| The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story Publication Date: October 28, 2007| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up Latkes are potato pancakes served at Hanukkah, and Lemony Snicket is an alleged children’s author. For the first time in literary history, these two elements are combined in one book. A particularly irate latke is the star of The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming, but many other holiday icons appear and even speak: flashing colored lights, cane-shaped candy, a pine tree. Santa Claus is briefly discussed as well. The ending is happy, at least for some. People who are interested in any or all of these t...
| | Sgt. Frog, Vol. 5 Release Date: November 9, 2004What sinister plans do these amphibian fibbers have hiding under their lily pads? Luring Earthlings to hot springs so that they relax uselessly? Crashing the school sports festival... just for fun? A thrilling game of Parcheesi, where the winner gets Pokopen? The answer is: all of this and more. ...
| | Love's Children Release Date: April 7, 1992Drawn to Percy Bysshe Shelley's creed of love, freedom, and justice, three women--Mary and Fanny Godwin and their step-sister Claire--surrounded by a circle of writers and radical thinkers, enjoy a revolutionary way of living that includes free love and vegetarianism. ...
| | Constant Heart, A Publication Date: October 1, 2008Born with the face of an angel, Marget Barnardsen is blessed.Her father is a knight, and now she is to be married to the Earl of Lytham.her destiny is guaranteed...at least, it would seem so.But when her introduction to court goes awry and Queen Elizabeth despises her, Marget fears she's lost her husband forever.Desperate to win him back, she'll do whatever it takes to discover how she failed and capture again the love of a man bound to the queen. ...
| | The Canterbury Tales (Critical Insights) ...
| | Ransome's Crossing (The Ransome Trilogy) Publication Date: June 1, 2010| Series: The Ransome Trilogy Set in the early 1800s, this captivating, romantic second book of the Ransome Trilogy from author Kaye Dacus unfolds with the grace, power, and excitement of an ocean storm.Charlotte Ransome, desperate to reach Jamaica to see her secret fiancé, disguises herself as a midshipman for a convoy led by her brother, Captain William Ransome. Meanwhile, William and his new bride, Julia, face the rough swells of the sea and of marriage as they try to adjust to life together.When yellow fever befalls Charlotte and her identity is discove...
| | Northern Dreamers: Interviews With Famous Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Writers (Out of This World) ...
| | Mirror Image Release Date: November 2, 1999To look at one was to see the other. For family, even the girls' own father, it was a constant guessing game. For strangers, the surprise was overwhelming. And for the twins Olivia and Victoria Henderson, two remarkable young women coming of age at the turn of the century, their bond was mysterious, marvelous, and often playful--a secret realm only they inhabited.Olivia and Victoria were the beloved daughters of a man who never fully recovered from his wife's death bearing them in 1893. Shy, serious Olivia, born eleven minutes before her sister, had taken over t...
| | Middlemarch (Oneworld Classics) Publication Date: June 1, 2011| Series: Oneworld Classics A literary landmark in its groundbreaking approach, as well as a priceless document of its age One of the most ambitious narratives of nineteenth-century realism, Middlemarch tells the story of an entire town in the years leading up to the Reform Bill of 1832, a time when modern methods were starting to challenge old orthodoxies. Eliot's sophisticated and acute characterization gives rich expression to every nuance of feeling, and vividly brings to life the town's inhabitantsincluding the young idealist Dorothea Brooke...
| | Best New Poets 2007: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers Publication Date: November 1, 2007| Series: Best New Poets Praise for earlier editions:"Unlike novelists andbad-boy memoirists, emerging poets are unlikely to sprawl on Oprah's couch, datestarlets, or rouse bidding wars. With an alert ear for new voices, this anthologyoffers a different kind of validation: that of being well heard. The result is avibrant smorgasbord.... [ Best New Poets] bearsevidence of the insistent inquiries of self and the world that drivepoetry."-- Foreword"[One] comes to realize that theadjectives 'new' and 'emerging' are mere technicalities in this instance. Althoughn...
| | Selected Poems of Du Fu Publication Date: February 15, 2003| ISBN-10: 0231128290 | ISBN-13: 978-0231128292 0 The great Buddhist priest Kûkai (774-835) is credited with the introduction and establishment of tantric -or esoteric -Buddhism in early ninth-century Japan. In Ryûichi Abé examines this important religious figure -neglected in modern academic literature -and his profound influence on Japanese culture. Offering a radically new approach to the study of early religious history -combining historical research, discourse analysis, literary criticism, and semiology -Abé contends that the impo...
| | Harper's New Monthly Magazine. Volumes XVIII - XIX : 1859. Publication Date: 1859Volumes 18-19 contain No. 103-114, December 1858 - November 1859. ...
| | Once a Pirate ...
| | Le Crime (Louis Morgan Mysteries) Release Date: July 8, 2008| Series: Louis Morgan Mysteries A cross between The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and A Year in Provence, this ingenious thriller gets stunning raves from one and all:“Unforgettable . . . combines elements of Agatha Christie and Robert Ludlum.”---Bookreporter.com“A riveting murder mystery.”---France Today“Steiner sketches such a rich life for his tiny town that he makes you want to get on the next plane.”---Chicago Tribune“A beautiful crime novel.”---Thomas Perry, New York Times bestselling author of Nightlife...
| | Cloud Weavers: Ancient Chinese Legends Publication Date: December 2002| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Presents legends and tales from China, including ancient folktales, stories that reflect Chinese traditions and virtues, historical tales, and selections from literature. ...
| | Barry Sanders (Football Superstars) ...
| | The History of the New England Patriots (NFL Today) (NFL Today (Creative Education Hardcover)) ...
| | 100 Awesome Crosswords Publication Date: June 28, 2006What could be more awesome for a crossword lover than 100 new puzzles from Thomas Joseph, the popular author of 100 Amazing Crosswords, 100 Cunning Crosswords, and many other collections? This is the latest in the popular series, and the clues span such topics as political figures, geography, literature, and foodas well as art, sports, and movies. Every puzzle is entertaining, just at the right level of difficulty, and without annoying crosswordese” vocabulary. ...
| | Home Field Advantage #3 (Backyard Sports) Release Date: September 18, 2008| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
| | Little Critter: Merry Christmas, Little Critter! Release Date: September 21, 2004| Age Level: 4 and up...
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