 | The Book of Want: A Novel
Publication Date: April 15, 2011When Moses descended Mount Sinai carrying the Ten Commandments, he never could have foreseen how one family in Los Angeles in the early twenty-first century would struggle to live by them. Conchita, a voluptuous, headstrong single woman of a certain age, sees nothing wrong with enjoying the company of handsome—and usually much younger—men . . . that is, until she encounters a widower with unusual gifts and begins to think about what she really wants out of life. Julieta, Conchita’s younger sister, walks a more traditional path, but she and her...
 |  | The Lovely Shadow
Publication Date: September 18, 2012Escaping childhood without some kind of issues is a major accomplishment for most people. For Johnny Krimshaw, escaping alive was enough of an accomplishment to satisfy him. When Johnny’s unstable mother came completely unhinged, Johnny found himself in the care of an abusive lunatic until being rescued by his charismatic Aunt June. Not long after his rescue, however, he begins questioning his own sanity when mysterious events begin happening around him. Adding to his doubts about his mental anchorage is the fact that he is growing emotionally attac...
|  | World's Shortest Stories: Murder. Love. Horror. Suspense. All This And Much More...
Publication Date: February 26, 1998This is a quintessential short story book fo r everyone who thinks they don't have any time to read. Each story is less than 55 words long - ideal for the beach, bus , train, anywhere. ...
|  | Lando (Louis L'Amour)
Release Date: July 18, 2006| Series: Louis L'Amour In Lando, Louis L’Amour has created an unforgettable portrait of a unique American hero.For six long years Orlando Sackett survived the horrors of a brutal Mexican prison. He survived by using his skills as a boxer and by making three vows. The first was to exact revenge on the hired killers who framed him. The second was to return to his father. And the third was to find Gin Locklear. But the world has changed a lot since Lando left it. His father is missing. The woman he loves is married. And the killers want him dead. Hardened physi...
|  | Quarantine: Stories
Release Date: May 31, 2011 With buoyant humor and incisive, cunning prose, Rahul Mehta sets off into uncharted literary territory. The characters in Quarantine—openly gay Indian-American men—are Westernized in some ways, with cosmopolitan views on friendship and sex, while struggling to maintain relationships with their families and cultural traditions. Grappling with the issues that concern all gay men—social acceptance, the right to pursue happiness, and the heavy toll of listening to their hearts and bodies—they confront an elder generation's attachment to old-country ...
|  | Counting Sleeping Beauties
Publication Date: April 1, 2010| ISBN-10: 1770095446 | ISBN-13: 978-1770095441A fictional account of a Jewish family’s journey from Nazi Germany to post–World War II South Africa, this breathtaking novel follows their everyday struggles living in Johannesburg in the 1950s. Through the voices of Hannah, the daughter of the house, her mother Susan, grandmother Leah, and domestic worker Sina, the story explores the cultural and generational parallels and differences and the unraveling of a family. The stories of Leah in the shtetl in Lithuania, Sina in her village outside Pieter...
|  | The Odyssey (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: December 23, 1998| Series: Dover Thrift Editions Excellent prose translation of the ancient epic poem recounts the adventures of Odysseus on his homeward voyage from the Trojan War. The clever hero circumvents the wrath of Poseidon to overcome an incredible array of obstacles, including a fantastic cast of adversaries — Cyclops, the one-eyed giant; the enchantress Circe; plus cannibals, sirens, and many other monstrous creatures. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative. ...
|  | Scripts of Hope & Restoration
Release Date: October 1, 2006(Lillenas Publications). Hopeless. Desperate. Alone. God is working in the midst of our messy, doubt-filled and at times very bad life experiences, but that's not always clear to us. This book is a ministry-based collection featuring powerful scripts of testimony to God's grace, as well as celebrations of His promise of healing and renewal. Sketches run from 3 to 7 minutes. ...
|  | Robert Surtees and Early Victorian Society
Publication Date: November 11, 1993A contribution both to Surtees studies and to Victorian social history, this is the first study to put Surtees' opinions and sentiments in an historical rather than a literary context. It uses historical evidence to provide a background for Surtees' novels, and uses his writings to enlarge the purely historical evidence. While the traditional concentration of social historians has been on urban life, industrialization, and social reform, Surtees' more conservative world of the countryside, small provincial towns, and the seedier side of London would have be...
|  | Best Sex Writing 2012: The State of Today's Sexual Culture
Publication Date: January 10, 2012| Series: Best Sex Writing In Best Sex Writing 2012, sex columnist Rachel Kramer Bussel and noted commentator Susie Bright, this year's guest judge, collect the most challenging and provocative work on this endlessly evocative subject. Find out what's behind the latest political sex scandals in "Sex, Lies, and Hush Money," learn about how "Atheists Do It Better" and find out "Why Lying About Monogamy Matters." From an insider look at being gay in the military pre-DADT and an impassioned defense of circumcision to a dating site for people with STDs, nuanced e...
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|  | The Gaelic Finn Tradition
Publication Date: January 26, 2012| ISBN-10: 1846822777 | ISBN-13: 978-1846822773Stories of Finn Mac Cumaill and his fian (warband) constitute the most enduringly popular branch of Gaelic literature. The essays in this book - the first English-language collection on the subject to be published in over 20 years - offer new insights into diverse aspects of the tradition. They are essential reading for anyone with an interest in early Irish literature, folklore, and legends. Contents include: the Celtic and Indo-European origins of the fian * problems with dating the early fianaigecht corpu...
|  | Pleasure for Two (Kimani Romance)
Publication Date: November 1, 2010| Series: Kimani Romance (Book 212) Still stung from her ex-husband's betrayal, Dominique King has vowed never again to let a man play her for a fool. But everything changes the night she meets flat-out gorgeous Marcel Benoit. With one smoldering glance and that sexy accent…Dominique's hooked. And for the first time in her life, she's letting passion rule her heart—and loving it!From the moment he opens the door to Dominique, Marcel knows he has to have her. The ambitious Ph.D. student may be new to the U.S., but that doesn't stop him from pursuing...
|  | Time After Time (Large Print)
Publication Date: April 15, 2005Bestselling award-winning author Constance O Day-Flannery is the one true Queen of Time Travel Romance. Join her now in a story of a disillusioned young widow who returns to the past, caught, to her horror, in an unflattering lime green bridesmaid s dress when she meets the man whose love is destined to be hers. Existing in a fog since the death of her beloved husband, Kelly Brennan is suddenly ready to take control of her life. Only she didn t expect her new life to begin in post-Civil War New Orleans. Widower Daniel Gilmore is the epitome of the Southern gen...
|  | Icefire (The Last Dragon Chro)
Publication Date: October 3, 2006| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Cry Wolf and Other Aesop Fables
Publication Date: October 27, 1988| Age Level: 8 and up Cry Wolf! Haste makes waste! Sour grapes! These familiar expressions come from stories that have been told around the world for more than two thousand years. Their reputed author Aesop lived in the 6th century BC, and is said by the Greek historian Herodotus to have been a slave on the island of Samos. Legend has it that Aesop was an ugly, deformed little man whose audience laughed at his appearance but also at his brilliant story-telling. Using mostly animals as characters, especially the fox, the wolf and the lion, each of Aesop's fab...
|  | Pinocchio
Publication Date: September 1, 1986Hardcover - PINOCCHIO - Remarkable illustrations, based on real people posing! ...
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|  | The Monster from the Swamp (Native Legends)
Release Date: September 13, 1995| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | If You Give a Moose a Muffin
Release Date: September 30, 1991| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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