 | A Gathering of Old Men
Release Date: June 30, 1992Set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s, A Gathering of Old Men is a powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man. "Poignant, powerful, earthy...a novel of Southern racial confrontation in which a group of elderly black men band together against whites who seek vengeance for the murder of one of their own."--Booklist"A fine novel...there is a denouement that will shock and move readers as much as it does the characters."--Philadelphia Inquirer ...
 |  | Elisabeth's Daughter
Publication Date: December 4, 2003Katarina Elg is young and free. She adores falling in love, but lasting closeness frightens her and she cannot accept being tied down.Independence is more precious than anything else.Then she becomes pregnant and decides, surprisingly perhaps, to keep the baby.Her mother, Elisabeth, is supportive, but her lover reacts violently, believing that the pregnancy is no accident. Is violence inherited, Katarina wonders, and if so, can it be inherited among victims as well as perpetrators?These thoughts lead her to approachher mother, and the two women open up to ea...
|  | La caida de Lucifer (Spanish Edition) (Grandes Novelas)
Publication Date: July 6, 2012| Series: Grandes Novelas Esta es una recreacion de la historia del Antiguo Testamento, es decir, la historia de tres hermanos angeles, Lucifer, Michael, y Gabriel, hijos de Yehovah. Cuando Lucifer se entera de que Yehovah ha creado una nueva raza, los hombres, enloquece de celos, se rebela contra Dios, y es desterrado del cielo con un tercio de los angeles. Su venganza es contra la raza de los hombres, los hace caer con ellos tentando a Eva y contamina la nueva raza mandando demonios para que se junten con las mujeres humanas (y crea la raza de los Nefilim, una...
|  | Invasion of the UFO's (Bloodhounds, Inc. #4)
Publication Date: October 1, 1998| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Sean and Misty Hunter are stumped by their strangest mystery yet: a suspected UFO sighting. The stage is set for another eye-opening case! Ages 8-13. Bloodhounds, Inc. book 4. ...
|  | Chronicles of the Imagination: Lizard Face
Publication Date: March 1, 2008| Series: Chronicles of the Imagination Kidnapped! Only days before the first Christmas on Staranana ever, the unthinkable happens; a centuries old enemy returns. Three months earlier, Lizard Face vanished into deep space, and he soon faded from the minds of the people he had helped oppress. Now he's back with deadly intentions. Armed with a stolen Stararockan ship and a deadly alien computer virus, he kidnaps Scotty and takes him to an ancient world on the far side of the galaxy. His demand for the boy's safe return is an ancient Starananian relic the bears kn...
|  | The Passages of H. M.: A Novel of Herman Melville
Release Date: November 2, 2010From the author of the international bestseller The Last Station, a stirring novel about the adventurous life and tragic literary career of Herman Melville. As The Passages of H. M. opens, we see, through the eyes of his long-suffering wife Lizzie, an aging, angry, and drunken Herman Melville wreaking domestic havoc in his unhappy New York home. He is decades past his flourishing career as a writer of bestselling tales of seagoing adventures like Typee and Omoo. His epic but ungainly novel Moby-Dick was meant to make him immortal, but critics scoffed and...
|  | The Electra Plays
Publication Date: March 30, 2009| ISBN-10: 0872209644 | ISBN-13: 978-0872209640"Today good reading and effective performance of ancient drama require a constellation of talents to succeed, and in the four brought together for The Electra Plays we are getting some of the best. Justina Gregory provides a fine critical Introduction to the whole project, and the performance-tested translations of Peter Meineck, Cecelia Eaton Luschnig, and Paul Woodruff are wonderfully readable and speakable -- even when the events to be spoken of are not. This is not the usual random gathering of plays, but ...
|  | Heracles (Clarendon Paperbacks)
Publication Date: January 12, 1989| Series: Clarendon Paperbacks This critical edition, based on Diggle's authoritative text, is designed to help the modern reader to an appreciation of Euripides' poetry and dramatic art.Bond focuses on the formal elements that are prominent in Euripides' plays and his highly rhetorical style. ...
|  | A Woman of No Importance (Drama Classics)
Publication Date: September 1, 2005| ISBN-10: 1854598244 | ISBN-13: 978-1854598240A Drama Classics edition. ...
|  | Prophets
Publication Date: October 1, 2011America is tearing itself to pieces by following Pied Pipers of hate."Prophets" is Eric Hack's case study on the Abrahamic hate groups saturating every part of the United States.He blatantly thrusts the audience into the pulpits of these prophets of hate and poses the question, how can God will such hate? ...
|  | Tales from the Hindu Dramatists
Publication Date: December 28, 2007REVISED BY J. S. ZEMIN ...
|  | Pure Lizard
Publication Date: March 1, 2008In this new collection of poetry that juxtaposes images such as organic sunflowers in Pennsylvania with sunflowers grown out of the toxic soil of Chernobyl, transformation and the natural world are central themes. Poems that respond to the work of composers Telemann, Bob Zieff, and Philip Glass are included, as is a poetic correspondence with the Welsh writer Gillian Clarke on the writer's sense of home and place. ...
|  | The Life Significance of French Baroque Poetry (American University Studies Series II, Romance Languages and Literature)
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|  | The Dawn of Darkness: The Supernaturals (Volume 2)
Publication Date: July 3, 2012The Princess… Jolie Gasquet isn’t a wilting flower and unfortunately when it comes to her love life, she doesn’t take advice from anyone, including her family. They would like her to mate with the dashing Desmond Augustin but she would rather chew off her own tongue before she is trapped into a life with someone she can never love. The Pauper… Sasha Galloway may not be poor but he is the il-begotten son of William Galloway, a powerful vampire and member of the International Vampire Council. He is also an assassin for the Council and a...
|  | Tempted in the Night (Night Slayer, Book 3)
Publication Date: January 1, 2007For Jessica Winslow, the only good vampire is a staked vampire.Driven by revenge, the fiery brunette takes insane risks to destroy the undead wherever she finds them.Now she pursues her most fiendish target ever--and finds herself competing with the razor-sharp street smarts of a dangerously seductive man...Detective John Boehler has no problem dealing with vampires--not even the city's newest bloodsucker, a notorious serial killer John had failed to bring to justice.He does have a problem with the attractive vampire-hunter recklessly following the murderer's...
|  | In the Name of the Father
Publication Date: September 1, 1997A cold war thriller involving conspiracy and counter-plots between the Vatican and the Kremlin. ...
|  | The Neon Rain (A Dave Robicheaux Novel)
Publication Date: February 1, 1992 Detective Dave Robicheaux has fought too many battles: in Vietnam, with killers and hustlers, with police brass, and the bottle. Lost without his wife's love, Robicheaux's haunted soul mirrors the intensity and dusky mystery of New Orleans' French Quarter -- the place he calls home, and the place that nearly destroys him when he becomes involved in the case of a young prostitute whose body is found in a bayou. Thrust into the world of drug lords and arms smugglers, Robicheaux must face down a subterranean criminal world and come to terms with his own bruise...
|  | Sweet Danger (Felony & Mayhem Mysteries) (Albert Campion)
Publication Date: July 15, 2007| Series: Albert Campion (Book 5) After centuries as a Balkan backwater, the sleepy town of Averna has -- overnight -- become a stunningly valuable port, thanks to an earthquake that rejiggered the regional topography. But to whose coffers will that value accrue? Albert Campion, that interesting young man, has a hunch that the answer is to be found in a tiny Suffolk village, where a peculiar -- and dead-broke -- family may be able to lay claim to the Averna fortune, provided they can produce the requisite proof of lineage. The proof? Nothing terribly difficult....
|  | The Green Book
Release Date: March 13, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up Pattie and her family are among the last refugees to flee a dying Earth in an old spaceship. And when the group finally lands on the distant planet which is to be their new home, it seems that the four-year journey has been a success. But as they begin to settle this shiny new world, they discover that the colony is in serious jeopardy. Nothing on this planet is edible, and they may not be able to grow food. With supplies dwindling, Pattie and her sister decide to take the one chance that might make life possible on Shine. ...
|  | The Suburb Beyond the Stars (Game of Sunken Places)
Publication Date: June 1, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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