 | Crime on Their Hands A Luis Mendoza Mystery
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 |  | Maria Luisa.
Publication Date: August 1979Her poor knowledge of English is only one of the handicaps experienced by a Spanish-speaking girl from Arizona spending several months with relatives in San Francisco. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | For the Rest of My Life (Claire McCall Series #2)
Release Date: December 25, 2003The riveting, emotional sequel to the best-selling Could I Have This Dance?Claire McCall, M.D., is haunted by the question: Does she have the gene for Huntington's Disease, the disease that disabled her father? This exciting sequel picks up with Claire moving back to Stoney Creek to work as a family physician and help her mother care for her disabled father. She rekindles her relationship with John Serelli and---just before she's going to find out if she carries the HD gene---discovers an engagement ring hidden in his car. When John fails to 'pop the question' ...
|  | The Unknown Witches of Oz: Locasta and the Three Adepts
Publication Date: July 2001| Series: Dan in Oz Locasta, is the Good Witch of the North. When she is forced from Oz by the evil Mombi, she enlists the aid of young Dan, to get back. There she finds the evil Nome King, a Genie, and the demons of Whaqoland planning to conquer her beloved home. Join Locasta, Glinda, Princess Ozma, and Dan for this thrilling adventure in the merry old land of Oz. ...
|  | A Dry White Season
Release Date: September 19, 2006As startling and powerful as when first published more than two decades ago, André Brink's classic novel, A Dry White Season, is an unflinching and unforgettable look at racial intolerance, the human condition, and the heavy price of morality.Ben Du Toit is a white schoolteacher in suburban Johannesburg in a dark time of intolerance and state-sanctioned apartheid. A simple, apolitical man, he believes in the essential fairness of the South African government and its policies—until the sudden arrest and subsequent "suicide" of a black janitor fr...
|  | King Kong
Publication Date: December 13, 2005| Series: King Kong With vaudeville in its death throes, actress Ann Darrow finds herself out of a job in Depression-era New York. But her luck changes when she meets Carl Denham -- entrepreneur, raconteur, adventurer, and filmmaker -- a man struggling to make a name for himself in the entertainment industry. Bold, ebullient, and charismatic, Denham leads Ann, along with famed playwright Jack Driscoll and the crew of the tramp steamer "Venture, on a faraway filmmaking expedition, to the Indian Ocean and the legendary, primordial jungles of Skull Island. It ...
|  | Shedding and Literally Dreaming
Publication Date: November 1, 1994| ISBN-10: 1558610847 | ISBN-13: 978-1558610842| Edition: First Edition This volume brings together prose from three decades of writing by Verena Stefan, one of the most influential contemporary feminist writers in the world. The original 1975 German publication of Shedding-a novella that narrates the radical transformation of a young woman against the backdrop of the early 1970s women's, civil rights, and health care movements-created such a stir that the work has been hailed as "the feminist equivalent to Mao's little...
|  | Hot Valley: A Novel
Publication Date: April 18, 2007Move over, Scarlett O’Hara! It’s New England, 1861, and the troubles in the southern states seem a long way off for Jack Edgerton, the spoiled son of a prominent Vermont family. Howver, when he meets and falls in love with Aaron Johnson, the sexy son of a slave on the run from Virginia, Edgerton’s world is turned upside down. Separated by circumstances, the lovers pursue each other through the escalating madness of the Civil War and both find themselves forced to choose sides. After a series of outrageous adventures – including steamy...
|  | Longings of the Acrobats: Selected Poems
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|  | Gotta Have It: 69 Stories of Sudden Sex
Publication Date: March 1, 2011Rachel Kramer Bussel has collected a wide and wild variety of original erotica stories that are deliciously short — just one orgasmic bite at a time. In 1,200 words or less, these authors explore every which way you can "get it on," including threesomes, sex toys, public sex, BDSM, fetishes, and much more. Get "Anal-yzed," learn "The Advantage of Working from Home," and spy some risqué "Vacation Pictures." There are pecan rolls dripping in caramel and meals where lovers feast on nothing but each other. From crossword puzzles to Godzilla, these tales a...
|  | A Day for a Lay: A Century of Gay Poetry
Publication Date: June 1999From Greece's forthright Cavafy to France's renegade Genet; from OscarWilde's beloved Lord Alfred Douglas to Ginsberg and the Beats; from senior poets such as HaroldNorse to the kids who will be writing poems in the new millennium--Gavin Dillard, one of theworld's best-loved contemporary poets, has gathered the best of the 20th Century gay poetry "lestit be lost to us except in the lonely vaults of queer archives." ...
|  | Theories of Reading: Books, Bodies, and Bibliomania
Publication Date: December 11, 2006| ISBN-10: 0745616593 | ISBN-13: 978-0745616599| Edition: 1 Why do literary theorists see reading as an act of dispassionate textual analysis and meaning production, when historical evidence shows that readers have often read excessively, obsessively, and for sensory stimulation? Posing these and other questions, this is the first major work to bring insights from book history to bear on literary history and theory. In so doing, the book charts a compelling and innovative history of theories of reading. While literary theorists have greatly contributed ...
|  | On Christian Teaching (World's Classics)
Publication Date: September 11, 1997| Series: World's Classics The De Doctrina Christiana ("On Christian Teaching") is one of Augustine's most important works on the classical tradition. Undertaken at the same time as the Confessions, it sheds light on the development of Augustine's thought, especially in the areas of ethics, hermeneutics, and sign-theory. This completely new translation gives a close but updated representation of Augustine's thought and expression, while a succinct introduction and select bibliography present the insights of recent research. ...
|  | Here Comes Santa Claus
Publication Date: October 2001Book ...
|  | Su Tich Viet Nam Hay Nhat (Vietnamese Edition)
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|  | Olympic Wrestling (Great Moments in Olympic History)
Publication Date: January 1, 2007| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | The Pirate's Parrot
Release Date: March 1, 2004| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Filling in for Captain Cur's dead parrot, Barr the teddy bear proves herself to be a brave and useful companion to the pirate. ...
|  | Part of Me: Stories of a Louisiana Family
Release Date: September 29, 2009| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up My dream of becoming a writer is like a fallen leaf swept up by the wind—dancing inches from my reach, teasing, never letting me touch it. But somehow I hope that my life will have meaning one day.The story begins in 1939 with Rose, who takes a job driving a bookmobile when she moves with her family from rural Texas to the Louisiana bayou. Two decades later, Merle Henry, Rose’s son, is more passionate about trapping mink than reading, although there is a place in his heart for Old Yeller. In 1973, Merl...
|  | Life Story
Publication Date: November 16, 2009| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Earth takes center stage in this updated version of Virginia Lee Burton’s 1962 classic Life Story. Told through five acts, Burton’s art and text tell the history of earth from beginning to present day. Readers will gain an in-depth understanding of the planet’s history and their leading roles in it today. The book has been updated with cutting-edge science, including up-to-the-minute information on fossil records and the geologic principles. We are thrilled to provide this updated artistic...
|  | Read Me: A Poem a Day for the National Year of Reading
Publication Date: August 21, 1998Published to mark the beginning of the National Year of Reading, a collection of 365 classic and contemporary poems which follow the course of the changing months and seasons.Ideal for use in the new Literacy Hour. ...
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