopped looking at her books and looked up. What awaited her was a world she had only read about—one filled with fantastical creatures that she was sure she could never be.And then Adrian walked in—and she discovered that risking your life was nothing compared to...
|  | House of a Thousand Lanterns
Release Date: March 12, 1987Jane Lindsay never dreamed she would be wealthy. Nor that she would fall in love with a man she could not trust. Against the background of 19th-century England and Hong Kong, the story of a young Englishwoman in a strange new world unfolds . . . ...
|  | The Hound of the Baskervilles
Publication Date: January 2003This is a rich month for audio books. In the Darlington Substitution Scandal David Stuart Davies fleshes out a brief remark made by Sherlock Holmes in A Scandal In BohemiaThe story is read or rather acted with remarkable virtuosity and panache by the author's near namesake, David Ian Davies with credible characters and ingenious plot, and an atmosphere of excitement we are plunged once again into that romantic chamber of the heart, that nostalgic country of the mind, where it is always 1895. What more could we wish for? The CD also includes DSD's story The Reich...
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