 | The Book of the American Indian
Publication Date: September 1, 2005A Hopi child is torn from his parents and sent off to boarding school; white settlers encroach on the Cheyenne reservation, and the Cheyenne vow to fight to the death rather than give up their land; Howling Wolf witnesses the brutal murder of his brother and, when he protests, is in turn brutalized; after Sitting Bull’s triumph over Custer’s forces, he vows to fight to the death rather than submit to the white invaders. In these and other stories written from 1890–1905, Hamlin Garland sought to capture his vision of the spirit of the ...
 |  | Bed of Roses (Bride Quartet)
Release Date: May 29, 2012| Series: Bride Quartet (Book 2) #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts cordially invites you to meet childhood friends Parker, Emma, Laurel, and Mac—the founders of Vows, one of Connecticut’s premier wedding planning companies.Wedding florist Emma Grant gets to play with flowers every day and work with her three best friends in the process. She couldn’t ask for a better job. And her love life seems to be thriving. Though men swarm around her, she still hasn’t found Mr. Right. And the last place she’s looking is right under...
|  | Tender Journey: A Story for Our troubled Times, Part Two
Publication Date: February 2, 2006Follow the life of Michael Nastasis and his family. Michael faces challenges not only in his marriage but also with a son suffering from an incurable disease and a daughter who is rebelling against the family. In the midst of his problems, Michael meets a family that brings back a legacy of his former mentor Caleb. From hostility to grace, this story of redemption will revive your heart and give you rays of hope. ...
|  | Thoughts of a Blind Beggar: Reflections from a Journey to God
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|  | And Ladies of the Club
Release Date: April 1, 2000"A great novel that is American to its core...so gently memorable, so bursting with life, that those who abandon themselves to its pages will find it claiming a permanent place close to their hearts." --New York Daily News "A warm, evocative, often hilarious picture of society, culture, politics and family life." --Atlanta Constitution "A warmly human story...never flags from first page to last." --Publishers Weekly A groundbreaking bestseller with two and a half million copies in print, "...And Ladies of the Club" centers on the members of a book club and their st...
|  | The Way It Works (Rapid Reads)
Release Date: October 1, 2010| Series: Rapid Reads "Walter Davis is young, handsome, intelligent, dynamic and personable. The product of a bi-racial marriage but abandoned by his father as a young child, he prides himself on three things: his drive to succeed, his fine clothes and never having been late for anything in his life. Walter is also homeless. The medical expenses that came with his mother's brief and unsuccessful battle against cancer have left him destitute. Still, ever the optimist, Walter believes that if he lives in his car for a few months, he will have the time he needs to f...
|  | Kamchatka
Publication Date: May 3, 2011In 1976 Buenos Aires, a ten-year-old boy lives in a world of school lessons and comic books, TV shows and games of Risk—a world in which men have superpowers and boys can conquer the globe on a rectangle of cardboard. But in his hometown, the military has just seized power, and amid a climate of increasing terror and intimidation, people begin to disappear without a trace.When his mother unexpectedly pulls him and his younger brother from school, she tells him they’re going on an impromptu family trip. But he soon realizes that this will be no ordinary...
|  | Pitcairn's Island: A Novel
Publication Date: July 14, 2003MEN AGAINST THE SEA is the epic story of the 19 loyal men who, with Captain Bligh at the helm, were set adrift in a 23-foot open launch. Their 3,600-mile voyage remains one of the greatest feats of courage and adventure in the annals of the sea. PITCAIRN's ISLAND unfolds a tale of drunkeness, betrayal, murder, and vengeance as it chronicles the fate of Christian, the mutineers, and a handful of Tahitians, who together take refuge on the loneliest island in the Pacific. ...
|  | The Pirate's Daughter: A Novel
Release Date: August 5, 2008WINNER OF THE ESSENCE LITERARY AWARD IN FICTIONIn 1946, Hollywood’s most famous swashbuckler, Errol Flynn, arrived in Jamaica in a storm-ravaged boat. After a long and celebrated career on the silver screen, Flynn spent the last years of his life on a small island off the Jamaican coast, where he fell in love with the people, the paradisiacal setting, and the privacy, and brought a touch of Tinseltown glamour to the West Indian community.Based on those years, The Pirate’s Daughter imagines an affair between the aging matinee star and Ida, a beautiful l...
|  | A Clockwork Orange
Publication Date: November 1986The only American edition of the cultclassic novel.A vicious fifteen-year-old "droog" isthe central character of this 1963 classic,whose stark terror was captured in StanleyKubrick's magnificent film of the same title.In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of thefuture, where criminals take over after dark,the story is told by the central character,Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang thatbrilliantly renders his and his friends' social pathology. A Clockwork Orange is a frighteningfable about good and evil, and the meaning ofhuman freed...
|  | Terra Incognita: A Novel of the Roman Empire
Release Date: March 4, 2008Army doctor Gaius Petreius Ruso strikes out for the uncivilized borders of Roman Britain in this highly anticipated sequel to Ruth Downie’s New York Times bestselling debut.It is spring in the year 118, and Gaius Petreius Ruso has been stationed in the Roman-occupied province of Britannia for nearly a year. After his long and reluctant investigation of the murders of a handful of local prostitutes, Ruso needs to get away. With that in mind, he has volunteered for a posting with the army in Britannia’s deepest recesses—a calmer place for a tired ma...
|  | Crampton Hodnet (Plume)
Release Date: June 1, 1986| Series: Plume This is a wonderfully accomplished farce beginning with the joke of using her own name in the title (Barbara Mary Crampton Pym). From that point she sails off into a wickedly comedic farce, focusing- in recognizingly "Pym" fashion- on the unsuitable romantic entanglements of a curate and a pretty young girl, both of whom live in the same rooming house, and a starry-eyed university professor and his female student. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
|  | His Dark Materials: New Edition (Nick Hern Books)
Publication Date: April 1, 2005| Series: Nick Hern Books “‘Unstageable’ was the first reaction of the National Theatre’s artistic director, Nicholas Hytner, to the idea of dramatizing His Dark Materials. But last night’s opening night has triumphantly proved him wrong.”—The Sunday TimesNicholas Wright has revisited his adaptation of Philip Pullman’s best-selling fantasy trilogy, tightening and improving it, and this revised version is to be published alongside the reopening in the National Theatre’s 20042005 season. ...
|  | In Plain Arabic: A Play in Two Acts (Marmara Universitesi Ilahiyat Fakultesi Vakf Yaynlar)
Publication Date: November 1, 1994| Series: Marmara Universitesi Ilahiyat Fakultesi Vakf Yaynlar A Palestinian student in London disappears. His colleagues, fourteen Arab students each representing a different nationality, meet to decide what to do. The portrayal of their stereotypical national characteristics and attitudes throws a sharp light on the way Arabs see themselves and each other, and their posturing, squabbling, double standards, and inability to act together in the face of a common dilemma call into question the whole idea of "Arab unity." In Egypt, the play was voted Best Play ...
|  | The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic: Introduction, Critical Edition and Cuneiform Texts 2 Volumes
Publication Date: September 25, 2003The Babylonian Gilgamesh epic is the oldest long poem in the world, with a history going back four thousand years. It tells the fascinating and moving story of Gilgamesh's heroic deeds and lonely quest for immortality. This book collects for the first time all the known sources in the original cuneiform, including many fragments never published before. The author's personal study of every available fragment has produced a definitive edition and translation, complete with comprehensive introductory chapters that place the poem and its hero in context. ...
|  | Spenser's Faerie Queene: A Critical Commentary on Books I and II
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| | Dusha i dukh: Obydennost sushchestvovaniia i vostorg bytiia (Misteriia beskonechnosti) (Russian Edition)
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|  | Locating Gender in Modernism: The Outsider Female (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature)
Publication Date: May 9, 2012| ISBN-10: 041550970X | ISBN-13: 978-0415509701| Edition: 1 This book visits modernism within a comparative, gendered, and third-world framework, questioning current scholarly categorisations of modernism and reframing our conception of what constitutes modernist aesthetics. It describes the construction of modernist studies and argues that despite a range of interventions which suggest that philosophical and material articulations with the third world shaped modernism, an emphasis on modernist "universals" persists. Ramanathan argues that women and third-wor...
|  | Exiled Queen, The (A Seven Realms Novel)
Release Date: August 2, 2011| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Joseph the Tailor (World Storytelling from August House)
Publication Date: January 27, 2006| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
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