 | The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe (Norton Critical Editions)
Publication Date: April 2004| ISBN-10: 0393972852 | ISBN-13: 978-0393972856| Edition: 1st Edgar Allan Poe’s works, with their gothic and often obsessive themes,have had a significant influence on American literature.In this NortonCritical Edition, G. R. Thompson has fully introduced, annotated, andedited each text.“Backgrounds and Contexts” includes fifty-seven carefully chosendocuments that illuminate Poe’s prolific but short career, among themreviews, prefaces, and correspondence by Poe as well as thematic piecesdealing with Transcendentalism and alternative...
 |  | Objects of My Affection: A Novel
Release Date: May 1, 2012In the humorous, heartfelt new novel by the author of The Next Thing on My List, a personal organizer must somehow convince a reclusive artist to give up her hoarding ways and let go of the stuff she’s hung on to for decades. Lucy Bloom is broke, freshly dumped by her boyfriend, and forced to sell her house to send her nineteen-year-old son to drug rehab. Although she’s lost it all, she’s determined to start over. So when she’s offered a high-paying gig helping clear the clutter from the home of reclusive and eccentric painter Marva Meier Rios...
|  | My Lover, My Friend: True-life Stories of Lesbian Romance Between Friends
Publication Date: June 1, 2003What happens when a woman's best friend becomes something more? In these fiery true stories, women describe the explosive moment when their friend came into their arms as their lover, even for just one night.Lindsey Elder's series of true-life erotic stories includes the anthologies Early Embraces, Early Embraces II, Early Embraces III and Beginnings. She lives in Los Angeles and is on the lookout for your story. ...
|  | Leviathan
Release Date: April 17, 2012In 1928 the largest cruise liner the world has ever seen is launched. With a crew and passenger complement totalling nearly 30,000 people the Leviathan is bound for New York. However, it never reaches the Big Apple and simply… disappears! Twenty years later – with the Leviathan stranded on an unearthly sea – Detective Sergeant Lament begins to investigate the mystery at the liner’s heart. What he discovers will change his world forever — but it might just bring the Leviathan home… ...
|  | Life After God
Release Date: March 1, 1995We are the first generation raised without God. We are creatures with strong religious impulses, yet they have nowhere to flow in this world of malls and TV, Kraft dinners and jets. How do we cope with loneliness? Anxiety? The collapse of relationships?How do we reach the quiet, safe layer of our lives? In this compellingly innovative collection of stories, bestselling author Douglas Coupland responds to these themes. Cutting through the hype of modern living to find a rare grace amid our lives, he uncovers a new kind of truth for a culture stuck on fast-forward....
|  | Little Girl Lost (Hard Case Crime)
Release Date: March 29, 2011| Series: Hard Case Crime (Book 4) Miranda Sugarman was supposed to be in the Midwest, working as an eye doctor. So how did she end up shot to death on the roof of one of New York City’s seediest strip clubs? It’s John Blake’s job to find out – not just because he’s a private investigator, but because ten years earlier, Miranda had been his lover. Now he has to uncover the truth about the missing decade, about Miranda’s secret life as half of the strip club circuit’s hottest act, and about the vicious underwor...
|  | Kai: A Big Decision, Africa, 1440 (Girlhood Journeys)
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|  | The Queen and the Cats: A Story of Saint Helena
Publication Date: September 4, 2011Queen Helena has brought the greatest of gifts to the people of Cyprus. But when she tries to present the treasure, the Queen discovers that the local churches have been infested with a deadly problem. It’s up to Queen Helena and a little village girl to come up with a solution that will make the churches safe once more.The Queen and the Cats tells a little-known, but dearly loved story of Saint Helena, mother to Emperor Constantine. After discovering the location of the True Cross in the Holy Land, Saint Helena visited the island of Cyprus. Featurin...
|  | Narwhal: Unicorn of the Sea (Smithsonian Oceanic Collection Book) (Mini book with stuffed toy)
Publication Date: November 1, 2008| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | One Morning in Maine
Release Date: April 14, 1952| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: P and up "As we follow the story of Sal and his lost tooth we feel as refreshed as though we had spent a day with his family on their island".--Saturday Review. Caldecott Honor Book. Full-color illustrations. ...
|  | Ocean (Discovery Kids)
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| | Wheels and Axles (How Toys Work)
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|  | The Illustrated Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
Release Date: September 11, 2012Magic takes many forms. Supernatural magic is what our ancestors invoked in order to explain the world before they developed the scientific method. The ancient Egyptians explained the night by suggesting that a goddess swallowed the sun. The Vikings believed a rainbow was the gods’ bridge to earth. Aside from these extraordinary tales, there is another kind of magic that lies in the exhilaration of discovering the real answers to these questions. It is the magic of reality—science. Packed with dazzling illustrations and jaw-dropping facts, The Magi...
|  | The Beginner's Bible Super-Duper, Mighty, Jumbo Coloring Book (Beginner's Bible, The)
Release Date: September 4, 2012| Age Level: 3 and up...
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|  | On the True Doctrine: A Discourse Against the Christians
Release Date: February 19, 1987| ISBN-10: 0195041518 | ISBN-13: 978-0195041514The works of many early critics of the Christian church were burned by ruling emperors or otherwise destroyed in the second and third centuries, but the writings of the Greek pagan philosopher, Celsus, have survived indirectly through his eloquent opponent Origen of Alexandria.In his apologetical treatise, Contra Celsum, Origen argues against the ideas set forth by Celsus and quotes from Celsus' The True Doctrine at length.Through this treatise, Celsus has come to represent the detached pagan voice of the ages....
|  | Living the Call: An Introduction to the Lay Vocation
Publication Date: September 13, 2011Since 1965 the number of priests in the United States has fallen by some 30,000. But over that same time period, more than 30,000 laypeople have come into the employ of parishes and other Church institutions. Laypeople have stepped up to serve in a variety of new ministries, and they are relieving their pastors of many administrative burdens, enabling them to focus on their proper priestly duties. Lay teachers now outnumber nuns, brothers, and priests in Catholic schools by at least 19 to 1. In the history of the Church, laypeople have never been asked to ...
|  | The Time of Your Life: Self/Time Management for Pastors
Publication Date: August 1994Randall exposes mass market books that propose one-minute management techniques, that offer one-size-fits-all prescriptions, or that treat symptoms instead of causes.Instead, he presents a compelling case for living the time of your life by taking care of yourself.First, he shows that time management problems are actually caused by a fragmentation within a leader's personality, and not by having too many things to do.The loss of the self leads to a loss of direction or a loss of stability.Randall sets forth a useful chart for the levels of self/time managment tha...
|  | Be Your Own Mentor: Strategies from Top Women on the Secrets of Success
Release Date: February 27, 2001Surprising secrets of success from some of America's women leaders; all the things a mentor would tell you are revealed in this mentor-in-a-book. Sheila Wellington, the president of Catalyst, draws on Catalyst research, contacts, and know-how to tell you how to understand the unspoken rules in the real world of work today and how to get ahead.Catalyst studies reveal that having a mentor is the crucial key to success at work, and it's the single advantage men usually have, and women usually don't. Even at the best organizations for women, there is still a shorta...
|  | Charles Handy (Business Masterminds)
Publication Date: March 5, 2001| Series: Business Masterminds Social philosopher Charles Handy is widely regarded as the chief prophet of the modern workplace. Many of his predictions have already come true, including the decline of the traditional organization and job, and the emergence of the portfolio career. In this fascinating volume, Robert Heller reveals the key ideas shaping Charles Handy's radical approach to business management, and presents a series of masterclasses that show how to apply his unique insights. Explore Handy's views on: seeing businesses as communities, the four god...
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