 | That Night: A Novel
Release Date: February 28, 2012A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award It is high summer, the early 1960s. Sheryl and Rick, two Long Island teenagers, share an intense, all-consuming love. But Sheryl’s widowed mother steps between them, and one moonlit night Rick and a gang of hoodlums descend upon her quiet neighborhood. That night, driven by Rick’s determination to reclaim Sheryl, the young men provoke a violent confrontation, and as fathers step forward to protect their turf, notions of innocence belonging to both sides of the brawl are fractured forever....
 |  | Breaking Hooke
Publication Date: April 11, 2011I am Hooke 5-302. God is commanding me to kill! I said it was wrong, but he says my wrong is his right! He says creation will all dissolve unless I limit overpopulation... I've found a new reality. I'll go there soon. When I return, I'll kill god and save us all!!! If I kill God, I will become GOD!Steve Ressel is a novelist, illustrator, screenwriter, comic book creator/artist, publisher, animation producer, and director who worked in Hollywood crafting popular shows such as RUGRATS, INVADER ZIM, DUCKMAN, STRESSED ERIC, WILD THORNBERRYS, and others. His fictio...
|  | Narumi Nakinouchi's Illustration Collection
Publication Date: August 4, 2004Narumi Nakinouchi's Illustration Collection ...
|  | Tyrant's Test (Star Wars: The Black Fleet Crisis, Book 3)
Release Date: December 1, 1996| Series: Star Wars: Black Fleet Crisis (Book 3) In the wake of a shattered alliance, the New Republic fights a relentless new enemy in an all-new adventure in the bestselling Star Wars saga...Faced with an alarming image of Han as a battered hostage of the Yevetha, Chewbacca takes on an urgent mission. Meanwhile, Leia calls upon the Senate to take a stand and eliminate the Yevetha threat--even at the cost of Han's life. As a former Imperial governor takes his battle to the runaway Qella spaceship, Luke's continuing search for his mother brings him da...
|  | Feather Man
Publication Date: September 1, 2008"In this beautifully written and disturbing Australian coming-of-age novel, McMaster tells the story of Sooky, who struggles to overcome her difficult childhood, the effects of which are powerfully portrayed as she moves from relationship to relationship and from Brisbane to London."—Boston Globe“I think it’s quite wonderful. Beautifully written. Engrossing and utterly involving and it does something new.”—Maureen Freely"Let me say that Rhyll McMaster is an extraordinary writer. Her prose is dazzling, poetic and thought-provoki...
|  | Stargate Atlantis: Rising (Stargate Atlantis)
Publication Date: December 15, 2005| Series: Stargate Atlantis (Book 1) Atlantis will rise again… Following the discovery of an Ancient outpost buried deep in the Antarctic ice sheet, Stargate Command sends a new team of explorers through the Stargate to the distant Pegasus galaxy. Emerging in an abandoned Ancient city, the team quickly confirms that they have found the Lost City of Atlantis. But, submerged beneath the sea on an alien planet, the city is in danger of catastrophic flooding unless it is raised to the surface. Things go from bad to worse when the team must confront a new e...
|  | The Escape Artist
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|  | Drew (Cowboys)
Publication Date: May 1, 2000| Series: Cowboys A Proper setting down She landed in Cole?s arms. The shock knocked the sense out of her.She couldn?t describe it any other way.Nothing else could account for the fact that not a single coherent thought remained in her head.He caught her easily, as if he?d done it before.He balaned her lightly against his chest, but that didn?t keep her from being acutely aware she was leaning against his body.Heat and tension passed between them like their clothes weren?t even there. ?Put me down,? she said, finally managing to find her tongue . . . and the indi...
|  | Euripides: Medea (Duckworth Companions to Greek & Roman Tragedy)
Publication Date: March 2003| ISBN-10: 071563187X | ISBN-13: 978-0715631874Euripides' Medea is one of the greatest and most influential Greek tragedies. This book outlines the development of the Medea myth before Euripides and explores his uniquely powerful version from various angles. There are chapters on the play's relationship to the gender politics of fifth-century Athens, Medea's status as a barbarian, and the complex moral and emotional impact of her revenge. Particular attention is paid to the tragic effect of Medea's great monologue and the significance of her role as a divine a...
|  | The Last Confession (Oberon Modern Plays) (Oberon Modern Plays)
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|  | Just a Few Feathers
Publication Date: April 1, 2011Ute Carson manages to find universal truths in ordinary things, and clothes them in language that is at once beautiful and profoundly universal. The result is a music that sings in our very core. Leticia Austria, Poet The author employs a number of poetic tools to convey her thoughts, including wonderful imagery and simple yet effective phrasing. Harmony McGlothlin, Publisher & Editor Grace Notes Books and Editor-in Chief of Notes MagazineA gladness for life and family is countered by occasional poem lines of survived horror. Such lines render the poet steeled ...
|  | Bare and Breaking
Publication Date: April 24, 2012Karin Schimke is a widely published journalist and columnist, and the Cape Times books editor. She also works as a writing tutor and mentor, an author of non-fiction - including the best-selling Fabulously Forty and Beyond, co-written with Margie Orford - of children's books and of short stories. She edited Open, an anthology of erotic short stories written by some of South Africa's best known women writers. Her poetry has appeared in South Africa Writing, New Contrast, New Coin and Carapace magazines. Bare & Breaking is her first collection of poems. ...
|  | The Romance and Legend of Chivalry
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|  | Portable Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing
Publication Date: February 4, 2009| ISBN-10: 1428262962 | ISBN-13: 978-1428262966| Edition: 7 Introduction to literature classes that only need the essentials. ...
|  | German Students' War Letters (Pine Street Books)
Publication Date: August 6, 2002| ISBN-10: 0812218167 | ISBN-13: 978-0812218169Originally appearing at the same time as the pacifist novel All Quiet on the Western Front, this powerful collection provides a glimpse into the hearts and minds of an enemy that had been thoroughly demonized by the Allied press. Composed by German students who had left their university studies in order to participate in World War I, these letters reveal the struggles and hardships that all soldiers face.The stark brutality and surrealism of war are revealed as young men from Germany describe their bitter comb...
|  | The Prophet (The Graveyard Queen)
Release Date: April 24, 2012| Series: The Graveyard Queen My name is Amelia Gray.I am the Graveyard Queen, a cemetery restorer who sees ghosts. My father passed down four rules to keep me safe and I've broken every last one. A door has opened and evil wants me back.In order to protect myself, I've vowed to return to those rules. But the ghost of a murdered cop needs my help to find his killer. The clues lead me to the dark side of Charleston—where witchcraft, root doctors and black magic still flourish—and back to John Devlin, a haunted police detective I should only love f...
|  | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Tantor Unabridged Classics)
Publication Date: January 18, 2010| Series: Tantor Unabridged Classics A colonel receives five seeds in the mail-and dies within weeks. A young bride disappears immediately after her wedding. An old hat and a Christmas goose are the only clues to a stolen jewel. A son is accused of his father's murder. These mysteries-and many more-are brought to the house on Baker Street where detective Sherlock Holmes resides. No case is too tricky for the world's most famous sleuth and his incredible powers of deduction.This gripping collection includes many of the famous cases-and great strokes of brilli...
|  | Batman: The Story of the Dark Knight
Release Date: June 12, 2008| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up Have no fear?the Dark KnightTM is here! Created nearly seventy years ago, Batman is one of the world?s most recognized super heroes. Now he?s starring in his very own hardcover picture book, designed specifically for young children. Learn how Bruce Wayne, a mild-mannered businessman by day, became a tireless crime fighter?Batman?by night. Illustrated with bright, bold pictures and told in simple language, Viking?s Batman is the perfect introduction to a beloved cultural icon. ...
|  | I So Don't Do Mysteries
Release Date: November 10, 2009| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Please, Malese! A Trickster Tale from Haiti
Publication Date: August 1, 2002| Age Level: 4 and up Full of sly wit and the vibrant colors and rhythms of Haiti."My toes are suffering," says Malese as he stretches out in his hammock. "They need new shoes, that's what they need." Malese has not a penny to his name and nothing to trade, but does he worry? Not at all. His pockets may be empty, but his mind is full of clever ideas. It isn't long before he's thought up a trick to get himself some fine new shoes. From marketplace to mountainside, Malese outsmarts his neighbors with trick after trick, until they've had enough and are determined...
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