 | United States Catholic Catechism for Adults
Publication Date: July 31, 2006The presence of the Catholic Church in the United States reaches back to the founding days of our country through the leadership of Archbishop John Carroll, the first Catholic bishop in the United States. His story, like other stories at the start of the chapters in the United States Catholic Catechism for Adults, gives us a glimpse into the lives of Catholics who lived out their faith throughout our country's history. To listen to an audio sample. ...
 |  | Trust No Man Part 3 (Wahida Clark Presents)
Publication Date: May 31, 2012After his father was executed, Lil T vowed to seek revenge against every individual who played a part in Youngbloods downfall. Anybody who s testimonies helped convict Youngblood and send him to death row was sure to catch hell on Earth. Following in his father s footstep s, Lil T dons the name Trouble, and his name holds the true weight of its meaning. The time has arrived when Lil T is all grown up and filled with bitterness. He s dead-set on avenging his father s death. The ATL is about to feel his pain! By his side like a trustworthy glock is his beautiful b...
|  | Between the Bridge and the River
Publication Date: March 23, 2006Bawdy, joyous, messy, hysterically funny, and guaranteed to offend regardless of religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, or professionBetween the Bridge and the Riveris the debut novel by Craig Ferguson, host of CBS'sThe Late Late Show. Two childhood friends from Scotland and two illegitimate half-brothers from the American South suffer and enjoy all manner of bizarre experiences which, as it turns out, are somehow interconnected and, surprisingly enough, meaningful. An eclectic cast of characters includes Carl Jung, Fatty Arbuckle, Virgil, Marat,...
|  | At Paradise Gate
Publication Date: March 2001In his bedroom upstairs, 77-year-old Ike Robinson is dying. Down in the living room his wife, Anna, defends the citadel of their marriage against an ill-considered, albeit loving, invasion by their three middle-aged daughters and 23-year-old granddaughter. By the author of "A Thousand Acres". --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | Fire (The Great Awakenings Series #1)
Release Date: June 1, 2005Like a deadly disease, sin has infected the American colony of Havenhill, Connecticut, and Josiah Rush seems to be the only person who sees the evil that has gripped the town. Blamed for a fire that nearly destroyed the colony seven years ago, Josiah spent seven years in exile. Now, having returned as pastor of First Church, his cries of alarm fall on deaf ears. Determined to save the town he loves, Josiah Rush endures personal attacks as he battles an insidious unseen enemy who is equally determined to use the town for its own immoral purposes. With historical appe...
|  | Camel Club (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: October 15, 2009| Series: Camel Club El Camel Club de Washington D.C. es el lugar de encuentro de cuatro hombres excentricos. Alli analizan losacontecimientos mas destacados de la politica y economia de su pais, discuten sobre las actuaciones de su gobierno, y especulan sobre posibles conspiraciones. Un dia, una de estasespeculaciones se convierte en una amenaza real, en un acontecimiento que podria cambiar el curso de la historia./Conspiracy theories--everybody has one. The difference with this conspiracy is that it's all too real. David Baldacci's The Camel Club takes rea...
|  | The Flag Captain (The Bolitho Novels) (Volume 11)
Publication Date: October 1, 1999| Series: The Bolitho Novels (Book 11) April 1797, Falmouth Bay. As France continues her bitter struggle for supremacy on land and sea, the Royal Navy receives a crippling blow at home: the Great Mutiny. Returning home after eighteen-months' service, Flag Captain Richard Bolitho finds himself at the center of the crisis. ...
|  | The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse (Unesco Collection of Representative Works Japanese Series)
Release Date: December 29, 2009| Series: Unesco Collection of Representative Works Japanese SeriesThe definitive anthology-unrivalled in scope and contentA millennium and a half old, Japan's poetry is widely known and loved around the world. Covering the earliest primitive period through the Nara, Heian, Kamakura, Muramachi, and Edo periods, right up to the modern day, The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse contains more than 700 poems, including short forms such as tanka and haiku, as well as folk-poetry, and more complex verse with which Western readers may be less familiar. Whether read f...
|  | The Poetry of Robert Frost
Publication Date: March 1996The poetry of Robert Frost, deftly combining a lyrical evocation of rural New England with longer narratives and dramatic forms, focuses predominantly on the themes of human isolation, the emergence of the poetic faculty, death and the spiritual significance of nature. ...
|  | The Heavenly Rose-Garden: A History of Shirvan & Daghestan
Publication Date: December 2, 2009| ISBN-10: 1933823275 | ISBN-13: 978-1933823270| Edition: First The Heavenly Rose-Garden is a fascinating portrait of the Caucasus at the dawn of the modern era. Written in Persian and completed in 1845, it offered the first look at the region by a native son, Abbas Qoli Aqa Bakikhanov. It remains the only dedicated history of Shirvan and Daghestan to this day and also contains a great deal of interesting information about the Caucasus in general during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Bakikhanov demonstrates that despite differences in language,...
|  | The Poetry of Friedrich Nietzsche
Publication Date: January 15, 1987| ISBN-10: 0195036778 | ISBN-13: 978-0195036770| Edition: First Edition Nietzsche has long been recognized and acclaimed as a thinker who transcends disciplinary categories.Although much has been written of him as a forerunner of existentialism, Freudian psychology, and modern linguistics, no modern study had been devoted to one of his lifelong preoccupations: his poetry.This book--the first to bring together the poems in English--restores them to their proper central position in the Nietzsche canon.Begun in early youth and composed and revised until the...
|  | Shakespeare and the English Romantic Imagination
Publication Date: June 1, 1989| ISBN-10: 0198129947 | ISBN-13: 978-0198129943Although it is well known that the Romantics were obsessed with Shakespeare, little attention has been paid to the ways in which he influenced both their creative practices and theories of the imagination.This work presents the fascinating picture of how the Romantics read Shakespeare and the ways in which his work inspired and informed their own poetry.The book provides the first full critical discussion of Shakespeare and Wordsworth, explores the influence of the plays on the poetry of Blake and Coleridge, and...
|  | Dang dai shi xue (Zhongguo shi xue cong shu) (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | Bookstores can be saved;: 14 proposals answering the question: "What is wrong with the bookstores."
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|  | Postmodernism Is Not What You Think: Second Edition (Great Barrington Books)
Publication Date: August 30, 2005| ISBN-10: 1594511535 | ISBN-13: 978-1594511530| Edition: 2 Highly readable, the second edition of Postmodernism Is Not What You Think responds to the widespread claim that postmodernism is over. It explains the historical connections between the postmodern and globalization. Those who wish to kill the term postmodernism still must face the facts that the former nationalistic world-system has collapsed and is slowly being replaced by a more global set of structures. The book is completely revised and updated with an entirely new section on globalization. ...
|  | No Tomorrow
Publication Date: April 30, 2008Martin Truscott had been a troubled child, with an obsession with computer games. Now, he found himself driven to seek the truth. A debate about climate change had been raging in the press - yet it seemed implausible that so many scientists could be lying or deluded. But what if they were? What if the "sceptics" really were modern-day Galileos? When a documentary appeared alleging just that, Martin was incensed because it was so poorly made; the mainstream scientists had little difficulty in picking it apart. Did this prove anything? No: only that the maker of...
|  | Death Is Not the End: A Novella (Inspector Rebus Mysteries)
Publication Date: June 7, 2000| Series: Inspector Rebus Mysteries For readers unfamiliar with the blistering plots and language of Ian Rankin's longer works, this special edition novella is the perfect opportunity to get to know Rankin and his unforgettable creation, Inspector John Rebus. For longtime Rebus fans, it is an opportunity to follow him as he explores a subplot from his most recent outing, Dead Souls. When his high-school sweetheart calls him out of the blue, Rebus agrees to track down her missing son, who was last seen at a bar owned by some shady mob-linked gangsters. His pursui...
|  | Encyclopedia Mythologica: Fairies and Magical Creatures Pop-Up
Release Date: July 8, 2008| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Harry Saves The Day
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|  | The Snowball Rent: A Story from Scotland (BBC TV Science Challenge)
Publication Date: April 1993| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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