 | Into the Twilight, Endlessly Grousing
Release Date: November 4, 1998Patrick McManus believes that life's eternal truths exist solely for the purpose of being overturned and proved incorrect. In McManus's world, nothing is what it should be. All steaks should be chicken-fried, strong coffee is drunk by the light of a campfire, and fishing trips consist of men acting like boys and boys behaving like the small animals we've always assumed they were.Into the Twilight, Endlessly Grousing is a hilarious collection from one of the greatest contemporary humorists: Dave Barry or Garrison Keillor with a twist of Mark Twain. In these adv...
 |  | Valentines
Publication Date: February 1, 2008For Valentine’s Day 1986, Ted Kooser wrote “Pocket Poem” and sent the tender, thoughtful composition to fifty women friends, starting an annual tradition that would persist for the next twenty-one years. Printed on postcards, the poems were mailed to a list of recipients that eventually grew to more than 2,500 women all over the United States. Valentines collects Kooser’s twenty-two years of Valentine’s Day poems, complemented with illustrations by Robert Hanna and a new poem appearing for the first time. Kooser’...
|  | Things I Want My Daughters to Know: A Novel
Release Date: April 8, 2008The bestselling author of The Reading Group returns with her most engaging novel yet, about four sisters who find hope and laughter in the wisdom their mother left behindWarm, funny, and loving, Barbara had always been the backbone of her family. Her four daughters adored her and relied on her. Faced with the reality of leaving them before any of them are ready, Barbara writes letters to each of them, and a journal about the things she wants them to know. Facing their first year without her, drawing on the wisdom in the legacy she has left behind, her girls...
|  | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: Tea with Mr. Tumnus (I Can Read Book 2)
Release Date: October 25, 2005| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Ceremony (Contemporary American Fiction Series)
Release Date: March 4, 1986| Series: Contemporary American Fiction Series Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive. His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation only increases his feeling of estrangement and alienation. While other returning soldiers find easy refuge in alcohol and senseless violence, Tayo searches for another kind of comfort and resolution. Tayo's quest leads him back to the Indian past and its traditions, to beliefs about witchcraft and evil, and to the ancient...
|  | The Sin Warriors
Publication Date: September 7, 2012Fifty years ago, three hundred teachers and students in Florida vanished. No storm troopers. No mass graves. Who were they? Just wasted lives from blackmail, coercion, entrapment--tactics of state senator Charlie Johns and his covert investigations of homosexuals in Florida's universities. The Sin Warriors is a novel inspired by those actual events. David Ashton has struggled for self-acceptance and identity his entire life. David's estrangement from a dysfunctional family childhood, his sexual awakening and bonding with his gay professor places them in the...
|  | Eager Spring
Publication Date: October 15, 2008A young academic is drawn towards activism when she is increasingly troubled by the growing threat of biocides. Through Virginia Brooke, Barfield charts the mental and spiritual journey of a thinking person - and, by extension, of all thinking persons - faced with "the need for action and the obligation to take it".From environmental thriller to Iron Age settlement, domestic estrangement and the alienation of Man from Nature, Barfield's last work of fiction will continue to delight admirers and provoke a fresh generation of thinkers. Owen Barfield is one of ...
|  | Russian Fairy Tales: Palekh Painting
Publication Date: November 2000| ISBN-10: 5819400194 | ISBN-13: 978-5819400197"The present publication of Russian folk tales is a remarkable example of this interesting facet of Russian art. The illustrations are by AIexei Orleansky, a painter of the Palekh school. Working with a variety of materials, in 1999 he produced a series of original miniatures illustrating traditional stories. I am sure that his iridescent Fire-Bird colours will bring joy to many readers, young and old".(Abram Raskin, art scholar, Merited Art Worker of Russia) ...
|  | Friendship and Poetry: Studies in Danish Neo-Latin Literature
Publication Date: November 1, 2004In this book a number of Professor Minna Skafte Jensen’s articles on Danish Neo-Latin poetry have been collected. The rich Danish Renaissance literature in Latin has since the 1980s been the subject of increasing attention. In her pioneering studies, written between 1984 and 2001, Minna Skafte Jensen presents some of the central authors, such as Hans Jørgensen Sadolin, Tycho Brahe, and Zacharias Lund. The articles offer sensitive readings with an eye to intertextual allusions as well as to the sociological context. The articles wh...
|  | The Robert S. Ellison Collection: Bookseller to John Wilkes / by Robert Right Rea
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|  | Le Gone Du Chaaba (French Edition)
Publication Date: January 3, 2005Le Chaâba ? Un bidonville au bord du Rhône, près de Lyon, il n''y a pas si longtemps.Un amas de baraques en bois, trop vite bâties par ces immigrants qui ont fui la misère algérienne. Ici comme ailleurs, les éclats de rire des enfants résonnent dès le lever du soleil. Les " gones " se lavent à l''eau du puits et font leurs devoirs à même la terre. Mais chaque matin, ils enfilent leurs souliers pour se rendre à l''école avec les autres. Là, derrière les mots inscrits sur le cahier ...
|  | Xenophon, I, Hellenica: Books 1-4 (Loeb Classical Library)
Publication Date: January 1, 1918| ISBN-10: 0674990986 | ISBN-13: 978-0674990982Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BCE) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 and joined an expedition including ten thousand Greeks led by the Persian governor Cyrus against the Persian king. After the defeat of Cyrus, it fell to Xenophon to lead the Greeks from the gates of Babylon back to the coast through inhospitable lands. Later he wrote the famous vivid account of this 'March Up-Country' (Anabasis); but meanwhile he entered service under the Spartans against the Persian king, m...
|  | To Desire a Wilde (Kimani Romance)
Publication Date: April 19, 2011| Series: Kimani Romance (Book 234) Shilah Wilde has called the Wyoming Wilde ranch home since he was a child. So when its future is threatened, the Native American rancher is the first to defend the sprawling Western spread he shares with his two brothers—even if it means going head-to-head against veterinarian Ellie Crandall. Th e shy girl he once knew has matured into a stunning, sensual beauty. And it will be his pleasure to rein her in!Ellie has a tough job to do, but how can she resist the tall, dark and smoldering cowboy? Shilah makes her feel like...
|  | One Moment in Time
Publication Date: July 25, 2000Book Description: Merilee Hampton's life fell apart when she learned her husband was in love with another woman. But fate stepped in when her best friend, Katie, talked her into a night out for her birthday in Atlantic City.Taking time out to rest on a quiet beach, she is suddenly caught in the path of a freak whirlwind. When she regains consciousness, she finds she has been transported back in time to the year 1898...where she falls into the arms of her soul mate, a widower by the name of John Grayson.Two lonely people from two different eras...can they find t...
|  | Murder in the Maze
Publication Date: February 27, 2012"After both Roger and Neville Shandon are felled in Whistlefield's famous hedge maze by curare-tipped darts, Sir Clinton [Driffield] arrives to restore order at this fractious country estate. Sir Clinton's performance as a criminal investigator is dazzlingly acute and the novel boasts several bravura scenes, all centering on the sinister hedge maze of death. Surely Murder in the Maze is one of the very finest country house mysteries produced by a British detective novelist in the 1920s. . . . No less a literary figure than T. S. Eliot praised Murder in the ...
|  | Death Row Breakout Stories
Publication Date: February 25, 2010Seven stories from the papers of one of America’s finest crime authorsRoger doesn’t mean for the preacher and his wife to die. Released less than a year earlier from San Quentin, he’s trying to make a living the only way he knows how: theft. His latest heist goes perfectly until his car breaks down. Sirens are closing in when an old black preacher stops to give him a lift. The police at the roadblock kill the elderly couple, but in the eyes of the law it’s Roger’s fault. And he will die in the gas chamber at San Quentin—u...
|  | Curious George Complete Adventures Deluxe Book and CD Gift Set
Publication Date: September 11, 2006| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Tikta'liktak: An Inuit-Eskimo Legend
Publication Date: October 29, 1990| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up “A young hunter is trapped on an ice floe and marooned on a barren island. . . . The Eskimo survives freezing weather, an attack by a polar bear, and the long journey that brings him safely home. . . . The author’s distinctive drawings help make this a memorable book.”--The New York Times Book Review ...
|  | Jeremy Lin: From the End of the Bench to Stardom
Publication Date: March 31, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up The world is exposed to an individual like Jeremy Lin only once in a generation. His journey has taken him from practicing lay-ups on the court at the local YMCA to hitting last minute game-winners on the grand stage at Madison Square Garden. This book charts Jeremy’s life story, from the streets of Palo Alto to the dormitories of Harvard to the major arenas throughout the country. Through exclusive interviews, play-by-plays, and colorful recollections, we get an intimate look at Jeremy’s story. It is one of unyielding determi...
| | Los Angeles Lakers (NBA Today (Mankato, Minn.).)
Publication Date: August 1997| Age Level: 8 and up...
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