 | Cottonwood Whispers
Publication Date: August 31, 2009In this sequel to Jennifer’s award-winning debut novel Fireflies in December, Jessilyn Lassiter and her best friend Gemma Teague have survived prejudice and heartache in their lifelong friendship, but the summer of 1936 threatens to tear them apart yet again. Gemma’s job with the wealthy Hadley family leads to a crush on their youngest son. But Jessilyn’s insistence that he’s no good and that no rich white man would ever truly fall for a poor black girl like Gemma puts them at odds. Tragedy strikes when Jessilyn’s cherished ...
 |  | The Ghost-Feeler: Stories of Terror and the Supernatural
Publication Date: December 31, 2002| ISBN-10: 0720611520 | ISBN-13: 978-0720611526Readers of The Buccaneers, The House of Mirth, and the recently filmed The Age of Innocence may be surprised to learn that Edith Wharton, known for her elegant narrative style, described herself as someone with an intense Celtic sense of the supernatural."" As a ""ghost-feeler,"" she wrote a number of chilling tales that objectify this sense of unease, even terror. With themes of vampirism, isolation and hallucination, they reflect the author's internalized fears and her unhappy experience with marriage. So...
|  | Uneasy Fortunes
Publication Date: June 12, 2012Battered by his past, Pete knows he has no business falling for anyone. But when time can't heal a wound, love steps in to make it right. Inspired by a true story of the post Civil War South, this gentle rustic romance will pull you in from the first page and leave you with a renewed hope in the power of real love. ...
|  | Turning God's Face
Publication Date: May 31, 2012Fr. Tom Kennedy's first experience with something totally out of the norm is when he hears the confession of a small boy who scares the priest with his evil description of something he has done and for which he has no remorse. The Nazarene woman approaches a school board meeting for the purpose of lodging a complaint against their removal of all books relating in any way to Christianity. What she encounters at the meeting is our first look at the power of Satan unchecked. A number of other individuals find disturbing human actions and nature gone wrong. What has...
|  | Escape from the Wasteland: Romanticism and Realism in the Fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph)
Publication Date: April 15, 1996| ISBN-10: 067426181X | ISBN-13: 978-0674261815Lurid depictions of sex and impotence, themes of emperor worship and violence, the use of realism and myth - these characterize the fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo. Napier discovers similarities as well as dissimilarities in the work of two writers of radically different political orientations. Napier places Yukio's and Kenzaburo's fiction in the context of postwar Japanese political and social realities and, in a new preface for the paperback edition, reflects on each writer's position in the tradit...
|  | Henry Miller and Surrealist Metaphor (Modern American Literature)
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|  | A Reader's Guide to the Police Procedural (Reader's Guides to Mystery Novels)
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|  | Sailor Moon Vol. 8
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|  | The Tenderfoot: Lucky Luke 13 (Lucky Luke Adventures)
Publication Date: December 16, 2008| Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Jason and the Golden Fleece
Publication Date: April 10, 2005| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up Award-winning children's author James Riordan boldly retells this story from Greek mythology, introducing readers to the first great European hero to undertake a grand journey. Accompanied by some of ancient Greece's bravest heroes, Jason leads an expedition to retrieve the Golden Fleece, the property of a king in a far-off land. Traveling by sea, they encounter trial after trial along their route — reeking Harpies, deadly clashing rocks, and fierce Amazon warrior women — and yet more challenges await the...
|  | Kobe Bryant: Basketball Big Shot (Sports Achievers Biographies)
Publication Date: August 2000| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | The Traitor: Golden Mountain Chronicles: 1885
Release Date: October 26, 2004| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
| | Philadelphia (Downtown America Book)
Publication Date: December 1988| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Flying a Flag for Hitler, My Childhood in Nazi Germany
Publication Date: August 18, 2005The story of a child growing up in the shadow of war. A story of separation, uncertainty, fear and hope. Elsbeth was only five years old when World War II broke out, but she soon began to understand how the war would affect her: coping with food shortages, moving from house to house to avoid the air raids and having to get used to the pain of a missing father. Alongside these dramatic events she tells of ordinary family life: celebrations; going shopping (being forced to give the Nazi salute to shopkeepers) and school days. A fascinating autobiographical acco...
|  | Secular Franciscan Companion
Publication Date: June 20, 1986| ISBN-10: 0819909106 | ISBN-13: 978-0819909107| Edition: Revised Readings to aid in the prayer life of Secular Franciscans. ...
|  | The Divine Liturgy ( Alfeyev) Music CD (Slavic Edition)
Publication Date: November 1, 2009This musical recording in church Slavonic of the Divine Liturgy is imbued with the spirit of prayer. Not produced in a studio or staged in a concert hall, it was recorded live in the church of St Nicholas on the Three Mountains in Moscow, with the composer as the celebrant and the voices of the State Tretyakov Gallery Choir leading the faithful in prayer. Marked by a peaceful, bright mood, the melodies are simple, easily remembered, and similar to the Obikhod (book of daily services). Inspired by his service at the altar of God, Archbishop Hilarion composed ...
|  | Passionaries: Turning Compassion into Action
Publication Date: October 1, 2006 Passionaries’ thirty-five profiles describe leaders of volunteer organizationsthat are significantly impacting millions of lives. Each story chronicles the personalinspiration behind the organization, the obstacles its creator had to overcome,and lives that have been touched or changed.The success of theseheroes is shared with more than twenty million mini-passionary volunteerswho donate millions of hours annually—and also create ripples of vision andchange. Readers will be touched, moved, and inspired. They will have access to important f...
|  | Explorations in the Sociology of Consumption: Fast Food, Credit Cards and Casinos
Publication Date: June 1, 2001| ISBN-10: 0761971203 | ISBN-13: 978-0761971207| Edition: 1 In this book, one of the leading social theorists and cultural commentators of modern times, turns his gaze on consumption. George Ritzer, author of the famous McDonaldization Thesis, demonstrates the irrational consequences of the rational desire to consume and commodify. He examines how McDonaldization might be resisted, and situates the reader in the new cultural spaces that are emerging in society: shopping malls, casino hotels, Disneyfied theme parks and Las Vegas -- the new `cathedrals of cons...
|  | Strategic Financial Planning over the Lifecycle: A Conceptual Approach to Personal Risk Management
Publication Date: May 28, 2012This book on personal financial planning and wealth management employs the lifecycle model of financial economics. The central idea of "consumption smoothing" is used to connect chapters and topics such as saving and investment, debt management, risk management, and retirement planning. The first part of the book is nontechnical and aimed at a wide audience with no special technical background. The second part of the book provides a rigorous presentation of the lifecycle model from first principles using the calculus of variations. The accompanying website is fo...
|  | New Dialectics and Political Economy (Political Science & International Relations)
Publication Date: February 8, 2003| ISBN-10: 0333999339 | ISBN-13: 978-0333999332| Edition: 1St Edition Many of the leading thinkers on dialectics in the Marxian tradition have collaborated here to put forward and debate challenging new perspectives on the nature and importance of dialectics. The issues dealt with range from the philosophical consideration of the precise nature of dialectical reasoning, to dialectics and economic theory, and to more concrete concerns such as how dialectics can help us think about globalization, freedom, inflation, and subjectivity. ...
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