 | Sarah's Promise (Country Road Chronicles #4)
Publication Date: September 1, 2008Frank Hammond makes a wintry journey of over two hundred miles to help his brother and look into a job offer he hopes will be the new beginning he is searching for. But all Sarah wants is to make a home as close as possible to the farms where they were raised. Why would Frank even consider moving so far away? As Frank strives to make a new start in a fresh location, he comes face-to-face with his own handicaps and a new-found call of God. At the same time, Sarah struggles for the faith to fulfill her own promise to trust God, and Frank, no matter what the c...
 |  | Keats's Paradise Lost
Publication Date: June 26, 1998"Indispensable . . . Lau's edition will prove of inestimable benefit as a rich textual resource for scholars, teachers, and students working on a variety of cutting-edge topics."--Greg Kucich, University of Notre DameThis edition and analysis of John Keats's marginalia in his personal copy of Milton's epic poem makes available for the first time all of Keats's <i>Paradise Lost</i> annotations and textual markings. It is the most accurate and fully annotated edition of the marginalia available. Accompanying discussion analyzes pattern...
|  | Thief of Always (Elite Operatives, Book 2)
Publication Date: February 2, 2009Stealing a diamond to save the world is the easy part.Mishael Taylor takes comfort in speed, racing from one mission to another as Allegro, one of the Elite Operative Organization's top agents--or from one affair to another, to avoid having to think about the things she's seen and done. Cocky, confident, and used to winning, Mishael confronts her greatest challenge when she's assigned to steal the priceless Blue Star Diamond from Dutch countess Kristine Marie van der Jagt. Not only must she win a high-stakes race with Arab terrorists and Neo-Nazis, she also ...
|  | Death and Honor (Honor Bound)
Release Date: May 26, 2009| Series: Honor Bound In 1943, Argentina Marine pilotturned- agent Cletus Frade is setting up an OSS-operated airline. But before Frade can get airborne, two interwoven German operations must be grounded. And for Frade-whose father was killed by the Nazis-the mission is about to get personal. ...
|  | Summer Wine Country
Publication Date: October 1991The small West Yorkshire village of Holmfirth and the surrounding countryside form the familiar backdrop to the long-running television series, "Last of the Summer Wine". In this book, the writer of the series sets out to capture the rugged beauty of the haunts of Compo, Clegg, Seymour Utterthwaite and Nora Batty, from the warm glow of Sid's Cafe to the bleak light on the wind-torn and isolated farms with thick-coated horses braced against the elements on steep hillsides. The author uses entries from Clegg's wry journal to accompany the photographs by Paul Barke...
|  | Playing Shakespeare (Performance Books)
Release Date: March 15, 2011| Series: Performance Books John Barton is Advisory Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company and has directed some of the greatest Shakespeare productions of our time. His book, Playing Shakespeare, is a transcript of his televised workshops with some of our finest Shakespearean actors: Peggy Ashcroft, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Ben Kingsley, Patrick Stewart and David Suchet. This new edition contains a DVD with 80 minutes of video featuring John Barton in conversation with Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart and Jane Lapotaire discussing changes in approach...
|  | Boccaccios Apologie der heidnischen Dichtung in den Genealogie deorum gentilium: Buch XIV, Text, Ubersetzung, Kommentar und Abhandlung (Ad Fontes) (German Edition)
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|  | The Red Tram
Publication Date: April 1, 2005From one of New Zealand's most celebrated writers comes this poetry collection that encompasses moving memories of childhood and ruminations on horses and cows, Auckland, and even the author's own legs. These satirical poems take weapons from the writers of the past and skewer politicians of the present, and reflect on a range of international writers, including Allen Curnow, Janet Frame, and Denis Glover. With sometimes biting and often humorous poems that reference both classical Latin poets and contemporary concerns, this collection breathes with an incompar...
|  | Modernist Avant-Garde Aesthetics and Contemporary Military Technology: Technicities of Perception
Publication Date: October 25, 2011In this book, mechanical and electronic technologies forge connections between two apparently unrelated and chronologically disparate fields of production: today's state-of-the-art military technologies and the experimental art, music, and writing of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The vast surveillance and killing machines of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries found both resources and resistance in the work of early avant-garde poetics. Modernist aesthetics addressed the conditions of possibility that are most dramatically actualize...
|  | Real Essays with Readings: Writing Projects for College, Work, and Everyday Life
Publication Date: December 19, 2008| ISBN-10: 0312475748 | ISBN-13: 978-0312475741| Edition: Third Edition Real Essays with Readings is the essay-level book in Susan Anker’s highly successful series of writing texts that motivate students with their message that writing is an essential skill in college and in real life — and that this skill is achievable. Anker’s advice, examples, and assignments show the relevance of writing to all aspects of students’ lives, and profiles of former students prove that success is attainable. Like all the books in the Anker ser...
|  | Lord of the Desert
Publication Date: August 1, 2004| Series: Hqn Books Sheltered small-town girl Gretchen Brannon was out of her element when she aligned herself with Sheikh Philippe Sabon, the formidable ruler of Qawi. They came from different worlds, yet she found a soul mate in the powerful, sensual man who’d suppressed his passions for far too long—and harbored a secret anguish. Nevertheless, he made the virtuous young woman aware of her own courage…and, in turn, she aroused his sleeping senses as no other woman could. However, now that Gretchen’s heart belonged to the Lord of t...
|  | Death on the Lizard (Robin Paige Victorian Mysteries, No. 12)
Release Date: July 3, 2007Two apparently accidental deaths at the Marconi telegraph station. The drowning of a local girl. Two cases that involve Charles, Lord Sheridan, and his wife, Kate, in foreign espionage, malicious intrigue, and inexplicable messages sent out of the blue. ...
|  | Healer Pb
Publication Date: November 1, 1999A tale of mystery and healing from the Canadian forests, where Nature can be nasty and men can easily go mad.* We're in the Canadian uplands, a landscape of lakes and forests, cabins and canoes, hunters and hunted. The Healer is a young teenage girl with a gift she finds hard to bear: she seems able to heal the sick, to drive out foul spirits. Her father is a brutal man: strong, tempestuous and violent, he finds it hard to accommodate his daughter's abilities in the way she would wish. A journalist, our principal narrator, comes between them, sent by his mag...
|  | Ghosts of the Titanic
Publication Date: February 1, 2012Just in time for the hundredth anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic on April 15, 1912, comes a haunting and suspenseful novel that weaves gripping fiction around fascinating historical fact. When twelve-year-old Kevin Messenger's father inherits a house in Halifax, Canada, left to him by a complete stranger named Angus Seaton, Kevin decides to investigate. His puzzling discoveries lead to troubling dreams and a voice calling to him for help. A parallel narrative tells the dramatic story of Angus Seaton, who worked on one of the ships responsi...
|  | The Dark Knight Rises: I Am Bane
Release Date: June 5, 2012| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Ananse's Feast: An Ashanti Tale
Publication Date: April 17, 1997| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up When the clever spider Ananse outwits Akye the turtle by inviting him to a feast he cannot touch, Akye plans a tasty revenge. This clever retelling of an Ashanti tale is brought to life by lavish, comic illustrations. ...
|  | Nonsense Songs and Stories
Publication Date: August 1, 2009Children around the world have heard of “The Owl and the Pussycat.” Perhaps they have even recounted the tale of “The Dong With a Luminous Nose” or “The Pobble Who Has No Toes”; maybe you have heard your own son or daughter singing along with “The Jumblies”: “They went to sea in a Sieve they did, In a Sieve they went to sea.” Edward Lear’s poetry and prose celebrates the unbridled joys of living and has influenced writers and illustrators as far-ranging as Terry Gilliam and Ricky Gerv...
|  | The Key Is Lost
Release Date: May 3, 2000| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up What would it be like to lose your home, your family, and even your name? Eva and Lisa Zilverstijn find out. When they go into hiding from the Nazis during World War II, they lose everything but each other.As they move from attic to attic, Eva and Lisa must rely on their courage, their imaginations, and the compassion of strangers to survive. Based on the author's own experiences in Wartime Holland,The Key Is Lost is a moving, understated story about the will to live and how two girls triumph against tremendous odds. Be...
|  | Thank You, God, For Blessing Me (Max Lucado's Little Hermie)
Publication Date: October 4, 2011| Age Level: 2 and up...
|  | Nicholas and the Fast Moving Diesel
Publication Date: November 1980Nicholas is staying with his friend Peter Perkins. One morning they are looking for something useful to do, when, suddenly, a train comes to a halt on the railway line at the end of Peter's garden, and an old lady looking out of the window accidentally drops her bag and her spectacles. At once Nicholas and Peter, not to mention the dog Jock, climb on the train to give them back to her. And they are still on board when the train starts to move again!This is the beginning of an exciting adventure for Nicholas, Peter - and Jock - as they find themselves not only i...
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