 | Faking It
Release Date: April 1, 2003LOVE AND DECEPTION HAVE A LOT IN COMMON.Meet the Goodnights, a respectable family who run a respectable art gallery-and have for generations. There's Gwen, the matriarch who likes to escape reality, Eve the oldest daughter who has a slight identity problem (she has two), Nadine, the granddaughter who's ready to follow in the family footsteps as soon as she can find a set that isn't leading off a cliff. And lastly, Matilda, the youngest daughter, has inherited the secret locked down in the basement of the Goodnight Gallery, the secret she's willing to do almost anyt...
 |  | Hairspray: The Roots
Publication Date: March 31, 2003In Hairspray, it's 1962--the fifties are out and change is in the air. Baltimore's Tracy Turnblad, a big girl with big hair and an even bigger heart, has only one passion: to dance. She wins a spot on the local TV dance program, The Corny Collins Show, and overnight is transformed from an awkward overweight outsider into an irrespressible teen celebrity. But can a trendsetter in dance and fashion vanquish the program's reigning blond princess, win the heart of heartthrob Link Larkin, and integrate a television show without denting her 'do? Only in Hairspray!Ba...
|  | Galway Bay
Publication Date: February 28, 2011In a hidden Ireland where fishermen and tenant farmers find solace in their ancient faith, songs, stories, and communal celebrations, young Honora Keeley and Michael Kelly wed and start a family. Because they and their countrymen must sell both their catch and their crops to pay exorbitant rents, potatoes have become their only staple food.But when blight destroys the potatoes three times in four years, a callous government and uncaring landlords turn a natural disaster into The Great Starvation that will kill one million. Honora and Michael vow their child...
|  | Fingal's Cave, the Poems of Ossian, and Celtic Christianity
Publication Date: May 1, 1999On the isolated island of Staffa, near Iona in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, basalt columns have formed a cathedral-like cave where wind and water ebb and flow, creating an ethereal music. This is Fingal's cave—a source of mystery, esoteric spiritual insight, and artistic inspiration for centuries. Mendelssohn and Turner were inspired by it, as was philosopher and educationalist Rudolf Steiner. The cave figures in the fragmentary poems of Ossian, collected by the poet James Macpherson, which were a great influence on 18th- and 19th-century Europe and Ame...
|  | The Shadow of Eternity: Belief and Structure in Herbert, Vaughan, and Traherne
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|  | Armageddon and Further Unpleasantries: The Afterlife Series
Publication Date: June 7, 2012Penny Lane is having one heck of a time in the afterlife. Ever since her murder, she's had one crazy, chaotic, and grueling adventure after another. What's a dead girl to do but just carry on and go along for the ride? Between her work in melting and ghost retrieval, her studies at the Apollo Academy, and a mission on the alien afterlife, she's barely had a moment's rest! For Penny, the afterlife is a nonstop dash. When she finally gets the opportunity to settle down, catch her breath, and pool her talents in ghost counseling and mortal mapping, she gets a pleas...
|  | Slum Online (Novel)
Release Date: April 20, 2010L to R (Western Style). Reality bites for college freshman Etsuro Sakagami, but on the MMO Versus Town he's a karate master who can handle anything. Who will be his greatest opponent-the seemingly invisible Slasher Jack, or his would-be girlfriend Fumiko? Etsuro Sakagami is a college freshmen who feels uncomfortable in reality, but when he logs onto the combat MMO Versus Town, he assumes the personality of "Tetsuo," a karate champ on his way towards becoming the most powerful martial artist around. While his relationship with new classmate Fumiko goes nowhere, he ...
|  | A Kindred Spirit
Publication Date: August 2, 2011Philip K. Dick is dead but he’s not done. The semi-famous “sci-fi” writer, sometimes called the Prince of Pulp or a fictionalizing philosopher, has Unfinished Business. To further complicate things, he is tangled up in the afterlife with the heretical former Episcopalian Bishop of California, James Pike. The two have finally figured out—well, everything, but need a way to convey their message to the masses. Back on earth, in 1982, a young investigative reporter, Niki Perceval, is chasing the ultimate news story—Doomsday. It...
|  | Alexander Pope: A Life
Publication Date: February 17, 1986The first comprehensive biography of the greatest English poet of the classical age.Winner of the Christian Gauss Award of Phi Beta Kappa and the Robert Kirsch Award of the Los Angeles Times. ...
|  | Handbook of Japanese Mythology (Handbooks of World Mythology)
Publication Date: March 11, 2008| Series: Handbooks of World Mythology Japanese gods, too numerous to count, are known collectively as yaoyorozu-no-kamigami--the eight million. They are the cast of a vast, complex mythology that encompasses two religions, three cultures, and three millennia, one whose ancient deities are still hard at work today.Handbook of Japanese Mythology makes it easy to travel this vast yet little-known mythological landscape. The book reveals the origins of Japan's myths in the very different realms of Buddhism, Shinto, and folklore, and explores related mythologies...
|  | Flawed Giant: Lyndon B. Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973
Publication Date: April 1, 1998Flawed Giant--the monumental concluding volume to Robert Dallek's biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson--provides the most through, engrossing account ever published of Johnson's years in the national spotlight. Drawing on hours of newly released White House tapes and dozens of interviews with people close to the President, Dallek reveals LBJ as a visionary leader who worked his will on Congress like no chief executive before or since, and also displays the depth of his private anguish as he became increasingly ensnared in Vietnam. Writing in a clear, thoughtful, ...
|  | Whitman's Men: Walt Whitman's Calamus Poems Celebrated by Contemporary Photographers
Release Date: May 15, 1996Walt Whitman's Calamus Poem, "thehomoerotic poems" as seen and celebrated by some of today's top contemporary photographers, some using old classical tones in sepia and blue wash.Breathtakingly beautiful in combination with the words of Whitman. ...
|  | Marina Tsvetayeva (Lives of Modern Women)
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|  | A Companion to Greek Mythology (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World)
Publication Date: May 16, 2011| ISBN-10: 140511178X | ISBN-13: 978-1405111782A Companion to Greek Mythology presents a series of essays that explore the phenomenon of Greek myth from its origins in shared Indo-European story patterns and the Greeks’ contacts with their Eastern Mediterranean neighbours through its development as a shared language and thought-system for the Greco-Roman world.Features essays from a prestigious international team of literary expertsIncludes coverage of Greek myth’s intersection with history, philosophy and religionIntroduces readers to topics in ...
|  | The Nightingale Legacy (Legacy Series)
Publication Date: January 29, 2010| Series: Legacy Series (Book 2) On the eve of her nineteenth birthday, the vivacious Caroline Derwent-Jones looks forward to being free of her oafish guardian, Mr. Ffalkes.But Mr. Ffalkes has other plans for Caroline and her inheritance; Caroline must escape. In her flight, Caroline encounters Lord Chilton of Mount Hawke, Frederic North Nightingale, and finds herself tangled in mystery and romance.Amid murder, enigmatic secrets, and a long standing tradition of no women at Mount Hawke, Lord Chilton discovers his desire for Caroline. "Witty dialogue and bawd...
|  | Hell's Half Acre
Publication Date: September 10, 2004Cast adrift after the blood symphony of Penny Dreadful, Phineas Poe tracks Jude to San Francisco, where he finds her involved with John Ransom Miller, a wealthy sociopath aiding Jude s revenge fantasies in exchange for her complicity in an unspeakable crime. Alone and outgunned, Poe hopes he can save Jude from herself, make sense of his own past, and navigate the tortuous internal landscape he calls Hell s Half Acre. ...
|  | The Oath: The Remarkable Story of a Surgeon's Life Under Fire in Chechnya
Publication Date: October 2003When Chechen rebels took Moscow theatergoers hostage in October 2002, it tragically highlighted the ongoing conflict between Russia and its breakaway republic, Chechnya—a war that has claimed an estimated 200,000 Chechen lives in the past decade. Yet the true nature of the debacle lies behind the headlines. In The Oath, a heroic Chechen doctor relates his harrowing experiences in the line of fire to bear witness to this international calamity, and illuminates his remarkable people and their culture.In 1994, when fighting threatened to break out in Chechnya...
|  | The Cat's-Paw
Publication Date: July 1996Regina Marcott has come a long way from the laid-back California campuses of the 70s. Shes a high powered, high tech pioneer in micromechanics with a penchant for robots. The physicist creates a miniature marvel; a robot small enough to fit inside a human ear with an endearing personality big enough to crawl inside her heart. Regina savors her success with close friend Rud Moryn, who shares it with his White House cronies. Their reactions range from outright admiration to sinister speculation. For while the creation Regina calls Ring is a stunning innovation and a ...
|  | Birds of Prey: A J. P. Beaumont Novel
Release Date: June 26, 2012| Series: J. P. Beaumont The Starfire Breeze steams its way north toward the Gulf of Alaska, buffeted by crisp sea winds blowing down from the Arctic. Those on board are seeking peace, relaxation, adventure, escape. But there is no escape in this place of unspoiled natural majesty. Because terror strolls the decks even in the brilliant light of day . . . and death is a conspicuous, unwelcome passenger. Former Seattle policeman J.P. Beaumont—a damaged homicide detective who has come here to heal from fresh, stinging wounds—will find that the grim ghosts ...
|  | The Canadian UFO Report: The Best Cases Revealed
Publication Date: May 1, 2006The Canadian UFO Reports is a popular history of the UFO phenomenon in Canada, something that has captured the imaginations of young and old alike. Drawn from government documents and civilian case files - many previously unpublished - the book includes a chronological overview of the best Canadian UFO cases, from the very first sighting of "fiery serpents" over Montreal in 1662 to reports from the past year. There are chapters on the government's involvement with UFOs, UFO landing pads, media interest, and even UFO abductions.What were the "ghost airplanes" seen...
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