 | No Way to Treat a First Lady: A Novel
Release Date: October 14, 2003A New York Times Notable Book of the YearElizabeth Tyler MacMann, the ambitious First Lady of the United States (and known in the tabloids as “Lady Bethmac”), is on trial for the death of her philandering husband, and the only man who can save her is the boyfriend she jilted in law school—now the most shameless defense attorney in America. Published to rave reviews, No Way to Treat a First Lady is a hilariously warped love story for our time set in the funniest place in America: Washington, D.C. ...
 |  | The Skeleton of The Crow: New & Selected Poems, 1980-2008
Publication Date: October 1, 2008“This book contains over thirty years of work. Without ever intending it, I wrote a spiritual autobiography in poetry. I once was a young poet who practiced Zen; over the years I became a formally ordained Zen monk who practices poetry. This book follows that transition in terms of both content and form. What I think is interesting about the book is that the very early poems are so full of suffering, longing, bewilderment, astonishment, etc., and their language is often ‘poetic’ with images culled from French Symbolism and Surrealism, and se...
|  | Ways of Seeing, Ways of Falling: The Reader Never Knows What to Expect (Author of Our Times)
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|  | Trickery: (Triple Crown Publications Presents)
Publication Date: January 22, 2010| Series: Triple Crown Publications Presents This story of love, heartbrek and manipulation abounds with TRICKERY. ...
|  | The Power and the Glory: A Novel (Historical Nautical Fiction)
Publication Date: October 15, 2011This third novel in William C. Hammond's nautical fiction series is set in the late 1790s during the Quasi-War with France and offers readers a thrilling look at the new American Navy during the Age of Fighting Sail. Following in the wake of his previous novels, A Matter of Honor and For Love of Country, it features the adventures of the seafaring Cutler family of Hingham, Massachusetts, and an ever-expanding cast of characters some real, some fictional that includes Lt. Richard Cutler along with Capt. Thomas Truxtun, Capt. Silas Talbot, and other naval hero...
|  | Love: Poems
Release Date: October 1, 1984This is a special book about special people. People who have loved me, and whom I have loved. People who have brought me joy beyond measure, and sometimes incredible pain. People I have hurt, sometimes more than I can bear to think about. People who have hurt me, sometimes more than they know. Yet each of their gifts has been precious, each moment treasured, each face, each smile, each victory, each defeat woven into the fiber of my being. In retrospect, all of it is beautiful, because we cared so ...
|  | The selling of Jesus:the confession of a Christian bookstore owner
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| | The Arthurian Poems of Charles Williams
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|  | Pale Yellow Sun
Publication Date: June 21, 2004The people of Emil, living a relatively idyllic life in a bountiful land, learn that they will soon face great change. Like it or not, they must end their isolation and become entangled in the most critical problem menacing the rest of civilization. All of their concerns, both societal and personal, must make way for the new challenge.Andy Landis is a young engineer recently graduated from prestigious East Quadrant University. He has been offered a great new job, and is just beginning a romance with a young woman he has known since childhood. His plans take a t...
|  | 2100: Preventing Planetary Apocalypse
Publication Date: February 22, 2012This book discusses how life is likely to change due to the expected changes in the earth’s atmosphere, caused mainly by the increased discharge of carbon dioxide from the burning of coal and fuel oil. It is the general conclusion of most experts in the field that the increase of these pollutants, causes global warming, which in turn, will cause ocean temperatures to rise. ...
|  | Day of the False King: A Novel of Murder in Ancient Babylon
Publication Date: January 10, 2006"Another brilliant and out-of-the-ordinary murder mystery by the author of" Year of the Hyenas, " with an unusual and interesting detective, this time trying to pursue and rescue his own ex-wife, sold into slavery in the city of Babylon (in modern times, near Baghdad) at a time of violence and great danger, much like today.""Day of the False King" continues the story of Semerket, Egypt's Clerk of Investigations and Secrets. The time is approximately 1150 B.C., and the conspirators who plotted the overthrow of Pharaoh Ramses III have been tried and executed. ...
|  | No Such Creature: A Novel
Release Date: April 28, 2009Silver Dagger winner Giles Blunt delivers an exhilarating game of cat and mouse with a most unlikely—and likeable—pair of thieves Eight years ago, Owen Maxwell was saved from a foster home by the arrival of his uncle Max from England. Once a promising Shakespearean actor, Magnus “Max” Maxwell has since put his dramatic skills to new use: a master of disguise, a virtuoso of foreign dialects, and a performer to his core, he has become an extremely successful gentleman thief. Every summer, Max and Owen take a road trip across the United St...
|  | Warriors: Power of Three #6: Sunrise
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|  | We the Children (Benjamin Pratt and the Keepers of the School)
Release Date: April 19, 2011| Age Level: 7 and up...
|  | Ni Hao Kai-Lan The Dragon Dance
Publication Date: July 7, 2009| Age Level: 2 and up...
|  | Toy Story 2 Junior Novelization (Disney/Pixar Toy Story 2)
Release Date: August 11, 2009| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | The Search For The Silver Eagle (The Young Refugees)
Publication Date: October 2003| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Jacob's Rescue
Release Date: July 1, 1994| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Once Jacob Gutgeld lived with his family in a beautiful house in Warsaw, Poland. He went to school and played hide-and-seek in the woods with his friends. But everything changed the day the Nazi soldiers invaded in 1939. Suddenly it wasn't safe to be Jewish anymore. ...
|  | The Pirate Devlin
Publication Date: July 27, 2010An injured French officer struggles along a desolate stretch of West African coastline, desperate to hold on to his secret.Alas for him, his tale is soon ended, and violently, but a young pirate recruit, Patrick Devlin, who happens to speak fluent French, comes away from their encounter with a new pair of boots and a treasure map.From there the adventures of the pirate Devlin, his shipmates, and those who wish them dead move forward without restraint, through broadside barrages and subterfuge and brutal encounters on land and at sea, where nothing is as it appe...
|  | The Practice and Science of Drawing
Publication Date: December 25, 2011The best things in an artist s work are so much a matter of intuition, that there is much to be said for the point of view that would altogether discourage intellectual inquiry into artistic phenomena on the part of the artist. Thus writes Harold Speed in the very first line of his introduction to the book in which deconstructs the process of drawing by subjecting it to lucid intellectual inquiry. Published in 1913, The Practice and Science of Drawing balances its practical advice with technical insight: a necessary manual for those who wish to master the e...
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