 | LA cuentista
Publication Date: November 1, 1994This is a text in English and Spanish. This unique collection of cuentos (traditional stories passed from generation to generation) offers an opportunity for readers to experience Hispanic culture and heritage as well as to discover the delight of storytelling. ...
 |  | 1, 2, 3, Go!
Publication Date: January 15, 2001| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up A colorful, playful counting book that introduces young children to Chinese characters and action words.One little girl catches a butterfly. Two small swimmers stomp in puddles. Three young musicians bang their drums. The children in this action-packed counting book jump, dance, and run through the numbers from one to ten. 1, 2, 3, Go! is an exciting introduction to the simplest and most logical of the beautiful picture-words that are used in written Chinese.Bright colors and bold shapes make the logic behind the...
|  | The Mephisto Kiss: The Mephisto Covenant Book 2 (The Redemption of Kyros)
Release Date: September 25, 2012| Series: The Redemption of Kyros The eyes never lie. No one’s eyes are darker than Eryx’s. Not even the Devil’s. When Jax and Sasha first see Jordan Ellis, they know she is no ordinary teenager. She’s the daughter of the president, after all, but she’s also Anabo — a descendant of Eve. What they don’t know is that Eryx plans to kidnap Jordan and force President Ellis to pledge his soul. If Eryx’s plot succeeds, the consequences would be catastrophic. But the Mephisto brothers do know about Jordan’s se...
|  | Voices From the Passion
Publication Date: February 27, 2001Imagine how each participant in the Passion Story might speak to us from the grave. Some describe what they wanted to see; others what they were conditioned to see, still others tell us how they experienced the miracle of God's love. For many of them Jesus was an intrusion in their lives. Yet those who knew him longest counted him teacher, friend and Savior. Whether they knew him for a long period of time, or only as a passing shadow, he left an indelible mark on each of them and changed their lives - every one of them - for all eternity ...
|  | Just Jane (Ladies of History Series #2)
Publication Date: September 1, 2007 Unable to find her own Mr. Darcy, she created him. Jane Austen lives simplyin the English countryside with her beloved family, entertaining them withher stories and seeking romance. She never ventures far from her own cornerof the world and struggles to find her place in it. Growing up in aclergyman's home gives Jane opportunities to observe human nature at itsbest--and worst. Vivid and delightful characters pour from herpen--Elizabeth Bennet, Fitzwilliam Darcy, Emma Woodhouse, Fanny Price, JohnWilloughby . . . Jane dreams of publishing her stories and sha...
|  | The Spawning: Book Two of The Hive Series
Publication Date: August 1, 2010| Series: The Hive Series Bringing unimaginable ancient horrors to light, this supernatural novel weaves several terrifying discoveries into one disquieting tale. At an isolated research station in Antarctica, a cosmologist experiences a singular, horrifying encounter. In the grip of an unforgiving snowstorm, the members stationed at Mount Hobb confront a terror that will change the world. Amidst threats of national security, conspiracies, and cover-ups, a new group of scientists at Polar Clime Base attempt to unravel an eldritch mystery that has remained lock...
|  | American Vampire Vol. 3
Release Date: February 7, 2012| Series: American Vampire (Book 3) #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This volume of the critically-acclaimed AMERICAN VAMPIRE follows the star of AV Volumes 1 and 2, Pearl, and her husband Henry, as he is recruited by a mysterious group of vampire hunters, off to World War II Japan to find a new breed of blood sucker. But what does the notorious vampire Skinner Sweet have to do with it? ...
|  | The Clovis Incident: A Mystery (Sasha Solomon Mysteries)
Publication Date: June 16, 2004| Series: Sasha Solomon Mysteries Sasha Solomon is having a bad day. Fired from her job as PR director at an Albuquerque HMO, she is dealing with an ailing mother and trying to figure out the origins of hallucinations that include conversations with her cat.Sasha heads for Clovis, a small town in southeastern New Mexico, where she'll bid on a project for the Chamber of Commerce. While there, she will check in with her widowed friend Mae King. Mae, a local dairy farmer, is clearly out of sorts and shows Sasha the reason. There's a body in one of her stock tanks-...
|  | Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England: John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Marchamont Nedham
Publication Date: February 3, 2008| ISBN-10: 0199230811 | ISBN-13: 978-0199230815| Edition: First Edition In this book the pre-eminent history of Cromwellian England takes a fresh approach to the literary biography of the two great poets of the Puritan Revolution, John Milton and Andrew Marvell. Blair Worden reconstructs the political contexts within which Milton and Marvell wrote, and reassesses their writings against the background of volatile and dramatic changes of public mood and circumstance. Two figures are shown to have been prominent in their minds. First there is Oliver Cromwel...
|  | The Gay and Lesbian Theatrical Legacy: A Biographical Dictionary of Major Figures in American Stage History in the Pre-Stonewall Era (Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance)
Publication Date: April 20, 2005| Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance “A superb tribute to theatrical pioneers—The Gay and Lesbian Theatrical Legacy is required reading for both theatre scholars and gay/lesbian/bisexual history aficionados. A fascinating journey awaits them all in this highly recommended volume.”—Broadside: Newsletter of the Theatre Library Association The Gay and Lesbian Theatrical Legacy collects in a single volume biographies of more than one hundred notable figures whose careers flourished in the years before the...
|  | A Reader Of Modern Arabic Short Stories
Publication Date: February 1, 2001| ISBN-10: 0863560873 | ISBN-13: 978-0863560873Designed for the English-speaking student, this reader brings together the Arabic texts of eleven of the best modern Arabic short stories. Each is preceded by an introduction in English, containing biographical information about the author and a critical analysis designed to encourage the student to make a literary response to the story, rather than regarding it as an anthropological curiosity or a linguistic conundrum. Notes explain colloquial and idiomatic words and phrases, which may cause difficulty. Thi...
|  | Pushkin's Tatiana (Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies)
Publication Date: October 12, 1999| Series: Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies "Hasty takes an image, Tatiana's, one that in large part has been frozen in cliche, and dramatically revitalizes our understanding of it and of its deep contiguity with Pushkin's esthetic-philosophical thought."-Robert Louis Jackson, Yale University"A major contribution to Pushkin scholarship on the eve of the poet's bicentenary. Olga Hasty rises admirably to the task of re-reading, or perhaps more accurately reading for the first time, Tatiana."-David M. Bethea, series editor and author of Realizing Metaphors: ...
|  | A Garland of Irish Verse
Release Date: December 4, 1993An illustrated collection of poems--by Yeats, Lionel Johnson, Samuel Ferguson, Mora Chesson, Eva Gore-Booth, and Anna MacManus--features photographs of the Irish countryside. ...
|  | The Portable Roman Reader (Portable Library)
Release Date: January 27, 1977| Series: Portable Library The Romans conquered most of the known world and detailed their conquests in calm, unapologetic histories. They were a supremely urbane people who longed poetically for the farming life. Valuing toughness and practicality in all things, they turned the love poem into a cynical rebuke and wrote tragedies in which the unfathomable actions of gods gave way to the staggering cruelties of man. As the empire slid into decay, Tacitus pulled back the curtain on the perverse intrigues of the emperors, and a Roman-educated Christian named August...
|  | A Valentine Waltz (Zebra Regency Romance)
Release Date: January 1, 2004| Series: Zebra Regency Romance Just in time for Valentine's Day comes this collection of three charming Regency short stories set on the most romantic day of the year. Original. ...
|  | Ebony Eyes (Love Spectrum Romance)
Release Date: October 31, 2006| Series: Love Spectrum Romance Corie Rickman’s parents have always indulged her, but chafing under their protective care, she chooses to marry a man from the wrong side of the tracks. After one too many beatings from her husband, she leaves him and starts her life over. Unfortunately for her, she knows too much about her ex’s illegal activities, and now he’s gunning for her.Undercover cop Laine Tanizaki is out to avenge his partner’s death. He meets Corie while trying to bring down a ring of drug dealers. The attraction is instant, b...
|  | The Last Talk with Lola Faye: An Otto Penzler Book (Otto Penzler Books)
Publication Date: June 21, 2011| Series: Otto Penzler Books Middling historian Lucas Paige visits St. Louis to give a sparsely attended reading—nothing out of the ordinary. Except among the yawning attendees is someone he did not expect: Lola Faye Gilroy, the “other woman” he has long blamed for his father’s murder decades earlier. Reluctantly, Luke joins Lola Faye for a drink. As one drink turns into several, these two battered souls relive, from their different perspectives, the most searing experience of their lives. Slowly but surely, the hotel bar dissolves aroun...
|  | Pillars of the Earth & World Without End (2 Books)
Publication Date: 2007Both of Ken Follett's stunning and sweeping medieval historical epics. ...
|  | Stalin's Ghost: An Arkady Renko Novel
Publication Date: June 3, 2008| Series: An Arkady Renko Novel Investigator Arkady Renko, the pariah of the Moscow prosecutor's office, has been assigned the thankless job of investigating a new phenomenon: late-night subway riders report seeing the ghost of Joseph Stalin on the platform of the Chistye Prudy Metro station. The illusion seems part political hocus-pocus and also part wishful thinking, for among many Russians Stalin is again popular; the bloody dictator can boast a two-to-one approval rating. Decidedly better than that of Renko, whose lover, Eva, has left him for Detective Nikol...
|  | Jelly's Gold: A McKenzie Novel (Twin Cities P.I. Mac McKenzie Novels)
Release Date: May 12, 2009| Series: Twin Cities P.I. Mac McKenzie Novels Rushmore McKenzie, a retired St. Paul policeman and unexpected millionaire, often works as an unlicensed P.I., doing favors as it suits him. When graduate students Ivy Flynn and Josh Berglund show up with a story about $8 million in missing stolen gold from the ‘30s, McKenzie is intrigued. In the early 20th century, St. Paul, Minnesota was an open city —a place where gangsters could come and stay unmolested by the local authorities. Frank “Jelly” Nash was suspected of masterminding a daring r...
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