 | The Norton Book of Personal Essays
Publication Date: March 17, 1997Some fifty of the finest personal essays selected by the man often hailed as the "premier essayist of our time."In this anthology of twentieth-century essays, some of our most-admired American and British writers express their lively, candid, entertaining, thoughtful, and--above all--various opinions. Topics range from Tangier to a lake in Maine, from racial conflict to sky diving, from the expectations we bring to travel to the athletics of the table. The essays are selected and introduced by Joseph Epstein, himself a leading contemporary practitioner of the ...
 |  | Polar man, a very fortunate resemblance: A novel
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|  | Israel Through the Jewish-American Imagination: A Survey of Jewish-American Literature on Israel, 1928-1995 (S U N Y Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: April 1997| Series: S U N Y Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture Analyzing a wide array of Jewish-American fiction on Israel, Andrew Furman explores the evolving relationship between the Israeli and American Jew. He devotes individual chapters to eight Jewish-American writers who have "imagined" Israel substantially in one of more of their works. In doing so, he gauges the impact of the Jewish state in forging the identity of the American Jewish community and the vision of the Jewish-American writer.Furman devotes individual chapters to Meyer Levin, Leon Uris, Sau...
|  | Loving
Release Date: May 1, 1985Bettina Daniels lived a fairytale existence of glamour, endless parties, and luxury among America's top celebrities -- simply because she was the beautiful daughter of famous American author Justin Daniels. Then, in one moment of tragedy, her father was dead, and Bettina discovered the truth -- he had spent every dime he'd ever earned and run up millions in debt. At eighteen, penniless and alone, she had lost everything except her father's dearest friend, Ivo Stewart. A wealthy, h...
|  | Preachers, Poets, and the Early English Lyric
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|  | Love & Honor
Publication Date: March 31, 2003US Secret Service agent Cameron Roberts has more than one secret that could destroy her career, not the least of which is that she’s in love with the president’s daughter. Blair Powell, the first daughter, returns the feeling despite her ambivalence about Cam’s role as her security chief, particularly in the aftermath of an assassination attempt that nearly cost Cam her life. In this third book of the Honor series, Blair and Cam struggle to protect their relationship from intensified media exposure even as they are unwillingly drawn into a shado...
|  | Pollita chiquita
Publication Date: February 1, 1992| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Cause and effect are humorously apparent in this new edition of an old tale. When the acorn falls on Henny Penny's head, readers will know just where it's come from--two industrious squirrels busily gathering nuts in the trees overhead. (The same two squirrels are seen burying their wealth at the scene of Foxy Loxy's feast on the book's final page.) In similar fashion, Zimmermann extends and lightens this tersely told tale in page after page of colorful watercolor cartoons. Henny Penny and friends appear appropri...
|  | Another Doorway: Visible Inside the Museum
Publication Date: April 28, 2004An anthology of poetry and short stories from both new and experienced writers, this book features all female writers, most of whom are members of the Caribbean Women's Writers Alliance, writing on the serious issues of museum studies. The works address issues of invisibility, specifically in the context of the museum. With much of the writing the result of a collaborative museum project, the missing black women's voices begin to emerge. Offering fresh interpretations of mainly African artifacts on view in museums, 16 different writers contributed to this volu...
|  | How I Wrote Certain Of My Books
Release Date: August 15, 2005The first anthology of writings by Roussel, a legendary eccentric who influenced artists as diverse as Duchamp and Gide; contains selections from most of his major works. ...
|  | Blindsighted: A Novel (Dr. Sara Linton)
Release Date: September 4, 2001| Series: Dr. Sara Linton The sleepy town of Heartsdale, Georgia, is jolted into panic when Sara Linton, the town's pediatrician and coroner, finds Sibyl Adams, a young college professor, dead in the local diner. As well as being viciously raped, Sibyl has been cut: two deep knife wounds form a lethal cross over her stomach. But it's only when Sara starts to perform the postmortem that the full extent of the killer's brutality becomes clear.Police chief Jeffrey Tolliver -- Sara's exhusband -- is in charge of the investigation, and when a second victim is found ...
|  | Screaming Mummies of the Pharaoh's Tomb II (Tales from the House of Bunnicula)
Release Date: December 23, 2003| Age Level: 7 and up...
|  | Summer Reading Is Killing Me! #7 (Time Warp Trio)
Release Date: April 26, 2004| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | The Slime That Would Not Die (Monster Squad, No. 1)
Release Date: August 6, 2009| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up Jesse Ranger was just an average kid with an obsession for Oswald Leery?s B-Monster movies until he discovered a dangerous secret. It turns out Leery?s special filming process brought his movie monsters to life and now they?ve escaped the screen! Something must be done, so Leery recruits Jesse, Stella, Damon, and Lindsey to help. But how do you trap a B-Monster, especially one made up of slime? ...
|  | Spider-Man: The Next Chapter - Volume 3 (Spider-Man (Graphic Novels))
Publication Date: August 22, 2012| Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale (Picture Puffin)
Publication Date: July 1, 2008| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk
Publication Date: July 1, 2011Peter Rabbit of the Brier-patch is full of mischief today -- and hopes to pull a little prank on Jimmy Skunk and Reddy Fox. But maybe you know the rhyme:"When Jimmy Skunk is angryThen everyone watch out!It's better far at such a timeTo be nowhere about!In this delightful tale of field and meadow, Peter Rabbit gets in more trouble than he bargains for -- with a horde of Yellow Jackets thrown in! ...
|  | Johnny Appleseed Goes A' Planting - Pbk (First-Start Tall Tales)
Publication Date: April 1, 1997| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | On the Court with...Dwight Howard (Matt Christopher Sports Biographies)
Publication Date: November 2, 2010| Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Dough Craft: Fun Factory Series
Publication Date: October 23, 2003| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Boy Scout Fieldbook
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