 | Summer Lies: Stories
Release Date: August 14, 2012From Bernhard Schlink, the internationally best-selling author of The Reader, come seven provocative and masterfully calibrated stories. A keen dissection of the ways in which we play with truth and less-than-truth in our lives. Summer Lies brims with the delusions, the passions, the outbursts, and the sometimes irrational justifications people make within a mélange of beautifully rendered relationships. In ”After the Season,” a man falls quickly in love with a woman he meets on the beach but wrestles with his incongruous feelings of betrayal a...
 |  | Trabajos del reino (Largo recorrido) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: September 1, 2011| Series: Largo recorrido Lobo, the protagonist of this engrossing novel about life on the border between Mexico and the United States, has no education to speak of but possesses an amazing talent for converting any notable event into an epic ballad. When the local drug kingpin discovers him, Lobo becomes the kingdom’s artist-in-residence. Through his songs, he captures life both within the court and outside of it, and though initially his compositions serve to glorify and popularize the cartel, they eventually play an integral part in its demise. Wi...
|  | Eat Me: A Novel
Release Date: June 2, 1997In this eye-popping first novel--a runaway best-seller in Australia--Linda Jaivin invites readers to partake of a lusty banquet of conversations about that hottest topic of all--sex. The talk is served up in various trendy cafés by a foursome of bright, successful women: Julia, a photographer with a penchant for Peking duck and acrobatic men; Chantal, a fashion magazine editor, whose sexual exploits give new meaning to "mixing and matching"; Helen, a feminist scholar, whose wholesome demeanor belies her exotic sexual fantasies; and Philippa, a writer who appear...
|  | Faithless: Tales of Transgression
Release Date: June 4, 2002In this collection of twenty-one unforgettable stories, Joyce Carol Oates explores the mysterious private lives of men and women with vivid, unsparing precision and sympathy. By turns interlocutor and interpreter, magician and realist, she dissects the psyches of ordinary people and their potential for good and evil with chilling understatement and lasting power. ...
|  | Brides and Doom: Gender, Property, and Power in Medieval German Women's Epic (Middle Ages)
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|  | My Floating Mother, City (New Directions Paperbook)
Publication Date: January 28, 2009| Series: New Directions Paperbook (Book 1131) Exciting new work from one of Japan'smost acclaimed living poets.This exciting new collection, My FloatingMother, City, contains poems from KazukoShiraishi's most recent books published inJapan, including The Running of the FullMoon (2004) and My Floating Mother,City (2003), which received the BansuiPoetry Award and a Cultural Award from theEmperor of Japan. Also included here are threeamazing long sequences including "Sendai Metro,Greece Street," translated into English for thefirst time. ...
| | The rhymed life of St. Patrick
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|  | Ripples
Publication Date: March 1, 2003Norah Barclay finally found love in old age, only to lose it to the inevitability of death. Even as she railed at God, she knew her own choices had led her down the path which led to her sitting by the deathbed of Egan Corey as he drew his last breath. But she is not alone, even in the stillness of the night. Her grief is shared by One who can see the whole of the fabric of our lives, who decides, "...this time, for these two..." ...
|  | The Sleeping Dragons of Texas or The Teardrop of Death
Publication Date: February 29, 2012You're in trouble. It takes two days to shut the plant down and the hurricane hits tomorrow. If it hits directly, you can't keep going. But you don't have time to stop safely. If you stop now, the dragons get loose. Fires. Toxic fumes. Explosions. People in the hospital. Bodies in the morgue. All possible. All likely. Do you want to cause all that? Millions of dollars are made every day the plant runs and many more millions are lost if it's shutdown. Your job is at stake if you shutdown, everyone's life if you don't. If the wind blows the wrong way, the tea...
|  | 3537 - Seuss & Wreath Boxed Holiday Cards
Release Date: March 1, 2007Twelve 5" x 7" cards with colored envelopes packaged in a clear box. Perfect for sending fun, lovable season's greetings to everyone on your list! Outside Greeting: a little cheer! Inside Greeting: Happy Holidays ...
|  | GREAT JEWISH SHORT STORIES (Laurel)
Release Date: May 1, 1985| Series: Laurel In this wonderfully entertaining collection edited by Nobel Prize-winning author Saul Bellow, 28 stories by outstanding Jewish authors capture all the bold color and rich flavor of Jewish culture through the ages. Includes stories by Sholom Aleichem, Isaac Bebel, S.J. Agnon, and others. Reissue. ...
|  | Nutik, the Wolf Pup
Release Date: January 9, 2001| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up In an Eskimo village at the top of the world lived a little boy whose name was Amaroq. Named for the great wolf leader who saved the life of his big sister, Julie, Amaroq loved wolves as much as his big sister did.One day Julie brings home a sickly wolf pup named Nutik for Amaroq to feed and tend. "Don't fall in love with Nutik," Julie warns, "or your heart will break when the wolves come to take their pup home." Amaroq feeds and cares for Nutik, and soon the fuzzy little pup is romping and playing and following Amaro...
|  | The Vikings (Civilizations of the Ancient World)
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|  | I Can Follow Jesus (Happy Day Books: Level 3)
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|  | Run-Away Roley ((Bob the Builder) (Ready to Read, Level 1))
Publication Date: June 1, 2002 Ready-to-ReadLevel 1: Starting to ReadRoley is sleep-rolling his way through town! Can Bob and the machines get him home safely? ...
|  | Surprise Party (Giant First-Start Reader)
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|  | How to Get Ready for Short-Term Missions: The Ultimate Guide for Sponsors, Parents, and THOSE WHO GO!
Publication Date: May 16, 2006Can I drink the water?But I don't speak the language.You want me to sleep where?They eat what?How am I going to raise that much money?Is it really God's will for me to go?I don't know how to share the gospel.Are you ready?More than one million people will go into all the world on short-term missions trips this year. Are you ready to be one of them?Anne-Geri' and Greg have been in the field and led teams there-and back. They will help you prep and pack for the trip, put their arms around you while you're gone, and offer perspective as you reenter "normal" life.Ho...
|  | Spurgeon's Sermons (5 Vol. Set)
Publication Date: June 1, 1996The sermons of Charles Haddon Spurgeon were the pinnacle of preaching in mid-nineteenth-century England. They are still powerful and widely influential today. This five-volume set is a compilation of Spurgeon's best sermons, covering topics from Israel in Egypt and confession of sin to justification by grace and Paul's first prayer. Originally published in ten volumes in 1883, this collection was printed in five volumes by Baker in 1996 and is now back in print. ...
|  | Baker's Wedding Handbook: Resources for Pastors
Publication Date: May 1, 1994A comprehensive, creative, and up-to-date resource for conducting traditional and contemporary weddings. ...
|  | Practicing Passion: Youth and the Quest for a Passionate Church
Publication Date: April 26, 2004Every stage of life brings out certain human characteristics, and according to Kenda Creasy Dean, adolescence is particularly characterized by passion. If the church is to speak meaningfully to youth and in turn reap the many benefits that young people have to offer, then its ministry must be predicated on passion — the Passion of Christ, the passion of youth, and the passionate faith that results when these two things come together.The uniqueness of Practicing Passion lies in its relocating youth ministry in practical theology rather than in educationa...
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