 | The Inn at Lake Devine
Release Date: April 27, 1999It's 1962 and all across America barriers are collapsing. But when Natalie Marx's mother inquires about summer accommodations in Vermont, she gets the following reply: The Inn at Lake Devine is a family-owned resort, which has been in continuous operation since 1922. Our guests who feel most comfortable here, and return year after year, are Gentiles. For twelve-year-old Natalie, who has a stubborn sense of justice, the words are not a rebuff but an infuriating, irresistible challenge. In this beguiling novel, Elinor Lipman charts her heroine's fixation with a smal...
 |  | The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by himself
Publication Date: October 1, 2008He was born, he tells us in his Interesting Narrative of his life, in Essaka, a small village in what is today eastern Nigeria that was ruled by the powerful eighteenth century King of Benin. His parents prophetically named him Olaudah Equiano, to signify his expected role as a leader—as one favored and who spoke with a loud voice. They dressed him after the tradition of their greatest warriors. Through age ten or eleven he was rooted in the cultural, spiritual, economic, religious and political customs of this charming fruitful vail, which he describe...
|  | Dancing at the Harvest Moon
Release Date: September 15, 1997Dear Maggie. I will always love you...Keep me safe in your heart.--Rob.His letters thrilled her as a young woman in love for the first time, and now, many years later, they mean more than ever to Maggie McIntyre. After her husband of twenty years leaves her for a younger woman, it's the discovery of Robbie's letters that gives Maggie a renewed sense of purpose: to return to Little Bear Lake and recapture the woman she once was--the woman she knows she could be again.But time has changed the place she knew and loved. The Harvest...
|  | A Thousand Tomorrows (Cody Gunner Series #1)
Publication Date: August 1, 2007In this mass market edition, #1 bestselling author Karen Kingsbury weaves a powerful story of a young couple whose love must face the ultimate challenge.Cody Gunner has no use for real love. Abandoned as a child by the person he needed the most, he swears he will never allow himself to love again. Ali Daniels denies love as well. Carrying a terrible secret, she lives life to the fullest, taking risks and refusing relationships. When Cody and Ali meet, their first instincts are to hide behind their emotional walls, seemingly doomed to repeat the patterns they h...
|  | Going Wild: Action! Series Book 9
Publication Date: June 24, 2011| Series: Action! In this latest G.A. Hauser Action! novel find out how Mark and the gang are truly 'Going Wild' with all of your favorite men finding love in all the wrong places!After their forbidden affair, twenty-two year old Alexander Richfield and the forty-two year old LAPD SWAT lieutenant, Billy Sharpe, can't seem to keep away from each other. Billy's love and attention towards the rising Hollywood star give Alexander just what he craves.Attorney extraordinaire Jack Larsen introduces his husbands, Adam Lewis, Mark Richfield and Steve Miller to his new l...
|  | The Study of American Folklore
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|  | The Way of Power: Poems
Publication Date: September 1996A savoury new collection nominated for the 1996 Pulitzer Prize in Literature. An impressive sequel to his previous work which was also nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. ...
|  | I've Learned Some Things (Modern Middle East Literature in Translation) (English and Turkish Edition)
Publication Date: 2008| Series: Modern Middle East Literature in Translation I've Learned Some Things allows English-language readers the rare opportunity to experience the work of Ataol Behramoğlu, one of Turkey's most celebrated poets. The sixty-six poems in this collection span the author's extraordinary career and are stunning examples of the intense emotional quality of his work. Behramoğlu celebrates the rich fabric of everyday life by exploring both personal and social struggles, sometimes employing a whimsical tone. Walter G. Andrews's skillful translation conveys the v...
|  | Lecon de Morale (Poesie/Gallimard) (French Edition)
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|  | Yevtushenko, Selected Poems
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|  | Poetic Meter and Poetic Form
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|  | The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared
Publication Date: March 5, 2012When Alice Ozma was in 4th grade, she and her father decided to see if he could read aloud to her for 100 consecutive nights. On the hundreth night, they shared pancakes to celebrate, but it soon became evident that neither wanted to let go of their storytelling ritual. So they decided to continue what they called "The Streak." Alice's father read aloud to her every night without fail until the day she left for college.Alice approaches her book as a series of vignettes about her relationship with her father and the life lessons learned from the books he...
|  | Feminist Film Theory: A Reader
Release Date: April 1, 1999For the past twenty-five years, cinema has been a vital terrain on which feminist debates about culture, representation, and identity have been fought. This anthology charts the history of those debates, bringing together the key, classic essays in feminist film theory. Feminist Film Theory maps the impact of major theoretical developments on this growing field-from structuralism and psychoanalysis in the 1970s, to post-colonial theory, queer theory, and postmodernism in the 1990s. Covering a wide range of topics, including oppressive images, "woman" as fetishized ...
|  | George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt
Release Date: May 24, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up George is heartbroken when he learns that his friend Annie and her father are moving to the US. Eric has a new job working for the space program, looking for signs of life in the Universe. Eric leaves George with a gift—a book called The User’s Guide to the Universe. But Annie and Eric haven’t been gone for very long when Annie believes that she is being contacted by aliens, who have a terrible warning for her. George joins her in the US to help her with her quest—and before he knows it, he, Annie, Cosmos, and Annie&rsqu...
|  | Shadows on the Stars (The Great Tree of Avalon, Book 2)
Release Date: October 6, 2005| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up When young Tamwyn, determined to solve the mystery of the vanishing stars, seeks a vision in the mountains, he is confronted by a vision he never expected: From the place of the stars, dark shadows, omens of evil, are pouring out toward Avalon, posing a threat to the Great Tree’s very existence. Tamwyn and his loyal troupe must split up: Elli to rush to the Lady of the Lake, Scree to heal with the Eaglefolks, and Tamwyn to journey to the Heartwood of Avalon itself to discover the portal to the highest branches ...
|  | Football (Real World Math: Sports)
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|  | Dinosaurs Galore!
Publication Date: September 2006| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up "As the sun lights the horizon, and the mist begins to clear, what shapes do you begin to see; what noises do you hear?Perhaps you’ll see a swishing tail, huge footprints, or a beak.I think I heard a distant roar… and did you hear something shriek?" Giles Andreae and David Wojtowycz have combined their talents once again to create this funny, rhythmic and fact-filled picture book about the lives of the great dinosaurs.From sun-up to sundown, meet the creatures that swam, roamed and flew over prehistoric e...
| | Warrior Scarlet
Publication Date: 1958In Bronze Age Britain, young Drem must overcome his disability-a withered arm-if he is to prove his manhood and become a warrior. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | Dream Weaver
Publication Date: March 15, 1998| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: K and up Silently, a tiny yellow spider spins her fragile web. As a young boy stops to watch, she crawls along the delicate silken threads, sometimes hanging, sometimes spinning, sometimes staring back. Before the boy knows it, the spider’s world has become his own. . . . ...
|  | Malayan Sun Bears (Animals of the Rain Forest)
Publication Date: February 2003| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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