 | Give Us This Day (God Is an Englishman)
Publication Date: June 1, 2010| Series: God Is an Englishman (Book 3) in the beloved classic God Is an Englishman saga"A heroic finale to the author's cavalcade of middle-class life." -W. B. Hill, Best Sellers Sweeping Adam Swann and three generations of his family into the tide of events that followed Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897, this stirring novel confronts them, and England, with the social upheaval of a rapidly changing world. The same revolutionary ferment that stirs up labor unrest also births the English suffragette movement, taking the family idealist, Giles, to Parli...
 |  | Tested by Fire (The Baxter Series #1)
Release Date: October 10, 2001When a bizarre houseboat explosion rocks the close-knit community of Baxter, firefighters, friends, and neighbors stand powerless as the McConnells' blazing hull sinks to the bottom of Heron Lake. Grief turns to outrage as new evidence proves there was one survivor -- and points to murder, something this sheltered community has never faced in its hundred-year history. In a race with the FBI, Jed sets out to track down the sole survivor, coping meanwhile with his own painful marital struggle. Baxter's mystery and Jed's dilemma are ones only God can solve in this ...
|  | Final Atonement: A Doug Orlando Mystery
Publication Date: August 29, 2011The bestselling crime novels of New York life in the early nineties are back.Gruff, weary, gay Brooklyn Homicide cop Doug Orlando is facing his most shocking case:Rabbi Avraham Rabowitz lay in a pool of his own blood, a prayer shawl stuffed down his throat, and his beard shaved off.The question for Detective Orlando isn’t who hated the right wing religious sect leader—Rabowitz had been the open enemy of blacks, gays, pro-choice women, even fellow Jews.In a case that moves from the depths of the ghetto to the high-rise office of a real estate gla...
|  | Lord Grizzly, Second Edition (Buckskin Man Tales)
Publication Date: June 1, 2011| Series: Buckskin Man Tales Hunter, trapper, resourceful fighter, and scout, Hugh Glass was just a rugged man among other rugged American frontiersmen until he was mauled by a grizzly bear and left for dead by his best friends. Hugh’s rage drove him to crawl two hundred miles across dangerous territory to seek revenge until he was no longer Hugh Glass but had become Lord Grizzly. Lord Grizzly is the second volume of Frederick Manfred’s acclaimed five-volume series, The Buckskin Man Tales. For this Bison Books edition, poet Freya Manfred provi...
|  | The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories (Texas Pan American Series)
Publication Date: 1984| Series: Texas Pan American Series Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy and morality: these are the works of South American master storyteller Horacio Quiroga. ...
|  | Selected Poems of Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Publication Date: December 15, 2000| Series: Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation Poet, philosopher, and sensitive misanthrope, a spectacular fly in the ointment of the refined eleventh-century Andalusian-Jewish elite, Solomon Ibn Gabirol comes down to us as one of the most complicated intellectual figures in the history of post-biblical Judaism. Unlike his worldly predecessor Shmuel HaNagid, the first important poet of the period, Ibn Gabirol was a reclusive, mystically inclined figure whose modern-sounding medieval poems range from sublime descriptions of the heavenly spheres to poison...
|  | The Nightingale in the Garden of Love: The Poems of Uftade
Publication Date: April 1, 2005A detailed overview of the life and teachings of one of the great Ottoman Sufi masters, Mehmed Muhyiddin Üftade, is accompanied by an English translation of a collection of his religious poetry in this tribute to the Turkish and Persian spiritual traditions. Üftade's prominent role in the founding of the Jelvetiyye, one of the main dervish orders, his influence on Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent, and his instruction of renowned disciple 'Aziz Mahmud Hüdayi, are carefully described alongside the faithfully rendered tenets of his spiritual teaching...
|  | The Selected Poetry of Vicente Huidobro
Publication Date: January 17, 1982“He is the invisible oxygen of our poetry."—Octavio PazThis book is the only major collection of the great Chilean writer Vicente Huidobro’s poetry to appear in English. Drawn from his works published from 1917 to 1948 and presented bilingually, the translations are principally by David Guss supplemented with renderings by Stephen Fredman, Carlos Hagen, W. S. Merwi,.Geoffrey O’Brien, David Ossman, Michael Palmer, Jerome Rothenberg, Eliot Weinberger, and Geoffrey Young. Huidobro’s masterpiece Alrazor appears almost entire.Hu...
|  | A Beowulf Handbook
Publication Date: August 1, 1998The most revered work composed in Old English, Beowulf is one of the landmarks of European literature. This handbook supplies a wealth of insights into all major aspects of this wondrous poem and its scholarly tradition. Each chapter provides a history of the scholarly interest in a particular topic, a synthesis of present knowledge and opinion, and an analysis of scholarly work that remains to be done. Written to accommodate the needs of a broad audience, A Beowulf Handbook will be of value to nonspecialists who wish simply to read and enjoy Beowulf and ...
|  | Uncanny Modernity: Cultural Theories, Modern Anxieties
Release Date: May 27, 2008The uncanny is an experience of disorientation, where the world suddenly seems strange, alienating or threatening. Using film, literature, and perspectives from cultural theory, this book explores the sense in which the uncanny may be a distinctively modern experience, the way these unnerving feelings and unsettling encounters disturb the rational presumptions of the modern world view and the security of modern self-identity, just as the latter may themselves be implicated in the production of these experiences as uncanny. ...
|  | A Wish and a Wedding: Master of Mallarinka\Too Ordinary for the Duke? (Harlequin Romance)
Publication Date: July 13, 2010| Series: Harlequin Romance (Book 4177) PAPERBACK ...
|  | The Cowgirl in Question (McCalls' Montana, Book 1) (Harlequin Intrigue Series #797)
Publication Date: September 1, 2004The wildest of the McCall boys was back...and he had a score to settle with Cassidy Miller! Like two outlaws facing off at high noon, they reunited at the Longhorn Cafe for the whole town to witness the long-awaited showdown. Rourke McCall had been fantasizing about this moment for more than a decade--except he hadn't counted on Cassidy growing up and growing into a woman. That one high-school kiss suddenly hit him like a shotgun recoiling. But he couldn't let his emerging desire for Cassidy deter his search for a killer, who by all accounts was still at la...
|  | Great Women Mystery Writers: Classic to Contemporary
Publication Date: September 30, 1994| ISBN-10: 0313287708 | ISBN-13: 978-0313287701This dictionary evaluates 117 widely read historical and contemporary women mystery writers and over 1000 novels. From the sensationalist women mystery writers of the 19th century to the mid-1990s practitioners such as Margaret Maron, Karen Kijewski, and Sue Grafton, this work celebrates the contributions of women writers to mystery fiction, with an emphasis on contemporary writers. The dictionary also serves as a reader's advisory to frequently asked questions: Which novels shouldn't be missed? In what or...
|  | Nightmare Garden: A Novella and Stories
Publication Date: December 8, 2005Two people in the novella Nightmare Garden are chained to bad or difficult relationships, find each other and escape into their passion for a time that they hope will last forever. The scenes play out in Paris, Madrid, and in cafes of Tangier and Marrakech, Morocco, locations that the author knows well. In the short story Dust, set in a small town in northwest Montana, a young man discovers that he can both love his uncle but hate him for what he does. Mother's Helper was one of the most surprising mystery-horror stories of the year it was published and was ...
|  | Danger From the Deep (DC Super Friends) (Deluxe Coloring Book)
Release Date: January 13, 2009| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Lost in Cyberspace
Release Date: September 1, 1997| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Meet Josh Lewis, a sixth grader at the elite Huckley School. When his best friend Aaron announces that he can time travel with his computer, Josh isn't fazed. But when Aaron actually microprocesses himself into cyberspace, the duo must deal with unexpected visitors from the past -- and find out more about Huckley's history than they ever wanted to know!"Amiable characters, fleet pacing, and witty,in-the-know narration will keep even the non-bookish interested."-- Publishers Weekly ...
|  | Odysseus Journey of Endurance (Timeless Greek Mythology)
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|  | Five Fouls and You're Out! (Victory School Superstars)
Publication Date: January 2, 2011| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | In the Water ... on the Water (Safety Town)
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|  | Abracadabra! Magic with Mouse and Mole (A Mouse and Mole Story)
Publication Date: September 6, 2010| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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