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Release Date: January 31, 2012In her bestselling novels Kristin Hannah has plumbed the depths of friendship, the loyalty of sisters, and the secrets mothers keep. Now, in her most emotionally powerful story yet, she explores the intimate landscape of a troubled marriage with this provocative and timely portrait of a husband and wife, in love and at war. All marriages have a breaking point. All families have wounds. All wars have a cost. . . .Like many couples, Michael and Jolene Zarkades have to face the pressures of everyday life---children, careers, bills, chores---even as their twelv...
 |  | An Elm Creek Quilts Collection: Three Novels in the New York Times Bestselling Series (Elm Creek Quilts Novel)
Release Date: November 2, 2010| Series: Elm Creek Quilts Novel Three complete novels: The Sugar Camp Quilt, Circle of Quilters, and The Quilter’s Homecoming, from the New York Times bestselling author, Jennifer Chiaverini.History is thick with secrets in The Sugar Camp Quilt, seventh in the beloved Elm Creek Quilts series from bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini. Set in Creek's Crossing, Pennsylvania, in the years leading up to the Civil War, the novel follows Dorothea Granger's passage from innocence to wisdom against the harrowing backdrop of the American struggle over slavery. Sh...
|  | Miracle at Markham (Charles Sheldon Classics)
Publication Date: March 1, 2007| Series: Charles Sheldon Classics In the Midwest town of Markham, the churches are rather typical—isolated from each other, competitive, and given to squabbles about minor issues. When a tragedy grips the town, the twelve churches must make a decision: Can they set aside their differences and band together in love, self-sacrifice, and united effort?...
|  | Get Down: Stories
Release Date: October 17, 2006Asali Solomon’s characters are vivid misfits—a heathen at Jesus camp, a scheming prep-school student, a middle-aged mom pining for her salsa-dancing salad days, a scheming twentysomething virgin, a college stud in love with his weight-lifting partner, a lonely girl in love with a yellow dress. The kids in Get Down are trapped between their own good breeding and their burning desire to join the house party of sex, romance, and bad behavior that seems to be happening on some other block, down some other more dangerous street. The adults in Get Down are...
|  | Sea Legs
Publication Date: September 15, 2009The Emerald Duchess sets sail for the serene Caribbean, but the passengers are headed for the chaos of romance. Kelly Ridenour couldn't be happier. She's leaving the bitter Rochester winter behind and going with new friends on a fabulous vacation. Even better, her cabin mate is Natalie Chatham, the lovely lady of Kelly's recent daydreams. Natalie Chatham has a golden opportunity. Among the other travelers is Didi Caviness, her ex. She and Didi collaborated on their fashion business and their private lives until beautiful--and young--Pamela Roche came along...
|  | Hullo Russia, Goodbye England
Publication Date: February 1, 2012Flight Lieutenant Silk, a twice-decorated Lancaster pilot in WW II, rejoins the R.A.F. and qualifies to fly the Vulcan bomber. Piloting a Vulcan is an unforgettable experience: no other aircraft comes close to matching its all-round performance. And as bombers go, it's drop-dead gorgeous.But there's a catch. The Vulcan has only one role: to make a second strike. To act in retaliation for a Russian nuclear attack. Silk knows that knows that if he ever flies his Vulcan in anger, he'll be flying from a smoking wasteland, a Britain obliterated. But in the mad wo...
|  | This Art: A Copper Canyon Ars Poetica Anthology (Copper Canyon Press Anthology)
Publication Date: March 1, 2003The centuries have changed little in this art, The subjects are still the same.—Kenneth RexrothWhy poetry? What is poetry and why do people write it and read it? Why, as Dana Levin has written, "this urge to making a scrapbook of stars"?Every poet, by accident or design, has responded to "Why poetry" by writing a poem about poetry (an ars poetica). Whether these poems focus on the personal, political, or philosophical, each recognizes that our world is more complicated than a direct statement.As Marvin Bell has written, "Writing is all and everything." T...
|  | Laberinto de Fortuna/ Labyrinth of Fortune (Letras Hispanicas) (Letras Hispanicas / Hispanic Writings) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: June 30, 2007| Series: Letras Hispanicas / Hispanic Writings (Book 14) El Laberinto de Fortuna, también conocido como Las trescientas, es una obra del poeta español del siglo XV Juan de Mena. Es un poema alegórico que narra la visita del poeta al palacio de la Fortuna --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | Illuminated Poems
Publication Date: June 11, 1996Street-smart, hip urban graphics accompany a collection of somefifty poems that span the poet's creative evolution from 1948 to thepresent, including the complete text of "Howl," as well as fournever-before-anthologized works. Simultaneous. IP....
|  | Good-Night Willie Lee Ill See You in the
Publication Date: November 1, 1987Vivid poems of “breakdown and spiritual disarray.” Writing these, Walker says, “led me eventually into a larger understanding of the psyche, and of the world.” What finally marks this volume is the strong sense of change and, ultimately, of forgiveness as a part of growth. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
|  | Here I Am (New Russian Writing)
Publication Date: December 2, 2001| Series: New Russian Writing Rubinstein succeeds in arranging his fragmented text in such a clever way that they invariably trigger off a series of associations, even in the reader who fails to catch all the allusions weaved in by the author. Thus his texts begin to speak to any reader anywhere and in any language, but they speak in a different way. ...
|  | True Relations: Essays on Autobiography and the Postmodern (Contributions to the Study of World Literature)
Publication Date: January 21, 1998| ISBN-10: 0313305099 | ISBN-13: 978-0313305092The essays in this collection explore new directions in autobiography studies. Examining a wide range of texts, from narratives of suicide survivors, cross-dressers, and people with HIV/AIDS to self-representations in the visual arts, the collection demonstrates how writers have used the postmodern experience fragmentation to forge new kinds of identities.Postmodern selves, the essayists argue, are relational selves, constructed from the acute need to find identity through collaboration with others. Postmode...
|  | Irvine's Writing About Music: Third Edition
Release Date: March 1, 2003This thorough revision of a classic handbook is designed primarily as a guide for students writing papers or theses on musical subjects, but is useful for anyone writing about music for publication. It deals with the mechanics of scholarly writing, citation and documentation, as well as the nuts and bolts of punctuation and abbreviation. But it is also a sensible guide to good writing. In this edition, Mark A. Radice has taken into account all the technological changes that have transformed writing and publishing while preserving Irvine's voice. He has also added a...
|  | Perfil de Tres Monarcas (Spanish Edition)
Release Date: May 6, 2004Many Christians around the world have been helped, counseled and healed from the pain, damage and anguish they have suffered as a result of unjust treatment by other believers.This book is an extraordinarily helpful tool with thought-provoking discussions for meetings of pastors and spiritual leaders about leadership approved by God. ...
|  | Playing with Time: Ovid and the Fasti (Cornell Studies in Classical Philology)
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|  | Thought I Knew You
Publication Date: September 9, 2012Claire Barnes is shattered when her husband, Greg, goes on a business trip and never returns. Unwilling to just wait for the police to find him, Claire conducts her own investigation. Her best friend Drew helps her look for answers, but all she finds are troubling questions. With every clue, she discovers that Greg may not be the man she thought she married. While battling her growing feelings for Drew and raising her two young children, Claire must learn to live with the knowledge that the truth behind Greg’s disappearance may never be revealed. ...
|  | After the Banquet
Release Date: February 22, 1999For years Kazu has run her fashionable restaurant with a combination of charm and shrewdness. But when the middle-aged entrepreneur falls in love with one of her clients, an aristocratic retired politician, she renounces her business in order to become his wife. But it is not so easy to renounce her independent spirit, and eventually Kazu must choose between her marriage and the demands of her irrepressible vitality. After the Banquet is a magnificent portrait of political and domestic warfare. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of thi...
|  | The Fourth Watcher: A Novel of Bangkok
Release Date: June 24, 2008 Travel writer Poke Rafferty is ready to let go of his Looking for Trouble series of travel books and the dangerous lifestyle that goes with it, and settle down in Bangkok with his fiancée, Rose, and his newly adopted daughter, Miaow. But trouble isn't ready to let go of Poke. Enter the one person Poke least wants to see in the entire world—a person whose emotional hold on Poke is absolute. With him come a box of rubies, a wad of fraudulent identity papers, and—in pursuit of those things—one of the most dangerous gangsters in China. Add to ...
|  | Stagecoach: Wells Fargo and the American West
Publication Date: July 2002Sweeping in scope, as revealing of an era as it is of a company, Stagecoach is the epic story of Wells Fargo and the American West, by award-winning writer Philip L. Fradkin.The trail of Wells Fargo runs through nearly every imaginable landscape and icon of frontier folklore: the California Gold Rush, the Pony Express, the transcontinental railroad, the Civil and Indian Wars. From the Great Plains to the Rockies to the Pacific Ocean, the company's operations embraced almost all social, cultural, and economic activities west of the Mississippi, following one of th...
|  | Mighty Casey
Release Date: March 3, 2009| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up The epic poem “Casey at the Bat” is recast for the T-ball set with much hilarity; this time, Casey comes out a winner! ...
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