 | Let Joy Arise (Urban Christian)
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 |  | Tolkien's Ordinary Virtues : Exploring the Spiritual Themes of the Lord of the Rings
Publication Date: February 2002I will take the Ring, though I do not know the way. Frodo Baggins, at the Council of ElrondThe mere recollection of this declaration, says writer Mark Eddy Smith, "can move me to tears. I have been reading this tale since I was eleven years old, taking it from my shelf every year or so and returning to Middle-earth. . . . As I get older and learn more of what sort of person I am, and continue sojourning to the rich soil of the Shire and the high tower of Minas Tirith, I discover that many of my notions of what is good and right and noble in this world have thei...
|  | All Eve's Hallows: A City Knights Novel
Publication Date: July 21, 2005Dragons, giants and goblins are all around us, magically hidden within human society as they and a whole bestiary of fantastic creatures have been for a thousand years. But when conflicts with humanity arise, someone has to keep the peace between the supernatural beings and the unsuspecting mortals who long ago drove everything magical into hiding—and then forgot about them. The City Knights is the thousand-year-old top-secret organization charged with protecting humanity from these mystic entities and vice Versa. ...
|  | Aura
Publication Date: 1962| Series: Biblioteca Era / Era Library Felipe Montero is employed in the house of an aged widow to edit her deceased husband's memoirs. There Felipe meets her beautiful green-eyed niece, Aura. His passion for Aura and his gradual discovery of the true relationship between the young woman and her aunt propel the story to its extraordinary conclusion. ...
|  | Isla Verde
Publication Date: August 15, 2001Set in the 1960's, this is the story of a compelling attraction between a divorced American Ex-Marine and a Puerto Rican woman of unusual beauty.From bare fisted, bawdy house brawls, to racially tinged sailing escapades in the Virgin Islands, to passionate encounters in Old San Juan, Brad Fichton pursues the scintillating but elusive Mercedes Cordova.While following the twists and turns of this intense love affair, the plot delves incisively into the complex world of Island politics, providing rare insights into the deep seated, emotional ambivalence Puerto R...
|  | In the Medium
Release Date: March 7, 2012Susie and Allison were best friends. They planned to grow old together-two grumpy old ladies on a crooked front porch-but fate had other plans. Allison fell ill with cancer. Although they both knew the prognosis was not good, they pressed forward with treatments and hope. Hope sustained them for a while, but the treatments didn't work. Susie was forced to watch her best friend sicken, suffer, and ultimately, die. After losing Allison, Susie feels as though she's losing her mind. They call it a nervous breakdown, and Susie is happy to believe the doctors and move on...
|  | The Red Shawl
Publication Date: February 1, 2011Young David Feernley is determined to escape the drudgery of his life as a Yorkshire farmhand. Setting off for the coast, his aim is to join the whaling fleet at Whitby, to earn his living on the stormy and icy Arctic seas. Although he has few sailing skills, a Captain soon recognizes his worth—for David is strong and unafraid of danger. David is followed to the small fishing town by Ruth, his childhood sweetheart, her heart set on marriage. Passionate and proud, she is sure to be a worthy wife. Yet David is drawn to another's betrothed: the pretty...
|  | The Day the Cowboys Quit
Publication Date: February 5, 2008“The Day the Cowboys Quit was inspired by an historic event, a strike against large ranches on the Texas high plains, when the encroachment of an Eastern corporate mentality drove freedom-loving cowboys to drastic measures—no matter the cost.” --Elmer KeltonIn later years people often asked Hugh Hitchcock about the Canadian River cowboy strike of 1883.Wagon boss Hugh Hitchcock knows the cowboy life better than most: In 1883 if you’re a cowboy, you can’t own a cow and you are stigmatized as a drunk. Worse, you are exploited ...
|  | Ready or Not?
Release Date: December 5, 2006Every bride is entitled to pre-wedding jitters, and what reasonable girl wouldn't think twice about marriage when her fiancé shaves off his eyebrows just in time for the photographs? But what if the bride-to-be is really freaked out by something else? Like, perhaps, the terrifying notion of happily-ever-after? With her ex-boyfriend back in the town, Heidi Savage is wondering whether she can really forsake all others-especially for the man waiting at the end of the aisle with no eyebrows. ...
|  | The windways of the Navaho
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|  | Stephens Plays:1 (Contemporary Dramatists) (v. 1)
Release Date: November 1, 2010| Series: Contemporary Dramatists This first collection from the Pearson Award–winning playwright Simon Stephens brings together four of his earliest plays. Since Bluebird in 1998, Stephens has gained recognition for humane plays that display a sharp observation and compassionate response to the lives of ordinary people in urban locations....
|  | Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Publication Date: March 31, 2011| ISBN-10: 0573615950 | ISBN-13: 978-0573615955Ray LawlerCharacters:3 male, 4 female Interior Set This compelling Australian play was a success in London and was hailed by critics in New York for its vigor, integrity, and realistic portrayal of two itinerant cane cutters: Barney, a swaggering little scrapper, and Roo, a big roughneck. They have spent the past sixteen summers off with two ladies in a Southern Australian city. Every year Roo has brought a tinsel doll to Olive, his girl, as a gift to symbolize their relationship, but this seventeenth summer i...
|  | Exploring Shakespeare: The Dynamics of Playmaking
Publication Date: December 12, 2005By a leading Indian specialist, who has published books with Oxford and Cambridge U. Press,a fresh look at the methods and processes involved in presenting the Shakespeare plays. Most essays pub. earlier in a variety of scholarly journals, but updated, with introduction. an important new contribution toe Shakespeare studies ...
|  | The Origin of Rus', Vol 1: Old Scandanavian Sources Other than the Sagas (Origin of Russia)
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|  | Shell
Publication Date: June 1, 2008In her fourth poetry collection, Olive Senior continues her ongoing investigation of the natural world and the power of her Caribbean heritage. She guides us through a realm of miniature elegance—that of shells in their abundant manifestations: eggs as hymns, mollusks as metaphors, shells of all kinds as home, as womb, as token, and as totem. She places these shells at the heart of the Jamaican cane fields, revealing a history rich with culture and haunted by slavery.Olive Senior is an internationally recognized and acclaimed author. She divides her time ...
|  | Red Dragonfly on My Shoulder
Publication Date: March 1992| Age Level: 8 and up Thirteen haiku about animals, translated from the Japanese and illustrated with collages and assemblages. ...
|  | Passage to the Center: Imagination and the Sacred in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney (Irish Literature, History, and Culture)
Publication Date: March 11, 1999| Series: Irish Literature, History, and Culture " Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, author of nine collections of poetry and three volumes of influential essays, is regarded by many as the greatest Irish poet since Yeats. Passage to the Center is the most comprehensive critical treatment to date on Heaney's poetry and the first to study Heaney's entire body of work (including his recent volumes, Seeing Things and The Spirit Level ). It is also the first to examine the poems from the perspective of religion, one of Heaney's guiding preoccupations. According to Tob...
|  | Robert Curthose: Duke of Normandy, c.1050-1134
Publication Date: October 16, 2008| ISBN-10: 1843833107 | ISBN-13: 978-1843833109This new biography offers a detailed reappraisal of the career of Robert Curthose, William the Conqueror's eldest son and duke of Normandy from 1087 to 1106, locating the duke's career in the social, cultural and political context of the period. Robert's relationship with members of his family shaped the political landscape of England and Normandy for much of the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries: indeed, even after his incarceration, from 1106 to 1134, his son William Clito (d. 1128) continued the f...
|  | Leila; or, The Siege of Granada
Release Date: June 28, 2001This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1902 edition by George Routledge & Sons, Limited, London. ...
|  | Year of the Dragon
Publication Date: July 1, 1997Ordered to crush the Tong, a much-feared mafia-like Chinese criminal organization, a Chinatown precinct police captain falls in love with a television news reporter who has her own growing interest in the gangsters. Reprint. PW. " ...
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