 | Totem Tales: Legends of the Rainforest
Publication Date: June 30, 2005| ISBN-10: 0888394683 | ISBN-13: 978-0888394682Every culture and every nation has legends. Early cultures used them to explain the things in life they could not understand -- why the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, why the moon has phases, or why some years are better than others. The Indians of North America were no different. This book tells the Indian legends behind many of nature's wonders. Among the 23 tales told, you will discover how rivers were formed, how the raven freed the people and why rabbits hop -- at least according to legend. Th...
 |  | Geronimo's Legacy
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|  | Path of the Assassin
Release Date: February 22, 2011After rescuing the President from kidnappers in Brad Thor’s roaring national bestselling debut, Navy SEAL turned Secret Service Agent Scot Harvath shifts his attentions to rooting out, capturing, or killing all those responsible for the plot. As he prepares to close out his list, a bloody and twisted trail of clues points toward one man—the world’s most ruthless terrorist. One problem remains: Harvath and his CIA-led team have no idea what the man looks like. With no alternative, they are forced to recruit a civilian—a woman who has surv...
|  | The Forbidden Daughter
Release Date: August 26, 2008Set in the sensual richness of India, Shobhan Bantwal's gripping new novel asks: Where can a woman turn when her life's greatest blessing is seen as a curse?It's a girl! For most young couples, news of their unborn child's gender brings joyful anticipation. Not so for Isha Tilak and her husband, Nikhil. They already have a beloved daughter, but Nikhil's parents, hard-wired to favor male children above all, coldly reject little Priya at every turn. Vain and selfish, they see female grandchildren as burdens, and would just as soon never meet the one growing in Isha...
|  | Southern Storm (Cape Refuge, No. 2)
Release Date: April 24, 2003Sequel to the #1 best-selling Cape Refuge First a dead stranger. Now a missing Police Chief. Did Chief Cade run off to elope . . . or has he met with foul play? The body in the morgue had no ID. No one knew who he was or where he came from when he walked out in front of Cade's car. And when Cade learns he had a gunshot wound before he was struck, finding his identity becomes even more urgent. Then Cade vanishes. Authorities discover the victim's name, and the woman Cade was last seen with turns out to have been the dead man's wife. Speculation abounds about Cade's...
|  | Elixir
Publication Date: August 13, 2001When biologist Chris Bacon headed for the unspoiled rainforests of Papua New Guinea in search of medicinal plants, he had no idea that he would bring home a rare flower rumored by a tribal shaman to prevent human aging. Driven by fountain-of-youth dreams, he plans to turn the flower into an elixir of youth and health.But as Chris begins tampering with the ultimate secret of nature, he unleashes forces that not only threaten his own family, but expose the world to unimaginably horrific consequences. ...
|  | Medieval Studies for J. A. W. Bennett: Aetatis suae LXX
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|  | Beowulf: An Imitative Translation
Publication Date: 1988The name "Beowulf" lingers in our collective memory, although today fewer people have heard the tale of the Germanic hero's fight with Grendel, the dreadful Monster of the Mere, as recounted in this Anglo-Saxon epic. This edition of Beowulf makes the poem more accessible than ever before. Ruth Lehmann's imitative translation is the only one available that preserves both the story line of the poem and the alliterative versification of the Anglo-Saxon original. The characteristic features of Anglo-Saxon poetry-- alliterative verse with first-syllable stress, flexible word...
|  | Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community
Publication Date: February 12, 2007| ISBN-10: 0521032997 | ISBN-13: 978-0521032995In this book, Jessica Berman claims that modernist fiction engages directly with early twentieth-century transformations of community and cosmopolitanism. Although modernist writers develop radically different models for social organization, their writings return again and again to issues of commonality and shared voice, particularly in relation to dominant discourses of gender and nationality. The writings ofHenry James, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Gertrude Stein not only inscribe early twentieth-ce...
|  | The Unique Necklace: Al-'Iqd al-Farid, Volume III (Great Books of Islamic Civilization)
Publication Date: June 8, 2012| ISBN-10: 1859642403 | ISBN-13: 978-1859642405Al-'Iqd al-Farid (The Unique Necklace) is one of the classics of Arabic literature. Compiled in several volumes by an Andalusian scholar and poet named Ibn 'Abd Rabbih (246-328 A.H. / 860-940 C.E.), it remains a wealth of information about various elements of Arab culture and letters during the four centuries before Ibn 'Abd Rabbih's death. Essentially, it is a book of adab, a term understood in modern times to specifically mean literature, but in earlier times its meaning included all that a well-informed perso...
|  | His Invisible Wife (Urban Soul)
Release Date: July 1, 2009| Series: Urban Soul REVENGE...LUST...HOLY MATRIMONY Texas businessman Jacob "Jake" Banks is about to lose his business and everything else he's worked for until his uncle dies and leaves him as the executor of his estate-only catch is, he has to marry and marry a specific woman in order to cash in on the inheritance. Big problem, since Jake has vowed to be a bachelor for life. Brianna Mayfield is at her last rope. Her father lost his business due to Jake's uncle turning down a loan. She's convinced this caused her father to fall into a deep depression. She blames t...
|  | Unmasking Kelsey
Release Date: April 24, 2012All is not as it seems as a daring undercover agent and an unconventional southern belle mix business with pleasure in this classic story of romance and suspense from New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper. Kelsey has come to the idyllic southern town of Pinnacle to investigate a shady company called Meditron, which has a ruthless way of getting what it wants—or so claims the desperate caller who contacts the FBI. The locals won’t talk about Meditron. But Kelsey is an expert interrogator, prepared to use his seductive charms to his every a...
|  | Mystery of the Maya/House of Danger/Race Forever/Escape (Choose Your Own Adventure 5-8)
Publication Date: November 1, 2006This 4-book boxed set includes the following titles from the storied Choose Your Own Adventure Series: *Mystery of the Maya *House of Danger *Race Forever *Escape. ...
|  | Under the Cherry Blossom Tree: An Old Japanese Tale
Publication Date: April 4, 1997| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Spring had finally come and everyone in the village was happy, despite being poor - everyone except the miserly landlord. Mumbling and grumbling, he sat all alone eating a bowl of cherries and glaring as the villagers sang and danced in the meadow. Then, quite by accident, he swallowed a cherry pit. The pit began to sprout. Soon the landlord was the wonder of the village - a cherry tree was growing on top of his head! What happened to the cherry tree and to the wicked landlord is a favorite joke in Japan. Allen Say ...
|  | Lineup for Yesterday
Publication Date: August 24, 2011| Grade Level: 4 and up In 1949, SPORT magazine published Lineup for Yesterday, a collection of poems by Ogden Nash celebrating the greatest big-league baseball players of the 1800s and early 1900s. Using an alphabetical approach, the famous wordsmith paid entertaining tribute to 24 legends of the diamond, encapsulating each in just 4 clever lines. Creative Editions is proud to present this masterpiece to a new generation of fans, reintroducing icons from the formative years of professional baseball. The masterful mixed-media illustrations of C. F. Payne port...
|  | Speed Skating (Real World Math: Sports)
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|  | Dooby (Wolfbay Wings)
Publication Date: September 1998| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Yum! MmMm! Que Rico!: Brotes De Las Americas/ Americas' Sprouting (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: April 30, 2009| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up Peanuts, blueberries, corn, potatoes, tomatoes, and more-here is a luscious collection of haiku celebrating foods native to the Americas. Brimming with imagination and fun, these poems capture the tasty essence of foods that have delighted, united, and enriched our lives for centuries. Exuberant illustrations bring to life the delicious spirit of the haiku, making Yum! ¡Mmm! ¡Qué Rico! America's Sproutings an eye-popping, mouth-watering treat. Open it and dig in! ...
|  | Blue Lipstick: Concrete Poems
Publication Date: May 21, 2007| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up A 15-year-old girl named Jessie voices typical—and not so typical—teenage concerns in this unique, hilarious collection of poems. Her musings about trying out new makeup and hairstyles, playing volleyball and cello, and dealing with her annoying younger brother are never boring or predictable. Who else do you know who designs her own clothes and writes poetry to her cat? Jessie’s a girl with strong opinions, and she isn’t shy about sharing them. Her funny, sarcastic take on high school life is ...
|  | A Gaggle of Geese and a Clutter of Cats (Dandilion Rhymes)
Release Date: October 2, 2007| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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