 | Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: A Novel
Release Date: April 12, 1996Now, four years after her award-winning, underground bestseller, Little Altars Everywhere, praised by Pat Conroy as "a splendid first novel," Rebecca Wells returns with a masterfully written novel that brims with insight, humor and compassion. When Vivi and Siddalee Walker, an unforgettable mother-daughter team, get into a savage fight over a New York Times article that refers to Vivi as a "tap-dancing child abuser," the fallout is felt from Louisiana to New York to Seattle. Siddalee, a successful theater director with a huge hit on her hands, panics and postpones...
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 | Tarnished Image (The Barringston Relief Chronicles, Book 2)
Release Date: October 20, 1998PEOPLE SAY YOU'RE GUILTY.Dr. David O'Neal has dedicated his life to easing the pain and suffering of the world's downtrodden. His life stands for faith, hope, and honesty. As head of the world’s largest relief agency, he has the means to save countless lives. But now, he must use all his wits and strength to save one innocent man from destruction: himself.THE EVIDENCE SAYS YOU'RE GUILTY.In the midst of his relief work, David's world is shaken by the appearance of photos and videotape that show him in compromising situations. He is arrested. Friends and co...
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 | The Pope's Rhinoceros
Publication Date: April 2003The Pope's Rhinoceros is a vivid, antic, and picaresque novel spun around one of history's most bizarre chapters: the sixteenth-century attempt to procure a rhinoceros as a bribe for Pope Leo X. In February 1516, a Portuguese ship sank off the coast of Italy. The Nostra Senora de Ajuda had sailed fourteen thousand miles from the Indian kingdom of Gujarat. Her mission: to bribe the "pleasure-loving Pope" into favoring expansionist Portugal over her rival Spain with the most exotic and least likely of gifts -- a living rhinoceros. Moving from the herring colonies of...
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 | Animal Folk Tales
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 | Poesies Desbordes Valmo (Pobesie) (French Edition)
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 | Lighter Than Air: Moral Poems
Publication Date: November 1, 2000Bilingual Edition -- German/EnglishHans Magnus Enzensberger is Germany's most important and influential living poet, a lightning rod in a stormy political and cultural landscape.(Translations of his Kiosk and Selected Poems have also been published by Sheep Meadow.)Having come of age after the Third Reich, Enzensberger builds his poetry upon tradition and titanic German wreckage. Always historical and provocative, his humanity dares to sport a sublime malice toward all and charity for few. His revelations have something in common with certain post-Renaissanc...
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 | Alles Luge (Fiction, Poetry & Drama) (German Edition)
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 | 1,000 Years of Irish Poetry
Publication Date: April 1, 1999The most comprehensive single-volume collections of Irishpoetry. Contains all of Ireland's great poetic voices from theanonymous fashioners of the Cuchulain cycle to Yeats and the greatIrish poets of this century. ...
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 | The Woman Who Married a Bear: An Alaskan Mystery
Publication Date: May 1992In Sitka, Alaska, the bizarre death of a big-game hunter years before is investigated by investigator Cecil Younger, who uncovers a many-layered mystery involving the folklore and mythology of the local Tlingit Indians. ...
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| Binary Fusion and the Millennium Bug
Publication Date: December 7, 1998Binary Fusion takes today's latest technological and scientific findings and juxtaposes them to religious and spiritual matters of our era with surprising results.It's November 29, 1999 and there are just 33 before the New Year.The President has named a Y2K Think Tank Team to be sequestered in the Old Executive Building until beyond the New Year.Their mission, of course, is to minimize the effects of the Millennium Bug.Among the team members is a scientist, Dr. Stan Oakley, who has been working on developing a biological microchip for years.This chip could p...
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 | The Water's Lovely (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
Release Date: August 12, 2008| Series: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard When Ismay and Heather's stepfather was discovered dead in the bathtub nine years ago, the police concluded the drowning was an accident. But Ismay has always silently suspected that Heather might have had something to do with it. Now they're older and their lives seem to be moving happily forward. But when Heather becomes seriously involved with a man for the first time, Ismay's long-repressed memories can no longer be ignored. With painful inevitability, Ismay learns that she may not able to keep the dark truth hidden foreve...
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 | Una princesa en apuros / The Forest of Doom And Gloom (Benjamin Y El Dragon / Belmont and the Dragon) (Spanish Edition)
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 | We Love Baseball! (Pictureback(R))
Release Date: February 25, 2003| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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 | Gymnastics (Olympic Library)
Publication Date: January 1996| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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 | Interference (Lorimer Sports Stories)
Release Date: May 1, 2004| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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 | My Little Pony: Pony Party (Spanish edition): Fiesta de disfraces
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 | Fishing for Fun!
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 | Samantha's Blue Bicycle (American Girls Short Stories)
Publication Date: March 2002| Age Level: 9 and up...
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 | DK Illustrated Book of Great Adventures: Tales of Real-Life Adventurers Throughout History
Publication Date: September 15, 1999Tales of real-life adventures throughout history! The DK Illustrated Book of Great Adventures dramatically recounts the true-life exploits of 30 daring men and women -- from Marco Polo to Amelia Earhart. Color photographs and specially commissioned maps show where the adventures took place -- from Mount Everest to Antarctica -- while a clear and compelling text tells the tales of individuals who triumphed over adversity to conquer the far reaches of our planet...and beyond. The DK Illustrated Book of Great Adventures will excite and inspire young readers t...
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 | The Hat That Wore Clara B.
Release Date: March 31, 2009| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up On Mother’s Sunday at church, Clara B.’s grandma has the most beautiful hat of all the ladies. When people compliment her on it, she says, “Honey, I’m not wearing this hat. This hat is wearing me!” Clara B. likes to sit behind the hat in church and pretend it is wearing her. One day Clara B. decides that pretending isn’t enough, and she waits for her chance at the hat. But when the right moment comes along and she finally gets her hands on it, things don’t go exactly as ...
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