 | Su nombre es libertad y en su coraz
Publication Date: February 2, 2012En muy pocas ocasiones, dos férreos servicios secretos de 1948 se ponen de acuerdo para lograr sus objetivos. La falange del franquismo, estaban empeñados en neutralizar las propagandas negativas ejercidas por Jesús de Galindes, Un activista del PNV vasco exiliado en América. y algunos miembros del SIM servicio de inteligencia militar Dominicano, buscaban una valiosa información a través de una joven maestra de escuela, que vivía en un apartado rincón de España. pero, lo que más ignoraron fue, que aquella jov...
 |  | Meadowlands
Release Date: May 1, 1997In an astonishing book-length sequence, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Gluck interweaves the dissolution of a contemporary marriage with the story of The Odyssey. Here is Penelope stubbornly weaving, elevating the act of waiting into an act of will; here, too, is a worldly Circe, a divided Odysseus, and a shrewd adolescent Telemachus. Through these classical figures, Meadowlands explores such timeless themes as the endless negotiation of family life, the cruelty that intimacy enables, and the frustrating trivia of the everyday. Gluck discovers in contemporary lif...
|  | A Little Tiger in the Chinese Night: An Autobiography in Art
Release Date: September 27, 1995| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up In 1944, when Song Nan Zhang was not yet three, he saw a baby tiger outside the hut in the mountains where he and his mother were living. The tiger returned twice before disappearing into the bamboo forest forever. For a child to see a tiger meant luck, but Song Nan Zhang wasn’t sure if living in China was lucky or not. Life was so difficult that sometimes he felt like the lost tiger itself, hoping for a home only to be forced back into the dark.In this, his autobiography, Song Nan Zhang paints the dispersal...
|  | There But For The: A Novel
Release Date: September 13, 2011From the award-winning author of Hotel World and The Accidental, a dazzling, funny, and wonderfully exhilarating new novel. At a dinner party in the posh London suburb of Greenwich, Miles Garth suddenly leaves the table midway through the meal, locks himself in an upstairs room, and refuses to leave. An eclectic group of neighbors and friends slowly gathers around the house, and Miles’s story is told from the points of view of four of them: Anna, a woman in her forties; Mark, a man in his sixties; May, a woman in her eighties; and a ten-year-old nam...
|  | The Night Travellers
Publication Date: August 1, 1991Set in the 1960's, The Night Travelers, portrays America under the shadow of the Vietnam War and the counterculture that developed in opposition to the war.The characters reflect a time when often violent pressures affected the American community and family life.Kate Harbison is a socially ambitious scientist whose life revolves around her work, which includes testing chemical weapons on animals for the military.Kate's daughter, Mary, who cares little for social distinction, falls in love with Jeff, an antiwar activist.Mary and Jeff's life involves traveling a...
|  | Sarah: A Novel (The Canaan Trilogy, Book 1)
Release Date: May 4, 2004The first novel in a dazzling new trilogy about the women of the Old Testament by internationally bestselling author Marek Halter.The story of Sarah--and of history itself--begins in the cradle of civilization: the Sumerian city-state of Ur, a land of desert heat, towering gardens, and immense wealth. The daughter of a powerful lord, Sarah is raised in great luxury, but balks at the arranged marriage her father has planned for her. The groom is handsome and a nobleman, but on their wedding day, Sarah panics and impulsively flees to the vast, empty marshes outside the...
|  | Curious Warnings: The Great Ghost Stories of M.R
Publication Date: April 1, 2012Montague Rhodes James - M. R. James - was an English academic and provost of King's College and Eton. He started writing ghost stories to entertain his friends...one hundred and fifty years after his birth he is now revered as the father of the modern English ghost story. This gorgeous hardback collection contains all thirty-five of M.R. James's highly acclaimed ghost stories, including the classics: 'Oh Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad' and 'Canon Alberic's Scrapbook'. As well as a foreword by Clark Ashton Smith and an extended Afterword by Stephen Jones ...
|  | Brazofuerte/ Strong Arm: Cienfuegos V/Hundred Fires V (Spanish Edition)
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|  | The Nostradamus Secret
Publication Date: February 15, 2011This latest historical thriller in the Bob Danforth series builds on Nostradamus's "lost" 58 quatrains and segues to present day. These lost quatrains have surfaced in the hands of a wealthy Iranian megalomaniac who believes his rise to world power was prophesied by Nostradamus. But he sees the United States as the principal obstacle to the achievement of his goals. So, the first step he takes is to attempt to destabilize the United States through a vicious series of terrorist attacks and assassinations. Joe Badal offers up another action-packed story loade...
|  | The Profession: A Thriller
Release Date: May 15, 2012The “master storyteller” (Publishers Weekly) and bestselling author of Gates of Fire, The Afghan Campaign, and Killing Rommel returns with a stunning, chillingly plausible near-future thriller about the rise of a privately financed and global military industrial complex. The year is 2032. The third Iran-Iraq war is over; the 11/11 dirty bomb attack on the port of Long Beach, California is receding into memory; Saudi Arabia has recently quelled a coup; Russians and Turks are clashing in the Caspian Basin; Iranian armored units, supported by the satel...
|  | GRACIA INFINITA: Una Historia De Esperanza (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: August 11, 2011El libro Gracia infinita fue escrito porEstrella Montealegre de Albarrán después de que en Febrero 13, 2008 murió aconsecuencia de un suicidio. Después de diez horas de muerta, Dios le devolvióla vida. Según los médicos esto era no solo raro, si no imposible. ¡Su cuerpoestaba vacío de sangre! En este libro ella relata la historia completa y detalladade ese día y de los años que la llevaron a tomar esa desición tan final. Desdesu niñéz fue atormentada por sufrimiento y por abusos que le hici...
|  | Please, Take Photographs
Publication Date: December 29, 2009Sindiwe Magona's poems conspire with her. Even years after being written, they still seem warm from her lips, and it is this residue of her telling them that draws you into their confidence. From the languid innocence of the poems about her village, to her shattering images of Africa at war, Magona leads you headlong into her fireside circle where archetypes flicker like shadows on a face that has seen, and been. Please, Take Photographs is defiant and tender, horrific and homely, at once irreverent, outspoken and beautiful. ...
|  | Burke and the Fall of Language: The French Revolution as Linguistic Event
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|  | Bedside Seductions: Nursing and the Victorian Imagination, 1840-80
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| | Evolution of the Arthurian Romance
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|  | Comfort of a Man (Arabesque)
Publication Date: November 15, 2011| Series: Arabesque She wants a little comfort…At thirty-eight, Brooklyn Douglas has her hands full raising a teenage son and running her own business. What she doesn't need is everybody and their mother trying to hook her up with a "good man." The last "good man" Brooklyn was with turned into a no-good husband, who left her for another woman. Can't she just have a mind-blowing love affair with no strings attached? Somebody like the handsome, broad-shouldered brother at the bar.…He's looking for a lot moreAs a successfu...
|  | Last Day in Limbo (Modesty Blaise series)
Publication Date: September 1, 2003| Series: Modesty Blaise series Modesty's latest adventure takes place in the jungles of South America, where she and her loyal henchman, Willie Garvin, take on the evil Mistress of Limbo. The Mistress has enslaved the people of Limbo, including Modesty's friend Danny. After a failed kidnapping, Modesty learns of her friend's enslavement and sets out to rescue him and set Limbo free. In an adventure that spans London, Switzerland, and New York City, Modesty ends up in Guatemala, where the Mistress of Limbo has commanded that Modesty be sacrificed to the god...
|  | Spider-Man: Birth of Venom
Publication Date: April 4, 2007| Grade Level: 4 and up The Beyonder's Battleworld might seem a strange place to get new threads, but it's Spider-Man who becomes unraveled when his shape-changing costume attempts to darken his life as well as his fashion sense! But ridding himself of his riotous raiment proves an even greater mistake when its alien enmity bonds with mortal madness to form our hero's most dedicated decimator! Plus: the first appearances of Puma and the Rose! Mary Jane Watson's startling secret! And the debut of the battling...Bag-Man!? Guest-starring the Black Cat, the Fantast...
|  | The Princess and the Pea
Release Date: May 14, 2009| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up When a prince sets out to find a princess to marry, he soon discovers this is not a simple task. There is no shortage of so-called princesses, but how can he tell whether or not they are what they claim to be? Then one night a great storm rages, there comes a knock on the palace gate, and the prince?s life is never the same . . . ...
|  | Flush
Release Date: May 11, 2010| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Bestselling novelist Carl Hiaasen is back with another hysterical mystery adventure for young readers, set in the Florida Keys. Noah's dad has a little problem with anger control. He tried to stop the Coral Queen casino boat's illegal dumping . . . by sinking the boat. But his bold protest fizzles: within days the casino is back in business, and Noah's dad is behind bars and out of action. Now Noah is determined to succeed where his father failed. But even though pumping raw sewage into the waters of the Flori...
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