Author: Kālidāsa ISBN: 9781406518528 Pages: 276 Description: Kālidāsa (Devanāgarī: कालिदास “servant of Kali”) was a 5th century renowned Classical Sanskrit writer, widely regarded as the greatest poet and dramatist in the Sanskrit language. Nothing apart from his works is known with certainty about the life of Kālidāsa, such as where he lived or the dates…
Author: Stephen B. Pearl ISBN: 9780987972699 Pages: 346 Description: Markus a wizard from a parallel Earth travels to our world in a bid to stop a blight that is destroying his own. Here he meets Alcina, a Wiccan Priestess, who is in a custody battle over her son, Tim, against Carl, the boy’s sire, who…
Author: Christopher Scotton ISBN: 9781455551927 Pages: 466 Description: After seeing the death of his younger brother in a terrible home accident, fourteen-year-old Kevin and his grieving mother are sent for the summer to live with Kevin’s grandfather. In this peeled-paint coal town deep in Appalachia, Kevin quickly falls in with a half-wild hollow kid named…
Author: Ken Ham ISBN: 9780890515372 Pages: 374 Description: What happens when you have more hot questions on the Bible and creationism than you can answer in one book? You create a second volume! The New Answers Book: Volume 2 explores 21 exciting and faith-affirming topics, including: The fall of Lucifer and the origin of evil.…
Author: Colleen McCullough ISBN: 9780380710812 Pages: 1076 Description: From the bestselling author of The Thorn Birds comes a masterpiece of historical fiction that is fascinating, moving, and gloriously heroic. The reader is swept into the whirlpool of pageantry, passion, splendor, chaos and earth-shattering upheaval that was ancient Rome. Here is the story of Marius, wealthy…
Author: Karen Joy Fowler ISBN: 9780452286535 Pages: 288 Description: The Extraordinary New York Times Bestseller In California’s central valley, five women and one man join to discuss Jane Austen’s novels. Over the six months they get together, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and love happens. With her eye for the frailties…
Author: Mostafa Mahmoud ISBN: Pages: 110 Description: قصة مغرقة في خيال علمي يحمل القارئ على جناح سرعة زمنية إلى مستقبل يتجاوز ألفية ثانية، مستقبل تتغير الملامح، غربية هي رهيبة وموجعة فكما يتجاوز الكاتب بخياله حدود زمان نعرفه، يتجاوز حدود معالم إنسان نعيشه… رحلة خيالية يعود منها القارئ وهو منبهر، مستغرب ومتفاجئ، إلا أنه مسرور أنه…
Author: Dean Koontz ISBN: 9780553807158 Pages: 337 Description: #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz delivers a thrilling novel of suspense and adventure, as the lives of strangers converge around a mystery unfolding high in the Colorado mountains—and the balance of the world begins to tilt…. In the stillness of a golden September afternoon, deep…
Author: Bill Bryson ISBN: 9780767903868 Pages: 335 Description: A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ONE SUMMER Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. In A…
Author: Anne Elisabeth Stengl ISBN: 9780989447850 Pages: 570 Description: BEYOND THE REALM OF DREAMS IS A WORLD SHE NEVER IMAGINED Masayi Sairu was raised to be dainty, delicate, demure . . . and deadly. She is one of the emperor’s Golden Daughters, as much a legend as she is a commodity. One day, Sairu will…