 | Selected from Bless Me Ultima
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 |  | Medicine (Poets, Penguin)
Release Date: June 1, 2000| Series: Poets, Penguin Amy Gerstler has won acclaim for complex yet accessible poetry that is by turns extravagant, subversive, surreal, and playful. In her new collection, Medicine, she deploys a variety of dramatic voices, spoken by such disparate characters as Cinderella's wicked sisters, the wife of a nineteenth-century naturalist, a homicide detective, and a woman who is happily married to a bear. Their elusive collectivity suggests, but never quite defines, the floating authorial presence that haunts them. Gerstler's abiding interests--in love and mourning, ...
|  | Wind from the Wilderness (The Liberty Bell Series, Book 5)
Publication Date: July 1998If Ever the Patriots Needed His Help, Now was the Time!Joel Bradford and his sister, Phoebe, had been rescued from a life of poverty in England, coming to America to work for Daniel Bradford. While employed in a foundry, Joel meets an elderly actor who has retired in Boston and soon discovers that Joel has a natural gift for acting. He takes Joel under his wing, and together they put on a play for George Washington and his staff.With General Howe about to make a strike against the weakened Continental Army, George Washington is in dire need of accurate reports of t...
|  | Glory Be! (Glory, North Carolina Series #1) (Steeple Hill Love Inspired Suspense #55) (A Cozy Mystery)
Publication Date: June 12, 2007An unexpected windfall had greedy church choir members seeing green, taking sides and preparing for battle. Their weapon of choice? Practical jokes. And Emma McCall wanted no part of it...until a VW Bug appeared on her bed-and-breakfast's porch. The combatants' pranks were escalating, and only innkeeper Emma seemed to be taking them seriously.But before the pretty amateur could dust for fingerprints, an unexpected ally appeared: Glory's deputy police chief, Rafe Neilson. So when the antics became no laughing matter, the courageous single dad couldn't let impetu...
|  | Fledgling
Publication Date: January 2, 2007Octavia E. Butler is one of the finest voices in fiction--period. . . . A master storyteller, Butler casts an unflinching eye on racism, sexism, poverty, and ignorance and lets the reader see the terror and beauty of human nature.-"The Washington Post Book World "Readers familiar with . . . "Parable of the Sower and "Bloodchild will recall that [Butler] never asks easy questions or settles for easy answers."-Gerald Jonas in "The New York Times "Fledgling, Octavia Butler's first new novel in seven years, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose...
|  | Southern Gods
Publication Date: July 26, 2011Nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First NovelRecent World War II veteran Bull Ingram is working as muscle when a Memphis DJ hires him to find Ramblin' John Hastur. The mysterious blues man's dark, driving music - broadcast at ever-shifting frequencies by a phantom radio station - is said to make living men insane and dead men rise. Disturbed and enraged by the bootleg recording the DJ plays for him, Ingram follows Hastur's trail into the strange, uncivilized backwoods of Arkansas, where he hears rumors the musician has sold his s...
|  | Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Vol. 2
Publication Date: April 15, 2002| Series: Tuttle Classics (Book 2) The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is Lo Kuan-chung's retelling of the events attending the fall of the Han Dynasty in 220 A.D., one of the most tumultuous and fascinating periods in Chinese history. It is an epic saga of brotherhood and rivalry, of loyalty and treachery, of victory and death.As important for Chinese culture as the Homeric epics have been for the West, this fourteenth-century masterpiece continues to be loved and read throughout China as well as in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. ...
|  | China Doll (Triple Crown Publications Presents)
Publication Date: June 15, 2010| Series: Triple Crown Publications Presents Love doesn't come easy - especially for China. With her family out of the picture, China must rely on her friends instead. But friendship does not always withstand the struggles of the streets. Tragedy strikes China's life again and again, knocking her support and hope for happiness out from under her. That's when she meets Black. Just as things are looking up for China, Black's hustlin' ways and short temper keep her from finding the security she craves. Hustler after hustler falls through her life, and China doesn'...
|  | One for the Money (Movie Tie-in Edition) (Stephanie Plum)
Release Date: November 22, 2011| Series: Stephanie Plum The dynamite blockbuster that started it all—now a major motion picture starring Katherine Heigl as Stephanie Plum!ONE FINE MESSWelcome to Trenton, New Jersey, home to wiseguys, average Joes, and Stephanie Plum, who sports a big attitude and even bigger money problems (since losing her job as a lingerie buyer for a department store). Stephanie needs cash—fast—but times are tough, and soon she’s forced to turn to the last resort of the truly desperate: family...ONE FALSE MOVEStephanie lands a gig at her sleazy cou...
|  | City of God
Release Date: February 1, 2001The crowning achievement of E. L. Doctorow's distinguished literary career--an astonishing modern masterwork of faith, mystery, and the search for spiritual authenticity. With brilliant and audacious strokes, the author of Ragtime and Billy Bathgate creates a breathtaking collage of memories, events, visions, and provocative thought, all centered on the idea of a modern reality of God. At the heart of this stylistically daring and dazzling inventive tour-de-force is a riveting detective story about a cross that vanishes from a Lower-East-Side church, only to rea...
|  | Belfast Confetti
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|  | Soul Hunters: Hunting, Animism, and Personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs
Publication Date: August 24, 2007| ISBN-10: 0520252179 | ISBN-13: 978-0520252172| Edition: 1 This is an insightful, highly original ethnographic interpretation of the hunting life of the Yukaghirs, a little-known group of indigenous people in the Upper Kolyma region of northeastern Siberia. Basing his study on firsthand experience with Yukaghir hunters, Rane Willerslev focuses on the practical implications of living in a "hall-of-mirrors" world--one inhabited by humans, animals, and spirits, all of whom are understood to be endless mimetic doubles of one another. In this world human bein...
|  | In the Light of the Moon: Thirteen Lunar Tales from Around the World Illuminating Life's Mysteries
Publication Date: August 28, 2003Throughout the year, as it moves inexorably through its phases, the moon is a source of wonder, inspiration, and knowledge for countless sky watchers. Now In the Light of the Moon, a companion to Carolyn Edwards' popular collection of stories about the winter solstice, presents thirteen lunar tales from around the world. Organized into four sections corresponding to the waxing, full, waning, and dark moons, the book collects stories from Australia, Britain, ancient Egypt, the Maya, Korea, Polynesia, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, India, and the Amazon, among other lands...
|  | The Carpenter's Child
Publication Date: January 1, 1995This Christmas Eve service centers on the story of Leah, a young girl from Bethlehem at the time of Jesus' birth. It is a story of seeming tragedy, despair and restored hope -- of a loving daughter, her carpenter father, and the trials they face when he is branded a leper. It could be argued that the title should be The Carpenter's Children because it refers not only to Leah, but also to the infant Messiah and all people of Christ. The entire service is about 45-60 minutes in length depending on optional inclusions (such as solos or choir anthems) and can be ...
|  | The Illustrated Rumi: A Treasury of Wisdom from the Poet of the Soul
Release Date: December 21, 2010 The bestselling poet in America today, thirteenth-century Sufi mystic Jalalu'ddin Rumi has inspired and enlightened thousands with his playful, passionate work celebrating the sacred in everyday life. Now the spiritual wealth of Rumi's stories and poetry in translation are accompanied by rare and wonderful art in the Sufi tradition. This fresh rendering brings new life to these incomparable parables, which have transcended time, place, culture, and religion to speak directly to the hearts and souls of contemporary readers. With a foreword by Huston Smith, thes...
|  | Shakespeare's Lovers: A Text for Performance and Analysis
Publication Date: October 25, 1982| ISBN-10: 0809310724 | ISBN-13: 978-0809310722| Edition: 1st Performed successfully during the California Shakespearean Festival in Visalia, this play— woven from Shakespearean scenes, songs, and sonnets—presents “Shakespeare’s universal, enduring, fully human values about love” in a “rich Shakespearean tapestry of romance,” state the authors, Libby Appel and Michael Flachmann. The play is organized into two acts containing four dramatic sections “Discovering Love,” “Seeking Advi...
|  | Eusebius: Ecclesiastical History, Books I-V (Loeb Classical Library, No. 153)
Publication Date: January 1, 1926| ISBN-10: 0674991699 | ISBN-13: 978-0674991699Eusebius of Caesarea, ca. 260–340 CE, born in Palestine, was a student of the presbyter Pamphilus whom he loyally supported during Diocletian's persecution. He was himself imprisoned in Egypt, but became Bishop of Caesarea about 314. At the Council of Nicaea in 325 he sat by the emperor, led a party of moderates, and made the first draft of the famous creed.Of Eusebius's many learned publications we have Martyrs of Palestine and Life of Constantine; several apologetic and polemic works; parts of his comm...
|  | The Prose Brut: The Development of an English Chronicle
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|  | Bride of the Water God Volume 7
Publication Date: February 8, 2011| Series: Bride of the Water God (Book 7) Soah, our heroine, is saved from a strange, sacrificial ritual by Habaek, the young Water God. While Soah has come to appreciate the Water God and his kingdom, the heavenly Suguk, she's also fallen in love with a mysterious man named Mui. What she doesn't know is that Habaek is Mui--he's been cursed to appear as a little boy during the day while he lives in his true adult form at night! Will Soah discover that she's torn between two versions of the same person, or will other sinister forces drive them apart? Soah and...
|  | A Circle Is a Balloon and Compass Both: Stories About Human Love
Release Date: April 6, 2007From the author of Superbad and Superworse, a new collection of stories about giving, wanting, and the wonders of love.A Circle Is a Compass and a Balloon Both is a collection of stories about love, the most elusive and problematic of all phenomena. With a mix of traditional, literary prose and bold some might even say irresponsible experimentation, Ben Greenman explores the ins and outs of modern romance. Expect tears, nudity, and recrimination.Both familiar in their humanness and wholly original, these imaginative stories take us all over the map in time, place, ...
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