 | How Did I Get Here?
Publication Date: October 1, 2009| ISBN-10: 0982556403 | ISBN-13: 978-0982556405Preston Brown is one of the most elegant and upcoming stars in the African-American community; who has destiny written all over him.He has everything a twenty-five year old man could ever want in life: a miraculous looking wife (Delight), kids, dog, and a career lined up after seminary school to top it all off.Although, very intelligent and keen with words you will find out how Preston's strengths will ultimately turn into his center of weakness.Preston finds himself in a series of unfortunate events that mak...
 |  | The Wind Harp (The Mountain Song Legacy #2)
Publication Date: August 1, 2006B.J. Hoff'sunforgettable characters from A Distant Music reunite for an even moregripping, dramatic episode in The Mountain Song Legacy.When Maggie MacAuley returns to the small coal town of her childhood,she has no intention of staying. Her life is in Chicago now. There's nothing to keep her in Skingle Creek......nothing but the discoverythat a man who has lived most of his life for the children of Skingle Creek is no longer the hero of Maggie's childhoodbut seems destined to become the love of her life. In Maggie's questfor independence, she finds her greate...
|  | House of Wolves (An August Adams Adventure)
Publication Date: August 12, 2008A mysterious book with a dangerous secret.An evil brotherhood out to conquer the world. One man stands between them . . . with his family in the balance.In the twelfth century, Henry the Lion collected the rarest relics in Christendom. And to protect his most precious acquisitions, he encoded the whereabouts in a gorgeous illuminated manuscript called The Gospels of Henry the Lion.The manuscript has been showing up and disappearing ever since. No one knows where the relic has been hidden . . . or its ultimate power.Only one man holds the key to the my...
|  | Alhazred: Author of the Necronomicon (Necronomicon Series)
Publication Date: July 8, 2006| Series: Necronomicon Series (Book 2) H. P. Lovecraft's compelling character, Abdul Alhazred, is brought to life in this epic tale detailing the mad sorcerer's tragic history and magical adventures. Alhazred tells his own life story, beginning with himself as a poor, handsome boy in Yemen who attracts the attention of the king for his divine skill in poetry. As the court poet, young Abdul lives a luxurious life at the palace, where he studies necromancy and magic. But falling in love with the king's daughter leads to a foolish tryst, which is ultimately discove...
|  | The Vampire'sViolin
Release Date: April 1, 2003Listen to its haunting, angelic soundAfter centuries of life, the Vampire has justtwo passions left: blood and music. The blood of innocents is plentiful and easilyattained—it is his other passion that torments him. Many years ago he owned and losta violin that sang with the voice of the angels. Now this unearthly monster willdo anything to press the instrument once more against his neck.As it summons ahellish creature of the nightMaggie O’Hara was a talented if unremarkable violinist—untilthe day her grandfather gives her a violin he had...
|  | Gotrek & Felix: The Third Omnibus (Warhammer Novels)
Release Date: June 30, 2009| Series: Warhammer Novels Omnibus edition of books seven to nine in the best-selling Gotrek & Felix series - Giantslayer, Orcslayer and Manslayer - by William King and Nathan Long. ...
|  | Ralph's Party:A Novel
Release Date: January 1, 2000"Lisa Jewell pulls off a rare trick which even the likes of Helen Fielding and Nick Hornby couldn't quite manage. She has written a book about relationships, which appeals in equal measure to men and women."-The Times (London) Meet the residents of the London brownstone on 31 Almanac Road who together weave a tangled web of romance. Ralph, a ne'er-do-well artist, suddenly realizes he's head over heels in love with his new flatmate Jem, the most fun and sensible girl he's ever encountered. Unfortunately, Ralph's best friend, Smith, has already won Jem's affections...
|  | How the Bicycle Shone: New & Selected Poems
Publication Date: October 8, 2007| ISBN-10: 1852247592 | ISBN-13: 978-1852247591Chris Greenhalgh's distinctive third collection is a book of sensuous meditations on time, mortality, love, and art. At its heart is a suite of prose poems. Intimate in tone, formally experimental and lyrically charged, they pick up and develop threads from his title, ""The Invention of Zero."" This collection is alive with vivid imagery and narrative excitement. At once passionate and ironic, dark and witty, the poems are acutely observed and enjoy a new depth of feeling. His language is sensitive, exact, an...
|  | Walking With the Green Man
Publication Date: June 13, 2007Almost since the dawn of time, the image of the Green Man—the carven enigmatic head surrounded by leaves and foliage—has both intrigued and mystified viewers and folklorists alike. Appearing in churches, taverns, and even on stately buildings, the carving seems shrouded in supernatural obscurity. Is it merely a fertility symbol, or is it something much deeper, which calls for a response from us all? Though it seems a predominantly Celtic icon, does the concept of the Green Man also appear in other places and in other cultures? What is its relevanc...
|  | The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 1 (Barnes & Noble Classics)
Publication Date: September 20, 2004The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume I, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selec...
|  | Zeus in the <i>Odyssey</i> (Hellenic Studies)
Publication Date: November 30, 2008| Series: Hellenic Studies (Book 31) This book makes the case that the plot of the Odyssey is represented within the narrative as a plan of Zeus, Dios boulê, that serves as a guide for the performing poet and as a hermeneutic for the audience. Through occasional participation in events and pervasive influence, the character of Zeus maintains thematic unity as the narrative moves through a mass of potential narrative paths for Odysseus that was already dense and conflicting at the time the Odyssey was taking shape. The “Zeus-centric” readi...
|  | Dusting the Color From Roses: A Billigual Collection of Arabic Poetry
Publication Date: January 1, 1995Dusting the Colour from Roses is a bilingual (Arabic/English) collection of poems by one of the Arabian Gulf's major literary figures. Ghazi Algosaibi's themes are universal love, death, the passage of time and the passing of the seasons. The voice in his poems, while unmistakably his own, draws on a wealth of traditions including the classical, the chivalric, the neo-classical and the modernist.The translation from the Arabic has been revised and reworked by the British poetess Heather Lawton. The Arabic and English versions are printed on facing page...
|  | Camelot Regained: The Arthurian Revival and Tennyson 1800-1849 (Arthurian Studies)
Publication Date: February 15, 1990| Series: Arthurian Studies (Book 21) The revival of interest in Arthurian literature in the early part of the 19th century has been largely unremarked until now. Roger Simpson's wide-ranging study of this period, in which he traces the dominant forms adopted by the Arthurian revival and presents a wealth of new material, shows it to have been of critical importance in the development of the legend and to have been a powerful early influence on Tennyson, whose role within the Arthurian revival is accordingly reassessed. His book also contains a complete bib...
|  | Comanche Cowboy
Release Date: April 1, 1999"Georgina Gentry brings the West to life and gives her fans hours of true reading pleasure", raved "Romantic Times". Now, she enchants readers once again with the story of a desperate woman who must make the agonizing choice of saving her father--or the man she loves. ...
|  | Last Scene Alive (Aurora Teagarden Mysteries, No. 7)
Release Date: May 5, 2009 From the New York Times bestselling author of Dead Over Heels and the Sookie Stackhouse novels. Roe is still in mourning over her husband's death when a movie company arrives in Lawrenceton. They've come to make a film based on a book written by her one-time boyfriend Robin Crusoe, a book that detailed their shared investigation of a series of murders that occurred years before. But when the lead actress-who is playing Roe-is killed, Robin and Roe join forces once again to thwart a killer, without knowing that Roe herself is the next target. ...
|  | Escape from Pyramid X (Twisted Journeys)
Publication Date: September 1, 2007| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Fairy Tales
Release Date: August 28, 2000| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Authentic retellings of twelve familiar and well-loved fairy tales, gorgeously illustrated.With a poet's ear and deep respect for the magic at the heart of our most resonant fairy tales, acclaimed author Berlie Doherty casts a sumptuous spell. Her masterful and authentic retellings of twelve treasured tales are well-matched by Jane Ray's evocative illustrations. Teeming with rich colors, golden trim patterns, silhouettes, and symbols, these pictures—like the timeless stories they interpret—are to be pore...
|  | Highlights Hidden Pictures 2011 Volume 3
Publication Date: August 1, 2010| Age Level: 5 and up Wanted: Keen eyesight and an attention to detail. The latest set of Hidden Pictures annual editions is here! This year's volumes include illustrations depicting interesting anniversaries and events that occur in 2011 including the 90th anniversary of the first radio broadcast of a baseball game, Davy Crockett's birthday, National Pig Day, and Teacher Appreciation Week. With more than 450 hidden objects jam-packed into each book, even expert puzzlers can enjoy hours and hours of sleuthing! ...
|  | Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse (Kingfisher Modern Classics)
Publication Date: September 15, 2001| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | A Kid's Guide to Latino History: More than 50 Activities (A Kid's Guide series)
Publication Date: August 1, 2009| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
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