 | The Allards Book Three Peace and War
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|  | The Walled Arab City in Literature, Architecture and History: The Living Medina in the Maghrib (History and Society in the Islamic World)
Publication Date: September 3, 2001| ISBN-10: 0714682152 | ISBN-13: 978-0714682150| Edition: annotated edition This book offers a multidisciplinary approach to the medina, the traditional walled Arab city of North Africa. The medina becomes a concrete case study for comparative explorations of general questions about the social use of urban space by opening up fields of research at the intersection of history, comparative cultural studies, architecture and anthropology. Essays by American, European and North African scholars demonstrate a variety of sources and theoretical approaches now...
|  | Literature from Solomon Islands (Multi-cultural English)
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|  | Nightlight: A Parody
Release Date: November 3, 2009About three things I was absolutely certain.First, Edwart was most likely my soul mate, maybe.Second, there was a vampire part of him–which I assumed was wildly out of his control–that wanted me dead.And third, I unconditionally, irrevocably, impenetrably, heterogeneously, gynecologically, and disreputably wished he had kissed me. And thus Belle Goose falls in love with the mysterious and sparkly Edwart Mullen in the Harvard Lampoon’s hilarious send-up of Twilight. Pale and klutzy, Belle arrives in Switchblade, Oregon looking for adventure, ...
|  | Typical American (Vintage Contemporaries)
Release Date: January 8, 2008| Series: Vintage Contemporaries From the beloved author of Mona in the Promised Land and The Love Wife comes this comic masterpiece, an insightful novel of immigrants experiencing the triumphs and trials of American life.Gish Jen reinvents the American immigrant story through the Chang family, who first come to the United States with no intention of staying. When the Communists assume control of China in 1949, though, Ralph Chang, his sister Theresa, and his wife Helen, find themselves in a crisis. At first, they cling to their old-world ideas of themselv...
|  | Nobody
Publication Date: June 22, 2012They said, "He's a nobody." They were dead wrong. When reporter Hudson Ambrose hears an early morning call on his police scanner about an injured person at a bus stop on Las Vegas Boulevard, he rushes to the scene to get the scoop. His world is blown off its axis when he discovers a murdered homeless man with a bankbook in his pocket showing a balance of almost one million dollars. Should he wait for the police, knowing the case will get lost in reams of red tape, or swipe the bankbook and take the investigation--and perhaps a chunk of the money--into his own h...
|  | La muerte de Artemio Cruz / The Death of Artemio Cruz (Spanish Edition) (Narrativa (Punto de Lectura))
Publication Date: June 15, 2010| Series: Narrativa (Punto de Lectura) A soldier who without qualms betrayed his comrades and yet was unable to withstand the wounds inflicted by destiny, reaches the end of his life. Confined to a bed, he faces an imminent and demeaning death; but the will that helped him carve his prominent place in society, refuses to give in. Using a brilliant narrative tone, which brings together past, present and future, the conscious, the subconscious, and objective narrative, Fuentes guides us through the very heart of the Mexican revolution, Mexico s political system a...
|  | The Force Unleashed: Star Wars (Star Wars (Del Rey))
Release Date: August 25, 2009| Series: Star Wars (Del Rey) “The Sith always betray one another. . . . I’m sure you’ll learn that soon enough.”The overthrow of the Republic is complete. Absolute power now rests in the iron fist of Darth Sidious–the cunning Sith Lord better known as Emperor Palpatine. But more remains to be done. Pockets of resistance in the galaxy must still be defeated and missing Jedi accounted for . . . and dealt with. These crucial tasks fall to the Emperor’s ruthless enforcer, Darth Vader, who in turn has groomed a lethal, namele...
|  | The Ape Who Guards the Balance (Amelia Peabody Mysteries)
Release Date: September 1, 1998| Series: Amelia Peabody Mysteries All hail the jubilant return of the redoubtable Amelia Peabody! Together with her sexy yet irascible husband, Radcliffe Emerson; their handsome but wily heir, Ramses; Ramses' inscrutably elegant friend David; and the elder Emersons' ward: beautiful, trouble-seeking Nefret Forth -- Edwardian Egypt may never be the same. The 1907 archaeological season in Egypt holds little promise for Amelia Peabody. But when an extraordinary papyrus of the Book of the Dead falls into the young people's hands, can trouble be far behind? It soon ...
|  | Silent Ears, Noisy Eyes Book 1 & 2- The Manifestation of the Twin Soul
Publication Date: August 23, 2011| Series: Silent Ears, Noisy Eyes A detective's investigation of his cousin's strange death leads him to discover a connection of divine abilities between the victim, and a long lost childhood friend. He discovers that they both have a connection to the unseen, allowing them to have prophetic visions and talents that put them back in touch with their sacred marriages. This is a story of 2 individuals who discover the truest love of all, based on true events and experiences. ...
|  | Locus Amoenus: Antologia de la lirica medieval de la Peninsula Iberica/ Anthology of the Medieval Poetry in Iberian Peninsula (Spanish Edition)
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|  | A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers
Release Date: July 5, 2001| ISBN-10: 0195130456 | ISBN-13: 978-0195130454| Edition: 4 From answering the question "Why teach writing?" to offering guidance in managing group work and responding to assignments, A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers provides a comprehensive introduction to the teaching of writing. Now in a fourth edition, this remarkably successful book features a new chapter by Daniel Anderson on teaching with computers and adds updated material on invention, intellectual development, and responding to students' writing. Describing in straightforward terms the cross-disciplinar...
|  | Once and Always
Release Date: September 20, 1990Across the vast ocean sailed Victoria Seaton, a free-spirited American beauty left suddenly orphaned and alone. Eager to claim her long-lost heritage, she was amazed at the formal elegance of Wakefield, the sumptuous English estate of her distant cousin...the notorious Lord Jason Fielding. Sought after at plays, operas, and balls by London's most fashionable ladies, Jason remained a mystery to Victoria. Bewildered by his arrogant demeanor, yet drawn to his panther-like grace, she came to sense the searingly painful memories that smoldered in the depths of his ...
|  | A Firma
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|  | Lord of the Silent: An Amelia Peabody Novel of Suspense (Amelia Peabody Mysteries)
Release Date: February 23, 2010| Series: Amelia Peabody MysteriesThe ghosts of an ancient past and the specters of a present-day evil are buried beneath the Egyptian sands . . . For archaeologist Amelia Peabody and her family, the allure of Egypt remains as powerful as ever, even in 1915, as a World War rages. But nowhere in this exotic land is safe—especially for Amelia's son Ramses and his beautiful new wife Nefret. Treachery and danger pursue the two young lovers across the desert nation, strengthening a bond of passion and devotion that only death can sever. And the grim discov...
|  | Harm for the Holidays: Misgivings (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation)
Publication Date: November 28, 2006| Series: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (Book 5) The fifth novel in Pocket Books sucessful crime mystery tying in with the hit television series, CSI: Miami, this time with a holiday theme! --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | The Norumbegan Quartet #1: The Game of Sunken Places
Publication Date: May 1, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | The Night Walker
Release Date: November 28, 2002| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up Late one afternoon a young Native boy goes exploring over the hills and through the forests beyond his home. At his side, he carries a walking stick and a pouch in which to place interesting objects he finds along the way. But as his pouch fills with treasure and he travels farther from home, the boy begins to hear something strange-a clinking, clicking, rustling sound that seems to be following right along behind him. Now the boy has a stick, so he can chase away a wild dog or a fox. But what if the sound is a pant...
|  | Insects Tattoos (Dover Tattoos)
Publication Date: January 12, 1996| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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