 | Walden and Other Writings (Modern Library of the World's Best Books)
Release Date: September 5, 1992| Series: Modern Library of the World's Best Books With their call for "simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!”, for self-honesty, and for harmony with nature, the writings of Henry David Thoreau are perhaps the most influential philosophical works in all American literature.The selections in this volume represent Thoreau at his best. Included in their entirety are Walden, his indisputable masterpiece, and his two great arguments for nonconformity, Civil Disobedience and Life Without Principle. A lifetime of brilliant observation of nature--and of himself--...
 |  | Those Pearly Gates: A Homegrown Novel
Publication Date: September 13, 2005| Series: Homegrown The heartwarming saga of Imo Lavender and her spirited family continues in a third installment of the beloved Homegrown series.Life is moving on for Imogene Lavender, and reluctantly she leaves her farm in rural Georgia to follow her new husband, Reverend Peddigrew, into town to live in the parsonage. Her struggle to adjust is not what she expects when she begins feeling the all-too-perfect presence of the Reverend's late wife. The move also leaves Imo's niece Loutishie resentful and stretching her faith to find a way back to her belove...
|  | The 13th Tribe (An Immortal Files Novel)
Publication Date: April 3, 2012| Series: An Immortal Files Novel (Book 1) When a group of immortal vigilantes threatens millions, only one man is brave enough to stand in their way.Their story didn’t start this year…or even this millennium. It began when Moses was on Mt. Sinai. Tired of waiting on the One True God, the twelve tribes of Israel began worshipping a golden calf through pagan revelry. Many received immediate death for their idolatry, but 40 were handed a far worse punishment—endless life on earth with no chance to see the face of God.This group of immorta...
|  | Shadows and Cypress: Southern Ghost Stories
Publication Date: October 10, 2000A bewitching convocation of Dixie's most frightening ghost talesFrom backwaters as dark as a cypress swamp to nooks as mysterious as a musty college library, southerners have conjured spirits and told ghost stories. Shadows and Cypress: Southern Ghost Stories is a Dixie séance that summons ghost tales from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Collecting more than a dozen stories from each state, this book channels the South's entire panorama of creepy local...
|  | Forbidden Acts
Publication Date: October 1995Twenty-four short stories follow themes of human boundaries pushed to the limits, bringing readers into the lives of men and women who dabble in satanic worship, sexual manipulation, and other dark vices....
|  | Phenomenology of Spirit
Publication Date: 1977| ISBN-10: 0198245971 | ISBN-13: 978-0198245971This brilliant study of the stages in the mind's necessary progress from immediate sense-consciousness to the position of a scientific philosophy includes an introductory essay and a paragraph-by-paragraph analysis of the text to help the reader understand this most difficult and most influential of Hegel's works. ...
|  | The Norton Anthology of English Literature (Ninth Edition)(Vol. 2)
Publication Date: February 6, 2012| ISBN-10: 0393912485 | ISBN-13: 978-0393912487| Edition: Ninth Edition The most-trusted literature anthology of all time, now in its 50th year.The Ninth Edition offers more complete works and more teachable groupings than ever before, the apparatus you trust, and a new, free Supplemental Ebook with more than 1,000 additional texts. Read by more than 8 million students, The Norton Anthology of English Literature sets the standard and remains an unmatched value. ...
|  | Radetzkymarsch (Fiction, Poetry and Drama) (Fiction, Poetry & Drama) (German Edition)
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|  | SILENT FLOWERS - A New Collection of Japanese Haiku Poems (Hallmark Editions)
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|  | Percival's Planet: A Novel
Release Date: August 16, 2011A novel of ambition and obsession centered on the race to discover Pluto in 1930, pitting an untrained Kansas farm boy against the greatest minds of Harvard at the run-down Lowell Observatory in Arizona In 1928, the boy who will discover Pluto, Clyde Tombaugh, is on the family farm, grinding a lens for his own telescope under the immense Kansas sky. In Flagstaff, Arizona, the staff of Lowell Observatory is about to resume the late Percival Lowell's interrupted search for Planet X. Meanwhile, the immensely rich heir to a chemical fortune has decided to go west to ...
|  | Raggedy Ann's Lucky Pennies
Publication Date: October 1, 2003 When Raggedy Ann and Andy pick a lucky penny from the Lucky Penny Tree, they have no idea that it will lead them to all sorts of new friends and adventures! Right after they meet a prince who has lost his memory, they are captured by the wicked King Growch, who locks them up in his prison coop. They escape thanks to Lovey Lou and Ponko the puppy dog, and soon learn that there is a mystery at the King's castle -- and a missing prince. With the help of two nice witches, lots of wonderful friends, and their own wishing magic, the Raggedys do their very best to ...
|  | El Patito Feo (Fairy Tale Theater) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Courtney's Beach (Because There Is Nothing Like The Feeling Of Warm Sand Between Your Toes)
Publication Date: November 21, 2008This is a book created for girls and boys who just love the beach and swimming, And what child doesn't like a a warm sandy beach? Enjoy the illustrations and the poetry of Penelope Dyan and be sure to read this book to your child and explore his or her interests, likes and dislikes. Perhaps like Courtney, your child just loves to swim and just loves the beach. A former K-12 teacher, published in 'The Kindergartner,' as well as in 'Instructor Magazine' and in 'Humpty Dumpty' children's magazine, and an award winning author, Penelope Dyan has put her expertis...
|  | Men Who Fought in the Civil War (Civil War (Management Concepts))
Publication Date: January 26, 1998| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Early Explorers of North America (Illustrated Living History)
Publication Date: April 1997| Age Level: 6 and up...
|  | A Night Night Prayer
Publication Date: June 17, 2008| Age Level: 2 and up Shhh, it's time for sleeping, for getting snuggly in my bed. But first, I say my night night prayer and bow my sleepy head. Shh, the puppy's sleeping, a toy under his chin. When he rouses from his sleep, we'll play hide-and-seek again. Night night, puppy. This lovable little nighttime prayer book has interactive dialogue for a child to repeat as they look around their world to see the sleeping sun, trees, puppy, baby, etc. The repetition within the text and the reassuring message help little ones calm down and prepa...
|  | The Perils of Love (Left Behind: The Kids, No. 38)
Publication Date: July 23, 2004| Age Level: 10 and up #37 Heat Wave #38 The Perils of Love With over 11 million copies sold in the series, Left Behind: The Kids is a favorite of readers ages 10-14. Each book follows a group of teens who were “left behind” when other friends and family members were taken to heaven by God in the Rapture. All they have left is their friendship and their growing faith in Jesus Christ. For them, the last several years have not been easy . . . but the end is near. With background plots from Left Behind #10: The Remnant and #11: Armageddon, these book...
| | Baby Elephant Runs Away
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|  | Sit, Truman!
Publication Date: September 1, 2004| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up No day is dull with Truman around, and he has his own ideas about what he wants to do. Too bad there are so many interruptions: Heel! Sit! Fetch! STOP! Big, slobbery, and endearing, Truman will make dog lovers everywhere sit up and beg for more. ...
|  | The Berenstain Bear Scouts and the Ice Monster (Berenstain Bear Scouts)
Publication Date: December 1997| Age Level: 7 and up Beartown is getting ready for its big winter carnival, and the Bear Scouts hear that a visitor is on his way. Is it Santa--or the legendary Ice Monster? Ages 7-12. Pub: 12/97. . ...
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