 | Pat the Daddy: A Parody
Release Date: August 24, 2010Following on the crib – I mean coat – tails of Pat the Husband comes Nelligan’s parody of what being a father is all about. Portrayed in tongue-in-cheek sarcasm with equally clever illustrations, the book will ring true for all dads. ...
 |  | Names on a Map: A Novel (P.S.)
Release Date: February 5, 2008| Series: P.S.The Espejo family of El Paso, Texas, is like so many others in America in 1967, trying to make sense of a rapidly escalating war they feel does not concern them. But when the eldest son, Gustavo, a complex and errant rebel, receives a certified letter ordering him to report to basic training, he chooses to flee instead to Mexico. Retreating back to the land of his grandfather—a foreign country to which he is no longer culturally connected—Gustavo sets into motion a series of events that will have catastrophic consequences on the fragile...
|  | The Other Man Was Me: A Voyage to the New World (National Poetry Series)
Publication Date: July 1994| Series: National Poetry Series National Poetry Series winner, gay Latino --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
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|  | The White Dragon of Sharnu (Daystar Voyages Series #9)
Publication Date: April 5, 2000| Age Level: 9 and up Regent Lansur is clearly trying to thwart the coronation of the crown prince of Sharnu. Then the regent throws Daystar's navigator into the castle dungeon. How does this all fit into the mysterious and dangerous white dragon that flies around in space? Join in the excitement as the Daystar crew learns to trust God more deeply amidst this dangerous mission. ...
|  | Sunshine and Shadow (Stoneworth Chronicles 2)
Publication Date: September 25, 2002| Series: Stoneworth Chronicles 2 A warmhearted story of a young widow with two small children and the brash bachelor with a checkered past, now seeking to overcome the odds and create a strong and loving family. Sequel to national award winner, Turn Back Time. ...
|  | Ceremony (Contemporary American Fiction Series)
Release Date: March 4, 1986| Series: Contemporary American Fiction Series Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive. His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation only increases his feeling of estrangement and alienation. While other returning soldiers find easy refuge in alcohol and senseless violence, Tayo searches for another kind of comfort and resolution. Tayo's quest leads him back to the Indian past and its traditions, to beliefs about witchcraft and evil, and to the ancient...
|  | Mindspace
Publication Date: June 17, 2010On the far frontier, life is tough when you're a transspace pilot stripped of your license to fly. The good jobs go to graduate guildsmen who make the professional grade ... and who play by the guild's rulebook. Jack DiFalco broke the rules. Busted, he found himself on the wrong side of the law and the rough side of the guild -- and his crime was mindspacing ... playing one of the incredible high-tech games which are changing the future of humanity. Playing not in VR, but in the gamespace, the total-immersion rigs where players enters the realm of the machine. ...
|  | Moby Dick (Classics Illustrated)
Publication Date: January 1990| Series: Classics Illustrated Ishmael, a sailor, recounts the ill-fated voyage of a whaling ship led by the fanatical Captain Ahab in search of the white whale that had crippled him. Presented in comic book format. ...
|  | After the Irish: An Anthology of Poetic Translation
Publication Date: December 2009| ISBN-10: 1859184383 | ISBN-13: 978-1859184387| Edition: annotated edition This anthology demonstrates that verse translation from the Irish represents, in its own right, a significant part of the tradition of Irish poetry written in English. Rather than offering the usual view of verse translation as a means of preserving and providing access to poetry written in Irish, this anthology foregrounds the aesthetic and cultural value of verse translation as poetry. The anthology is historical in form, beginning with a translation done in 1635 and concluding wi...
|  | DK Eyewitness Books: Da Vinci And His Times
Publication Date: February 20, 2006| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | On Discovery (I Tatti Renaissance Library)
Publication Date: June 30, 2002| ISBN-10: 0674007891 | ISBN-13: 978-0674007895| Edition: Bilingual The Italian humanist Polydore Vergil (1470-1555) was born in Urbino but spent most of his life in early Tudor England. His most popular work, On Discovery (De inventoribus rerum, 1499), was the first comprehensive account of discoveries and inventions written since antiquity. Thirty Latin editions of this work were published in Polydore's lifetime, and by the eighteenth century more than a hundred editions had appeared in eight languages, including Russian. On Discovery became a key referen...
|  | Classic Love and Romance Literature: An Encyclopedia of Works, Characters, Authors, and Themes (ABC-CLIO Literary Companion)
Publication Date: May 1, 1999| Series: ABC-CLIO Literary Companion From Romeo and Juliet to Rebecca, entries treat scores of the most memorable novels and plays, providing information on authors, works, characters, and themes. Coverage is fair and square: men and women get equal time; elite and popular fiction are treated with respect; and minority voices are clearly heard.Classic Love and Romance Literature includes more than 340 A-Z entries that are are thoroughly illustrated, cross-referenced, and indexed. This work accomplishes what the best reference books always do: it sends you back t...
|  | Hardboiled Cthulhu: Two-Fisted Tales of Tentacled Terror
Release Date: July 15, 2006Hard-hitting and hard-edged, these stories take Lovecraftian Mythos to places where only the toughest P.I.s, gangsters, and creatures dwell. Venturing into the urban sprawl and the dark places of the world, this anthology of more than 20 tales blends the hardboiled genre with the Lovecraftian....
|  | Love, Christopher Street: Reflections of New York City
Publication Date: June 1, 2012These twenty-six original essays by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered writers include personal stories that span forty years of LGBTQ life in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island, and together create a queer love letter to New York City. Chapters in this volume range from personal anecdote to memoir, reportage, history, herstory, and daydream, as well as tributes to people, places, and events.The essays: "Silence = Death: The Education of a Comedian" by Bob Smith, "An Old Queen's Tale" by Penny Arcade, "The I...
|  | The Complete Tolkien Companion: Totally Revised and Updated
Release Date: October 14, 2004For all those who journey to J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth, here is the complete guide to its lands, legends, histories, languages, and people. The Tolkien Companion explains, translates, and links every single reference - names, dates, places, facts, famous weapons, even food and drink - to be found in Tolkien's world, which includes not only The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings but also The Simarillion and many other posthumously published works. A detailed explanation of the various Elvish writing systems, together with maps, charts, and genealogical tables, ...
|  | Hometown Girl: The Chesapeake Diaries
Release Date: September 27, 2011Life was always just about perfect for Brooke Madison Bowers. She was the prettiest, most popular girl in small-town St. Dennis, Maryland, a prom queen, local pageant star, and the pride and joy of her loving parents. She even married the man of her dreams. But the promise of happily ever after fell to pieces when her husband was killed while serving in Iraq. Brokenhearted and longing for the solace of better days, she returns to the idyllic world of St. Dennis, and the familiar comfort of the family farm. Surrounded by her loving family and friends, she&rsquo...
|  | What He Would Not Do: Mr. Darcy's Tale Continues
Publication Date: March 18, 2011This romantic tale begins where To Have His Cake (and Eat It Too), the amorous, provocative, and entertaining adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, finished.Havingovercome the many seeming obstacles to marrying Miss Elizabeth Bennet, his former employee and the woman of his dreams, Mr. Darcy must now reaffirm his promise to be a man truly worthy of her affections. Confronted,out of the blue, with the intimate knowledge of her husband's rakish past, Elizabeth too is obliged to reconsider long held tenets that otherwise threaten to tear them apart.If ...
|  | A Love Beyond Time (Time Passages)
Release Date: January 1, 2000| Series: Time Passages When anthropologist Ryan Burke joins a dig at the site of Little Big Horn, she realizes that not everyone is excited about the opportunity. Renowned Indian affairs lawyer Dillon Wolf wants to shut the project down. But when Ryan is given an old tribal tipi, she journeys to the past--where the tension between her and a Lakota warrior named Wolf erupts...into passion. ...
|  | The Prosecution
Release Date: October 30, 2001A superstar defense attorney, Joseph Antonelli has made his reputation by winning at any cost, watching the wheels of justice turn, outguessing every turn and every lurch. Now he’s come out of retirement to win again. Only this time his job is not to defend, it is to prosecute–to send a deputy district attorney to death row for the crime of murder for hire. But in a torrid case of violence, adultery, and betrayal, lies compound lies, truths defy belief, and finally, one murder leads to another. Suddenly Antonelli knows that in this case the wheels of...
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