| Snapped 2: The Redemption ...
| | The Light in the Piazza Publication Date: July 2005While touring Italy in 1953, beautiful young Clara Johnson falls in love with an Italian man, over the objections of her mother, who knows a secret about her daughter that could spoil the couples happiness. ...
| | After The Fall Publication Date: July 1, 2005A twist of fate turns a struggling couples world upside down, when they are involved in a near fatal car accident. Broken, stripped and broken again, they each stumble through a journey of healing and self-discovery the merciful hand of the only One who can help them up after a fall. ...
| | Looking for a Miracle: Weeping Icons, Relics, Stigmata, Visions & Healing Cures Publication Date: February 1999The willingness of people to believe in magical icons, mystical relics, and miraculous pictures (like the Image of Guadalupe) is almost as curious as these phenomena themselves. Though they cry out for scientific investigation, millions of people blindly accept them as fact. Historical and paranormal investigator Joe Nickell confronts such strange events, powers, and objects as the Shroud of Turin, bleeding or weeping statues, burning handprints, liquefying blood, ecstatic visions, miraculous cures, and people speaking in tongues in "Looking for a Miracle". Dep...
| | The Pirate Queen: The Story of Grace O'Malley, Irish Pirate Release Date: January 3, 2006Grace O'Malley commanded a dozen ships and the obedience of thousands of men. Her empire stretched from Connaught on the Irish coast to the cobalt aters of Africa. Through the daring of her piracy, Grace nearly bankrupted the English treasury-and her outright defiance brought embarrassment to Elizabeth I. Yet the lives of these two amazing women were inextricably intertwined-and their eventual meeting during the most brilliant and romantic era that Europe has ever known would shock the world. ...
| | But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz Release Date: November 10, 2009"May be the best book ever written about jazz."--David Thomson, Los Angeles Times In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skillfully evokes the music and the men who shaped modern jazz. Drawing on photos, anecdotes, and, most important, the way he hears the music, Dyer imaginatively reconstructs scenes from the embattled lives of some of the greats: Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; Thelonious Monk creating his own private language on the piano. However, music is...
| | French Tragedy: Power of Enactment ...
| | Listen! Publication Date: July 3, 2012Will the voices clamor around you,Drowning out the whisper of Mine?Will you hearken to My voice,To listen all the time?Do you feel overwhelmed by the cares of everyday life? Author, mother and grandmother Betty Sue Eilers has learned to listen to the voice of God, and to lay down the burdens she was not meant to carry. The heavenly Father has an endless supply of comfort and encouragement to refresh His children during times of uncertainty, if we will spend time in His presence and listen to His voice.Don’t let the burdens of life get you down. God will fu...
| | Haiku Volume 2 Spring ...
| | Great Ideas of the Renaissance (Renaissance World) Publication Date: August 1, 2009| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
| | In the Reading Gaol Publication Date: February 7, 1994| ISBN-10: 0631151982 | ISBN-13: 978-0631151982| Edition: 1 In this criticaltour de force , Valentine Cunningham offers a sequence of controversial arguments in favour of the worldly stuff of texts, a commodity that he sees to be still too commonly discredited, down-played and repressed by post-modernist theory and practice. In the course of its critique this books inspects, with startling originality, texts from the Bible toJane Eyre, HamlettoBatman(the movie),Tristram ShandytoFinnegan's Wake,concentrating particularly on classic ninet...
| | Pictorial Nominalism: On Marcel Duchamp's Passage from Painting to the Readymade (Theory and History of Literature) Publication Date: October 1, 2005| Series: Theory and History of Literature (Book 51) Beginning with the instance in 1912 when Marcel Duchamp wrote in a note to himself, "No more painting, get a job," Thierry de Duve reviews in Pictorial Nominalism the implications of the readymade for art and representation.Arguing that the readymade belongs to that moment in the history of painting when both figuration and the practice of painting become "impossible," de Duve presents a psychoanalytically informed account of the birth of abstraction.Differing considerably from such thinkers as Clement Gree...
| | Beginning with And: New and Selected Poems (Midwest Writers Series) Release Date: January 6, 1996| Series: Midwest Writers Series This is a fine collection from an important and vital American poet. It has wide range yet consistent voice and an imagination that holds up the sky. ...
| | The Wedding Trap Release Date: May 30, 2006From ugly duckling to beautiful swanEliza Hammond has always been quiet and reserved–hardly the best qualities for finding the man of her dreams and living happily ever after. A new heiress, Eliza is financially secure, courtesy of her aunt’s fortune, but even great wealth has its drawbacks since every greedy, fortune-hunting bachelor suddenly finds Eliza irresistible.To help her best friend, Violet takes Eliza’s romantic dilemma into her own hands, enlisting the social skills of her brother-in-law, Lord Christopher “Kit” Winter. K...
| | Moongazer (Shomi) Publication Date: July 1, 2007Imagine every night entering a nightmare world you can't escape and being told real life is a dream. Skye Brown has it all: the cool job, the hot boyfriend, the apartment on New York's Upper West Side. But lately she can't enjoy any of it. She's having dreams of a post-apocalyptic world. Of a bleak futuristic wasteland. Of a struggle against oppression. And she's been told she's a...MOONGAZER.But what is that? And what is reality? In her dreams, she's not Skye Brown at all, but Mariah Quinn. In her dreams there's Dawn, the beautiful yet haunted soldier, and Skye...
| | Angel of Death (Sean Dillon Series) Publication Date: April 15, 2010| Series: Sean Dillon Series (Book 4) Jack Higgins presents this explosive story of international terrorism ripped from today's headlines... They call themselves "January 30," after the date of a British massacre in Belfast. They are allied with no one, killing American diplomats and KGB agents, Arabs and Israelis, IRA gunmen and Loyalist soldiers. But they are definitely the enemies of peace - and they are plotting an assassination that will shatter the uneasy truce that reigns in Ireland.Former IRA enforcer Sean Dillon must hunt down January 30 before they k...
| | The Broken Ear (The Adventures of Tintin: Young Readers Edition) Publication Date: October 24, 2011| Grade Level: 3 and up...
| | X-Men and Power Pack: The Power of X (X-Men Power Pack) Publication Date: May 3, 2006| Grade Level: P and up...
| | The Ancestor Tree: 9 Publication Date: September 1, 1994| Age Level: 7 and up When old, blind Nna-nna dies, the children are very sad because he knew each child's name and something special about each one--but in learning to accept his death, they learn a lesson about the value of life. ...
| | Mutley Goes Diving (Mutley's True Life Adventures) ...
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