 | El Borak and Other Desert Adventures
Release Date: February 9, 2010Robert E. Howard is famous for creating such immortal heroes as Conan the Cimmerian, Solomon Kane, and Bran Mak Morn. Less well-known but equally extraordinary are his non-fantasy adventure stories set in the Middle East and featuring such two-fisted heroes as Francis Xavier Gordon—known as “El Borak”—Kirby O’Donnell, and Steve Clarney. This trio of hard-fighting Americans, civilized men with more than a touch of the primordial in their veins, marked a new direction for Howard’s writing, and new territory for his genius ...
 |  | The Importance of Being Seven: A 44 Scotland Street Novel (6)
Release Date: August 21, 2012| Series: 44 Scotland Street All our favorite characters are up to new tricks in the utterly charming sixth novel in the bestselling 44 Scotland Street series. The great city of Edinburgh is renowned for its impeccable restraint, so how, then, did the extended family of 44 Scotland Street come to be trembling on the brink of reckless self-indulgence? After seven years and five books, Bertie is—finally!—about to turn seven. But one afternoon he mislays his meddling mother Irene, and learns a valuable lesson: wish-fulfillment can be a dangerou...
|  | The Protector's Promise (The Sinclair Brothers Trilogy, Book 2) (Steeple Hill Love Inspired Suspense #124)
Publication Date: November 11, 2008Who could want to hurt a little girl in a pink princess dress? Grayson Sinclair vows to find out who's after his widowed neighbor and her child. Without getting emotionally involved. Family life isn't for him, but he won't let some deranged person destroy the lovely home Honor Milone has made for her daughter. From strange "gifts" left on her doorstep to attempted murder, someone means deadly business.Grayson promises to protect Honor and the little girl who sneakily stole his heart. Just in time. For the threat is closer to home than anyone realizes. ...
|  | The Dark One (Roswell High No. 9)
Publication Date: July 1, 2000| Series: Roswell High (Book 9) True love never dies.Isabel has run away from home, and Max knows her life is in danger. He has to find her and save her, but time is ticking away.Alex is back on Earth, and he's a changed man. He looks better, feels better, and is ready to live life to the fullest -- without Isabel Evans. Little does he know he's the only person that can help the ailing Isabel. Will Alex be able to put aside his pride and save the life of his former love? ...
|  | Joan of Arc
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|  | Essays in Idleness
Publication Date: April 15, 1998| ISBN-10: 0231112556 | ISBN-13: 978-0231112550Despite the turbulent times in which he lived, the Buddhist priest Kenko met the world with a measured eye. As Emperor Go-Daigo fended off a challenge from the usurping Hojo family, and Japan stood at the brink of a dark political era, Kenko held fast to his Buddhist beliefs and took refuge in the pleasures of solitude. Written between 1330 and 1332,Essays in Idleness reflects the congenial priest's thoughts on a variety of subjects. His brief writings, some no more than a few sentences long and ranging in foc...
|  | Dreaming of Cockaigne. Medieval Fantasies of the Perfect Life
Publication Date: July 15, 2003| ISBN-10: 0231117035 | ISBN-13: 978-0231117036Imagine a dreamland where roasted pigs wander about with knives in their backs to make carving easy, where grilled geese fly directly into one's mouth, where cooked fish jump out of the water and land at one's feet. The weather is always mild, the wine flows freely, sex is readily available, and all people enjoy eternal youth.Such is Cockaigne. Portrayed in legend, oral history, and art, this imaginary land became the most pervasive collective dream of medieval times-an earthly paradise that served to counter t...
| | The principal fragments (The Loeb classical library)
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|  | The Director's Voice: Twenty-One Interviews
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|  | Poems of Love: A Treasury of Verse (Running Press Miniature Editions)
Publication Date: September 1993| Series: Running Press Miniature Editions This lovely, illustrated miniature edition offers verses by writers from Shakespeare to Margaret Atwood, celebrating the wonder of love. Full-color illustrations. ...
|  | Aristotle's Poetics
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|  | Honeysuckle Summer (Sweet Magnolias)
Release Date: May 25, 2010| Series: Sweet Magnolias Her devastating marriage behind her, Raylene Hammond is truly thankful for her best friends, the Sweet Magnolias. They've taken her in, shielding her from the world. Then she meets sheriff's deputy Carter Rollins, and suddenly Raylene's haven no longer feels quite so safe.Carter understands why Raylene is trapped inside. He's even taken to bringing the outside world to her. But with two kid sisters to raise, just how much time can he devote to this woman who's stolen his heart?Raylene knows Carter is a man worth loving, but she may never be...
|  | Ragdoll
Publication Date: September 12, 2008Life hasn't been easy for the fiery-haired nurse, Jessica Newman. When her beloved grandmother dies, she is left with nothing but an old trailer park, and just the clothes on her back...or so she thinks.After inheriting the trailer park, Jessica isthrown into a world she never knew existed.Her aunt, a sex-mad gold digger, who is on the search for money she thinks is hidden on the park grounds.Her lover Dr. Daniel Newman, not only shares her last name, but pulls Jessica into a secret world of heated sex, mutilated cadavers and undermining a scheming medical...
|  | Angels & Demons: A Novel (Robert Langdon)
Release Date: May 23, 2006| Series: Robert Langdon From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code comes the explosive thriller that started it all.An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction. An unthinkable target. When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to his first assignment to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol -- seared into the chest of a murdered physicist -- he discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati...the most p...
|  | Ascent: A Novel
Publication Date: March 13, 2007Fascinated with the secrets still surrounding the Soviet Union's race against the Americans to put a man on the moon, Jed Mercurio proposes a compelling scenario: What if the Americans weren't the first? And with its inscrutable but intriguing hero, Yefgeni Yeremin, a brilliant Soviet cosmonaut, Ascent allows us to imagine what that terrifying journey might have been like.Yeremin, a Soviet MiG pilot, rises from the privation of a Stalingrad orphanage to the heights of the cosmonaut corps.During the Korean War, as a member of an elite squadron, he shoots down t...
|  | Blue Murder: Lord & Lady Hetheridge #2 (Volume 2)
Publication Date: June 4, 2012Two Dead Men... In fashionable Chelsea, a Halloween bash goes terribly wrong. Emmeline Wardle, daughter of the frozen foods baron, throws a party which results in the demise of two university school mates. Handsome golden boy Trevor Parsons is dead. So is pasty computer nerd Clive French. Both died on the Wardle Estate within minutes of one another, and both died the same way -- an axe to the skull. Two Prime Suspects... This time around, Detective Sergeant Kate Wakefield and her partner, Detective Sergeant Deepal "Paul" Bhar, have their work cut out. Bhar must ...
|  | Mommy?
Release Date: September 26, 2006| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Maurice Sendak's first pop-up book!They're all here! Everybody's favorite monsters are just going about their business when a plucky little boy wanders into their cuckoo house. And what does he want? He wants Mommy!No matter how scary these monsters are, there's no besting a little boy who's looking for his mommy. In one hilarious pop-up extravaganza after another, this kid shows them a thing or two. ...
|  | The Little Scarecrow Boy
Release Date: July 26, 2005| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up The Little Scarecrow Boy is the lightest and brightest picture book from one of the most renowned children's writers ever: Margaret Wise Brown, author of Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny. Caldecott winner David Diaz's illustrations burst with sunshine, and Brown's words reveal the quiet glory of a boy on the brink of growing up, full of curiosity and life.Ages 3 – 7 ...
|  | Raven Of The Waves
Publication Date: June 2001| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Like all the men in his Norse village, seventeen-year-old Lidsmod was trained to be a warrior. Without their voyages to distant lands‹and without their battles for treasure‹the people of his village could not survive. Fighting men, Lidsmod knows, must show no feelings. But something stirs in him when he is assigned to watch over Wiglaf, a thirteen-year-old captive with a withered arm. Wiglaf can¹t stop the slaughter of his Anglish people, and yet he still has the power to heal. Brilliantly combining scene...
|  | Hoops with Swoopes: Picture Book
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