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Road to London. by Barbara Mitchelhill

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Mitchelhill, Barbara, PUBLISHER: Andersen Press, Thomas dreams of becoming an actor, and when Shakespeare comes home to Stratford, Thomas's life changes forever. Thomas is desperate to join 'the players', he'll do anything to watch them perform, even skip school and risk a caning. But when Thomas's rule breaking gets him in trouble with more than just his school master, he has to flee his home and make his way to London. Here he meets his hero, Shakespeare, and his players. But behind the excitement of the theatres is a grimy world of deception, poison and treason. Will Thomas manage to uncover the plot in time? And will he manage to save Shakespeare from a fate worse than death?

Lost in Cat Brain Land

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Pierce, Cameron, PUBLISHER: Eraserhead Press, Sad stories from a surreal world. A fascist mustache. A desert inside a dead cat. The ghost of Franz Kafka. Primordial entities mourn the death of their child. The desperate serve tea to mysterious creatures. A hopeless romantic falls in love with a pterodactyl. From a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles where robotic gargoyles are law, to a blighted suburbia where the elephant god Ganesh seeks revenge on a man and his android wife, Cat Brain Land is a place of domestic despair and nightmare foreboding. Where sirloin steaks enroll in daycare and ex-lovers return as tiny dolls. This is a land of camel people and the Lord of Meat. The farther into Cat Brain Land you get, the more difficult it will be to get out.

The Sandman

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Winn, Matthew, PUBLISHER: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing, Rueben "Cracker" Graham is a death row inmate at Starke prison. He is biding his time until his meeting with "Old Sparky" an infamous electric chair that has, on occasion, been known to malfunction. With nothing else to do but read, Cracker whiles away his hours with a book. A book that holds a secret to his freedom.Timothy Duggan has found himself thrust into a realm of nightmares that haunt not only his sleep, but his waking moments as well. Because when he awakes, evidence of his nightmares has crossed over into reality. Now Timothy has to struggle with the knowledge that he is either going completely insane, or he is a cold-blooded serial killer.These are desperate men who's worlds inevitably collide.

The Mind Invaders

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hunt, Dave, PUBLISHER: Harvest House Publishers, Spine-tingling action follows this incredible breakthrough in mind research. Opening doors to the unlimited power of the mind, aliens from another dimension share their gift of psychic power -- promising a new era of peace. But when governments get involved... Discovering the CIA and Russian Intelligence's battle for psychic control, famed journalist Carla Bertelli joins the fray as she delves into the power behind the alien minds who identify themselves as the Archons (the "Nine"). Convinced they are benevolent, she is devastated when Ken renounces the paranormal and embraces Christianity. Torn between her love for Ken and her contempt for his demon theory, Carla plunges into a search for the truth. The suspense deepens when Carla discovers the shocking truth and begins a desperate race against time...

Celia, a Slave

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: McLaurin, Melton A., PUBLISHER: Harper Perennial, In , fourteen-year-old Celia became the property of Robert Newsom, a prosperous and respected Missouri farmer. For the next five years, she was cruelly and repeatedly molested by her abusive master--and bore him two children in the process. But in , driven to the limits of her endurance, Celia fought back. And at the tender age of eighteen, the desperate and frightened young black woman found herself on trial for Newsom's murder--the defendant in a landmark courtroom battle that threatened to undermine the very foundations of the South's most cherished institution. Based on court records, correspondences and newspaper accounts past and present, "Celia, A Slave" is a powerful masterwork of passion and scholarship--a stunning literary achievement that brilliantly illuminates one of the most extraordinary events in the long, dark history of slavery in America.

Ten Thousand Eyes: The Amazing Story of the Spy Network That

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Collier, Richard, PUBLISHER: Lyons Press, When France fell to the Germans in , a slight, scholarly twenty-eight-year-old captain of engineers and professor escaped to England, and with General Charles De Gaulle and Andre Dewavrin, he organized an intelligence service with one goal -- to secure a blueprint for Germany's Atlantic Wall and place it in the hand of the Allies. What follows is a remarkable story of a clandestine spy network comprised of sailors, farmers, painters, housewives, and children all unified in one purpose -- the fall of the Third Reich. Richard Collier tells the story of how ordinary men and women from all walks of life risked torture and death in German-occupied Normandy to furnish the Allied forces with detailed information of the German coastal defenses, knowledge essential for D-Day success. Working from material both published and unpublished, Collier has created an authentic record of one of the most remarkable episodes of World War II, a human story of a group of ordinary people whose faith paved the way for Eisenhower's great sweep on D-Day.

Midnight: A Dark Age Dawning Novel

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Connor, Ellen, PUBLISHER: Penguin Putnam Inc, Second in a stunning post-apocalyptic paranormal romance trilogy. Three years of wandering the postapocalyptic wasteland has stripped Dr. Chris Welsh of hope. A harrowing loss drove him from his home, and he hasn't stopped moving-until he encounters Valle de Bravo, a haven of civilization amid the chaos of the Change. Soldiers take their orders from Rosa Cortez-the iron hand within a velvet glove. The last thing Rosa needs is a feral loner upsetting the town's tentative balance. However, for the good of her people, she lets Chris stay, and as bloodthirsty raiders strike again and again, Chris and Rosa battle hellhounds and dust pirates while also fighting desperate attraction. To save them, love must overcome the pain of the past-and build a future in this brutal Dark Age...

Tiger in the Shadows

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wilson, Debbie / Wilson, Debra, PUBLISHER: Kregel Publications, Stefanie Peng abandons her comfortable American life for a desperate quest--gaining the release of her grandfather, an underground pastor, from an oppressive Chinese labor camp. But the "Beijing Tiger," a Chinese master spy, stalks her every move; clawing for leverage over America through her father, a world-renowned physicist, and the leaders of the Chinese church. Only the courage of the enigmatic man who loves her can save her. From the labor camps to illegal union meetings, from prison to the underground church, Stefanie comes face-to-face with the value of her freedom and the cost so many pay for the faith. A Guaranteed Fiction Title The author--a member of Human Rights in China--knows the Chinese situation A dramatic look at the living conditions of persecuted brothers and sisters in ChristTouches a growing global consciousness

Coq Au Vin: A Nanette Hayes Mystery

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Carter, Charlotte, PUBLISHER: Mysterious Press, Nanette's Aunt Vivian vanished into the jet set years ago, leaving her favorite niece with only fond memories of disco jumpsuits and serial husbands. So when Nanette's mom receives a desperate telegram from Viv in Paris, Nanette jumps at the chance to go and help her beloved aunt. After all, she got her wild streak from Viv, and besides, it's France. When she arrives, Aunt Viv is nowhere to be found, but her abandoned suitcase holds clues that date back to an old scam in the jazz clubs of Paris, and, apparently, an old murder. Now it's up to Nanette, and her new amour, Andre, to wade through a pool of dangerously eccentric characters to find her wily old aunt -- and Nanette would really prefer to find her alive...

Hurricane

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Trueman, Terry, PUBLISHER: HarperCollins, outside, the wind is howling. it is a monster shrieking to get inside. outside, the rain is a solid wall of water. everything is dark. everything is destroyed. everything is gone.... Everything except for the desperate courage of those who survive that terrifying night. After hours of cowering in the dark with no lights, no warmth, and the terrible noises of the rain and wind pounding on the walls, Jose walks out his front door and steps into a nightmare. But his nightmare has only begun as he and the few who are left in his small village start to pull their lives back together. Based on Hurricane Mitch's devastation of Honduras in , Terry Trueman's powerful story is about a young boy's fear and courage in the face of a force of nature too huge to even imagine.

Kronstadt : The Fate of a Soviet Democracy

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Getzler, Israel, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, This is the first major study of revolutionary Kronstadt to span the period from February to the uprising of March . It focuses attention on Kronstadt's forgotten golden age, between March and July , when Soviet power and democracy flourished there. Professor Getzler argues that the Kronstadters' 'Third Revolution' of March was a desperate attempt at a restoration of that Soviet democracy which they believed had been taken from them by Bolshevik 'commissarocracy'. Pointing to continuity in personnel, ideology and institutions linking the Kronstadt experiment in Soviet democracy with the March uprising, the author sees that continuity reflected in the Kronstadt tragedy's central figure, the long-haired, dreamy-eyed student Anatolii Lamanov. Chairman of the Kronstadt Soviet in and chief editor of its Izvestiia, Lamanov became the ideologist of the uprising and was soon after executed as a 'counter-revolutionary'.

Stolen Away

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Harvey, Alyxandra, PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury UK, For seventeen years, Eloise Hart had no idea the world of Faery even existed. Now she has been abducted and trapped in the Rath of Lord Strahan, King of Faery. Strahan was only meant to rule for seven years, as Faery tradition dictates, and then give up his crown to another. But he won't comply, and now chaos threatens both worlds. The only one who can break his stranglehold on the Faery court is his wife... Eloise's aunt Antonia. Using Eloise to lure Antonia, Strahan captures his wife, desperate to end the only threat to his reign. Now Eloise must become the rescuer. Together with her best friends Jo and Devin, she must forge alliances with other Fae, including a gorgeous protector named Lucas, and Strahan's mysterious son, Eldric-who may or may not betray them.

Eyes of the Storm

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Smith, Jeff / Hamaker, Steve, PUBLISHER: Graphix, In "Eyes of the Storm," book three in the epic BONE series, Gran'ma Ben reveals long-kept secrets about Thorn's royal heritage and the ancient enmities that may lead to war. In "Eyes of the Storm," volume three of the nine-book BONE saga, Lucius, Smiley, and Phoney survive an attack by the rat creatures and return safely to Lucius' tavern in Barrelhaven. Phoney, desperate to win a bet with Lucius, stokes the townspeople's fear of dragons and boasts that he is a professional dragonslayer. Back at the farm, Fone Bone and Thorn are troubled by strange dreams, and Gran'ma Ben's reaction to them is stranger still: She reveals long-kept secrets and warns of great danger. Thorn, Fone Bone, and Gran'ma Ben may have to leave the farm forever.

Anything But Typical

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Baskin, Nora Raleigh, PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, Jason Blake is an autistic 12-year-old living in a neurotypical world.Most days it's just a matter of time before something goes wrong. But Jason finds a glimmer of understanding when he comes across PhoenixBird, who posts stories to the same online site as he does. Jason can be himself when he writes and he thinks that PhoneixBird-her name is Rebecca-could be his first real friend. But as desperate as Jason is to met her, he's terrified that if they do meet, Rebecca wil only see his autism and not who Jason really is.By acclaimed writer Nora Raleigh Baskin, this is the breathtaking depiction of an autistic boy's struggles-and a story for anyone who has ever worried about fitting in.

Evil Ways

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gustainis, Justin, PUBLISHER: Solaris, In a story that ranges from Baghdad to Los Angeles, "EVIL WAYS" sees eccentric billionaire Walter Grobius attempt to unleash a devastating magical apocalypse. Quincey Morris and his partner, white witch Libby Chastain, are drawn into their deadliest case yet, but from different directions. In Los Angeles, Quincey is blackmailed by the FBI into investigating a series of ritualistic child murders. In New York, Libby barely escapes an attempt on her life by assassins armed with magical weapons. Both of these threads eventually intertwine, leading the investigators to a conspiracy so vast and diabolical as to defy belief. The final, bloody confrontation takes place at Grobius's isolated Idaho estate, on Walpurgis Night -- the night of the Witches' Sabbath. Quincey and Libby, and their allies, must fight a desperate battle against immensely powerful dark forces that threaten the future of all mankind.

The Circus in Winter

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Day, Cathy, PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), From to , the Great Porter Circus made the unlikely choice to winter in an Indiana town called Lima, a place that feels as classic as Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, and as wondrous as a first trip to the Big Top. In Lima an elephant can change the course of a man's life-or the manner of his death. Jennie Dixianna entices men with her dazzling Spin of Death and keeps them in line with secrets locked in a cedar box. The lonely wife of the show's manager has each room of her house painted like a sideshow banner, indulging her desperate passion for a young painter. And a former clown seeks consolation from his loveless marriage in his post-circus job at Clown Alley Cleaners. Cathy Day follows the circus people into their everyday lives and brings the greatest show on earth to the page.

Crossing Sand Creek

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Burk, Pearl Gladwyn, PUBLISHER: PublishAmerica, Daniel Frey is forced by circumstance to abandon a life of security and plenty in South Russia and emigrate to America in the s. Eighteen-year-old Hilda and her older brother, Gus, struggle with their loyalty to family and faith as a strange new world opens up to them. A chance encounter on their arrival at Newton, Kansas, changes Hildaas life forever. Tag is an outsider who has amnesia, carries a gun, owns a saloon, and has nightmares that fill him with terroraand who wins her heart. Gus yearns to experience places beyond the boundaries of the Mennonite community north of Sand Creek. Daniel is a devout and desperate father who strives to keep his children within the discipline of the faith; however, Hilda, drawn by the love of an outsider, and Gus, drawn by adventure, face danger, estrangement, fear, and murder on the Kansas prairie.

Destiny's Embrace

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Jenkins, Beverly, PUBLISHER: Avon Books, Gentleman Seeks Housekeeper. Must be willing to travel. Desperate for another life away from Philadelphia, headstrong and beautiful Mariah Cooper answers an advertisement for a housekeeper at the other end of the continent. Waiting in California is the most breathtaking--and arrogant--man she has ever met... and he'd like nothing better than for Mariah to go back home Logan Yates has run Destiny, the family ranch, since he was a boy. He doesn't need this Eastern miss his stepmother hired, though his home's chaotic state suggests otherwise. Still, he's secretly pleased that Mariah gives as good as she gets--and he must fight the urge to take her in his arms and kiss her whenever she proudly stands her ground. But when he's in danger of losing her, Logan will have to choose between pride... and his heart's true desire.

The Dovekeepers

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hoffman, Alice, PUBLISHER: Scribner Book Company, "The Dovekeepers" is Alice Hoffman's most ambitious and mesmerizing novel: "striking....Hoffman grounds her expansive, intricately woven, and deepest new novel in biblical history, with a devotion and seriousness of purpose" ("Entertainment Weekly").Nearly years ago, nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on Masada, a mountain in the Judean desert. According to the ancient historian Josephus, two women and five children survived. Based on this tragic and iconic event, Hoffman's novel is a spellbinding tale of four extraordinarily bold, resourceful, and sensuous women, each of whom has come to Masada by a different path. The lives of these four complex and fiercely independent women intersect in the desperate days of the siege. All are dovekeepers, and all are also keeping secrets--about who they are, where they come from, who fathered them, and whom they love. "The Dovekeepers "is Alice Hoffman's masterpiece. Acquista Ora

Right to Arm Bears

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Dickson, Gordon R., PUBLISHER: Baen Books, HUMANS OR HEMNOIDS: AN UNBEARABLE CHOICE Planet Dilbia is in a crucial location for both humans and their adversaries, the Hemnoids. Therefore making friends with the Dilbians and establishing a human presence there is of the utmost importance, which may be a problem, since the bearlike Dilbians stand some nine feet tall, and have a high regard for physical prowess. They're not impressed by human technology, either. A real man, er, bear doesn't need machines to do his work for him. But Dilbians "are" impressed by sharp thinking, and some have expressed a grudging admiration for the logical (and usually sneaky) mental maneuvers that the human "shorties" have used to get themselves out of desperate jams. Just maybe that old human craftiness will win over the Dilbians to the human side. If not, we lose a nexus, and the Dilbians will learn just how unbearable Hemnoids can be....

Morning River: A Novel of the Great Missouri Wilderness in

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gear, W. Michael, PUBLISHER: Forge, During the winter of , Richard Hamilton--a timid Harvard philosophy student--arrives in St. Louis on business for his father. Robbed and beaten, desperate to save his life, he reluctantly joins the crew of the "Maria," a fur trader's keelboat. Bound for the beautiful, wild, and dangerous Indian country of the Upper Yellowstone River, the native Bostonian begins the education and adventure of a lifetime. On a converging path is Packrat, a Pawnee warrior who captures a beautiful young Shoshone medicine woman named Heals Like a Willow. But slaves with ties to the spirit world can--and do--fight back. As the "Maria" struggles deeper into the wilderness, Richard and Willow are cast together: seekers of knowledge and spirit, unwitting adversaries separated by time, space, and birthright. As inevitable as the collision of their two worlds, their love begins to unfold--and with it the terrible consequences of a forbidden consummation.

Special Relationship

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sisman, Robyn, PUBLISHER: Penguin Books, Limited (UK), A razor-sharp romance from the author of "Weekend in Paris" and "Summer in the City" Renowned London literary agent Annie Hamilton never forgot Jordan Hope. And now he's back. As the saxophone-playing United States presidential hopeful, Jordan is a constant reminder to Annie of their whirlwind love affair during the heady days of Oxford in the s?and of the secret she's kept ever since. Comfortably married with three wonderful children, Annie thinks her life is complete. But her son Tom, now twenty-one years old, discovers Annie's secret?and his own shocking connection to it. In tumult, Tom flees to Manhattan to try to unravel the past and confront the man who might be his father, with no regard for Jordan's delicate political situation. Desperate to explain, Annie races after Tom?and straight into the arms of the man she thought she?d never see again.

The Greek & Latin Doctors

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wand, J. W., PUBLISHER: Wyndham Hall Press, Today, when not only the Anglican Communion specifically but the Church Catholic generally seem in such desperate need of historical moorings for meaningful and productive theological discussions, it seems nothing less than fitting that this classic treatise on the Doctors of the church be brought back into general circulation in order that all those who truly wish to be accurately informed about the origins of the Church's great thoughts might have that opportunity. Today's tragedy in too many theological discussions is two-fold -- the consistent absence of a deep appreciation and understanding of the historical roots of our faith, and the general presumption that the present experience of the Church should automatically be valued more highly than the past experience of the Church. If this little classic does nothing more than contribute to the re-education of the Church Today about the origin and value of the Church Yesterday, then the effort will have been well worthwhile.

The Book of Matthew: A Macabre Novel of Suspense

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: White, Thomas, PUBLISHER: McBooks Press, Plagued by a series of frightening murders in San Francisco, Homicide Inspector Clemson Yao enlists the help of Angie Strachan, a realtor who tried--and failed--to become the city's first female homicide inspector. Facing off against a ghoulish serial killer who whimsically refers to his grotesque murders as "messies," Clem and Angie slowly unravel the murderer's clues, but their quarry is always one step ahead of them, and even an FBI profiler can't help them pin down the twisted mind behind the crimes. Gripped by a macabre obsession for a decade, the killer has evolved into a grandmaster of slow, anguished death, roaming the globe to catalog the most despicable methods of execution and keeping his research in dozens of leather-bound notebooks. It's a desperate race against time, for his next victims are already picked out, and it seems that no one can stop him.

The War of Knives: A Matty Graves Novel

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Campbell, Broos, PUBLISHER: McBooks Press, When Matty Graves, acting lieutenant in the newly formed U.S. Navy, agrees to become a spy in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, he plunges headlong into a brutal world of betrayal and double-cross beyond anything he's ever known. At first the bloody civil war between former slaves and their mixed-race overseers simply offers a way to test himself and a means to purge his guilt over the death of his former captain. But soon Matty is drawn into the heart of the conflict when he meets the flamboyant Juge and the mysterious Grandfather Chatterbox--and faces an interrogation by the brutal colonel known as "The Whip." White supremacists, cutthroat patriots and desperate rebels vie for control in the Colonial world's richest island. No one is what he seems, and Matty must sort out the twisted lies from the cold, hard truth--and keep himself alive long enough to learn from his mistakes.

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