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Unscarred
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Unscarred Author: R.M. HamiltonISBN: 1-59330-401-3 Following the brutal overthrow of King Jonathan, the Land of Eir is thrust under the thumb of Maurader and the army of the Eternal Flame. Unscarred really begins when Kyle is forced by Maurader to accomplish a task that only he can undertake. Throughout the journey, young Kyle learns far more than he bargained for and is forced into manhood through torture, conflict, revelations of his heritage, his...
(No rating) 9-9-2007 Views: 2914

Evacuation Plan: A novel from the Hospice
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Evacuation Plan: A novel from the Hospice Author: Joe M. O'ConnellPublisher: Dalton PublishingISBN: 978-0-9740703-8-4 Death isn't usually the focus of contemporary novels. It's dark, it's uncomfortable, and it doesn't typically inspire the warm and fuzzy feeling that mass market readers seem to require for beach reading selections. Death forces readers to confront their own shortcomings, failures, and emotions. But while death may be a topic most authors...
(No rating) 11-15-2007 Views: 3241

Comeback Season: How I Learned to Play the Game of Love
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Comeback Season: How I Learned to Play the Game of Love Author: Cathy DayISBN: 978-1416557104 Free Press: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
(No rating) 3-22-2008 Views: 4606

Engleby
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon EnglebyAuthor: Sebastian FaulksPublisher: DoubledayISBN: 978-0-385-52405-6"I decided not to be mad any more; I was never going back to a place like that again." Engleby, pg. 191 Audiences love underdogs and surprises. They also love the formulaic nature of entertainment. Readers, even if they've never encountered the term "archetype," recognize signature character types when they see them. Conventional literary signposts clue readers in...
(No rating) 1-8-2008 Views: 1892

Cinco de Mayo: What is Everybody Celebrating?
Author: Donald W. MilesISBN: 0-595-39241-5 Responsible parenting or teaching would send an inquisitive child to "look it up," whatever "it" may be—a word, a fact, or an historical event. But what happens when there are no credible, adult focused resources to research from? Donald W. Miles found this to be the case when he went searching for a book to recount the historical events of the popular holiday, Cinco de Mayo. Children's books about the holiday were plentiful,...
(No rating) 5-1-2007 Views: 4949

The Rose of York: Fall from Grace
Author: Sandra WorthPublisher: End Table BooksISBN: 9780975126493"Now is the winter of our discontentMade glorious summer by this sun of York."Richard III, I.1.1-2 For all the disservice done to Richard III by Shakespeare, his opening lines of Richard III could do no more to accurately divine the shift in thought that Sandra Worth's trilogy seeks to influence about the last Plantagenet king of England. In "The Rose of York" trilogy (Love and War, Crown of D
(No rating) 4-18-2007 Views: 10950

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