 | New Perspectives on Microsoft Office 2010, First Course (New Perspectives (Thomson Course Technology))
Publication Date: July 15, 2010| ISBN-10: 053874653X | ISBN-13: 978-0538746533| Edition: 1 With the New Perspectives' critical-thinking, problem-solving approach, students will gain a comprehensive understanding of Microsoft Office 2010 and will learn how to take advantage of the flexibility it offers. Case-based tutorials challenge students to apply what they are learning to real-life tasks, preparing them to easily transfer skills to new situations. With New Perspectives, students understand why they're learning what they're learning and are better situated to retain skills beyond the ...
 |  | Belief in Dialogue: U.S. Latina Writers Confront Their Religious Heritage (Cultural Studies)
Release Date: September 17, 2005| Series: Cultural Studies The works of Julia Alvarez, Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros, Rosario Ferre, Graciela Limon, Pat Mora, Judith Ortiz Cofer, and Esmerelda Santiago, among others, are illuminated here.By uniting historical, cultural, religious, and literary commentary, Belief in Dialogue is designed to help the student or general reader to more completely enjoy and understand contemporary Latina writing. These highly readable discussions are informed by contemporary feminist and postcolonialist thought about color, gender, race, class, and region.Readers ...
|  | Starting From Square Two (Red Dress Ink (Numbered Paperback))
Publication Date: March 1, 2004| Series: Red Dress Ink (Numbered Paperback) (Book 29) Is it possible to find that perfect once-in-a-lifetime love twice? Gert Healy thought she was finished with dating. She thought she'd never again have to worry about what to wear and what to say and whether she was pretty enough. She thought that she'd be picking out strollers and booties for the children she and her husband were planning to have. Instead, she's mourning his loss and coming to terms with being a widow at twenty-nine. It's been over a year now, and her friends -- with the best of intentions,...
|  | The Stationmaster (Novel)
Publication Date: May 19, 2009L to R (Western Style). To face the future, sometimes you need a little help from the past… An aging railway man facing the closure of his station and the sorrows of his past meets a mysterious young girl who brings an unexpected warmth to the old man’s cold and empty days. A man who has seen the rough side of life finds comfort in the memory of a wife he never knew. A husband and wife struggle to recapture the love they once shared by visiting the movie theater where they met as children. And more… In these eight short stories by award-winn...
|  | Black Frost
Publication Date: November 7, 2000Nurse Shannon Grady, is working with a distinguished research doctor to develop a procedure allowing the transplant of an early human embryo directly from a woman not wanting the child, to another unable to conceive. Her painful challenge is to accept the first transplant. However, she learns the babys father is black, and relives memories of the rape she endured at seventeen, resulting in the birth of a biracial infant placed for adoption.Another nurse who is black receives the second transplant. Both women must hold this in strict confidence even from thei...
|  | The Hills: City of Angels
Release Date: November 28, 2006 NEW CITY, NEW LIFE Lauren Conrad -- known as "LC" on the hit MTV series Laguna Beach -- is all grown up. She's left behind her family, friends, and the sheltered life of Laguna to pursue her dreams of conquering the fashion world and making it on her own in the high-pressure, beauty-obsessed land of the rich and famous -- Los Angeles. But Lauren finds herself torn in different directions as she starts this new chapter in her life. She has to juggle a dream internship at Teen Vogue, a full course load at a brand-new college, and a whirlwind social life with her...
|  | Handbook of Chinese Mythology (Handbooks of World Mythology)
Publication Date: March 13, 2008| Series: Handbooks of World Mythology Every year, at the Wa Huang Gong temple in Hebei Province, China, people gather to worship the great mother, Nuwa, the oldest deity in Chinese myth, praising her for bringing them a happy life. It is a vivid demonstration of both the ancient reach and the continuing relevance of mythology in the lives of the Chinese people. Compiled from ancient and scattered texts and based on groundbreaking new research, Handbook of Chinese Mythology is the most comprehensive English-language work on the subject ever written from an exc...
|  | Euripides: Selected Fragments, Vol. 1 (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts)
Release Date: December 30, 2009| ISBN-10: 0856686190 | ISBN-13: 978-0856686191The fragmentary plays of Euripides are a body of texts still regularly increasing in number and extent. They are of very great interest in themselves, apart from the significant aid they give to the fuller appreciation of the surviving complete plays. This two-volume edition brings together for the first time for English readers the more substantial and important of the plays, about fifteen in all. Each play is introduced by a summary bibliography and an appreciative essay which analyses the mythic background a...
|  | Agony and the Ecstasy
Publication Date: January 1, 1991This is Irving Stone's powerful and passionate biographical novel of Michelangelo. His time: the turbulent Renaissance, the years of poisoning princes, warring popes, the all-powerful Medici family, the fanatic monk Savonarola. His loves: the frail and lovely daughter of Lorenzo de Medici; the ardent mistress of Marco Aldovrandi; and his last love - his greatest love - the beautiful, unhappy Vittoria Colonna. His genius: a God-driven fury from which he wrested the greatest art the world has ever known. Michelangelo Buonarotti, creator of "David", painter of t...
|  | Discourse and Culture: The Creation of American Society 1870-1920
Publication Date: October 22, 1992| ISBN-10: 041508234X | ISBN-13: 978-0415082341Written history is literary artifact: taking this as its starting point "Discourse and Culture" argues that the Foucauldian concept of the shifting scale of linguistic and historic values must be the central focus for a new interpretation of American culture and ideology. Six major American historical figures are evaluated as products of the conflict between subordinate and dominant influences in American society: steelmaster Andrew Carnegie; labour leader Terence V. Powderly; historian of the West Frederick...
|  | Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir
Publication Date: May 20, 1998An indispensable book by writers who have experienced firsthand the rewards and challenges of crafting a memoir Anyone undertaking the project of writing a memoir knows that the events, memories, and emotions of the past often resist the orderly structure of a book. Inventing the Truth offers wisdom from nine notable memoirists about their process (Ian Frazier searched through generations of family papers to understand his parents' lives), the hurdles they faced (Annie Dillard tackles the central dilemma of memoir: what to put in and what to leave out), ...
|  | AN Undeniable Rogue: The Rogue's Club
Release Date: June 1, 2002| Series: Rogue's Club Widowed, penniless Sabrina Whitcomb isn't looking forromance.What she needs is a husband, and she knows well enough thatromance and matrimony aren't always compatible.While providing forher twins and the child she now carries is paramount, wedding avirtual stranger--even a wealthy one, like Gideon St. Goddard, Duke ofStanthorpe--is no light matter.Sabrina knows the friend who arrangedthe union would not promise her to a true scoundrel, but one look ather future husband convinces her that he is a shameless rogue.Ashockingly handsome and desirab...
|  | Jessica (Springwater Seasons)
Publication Date: April 1, 1999| Series: Springwater Seasons Strong-minded spinster Jessica Barnes is summoned to Springwater by her ailing brother Michael to help him run his newspaper. This is the fifth title in an interconnected series that culminates with "A Springwater Christmas", a full-length novel that will be published in November 1999. ...
|  | The Ninja
Release Date: May 12, 1985"Totally absorbing...as gripping a tale of hatred and revenge as you will read...It is superb."NEWS RECORDThis is the story of Nicholas Linnear, half-Caucasian, half-Oriental, a man caught between East and West, between the sexual passions of a woman he can't forget and the one he can't control and between a past he can't escape and a destiny he can't avoid. A sprawling erotic thriller that swings from postwar Japan to present-day New York in a relentless saga of violence and terror elaborately designed for the most savage vengeance of all... ...
|  | Gideon's Corpse
Release Date: January 10, 2012A top nuclear scientist goes mad and takes an innocent family hostage at gunpoint, killing one and causing a massive standoff. A plume of radiation above New York City leads to a warehouse where, it seems, a powerful nuclear bomb was assembled just hours before.Sifting through the evidence, authorities determine that the unthinkable is about to happen: in ten days, a major American city will be vaporized by a terrorist attack.Ten days. And Gideon Crew, tracking the mysterious terrorist cell from the suburbs of New York to the mountains of New Mexico, learns the ...
|  | Wild Goose Chase (A Quilting Mystery)
Publication Date: February 8, 2008| Series: A Quilting Mystery (Book 1) A computer techie by trade, Dewey Pellicano would rather swallow needles than be pinned down to a life of quilting. But when her mother passes away, Dewey must exchange code for calico as the new proprietress of Quilter Paradiso.Between learning the business and dealing with a conniving employee who is also her sister-in-law, Dewey is ready to snap. During a national quilt show, quilting celebrity Claire Armstrong offers to buy the shop. But before Dewey can accept, she finds the famous quilter lying dead on the floor&md...
|  | The Crucifer of Blood: A New Sherlock Holmes Mystery
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|  | Martina the Beautiful Cockroach
Publication Date: September 1, 2008| Age Level: 3 and up Martina the beautiful cockroach doesn t know coffee beans about love and marriage. That s where her Cuban family comes in. While some of the Cucarachas offer her gifts to make her more attractive, only Abuela, her grandmother, gives her something really useful: un consejo increíble, some shocking advice. You want me to do what? Martina gasps.At first, Martina is skeptical of her Abuela s unorthodox suggestion, but when suitor after suitor fails the Coffee Test, she wonders if a little green cockroach can ever find true love. Soon,...
|  | Gymnastics (Flying Start)
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|  | Night at the Fair
Release Date: April 14, 1998| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up It's time! The gates are open, the rides are spinning-come to the fair! Nighttime at the fair is magic with Caldecott Honor-winning author-artist Donald Crews. The sky goes dark and the colored lights begin to flash and sparkle. There are games to play and treats to eat. From the top of the Ferris wheel you can see where you've been-and where you have yet to go. So much to do and see. Hurry! ...
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