 | Innocent Forever
Publication Date: November 27, 2010Tamara Jenkins, a federal prison guard, finds herself desperately racing against time and a corrupt prison adminstration as she tries to free her baby's daddy, I.C.Miller, a death row inmate who is about to be executed by lethal injection for a hideous crime he didn't commit. She is torn between two arch rival thugs: the Haitian Kingpin Bleu Baptise and Atlanta's dopeboy Pharaoh Green, in a deadly, deceptive, lustful love triangle in which neither will stop to possess her, even if it means murder.--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
 |  | Motion Studies
Publication Date: February 1, 2011| ISBN-10: 0915380781 | ISBN-13: 978-0915380787Poetry. LGBT Studies. Winner of the 2010 Washington Prize. Investigating past and present in poems of memory and loss, MOTION STUDIES takes us from daguerreotypes of the 19th century and the work of painter Thomas Eakins to post-Katrina New Orleans. Scholarly and yeasty, forceful and kind, MOTION STUDIES reunites the broken and the silenced with the living and hopeful. ...
|  | The Book of a Thousand Eyes
Publication Date: April 1, 2012Ranging widely in subject and tone, this collection of prose begins as an homage to Scheherazade—the heroine of The Arabian Nights whose nightly tale-telling saved her culture and her own life by teaching a powerful and murderous ruler to abandon cruelty in favor of wisdom and benevolence. Mirroring Scheherazade’s tactic, this lyrical exploration offers diverse works including lullabies, fairy tales, nonsensical mumblings, dream narratives, and the occasional erotic ditty. The poems explore and play with languages of varied stages of consciousne...
|  | In A Circle of Stars
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|  | A Sin and a Shame: A Novel
Release Date: May 22, 2007After fleeing Los Angeles when her attempt to break up her best friend's wedding fails, Jasmine is now a changed woman...and a Christian. She's living in the Big Apple and she's ready to find the soul mate she is sure God has for her. But soon after she meets her dream man -- a preacher who falls head over heels in love with her -- a man from Jasmine's past reappears, and an unexpected pregnancy threatens to sabotage all of her dreams. Will Jasmine's lying and scheming continue? Or will she finally learn to be honest with herself -- and with those who love her?...
|  | The Old Stone House and Other Stories
Publication Date: May 15, 2009Quality ClassicsWe specialize in creating hard to find, high quality classic books optimized for the Kindle.We always have the highest quality books. Sick of spelling errors, weird characters, or a lack of pictures in illustrated books? Well we know how you feel. All of our books are formatted and reviewed by an actual human for the Kindle, and always 99 cents.To find more of our books search "Quality Classics" in Amazon. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | The Last Rendezvous
Release Date: March 16, 2010“Women are not supposed to write; yet I write.” –Marceline Desbordes-ValmoreIn 1817, at the late age of thirty-three,Marceline Desbordes, the actress and Romantic poet–the only woman counted by Paul Verlaine among his poètes maudits, or “accursed poets,” a group that included Victor Hugo, Charles Baudelaire, and Alfred de Vigny–marries Prosper Valmore, a fellow actor who brings love and stability to her tumultuous life. Such stability is short-lived, however:When she meets Henri de Latouche, an influential man of lett...
|  | Lucy Blue and the Daughters of Light
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|  | One World of Literature
Publication Date: October 29, 1992| ISBN-10: 0395588804 | ISBN-13: 978-0395588802| Edition: 1 One World of Literature addresses students' concerns about social relevance in their reading, and their growing interest in the literature of other cultures. This provocative anthology brings together fiction, poetry, and drama by twentieth-century authors from around the world. ...
|  | The Polis and the Divine Order: The Oresteia, Sophocles, and the Defense of Democracy
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|  | Shadowings (Tut Books)
Publication Date: June 1978| Series: Tut Books This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | The odes of Confucius, (Wisdom of the East series)
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| | Song ci san bai shou quan yi (Zhongguo li dai ming zhu quan yi cong shu) (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | Way Down Yonder in the Indian Nation: Writings from America's Heartland (Stories & Storytellers Series)
Publication Date: March 15, 2007| Series: Stories & Storytellers Series (Book 3) A deeply sympathetic, colorful evocation of life on the American prairiesIn Way Down Yonder in the Indian Nation—a title inspired by the lyrics of Woody Guthrie—best-selling author Michael Wallis creates a brilliant tableau of America’s heartland.Featuring a new introduction by the author, this collection of sixteen essays reflects the finest examples of Wallis’s writing and harkens back to a time before fast food and malls replaced family-owned diners along Route 66. From tales of the no...
|  | The Herring-Seller's Apprentice: Ethelred & Elsie #1
Publication Date: April 16, 2009| Series: Ethelred & Elsie (Book 1) A mediocre mystery-writer, Ethelred Tressider has even less interest in writing his books than his (dwindling) fan base has in reading them, and his agent, the pesky, nosy, vulgar, chocolate-chomping Elsie, has no interest in them at all. But with a name like Ethelred, things can always get worse, and when Ethelred?s dishy ex-wife turns up dead they do. The case of the Dead Dish is the most exciting project Elsie?s come across in years, but however much she bullies Ethelred, he refuses to take much interest in the mystery. A...
|  | The Illusion (Animorphs #33)
Publication Date: September 1, 1999| Age Level: 9 and up The Yeerks possess a weapon that could be the biggest threat to the Animorphs yet.The anti-morphing ray transforms a person in a morph back to natural form.Unless they find and destroy the top-secret ray, the Animorphs could be expose for good. ...
|  | Football (Sports Injuries: How to Prevent, Diagnose & Treat)
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|  | Tiki Barber: All-Pro on and Off the Field (Sports Stars with Heart)
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|  | Ancient Rome (Mysteries of History)
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|  | Novacom Saga: 10 Hours of Action-Packed Audio Drama (Adventures in Odyssey)
Publication Date: April 1, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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