 | Dearest Dorothy, Are We There Yet?
Release Date: January 27, 2004| Series: Dearest Dorothy For the legions of readers who enjoy books that celebrate life’s simple pleasures, eighty-seven-year-old Dorothy Jean Wetstra and her beloved farming town of Partonville, Illinois, will become instant favorites. In this hilarious, touching series, Charlene Ann Baumbich introduces readers to Dearest Dorothy, who tools around town in a 1976 Lincoln Continental nicknamed “The Tank,” plays bunco regularly with her pals, and grabs a stool at Harry’s counter often enough to stay on top of the latest-breaking news&mdash...
 |  | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
Publication Date: March 1, 2008| Series: Barnes & Noble Classics The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of i...
|  | Flaws and All (Urban Christian)
Release Date: August 7, 2012| Series: Urban Christian Faith, family, and friendship have always been top priority to lifelong friends Lawson, Reginell, Sullivan, Angel, and Kina, but each one is about to be put to the test during one turbulent year.Lawson Kerry is a struggling single mother who has finally gotten her life together. Now, a fierce custody battle with her ex threatens to the tear apart everything she's built.Reginell Kerry is a starry-eyed singer determined to make it to the top of the charts, but will she change her tune when a chance at fame means shedding her clothes and her...
|  | The Roots of the Olive Tree: A Novel
Release Date: August 21, 2012 Meet the Keller family, five generations of firstborn women—an unbroken line of daughters—living together in the same house on a secluded olive grove in the Sacramento Valley of Northern California. Anna, the family matriarch, is 112 and determined to become the oldest person in the world. An indomitable force, strong in mind and firm in body, she rules Hill House, the family home she shares with her daughter Bets, granddaughter Callie, great-granddaughter Deb, and great-great-granddaughter Erin. Though they lead ordinary lives, there is an element o...
|  | Montana Love Letter (Love Inspired)
Publication Date: September 18, 2012| Series: Love Inspired A fresh start for her troubled daughter—that's what widow Janelle Townsend wants to find in Bear Lake, Montana. The five-year-old girl hasn't spoken a word in months. But when the family of two meets widower Adam Hunter and his kind daughter, Janelle's child begins to blossom. Still, the handsome auto mechanic keeps Janelle at arm's length. He seems to be hiding something painful—something he can't bear to share. Perhaps their two sweet children can help Janelle show him that opening the heart to love i...
|  | Judas Tree
Publication Date: May 18, 2000Amelia Thomas goes to the Greek island of Voros to recover from a serious head injury. But the island is a sinister place full of ghosts that, although unseen, make their presence felt through the minds of the inhabitants. Gradually, the sanity of those who live there is eroded. ...
|  | Saga: A Novel of Medieval Iceland
Publication Date: June 1, 2008This retelling of the ancient Saga of the People of Eyri is a modern classic. Absolutely gripping and compulsively readable, Booklist said this book, “does what good historical fiction is supposed to do: put a face on history that is recognizable to all.” And medieval expert Tom Shippey, writing for the Times Literary Supplement said, “Sagas look like novels superficially, in their size and layout and plain language, but making their narratives into novels is a trick which has proved beyond most who have tried it. Janoda’s Saga provides a...
|  | The Night Angel Trilogy
Publication Date: October 1, 2009| Series: Night Angel For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art-and he is the city's most accomplished artist. For Azoth, survival is just the beginning. He was raised on the streets and knows an opportunity when he sees one-even when the risks are as high as working for someone like Durzo Blint.Azoth must learn to navigate the assassins' world of dangerous politics and strange magics - and become the perfect killer.The New York Times bestseller The Way of Shadows launched Brent Weeks' Night Angel Trilogy - one of the most successful fantasy series in recent y...
|  | A Deadly Practice
Release Date: November 1, 2000A serial killer with a grudge against doctors at an L.A.hospital and the expertise to imitate each of his victims' medicalspecialties stalks the hospital halls, and forensic pathologist JoannaBlalock must stop him before she becomes the next victim....
|  | Summer in the City
Release Date: February 22, 2005Suze Wilding and Lloyd Rockwell are complete strangers. She lives in London; he lives in New York. But when their advertising firm sponsors a job swap, having them trade apartments and jobs for the summer, they find themselves living each other’s lives. From the beginning, these two seem polar opposites—Suze is impetuous, brash, and commitment phobic, whereas Lloyd, cautious and thoughtful, is looking to settle down with his suitable girlfriend. But when Suze discovers a plot at work to get Lloyd fired, the two begin communicating long-distance, and...
|  | Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia
Release Date: November 26, 2003| ISBN-10: 080785493X | ISBN-13: 978-0807854938In the first comprehensive exploration of the history and practice of folk medicine in the Appalachian region, Anthony Cavender melds folklore, medical anthropology, and Appalachian history and draws extensively on oral histories and archival sources from the nineteenth century to the present. He provides a complete tour of ailments and folk treatments organized by body systems, as well as information on medicinal plants, patent medicines, and magico-religious beliefs and practices. He investigates folk healers...
|  | Beowulf
Publication Date: September 9, 1999| Age Level: 10 and up Welwyn Wilton Katz recounts this legend from the point of view of Wiglaf, Beowulf's young kinsman who was present at his last battle with the dragon. The retelling creates a new interpretation of the Beowulf legend. Laszlo Gal's powerful paintings bring the various adventures to life. ...
|  | Axion Esti Arbre Lucid (Poesie/Gallimard) (French Edition)
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|  | Prepositions and Particles in English: A Discourse-functional Account
Publication Date: July 23, 1998| ISBN-10: 0195111028 | ISBN-13: 978-0195111026| Edition: First Edition Elizabeth M. O'Dowd offers a new, discourse-functional account of the categories "preposition" and "particle" in English. She explains why certain words have membership in both categories, and solves many intriguing puzzles long associated with the syntax and semantics of these words. Based on linguistic data extracted from a series of actual conversations, O'Dowd provides new insights into how prepositions and particles are used, and how their meanings can change across different disco...
|  | Lone Star Christmas ... And Other Gifts
Publication Date: October 1, 1999Two bestselling authors invite readers to spend the holidays in the West with four devastatingly attractive heroes, including a most memorable "Long, Tall Texan" and an infamous Whitelaw from "Hawk's Way." Two of the stories were released in a Harlequin mass-market hardcover of the same name. ...
|  | But A Walking Shadow
Publication Date: April 20, 2011A beautiful young woman, Aphra Devereaux leaves Paris after the death of her father to live in the mansion that was her deceased sister, Lady Freya Fitzroy’s home.She finds the once grand Stoneleigh is now gloomy and decaying. Additionally her sister’s husband Sir Roland is now a deranged drug addict. To her surprise she also finds there her sister’s neglected child, of whose existence she was unaware and a woman of dubious character appears to be managing Roland’s household. The society background of her young life has not conditioned her ...
|  | Gradiva: A Pompeiian Fancy / Delusion and Dream in Wilhelm Jensen's Gradiva (Green Integer: 86)
Publication Date: 2003| Series: Green Integer (Book 86) Here together in one edition is the strange and evocative "Pompeiian Fancy" by German author Wilhelm Jensen and one of the major texts of psychoanalysis in Freud's oeuvre, which discusses the role of dream and delusion in Jensen's work. This book, previously reprinted by Sun & Moon Press, has been the subject of many works of art and essays, including a recent show at the Getty Museum of Art by the noted French installation artists Anne and Patrick Porier.Wilhelm Jensen was a German author of no great fame, but the response by Freud bel...
|  | Badminton (Play the Game)
Publication Date: May 1998| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | My Heart in Company: The Work of J.M. Barrie and the Birth of Peter Pan
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|  | Houghton Mifflin Reading the Literature Experience: Dinosauring Level 4
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