 | Collected Stories: A Play
Publication Date: October 1, 1998The highly acclaimed new play by the author of Sight Unseen and The Model Apartment . --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
 |  | The Bonsetter's Daughter
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|  | Above the Thunder
Release Date: May 10, 2005A wary, middle-aged widow numbed by loss and disappointment. A preternaturally intelligent little girl who eavesdrops on the dead. A charming, sybaritic gay man torn between his love for his partner and the anarchy of his desires.These are the charged poles of Ren?e Manfredi’s gorgeously written first novel, a book that explores the currents of tenderness, responsibility and chance that turn strangers into a family. Anna Brinkman meets her ten-year-old granddaughter Flynn when the girl appears on her doorstep, desperate for a love more steadfast than any she h...
|  | Dandelion Wine
Publication Date: December 2, 2010Ray Bradbury's moving recollection of a vanished golden era remains one of his most enchanting novels. Dandelion Wine stands out in the Bradbury literary canon as the author's most deeply personal work, a semi-autobiographical recollection of a magical small-town summer in 1928.Twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding knows Green Town, Illinois, is as vast and deep as the whole wide world that lies beyond the city limits. It is a pair of brand-new tennis shoes, the first harvest of dandelions for Grandfather's renowned intoxicant, the distant clang of the trolley's...
|  | The Open Door
Release Date: June 10, 2008“The story is the journey, not the destination. Or so the philosopher’s say. But this is my story, and it has a beginning, a middle, and an end….”The Open Door is a luminous and profoundly moving novel inspired by the life of Constance Fenimore Woolson, one of the most widely-read and respected American authors of the nineteenth century. Exploring themes of passion, life, death, friendship, and art, the novel is a vivid evocation of the complex forces behind literary creation.After years of supporting her mother and a hapless brother thr...
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|  | Aia: Mekeo Songs (Papua Pocket Poets, 7)
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| | Tʻang poem in a simplified classical form (Chenian booklet series)
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|  | Their Eyes Were Watching God (Cliffs Notes)
Publication Date: December 25, 2000| Series: Cliffsnotes The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.In CliffsNotes on Their Eyes Were Watching God, you discover the work of one of the 20th century's first African-American female authors – Zora Neale Hurston. In the novel, Janie Crawford returns to her hometown in Florida and relates to her friend Pheoby...
|  | Yankee Doodle Dead (Death on Demand Mysteries, No. 10)
Release Date: August 1, 1999Master mystery spinner Carolyn Hart gives us the tenth high-spirited entry in her Agatha, Anthony and Macavity Award-winning Death on Demand series.The most delectable sleuthing couple since Nick met Nora, Annie and Max Darling manage to find quite a bit of murder in their allegedly safe and serene South Carolina island resort town. After all, murder is Annie's business -- well, sort of. She's the proprietor of the popular Death on Demand mystery bookstore and cafe, and her establishment seems to attract trouble like Annie's pesky felines, Dorothy L. and Agatha, a...
|  | Spawn & Batman #1 (Image - DC Comics)
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|  | The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 1 A: The Middle Ages
Publication Date: December 1999| ISBN-10: 0393975657 | ISBN-13: 978-0393975659| Edition: 7th With adoptions at over 1,300 colleges and universities in its first semester; the Seventh Edition of The Norton Anthology of English Literature continues to be the indispensable anthology. Like its predecessors, the Seventh Edition offers the best in English literature from the classic to the contemporary in a readable, teachable format. More selections by women and twentieth-century writers, a richer offering of contextual writings and apparatus fully revised to reflect today's scholarship make ...
| | Notitia Dignitatum
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|  | Windwalker: The Prophecy Series (Volume 1)
Publication Date: September 16, 2012FOREVER LOVERS - FOREVER LOST Singing Bird:Died in a world just beginning. Layla Birdsong:Reincarnated as it is coming to an end. The Danger:A meteor called Firewalker on a collision course with earth. Her Mission: Take what's left of the Native American race back to their beginning. Her Hope:To change the past and the future will change with it. Cayetano:From ancient Mayan to Windwalker:an all powerful and angry spirit trapped in eternal punishment for his earthly sins. His Only Hope:Singing Bird offering up her spirit to undo his curse. The Risk:Firewalk...
|  | Suspicion of Guilt
Release Date: January 1, 1996After taking on the biggest case of her career, a suspected forgery, Miami attorney Gail Conner suddenly becomes embroiled in a web of violence and murder from which she is unable to remove herself despite outside pressures. Reprint. Tour. AB....
|  | The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Publisher: Puffin
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|  | The Weirdstone of Brisingamen: A Tale of Alderley
Publication Date: October 1, 2006| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Neither Susan nor her brother, Colin, ever thought that war would be waged over a simple gemstone in her bracelet. But that's what happens when the children visit Alderley Edge, a spooky place in a remote part of England. There, they meet the wizard Cadellin, who needs the stone to rouse his allies in the never-ending battle between good and evil. But when the stone vanishes, Susan and Colin must find it before the forces of evil use it to destroy all the goodness that ever existed in the world....
|  | The Edge (Young Adult Fiction)
Publication Date: August 1, 2002| Age Level: 10 and up...
|  | Peace Week in Miss Fox's Class
Release Date: March 1, 2009| Grade Level: K and up Miss Fox is tired of hearing her young students quarrel. So she announces Peace Week--no more squabbling for one whole week! The children chime in with their own rules: no fighting, don't say mean things, and help others. Throughout the week each of the little animals gets a chance to practice this new behavior. When Polecat teases Bunny for wearing a bright yellow sweater, instead of poking fun back at Polecat, Bunny admires his sweater.Soon, to their surprise, the animals are finding that it's easy to help others, take turns, a...
|  | Heartland No. 16: Holding Fast
Publication Date: June 1, 2004| Age Level: 9 and up...
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