 | The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Publication Date: December 16, 2002| Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing is a broad, specially commissioned introduction to travel writing in English between 1500 and the present. Five essays survey the period's travel writing; six more focus on areas of particular interest--Arabia, the Amazon, Ireland, Calcutta, the Congo and California, while the final three analyze some of the theoretical and cultural dimensions of this enigmatic, influential genre of writing.An extensive further reading list plus a detailed chronology are included. ...
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|  | Manhunt
Release Date: November 29, 2005 A woman with a talent for numbers, Alexandra Scott wanted to escape the rat race and go someplace where the men outnumber the women. Trading in her Wall Street job and fancy condo for a rundown cabin in the woods. She's now Alaskan Wilderness Woman. It isn't long before she finds exactly what she's looking for: one sexy pilot named Michael Casey. But this confirmed bachelor has no intentions of getting caught in any woman's crosshairs—especially a hunter as appealing as Alex. It'll take skill, determination, and a little romantic persuasion for this big...
|  | The Beginning (Chronicles of Heaven)
Publication Date: July 1, 2003| Series: Chronicles of Heaven (Book 1) Creation... the fall of man... God's relationship with his people... the birth of Christ... his resurrection. A fresh new telling of an old, old story - from the perspective of the angels. In The Beginning, God creates the heavens... and the visible realm, including the earth and everything in it. The crowning glory of creation is man and woman, who live and move in both the visible world and the spiritual world, ruling creation in full fellowship with their Creator. Until... until the Garden is invaded by the succulent, d...
|  | A Silent Terror (High Stakes Trilogy, Book 1) (Steeple Hill Love Inspired Suspense #141)
Publication Date: March 10, 2009When Marianna Santino's roommate is killed, Detective Ethan O'Hara can't fathom the motive. Then he realizes the deaf teacher was the intended target. Marianna must have something the murderer desperately wants. But what? Digging for the truth, the guarded cop tries to learn everything he can about Marianna. Her world. Her family. Her beauty, faith and fierce independence. In spite of himself, Ethan finds that he can't keep his feelings at bay. Soon, he's willing to risk everything--including his heart--to lay the silent terror stalking Marianna to rest. --Thi...
|  | The Caves of Perigord: A Novel
Release Date: July 22, 2009In a brilliant and ambitious thriller that combines elements of Jean Auel's The Clan of the Cave Bear and Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth into a riveting, multifaceted tale of love, art, courage, and war, Martin Walker brings to life the creation of an extraordinary work of prehistoric cave art and the struggle to possess it in our own time.Walker's richly interwoven novel opens with the arrival of a mysterious package for a young American woman working in a London auction house. Brought by a British officer, it contains a 17,000-year-old fragment of a cave ...
|  | Broken Wings
Release Date: April 29, 2003| Series: Broken Wings (Book 1) Three girls from different worlds with one thing in common: They were born to be wild.Robin...With a mom who's more absorbed in her singing career than in her own daughter, Robin's left to her own devices when the two move to Nashville. That's where her mom hopes to strike gold -- and where Robin finds nothing but trouble.Teal...This rich girl will do anything to get her parents' attention...even break the law. But after she takes things too far for the guy she adores, Teal loses their trust completely -- and is treated like a p...
|  | The Wapshot Scandal (Perennial Classics)
Release Date: June 3, 2003| Series: Perennial ClassicsIn this simultaneously hilarious and poignant companion volume to The Wapshot Chronicle, the members of the Wapshot family of St. Botolphs drift far from their New England village into the demented caprices of the mighty, the bad graces of the IRS, and the humiliating abyss of adulterous passion. A novel of large and tender vision, The Wapshot Scandal is filled with pungent characters and outrageous twists of fate, and, above all, with Cheever's luminous compassion for all his hapless fellow prisoners of human nature....
|  | Silence Fell
Publication Date: March 12, 2007A serious illness at the age of six left Josephine Dickinson deaf overnight. She nonetheless built an astounding career as a musician, composer, and teacher while also writing poetry filled with sound and rhythm. During a reading tour in England, Galway Kinnell was given two of Dickinson's books. Her poems made such an impression on him that he passed the books on to his publisher. Silence Fell, Dickinson's American debut, draws from her previous collections. The poems are set on a sheep farm in the northern mountains of England and tell the story -- in the fo...
|  | American History in Verse
Publication Date: June 1, 1975| ISBN-10: 0890840245 | ISBN-13: 978-0890840245Recaptures the joys and struggles of our nation's birth and growth in an inspiring collection of poems. Originally published by Houghton Mifflin in 1932; reprinted by BJU Press. ...
|  | Miracle Maker: The Selected Poems of Fadhil Al-Azzawi (Lannan Translations Selection Series)
Publication Date: November 1, 2003| Series: Lannan Translations Selection Series This collection features poems from Al-Azzawi’s six previous Arabic poetry collections and many new poems. Springing from classical Arabic poetry, his poems speak to political exile, -cultural marginalization, and Middle Eastern and Western histories and mythologies. Al-Azzawi employs -humor, melancholy and tenderness to celebrate new worlds of possibility.Fadhil Al-Azzawi was born in 1940 in Kirkuk, Iraq. By the time he was -fifteen, he was publishing poems in the leading Arab literary magazines in Beiru...
|  | I Love You Soooo Much: A Book for My Soul Mate...and a Thanks from My Heart (Blue Mountain Arts Collection)
Publication Date: March 2002| Series: Blue Mountain Arts Collection This book is a celebration of a very special type of love: the once-in-a-lifetime kind. It puts so many inexpressible feelings into words, weaving joy, hope, and happiness together, while expressing a wish for this special sharing... to last forever. It's a gift from the heart for someone so close to your soul. The unique handmade paper used for the cover of this book is first crafted from mulberry trees and then hand-colored by artisans. Each book cover in this eloquent series is distinct and different, and the environment ...
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|  | Proclaiming God's Truth: The First 25 Years at Christian Light
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|  | Comedy after Postmodernism: Rereading Comedy from Edward Lear to Charles Willeford
Publication Date: January 15, 2001Is comedy postmodern?Kirby Olson posits that no one has been more marginalized than the comic writer, whose irreverent truths have always made others uncomfortable. In a literary age that purports to champion diversity, comic writers remain an underclass huddling at the fringes of the canon. Olson challenges the status quo by inviting the comic writer into the center of literary debate.In the growing discipline of humor studies, Olson is the first to create a substantial link between the fields of comedy and postmodernism, discovering in comic writers a phil...
|  | Under the Desert Moon
Release Date: September 1, 1992Disguised as a prim schoolteacher, Aubrey Granger travels to Santa Fe to avenge a past wrong and encounters Christian McBride, a man who had been jailed for a crime he did not commit....
|  | The Dancing Floor
Publication Date: June 1998Romantic SuspenseLarge Print EditionWell-delineated characters make this tale everything a romance reader can ask for. Publishers Weekly* A New York Times Bestselling AuthorFor years, Heather Tradescant has dreamed of the pilgrimage to the great English gardens she and her father would someday make. Now, determined to fulfill her deceased fathers dream, shes furious that the millionaire owner has denied her request to see the fabled 17th-century garden of Troytan House. Stubbornly, Heather braves walls of briars to reach the manor house. When shes caught, she cant ...
|  | The Swarm: A Novel
Release Date: May 8, 2007 Whales begin sinking ships. Toxic, eyeless crabs poison Long Island's water supply. The North Sea shelf collapses, killing thousands in Europe. Around the world, countries are beginning to feel the effects of the ocean's revenge as the seas and their inhabitants begin a violent revolution against mankind. At stake is the survival of the Earth's fragile ecology—and ultimately, the survival of the human race itself. The apocalyptic catastrophes of The Day After Tomorrow meet the watery menace of The Abyss in this gripping, scientifically realistic, and utterly...
|  | Fudge Cupcake Murder (Hannah Swensen)
Release Date: June 1, 2011| Series: Hannah Swensen Bakery owner Hannah Swensen just can't keep her hands out of the batter when murder stirs things up in Lake Eden, Minnesota, leaving the sheriff dead, a deputy accused, and a killer on the loose...For Hannah, life seems to be lacking a certain flavour lately. Maybe it's the local sheriff's election that's got her down. For years, Sheriff Grant's been the iron hand in town. But now, Hannah's brother-in-law Bill is giving the old blowhard the fight of his long, dubious career - and Grant's not taking it well, especially once the polls show Bil...
|  | The Annotated Sherlock Holmes : The Four Novels and the Fifty-Six Short Stories
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