 | Cottonwood Fall
Release Date: September 1, 2005Once again, Gary Slaughter has cleverly crafted assorted materials including small-town life on the WWII home front, vengeful German POWs, the relocation of Japanese-Americans, and the Roosevelt-Dewey Presidential election into an hilarious and heart-rending tour de force called Cottonwood Fall.This first sequel is a materful follow-up to the author's best-selling Cottonwood Summer which received critical acclaim. Midwest Book Review documented "Gary Slaughter as a master at creating loveable characters ... in an engaging narrative style enriched with humor and...
 |  | Medieval West Africa Before 1400: Ghana, Takrur, Gao (Songhay) and Mali As Described by Arab Merchants and Scholars
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|  | Love Surrendered, A: A Novel (Winds of Change)
Publication Date: October 1, 2012| Series: Winds of Change (Book 3) Orphaned in Iowa, Annie Kennedy moves to Boston to stay with her spinster aunt. She longs for romance to fill the void left by her parents' death. But when she falls hard for Steven O'Connor, the man who broke an engagement to her sister, Annie is worried. Will he break her heart too when he discovers who she really is?With heart-pounding romance, intense family drama, and emotional twists and turns, A Love Surrendered is everything Julie Lessman's many fans have been waiting for. ...
|  | Dying to Read: A Novel (The Cate Kinkaid Files)
Publication Date: August 1, 2012| Series: The Cate Kinkaid Files (Book 1) Cate Kinkaid is just dipping her toe into the world of private investigating until one of the many résumés she has floating around lands her a real job. All she has to do is determine that a particular woman lives at a particular address. Simple, right? When the big and brooding house happens to contain a dead body, this routine PI job turns out to be anything but simple. Is Cate in over her head?Readers will be hooked from the very first chapter of this fast-paced and witty romantic mystery from bestsell...
|  | Death Before Breakfast
Publication Date: June 1, 2010Chief Inspector Jack Lawrence and Sergeant Wilson set out to solve a robbery and encounter the unexpected in the London suburb of Notting Hill. Their quest takes them to York to an art lover s mansion and across the English Channel to Paris in search of clues to unravel their latest criminal conundrum involving stolen paintings, an anonymous letter and an unidentified body. Laced with intriguing icons of English culture, artfully crafted characters, and a twisting trail of clues, this compelling story will captivate the reader until the renowned Inspector Lawren...
|  | The Small Things and Other Plays
Publication Date: December 20, 2011One of Ireland's most innovative writers, Enda Walsh "possesses a truly original theatrical voice" (Guardian). This collection includes the critically acclaimed Disco Pigs, misterman, bedbound, and The Small Things, as well as four previously unpublished plays (The Ginger Ale Boy, Chatroom, Lynndie's Gotta Gun, and How These Desperate Men Talk).Enda Walsh is the author of five Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Award–winning plays, including The Walworth Farce, The New Electric Ballroom, and Penelope. His award-winning play Disco Pigs was also a highly ac...
|  | Mariamne
Publication Date: February 10, 2011It is enough: the power of Salome, By all acknowledged, and by all obeyed, On its firm basis stands immovable: I fled to Azor, with the lightning's speed, Even from Samaria's plain to Jordan's spring, And quick returned: my presence there indeed Was needful, to cut off the aspiring hopes Of Israel's moody race: thy brother Herod, So long detained at Rome, was almost grown A stranger in his kingdom; and the people, Ever capricious, turbulent, and bold, Still to their kings unjust, aloud proclaimed, That Herod was condemned to slavery By haughty Rome; and Mar...
| | Aime Cesaire (Twayne's World Authors Series)
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|  | Walt Whitman and the Civil War: America's Poet during the Lost Years of 1860-1862
Publication Date: September 15, 2009Shortly after the third edition of Leaves of Grass was published, in 1860, Walt Whitman seemed to drop off the literary map, not to emerge again until his brother George was wounded at Fredericksburg two and a half years later. Past critics have tended to read this silence as evidence of Whitman's indifference to the Civil War during its critical early months. In this penetrating, original, and beautifully written book, Ted Genoways reconstructs those forgotten years--locating Whitman directly through unpublished letters and never-before-seen manuscripts, ...
|  | Ten Russian Poets: Surviving the Twentieth Century
Publication Date: June 1, 2004| ISBN-10: 0856463280 | ISBN-13: 978-0856463280| Edition: First This original anthology traces a century of Russian poetry, taking us through the turbulent decades from 1900 to 2000 with poets of stature who reflected or recorded their times. It combines work by famous and lesser known (outside Russia) poets, some never previously published in English, through the medium of six translators, who also contribute biographical and historical notes. The one unnamed poet is the writer from the Arsenal Mental Prison Hospital in the 1970s, whose anguished, affecting...
| | The Tales of Ensign Stal
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| | Passing of Arthur New Essays in Arthurian Tradition (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
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|  | You're All I Need
Release Date: October 1, 2010Karen White-Owens’s compelling tale of love, loyalty, and the law, spans the continents as an irresistible Frenchman turns the life of an ambitious young woman upside down…Making it as a hotshot legal eagle takes smarts, savvy—and acceptance to a prestigious law school. That’s exactly what independent beauty Tia Edwards has when she’s hit with a thunderbolt on her way up the professional ladder—a request from her boss to help Christophe Jensen, a charismatic new attorney from France, feel right at home…Sparks fly w...
| | The Lost Bride of Kildrummond
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|  | The Game Is Afoot: Parodies, Pastiches, and Ponderings of Sherlock Holmes
Publication Date: April 1994A comprehensive collection of writings about the inimitable Sherlock Holmes offers parodies, essays, and pastiches on the world's greatest consulting detective by writers including Bret Harte, Isaac Asimov, Fritz Leiber, and Basil Rathbone. ...
|  | Asterix and the Magic Carpet (Asterix (Orion Hardcover))
Publication Date: September 1, 2007| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | A Medieval Fantasy Adventure and Myka the Goddess Witch: Combo
Publication Date: August 28, 2012"A Medieval Fantasy Adventure" The view from this tall tree is kind of pretty. I can see salmon jumping on the river. Colorful birds are making their nests while they sing. The sky is clear this morning after a night of heavy rain. My name is Emma and I am a 16 year old orphan with long brown hair that I braid every other day. My eyes are hazel like my moms. My blue maiden dress is the only one I own. I am in charge of four siblings. Our parents died trying to protect us from a dragon attack and were killed instantly by the monsters lethal fire. I was not suc...
|  | Dreamtime: Aborginal Stories
Publication Date: August 1994| Age Level: 9 and up A collection of Aboriginal stories illustrated in full colour and black and white. ...
|  | Le plus long circuit (The Longest Home Run) (French Edition)
Release Date: May 6, 1993| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Speed Skating (True Books: Sports)
Publication Date: September 1997| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
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