 | United States Catholic Catechism for Adults
Publication Date: July 31, 2006The presence of the Catholic Church in the United States reaches back to the founding days of our country through the leadership of Archbishop John Carroll, the first Catholic bishop in the United States. His story, like other stories at the start of the chapters in the United States Catholic Catechism for Adults, gives us a glimpse into the lives of Catholics who lived out their faith throughout our country's history. To listen to an audio sample. ...
 |  | Knitter's Handy Book of Top-Down Sweaters: Basic Designs in Multiple Sizes and Gauges
Publication Date: August 21, 2012| Series: Knitters Handy Book Fiber and yarn enthusiasts nationwide will celebrate Ann Budd’s latest addition to The Knitter’s Handy Book series. Answering to a growing interest in knitting sweaters from the top down and knitting seamless sweaters that require little finishing, this handy book offers instructions for knitting five basic sweater types: circular yoke, raglan, modified-drop shoulder, set-in sleeve, and saddle shoulder. Patterns are offered in multiple sizes and yarn gauges and for a broad age group.Following the basics for each of th...
|  | Geography III: Poems (FSG Classics)
Release Date: March 18, 2008| ISBN-10: 0374530653 | ISBN-13: 978-0374530655| Edition: First Edition Whether writing about waiting as a child in a dentist's office, viewing a city from a plane high above, or losing items ranging from door keys to one's lover in the masterfully restrained "One Art," Elizabeth Bishop somehow conveyed both large and small emotional truths in language of stunning exactitude and even more astonishing resonance. As John Ashbery has written, "The private self . . . melts imperceptibly into the large utterance, the grandeur of poetry, which, because it remains ro...
|  | Back on Murder (A Roland March Mystery)
Publication Date: July 1, 2010| Series: A Roland March Mystery Det. Roland March is a homicide cop on his way out. But when he's the only one at a crime scene to find evidence of a missing female victim, he's given one last chance to prove himself. Before he can crack the case, he's transferred to a new one that has grabbed the spotlight--the disappearance of a famous Houston evangelist's teen daughter. With the help of a youth pastor with a guilty conscience who navigates the world of church and faith, March is determined to find the missing girls while proving he's still one of Houston's b...
|  | The Silas Diary (First-Century Diaries)
Publication Date: March 1, 1998| Series: First-Century Diaries Silas, Paul's friend and traveling companion, recounts the story of Paul and Barnabas as they move through the events of Acts 13:1--16:4. ...
|  | Many Are Called, Few Are Chosen: The Watson Chronicles
Publication Date: July 25, 2006Joanne Watson, a detective from Dayton, Ohio, has practiced witchcraft all of her life, until she experiences a dramatic conversion to Christianity.Suddenly, her entire life changes as she leaves her demonic coven behind and embarks on a journey to follow Jesus Christ—no matter what the cost.Along the way she teams up with guardian angels Zerah and Ri’an as they race to save Joanne’s young neice Angel from the their long-time nemesis, Appollyon the Destroyer.Danger and intrigue follow as Joanne and her friends experience the ultimate in spiritual...
|  | The Sins of the Wolf
Publication Date: December 1994Nurse Hester Latterly finds herself well suited for the task: accompany Mrs. Mary Farraline, an elderly Scottish lady in delicate health, on a short train trip to London. Yet Hester’s simple job takes a grave turn when Mrs. Farraline dies during the night. And when a postmortem examination of the body reveals a lethal dose of medicine, Hester is charged with murder–punishable by execution.This notorious case presents detective William Monk with a daunting task: find a calculating killer among the prominent and coolly unassailable Farraline clan&ndas...
|  | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Never Ending Sacrifice (Star Trek Deep Space Nine (Unnumbered Paperback))
Release Date: August 25, 2009| Series: Star Trek Deep Space Nine (Unnumbered Paperback)Continuing the post-television Deep Space Nine saga, this original novel shows the fall of the Cardassian empire as seen through the eyes of a young man with a foot in two worlds. Rugal is an orphaned Cardassian who has been raised by the people his race once conquered, the Bajorans. Reluctantly repatriated to Cardassia as a teenager, Rugal becomes the living witness to the downfall of the proud people to whom he was born, first by the invading Klingons, then during the Cardassians’ unholy pact wit...
|  | Somnivm Devs: The Satanic Dream (Volume 1)
Publication Date: May 28, 2012After He finished His work, God fell asleep, dreaming of His own Creation. When He awakes after 18 billion years He sees a world in chaos, His active dream a total nightmare. God’s Conscience takes God to trial in the Court of Heaven.To God’s defense comes Adam, his first son, and Plato. The Prosecution brings in Rufus and Cicero with Lucifer joining them. Among the witnesses are Eve, Adam’s wife, Jesus of Nazareth, St. Augustine, Mark Twain and Christopher Hitchens. During the trial one hundred new commandments are released to Muhammad. The...
|  | Coward Plays: 3: Design for Living; Cavalcade; Conversation Piece; Tonight at 8.30 9i); Still Life (World Classics) (Vol 3)
Publication Date: September 6, 1979| ISBN-10: 0413461009 | ISBN-13: 978-0413461001The third volume of Coward's plays contains some of his best work fromthe thirties. Design for Living - is about a triangular alliancebetween two men and a woman, based on friends of Coward's, which hewaited to write "until she and he and I had arrived by different roadsin our careers at a time and a place when we felt we could all threeplay together with a more or less equal degree of success." Cavalcadewas Coward's most ambitious stage project, set during the Boer War,which cost £30,000 in its day an...
|  | Single Scene Short Stories
Publication Date: March 15, 2007Single Scene Short StoriesEdited by Margaret BishopThe thirty-three works collected in Single Scene Short Stories each have one remarkable quality-the whole of the story takes place in one scene, one geographical coordinate, one window of time. To think of it dramatically, it is a story presented on a stage with no change of setting or costume, no voice-over summarizing or carrying the viewer from here to there. This collection contains some of the best single scene short stories ever written, the modern classics of this form. Stories include: "House Hunti...
|  | Reflections of A Woman Child
Publication Date: April 10, 2011Reflections of A Woman Child is poetry that I started to write as a teen.This poetry was written beginning in the 1970's to Present.Love is the basis for the majority of the poetry. I grew up in a household with my maternal grandparents and my single parent mother, but love was very evident and a daily part of my life.The great love shown to me by my mother and my desire to share love with others is reflected in my poetry.GOD is love... ...
|  | Nietzsche's Epic of the Soul: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Publication Date: May 24, 2005| ISBN-10: 0739111302 | ISBN-13: 978-0739111307Thus Spoke Zarathustra is Nietzsche's most problematic text. There appears to be no thematic connection between its four Parts and numerous sections. To make it even worse, the book contains a number of thematic contradictions. The standard approach has been a method of selective reading, that is, most critics select a few brilliant passages for edification and ignore the rest. This approach has turned Nietzsche's text into a collection of disjointed fragments. Going against this prevalent approach, T.K. Seung p...
|  | For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut (New Directions Paperbook)
Publication Date: July 15, 2008| Series: New Directions PaperbookWinner of a PEN Translation Fund Award: A lyrical, supercharged, dizzying collection in a unique bilingual format: like two halves of the walnut, the English text meets the Japanese half way.The radiant subway. The wall that clears up, endless. A thundering prayer of steel that fastens together the days, a brush of cloud hanging upon it, O beginning, it is there—your nest. Thus the keynotes of Hiraide's utterly original book-length poem unfold—a mix of narrative, autobiography, minute scientific observations, poetic...
|  | Surviving
Publication Date: November 23, 2004I am a thirty-six-year-old man, born in Des Moines, Iowa. I have an eleven-year-old daughter and sixteen-year-old nephew, both of whom I love very much. Without them this world would be unbearable. They give me reasons I never knew I had to live. I thank God every day for the things He has given me, even the things I don't understand. Poems and my children help ease the pain that everyday life can cause. I have recently found out that you can do anything you want when you believe in yourself. And that's what I will be teaching my children. ...
|  | A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict
Publication Date: December 11, 2003In the rural Australia of the fifties where John Baxter grew up, reading books was disregarded with suspicion, owning and collecting them with utter incomprehension.Despite this, by the age of eleven Baxter had 'collected' his first book - The Poems of Rupert Brooke.He'd read the volume often, but now he had to own it.This was the beginning of what would become a major collection and a lifelong obsession.His book-hunting would take him all over the world, but his first real find was in London in 1978, when he spotted a rare copy of a Graham Greene children'...
|  | Death in a Delphi Seminar: A Postmodern Mystery (S U N Y Series, Margins of Literature)
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|  | Who Invented Basketball? James Naismith (I Like Inventors!)
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|  | Harcourt School Publishers Trophies: Advanced-Level Independent Reader Collection Grade 6
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|  | Sugar on Snow
Release Date: January 6, 2003| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up In this cozy picture book-about a modern-day family in New England collecting sap to make maple syrup- two young brothers take pride in finally being able to help with every step of the sugaring-off process. Nan Rossiter's beautiful illustrations are infused with the light of early spring, and there are woodland animals and birds to spot on every page. An afterword explores the legendary beginnings of sap gathering and broadens the usefulness of the book. ...
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