| I Prayed for You Today: A Collection of Uplifting Thoughts to Let Someone Know How Much You Care Release Date: July 8, 2005This book is filled with uplifting words to make a difference in someones life and tell someone special, I prayed for you today. Whether youre experiencing a temporary setback, a health issue, or some unexpected, life-altering event, these good thoughts and best wishes are positive reminders that, with the help and support of family, faith, and friends, anything is possible. In her characteristic spirit of optimism, which has made her one of country musics most memorable stars, Donna Fargo shares with readers some of the lessons she ...
| | Dead Man's Switch: A Kate Reilly Mystery (Kate Reilly Mysteries) Publication Date: August 2, 2011| Series: Kate Reilly Mysteries Aspiring racecar driver Kate Reilly goes looking for a full-time ridein the American Le Mans Series—and stumbles over a dead driver. Whenshe takes that driver’s job just hours later, she also takes poleposition on the list of suspects in his murder. Suddenly she’s in thehot seat with little time to clear her name and get ready to race aCorvette at Lime Rock Park.Amidst suspicion, Kate buckles down,quickly getting to know the racecar and team, bumping into plenty ofsuspects who might have committed murder. Clues...
| | The Four-Minute Ambush Publication Date: March 1, 2001The Four-Minute Ambush by John Hollis tells the story of the Caddo Indian boy Mark Adams from his humble beginnings to his quest for boxings heavyweight championship of the world.Along the way, Adams battles ex-pugs, thugs, Louisiana gangsters, Mexican drug lords, Ozark hillbillies, and a variety of colorful and tough boxers.Adams is recruited and trained by the garrulous old Kelly Shaw, an ex-boxer himself who steers Mark through the pitfalls of not only the boxing world, but through the problems faced by a young man growing up in todays society.Sh...
| | Marshall Islands Legends and Stories Publication Date: March 1, 2003| ISBN-10: 1573061409 | ISBN-13: 978-1573061407Marshall Islands Legends and Stories available Spring 2003 (Pacific Island Studies)Collected and adapted by Daniel A. Kelin II, illustrated by Nashton T. NashonOffers a timeless collection of legends and stories from native Marshallese storytellers. This easy-to-readand pleasurable book recounts accurate stories enhanced with illustrations by local Marshallese artists. ...
| | Inspector and Other Plays Publication Date: June 1, 2000Eric Bentley brings to the attention of Gogol's still growing American public not only a new version of Inspector, but three other dramatic works: The Marriage, Gamblers and A Madman's Diary, the last-named being Bentley's dramatization of a famous Gogol story. In a critical preface, Bentley finds all four works to be a Gogolian treatment of love - or the lack of love - and by the same token, thoroughly original works of dramatic art. Also includes a piece on Gamblers by the eminent Polish critic Jan Kott. ...
| | The Melancholy of Anatomy: Stories Release Date: April 2, 2002Amusing, touching, and unsettling, The Melancholy of Anatomy is that most wonderful of fictions, one that makes us see the world in an entirely new light.Here is the body turned inside out, its members set free, its humors released upon the world. Hearts bigger than planets devour light and warp the space around them; the city of London has a menstrual flow that gushes through its underground pipes; gobs of phlegm cement friendships and sexual relationships; and a floating fetus larger than a human becomes the new town pastor. In this debut story collection, Shelle...
| | French Symbolist Poetry And the Idea of Music Publication Date: June 30, 2006| ISBN-10: 0754656411 | ISBN-13: 978-0754656418What role did music play in the creation of a new aesthetics of poetry in French from the 1860s to the 1930s? How did music serve as an unassimilable 'other' against which the French symbolist poets crafted a new poetics? And why did music gradually disappear from early twentieth-century poetic discourse? These are among the questions Joseph Acquisto poses in his lively study of the ways in which Baudelaire, Mallarme, Ghil, and Royere question the nature and function of the lyric through an ever-shifting set of...
| | Garden and Grove: The Italian Renaissance Garden in the English Imagination, 1600-1750 Publication Date: January 1, 1996Garden and Grove is a pioneering study of the English fascination with Italian Renaissance gardens. John Dixon Hunt studies reactions of English visitors in their journals and travel books to the exciting world of Italian gardens: its links with classical villas, with Virgil and farming, with Ovid and metamorphosis, its association with theater, its variety, its staged debates between art and nature. Then he looks at what English visitors made of these Italian garden experiences upon their return home and at how they created Italianate gardens on their estate...
| | Tendrils Publication Date: November 23, 2009Eighteen-year-old Bailey has one recurring dream-that her affluent parents actually love her and spend time with her. She and her fifteen-year-old sister, Amber, have spent their childhood with nannies and other household help. A high school senior, Bailey can't wait to graduate and attend the University of California to study art.In the meantime, to foster her love of art, Bailey volunteers at a local art museum. That's where she meets a handsome stranger. She soon discovers that twenty-year-old Ashton is like no other man she's met-he's a vampire. Ashton ...
| | The Artemis Fowl #7: Atlantis Complex Release Date: May 8, 2012| Age Level: 10 and up...
| | Little Lulu's Pal Tubby Volume 4: The Atomic Violin and Other Stories Publication Date: September 13, 2011 ...
| | Musicians of the Sun Publication Date: September 1, 1997 ...
| | Nine-in-One, Grr! Grr! Publication Date: June 4, 1997| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up When the great god Shao promises Tiger nine cubs each year, Bird comes up with a clever trick to prevent the land from being overrun with tigers. ...
| | The New Witches Club and the Power of Love, Magic and Friends Publication Date: November 2, 2009| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
| | Going For Gold! (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (DK Readers: Level 4 (Pb)) Publication Date: October 1, 1999| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
| | Wildcat Run (Orca Echoes) Release Date: October 1, 2011| Grade Level: 2 and up...
| | Religion, Children's Literature, and Modernity in Western Europe 1750-2000 (KADOC Studies on Religion, Culture and Society) Publication Date: January 1, 2005 ...
| | Eloise in Moscow Release Date: March 1, 2000| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Odd Couple Invade Russia and Produce Best-sellerWhen Kay Thompson (with Hilary Knight in tow) swept through Moscow at the height of the Cold War, the Russians didn't know what hit them. No one could have predicted that this small masterpiece would be the result. First published in 1959 and out of print for more than three decades, their fourth book about Eloise is DELICIOUS. ...
| | Are You Ready for Me? (Sit! Stay! Read!) Publication Date: September 1, 2009| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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