 | Thirteen Days of Terror: The Rufus Buck Gang in Indian Territory
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 |  | The Great Divorce
Release Date: March 3, 2009What if anyone in Hell could take a bus trip to Heaven and stay there forever if they wanted to?In The Great Divorce C. S. Lewis again employs his formidable talent for fable and allegory. The writer finds himself in Hell boarding a bus bound for Heaven. The amazing opportunity is that anyone who wants to stay in Heaven, can. This is the starting point for an extraordinary meditation upon good and evil, grace and judgment. Lewis's revolutionary idea is the discovery that the gates of Hell are locked from the inside. In Lewis's own words, "If we insist on keep...
|  | Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta Mysteries)
Release Date: December 29, 2009| Series: Kay Scarpetta Mysteries With this novel, bestselling author Patricia Cornwell created one of crime fiction’s most compelling heroines: gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta. Cornwell’s gift for combining cutting edge criminology with nerve-shattering suspense makes this book a true modern classic. Under cover of night in Richmond, Virginia, a human monster strikes, leaving a gruesome trail of stranglings that has paralyzed the city. Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta suspects the worst: a deliberate campaign by a brilliant serial killer whose s...
|  | Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
Publication Date: November 17, 2009Way of the Peaceful Warrior has become one of the most beloved spiritual sagas of our time. Shared among friends and families, this multimillion-copy word-of-mouth bestseller has been translated into more than twenty languages and has inspired men and women of all ages worldwide.Despite his success, college student and world-champion athlete Dan Millman is haunted by a feeling that something is missing from his life. Awakened one night by dark dreams, he wanders into an all-night gas station. There he meets an old man named Socrates, and his world is change...
|  | Conqueror: A Novel of Kublai Khan
Release Date: December 27, 2011Intrigue and treachery roil the vast Mongol nation as the heirs of Genghis Khan fight for control of his unprecedented empire—and of his mighty armies. History will turn on the outcome of their struggle. But only one man, dismissed by all the others, will boldly rise to the challenge with the courage and vision to forge the future, and with the strength to be called . . . CONQUEROR The novels of Conn Iggulden bring the past to thrilling life, from ancient Rome to thirteenth-century Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Now he delivers the spectacul...
|  | Lake in the Clouds
Release Date: April 29, 2003In her extraordinary novels Into the Wilderness and Dawn on a Distant Shore, award-winning writer Sara Donati deftly captured the vast, untamed wilderness of late-eighteenth-century New York and the trials and triumphs of the Bonner family. Now Donati takes on a new and often overlooked chapter in our nation’s past—and in the life of the spirited Bonners—as their oldest daughter, the brave and beautiful Hannah, comes of age with a challenge that will change her forever. Masterfully told, this passionate story is a moving tribute to a resilient, a...
|  | The Eye of Jade: A Mei Wang Mystery
Publication Date: April 7, 2009| Series: A Mei Wang Mystery "Having her own detective agency would give herthe independence she had always longed for. Itwould also give her the chance to show those peoplewho shunned her that she could be successful. Peoplewere getting rich. They owned property, money,business, and cars. With new freedom and opportunitiescame new crimes. There would be much thatshe could do."Present day, Beijing. Mei Wang is a modern, independent woman. She has her own apartment. She owns a car. She has her own business with that most modern of commodities -- a male secretary...
|  | Masked Gods: Navaho & Pueblo Ceremonialism
Publication Date: 1984Providing deep insights into the wisdom of the Native Americans of the American Southwest. Reading what these native people knew decades ago puts our present superficialities to shame. As a university professor, Masked Gods shows me just how limited our "well documented" and "practical" data of the early 21st century really is. Frank Waters, where are you how that we really need you? ...
|  | A Dictionary of English Folklore (Oxford Paperback Reference)
Publication Date: August 4, 2005| ISBN-10: 0198607660 | ISBN-13: 978-0198607663Containing 1,250 entries, from dragons to Mother Goose, May Day to Michaelmas, this reference work is an absorbing and entertaining guide to English folklore. Aimed at a broad general readership, the dictionary provides an authoritative reference source on such legendary characters as The Sandman, Jack the Giant Killer, and Robin Hood, and gives entertaining and informative explanations of a wide range of subjects in folklore, from nosebleeds and wishbones to cats and hot cross buns. ...
|  | Critical Analyses in English Renaissance Drama: A Bibliographic Guide
Publication Date: January 1, 1979This bibliographic guide directs the reader to a prize selection of the best modern, analytical studies of every play, anonymous play, masque, pageant, and "entertainment" written by more than two dozen contemporaries of Shakespeare in the years between 1580 and 1642. Together with Shakespeare's plays, these works comprise the most illustrious body of drama in the English language. ...
|  | Medea (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
Publication Date: August 1, 2006| Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitmen...
|  | The Green Earth: Poems of Creation
Publication Date: April 2002The Green Earth: Poems of Creation.Poems ...
|  | Richard Tottel's Songes and Sonettes: The Elizabethan Version (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies)
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|  | The Logic of Sense
Publication Date: April 15, 1990| ISBN-10: 0231059833 | ISBN-13: 978-0231059831 0 Considered one of the most important works of one of France's foremost philosophers, and long-awaited in English,The Logic of Sense begins with an extended exegesis of Lewis Carroll'sAlice in Wonderland. Considering stoicism, language, games, sexuality, schizophrenia, and literature, Deleuze determines the status of meaning and meaninglessness, and seeks the 'place' where sense and nonsense collide.Written in an innovative form and witty style,The Logic of Sense is an essay in literary and psychoanalytic theo...
|  | Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor: Being the First Jane Austen Mystery
Release Date: May 20, 2008| Series: Jane Austen Mystery For everyone who loves Jane Austen...a marvelously entertaining new series that turns the incomparable author into an extraordinary sleuth!On a visit to the estate of her friend, the young and beautiful Isobel Payne, Countess of Scargrave, Jane bears witness to a tragedy. Isobel's husband—a gentleman of mature years—is felled by a mysterious and agonizing ailment. The Earl's death seems a cruel blow of fate for the newly married Isobel. Yet the bereaved widow soon finds that it's only the beginning of her misfortune...as s...
|  | Best of Sherlock Holmes
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|  | Bridge to Oblivion
Publication Date: December 26, 2011In one of the worst bridge disasters in American history, a runaway freighter rams the underpinnings of Tampa Bay’s Sunshine Skyway during a morning squall, spilling a string of rush hour passengers to their deaths. For Charlene Gibbs, the sister of one of the victims, this event leads years later to her own fatal plunge from the reopened Skyway, an incident novice detective Adam Fraley witnesses by chance. Puzzled by the official findings, Fraley delves into the circumstances surrounding the death ~ his digging uncovering a sinister link between the...
|  | Scooby-doo Storybook Collection (Scooby-doo Bind-up)
Publication Date: November 1, 2002| Age Level: 4 and up...
|  | The Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen
Release Date: June 25, 2009| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Neef, the official Changeling of Central Park, has survived a life-threatening quest, but that’s nothing compared to her first experiences at Changeling school. At Miss Van Loon’s, she meets her counterparts from all over Manhattan, learns the basics of diplomacy, and, of course, gets in trouble. This time Neef must recover the Magic Mirror, or else New York Harbor’s Mermaid Queen will turn all of the city’s fresh water to salt—and everything will die. ...
|  | Hockey The NHL Way: Win With Defense
Publication Date: December 31, 1998| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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