 | The Heiress of Water: A Novel
Release Date: September 5, 2006 When young Monica Winters Borrero loses her luminous mother in an accident at sea, she is exiled from the tropical paradise that was her home. Grieving and cut off from a life among El Salvador's elite, Monica and her American father move to Connecticut, vowing never to look back. Years later, an intriguing stranger, who has endured a terrible loss of his own, enters Monica's life, bearing an unusual request. Monica is propelled back to her lost world, retracing the shadowy last days of her mother, a marine scientist who had been on the brink of understandin...
 |  | The Price of a Child: A Novel
Release Date: June 11, 1996With Price of a Child--the story of Ginnie Pryor (cook, mistress and servant to a Virginia planter) and her struggle with slavery in 1855--Cary continues has created a work that elevates the reputation she created with Black Ice, her memoir which won her comparisons to Maya Angelou and Richard Wright. In a novel that examines the price of freedom and the value of a child's life, Price of a Child is "a stunning achievement...a deeply engrossing story.... Cary's impeccable research and seamless narrative carry us along" (Philadelphia Inquirer). ...
|  | The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets
Publication Date: March 1, 2007| ISBN-10: 0803259786 | ISBN-13: 978-0803259782Recently appointed as the new U. S. Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser has been writing and publishing poetry for more than forty years. In the pages of The Poetry Home Repair Manual, Kooser brings those decades of experience to bear. Here are tools and insights, the instructions (and warnings against instructions) that poets—aspiring or practicing—can use to hone their craft, perhaps into art. Using examples from his own rich literary oeuvre and from the work of a number of successful contemporary poets, th...
|  | All Things Hidden (Seaport Suspense #3)
Release Date: March 1, 2006The Past Is BackEllen Jones’s hands are full after she begrudgingly brings her aging father to Seaport. Lawrence’s memory is failing—though he can’t seem to forget what he’s been holding against Ellen for the past forty years. But when he’s diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, Ellen realizes she never released her resentment and it’s too late for reconciliation. Then suddenly—literally overnight—her son, Owen, comes face-to-face with the consequences of his wilder days gone by. No one is prepared for th...
|  | Darkness Follows
Publication Date: May 3, 2011"If you're ready to be grabbed by the proverbial throat from the moment you start and want that rush to continue to the end, then Darkness Follows is your book. Twists, turns, and a compelling finish make this novel a fine addition to the Mike Dellosso library." -- James L. Rubart, Best-selling author of Rooms and Book of Days"Once again Mike Dellosso proves himself a master of twisty, creepy, edge-of-your-seat suspense. As if that weren't enough, he infuses this story with characters who matter, and even more so with head-rattling truths that echo long after you...
|  | The Vampire
Publication Date: November 8, 2006This story is about a teenage girl named Sebina and her friends. They live in a small southern country town. A mysterious visitor moves into the town and events happen to transform this sleepy town to one of horror and evil, and changes their lives forever. Due out soon..............The Vampire, Book 2 ...
|  | Columpio al aire (Spanish Edition)
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|  | A Call From France
Publication Date: April 7, 2012Every parent believes their child is something special and will become somebody to be proud of ....... so how do you cope when it all goes horribly wrong ? Short listed for the Crema prize for new writers, A Call From France is set in France and tells, with wit and with love, the story of a British family who tried to settle there. Sometimes very funny and sometimes heart-wrenching, this is a book that will stay in your mind long after you have finished reading. ...
|  | The Kalahari Typing School for Men: A No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Novel (Random House Large Print)
Release Date: January 3, 2012| Series: Random House Large Print (Book 4) The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective AgencyFor All Confidential Matters and InquiriesSatisfaction Guaranteed for all PartiesUnder Personal ManagementThe phenomenal success of The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency continues with the bestselling Kalahari Typing School for Men, the fourth book in the series.Mma Precious Ramotswe is content. Her business is well established with many satisfied customers, and in her mid-thirties (“the finest age to be”) she has a house, two adopted children, a fine fiancé. But, as ...
|  | The Complete Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan
Publication Date: October 27, 2005The comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan are a performing arts phenomenon. Wildly popular when first produced, they are if anything even more popular today. The Complete Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan provides the complete text of all thirteen of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas still being performed today, including H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, and The Mikado. Each work is thoroughly annotated, with the text, including stage directions, given on the right-hand page, and the notes on the left. The annotations provide a wealth of information--everyt...
|  | Bjorn And Bera - A Norse Legend
Publication Date: December 9, 2009Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ...
| | Dancing the Tightrope: New Love Poems by Women
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|  | Publishing and bookselling;: A history from the earliest times to the present day
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|  | Financial Speculation in Victorian Fiction: Plotting Money and the Novel Genre, 1815-1901
Publication Date: January 6, 2010In Financial Speculation in Victorian Fiction: Plotting Money and the Novel Genre, 1815-1901, Tamara S. Wagner explores the ways in which financial speculation was imagined and turned into narratives in Victorian Britain. Since there clearly was much more to literature’s use of the stock market than a mere reflection of contemporary economic crises alone, a much-needed reappraisal of the Victorians’ fascination with extended fiscal plots and metaphors also asks for a close reading of the ways in which this fascination remodeled the novel genre. It...
|  | Arthurian Localities
Publication Date: August 10, 2003This book is Essay I of the Arthuriana Or Essays on the Arthurian Romance Cycle as the Formal Material of the New Poesy series. It represents the Arthurian localities, their historical origin, chief country and Fingalian relations. The author believes this article was the first to show that Southern Scotland and the English Border is the chief country of Arthurian localities, and to point out the relation of this district to that of the Fingalian topography of Scotland. Partial Contents: historical origin of Arthurian localities; chief country of Arthurian lo...
|  | The Text and Tradition of Layamon's Brut (Arthurian Studies)
Publication Date: November 10, 1994| Series: Arthurian Studies (Book 33) This volume investigates the problems with which the contemporary reader of Layamon's Brut is faced: To what extent is the archaic feel of the Brut part of a deliberate aesthetic strategy of Layamon's? For what sort of audience could it have been written? How can one define its relation to older or more recent texts and traditions? What ideological stance (if any) is to be deduced from the work? The seventeen articles in this book tackle the different issues from a variety of fields: codicology and palaeography; Linguis...
| | Letters of John Hamilton Reynolds
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|  | Dying Gasp: A Chief Inspector Mario Silva Investigation
Release Date: January 1, 2010Praise for the Chief Inspector Mario Silva series: “Intelligent and subtle. . . . Lovers of suspenseful and sophisticated crime novels will be rewarded.”—Publishers Weekly“An impressive follow up to an excellent debut. . . . Gage’s talents include not only captivating characters and realistic plots, but also an intensely realized sense of place and an unrelenting fast pace.”—Booklist“Highly recommended.”—Library Journal, starred review “Both a powerful political thriller and gripping crime fiction....
|  | Dragondrums (Harper Hall Trilogy)
Release Date: April 1, 2003| Age Level: 10 and up When his boy soprano voice begins to change, Piemur is drafted by Masterharper Robinton to help with political work and is sent on missions that lead him into unusual and sometimes dangerous adventures. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Aliens Stole My Body (Rod Allbright and the Galactic Patrol)
Release Date: February 19, 2008| Age Level: 8 and up...
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