 | Salvation: Black People and Love
Release Date: December 18, 2001| Series: Bell Hooks Love Trilogy Acclaimed visionary and intellectual bell hooks began her exploration of the meaning of love in American culture with the bestselling All About Love: New Visions. Here she continues her love song to the nation in the groundbreaking and soul-stirring Salvation: Black People and Love.Whether talking about the legacy of slavery, relationships and marriage in Black life, the prose and poetry of our most revered artists and leaders, the liberation movements of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, or hip-hop and gangsta rap culture, hooks lets...
 |  | The Twelfth Angel
Release Date: August 27, 1996"A very special story about life and love and courage."MERLIN OLSEN, SPORTSCASTERJohn Harding had a high-powered career, a loving wife, and a beautiful son. He's lost it all and has returned to his home town of Boland, New Hampshire, teetering on the brink of suicide. But an old friend asks John to manage his old Little League team, the Angels. Reluctantly, he agrees, and meets a hopeless player who bears a striking resemblance to his dead son--and through their extroardinary relationship, John finds the wisdom in living that he thought had slipped beyond his gra...
|  | Dead Run
Publication Date: November 15, 2011"I'm in trouble, Liz. I've uncovered something.…They're watching.…"That panicked message on her answering machine is the last time Liz Ames hears from her sister Rachel, pastor of Paradise Christian Church in Key West, Florida.Compelled to uncover the truth about her sister's disappearance, she heads to Key West. Within hours of her arrival a successful banker jumps to his death. Then a teenage girl whom Rachel was counseling is found brutally murdered. The ritualistic style of the killing is hauntingly similar to that used...
|  | Tr3s (Nelson Pocket: Ficcion; Suspense) (Spanish Edition)
Release Date: February 3, 2012| Series: Nelson Pocket: Ficcion; Suspense De la mente de Ted Dekker: Tr3s, ahora en tapa rústica.Imagina que al contestar tu celular, escuchas una voz misteriosa que te da tres minutos para confesar tus pecados. Si no lo haces, va a hacer volar en pedazos el automóvil que estás manejando. Así empieza una pesadilla que se va desarrollando con consecuencias cada vez más graves. Una novela imponente que trata de lo bueno, lo malo y todo lo que hay entre ambos, Tr3s es una historia de suspenso psicológico que arranca a plena velocidad ...
|  | Winter Is Not Forever (Seasons of the Heart)
Publication Date: May 1, 2010| Series: Seasons of the Heart (Book 3) Josh Jones realizes his family isn't typical, but it's the only life he's ever known. Aunt Lou, Gramps, Uncle Charlie, Grandpa--they all have shaped the young man he has become. But as he grows into manhood, Josh begins to face important questions about life, love, and faith. Three million books sold in the series! ...
|  | After the War: Two Tales of Noreela
Publication Date: February 1, 2008Subterranean Press is proud to present two novellas set in Tim Lebbon's signature world of Noreela!Vale of Blood Roses:A mercenary should be allowed to quit.That's what Jakk thinks.But his companions don't want to quit.As the Cataclysmic War ends they enter a valley that should not exist, see machines that should be dead, and interrupt something that should be left alone.There's regret, but some actions can't be undone.There's hope, but it's so obviously false.And there's revenge. The Bajuman:Korrin is a Bajuman, vilified for some vague wrongdoing in his peo...
|  | Murda Squad
Publication Date: November 5, 2010Khadafi, a young up and coming basketball star, battles with the lure of the streets in what many consider the deadliest street in America, Cleveland, Ohio Raised in a middle class family was rough but not as unbearable as having friends who seemed to have it all.Fed up with the no name clothes, Khadafi ventures into a lifestyle where you survived by living at the expense of a gun. After his first of many robberies, Khadafi took to the streets like a fish to water plunging to the depths of no return. The crew called themselves The Murda Squad and they lived ...
|  | Lost Regiment 8: The Men of War
Release Date: December 1, 1999| Series: Lost Regiment (Book 8) This final novel in The Lost Regiment series finds Colonel Andrew Keane and the soldiers of his 35th Maine preparing to wage war against the alien hordes for the last time... Series #8Praise for The Lost Regiment series: "First rate storytelling."-- Ray E. Feist, New York Times bestselling author"A parallel world of majestic sweep and gripping inten-sity." -- L. Sprague de Camp"The Lost Regiment series moves like a bullet."-- Locus"Science fiction lovers will cheer."-- Boy's Life"A Civil War Series with a Twist."--Washington Post...
|  | Jinn Theory
Publication Date: September 14, 2011Rafiq is quite satisfied with himself.As the proprietor of a small but eclectic antique shop in Istanbul he entertains a colorful mix of neighbors on a small dead-end street.Rafiq smuglybelieves he has these people all figured out: The old baker whose family has now abandoned him, thesophisticated snob who parades in and proceeds to insult him and everything in his shop, the Sufi who’s trying to save his soul, and then there are those fundamentalists at the end of the street who run the small mosque. When all these lives start unraveling, it is Rafi...
|  | The Drama of Easter
Publication Date: September 1, 1999New life. That is the essence of Easter. The playwrights featured in this book explore Easter's promise of new life in many creative ways. The aim Rhonda Wray took when selecting the scripts was to include a diversity of styles, age levels, and special days in the Lenten season. The book is divided into the following sections: Lent and Holy Week; Palm Sunday; Maundy Thursday; Good Friday; Tenebrae; Passion Play; Sunrise Services; Easter; Children and Youth; Monologues. ...
|  | The China Cupboard and the Coal Furnace
Publication Date: April 2000| ISBN-10: 0773427961 | ISBN-13: 978-0773427969These poems perform a balancing act of one life inside another life inside other lives. Having uncreated his world in seven days, Chin reassembles a new one through meditation, expiation and liberation, riding on a truck in New York, eating out of a lunch box, and listening to Bob Dylan. ...
| | Antologiia sovremennoi russkoi poezii Ukrainy (Russian Edition)
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|  | Historia de la literatura hispanoamericana/ History of the Latin American Literature: Postmodernismo, Vanguardia, Regionalismo/ Postmodernism, Vanguard, and Regionalism (Spanish Edition)
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|  | The Sensation Novel and the Victorian Family Magazine
Publication Date: September 22, 2001Victorian sensation novels, with their compulsive plots of crime, transgression and mystery, were bestsellers. Deborah Wynne analyzes the fascinating relationships between sensation novels and the magazines in which they were serialized. Drawing upon the work of Wilkie Collins, Mary Braddon, Charles Dickens, Ellen Wood, and Charles Reade, and such popular family journals as All The Year Round, The Cornhill, and Once a Week, Wynne highlights how novels and magazines worked together to engage in the major cultural and social debates of the period. ...
|  | A Companion to Spanish Surrealism (Monograf
Publication Date: October 7, 2004| Series: Monograf...
|  | The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms (Oxford Handbooks)
Publication Date: February 11, 2011| ISBN-10: 0199545448 | ISBN-13: 978-0199545445The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms situates literary modernisms and the modernist arts in a series of unfolding relations with mass society and popular culture in both national and transnational settings. An unparalleled resource containing over fifty specially commissioned essays, the Handbook updates and extends the scope and depth of previous synoptic guides, bringing together new approaches to the more obvious themes of modernist studies as well as new research on the variety of cultural, aesthetic, and ...
|  | Troy: From Homer's Iliad to Hollywood Epic
Publication Date: July 18, 2006| ISBN-10: 1405131837 | ISBN-13: 978-1405131834This is the first book systematically to examine Wolfgang Petersen’s epic film Troy from different archaeological, literary, cultural, and cinematic perspectives. The first book systematically to examine Wolfgang Petersen’s epic film Troy from different archaeological, literary, cultural, and cinematic perspectives. Examines the film’s use of Homer’s Iliad and the myth of the Trojan War, its presentation of Bronze-Age archaeology, and its place in film history. Identifies the modern ...
|  | The Vampire's Kiss
Publication Date: March 2005An ancient evil.An unholy alliance.An eternal love.William Dark is a monster-a vampire who feeds on blood and fear. He is exactly what Savannah Daniels needs. A year ago, Savannah's twin brother and his wife were brutally murdered. Savannah swore a vow of vengeance against the man, the beast, that killed him. A beast that is now after her. Savannah needs William's help in order to keep her vow. She must convince him to transform her, to give her the kiss of the vampire, so that she will be strong enough to defeat the killer that is on her trail. Savannah and Willi...
| | The Rogue Warrior
Publication Date: January 1, 1900The explosive autobiography of the controversial, death-defying founder of the U.S. Navy's Top Secret Counterterrorist Unit SEAL Team Six. Following that success, he organized a group of military terrorists to test the defenses of the Navy's facilities, only to incur the wrath of the Navy brass. 2 cassettes. . --This text refers to the Unbound edition....
|  | Death and the Good Life
Publication Date: January 1, 1991Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for the University of Idaho PressAl Barnes is a good but admittedly "mushy hearted" homicide cop who trades his stressful Seattle beat for a small-town deputy's life in rural Montana. The peace is disrupted when a local fisherman and a mill owner are found gruesomely axed. Barnes is drawn into a twenty-year-old unsolved case near Portland, adding to an already puzzling search through murky secrets and sweeping him up in the decadent "good life" of his suspects. ...
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