 | Tickled Pink: A Comic Novel
Publication Date: October 30, 2001Mindy Solomon absolutely has to leave Miami. Florida is bad for her head and her hair. She dreams of a dancing career on Broadway and moves to New York, but after a string of failures and mishaps, she realizes that she needs to rethink her grand plan. Finding herself spending way too much time in the comedy club where her future ex-boyfriend works, she nervously goes up onstage one night. People laugh. Not in the places where Mindy thought they'd laugh, but hey, it's a start.Mindy and her friend Ursula Duran, a man-magnet model-slash-actress-slash-deeply t...
 |  | Faces at the Manger
Release Date: January 1, 1992In this Christmas classic, Barrie Shepherd describes the thoughts, feelings, questions, and dreams of those who gathered around that manger of long ago, as well as the faces that have been there in the centuries since. Through poems, stories, and prayers, Shepherd leads the reader to be one of the many who have knelt in worship beside the manger of the Savior, Jesus Christ. ...
|  | Leo Africanus
Publication Date: March 25, 1998"I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope, I am now called the African, but I am not from Africa, nor from Europe, nor from Arabia. I am also called the Granadan, the Fassi, the Zayyati, but I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road, my country is the caravan, my life the most unexpected of voyages."Thus wrote Leo Africanus, in his fortieth year, in this imaginary autobiography of the famous geographer, adventurer, and scholar Has...
|  | Fighting Dirty (Daisy Lane)
Publication Date: March 1, 2012| Series: Daisy Lane The final, heart-pounding installment in June Hampson's compelling gangland saga series It's 1983 and Daisy Lane is battling to keep her son, Jamie, under some kind of control. His older brother Eddie is about to come out of prison for manslaughter, and his release couldn't come soon enough. In Eddie's absence, Jamie has matured from a delinquent teenager to a hardened criminal with a psychotic edge. He's responsible for the death of Roy's mistress along with a string of other violent episodes. Only Eddie can keep his young b...
|  | Summer of Champions: A Novel
Publication Date: November 15, 2005"For me, it is a delight to introduce Joe Don Miller and his Little League team from Roswell. . . . Dewey Johnson takes the reader through the teenage gauntlet that has tested us all."—David Poling, Roswell Daily Record"Captures the rhythms and sense of community of the small-town Southwest but also exposes the prejudices and political dimensions of the era."—Albuquerque Tribune1956. Most of middle America is settling into unprecedented affluence; children of the baby boom are the focus of attention as no generation before them; and the Roswell Ho...
|  | Greek Comedy, Hellenistic Literature, Greek Religion, and Miscellanea: The Academic Papers of Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones
Publication Date: January 31, 1991| ISBN-10: 0198147457 | ISBN-13: 978-0198147459This book collects thirty-eight papers by the great classicist to commemorate his recent retirement as Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford.The papers, some of which were originally published in foreign journals and appear here in translation for the first time, reflect his interest in the fields of Greek comedy, Hellenistic literature, Greek religion, and Greek culture in general. ...
|  | Ten Plays for Church
Publication Date: June 1, 2007A collection of ten new and original short plays for the church, the school or the church hall. In fact anywhere where there is space to perform them. A contemporary presentation of Jesus' Gospel stories, these charming but effective group of plays are ideal for simple enactment, as well as for private reading and study. Workshops and study groups will find many exciting and challenging points for discussion, in this enthusiastic approach of the message of good and evil. ...
|  | Gatherings and Losses: Selected Poems and a Critical Essay
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|  | Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart : Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess
Publication Date: February 2001| ISBN-10: 0292752423 | ISBN-13: 978-0292752429The earliest known author of written literature was a woman named Enheduanna, who lived in ancient Mesopotamia around 2300 BCE. High Priestess to the moon god Nanna, Enheduanna came to venerate the goddess Inanna above all gods in the Sumerian pantheon. The hymns she wrote to Inanna constitute the earliest written portrayal of an ancient goddess. In their celebration of Enheduanna's relationship with Inanna, they also represent the first existing account of an individual's consciousness of her inner life.This b...
| | Die Bedeutung der Minne in "Moriz von Cra
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| | Juan Wu dai shi (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | Literary Studies and the Pursuits of Reading (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
Publication Date: September 1, 2012| ISBN-10: 157113431X | ISBN-13: 978-1571134318Thirty years ago, when theory emerged as integral to literary studies, investigations into the nature of reading dominated academic criticism. Since then, as cultural studies and historical approaches have gained ascendancy, critical focus on reading has waned. This collection of new essays by leading scholars of German and comparative literature, inspired by the work of the long-time and influential scholar of reading Clayton Koelb, puts the study of reading back at center stage, considering current theory...
|  | Colloquial Bulgarian (Colloquial Series)
Publication Date: July 24, 2008| ISBN-10: 0415446023 | ISBN-13: 978-0415446020| Edition: 2 Colloquial Bulgarian provides a step-by-step course in Bulgarian as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Bulgarian in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required.Key features include:• progressive coverage of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills• structured, jargon-fre...
|  | Bound for the Forest
Publication Date: September 10, 2012England, 1817. Ex-soldier Melmoth Brien returns to his ancestral home in the ancient Greenwood, intending to retrieve his family's valuables and get the hell out of there. When he's beaten to it by Scarlet, a young woodsman-turned-thief, Brien overpowers him and ties him up, demanding he help get the family fortune back by leading him deep into the forest. The flash of sexual fire between them is undeniable, but a force more powerful than rivalry or lust is ratcheting up the tension. Brien's family are Protectors of the Greenwood, a responsibility he has d...
|  | Stories of Love & Lust
Publication Date: May 10, 2012A compilation of passionate stories derived from real events as well as the inner machinations of Marcus’ lustful imagination. The works showcasing fervent love to enervated bondage that will captivate you to the point that you may believe that you’re feeling what they feel. So take your time and enjoy every word until you lose yourself in a world of bliss. ...
|  | Back Spin (Myron Bolitar)
Release Date: August 25, 2009| Series: Myron Bolitar Kidnappers have snatched the teenage son of super-star golfer Linda Coldren and her husband, Jack, an aging pro, at the height of the U.S. Open. To help get the boy back, sports agent Myron Bolitar goes charging after clues and suspects from the Main Line mansions to a downtown cheaters' motel—and back in time to a U.S. Open twenty-three years ago, when Jack Coldren should have won, but didn't. Suddenly Myron finds him self surrounded by blue bloods, criminals, and liars. And as one family's darkest secrets explode into murder, Myron...
|  | Like Hot Knives to the Brain: James Ellroy's Search for Himself
Publication Date: November 28, 2006| ISBN-10: 0739120026 | ISBN-13: 978-0739120026Often more disturbing than entertaining, James Ellroy is an author who never shies away from the ugly or repellent. Eminent crime fiction scholar Peter Wolfe examines how Ellroy transcends the genres of pulp and neo-noir fiction to write stories that are both psychologically haunting and culturally relevant. Wolfe skillfully combines biography—including the unsolved murder of Ellroy's mother—with literary analysis to provide a fascinating and readable study of this popular author. The first in...
|  | Disney Fairies Graphic Novels #9: Tinker Bell and Her Magical Arrival
Release Date: August 21, 2012| Age Level: 6 and up...
|  | What Is The Apostles' Creed?: Learning About the Apostles' Creed from a United Methodist Perspective
Publication Date: June 2006| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Lego Ninjago: Collector's Sticker Book
Publication Date: September 1, 2011| Age Level: 7 and up...
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