 | Touching Home: Stories and Poems by Tribal College Students
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 |  | The Constant Heart
Publication Date: September 11, 2012What does it mean to be a decent man? To love well, with fidelity and constancy? These are the lessons that Jake’s father, a wildlife biologist, tries to impart to his son, often on fishing trips to their beloved Furnace Creek. Bound up in the laws of Einstein’s theories, these lessons will ultimately influence Jake’s own career as an astronomer. Out on the creek, both father and son conquer their greatest challenges: marital infidelity, professional setbacks, and Jake’s long term, passionate obsession with his childhood crush.The C...
|  | Troubled Waters
Publication Date: January 2003From the Author of the Acclaimed Ghost Writer Her Unexpected Homecoming Has Conjured Up Memories and Images She Longed to Forget Coming home to Kansas after years of being away, Macey finds herself beginning to unravel on the inside. She came simply to bury her father, then return immediately to her big-city career. The past would have to remain where it was--behind her, deeply buried. But once she arrives again in the old farmhouse, a roiling current of memories carries her back to the reasons she left in the first place. Rene Gutteridge’s deft touch makes...
|  | Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome
Release Date: August 7, 2007 In his "most accomplished work to date" (Los Angeles Times), master of historical fiction Robert Harris lures readers back in time to the compelling life of Roman Senator Marcus Cicero. The re-creation of a vanished biography written by his household slave and right-hand man, Tiro, Imperium follows Cicero's extraordinary struggle to attain supreme power in Rome. On a cold November morning, Tiro opens the door to find a terrified, bedraggled stranger begging for help. Once a Sicilian aristocrat, the man was robbed by the corrupt Roman governor, Verres, who is no...
|  | The Brilliant Chameleon
Publication Date: April 29, 2011A coming of age story between a brother and sister in the 1970's struggling through the issues of their mother's near fatal accident/drug use/alcoholism and violations on foreign soil. How they are affected the choices they make and how they negotiate the waterways of life through a birth bond becomes evident and the climax of the story is a testament to a true loyalty of spirit and family. ...
|  | Love Speaks Its Name: Gay and Lesbian Love Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
Release Date: May 15, 2001| Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets From Sappho to Shakespeare to Cole Porter–a marvelous and wide-ranging collection of classic gay and lesbian love poetry.The poets represented here include Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Gertrude Stein, Federico García Lorca, Djuna Barnes, Constantine Cavafy, Elizabeth Bishop, W. H. Auden, and James Merrill. Their poems of love are among the most perceptive, the most passionate, the wittiest, and the most moving we have. From Michelangelo’s “Love Misinterpreted” to Noël Coward’s ȁ...
|  | Shakespeare on Love (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: December 30, 2003| Series: Penguin Classics Not only did Shakespeare reinvent the English language, he also penned some of the greatest writings on love of all time. From star-crossad lovers and tragic jealousy to unrequited passion and romantic courtship, images of "amour" are evoked in myriad ways in his plays and poems. In this endlessly browsable volume Michael Kerrigan plums the entirety of Shakespeareas work to bring together the greatest examples of his meditations on love. By turns touching, inspiring, evocative, and heartrending, "Shakespeare on Love" is truly a book t...
|  | Rush to the Lake
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|  | El Corno Emplumado, n
Publication Date: 1965Literary magazine of the Latin American "Boom" era. Poetry, prose, letters in Spanish and English with some artwork. This issue features Finnish and Russian poetry translated into Spanish and a special section dedicated to T. S. Eliot. Contributors: Clayton Eshleman, Pentti Saarikoski, Hannu Salama, Paavo Haavikko, Pertti Nieminen, Anya Vammelvuo, Jyri Schreck, Anselm Hollo, Olli-Matti Ronimus, Tuomas Anhava, V...
|  | Black to the Struggle with Afrikan Love
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| | Island people: An Irish sequence of music and poetry (Music Workshop)
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|  | Child's Unfinished Masterpiece: The English and Scottish Popular Ballads
Publication Date: February 18, 2011 The premier scholar of the English-language traditional or popular ballad, Francis James Child spent decades working on his widely read and performed collection, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. In this first single author monograph of Child's life and work, Mary Ellen Brown analyzes Child's editorial methods, his decisions about which ballads to include, and his relationships with colleagues at Harvard and abroad. Brown draws on his extensive correspondence with collaborators to trace the production of his monumental work from conception and...
|  | D.H. Lawrence and Moderism
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|  | El angel perdido: Una novela (Atria Espanol) (Spanish Edition)
Release Date: October 4, 2011| Series: Atria Espanol Mientras trabaja en la restauraciÓn del PÓrtico de la Gloria de Santiago de Compostela, Julia Álvarez recibeuna noticia devastadora: su marido ha sido secuestrado en una regiÓn montaÑosa del noreste de TurquÍa. Sinquererlo, Julia se verÁ envuelta en una ambiciosa carrera por controlar dos antiguas piedras que, al parecer,permiten el contacto con entidades sobrenaturales y por las que estÁn interesados desde una misteriosa sectaoriental hasta el presidente de los Estados Unidos. Javier...
|  | Infectus
Publication Date: February 22, 2012Marcia Iverson is newly wed but newly widowed by a terrorist act. Grieving but still aglow with the memories of a deliriously happy honeymoon, she decides to continue the plan she and Michael shared to return to his boyhood home in a semi-rural Louisiana backwater. Having cut her ties to her apartment and brokerage job in New York City for marriage, she has nowhere else to go, nowhere to practice her profession, and no one but herself to depend on. When she finds that Michael's death has made her heir to Magnolia Manor, a rundown, nearly bankrupt motel, she...
|  | The House at Sea's End (Ruth Galloway Mysteries)
Release Date: January 10, 2012| Series: Ruth Galloway Mysteries There is already a neat trench in the narrow gap between the tall cliffs. Nelson looks at it with pleasure . . . Then he looks closer. The trench appears to be full of bones.Elly Griffiths’s Ruth Galloway novels have been praised as “highly atmospheric” (New York Times Book Review) and “remarkable” (Richmond Times-Dispatch). Now the beloved forensic archeologist returns, called in to investigate when human bones surface on a remote Norfolk beach.Just back from maternity leave, Ruth is finding it dif...
|  | The Probability of Murder (Professor Sophie Knowles)
Release Date: March 6, 2012| Series: Professor Sophie Knowles (Book 2) Dr. Sophie Knowles is a professor with a way of making even the most complex math problems fun for her students. But when the school's beloved librarian is found shot to death in the stacks, Sophie learns that her friend was more complex than she ever knew. Now, Sophie must take on some rigorous deduction homework before the chances for another murder on campus increase exponentially... ...
|  | Wiley & Grampa #8: Phantom of the Waterpark (Wiley & Grampa's Creature Features)
Publication Date: May 1, 2008| Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | Lord of the Sky: Zeus (Greek Myths)
Release Date: September 30, 1982| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | El Pollo De Los Domingos (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 1997| Age Level: 7 and up To thank Miss Eula for her wonderful Sunday chicken dinners, three children sell decorated eggs to buy her a beautiful Easter hat. ...
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