 | According to Their Deeds
Publication Date: March 1, 2009Charles Beale lives happily in the shadows of Washington, D.C., as a respectable rare-books dealer. Or mostly respectable. He has a streak of the gambler in him and when a devoted client dies--a man deeply connected to the Justice Department--Beale eagerly regains the man's book collection...and soon finds himself with more than he bid on. In one volume, Beale discovers documents incriminating a host of major political figures--blackmail material that might have led to murder. Weighing questions of justice and mercy--and with a bull's-eye on his back--Beale mus...
 |  | The Gate: Things My Mother Told Me
Publication Date: December 11, 2007An intimate novel of an eighty-year old women spending the last years of her life at the Institute of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.The problems she must face are as different as they are unexpected from anything one can imagine in the 'outside' world, not the least of which is her husband's gradual deterioration under the unforgiving progression of Alzheimer's disease.As we follow the inevitable loss of her own faculties, we discover what unexpected compensations nature offers to those whom no one else can help.Surprisingly, the book is spiced with abundant...
|  | The Gnostic Mystery
Release Date: September 15, 2008An ancient mystery in todays Middle East . . . Jack Staunton, an American businessman, makes a pilgrimage to war-torn Israel in hopes of rekindling his Christian faith. While traveling with his friend Punjeeh, an ER doctor from Jerusalem, Jack acquires an ancient scroll written by the Gnostics, a mystical group of early Christians, and his spiritual quest takes an unexpected turn. The scroll makes the startling claims that the Gnostics were the original followers of Jesus, and that they retained secret knowledge of Jesus that was not included in the Bible. Wit...
|  | The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Collector's Library)
Publication Date: October 9, 2012 ...
|  | More than Just a Man: A Dramatic Easter Musical
Publication Date: September 17, 2005Inspiring Easter musical - the ministry, life, death and resurrection of Jesus as seen through the eyes of Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea. ...
|  | Indian Poetry
Publication Date: May 8, 2006Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Pressare republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ...
|  | When I Am Playing with My Cat, How Do I Know That She Is Not Playing with Me?: Montaigne and Being in Touch with Life (Vintage)
Release Date: April 17, 2012| Series: Vintage A celebration of Montaigne, the most enjoyable and yet profound of all Renaissance writers. In the year 1570, at the age of thirty-seven, Michel de Montaigne gave up his job as a magistrate and retired to his château to brood on the deaths of his best friend, his father, his brother, and his firstborn child. But finding his mind agitated, rather than settled, by idleness, Montaigne began to write, giving birth to the Essays—a series of reflections on life in all its profundity and triviality. And, gradually, over the course of hi...
|  | Victorian Social Activists' Novels
Publication Date: January 28, 2011| ISBN-10: 1851966293 | ISBN-13: 978-1851966295The Victorian period was a time of massive social change. Novels played a key part in this process. While today the women authors of these works are better known for their campaigns and non-fiction, the novels presented in this four-volume reset edition are key in fully understanding them as individuals, as well as the causes they were fighting for. The writers of these novels were involved in various types of activism, using approaches ranging from conservative amelioration to radical militancy. Their works...
|  | When Darkness Falls
Release Date: October 1, 2000In a windswept Scottish cemetery, Jade MacGregor's carefree vacation abroad is marred by a seemingly random tragedy.A year later back home on a shadowy French Quarter street, she glimpses an oddly familar face. Coincidence--or something more distrubing? --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | On A Vineyard Veranda (Little Limericks)
Publication Date: May 16, 2007| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Frog Is Frog (English-Turkish) (Frog series)
Publication Date: January 1, 2000| Age Level: 4 and up...
|  | Coral (Underwater World)
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|  | Understanding the Human Body - The Circulatory System
Publication Date: November 22, 2002| Age Level: 10 and up...
|  | Painters of The Caves (National Geographic Society)
Release Date: February 1, 1998| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Lauber tells the remarkable story of the ear ly modern humans in Europe, such as the artists who worked i n the recently discovered Chauvet Caves in Southern France, and looks at the mysteries underlying the paintings themselv es. ' ...
|  | From Shoot to Apple (Start to Finish (Lerner Hardcover))
Publication Date: January 1, 2003 ...
|  | Handel
Publication Date: August 8, 2001| Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | 21 Days at Ground Zero: A Young Volunteer's Story
Release Date: February 18, 2002In September 2002, "21 Days at Ground Zero" was chosen by "Teen People" magazine as THE recommended 9/11 book for young adults. The book also was #1 on the Best Seller list at Booksurge.com.Ground Zero and America's Youth...A different perspective of living and learning from September 11.For the first time, the tragedy of September 11 and the aftermath is told by a young adult who spent three weeks living and working at Ground Zero. Juliet McIntyre and her friend Erica, both just 20, stepped out of their normal lives and ran the 5th floor operations at Stuyvesa...
| | Life when Jesus was a boy
Publication Date: 1981Describes how Jesus might have lived as a boy, interweaving the customs and practices of the time. Includes explanatory material on terms in the story. ...
|  | You Can Change Your World!: Creative Ways to Volunteer & Make a Difference
Release Date: April 1, 2003| Age Level: 10 and up In her last book, the industrious Sondra Clark mobilized her tween peers to dream big dreams and make them happen. Now, in You Can Change Your World!, Clark challenges readers ages 8-13 with a new vision to improve their homes, their schools, and the world. Making a difference begins, Sondra says, by keeping your eyes open for ways to do something nice for someone else. Sometimes it's as simple as being nice to your pesky little brother or collecting shampoos and soaps for a women's shelter. Other times it may require more sacrifice, such as ...
|  | Third Corinthians: Ancient Gnostics And The End Of The World
Publication Date: November 7, 2008This little known, 2000-year old Greek manuscript was used in the first two centuries to combat Gnostic cults. Whether or not it is an authentic copy of the original epistle written by the apostle Paul or not is gives an incredible look into the cults that arise in the last days. It contains a prophecy that the same heresies that pervaded the first century church would return before the Second Coming of the Messiah. ...
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