 | The Hart Sisters: Early African Caribbean Writers, Evangelicals, and Radicals
Publication Date: July 1, 1993Daughter of a black slaveholder father, Anne Hart Gilbert and Elizabeth Hart Thwaites were among the first educators of slaves and free African Caribbeans in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Antigua. These members of the "free colored" community who married white men and played an active role as educators, antislavery activists, and Methodist evangelicals were also among the first African Caribbean female writers. This exceptional volume offers for the first time a collection of their writings.Because the records of the Hart sisters are rare and orig...
 |  | Healing Love: Cottonwood Series (Volume 1)
Publication Date: May 20, 2012| Series: Cottonwood Cottonwood, Iowa 1875 Lydia Walcott is on the run. With a broken arm and a wounded spirit she is escaping the hands of her cruel brother and the marriage he has arranged. She's running to the unknown, praying that God will lead her steps. Seekingshelter from an ice storm in a livery stall, Lydia goes to sleep hoping that in this small town of Cottonwood she’ll find a job, a place to live and friends.Dr. Sterling Graham, having just delivered a baby, rides back to town over the ice covered roads. He's confident and secure in the knowle...
|  | Confessions of a Mormon Boy: Behind the Scenes of the off-Broadway Hit
Publication Date: November 1, 2006 2007 Lambda Literary Award Finalist"The Mormon Augustin Burroughs." --Boston Globe"What a rare and skillful thing is Confessions of a Mormon Boy, Steven Fales' engrossing, funny and often quite harrowing tale. A fine writer and actor."--Chicago Sun-TimesA hit at New York's Fringe Festival, Steven Fales' true-life story has become a smash across the country. Now playing off-Broadway, it continues to dazzle audiences with its honesty and wit as the author recounts his story of being excommunicated from the Mormon church for being gay, leav...
|  | On the Road: The Original Scroll (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Release Date: August 26, 2008The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published as Kerouac originally composed itIN THREE WEEKS in April of 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote his first full draft of On the Road—typed as a single-spaced paragraph on eight long sheets of tracing paper, which he later taped together to form a 120-foot scroll. A major literary event when it was published in Viking hardcover in 2007, this is the uncut version of an American classic—rougher, wilder, and more provocative than the official work that appeared, heavily edited, in 1957. This version, capturing...
|  | Teeny Tiny
Release Date: December 29, 1997When the teeny tiny woman goes for a walk, she comes upon a teeny tiny bone that's perfect for making soup. Little does she know that the ghostly owners of the bone will follow her home for a teeny tiny bit of terror! The rhythmic words are wonderful for reading aloud, and dePaola's illustrations are colorful, cheerful and childlike. --Publishers Weekly The repetitive pattern of the words and naive simplicity of thepictures should make the book popular with very young children.--Horn Book...
|  | The Purgatorio (Signet Classics)
Release Date: July 1, 2001Following The Inferno (also available from Signet Classic) and preceding The Paradiso (available next month from Signet Classic) this brilliant translation of Dante's immortal three-part Divine Comedy beautifully captures the conception of the aspiring soul.Ciardi's version of Dante will be in many respects the best we have seen. (John Crowe Ransom) ...
|  | Der Lesezirkel Hottingen (German Edition)
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|  | Anthology of World Scriptures
Publication Date: September 13, 2007| ISBN-10: 0495503878 | ISBN-13: 978-0495503873| Edition: 6 ANTHOLOGY OF WORLD SCRIPTURES is a comprehensive collection of scriptures from the major world religions, including: Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Shinto, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, as well as scriptures from more recent religious movements. The text presents scripture readings in context, giving you a framework that shows how each religion is actually practiced today, as well as its history, teachings, organization, ethics and rituals. The ...
|  | The EDGE Of Trust: Team EDGE
Publication Date: April 6, 2012USA Today says "Adventure, betrayal, revenge and redemption — you'll find it all in The EDGE Of TRUST." *** “Suzanne Brockmann fans will love KT Bryan.”~ Joyce Lamb, Bestselling Author of TRUE SHOT *** The stakes are incredible.Failure is unimaginable.The malice unthinkable. Living a nightmare… When EDGE operative Dillon Caldwell follows a direct order to bring down the Sanchez Brothers drug cartel, he never imagines that his wife, Sara, would be next on the cartel’s hit list. Dillon thought nothing could match the pain of los...
|  | Miss Westlake's Windfall (Signet Regency Romance)
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|  | Pleasurably Undone!: Seducing a Stranger\The Viking's Forbidden Love-Slave\Disrobed and Dishonored\A Night for Her Pleasure\The Unlacing of Miss Leigh (Harlequin Historical)
Publication Date: April 1, 2010| Series: Harlequin Historical (Book 990) ”Seducing a Stranger” - Christine MerrillLieutenant Tom Godfrey returns home to find young widow Victoria Paget in a bawdy house. What starts as a one-night seduction soon leads to more…”The Viking's Forbidden Love-Slave” - Michelle WillinghamThough Aisling Ó Brannon is intended for the king's bed, warrior Tharand must decide: please his king or keep her for himself!“Disrobed and Dishonored” - Louise AllenSarah Tatton wants out of her engagement, and highwayman Jonat...
|  | Lightning People
Publication Date: August 14, 2012Joseph Guiteau is a working actor who moved to New York to escape a tragic family history in the Midwest. Wandering through a city transformed by the attacks of September 2001, he frequents gatherings of conspiracy groups, trying to make sense of world events and his own personal history. Looming over his life is a secret that threatens to undermine his new marriage to Del, a snake expert at a city park, whose work visa is the only thread keeping her from deportation back to her native Greece.The new marriage influences the lives of those around them: William...
|  | Invitation to Valhalla
Publication Date: April 12, 2010| ISBN-10: 0984416021 | ISBN-13: 978-0984416028Erika Lehmann. She is the Nazis' top spy. Code-named Lorelei, she is the English speaking daughter of Hitler's old comrade and a member of the Führer's inner circle. She is beautiful, athletic, and clever-the epitome of Aryan womanhood-and she'll stop at nothing to accomplish her mission.Charlie Pulaski. A down-and-out FBI agent from Chicago on his last legs, Pulaski is sent on what he is sure is a pointless wild goose chase when a garbled shortwave transmission coming from southern Indiana is accidentall...
|  | A New Omnibus of Crime
Publication Date: May 28, 2010In 1929, Dorothy L. Sayers published her landmark anthology, The Omnibus of Crime.More recently, Tony Hillerman and Rosemary Herbert decided it was time to produce a definitive new anthology representing the best of the genre since then - the critically acclaimed A New Omnibus of Crime. This extraordinary collection emphasizes the most exciting styles and voices in each genre, rather than taking a typical decade-by-decade approach. As a result, A New Omnibus of Crime boasts a broad range of engaging, page-turning, and spine-tingling selections from the past eigh...
|  | Point Blank: The Graphic Novel (Alex Rider)
Release Date: December 27, 2007| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Shiny Spooky Knights (Scooby-Doo! Readers, Level 2)
Publication Date: March 1, 2001| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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|  | K is for Kick: A Soccer Alphabet (Alphabet Books)
Publication Date: December 15, 2006| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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|  | Dory Story
Publication Date: February 1, 2000| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Jerry Pallotta is an award-winning author of children's alphabet books. His combination of interesting facts, detailed research, humor, and realistic illustrations have mesmerized countless children across the United States.Jerry spent his teenage years in the fishing town of Scituate, Massachusetts, where he kept lobster traps, harvested seaweed, and rode on fishing draggers. He wanted to share the creatures of the seashore with his children but could not find an alphabet book that was fun and exciting. This ins...
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