 | A Halloween Reader: Poems, Stories, and Plays from Halloween Past
Release Date: September 30, 2004This anthology contains the works of writers from the 16th to the early 20th centuries who evoke the night to set a scene, twist a plot, or explain something inexplicable, like madness or time travel. ...
 |  | Having Cut the Sparrow's Heart (New Issues Poetry & Prose)
Publication Date: April 5, 2010| Series: New Issues Poetry & Prose Winner of the 2009 Green Rose Prize in Poetry ...
|  | Lake
Publication Date: December 6, 2004Leigh is young, rebellious and beautiful -- and she yearns for a summer of excitement by the lake.Maybe she'll find it in the arms of the handsome boy who rows her out to the abandoned beach house.Or maybe she'll stumble into a legacy of terror which will shatter her life...Eighteen years on, Deana has no knowledge of her mother's troubled past and not that much interest.She just wants to make out somewhere cool with her boyfriend -- to let her hair down and live a little.If only living were that simple.But that summer at the lake casts a long shadow.And whe...
|  | Fatal Memories
Publication Date: March 10, 2005This riveting techno medical thriller asks: Do we carry the memory of past lives in our genes’ Neuro-psychiatrist Dr. Anne Powell is haunted by a terrifying recurrent dream that renders her an emotional cripple. She channels her energy and intellect into the brain scanner that she has invented. Working at the Pavlov Institute in Moscow, she experiences a laboratory accident that unleashes a six-hundred-year-old chain of events that may return a blood-thirsty psychopathic dictator to power, and destroy Anne’s lover and her own sanity. She must confron...
|  | Enigmatic Pilot: A Tall Tale Too True
Release Date: March 22, 2011Enigmatic Pilot is Kris Saknussemm’s outrageously brilliant yet profoundly moving exploration and excavation of the American dream—and nightmare. In 1844, in a still-young America, the first intimations of civil war are stirring throughout the land. In Zanesville, Ohio, the Sitturd family—Hephaestus, a clubfooted inventor; his wife, Rapture, a Creole from the Sea Islands; and their prodigiously gifted six-year-old son, Lloyd, whose libido is as precocious as his intellect—are forced to flee the only home they have ever known for ...
|  | Oscar Wilde and the Vampire Murders: A Mystery (Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries)
Release Date: May 3, 2011| Series: Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries Oscar Wilde and the Vampire Murders opens in 1890, at a glamorous party hosted by the Duke and Duchess of Albemarle. All of London’s high society—including the Prince of Wales—are in attendance at what promises to be the event of the season. Yet Oscar Wilde is more interested in another party guest, Rex LaSalle, a young actor who claims to be a vampire. But the entertaining evening ends in tragedy when the duchess is found murdered—with two tiny puncture marks on her throat. Desperate to avoid scandal and...
|  | La jud
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|  | LOST CAUSES: HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN VICTORIAN LI (VICTORIAN CRITICAL INTERVENTIO)
Publication Date: October 15, 2006| Series: VICTORIAN CRITICAL INTERVENTIO What if we didn't always historicize when we read Victorian fiction? Lost Causes shows that Victorian writers frequently appear to have a more supple and interesting understanding of the relationship between history, causality, and narrative than the one typically offered by readers who are burdened by the new historicism. As a return to these writers emphasizes, the press of modern historicism deforms Victorian novels, encouraging us to read deviations from strict historical accuracy as ideological bad faith. By cont...
|  | Author and Printer in Victorian England (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)
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|  | Grantland Issue 2
Publication Date: April 10, 2012Grantland Quarterly is a collaboration between McSweeney's and Grantland, the popular website founded and edited by Bill Simmons. It features the best long-form sports and culture writing from the site as well as new print exclusives, delivered in a lavishly designed, full-color book. Issue 2 has a dust jacket that unfolds to reveal a double-sided poster with an intricate, gorgeous piece of original art on one side, and, on the reverse, a reprint of the rare 1970s poster of George "The Ice Man" Gervin from Nike.Issue 2 also includes:-Bill Simmons writing about...
|  | White Powder: A novel of the CIA and the Secret War in Laos
Publication Date: January 29, 2010There is something intoxicating about a secret. There's something terrifying about a shadow war. You may not know much about Laos or the world of WHITE POWDER. You aren't supposed to. Drugs, sex, and murder combined with personal and national agendas to create the hidden world of heroin where governments and drug empires collide. WHITE POWDER is the story of US Army officer, Craig Burton, who became something else. Burton's metamorphosis can't be explained except within the context of others whose roles played a part...
|  | Render Safe
Release Date: October 1, 20020004 The Vest Bomber is responsible for a series of attacks on Kansas City.0003 Each attack is more heated for Jamie Stone of the Hazardous Device Unit.0002 For his sole purpose is to induce fear in his victims. And it's spreading. 0001 With unnerving skill he's reaching into Jamie's private life-and he's calculating her fate-right down to the last terrifying second. ...
|  | Essential Godzilla (Marvel Essentials)
Publication Date: March 22, 2006| Grade Level: P and up "You have your fear, which might become reality.And you have Godzilla, which IS reality."-From Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1956) And what a reality it was!For two years, Japan's greatest export was one of Marvel's biggest stars, and the King of the Monsters upheld his title against some of the best and worst the House of Ideas had to offer - including the Fantastic Four, the Avengers, and Nick Fury and the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.!Godzilla shrinks, goes West, travels through time and hosts one of Spider-Man's monst gratuitous guest-sh...
|  | Felix Travels Back in Time with Other
Publication Date: October 1995| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up Felix begins his travel back in time at the Stone Age exhibit in a museum Sophie visits with her classmates. His travels take him to ancient Greece, the time of the Vikings, the Middle Ages, feudal Japan, and the land of the American Indians. From each stop, Felix sends Sophie a letter telling her what he has learned. Includes 6 letters & wall chart. 50 color illustrations. ...
|  | A Sack Full of Feathers
Release Date: September 1, 2007| Grade Level: P and up Gossip spreads like feathers in the wind. ...
|  | The St. Louis Rams (Team Spirit (Norwood))
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|  | Bull Riding (World of Rodeo)
Publication Date: January 1, 2006| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Me I Am!
Release Date: April 17, 2007| Age Level: 3 and up I am the only ME I AM who qualifies as me; no ME I AM has been before, and none will ever be. Three very different children reveal their individual personalities in a series of visual mini-adventures. Readers meet a mischievous tomboy who would rather roller-skate than wear a frilly dress, an inquisitive nature-loving boy, and an artistic ballerina who puts her own spin on Swan Lake. Finally, in a wild and funny climax, the three collide - only to discover a world full of unique and special "ME's." With exuberant art and gleeful ver...
|  | The Egyptians (Know it All!)
Publication Date: March 1, 2003| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | The Recess Queen
Publication Date: February 1, 2002| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up A fresh & original twist on the common issue of bullying. Kids will relate, & parents & teachers will appreciate the story's deft handling of conflict resolution (which happens w/o adult intervention)Mean Jean was Recess Queenand nobody said any different.Nobody swung until Mean Jean swung.Nobody kicked until Mean Jean kicked.Nobody bounced until Mean Jean bounced.If kids ever crossed her, she'd push 'em and smoosh 'emlollapaloosh 'em, hammer 'em, slammer 'emkitz and kajammer 'em.Until a new kid came to school!Wi...
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