Product Description: This is the tale of Jefan and Turk, two boys who fled Spain's "holy" Inquisition in the early 1500's. By exile and loss due to their religious affiliations, Jefan and inherited innumerable reasons to hate. And hate they did. Separately, both these boys left Spain for the Americas, Jefan with a Jewish troupe and Turk with a community of Muslims...read more

Product Description: David Blue and his girlfriend Deanne Byrd are ready for a peaceful Labor Day party at his farm in Port Clinton, Ohio. They've invited five of their friends from college to share in the festivities, but events take a strange turn when a freak blizzard descends upon the peaceful Midwestern countryside...read more

Product Description: LOST UNDER THE LION'S SHADOW tells the adventure of two wounded persons thrown together in the face of the dark underbelly of organized crime and relentless terror, as they rediscover who they were created to be. "Lost" is a murder mystery, a travel adventure, a treasure hunt, a love romance, and the story of finding true faith held up against the darkness of true evil...read more

Product Description: The Lucia Poems is the second of four books by American Book Award recipient Jimmy Santiago Baca that is part of a series titled Breaking Bread With The Darkness. The Lucia Poems are about Lucia's father remembering the roads that bright him to the present time in whih daughter, lucia, emanates a special lift, gives oof the illumination that startled his soul into a recognition of gratitude for her-- he opens the baggage of events over the last thirty years, events that almost killed him, swallowed him in their darkness, but which he somehow survived, and now he approaches or speaks into the present and future, speak to his daughter with a redemptive and courageous conviction that perhaps he made it, because his dream was to have ehrm he endured because she was coming to him in the future, his dream little girl, who know walks at his side to school every day and who he bows laughing nd serenely imbued by her star-dust presence, he the father is happy and fulfilled, nothing that all the experiences in the poems were worth enduring because of her arrival...read more

Product Description: What does it mean to be a God-glorifying baseball player? Diamond Gems: Life Lessons between the Lines reminds Christian athletes and coaches of God's mandate to "proclaim the excellencies of Him" while on the field of play. Each chapter teaches a fundamental baseball principle and uses that concept as a means to establish an even greater connection with an essential doctrine of the Christian faith...read more

Product Description: New and Selected Poems by one of the most widely known poets from the United States.

Product Description: The first major & definitive collection of poems by the legendary Will Inman, featuring stunning selections from over forty years of his experiences and meditations ranging from the wildernesses of Arizona to his early days as a poet and activist in the tough Lower East Side of Manhattan, to his artistic and cultural roots in North Carolina...read more

Product Description: The Death of Sardanapalus uniquely brings together impassioned works of insight, hope, and defiance covering the breadth and dark depths of "Operation Iraqi Freedom," and "Operation Desert Storm" through a sequence of poems beginning with the devastation of 9/11...read more

Product Description: Book by Ray, David

Poet David Ray, two-time winner of the William Carlos Williams Award, chronicles his efforts to overcome the abuse and poverty of his childhood.

Product Description: David Ray’s soul search, recounted in this powerful illustrated memoir, is a Dickensian tale — encompassing a childhood in an orphanage, an endless series of abusive “uncles,” and an adolescence haunted by a sadistic guardian, followed by a tumultuous adulthood marked equally by tragedy and triumph...read more

Arriving in time for Father's Day, this moving collection of poetry echoes the themes of fatherly love and childhood devotion, desertion, communication between generations, and the challenge of healing old grievances. 30,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Winner of the 1998 Richard Snyder Publication Prize, this is the sixteenth book of poems by the 1994 winner of the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Prize. Formally accomplished, with a sure sense of subject matter, David Ray is one of our more important living poets...read more

The spirited retelling of the legendary people's hero who meets his match when he does battle with a giant of a man who proves not only to be a worthy opponent, but a courageous comrade-in-arms. Reprint. SLJ. AB.

Despite everyone's doubts, Diane determines that her puppy, the smallest and weakest in the sled dog litter, will grow strong and participate in the one-dog race twelve months away

A young boy's fascination with pumpkins gets him into trouble one Halloween

Feeling outcast in a world of chocolate bunnies and ducks, a chocolate wolf realizes that his dream of being bought is more dangerous than he knew and runs away into the streets, where he must hide from unfavorable weather and other predators.

Product Description: KANGAROO PAWS: POEMS WRITTEN IN AUSTRALIA deals vividly and dramatically with Australian culture and with many historical figures. Themes include ecological matters, the Aborigines, the history of discovery and settlement of the country, the outback and other places...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Massimino emigrates from Italy to work in the coal mines of turn-of-the-century America and slowly saves enough silver to pay the passage of his fiancee

Acrylic paintings and humorous, haunting lyrics by such famous writers as Langston Hughes, Carl Sandburg, Federico Garcia Lorca, Patricia Hubbell, and Jane Yolen celebrate the moon and stars, owls, whippoorwills, and other sights in the night sky.

A selchie, a seal transformed into human form, lives on land with a lonely fisherman and his wife, until the day a great storm threatens the fisherman's life

Product Description: ancient Sanskrit poetry, tr David Ray

At night the Banshee comes to a village in search of a lonely soul to keep her company