 | Texas Fury
Release Date: March 13, 1989From the exotic traditions of the Far East to the troubled oil fields of Texas, from the paradise landscapes of Hawaii to the snow-covered mountains of Switzerland . . . the lives, loves, and fates of the Colemans all come together in the name of family and in the name of their unforgettable Texas dynasty. ...
 |  | Thunder of Heaven: A Joshua Jordan Novel (End Series, The)
Release Date: May 8, 2012| Series: End Series, The The End Series by New York Times bestselling author Tim LaHaye and Craig Parshall is an epic thrill ride ripped from today's headlines and filtered through Scriptural prophecy. As world events begin setting the stage for the 'end of days' foretold in Revelation, Joshua Jordan must weigh the personal price he must pay to save the nation he loves. Thunder of Heaven appeals to the tens of millions of readers who have already made Tim LaHaye a household name and one of the best selling authors of all time. This book is a return to form for Tim L...
|  | The Book of Tahkemoni: Jewish Tales from Medieval Spain (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)
Publication Date: August 1, 2003| ISBN-10: 1874774986 | ISBN-13: 978-1874774983Widely regarded as the crowning jewel of Heberew maqama literature (rhymed prose interspersed with verse) this book introduces a somewhat roguish protagonist, Hever the Kenite, often disguised as a teacher, beggar, adventurer, debater, or magician. Whether preaching, spinning history or fantasy, or working a crowd, Hever the Kenite is ever the consummate storyteller and wordsmith enlightening or astounding his listeners. The author displays great scope, moving from prayers to tales of battlefield carnage, from...
|  | Moonlight Masquerade: A Regency Romance
Publication Date: March 1, 2013Lady Celine Wexham seems the model British subject. French by birth but enjoying life in 1813 as a widowed English countess, she is in the unique position of being able to help those in need--or to spy for the notorious Napoleon Bonaparte. When Rees Phillips of the British Foreign Office is sent to pose as the countess's butler and discover where her true loyalties lie, he is confident he will uncover the truth. But the longer he is in her fashionable townhouse in London's West End, the more his staunch loyalty to the Crown begins to waver as he falls under Lad...
|  | The Guadalupe Saints
Publication Date: April 28, 2011Tony Guadalupe feels out of place at his high school. He soon learns that his life is ineluctably woven with one of the great visionaries of Mexican history, Juan Diego, the indigenous peasant who first envisioned Our Lady of Guadalupe. A direct descendant of Juan Diego, Tony Guadalupe must confront his unknown past and accept both his burdens and gifts, a journey undertaken in different ways by his grandfather and his father. Meanwhile, the Catholic Church seeks to disempower the Guadalupes, whose shamanistic lineage connects them to the Aztec goddess Tonantz...
|  | The Meat and Spirit Plan
Publication Date: September 1, 2007“Like an experimentally inclined Annie Proulx, Saterstrom tersely renders the effects of social violence on individual lives . . . the effect is shattering and transcendent.”—Modern Times Bookstore newsletterIn lyric, diamond-cut prose, Selah Saterstrom revisits the mythic, dead-end Southern town of Beau Repose. This time, the story follows a strung-out American teenager influenced by heavy metal, inspired by Ginger Rogers, hell-bent on self-destruction, and more intelligent than anyone around her realizes. She is forced into rehab and pri...
|  | Black Valley Riders (Ralph Cotton Western Series)
Release Date: November 2, 2010| Series: Ralph Cotton Western Series USA Today bestselling author.Seems like every time Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack turns over a rock, a Black Valley Rider jumps out. So when two bounty hunters arrive in Minton Hill trailing the same outlaws, Sam agrees to ride with them. Trouble is, only a drunken gambler called Tinnis Lucas knows where the gang is holed up-a dead man's land called Black Valley. ...
|  | Murder, Mortarboards & Mackerel: An Academic Mystery
Publication Date: June 8, 2012Ben Messing, a professor in the English department at Oakham College, has been murdered. Every one of his colleagues is a suspect. But whodunit?! This novel charts the intrigues of the faculty members of the English department at Oakham College as they attempt to solve the murder mystery, as they entangle themselves in a complex, convoluted series of (mis)adventures, where the solution to the mystery could result in yet another murder. Either a satirical farce or a farcical satire, this send up of the English department is part murder mystery, part literary nove...
|  | Myths to Live By
Release Date: February 1, 1993What is a properly functioning mythology and what are its functions? Can we use myths to help relieve our modern anxiety, or do they help foster it? In Myths to Live by, Joseph Campbell explores the enduring power of the universal myths that influence our lives daily and examines the myth-making process from the primitive past to the immediate present, retuning always to the source from which all mythology springs: the creative imagination. Campbell stresses that the borders dividing the Earth have been shattered; that myths and religions have always followed th...
|  | Marina Carr: Plays 1: Low in the Dark, The Mai, Portia Coughlan, By the Bog of Cats... (Contemporary Classics (Faber & Faber)) (v. 1)
Publication Date: November 1, 2000| ISBN-10: 0571200117 | ISBN-13: 978-0571200115| Edition: First Edition Marina Carr: Plays 1 introduces the work of a major new voice in playwrighting.Carr has been praised for the beauty and uniqueness of her language, was cited by The Independent as "a hugely valuable dramatic voice," and has even been compared to Eugene O'Neill. A prominent voice in British letters who has been building momentum in the United States for the past decade, Carr's four critically acclaimed works are gathered together here for the first time. ...
|  | At the Site of Inside Out
Publication Date: June 1997Anna Rabinowitz's voice, which ranges from reflective to prophetic, from passionate to wry, shapes and reshapes language to complete the partial, retrieve the lost, and salvage what remains when the human body and the bodies of family, culture, and history threaten to collapse. These are poems that confront loss and celebrate survival in a world that is "context and collage, icon and diehard, push and pull, conceived and holding on." ...
|  | Mensagem: poemas esotericos (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: December 31, 1993Esta edicion critica de la poesia de Pessoa esta coordinada por Jose Augusto Seabra y colaboraron en el analisis de la obra los siguientes investigadores portugueses: Onesimo Teotanio Almeida, Jose Blanco, Y.K. Centeno, Dalila Pereira da Costa, Adrien Roig, Antonio Quadros y Maria Helena da Rocha Pereira; asi mismo, colaboro un investigador de Brasil : Jose Edil; uno de Lima: Alves, y uno de Francia: Adrien Roig. Complementan la edicion una cronologia y una bibliografia del autor. ...
|  | Women Readers in the Middle Ages (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature)
Publication Date: March 3, 2011| Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature (Book 65) Throughout the Middle Ages, the number of female readers was far greater than is commonly assumed. D. H. Green shows that, after clerics and monks, religious women were the main bearers of written culture and its expansion. Moreover, laywomen played a vital part in the process whereby the expansion of literacy brought reading from religious institutions into homes, and increasingly from Latin into vernacular languages. This study assesses the various ways in which reading was practised between c.700 a...
|  | Good to Talk?Living and Working in a Communication Culture
Publication Date: February 1, 2000| ISBN-10: 0761957715 | ISBN-13: 978-0761957713| Edition: 1 It's good to talk is one of the great clich[ac]es of our time. The benefits of talk to individuals, families and organizations are proclaimed by pop psychologists, television talk show hosts, and management gurus. The importance of talk is talked about endlessly.Good to Talk? is an attempt to look critically at what lies behind this upsurge of concern about talk in our workplaces, classrooms and private lives, and it places these developments in historical context and relates their forms to the ...
|  | The Collector's Edition of Victorian Lesbian Erotica
Publication Date: March 15, 2006The Victorian era offers an untapped wellspring of lesbian erotica. Indeed, Victorian erotica writers treated lesbians and bisexual women with voracious curiosity and tender affection. As far as written treasuries of vice and perversion go, the Victorian era has no equal. These stories delve into the world of the aristocrat and the streetwalker, the seasoned seductress and the innocent naïf.Represented in this anthology are a variety of genres, from romantic fiction to faux journalism and travelogue, as well as styles and tones resembling everything from ...
|  | Extreme Denial
Publication Date: May 31, 1996An American intelligence operative, Steve Decker suddenly moves to Santa Fe after a tragedy on his 40th birthday. There he finds peace of mind and a beautiful, sensual woman named Beth Dwyer. Steve will soon discover, however, that Beth harbors heinous secrets. Is she the love of his life--or his most deadly enemy? ...
|  | Shot to Death
Publication Date: February 15, 2010Thirty-one thought-provoking mystery stories by acclaimed author Stephen D. Rogers, all set in the cities and small towns of his native New England ...
|  | Lucky Luke Versus the Pinkertons: Lucky Luke Vol. 31
Publication Date: January 16, 2012 ...
|  | Awry (Archers of Avalon, Book Two)
Publication Date: June 29, 2012Three curses. Two brothers. One love triangle. Sometimes love is meant to be. But sometimes...love is the death of you. Seventeen-year-old Scarlet has just died. Only, dying isn't unusual for a girl under a centuries old curse that left her semi-immortal. This time, though, she comes back to her current life instead of awaking in a new one, and she realizes her curse is changing. With the help of the immortal Archer brothers, Scarlet tries to piece together her life and break the curse before her impending death comes again. Fans of Once Upon A Time and The Vam...
|  | Feelings In a Jar
Publication Date: November 15, 2008| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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