 | Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life
Release Date: September 4, 2012In the spirit of her blockbuster #1 New York Times bestseller The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin embarks on a new project to make home a happier place. One Sunday afternoon, as she unloaded the dishwasher, Gretchen Rubin felt hit by a wave of homesickness. Homesick—why? She was standing right in her own kitchen. She felt homesick, she realized, with love for home itself. “Of all the elements of a happy life,” she thought, “my home is the most important.” In a flash, she decided to undertake a new happiness project, and this...
 |  | The Crossing: A Novel
Release Date: September 6, 2011Imprisoned by memories, Claudia Campbell lives each day in the shadow of a ten-year-old murder. Who can set her free?On the way home from a football game, a decade earlier, a masked gunman opened fire on a Texas school bus. Cheerleading coach B.J. Remington was killed, but her murderer was never found. Claudia, who had a close friendship with the young, spirited teacher, constantly relives the anguish of that day, caught in one moment in time. When her husband, the assistant district attorney, becomes determined to uncover the mystery of that tragedy, the...
|  | Jubilee Trail (Rediscovered Classics)
Publication Date: May 1, 2006| Series: Rediscovered Classics The history of California in the mid-19th century comes alive in this captivating historical novel. Garnet Cameron, a fashionable young lady of New York, is leading a neat, proper life, full of elegant parties and polite young men, yet the prospect of actually marrying any of them appalls her. Yearning for adventure, she instead marries Oliver Hale, a wild trader who is about to cross the mountains and deserts to an unheard-of land called California. During Garnet and Oliver's honeymoon in New Orleans, she meets a dance-hall perfor...
|  | The Silent Assassin (Dr. Alexandra Blake Novels)
Release Date: June 3, 2008| Series: Dr. Alexandra Blake Novels When a John Doe with a bayonet wound in his chest is discovered in a Washington, D.C., alley, geneticist Dr. Alexandra Blake of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology is pulled away from her bioterrorism work to aid in the investigation. Just a little digging reveals a corpse that’s nothing like the homeless robbery victim it was set up to resemble—and Alex and her colleagues find themselves wrapped up in a complicated mystery of high-stakes international financial intrigue.The homicide investigation is just heating ...
|  | Ultimate Voyage
Release Date: June 15, 1999 Five boyhood friends build their own boat and set off through uncharted seas on a magical journey of adventure and self-discovery. ...
|  | The Flood
Publication Date: February 1, 2005| ISBN-10: 0863565123 | ISBN-13: 978-0863565120In this apocalyptic novel by Maggie Gee, President Bliss is handling a tricky situation with customary brio, but after months of ceaseless rain the city is sinking under the floods. The rich are safe on high ground, but the poor are getting damper in their packed tower blocks, and the fanatical "Last Days" sect is recruiting thousands. . . The government--eager to distract attention from a foreign war it has waged--announces a spectacular City Gala. But not even TV astrologer Davey Lucas can predict the extr...
|  | The Triumph Tree: Scotland's Earliest Poetry AD 550-1350 (Canongate Scottish Classics)
Publication Date: November 1, 1998| Series: Canongate Scottish Classics The Triumph Tree brings together for the first time the poetry of five languages—Latin, Welsh, Gaelic, Anglo Saxon and Norse—in an accessible, scholarly anthology of translations that form a spectacular window on Scotland's past. Ranging from war to religion, nature to love, the quality and power of these poems display the riches of a vanished world. Alongside famous works such as "The Gododdin" (here in its most faithful translation yet) and "The Dream of the Road", are poems by and for St Columbia, the home...
|  | Oliver Twist (Norton Critical Editions)
Publication Date: December 17, 1992| ISBN-10: 039396292X | ISBN-13: 978-0393962925| Edition: 1st This Norton Critical Edition of a Dickens favorite reprints the 1846text, the last edition of the novel substantially revised by Dickensand the one that most clearly reflects his authorial intentions.The editor has corrected printers’ errors and annotated unfamiliarterms and allusions.Three illustrations by George Cruikshank and a map of Oliver's Londonaccompany the text."Backgrounds and Sources" focuses on The Poor Law Amendment Act of1834, central both to Dickens and to the character...
|  | This Side of Time: Poems by Ko Un
Publication Date: April 17, 2012"Ko Un's poems evoke the open creativity and fluidity of nature, and funny turns and twists of mind. Mind is sometimes registered in Buddhist terms—Buddhist practice being part of Ko Un's background. Ko Un writes spare, short-line lyrics direct to the point, but often intricate in both wit and meaning. Ko Un has now traveled worldwide and is not only a major spokesman for all Korean culture, but a voice for Planet Earth Watershed as well."—Gary SnyderKo Un is one of the most respected poets in Korea and has been nominated several times for the Nobel ...
|  | The New French Poetry
Publication Date: November 22, 1996French-English bilingual edition. One of the most challenging developments in contemporary French writing, the new metaphysical poetry is a rigorously ontological poetry, concerned with the very being of things, and with the nature of poetic language itself. This is an extremely significant development, not just in poetry but in all French writing. Writers of different generations are represented, from Mansour, Dupin and Noel, to Frank Andree Jamme and Andre Velter. Major figures, as well as those relatively unknown abroad, are included. Much of the poetry ...
|  | Melange (English and French Edition)
Publication Date: March 1, 2011Welcome to the new and improved edition of Dean Yeagle's Melange. Dean Yeagle has been involved in almost every facet of cartooning.Most of his career has been spent in Animation, as a producer/director, animator, character designer, layout and storyboard artist.He's also illustrated children's books and magazines, worked in advertising design and comic books, and he has gag cartoons published regularly in Playboy Magazine.His animation company, Caged Beagle Productions, produces TV commercials, CD ROMs, and animation and characters for electronic gaming.Long a...
|  | Anzengrubers Werke: Teil 13. Der Sternsteinhof (German Edition)
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|  | The Glass Demon: A Novel
Release Date: June 14, 2011Sometimes the path to the truth is paved with broken glass. Teenager Lin Fox is a stranger in a strange land—Germany, where her father has come on a quixotic quest to locate a priceless artifact. The medieval (and possibly mythical) Allerheiligen stained glass is believed by some to be lost, by others to have been destroyed, and by virtually all to be haunted. A mysterious letter persuades Dr. Oliver Fox that he can be the one to find it—but someone else is determined to ensure that the glass stays hidden forever.First, an elderly stranger i...
|  | Freckle Juice
Release Date: July 15, 1978| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up Nicky has freckles -- they cover his face, his ears, and the whole back of his neck. Sitting behind him in class, Andrew once counted eighty-six of them, and that was just a start! If Andrew had freckles like Nicky, his mother would never know if his neck was dirty.One day after school, Andrew works up enough courage to ask Nicky where he got his freckles. When know-it-all Sharon overhears, she offers Andrew her secret freckle juice recipe -- for fifty cents. It's a lot of money, but Andrew is desperate. At home he care...
|  | Bogus (The Aldo Zelnick Comic Novel Series)
Publication Date: October 1, 2010| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Journey to the Center of the Earth (Graphic Revolve)
Publication Date: September 1, 2007| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Sight Words Puzzles & Games, Grades K - 1 (Home Workbooks)
Release Date: March 1, 2006| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | The Ultimate Guide to All Things Chaotic
Release Date: September 16, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Drums (Scribner's Illustrated Classics)
Publication Date: October 30, 1995| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | Play Me a Story - Nine Tales About Musical Instruments Hb
Publication Date: September 1997Collection of musical tales from around the world.Age range 4 - 8 years. ...
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