 | Long Time Coming
Publication Date: November 1, 2010Faithful Christian Deidre Clark-Morris is a professional career-minded woman with a loving husband and beautiful home, but no children. Kenisha Smalls has lived in poverty her entire life and has three children by three different men. After learning that Kenisha has inoperable cervical cancer, the relationship between these two women becomes a catalyst of hope, leading them both to a place of redemption and healing. ...
 |  | Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel
Release Date: February 21, 2006In nineteenth-century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seven, is paired with a laotong, “old same,” in an emotional match that will last a lifetime. The laotong, Snow Flower, introduces herself by sending Lily a silk fan on which she’s painted a poem in nu shu, a unique language that Chinese women created in order to communicate in secret, away from the influence of men. As the years pass, Lily and Snow Flower send messages on fans, compose stories on handkerchiefs, reaching out of isolation to share the...
|  | An Amish Christmas (Brides of Amish Country, Book 3)
Publication Date: November 16, 2010When Karen Imhoff finds a beaten man lying unconscious by the road in her Amish community, she doesn't hesitate to help. "John Doe" needs a place to stay while he regains his memory, and she has a room to rent. The handsome Englisher proves invaluable around the family farm, yet his presence wreaks havoc with her emotions. Karen has her younger siblings to care for. She can't fall for an outsider who doesn't know his own identity. But as Christmas draws closer, the simple grace of this life—and this woman—could inspire John to make Karen's...
|  | The Great Purple Hoo-Ha: a comedy of perception Part II
Publication Date: March 21, 2010Joe climbed out of the hole into the gray light of a stormy afternoon. Nothing was going as planned. He still hadn't gotten his girlfriend, the goddess, into bed. The aliens never arrived and Elvis hadn't returned. Up on the stage, robed magicians toting automatic weapons called down unspeakable things from the sky. A crowd of a million people was beginning to riot. And Joe knew that it was up to him, the most famous man in the world, to save the day and bring forth the Great Purple Hoo-Ha - if he could only figure out what the heck it was. ...
|  | The Armour of Achilles (Adventures of Odysseus)
Publication Date: December 14, 2011| Series: Adventures of Odysseus The siege of Troy is in its 10th year, in the third book continuing from King of Ithaca and The Gates of Troy The Greeks, with Achilles at their head, have inflicted numerous defeats on the Trojans, but Troy itself still stands. Dispirited, bitter, and frustrated by the war, Odysseus and his men think lovingly of home. But while Agammenon is still determined to avenge himself upon Troy for the theft of Helen by Paris, they are all trapped by the oath that Odysseus created. Eperitus, captain of Odysseus' guards, is ...
|  | Poems of Andre Breton: A Bilingual Anthology
Publication Date: April 3, 2006Andre Breton (1896-1966) was the founder of Surrealism and a major leader of the avant-garde movement in France following World War I. Breton is internationally famous for his many prose works, including the "Manifestoes of Surrealism" and the novel "Nadja". Breton's poetry- imaginative, alive with the bizarre and striking images that are characteristic of Surrealism in the visual arts- is increasingly finding a wider audience that has come to appreciate his poetry as a witness to an influential movement and as an achievement unto itself.This exceptional volume...
|  | The American 1890s: A Cultural Reader
Publication Date: July 7, 2000America at the last fin de siècle was in a period of profound societal transition. Industrialization was well under way and with it a burgeoning sense of professionalism and a growing middle class that was becoming increasingly anxious about issues of race, gender, and class. The American 1890s: A Cultural Reader is a wide-ranging anthology of essays, criticism, and fiction first printed in periodicals during those last remarkable years of the nineteenth century, a decade commonly referred to as the “golden age” of periodical culture. To de...
|  | Architecture and Modern Literature
Publication Date: April 10, 2012 Architecture and Modern Literature explores the representation and interpretation of architectural space in modern literature from the early nineteenth century to the present, with the aim of showing how literary production and architectural construction are related as cultural forms in the historical context of modernity. In addressing this subject, it also examines the larger questions of the relation between literature and architecture and the extent to which these two arts define one another in the social and philosophical contexts of modernity. Architect...
|  | I Loved a Girl: A Private Correspondence
Publication Date: March 1, 2001The spiritual vision of Trobisch's classic answers to love's questions is reproduced here in a new edition. ...
|  | Escape to Paradise (Kimani Romance)
Publication Date: January 24, 2012| Series: Kimani Romance (Book 271) Desperate to flee the breaking scandal swirling around her ex, event coordinator Claudia Jefferies flies to exotic Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. As if being pampered at an exclusive spa weren't enough, now a drop-dead-gorgeous man is showering her with attention! But Claudia's too smart to get seriously involved, especially with a heartbreaker like Santiago Medina. If only her heart would listen to her head.…From the moment Santiago spots Claudia, he knows it's more than lust at first sight. And this man is used...
|  | Scandal on Rincon Hill: A Sarah Woolson Mystery (Sarah Woolson Mysteries)
Release Date: March 30, 2010| Series: Sarah Woolson Mysteries “Bringing Victorian San Francisco to colorful life, Tallman offers an entertaining mystery…will appeal to fans of Anne Perry and Rhys Bowen.” —Library Journal A body is found just blocks from attorney Sarah Woolson’s home on Rincon Hill. Sarah is on the case, but 19th-century San Francisco is soon thrown into a state of panic as a gruesome crime spree begins to take hold of the city. ...
|  | Richmond Noir (Akashic Noir)
Publication Date: March 1, 2010| Series: Akashic Noir The River City emerges as a hot spot for unseemly noir.Brand-new stories by: Dean King, Laura Browder, Howard Owen, Yazmina Beverly, Tom De Haven, X.C. Atkins, Meagan J. Saunders, Anne Thomas Soffee, Clint McCown, Conrad Ashley Persons, Clay McLeod Chapman, Pir Rothenberg, David L. Robbins, Hermine Pinson, and Dennis Danvers.FROM THE INTRODUCTION TO RICHMOND NOIR:"In The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, Henry Miller tosses off a hard-bitten assessment of the City on the James: 'I would rather die in Richmond somehow,' he writes, 'though God kno...
|  | The Trojan War and the Adventures of Odysseus (Books of Wonder)
Release Date: September 26, 1997| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Wrestling (Combat Sports)
Publication Date: August 1, 2010| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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|  | A Sea within a Sea: Secrets of the Sargasso
Release Date: October 23, 2000| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up The Sargasso Sea is a natural mystery. It is a warm "sea within a sea" in the midst of the cold Northern Atlantic Ocean where whirlpool-like currents have been said to becalm ships forever. Underneath huge tangles of seaweed are men-o-war, jellyfish, turtles, fish, and eels. Each spread in this book elaborately describes and depicts a characteristic of this complex and exciting watery habitat. Ruth Heller's rhythmic text and eye-popping illustrations go hand-in-hand in this 32-page hardcover book to explain the myths...
|  | Pablo Picasso: Master of Modern Art (Famous Lives (Raintree))
Publication Date: April 2004| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Jesus Raises Lazarus (I Can Read! / Bible Stories)
Release Date: February 25, 2011| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Game Plan for Life: Your Personal Playbook for Success
Publication Date: January 24, 2011Written with the sports fan in mind, Game Plan for Life is an “average Joe’s” guide to what the Bible has to say about such topics as relationships; finances; physical, emotional, and spiritual health; finding the right vocation; living a life of purpose; and overcoming sin and addiction. Written by 3-time Super Bowl and NASCAR championship winning coach/owner Joe Gibbs, edited by Jerry Jenkins, and featuring contributions from Randy Alcorn, Ravi Zacharias, John Lennox, Tony Evans, Chuck Colson, Josh McDowell, Don Meredith, Walt Larimore...
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