 | Faith (Urban Christian)
Release Date: July 3, 2012| Series: Urban Christian Monet and Marcus Caldwell are living their version of the American Dream. Both are gainfully employed, Marcus as a detective for Chicago's Finest, and Monet as a nurse in the neonatal unit of an inner city hospital. They are faithful members of Reverend Ruth Wilcox's church, The Temple. The only thing missing from their life is a child. Doctors have been unable to explain the reason for Monet's inability to conceive, which she calls the Sarah Syndrome.<P>Then the unthinkable occurs. Monet is brutally assaulted. Months later, she lea...
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 | Jewel of Persia
Publication Date: June 1, 2011How can she love the king of kings without forsaking her Lord of lords?Kasia grew up in a poor Jewish home with more siblings than luxuries. But when a chance encounter forces her to the palace of Xerxes, she becomes a concubine to the richest man in the world. She alone, of all Xerxes' wives, loves the man beneath the crown. She alone, of all his wives, holds the heart of the king of kings.Traveling with Xerxes through Europe as he mounts a war against Greece, Kasia knows enemies surround her, but they re not the Spartans or Athenians. The threat lies with thos...
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 | A Gown of Spanish Lace (Women of the West #11)
Publication Date: August 1, 2006Ariana’s idyllic life is brutally disrupted by bandits who take her hostage. As her captivity stretches from days to weeks, her emotions swing between terror and boredom. Will she ever see her adoptive family again? And will she ever wear the wedding dress that is her only link to her birth parents? ...
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 | Metamorphosis (Oberon Modern Plays)
Publication Date: April 1, 2007| Series: Oberon Modern Plays Here is Franz Kafka’s terrifying but bizarrely comic story in a theatrically explosive new version. The ordinary, unremarkable life of the Samsas is turned into a six-legged nightmare when their son Gregor emerges one morning transformed into a monstrous insect. As revulsion turns to resentment, strange things start to happen to the Samsa family. ...
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 | Pharsalia (Masters of Latin Literature)
Release Date: December 16, 1993| ISBN-10: 0801481376 | ISBN-13: 978-0801481376Lucan's great poem, Pharsalia, recounts events surrounding the decisive battle fought near Pharsalus in 48 B.C. during the civil war between the forces of Pompey and Julius Caesar. Though the subject of this unfinished masterpiece is historical, many of its features are characteristic of epic poetry: Rousing battle scenes; tales of witches, monsters, and miracle; detailed catalogues; intricate similes; and speeches with a high degree of rhetorical elegance. However, Lucan's deft mix of humor and horror, of poli...
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 | Snowy Night with a Stranger
Publication Date: October 26, 2010Warm up on a winter’s night with three passionate love stories from three shining New York Times bestselling authors! Jane Feather leads an unwitting Yuletide traveler down a twisting path. . . . Edward Vasey, Viscount Allenton, is journeying precariously through a snowstorm when his coach is overtaken by highwaymen! Robbed of his money, Ned takes refuge at Selby Hall, where a spirited beauty with a shocking secret may steal something more—his heart. Sabrina Jeffries unlocks the heart of an embittered lord. . . . When a coach accident strands hei...
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 | The Body in the Library: A Miss Marple Mystery (Miss Marple Mysteries)
Release Date: April 12, 2011| Series: Miss Marple MysteriesIt’s seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing an evening dress and heavy makeup, which is now smeared across her cheeks. But who is she? How did she get there? And what is the connection with another dead girl, whose charred remains are later discovered in an abandoned quarry? The respectable Bantrys invite Miss Marple to solve the mystery . . . before tongues start to wag. ...
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 | Tom and Ricky Mystery 1 (High Noon) (Set 1)
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| Magic Johnson: Champion with a Cause (Achievers)
Publication Date: May 1992| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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 | Fundamental Hockey (Fundamental Sports)
Publication Date: June 1995| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
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 | The Ugly Goddess
Publication Date: October 2002| Age Level: 9 and up Resigned to her fate as consort of the god Amun, 14-year-old Princess Meret prepares to be confined in a temple for the rest of her life, with only a statue of the ugly goddess Taweret for company. Meanwhile, a young Greek soldier Hector determines to save her from that fate in the hopes of winning her love. And when the magical statue of the goddess disappears, it is the lowly shopsweeper Bata who finds it. When the three meet and join forces in a desperate race across the desert, they find that the very security of Egypt is at stake. Alth...
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 | Words That Changed History - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Publication Date: March 1, 2000| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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 | Happy Birthday, Thomas!
Release Date: September 19, 1990| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up Illus. in full color. It's Thomas's birthday, but where are all the presents, balloons, and silly hats? Thomas thinks his friends have forgotten, but they may have a surprise for him. ...
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 | Wolf Child
Publication Date: September 30, 1989Too weakened by illness to be a hunter, nine-year-old Teo is apprenticed to the toolmaker Mova but leads a lonely existence until he finds and befriends an orphaned wolf cub. But food is scarce and the leader of the clan is against keeping the animal. ...
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 | Lunch Bunnies
Publication Date: September 1, 1996| Age Level: 4 and up In an amusing tale of first-day-of-school jitters, Clyde is excited about his school but has fears about lunchtime, worrying that no one will sit with him, but when the time approaches, his fears are quickly put to rest. ...
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 | Speaking Out: The Civil Rights Movement 1950-1964 (Crossroads America)
Release Date: December 27, 2005| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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| Lebanon (Major Muslim Nations)
Publication Date: February 1, 2010| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
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 | Big Silver Space Shuttle
Publication Date: May 2000| Age Level: 2 and up Blast off into outer space! Young astronauts launch the space shuttle, release the solid rocket boosters, operate the orbital maneuvering system, activate a satellite, and more - all before landing back on earth! LISTPRICE: $7.95 ...
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 | A Cousin's Prayer (Indiana Cousins)
Publication Date: September 1, 2009| Series: Indiana Cousins (Book 2) Kumme to Amish country, where the simple ways of life lead to hope and healing. Katie Miller is traumatized after her boyfriend is killed in a van in which she was also a passenger. How will she find her way out of the valley of her depression? Freeman Bontrager will make any excuse to be near to Katie, hoping to win her love. But how far will he go to gain her trust. . .and her heart? What will bring this girl out of the shadows of fear, and open her heart to life—and love? (20090901) ...
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 | The Fragrance of God
Publication Date: February 21, 2006In this literary gem Vigen Guroian chronicles not merely the changing seasons but the course of his own life as he and his family move from Maryland to a new home near the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Leaving the old garden behind and cultivating another garden become an emblem of our journey through life, marked as it is by both bitter losses and sweet new blessings.While deeply personal, The Fragrance of God vividly unfolds the great biblical themes of the grandeur of God’s creation, the senses as “paths” to experiencing God, and the...
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