A Peace which must be defended. A vow which must be broken.It is the final decade of the ninth century. The Peace between Wessex and the Danes long-settled in the Danelaw erodes. A new onslaught of Danes attacks Angle-land, trying once and for all to...

For fans of A Thousand Splendid Suns, "a rich, haunting, immersive story of cultures at the crossroads" (Jamie Ford, bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet) that follows two women in Afghanistan--an American aid worker and her...

One of the hottest new writers in urban fiction, award-winning author Kia DuPree has been hailed for her heart-wrenching storytelling and unforgettable characters. Now she takes you to Washington, D.C.'s most notorious neighborhood, where a young woman...

THESE LETTERS AND poems are invaluable fragments of a living conversation that portrays the indomitable power in humans to stay alive in the face of certain death. Reading through the treasure trove of the letters and poems compiled here as The Last...

A lynching. A ghost. A town in turmoil.Finding the body of a lynched woman isn't on Mary Steele's after- school agenda. When the spirited, bookish teen meets the woman's dead teenage daughter, she discovers a secret that includes the town's mayor and a...

The queen mother of the seventh Kingdom must make a difficult decision. It is time for her to select the next king, but there are seven princes, who are all equally qualified to sit on the throne. The people; however, demand that all seven brothers rule...

Title DescriptionThe queen mother of the seventh kingdom must make a difficult decision. It is time for her to select the next king, but there are seven princes, who are all equally qualified to sit on the throne. The people; however, demand that all...

Portents is a city like no other--and one that Detective Greg Loren can't wait to escape. Since his wife's death years earlier, Loren has looked forward to the moment he can leave the city of Portents for good--and never look back. But fate has another...

David Foster Wallace and Mark Costello's exuberant exploration of rap music and culture. Living together in Cambridge in 1989, David Foster Wallace and longtime friend Mark Costello discovered that they shared "an uncomfortable, somewhat furtive, and...

-The only account of this brutal ten year war that includes first-hand narratives from a wide array of the participants themselves -One of the most brutal and tragic events in recent African history, the Sierra Leone civil war is remembered in the West...

The Irish soldier has never been a stranger to fighting the enemy with the odds stacked against him. The notion of charging into adversity has been a cherished part of Ireland's military history. In September 1961, another chapter should have been...

The definitive work on Bechet. This is one of those rare books that once started you have difficulty putting down.--Jazz Journal Fifty years after hearing Sidney Bechet (1897-1959) in 1923, Duke Ellington recalled, I have never forgotten the power and...

He was hoping for some excitement. Time-jumping to the Bolshevik Revolution was not what he had in mind... 2008. Sterling Ryder's best response to his unrelenting boss and his mean ex is his bottomless well of sarcasm. So when his witty retorts seem to...

She's beautiful, unpredictable-and on the run from dangerous men. But this ex-side chick is ready to risk everything to help others in trouble . . . Fed up with her married Miami boyfriend, savvy Dulce has no problem stealing his drug-dealer stash and...

Exploring the historical, social, political, economic, and ecological dynamics that shape who we are and how we relate to one another, Smith and Riedel-Pfaefflin uncover the many layers and complexities of race, gender, class, and violence that make...

This book is a true document of issues that follow a child after being abused, it covers a life span of a male child of 4 years to a man well into his sixties.It covers the fear, the mindset that turns his thoughts of hatred and the feeling of being...