 | Community, Trade, and Networks: Southern Fujian Province from the Third to the Thirteenth Century (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions)
Publication Date: May 16, 2002| ISBN-10: 0521894476 | ISBN-13: 978-0521894470The study traces the economic and demographic history of a corner of China's southeast coast from the third to the thirteenth centuries, looking at the relationship between changes in the agrarian and urban economies of the area and their connections to the expanding role of domestic and foreign trade.It provides a previously unexplored perspective on the role of commercialized production and trade in a regional economy in the premodern era and demonstrates that trade was able to drive change in a premodern econ...
 |  | Mercy Kill: Star Wars (X-Wing)
Release Date: August 7, 2012| Series: Star Wars: X-Wing The intrepid spies, pilots, and sharpshooters of Wraith Squadron are back in an all-new Star Wars adventure, which transpires just after the events of the Fate of the Jedi series! Three decades have passed since Wraith Squadron carried out its last mission. Taking on the most dangerous and daring operations, the rogues and misfits of the elite X-Wing unit became legends of the Rebellion and the Second Galactic Civil War, before breaking up and going their separate ways. Now their singular skills are back in vital demand—for...
|  | The Book of Tahkemoni: Jewish Tales from Medieval Spain (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)
Publication Date: August 1, 2003| ISBN-10: 1874774986 | ISBN-13: 978-1874774983Widely regarded as the crowning jewel of Heberew maqama literature (rhymed prose interspersed with verse) this book introduces a somewhat roguish protagonist, Hever the Kenite, often disguised as a teacher, beggar, adventurer, debater, or magician. Whether preaching, spinning history or fantasy, or working a crowd, Hever the Kenite is ever the consummate storyteller and wordsmith enlightening or astounding his listeners. The author displays great scope, moving from prayers to tales of battlefield carnage, from...
|  | The Sisterhood
Release Date: December 1, 1994Inside Boston Doctors Hospital, patients are dying. In the glare of the operating room, they survive the surgeon's knife. But in the dark, hollow silence of the night, they die. Suddenly, inexplicable, horribly. A tough, bright doctor will risk his very life-to dedicated young nurse unknowingly holds the and the answers. Together they will discover that no one is from... ...
|  | Dreaming of the NFL: A Year in the Life of a Frustrated Jock
Publication Date: October 2004On the surface, this is a book about one man's last attempt at winning the championship trophy in his football league, and covers one year in the main character's life.But the book is also a microcosm of life in general.If you want to succeed at anything, you've got to rely on teamwork.The individual cannot succeed unless the team succeeds and only through shared achievements will the individual grow. ...
|  | The Isle of Avalon Sacred Mysteries of Arthur and Glastonbury
Publication Date: August 1, 2001Avalon is a site of great power, revered since ancient times as an entrance to, and exit from, the Otherworld. Book provides a coherent context in which to understand Avalon's many mysteries, including the * Isle * Tor * Glastonbury Zodiac, * Abbey * Tor Labyrinth * St. Michael ley line The author invokes the magical, spiritual power of the English landscape with a wealth of detailed information encompassing other belief systems and scared sites. He discusses * Physical and sacred topography * Symbols * Architecture * History ...
|  | The Cloud Messenger
Publication Date: April 10, 2012Kalidasa probably lived in the fifth century of the Christian era. This date, approximate as it is, must yet be given with considerable hesitation, and is by no means certain. No truly biographical data are preserved about the author, who nevertheless enjoyed a great popularity during his life, and whom the Hindus have ever regarded as the greatest of Sanskrit poets. We are thus confronted with one of the remarkable problems of literary history. For our ignorance is not due to neglect of Kalidasa's writings on the part of his countrymen, but to their strange b...
|  | Awaiting the Green Morning
Publication Date: November 15, 2007Dazzling, insightful, and direct, Awaiting the Green Morning takes the reader on a voyage to an unexpected world. Its four distinct sections offer reflections on mythical creatures, the delights of domesticity, the pain of exile, and the forgotten lands of the dispossessed. In Maria Rosa Lojo's richly evocative prose poems, space and time are compressed, and the exotic and the familiar become one: vampires are as delicate as spiders' webs, and everyday objects become a source of wonder and surprise. ...
|  | Aram Boyajian: the man who wrote the world's longest haiku
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|  | Mutiny and Romance in the South Seas: A Companion to the Bounty Adventure
Publication Date: February 7, 2001Who has not heard of the mutiny on the Bounty? For two hundred years this event has fired the imagination of millions of people, countless books have been written on it, and five motion pictures so far dramitized it on the screen. This book is unique in the literature on the mutiny and is the first companion volume to the story. The first part, the Bounty Chronicle, gives a panoramic, yet detailed, month-by-month account of the events, starting before the Bountys departure and ending with Fletcher Christians death on Pitcairn Island. It even chronicles Capta...
|  | The Golden Hustla
Publication Date: October 19, 2010Detective Houser wants nothing more than his retirement, but when a murder case involving the WMM firm lands on his desk, he can't avoid it.All of law enforcement knows that WMM Advertising, also known as We Make Millionaires, is one of the biggest and hardest-to-penetrate fraudulent telemarketing firms in the state of Georgia. A tape recording of a man's death may finally help Houser make a case against the firm. Calling in Alexis Greenspan, aka Nina Coles, the top sales associate in the company, Houser is determined to use her to find out the company's sec...
|  | Heaven Bound (Heaven Sent)
Release Date: June 1, 2009| Series: Heaven Sent In Heaven Bound, we meet Andrea Turner, the mother of Andrew Turner. After her death, Andrea journals her final words to her son, telling him of her discovery that she is Nephilim (half-human and half-angel).The story goes black to when Andrea meets several college friends who are helping her find her personal spiritual path. When she stumbles on the fact that she has supernatural powers, her reason for being at the college becomes all but coincidental as she learns she devised by a fallen angel and her true father, Dony El. Andrea must decide ...
|  | Assassin's Vendetta
Release Date: July 6, 2006In a world where magic and technology exists as one with one simple rule; survival of the fittest. Can you survive in a world of chaos where anything goes? ...
|  | Paws For Alarm (Dead Letter Mysteries)
Publication Date: May 15, 1998| Series: Dead Letter Mysteries A whisker away from death...A summer in England sounds like a great idea for the Harper family-- and the house exchange makes it so affordable. Now they've swapped their New England home for a lovely cottage in a village near London. Why, the house even comes with a cat, a shy marmalade named Esmond! Everything seems purrfect...until someone tries to kill Mr. Harper.Now the genteel village feels sinister, the snooty next-door neighbor is acting suspicious and the house is filled with its real owner's secrets. Numerous attempts on ...
|  | The Secret Warning (Read-It! Chapter Books: Historical Tales)
Publication Date: January 1, 2008| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Snow White and Rose Red (Well Loved Tales)
Publication Date: March 1982 ...
|  | The Spoiled Sport (Adventures of Marshall & Art)
Publication Date: January 1, 2010| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | What's In Oscar's Trash Can?
Release Date: June 25, 2002| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up What’s in Oscar’s trash can? Plenty–in fact, there’s so much that no one would believe something that looks so small on the outside has so much stuff inside. Oscar is having no luck finding his pet worm, Slimey, in all that crowded mess. Oscar’s Sesame Street pals come by to help, and their suggestions about where to look will prompt kids to lift the flaps on each spread to see if Slimey is hiding underneath. There are lots of surprises and lots of giggles as kids try to spot Slimey so...
|  | Moose Racks, Bear Tracks, and Other Kid Snacks: Cooking with Kids Has Never Been So Easy! (PAWS IV)
Release Date: September 28, 1999| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Cooking With Mickey & the Chefs of Walt Disney World
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