 | Wise Blood: A Novel
Release Date: March 6, 2007Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor’s astonishing and haunting first novel, is a classic of twentieth-century literature. Focused on the story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his innate, desperate fate, this tale of redemption, retribution, false prophets, blindness, blindings, and wisdoms gives us one of the most riveting characters in twentieth-century American fiction. ...
 |  | The Book of Mischief: New and Selected Stories
Release Date: September 4, 2012“In the 25 years since [Stern] published his first book, younger Jewish writers have run with a similar shtick . . . But Stern was there first.” —The Toronto Globe and MailThe Book of Mischief triumphantly showcases twenty-five years of outstanding work by one of our true masters of the short story. Steve Stern’s stories take us from the unlikely old Jewish quarter of the Pinch in Memphis to a turn-of-thecentury immigrant community in New York; from the market towns of Eastern Europe to a down-at-the-heels Catskills resort. Along the way...
|  | Indian Summers (American Indian Studies)
Publication Date: May 31, 1998| Series: American Indian Studies The first work of fiction published in the MSU Press American Indian Studies Series, Indian Summers concerns issues of identity for Native Americans. Set against the backdrop of a contemporary reservation that has had its own losses to the dominant culture -- a third of its total land mass taken earlier in the century for a New York State water reservoir, its only religious structures Christian churches -- Indian Summers introduces these identity conflicts through the lives and circumstances of its major characters. This is a ti...
|  | The Atonement Child
Publication Date: March 1, 1999A beautiful repackaged edition of Francine Rivers's classic novel that breaks through the many taboos surrounding abortion. In one terrifying moment, Dynah Carey's perfect life is shattered by rape, her future irrevocably altered by an unwanted pregnancy, and her doting family torn apart. Her seemingly rock-solid faith is pushed to the limits as she faces the most momentous choice of her life—to embrace or to end the untimely life within her. This new edition includes discussion questions for individual or group use. ...
|  | Elizabeth's Glass: With "The Glass of the Sinful Soul" (1544) by Elizabeth I and "Epistle Dedicatory" and "Conclusion" (1548) by John Bale (1544 By Elizabeth I and "Epistle Dedicatory" & "Conclusion")
Publication Date: March 1, 1993| Series: 1544 By Elizabeth I and "Epistle Dedicatory" & "Conclusion" As a girl of eleven, Elizabeth I translated into English a poem by Marguerite of Navarre on incest, spiritual and physical. Four years later her translation, tided "The Glass of the Sinful Soul," was published by the Protestant reformer John Bale. However ingenuous Elizabeth may have been at eleven, she surely realized the implications of the tract when she permitted new editions in 1568, 1582, and 1590. Its bearing on her own family and her precarious hold on the throne was all too obvious w...
|  | Hawaiian Legends of Ghosts and Ghost-Gods
Publication Date: March 19991916. A diverse collection of the legends of the Hawaiian Islands. Contents Part I-Legends: The Ghost of Wahaula Temple; Maluae and the Underworld; A Giant's Rock Throwing; Kalo-Eke-Eke, The Timid Taro; Legendary Canoe Making; Lau-Ka-Ieie; Kauhuhu, the Shark God of Molokai; The Shark Man of Waipio Valley; the Strange Banana Skin; The Old Man of the Mountain; Hawaiian Ghost Testing; How Milu Became the King of Ghosts; A Visit to the King of Ghosts; Kalai-Pahoa, the Poison God; Ke-Ao-Mele-Mele, the Maid of the Golden Cloud; Poona and the Dragon; Ke-Au-Nini; and The ...
|  | Entre Fantasmas / Between Ghosts
Publication Date: June 2005"I spent my childhood and my youth attending mass and reading novels. And I heard and read so many that I lost my faith in God, which doesn't matter much where literature is concerned. . . Today, I don't step foot inside a church, not even as a tourist and you can't get me to read a novel even if you threaten me with bodily harm. I stay with Blasco Ibáñez, Cronin, and Daphne Du Maurier. [. . .]The only thing I believe in now is in those who humbly recognize themselves. Everything else is blah, blah, blah."? Fernando Vallejo ...
|  | Duma Key: A Novel
Release Date: October 21, 2008No more than a dark pencil line on a blank page. A horizon line, maybe. But also a slot for blackness to pour through... A terrible construction site accident takes Edgar Freemantle's right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation. A marriage that produced two lovely daughters suddenly ends, and Edgar begins to wish he hadn't survived the injuries that could have killed him. He wants out. His psychologist, Dr. Kamen, suggests a "geographic cure," a new life distant from the Twin Citie...
|  | The Lurker at the Threshold
Publication Date: June 2003He is not to open the door which leads to the strange time and place, nor to invite Him Who lurks at the threshold ..." went the warning in the old family manuscript that Ambrose Dewart discovered when he returned to his ancestral home in the deep woods of rural Massachusetts. Dewart's investigations into his family's sinister past eventually lead to the unspeakable revelations of The Great Old Ones who wait on the boundaries of space and time for someone to summon them to earth. Acclaimed cult horror writer H. P. Lovecraft's notes and outlines for this tale of unc...
|  | The First To Say No
Publication Date: April 16, 2012The female doctors in the Parkview Hospital emergency department decide that they will no longer allow gang members who assault healthcare workers in their community to escape justice.The neighborhood of Parkview is being terrorized by the Plagues, a gang of violent criminals and drug dealers, and the local police department is taking pay-offs to ignore their activity. After one of the ED doctors, Elita Romanov, is kidnapped and raped, she and her best friend, Dr. Kate Taylor, resolve to take definitive action against the Plagues, whatever the consequences. Th...
|  | Section 31:Cloak (Star Trek)
Release Date: May 22, 2001| Series: Section 31They are the self-appointed protectors of the Federation. Amoral, shrouded in secrecy, answerable to no one, Section 31 is the mysterious covert operations division of Starfleet, a rogue shadow group committed to safeguarding the Federation at any cost.Once, in order to preserve the galaxy's fragile balance of power, Captain James T. Kirk carried out a dangerous mission to capture a cloaking device from the Romulan Star Empire. Months later, while investigating a mysterious disaster aboard a Federation starship, Kirk discovers that the same t...
|  | Oxford Companion to World Mythology
Publication Date: March 13, 2009| ISBN-10: 0195387082 | ISBN-13: 978-0195387087| Edition: Reprint In The Oxford Companion to World Mythology, David Leeming explores the role of mythology in history, revealing how the dreams of specific cultures add up to the larger collective story of humanity. Appealingly illustrated with nearly one hundred black-and-white halftones, the Companion provides thousands of alphabetically arranged entries covering all aspects of mythology including areas traditionally ignored by mythologists such as Polynesia, Africa, Native North America, Australia, and mor...
|  | German Epic Poetry: The Nibelungenlied, The Older Lay of Hildebrand, and other works (German Library)
Publication Date: December 1, 1995| ISBN-10: 0826407439 | ISBN-13: 978-0826407436| Edition: 1 Heroic poetry from the great epics of German literature. Includes Jungere Hildebrandslied, The Battle of Ravenna, Bitterolf and Dietlieb, and The Rose Garden (Version A). ...
|  | Afrique: Peuples de lumi
Publication Date: December 24, 2009Nicole Barrière nous suggère dans son recueil de voir l'Afrique autant comme un terrain d'exercices physiques qui la polluent, que comme le lieu de respiration du monde.L'Afrique sert d'instrument d'exploration des humanismes. La poésie de Barrière est un langage vital qui nous permet d'effectuer une espèce de réorganisation des mondes, après qu'elle nous ait amenés vers toutes sortes de paliers, d'échelles et de significations. Oui, ce langage poétique sur l'Afrique fragmentée, écartelée nous...
|  | Lives
Publication Date: June 2, 2009Self professed rejects, Max & Cate were always unlucky, both in life and love. Chronicling the lives of Cate Alston and Max Knight, "Lives" follows them from their introduction and meeting through the beginning of their adventure, and all of the ups and downs related to it. The happenstance of their paths crossing marks the beginning of a journey of discovery, and honest soul searching that takes them across the country and deep into each others lives. ...
|  | Red Star Burning: A Thriller
Release Date: June 19, 2012Britain’s MI5 tolerates Charlie because he’s their best field agent. What none of his colleagues knows, though, is that he is married to Natalia Fedova, a colonel in the FSB, the Russian intelligence successor to the KGB. It’s a secret that could land her in front of a firing squad, and him in jail for life. Worst of all, their daughter would then end up in a Russian state orphanage.But a frantic call from Natalia has brought their secret out, and Charlie must lead a combined MI5/MI6 mission to rescue her. H...
|  | That Dog Won't Hunt (Rapid Reads)
Release Date: October 1, 2010| Series: Rapid Reads "Cowboy drifter Rick Cooper is on the run in the California desert when he meets Gladys Ryan, an eccentric widow who offers him a ride in her classic 1970 Mustang. Before long she convinces him to accompany her to Northern Ontario to help refurbish her hunting lodge, promising him a share of the upcoming season's profits and hinting at more. The offer is too good to pass up. Rick takes to life in the bush, working hard to make the lodge successful. In his free hours he hunts birds, reluctantly taking Bucky, Gladys' ancient golden retriever a...
|  | Playing with Fire (Skulduggery Pleasant, Book 2)
Release Date: August 25, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 5 and upSkulduggery and Valkyrie are facing a new enemy: Baron Vengeous, who is determined to bring back the terrifying Faceless Ones and is crafting an army of evil to help him. Added to that, Vengeous is about to enlist a new ally (if he can raise it from the dead): the horrible Grotesquery, a very unlikable monster of legend. Once Vengeous is on the loose, dead bodies and vampires start showing up all over Ireland. Now pretty much everybody is out to kill Valkyrie, and the daring detective duo faces its biggest challeng...
|  | Mrs. Rosey Posey and the Hidden Treasure (I Can Read!)
Release Date: May 6, 2008| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | I Can Say No: A Child's Book about Drug Abuse (Hurts of Childhood Series)
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