 | American War Library - Life of an American Soldier in Vietnam
Publication Date: September 1, 2000| Series: American War Library Unprepared to fight the most unpopular war in their country's history, thousands of young Americans struggled with fear, loneliness, anger, and disillusionment in the jungles of Vietnam. On their return home, those who survived had to deal with the aftereffects of their war experience in virtual isolation. (20010801) ...
 |  | These High, Green Hills (The Mitford Years #3)
Release Date: April 1, 1997In These High, Green Hills we're once again in Mitford, a southern village of local characters so heartwarming and hilarious you'll wish you lived right next door.At last, Mitford's rector and lifelong bachelor, Father Tim, has married his talented and vivaciousneighbor, Cynthia. Now, of course, they must face love's challenges: new sleeping arrangements for Father Tim's sofa-sized dog, Cynthia's urge to decorate the rectory Italian-villa-style, and the growing pains of the thrown-away boy who's become like a son to the rector.Add a life-changing camping trip, the ...
|  | Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper
Release Date: October 2, 2001Harriet Scott Chessman takes us into the world of Mary Cassatt's early Impressionist paintings through Mary's sister Lydia, whom the author sees as Cassatt’s most inspiring muse. Chessman hauntingly brings to life Paris in 1880, with its thriving art world. The novel’s subtle power rises out of a sustained inquiry into art’s relation to the ragged world of desire and mortality. Ill with Bright’s disease and conscious of her approaching death, Lydia contemplates her world narrowing. With the rising emotional tension between the loving siste...
|  | Key of Sea
Publication Date: August 1, 2005In her youth, Dora Lee Hanson set her dreams on distant goals. A more exciting life waited, if not over the rainbow, then at least somewhere out of the quiet Florida Keys. The twenty-something beauty left home for a modeling career, but a wealthy magnate swept her off her ostrich-plumed mules. Unfortunately, after more than a dozen years of marriage, the wicked wretch kicked her to the curb. Facing a very uncertain future, she returns to her beloved grandfather and the home she eagerly left behind all those years before. Successful Keys fishing guide Bobby Dau...
|  | Dark Ages Inquisitor Companion (World of Darkness (White Wolf Paperback))
Publication Date: March 29, 2004| Series: World of Darkness (White Wolf Paperback) Heaven's FuryNo matter how many demons we slay, more rise to take their place. No matter how many of their servants we put to the torch, Satan corrupts more. Yet we shall not fall into despair, for God is on our side, and faith can - and shall - move mountains. Let the fiends be the ones to cower, for we are coming, and nothing shall stay our righteous hand. Amen.Smite the Servants of HellIn the first sourcebook specifically for Dark Ages: Inquisitor, we present detailed information on the shadow Inquisi...
|  | Criminal Macabre Omnibus Volume 1
Publication Date: August 23, 2011| Series: Criminal Macabre Omnibus (Book 1) In 2003 Steve Niles, creator of the 30 Days of Night comic series, launched a series of occult detective stories featuring the monstrously hard-boiled Cal McDonald. A pill-popping alcoholic reprobate, Cal is the only line of defense between Los Angeles and a growing horde of zombies, vampires, possessed muscle cars, mad scientists, werewolves, and much more weirdness!This volume collects the first two Criminal Macabre trades, the one-shot story Love Me Tenderloin, and Criminal Macabre: Supernatural Freak Machine - n...
|  | Trigun Maximum, Volume 11
Publication Date: January 30, 2007With so many intense scenes and watershed moments taking place in volume eleven of Trigun Maximum, it's next to impossible to write descriptive solicitation text. But readers have come to expect excellent action coupled with dramatic tension and timely comic relief from Yasuhiro Nightow, and volume eleven exceeds expectations. This volume is titled "Zero Hour." That means everything is climbng steadily to a crescendo, and you won't want to miss what lies in store for the people of the planet Gunsmoke. ...
|  | Thirteen Hours
Publication Date: April 22, 2008Can you fall in love in thirteen hours? It's her birthday but lonely workaholic Dana Watts is at the office late, drafting a proposal. The very last interruption she expects comes in the form of the most beautiful breasts she has ever seen. These belong to an incredibly hot woman, who is standing in front of her, stripping to music.Laurel Stanley performs strip-o-grams to pay her way through school. She has never encountered a more ungrateful recipient than Dana. The uptight project manager makes it clear that she is furious to be distracted from her work by t...
|  | Amistad Mountain & Other Stories
Publication Date: March 30, 2012 This collection of novellas and short stories explores themes of adventure and discovery at the intersection of human life and the natural world.Amistad Mountain is a gripping, action-filled psychological novella about a Vietnam veteran’s experience at a rustic bar located at a dangerous mountain pass high in the Colorado Rockies. Stopping for the night in the midst of a deadly snowstorm, Christopher Coronado is drawn into a struggle with local Neo-Nazis; when the heavy snow knocks out the power, Christopher—and the other patrons trapped in t...
| | The Thirteen-Book "Prelude" (The Cornell Wordsworth)
Release Date: April 16, 1992| ISBN-10: 0801421845 | ISBN-13: 978-0801421846Two-volume set. ...
|  | Communicating in Groups and Teams: Sharing Leadership
Publication Date: May 15, 2009| ISBN-10: 049557046X | ISBN-13: 978-0495570462| Edition: 5 COMMUNICATING IN GROUPS AND TEAMS: SHARING LEADERSHIP, 5th Edition examines issues of teamwork and leadership with a strong focus on ethics and diversity. The Fifth Edition addresses the recent attention given to teams in business and industry, and includes an examination of technology's role in small group communication. The text also explores the growing trend among colleges to challenge students' understanding of their leadership competence and consider the ethical and social implications of grou...
|  | The Odyssey: The Story of Odysseus (Signet Classics (Pb))
Publication Date: October 1, 2007| Series: Signet Classics (Pb) One of the great epic masterpieces of Western literature, the Odyssey chronicles the many trials and adventures Odysseus must pass through on his long journey home from the Trojan wars to his beloved wife. --This text refers to the MP3 CD edition....
|  | The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: August 29, 2006| Series: Penguin Classics A unique collection of Hebrew poetry through the ages Extending from the Song of Deborah-written 3,000 years ago-to poems written in Israel by authors born in the 1930s, this unparalleled selection of poetry is the first of its kind produced in either English or Hebrew. ??Includes a note on the text, bibliography, and glossary ??Features the original Hebrew version of each poem next to its English translation ...
|  | The Poetry of He Zhu (1052-1125) (Sinica Leidensia)
Publication Date: February 28, 2007| Series: Sinica Leidensia (Book 74) From the reader's report: ""not just an excellent study of an individual poet but also a model of reading the language of classical Chinese poetry. [..] opens up a world of interpretive territory heretofore seldom explored. ...
|  | Prose Poem in France
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|  | A Crack In The Wall
Publication Date: September 1, 2000This anthology of new Arab poetry highlights the work of a new generation of poets from around the Arab world--men and women from as far as Morocco to the West and Iraq to the East. Their writings may span three decades, but the new forms, styles and subject matters they experiment with clearly indicate a departure from the old towards an explosion of new poetry that is innovative, expressive, and daring. This is also a personal journey for most as they delve into their past, ethnicity--often multiple--and cultural complexities, with an intensity of images ...
| | Das Siebte Kreuz (Fiction, Poetry and Drama) (Fiction, Poetry & Drama) (German Edition)
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|  | The Flying Horse (Greek Beasts and Heroes)
Publication Date: November 28, 2011| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Unicorns (Usborne Lift-the-Flap)
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|  | The Earth Shook: A Persian Tale
Release Date: August 18, 2009Little Parisa—Farsi for "like an angel"—goes to bed one night only to be shaken from sleep by an earthquake that rocks her home of Bam, Iran. Frightened and alone—the earthquake has left her town deserted—Parisa knocks on the doors of various animals, only to be rebuffed again and again. Boar accuses her of being a hunter; Owl blames her for taking his food and leaving him hungry. Lion just gives a ferocious roar. Left with nothing but her resolve, Parisa turns to the most natural of human instincts: She walked as a huma...
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