 | Double Identity (Love Inspired Suspense)
Publication Date: March 1, 2011| Series: Love Inspired Suspense Sophie Clarkston is shocked to learn that she isn't who she thinks. Her birth certificate is forged. Her name—made up. And her widowed "father" is suddenly missing, leaving behind a heartbreaking letter asking forgiveness. Desperate for answers, Sophie turns to private investigator Cain Garrison in tiny Promise, Virginia. But the moment they leave his office, her life is threatened and her home ransacked. Who is after her? And who, exactly, is she? With questions about his own past, Cain vows to help Sophie uncover ...
 |  | Sammy: The Consolation of Bucephalus
Publication Date: July 12, 2012Former Dallas Police detective Sammy Kidman is now a private investigator working for his wife Marni's agency, MK & Associates. While he is out tracking down scofflaws who owe past-due child support, he rescues a dog from becoming road kill. Miraculously, Marni allows Sammy to keep the gangly mongrel, whom Sammy soon discovers to be an unexpected asset in his work. He has no idea how much of an asset, however, until he tangles with a high-powered woman executive who resents his collection efforts so much as to concoct a particularly harrowing revenge.Sammy: The...
|  | The Immortelles (The Creoles Series, 2)
Publication Date: February 19, 2004For her sixteenth birthday, Damita De Salvado receives a beautiful slave girl, Rissa, but mistreats her, revealing Damita's prejudice and hardening Rissa's heart. When her family experiences financial hardships, Damita grudgingly sells Rissa to a mysterious Christian doctor, Jefferson Whitman, who is Rissa's adopted brother. Now the tables have turned: Rissa is a wealthy, free woman, while Damita's family struggles to keep the plantation. Will both women find the love and security they long for? ...
|  | Breach of Promise
Publication Date: February 1, 2004Actor and father Mark Gillen finds out how far modern courts will go to keep a child from a parent who has strong Christian views. ...
|  | The Swing Voter of Staten Island (Akashic Urban Surreal)
Publication Date: October 1, 2008| Series: Akashic Urban Surreal “Nersesian’s extravagantly imagined dystopia relies—as did those in Philip Roth’s Plot Against America and Michael Chabon’s Yiddish Policemen’s Union—on an alternate, counterfactual history.”—The New York Times Book Review“Combining sci-fi space/time-warping, Unabomber-style political ranting and an overall air of goose-bump paranoia, this is one turbo-charged trip. . . . A sharp, strange read: Imagine William Burroughs and Philip K. Dick sharing a needle.”&mdash...
|  | The Fiddler's Gun (Fin's Revolution: Book I)
Publication Date: December 1, 2009| Series: Fin's Revolution (Book 1) Revolution. Secrets. Adventure.America is on the brink of war with England, and Fin Button is about to come undone. She's had it with the dull life of the orphanage, and she's ready to marry Peter and get away from rules, chores, and a life looked after by the ever-watchful Sister Hilde. But an unexpected friendship forms between Fin and the fiddle-playing cook, Bartimaeus, which sets her on a course for revolution. With Bart's beloved fiddle and haunting blunderbuss as her only possessions, Fin discovers her first taste o...
|  | The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 1B: The Early Modern Period (4th Edition)
Publication Date: July 23, 2009| ISBN-10: 0205655327 | ISBN-13: 978-0205655328| Edition: 4 The Fourth Edition of The Longman Anthology of British Literature continues its tradition of presenting works in the historical context in which they were written. This fresh approach includes writers from the British Isles, underrepresented female authors, “Perspectives” sectionsthatshed light on the period as a whole and link with immediately surrounding works to help illuminate a theme, “And Its Time” clusters that illuminate a specific cultural moment or a deb...
|  | Anne La de Alamos Ventosos (Coleccion "Anne, La De Tejados Verdes"/Anne of Green Gables Series) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Apocalyptic Vision in "Paradise Lost"
Publication Date: April 1, 1970The author analyzes the literary techniques Milton uses in Paradise Lost to describe apocalyptic reality - reality that is both transcendental and ideal. By concentrating on this aspect of Milton's epic, the author provides an accurate and comprehensible description of his apocalyptic vision and contributes substantially to our understanding of a great poem. ...
|  | Here There Was Once a Country
Publication Date: May 1, 2001Lebanese writer Venus Khoury-Ghata, who lives in France and has won many of France's major literary prizes, blends French surrealism with Arabic poetry's communal narrative mode in three stunning poetic sequences.Here brilliantly translated from the French by poet Marilyn Hacker, the English-speaking reader has rare insight into another world, another dimension. ...
|  | Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-Haunted South
Publication Date: September 1, 2005This is an excellent and lucid study of OConnors theological and cultural convictions, with a study of the grotesque in her work as well as an elegant exploration of OConnor as an engimatic Southern writer. ...
|  | Complete Letters (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: June 15, 2009| ISBN-10: 0199538948 | ISBN-13: 978-0199538942In these letters to his friends and relations, Pliny the Younger, lawyer, author, and natural philosopher, provides a fascinating insight into Roman life in the period 97 to 112 AD. Part autobiography, part social history, they document the career and interests of a senator and leading imperial official whose friends include the historians Tacitus and Suetonius. Pliny's letters cover a wide range of topics, from the contemporary political scene to domestic affairs, the educational system, the rituals and conduc...
|  | Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold, General Gordon
Publication Date: February 2003| ISBN-10: 0826459641 | ISBN-13: 978-0826459640| Edition: First Edition Lytton Strachey's classic work "Eminent Victorians" was an assault on the Victorian age and its values. In choosing four key figures, Cardinal Manning, Dr Arnold of Rugby, Florence Nightingale and General Gordon, Strachey conducted a masterly hatchet job on four key representatives of their age. His book was an instant bestseller and has been in print ever since. But now the mood has changed. Victorian studies are booming. Scholars are looking again at the Victorian age and are reassess...
|  | Sherlock Holmes: Back in London
Publication Date: May 14, 2010You hold in your hands a book containing Sherlock Holmes mysteries inspired by the last of Dr. Watsons known writings. Here are The Adventure of the Angry Spirit, The Adventure of the Lincolnshire Asylum, The Adventure of the Necropolis Train, The Adventure of the Baker-street Irregular and The Adventure of the Evil Lascar. The game is afoot. ...
|  | The Marshmallow Man
Publication Date: May 26, 2010Everyone knows the story of the Gingerbread Man, but does anyone know about the Marshmallow Man? ...
|  | Morris the Moose (I Can Read Book 1)
Release Date: March 15, 1991| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | DK Readers: WCW Fit for the Title -- Building a WCW Champion (Level 4: Proficient Readers)
Publication Date: April 2, 2001| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | La imagen polisemica en dos poetas modernistas hebreos: Natan Alterman y Alexander Penn (Literatura hebrea contemporanea) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Amazing Ants (Sparkle Bugs Adventure)
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|  | The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes Gift Edition with Charm
Publication Date: February 15, 2010| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up To celebrate the seventieth anniversary of The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes a special gift edition has been created. The gift set includes a golden shoes charm—perfect for anyone who hopes to be wise, kind, and brave! This beloved tale of a mother bunny who dreams of being one of the official Easter Bunnies but must first prove herself to old Granfather Bunny, has won the hearts of generations and continues to appear on our best-seller list every Easter. Product Safety/Choking H...
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