 | Mr. Darcy's Daughters: A Novel
Publication Date: April 8, 2003 Picking up twenty years after Pride and Prejudice left off, Mr. Darcy's Daughters begins in the year 1818. Elizabeth and Darcy have gone to Constantinople, giving us an opportunity to get to know their five daughters, who have left the sheltered surroundings of Pemberley for a few months in London. While the eldest, Letitia, frets and the youngest, Alethea, practices her music, twins Georgina and Belle flirt and frolic their way through parties and balls and Camilla -- levelheaded and independent -- discovers what joys and sorrows the city has to offer an inte...
 |  | Prince Caspian (Narnia)
Release Date: May 24, 2005| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Little deaths -- 24 tales of sex and horror
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|  | Polar Shift (The Numa Files)
Release Date: June 5, 2007| Series: The Numa Files Polar shift: It is the name for a phenomenon that may have occurred many times in the past. At the very least, it disorients birds and animals and damages electrical equipment. At its worst, it causes massive eruptions, earthquakes, and climatic changes. At its very worst, it would mean the obliteration of all living matter, and if that happens-exit Earth. Sixty years ago, an eccentric Hungarian genius discovered how to artificially trigger such a shift, but then his work was lost, or so it was thought. Now, the charismatic leader of an anti...
|  | Don Quixote de la Mancha (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: August 1, 2008| Series: Oxford World's Classics Don Quixote, originally published in two parts in 1605 and 1615, stands as Cervantes' belated but colossal literary success.A work which has achieved mythic status, it is considered to have pioneered the modern novel.Don Quixote, a poor gentleman from La Mancha, Spain, entranced by the code of chivalry, seeks romantic honor through absurd and fantastic adventures.His fevered imagination turns everyday objects into heroic opponents and stepping stones to greater glory; each exploit serves as a comic, yet disturbing commentary o...
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|  | Near Changes: Poems
Release Date: February 25, 1992Mona Van Duyn's Near Changes is a valuable addition to contemporary American poetry. This work provides a variety of riches surpassing even that of her earlier work. For wit, inventiveness, true feeling and a sharp eye for the passing scene, there is no one better than she. ...
|  | The Garden of Gethsemane: Poems from the Lost Decade
Publication Date: November 1999Imaginative, cosmopolitan, and full of ironies and complexities, this collection established Mudrooroo in the top rank of Australia's poets. ...
|  | The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: May 30, 1974The story of Heloise and Abelard remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs. ...
|  | Fictions of the Cosmos: Science and Literature in the Seventeenth Century
Publication Date: November 15, 2011In today’s academe, the fields of science and literature are considered unconnected, one relying on raw data and fact, the other focusing on fiction. During the period between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, however, the two fields were not so distinct. Just as the natural philosophers of the era were discovering in and adopting from literature new strategies and techniques for their discourse, so too were poets and storytellers finding inspiration in natural philosophy, particularly in astronomy. ...
|  | To Pleasure a Prince (Royal Brotherhood, Book 2)
Release Date: March 1, 2005Bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries pens the sizzling story of one of three half-noble half brothers, who makes a most unwelcome entrance into society... and a most unexpected match.Beautiful Lady Regina Tremaine has turned down so many suitors that she's called La Belle Dame Sans Merci. The truth: she won't marry because she carries a dark secret. She sees no good reason, however, why her brother shouldn't court the lovely Louisa North -- even if the girl's brother, the notorious "Dragon Viscount," objects.Marcus North, Viscount Draker -- bastard son of the Pr...
|  | Starvation Lake: A Mystery
Publication Date: March 3, 2009In the dead of a Michigan winter, pieces of a snowmobile wash up near the crumbling, small town of Starvation Lake -- the same snowmobile that went down with Starvation's legendary hockey coach years earlier. But everybody knows Coach Blackburn's accident happened five miles away on a different lake. As rumors buzz about mysterious underground tunnels, the evidence from the snowmobile says one thing: murder.Gus Carpenter, editor of the local newspaper, has recently returned to Starvation after a failed attempt to make it big at the Detroit Times. In his youth, ...
|  | End Game: A Dreamland Thriller
Release Date: January 31, 2012| Series: Dreamland To combat terror, sometimes fire must be fought with fire. In the Nevada desert, the high-tech future of warfare is being conceived and constructed at a top-secret military facility called Dreamland. A volatile U.S. ally has fallen prey to the terrorist beast. India is the target of radical Islamic jihadists, and the world watches breathlessly as tensions escalate between the uneasy giant and its longtime nemesis, Pakistan—with China waiting in the wings, eager to flex its military might. A nuclear showdown seems inevitable, unless the m...
|  | The Yellow House Mystery, A Graphic Novel #3 (Boxcar Children Graphic Novels)
Release Date: March 1, 2009| Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Puss in Boots (Sunburst Book)
Publication Date: September 25, 1998| Age Level: 3 and up...
|  | Dwayne Wade (Modern Role Models)
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|  | Minnesota Vikings (Inside the NFL)
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| | Winter Action Sports (Extreme Games)
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|  | Venus & Serena Williams (Awesome Athletes Set III)
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|  | The Make-Something Club Is Back!
Publication Date: March 1, 1997| Age Level: 3 and up A how-to guide for projects younger children can make such as an ant farm in a jar and pomanders from fruit. ...
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