 | 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...
 |  | Going Down Swinging
Release Date: January 18, 2000A remarkable debut novel and bittersweet tale of the unflinching love and devotion between a mother and daughter.Razor sharp and darkly funny Going Down Swinging chronicles two years in the life of the Hoffmans.Eilleen Hoffman has just told Danny, her con-artist lover and father of her youngest daughter Grace, to get out — for good. Once a teacher, Eilleen lived a middle-class life, but her taste in men coupled with a predilection for pills and booze has brought her down. Desperate to prevent her family from sinking deeper into poverty, Eilleen reluctantl...
|  | Vicious Cycle (Intervention, Book 2)
Release Date: February 22, 2011When fifteen-year-old Lance Covington finds an abandoned baby in the backseat of a car, he knows she's the newborn daughter of a meth addict he's been trying to help. But when police arrest him for kidnapping, Lance is thrust into a criminal world of baby trafficking and drug abuse. His mother, Barbara, looks for help from Kent Harlan---the man whom she secretly, reluctantly loves and who once helped rescue her daughter from a mess of her own. Kent flies to her aid and begins the impossible work of getting Lance out of trouble, protecting a baby who has no home...
|  | Christmas Treasures (Cape Light)
Release Date: November 1, 2011| Series: Cape Light Experience the spirit of Christmas brought to life in the latestCape Light novel. Reverend Ben has been ignoring his health recently and it's finallycaught up with him-he's developed a heart problem, and requires bypasssurgery. Since Ben will need six weeks' recuperation and physicalrehab, interim minister Isabel Moran is assigned to the congregation.Is this health setback a sign from above that it's time for Ben tomove on to a new phase of his life? As Ben grows stronger and gets backto his old self, he starts to wonder if he's really ready...
|  | Ghost: A Novel
Release Date: October 23, 2007Alan Lightman’s first novel, Einstein’s Dreams, became an international best seller and was hailed by Salman Rushdie as “at once intellectually provocative and touching and comic and so very beautifully written.” His novel The Diagnosis, called “highly original and imaginative” by the New York Times, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Now comes a stunning and disturbing new novel about a man’s encounter with the unfathomable. David is a person of modest ambitions who works in a bank, lives in a rooming ho...
|  | Anne Rice: a Critical Companion
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|  | Warning Track
Release Date: May 25, 2005STEROIDS . . . FAME . . . MONEY . . . DEATHWHAT WOULD YOU RISK FOR THE CHANCE OF A LIFETIME? When the abuse of an illegal supplement is implicated in an on-field tragedy, professional baseball is faced with a public relations nightmare.In an attempt to win back the trust, support, and loyalty of its fans, the sport responds by coming down hard on players that “use.” But veteran outfielder Ryan Hannegan has his own agenda. Once a “can’t-miss” prospect, and now in the twilight of a disappointing baseball career, Hannegan is desperately looking...
|  | The Morrigan: An Erotic Tale of Reincarnation, Magic, and Murder
Publication Date: December 15, 2005Three women from different eras—the nineteenth century, mid-twentieth century, and late twentieth century—lead disturbingly parallel lives. All are a bit kinky, all have strange powers they can't explain or control, and all put themselves in harm's way through their attraction to dangerous men. What is their connection to one another? Can they discover who they are in time to save themselves from a nightmarish fate?Interweaving Celtic myth with a compelling mystery, The Morrigan will draw you into the lives of its memorable characters, invitin...
|  | All the Best Programs for Kids: A Year of Sketches, Plays and Music for All Ages
Release Date: October 1, 2000(Lillenas Publications). This resource contains everything you need for children's programs for an entire year. Program material and songs are included for ages preschool to preteen and for every season: Christmas, Easter, Mother's Day, Father's Day, and anytime. Use in worship services, children's church, VBS, Sunday School, church camp, special programs, retreats, Children's Day, at Christian schools, and more! This all-encompasing text has welcomes & closings, sketches, calls to worship, interactive stories, warm-up exercises, and a section with suggestions on...
|  | American Elf Book 4: The Collected Sketchbook Diaries of James Kochalka: January 1 2008 - December 31 2011
Publication Date: July 31, 2012| Series: American Elf It's the long-awaited return of James Kochalka's massively influential and deceptively ambitious autobiography, American Elf. Every day of his life is captured in a single comic strip, sometimes profound and sometimes silly, but always full of the earnest Kochalka passion that led Hi-Fructose to call him "an unrelenting force, sure to solve the oncoming energy crisis," and earned him the title of Cartoonist Laureate of Vermont. And it's only gotten better over time! In this collection, spanning the years 2008-2011, James becomes Cartoonis...
|  | Mountain Breezes: The Collected Poems of Amy Carmichael
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|  | Making Love to the Minor Poets of Chicago: A Novel
Publication Date: August 21, 2001The Yucca Mountain Project deep in the Nevada desert is the first planned long-term nuclear storage facility. The project is designed to contain nuclear waste for ten-thousand years, the amount of time it will take for the waste to no longer be radioactive. It is an ambitious project, especially in light of the fact that in this century alone we lacked the foresight to anticipate Y2K. Given this daunting responsibility, the project employs an artist, a botanist and an architect to contribute visual warnings to the site, in a manner decipherable to future gene...
|  | The Book of the Duchess (Hesperus Classics)
Publication Date: October 28, 2007| Series: Hesperus Classics The earliest of Chaucer’s major works, this charming and absorbing dream-poem is traditionally read as an allegorical elegy for Blanche of Lancaster, John of Gaunt’s first wife. A sleepless poet lies in his bed, reading the legend of Ceyx and Alcyone, wishing that he might be granted rest. He finally falls asleep, only to have a beautiful vision. Dreaming himself in a chamber with stained glass windows that portray the tale of Troy, the poet hears the sound of a hunting party, which he hurries to join. When the hunt ...
|  | Cicero: de Amicitia
Publication Date: June 1, 1983| ISBN-10: 0865160422 | ISBN-13: 978-0865160422Not only will this book enhance Latin skills and increase knowledge of the social and ethical values of ancient Rome, it exposes the student to Cicero at his most eloquent as he muses on the nature of friendship.The book includes an introduction that places the work in historical perspective, full vocabulary, biographical index, informative notes, and numerous illustrations. Also available:Asconius: Commentary on 5 Speeches of Cicero - ISBN 0865162204Completely Parsed Cicero: The First Oration Of Cicero Agains...
|  | The Arthur of the Germans: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval German and Dutch Literature
Publication Date: January 2000| Series: Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages from the 12th century onwards the legends of King Arthur and his knights, including the Tristan legend, spread across Europe, producing a vast range of adaptations and new stories. German and Dutch literature were of central importance in this expansion of Arthurian material from the 12th to 16th century, contributing works of outstanding aesthetic quality and a lively process of reception, adaptation and transmission in which the Arthurian subject matter underwent various modifications in contact with northern a...
|  | Letters of A Nation, A Collection of Extraordinary American Letters
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|  | Party of Three: A H.O.T. Cops Novel
Release Date: April 3, 2012| Series: H.O.T. COPS Novel (Book 2) Ethan West is giving his girlfriend Mira something special for herbirthday: her never-before-explored fantasy. He's recruited one of his copfriends to join them for a romantic weekend. But the three of them crossboundries they never expected. ...
|  | The Marriage Lesson
Release Date: May 1, 2001 Lesson #1: Never Tempt a Lady Become a bride? Never! Lady Marianne Shelton has come to London to experience life, and marriage is not part of her plan. To finance her independent future, the pretty country miss pens a series of anonymous stories. Soon they are the talk of the ton-and only she knows that her wicked hero is based on none other than bold, brash Thomas Effington, the future Duke of Roxborough.Lesson #2: Never Deny a Marquess, Thomas has been thrust into le of Marianne's protector. When she threatens to experience life with the first willing rogue to com...
|  | The Great Ghost Rescue
Release Date: August 26, 2002| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up The ghosts of Britain need a sanctuary.Castles with central heating, bogs drained for motorways, dismal forests cleared for car parks-there are few places left for a respectable ghost to haunt. Humphrey the Horrible (actually his name is simply Humphrey-he added "the Horrible" to help himself become horrible) is a small, mostly unsuccessful ghost in a family of ghastly ghouls. His mother worries. But Humphrey has enough pluck to befriend a smart, politically aware schoolboy, Rick Henderson, who is willing to take the ...
|  | Boomerangs, Blades, and Basketballs: Sports (Science @ Work)
Publication Date: January 2000| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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