 | The Ivy Chronicles
Release Date: January 31, 2006When turbocharged Park Avenue mom Ivy Ames finds that she?s been downsized from her platinum-card corporate job and her marriage, she swiftly realizes that she?s going to need a whole new way to support herself and her two private-school daughters. So she dreams up a new business?helping upscale New Yorkers get their little darlings into the most exclusive kindergartens in the city. What begins as one woman?s bid to earn a living becomes an everywoman?s tale of midlife reinvention and unexpected romance, set in a looking-glass world where even tots have rés...
 |  | The Birth
Publication Date: December 2001"In the glorious heavenly realm, the angels eagerly strain to understand what new thing God is about to do as Gabriel passes through the Door--The forces of good and evil are about to clash." The Birth tells the tale of the incarnation as seen from both realms--heaven and earth. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Reunited for the Holidays (Love Inspired)
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|  | Scratching The Surface
Publication Date: March 28, 2007"Scratching The Surface" is Michael Kelly's debut collection of dark fantasy and horror stories. It comes replete with an introduction from John Pelan. Michael Kelly is a of member of the Ghost Story Society and a fiction editor at The Chiaroscuro/Chizine, the web's premier site for dark fiction. Michael Kelly's short stories have appeared in magazines and journals, including All Hallows,Carleton Arts Review, Flesh & Blood, H.P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror, Space & Time and Surreal.His tales have garnered honourable mention's in volumes 11, 12, 14, 15, 17, ...
|  | Royal Road to Fotheringhay: The Story of Mary, Queen of Scots
Release Date: November 23, 2004The haunting story of the beautiful—and tragic—Mary, Queen of Scots, as only legendary novelist Jean Plaidy could write itMary Stuart became Queen of Scotland at the tender age of six days old. Her French-born mother, the Queen Regent, knew immediately that the infant queen would be a vulnerable pawn in the power struggle between Scotland’s clans and nobles. So Mary was sent away from the land of her birth and raised in the sophisticated and glittering court of France. Unusually tall and slim, a writer of music and poetry, Mary was celebrat...
|  | 39 Blows on a Gone Trumpet
Publication Date: June 10, 1985The first novel of the Trilogy, one of passion, youth and energy exploring the power of the world, what it means to act and influence the course of history, to be where change is created and to endlessly explore the intricacies of being human - lover, thinker, poet. 39 Blows swings with its own rhythm, its prose near to poetry and music, 39 riffs sounding the unique historical beats of Manhattan, Iran and Morocco as they were in the early '60s. ...
|  | Frankenstein
Publication Date: March 1, 2008A scientist succeeds in creating a living creature but one whose visage repulses even its maker. Condemned to loneliness by the fear he inspires, the creature learns to hate and destroy, becoming the monster he is taken for. This Gothic masterpiece is considered the first science-fiction novel. ...
|  | Wishing You Well: Prayers and Poems for Comfort, Healing, and Recovery
Publication Date: April 2005An inspiring collection of prayers, poems, and blessings that provides encouragement for those facing difficulties in their lives.June Cotner, the best-selling author of Graces and Bedside Prayers, has collected comforting messages of hope and inspiration for those times when we, or someone we love, is going through a particularly difficult period. ...
|  | Sarah: The Original French Text (Texts and Translations)(French Edition)
Publication Date: December 30, 2008| ISBN-10: 1603290265 | ISBN-13: 978-1603290265A dugout canoe comes ashore on the island of Saint-Barthélemy in the Antilles; in it are a black man, Arsène, and a sleeping white child, Sarah. Seeking refuge, they are taken in by a good man, but the overseer of his plantation threatens both Arsène and Sarah with the loss of their freedom.Deborah Jenson and Doris Kadish introduce Sarah, an 1821 novella by Desbordes-Valmore, explaining its autobiographical background, political context (the revolt of blacks against Napoléon's soldiers),...
|  | Authorship and Publicity Before Print: Jean Gerson and the Transformation of Late Medieval Learning (The Middle Ages Series)
Publication Date: March 12, 2009| Series: The Middle Ages Series Widely recognized by contemporaries as the most powerful theologian of his generation, Jean Gerson (1363-1429) dominated the stage of western Europe during a time of plague, fratricidal war, and religious schism. Yet modern scholarship has struggled to define Gerson's place in history, even as it searches for a compelling narrative to tell the story of his era.Daniel Hobbins argues for a new understanding of Gerson as a man of letters actively managing the publication of his works in a period of rapid expansion in written cultu...
|  | The Historical Novel
Publication Date: April 1, 1983| ISBN-10: 0803279108 | ISBN-13: 978-0803279100Georg Lukács (1885–1971) is now recognized as one of the most innovative and best-informed literary critics of the twentieth century. Trained in the German philosophic tradition of Kant, Hegel, and Marx, he escaped Nazi persecution by fleeing to the Soviet Union in 1933. There he faced a new set of problems: Stalinist dogmatism about literature and literary criticism. Maneuvering between the obstacles of censorship, he wrote and published his longest work of literary criticism, The Historical Novel,...
|  | Master Richard's Bestiary of Love and Response
Publication Date: April 28, 1986Two thirteenth-century French works discuss the relationship between men and women, including social and theological traditions. ...
|  | Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures (The Middle Ages Series)
Publication Date: June 4, 2008| ISBN-10: 0812240871 | ISBN-13: 978-0812240870Given Christianity's valuation of celibacy and its persistent association of sexuality with the Fall and of women with sin, Western medieval attitudes toward the erotic could not help but be vexed. In contrast, eroticism is explicitly celebrated in a large number of theological, scientific, and literary texts of the medieval Arab Islamicate tradition, where sexuality was positioned at the very heart of religious piety.In Crossing Borders, Sahar Amer turns to the rich body of Arabic sexological writings to focus,...
|  | When Strangers Marry
Release Date: July 30, 2002Lysette buried her face against Max's throat. "But he's going to take me away. Don't let him, don't -- ""You're not going anywhere," Max interrupted. "Calm yourself, Lysette. It's not good for you to become excited." His possessiveness made her strangely giddy. As far as he was concerned, she was his, and no one was going to take her away from him.Max stared at Etienne. His voice was soft, but it contained a note that chilled Lysette's blood. "If you so much as disarrange a hair on her head, I'll tear you apart."Lysette couldn't believe it, but she didn't care abou...
|  | Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 #9: No Future For You Part Four (Dark Horse Comics)
Publication Date: 2007Slayers battle to the death in the thrilling conclusion to Brian K. Vaughan's four-issue run on Buffy Season Eight.With Joss Whedon serving as Executive Producer and Georges Jeanty (The American Way) as series artist, Buffy Season Eight continues to entertain longtime Buffy fans and newcomers alike.* Buffy Season Eight continues!* Top-ten seller Buffy #1 went immediately back to press-three times-to satisfy demand . . . totaling over 150,000 copies! ...
|  | The Spymasters: A Men at War Novel (Men at War Series)
Release Date: August 7, 2012| Series: Men at War Series (Book 7) Critics and fans everywhere love the Men at War series, books “rich with witty banter and nail-biting undercover work” (Entertainment Weekly). It is summer 1943. Two of the Allies’ most important plans are at grave risk — Operation Overlord’s invasion of France and the Manhattan Project’s race to build the atomic bomb. A furious President Roosevelt turns to OSS spy chief Wild Bill Donovan — and Donovan turns to Dick Canidy and his teams behind enemy lines. They’ve certainl...
|  | Tony Hillerman's Landscape: On the Road with Chee and Leaphorn
Release Date: October 27, 2009 A photographic journey through the landscape immortalized in bestselling author Tony Hillerman' s beloved mystery series featuring the legendary Navajo police officers Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Sergeant Jim CheeStep into the world of Tony Hillerman's Chee and Leaphorn novels with this stunning collection of original photography of the landscape integral to his writing. Alongside these breathtaking photos are brief synopses of Hillerman's novels, descriptive text from his works, his own comments about the land, and information about the sites pictured. Compi...
|  | The Exploits of Solar Pons
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|  | The Bedtime Book: Stories and Poems to Read Aloud
Publication Date: July 2000Follow the little witch, ride with the fly-by-night, fool your dreams, wish on a star... This lively collection of stories and poems about bedtime and night-time is perfect for reading aloud. Margaret Mahy, Ogden Nash, Grace Nichols, and others help to make bedtime reassuring and fun. ...
|  | The Twelve Dancing Princesses
Release Date: March 24, 1989| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up For generations, children have loved the enchanting story of the twelve beautiful princesses and the handsome young lad who solves the mystery of their tattered shoes. Now Marianna Mayer brings to life all the splendor and romance of this beloved classic, from the dazzling forests Of silver, gold, and diamonds to a twilight palace where the bewitched princesses dance to hypnotic music. And award-winning artist Kinuko Craft add, her own magic: a visual feast of exquisite, jewel-like paintings that sweep across the pages...
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