 | WHITE FANG (non illustrated)
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 |  | Butterfly Garden
Publication Date: December 2, 2011Amishwoman Sara Lapp, all but shunned for studying with the local doctor to become a midwife, is shocked that, after months of waiting, her first call comes from “Mad” Adam Zuckerman, a self-appointed outcast. Adam doesn’t want her to attend at a birth, but to tend to his children because his wife has died in childbed.Adam wants to love his children, but he is afraid he will hurt them in the way his father hurt him. Without his late wife, Abby, to protect them, Adam must find someone else to care for the girls. He can think of only one w...
|  | Gideon's Call
Publication Date: October 23, 2012Tad, a very clever slave boy, comes of age as the American Civil War intrudes on the tropical sea islands of South Carolina. But his desire to better himself is obstructed by the color of his skin, until Northern soldiers force the evacuation of white plantation owners, setting 10,000 slaves free in a single day. These circumstances seem like a dream, but the newly freed slaves have no money, no education, no leadership, and little hope for the future. This is the story of how a boy grows into a man facing the horrors of war and unimaginable prejudice - figh...
|  | Dark Inheritance
Publication Date: March 2001At the behest of a wealthy geneticist researching the minute genetic differences that separates humans from chimpanzees and control the way the two species think and learn, a number of U.S. scientists have been asked to raise and study bonobo chimpanzees in their homes. One such chimp is Umber, placed with Dr. Jim Dutton, an anthropology professor. Umber, however, is startlingly different from the other chimpanzees Dutton has studied. Quick to learn, Umber soon acquires a prodigious sign language vocabulary and manipulates the computer, tools and kitchen appliance...
|  | The Lillivax Inheritance
Publication Date: January 1, 2011A romantic mystery set against the background of the highly competitive biotech and pharmaceutical industries. Chloe Leighton, a compassionate veterinarian, finds herself thrust into a position of power and conflict as the head of Lillivax, whose research entails the death of animals. But the challenges Leighton faces are more than ethical. Ted Leighton, the founder of Lillivax, suffered a carefully planned and violent death. His daughter, her fiance, and the young man bent on stealing her heart -- all are suspects.The animals rights controversy -- and especi...
|  | The Double Life
Publication Date: December 31, 2010Best friends, Sidney and Dayna, have been successful at everything. At being wives, mothers, and upwardly mobileprofessionals. But there’s one thing in which they fail to succeed: fighting their forbidden Sapphic love for one another. What happens when the pull of desire becomes too strong to resist? What happens when the love that soothes and sates has the power to destroy the life you live?The Double Life takes us on the journey of living in two worlds: The first borne out of societal expectations and the second driven by an intensity and hunger so...
|  | Golf The Road To Insanity
Publication Date: February 24, 2004Golf - The Road To Insanity, is a humorous, cleverly worded tale of a young boy who spent the summer of 1959 as a caddy at a private golf club in the Central Coast area of New Jersey.¿The adventures of that summer, simmering in the mind of that young boy as he grew into his 50's, were finally recorded in this writing. The many characters and stories he writes about will be familiar to those who play the game. Has anyone known a character like Rut Krauzer? 'Rut, after seeing his ball heading way left of where he had aimed it, and quite truthfully, mis-h...
|  | Sitting Pretty (Acting Edition)
Publication Date: July 19, 2011| Series: Acting Edition Genre: Comic Drama Characters: 4 male, 6 females Scenery: Interior Unmarried sisters in their fifties share a London flat. Nina is brisk, dynamic and gainfully employed. Nancy is plump, self-conscious and suddenly redundant. Urged to find a hobby, she unwittingly stumbles into a job modeling for eccentric drawing students and their philandering teacher. Initially horrified to discover that life models pose naked, Nancy is unexpectedly liberated by the experience. Though she keeps this activity a secret, her newfound confidence unsettles...
|  | The Thesmophoriazusae (Or The Women's Festival)
Publication Date: January 1, 2006Like the 'Lysistrata,' the 'Thesmophoriazusae, or Women's Festival,' and the next following play, the 'Ecclesiazusae, or Women in Council' are comedies in which the fair sex play a great part. In 'The Thesmophoriazusae' Euripides is summoned as a notorious woman-hater and detractor of the female sex to appear for trial and judgment before the women of Athens assembled to celebrate the Thesmophoria, a festival held in honour of the goddesses Demeter and Persephone, from which men were rigidly excluded. ...
|  | Petrushka: Sources and Contexts
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|  | A Hundred White Daffodils
Publication Date: September 15, 1999"There is something in me that will not be snuffed out," Jane Kenyon told Bill Moyers in an interview. And there is no better proof of that than the overwhelming response her poetry generates. Kenyon's last collection, Otherwise: New & Selected Poems, remains a phenomenon: a best-seller that testifies to the impact Kenyon has had on the poetic landscape.A Hundred White Daffodils is a companion volume that sheds illumination on a poet, and a woman, of great presence. It offers glimpses into a life cut too short and traces the influences that created Kenyon'...
|  | A New History of Classical Rhetoric
Publication Date: October 17, 1994| ISBN-10: 069100059X | ISBN-13: 978-0691000596George Kennedy's three volumes on classical rhetoric have long been regarded as authoritative treatments of the subject. This new volume, an extensive revision and abridgment of The Art of Persuasion in Greece, The Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World, and Greek Rhetoric under Christian Emperors, provides a comprehensive history of classical rhetoric, one that is sure to become a standard for its time.Kennedy begins by identifying the rhetorical features of early Greek literature that anticipated the formulati...
|  | The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit (Cliffs Notes)
Publication Date: September 1, 1977| ISBN-10: 0822012863 | ISBN-13: 978-0822012863Join the journey through Middle-earth in the study guide of these two epic fantasies suggestive of life in medieval days, a classical battle between good and evil and the quest for a magical ring. This guide covers all four volumes of this unforgettable fantasy. ...
|  | Witch Fire (Elemental Witches, Book 1)
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|  | The Spellbox
Publication Date: October 1, 2003When American tourists Lucy McLaverty and Maxine Desmond saw the sign "Thistleburn - Experience the Medieval" - they thought of nothing more than finding a welcome respite from a fierce storm buffeting the Scottish highlands. But when morning comes, more than the weather has changed. Though still in Scotland, they discover they have been transported 700 years into the past.With little more than their wits to protect them, Lucy and Max are immediately branded as witches and locked in the castle dungeon to await the judgment of the Laird of Thistleburn, Sir Eva...
|  | Chet (Cowboys)
Publication Date: April 1, 1999| Series: Cowboys The freedom of the range, the bawling of the longhorns, the lonesome night watch beneath a vast, starry sky--they get into a man's blood until he knew there was nothing better than the life of a cowboy ... except the love of a good woman.MELODYWhen Chet Attmore rode into the Spring Water Ranch, he was only a dusty drifter, hoping to find a fresh horse and stay one step ahead of his reputation as a gunfighter. But by the next morning he was being pressured into several unfamiliar roles: Young Neil Jordan saw him as some kind of hero, with g...
|  | Exit Strategies
Release Date: November 5, 2002Once upon a time, Becky Weston had an enviable existence -- until the Volvo, the Spanish-Style house overlooking the Pacific, and the money vanished for a much younger trophy wife. And when her ex dies, leaving the purse strings in the greedy hands of Mrs. Number Two, Becky is truly left out in the cold. Having put herself through six years of night law school, the struggling single mother is now the oldest new associate in a small, aspiring law firm -- and expected to devote her life to nothing but work. Stranded in an office of sharp-elbowed young turks, Becky...
|  | The Vintage Vendetta: A Wine Country Mystery (Wine Country Mysteries)
Release Date: July 26, 2011| Series: Wine Country Mysteries Ellen Crosby’s "beguiling" (Kirkus Reviews) fifth mystery takes readers into Washington’s corridors of power, where Lucie Montgomery uncovers a political and financial scandal while trying to locate her missing friend. WHEN LUCIE MONTGOMERY VISITS Washington, D.C., during cherry blossom season she doesn’t expect her reunion with old friend Rebecca Natale is a setup. But Rebecca disappears into thin air after running an errand for her boss, billionaire philanthropist and investment guru Sir Thomas Asher. Also mis...
|  | Reader's Digest Best Loved Books for Young Readers, Volume Four (The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Sherlock Holmes, Abe Lincoln Grows Up and Lost Horizon (Volume 4)
Publication Date: 1966Unknown BindingPublisher: The Reader's Digest Association (1966)ASIN: B000EX38ZMProduct Dimensions: 7.4 x 5.7 x 1.6 inchesShipping Weight: 1.3 pounds ...
|  | Shaquille O'Neal (Ovations)
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