 | David Letterman's Book of Top Ten Lists: and Wedding Dress Patterns for the Husky Bride
Release Date: October 1, 1996| Series: David Letterman's Book of Top Ten Lists (Book 2) David Letterman's Book of Top Ten Lists and Zesty Lo-Cal Chicken Recipesby David Letterman and the Late Show with David Letterman WritersIt's like watching TV -- with the added danger of paper cuts!Top Ten Apologies to People Buying This Book:10. Cheap glue will only hold the thing together for about six days.9. Some kids sneaked into the printing plant and added the word "ass" to a lot of the lists.8. ...
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 | Ray of Hope
Release Date: December 28, 2010Grandmother Ma Ray, a churchgoing woman with a mysterious past, steers her two reckless granddaughters away from trouble with her smarts, savvy--and the Word of God...Troublesome teen sisters Sahara and Crystal Nichols are acting up, and their risqué behavior is more than their mother Lenora can handle. Enter the girls' 75-year-old churchgoing grandmother, Ma Ray, who agrees to take charge of the young women. She's determined to turn their lives around--and knows more about being a bad girl than either sister bargained for...Sahara and Crystal don't realiz...
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 | Rise of the Trust Fall
Publication Date: May 1, 2010In Mindy Nettifee's second book, Rise of the Trust Fall, her poems possess a magic that can only come from a seasoned writer willing to share more on the page than she's comfortable with. Whether exploring the strange alchemy of healing, the perils of self-actualization, or the contemporary experience of womanhood, the poems in this daring collection are gorgeous and vibrant, bitingly funny, and unflinchingly honest. Rise of the Trust Fall challenges more than our understanding of ourselves. It calls us to connect to our humanity, to celebrate i...
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 | Scarlet Letter, The(MAXNotes Literature Guides)
Publication Date: July 27, 1994| Series: MAXnotes Literature Guides The MAXnotes provides a comprehensive summary and analysis of The Scarlett Letter and a biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Places the events of the novel in historical context and discusses each chapter in detail. Includes study questions and answers along with topics for papers and sample outlines. ...
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 | Doctor's Lady, The
Release Date: September 1, 2011Historical Romance from the Author of The Preacher's BridePriscilla White knows she'll never be a wife or mother and feels God's call to the mission field in India. Dr. Eli Ernest is back from Oregon Country only long enough to raise awareness of missions to the natives before heading out West once more. But then Priscilla and Eli both receive news from the mission board: No longer will they send unmarried men and women into the field. Left scrambling for options, the two realize the other might be the answer to their needs. Priscilla and Eli agree to a partner...
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 | Mandie and the Dangerous Imposters (Mandie, Book 23)
Release Date: June 1, 1994| Age Level: 8 and up Mandie discovers that her Uncle Wirt has disappeared. Dimar, a Cherokee friend, tells her of strange diggings going on in the mountains. Could the two mysteries be connected? Ages 8-13. Mandie book 23. ...
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 | Dead as a Doornail (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 5)
Release Date: May 3, 2005When Sookie's brother Jason's eyes start to change, she knows he's about to turn into a were-panther for the first time. But her concern becomes cold fear when a sniper sets his deadly sights on the local changeling population-and Jason's new panther brethren suspect he may be the shooter. Now, Sookie has until the next full moon to find out who's behind the attacks, unless the killer decides to find her first....
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 | Sweet and Sour Milk (Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship)
Release Date: August 22, 2006| Series: Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship Winner of the 1980 English-Speaking Union Literary AwardThe first novel in Farah's universally acclaimed Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship trilogy, Sweet and Sour Milk chronicles one man's search for the reasons behind his twin brother's violent death during the 1970s. The atmosphere of political tyranny and repression reduces our hero's quest to a passive and fatalistic level; his search for reasons and answers ultimately becomes a search for meaning. The often detective-story-like nar...
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 | True Thomas (Coronet Books)
Publication Date: July 1996| Series: Coronet Books Little is known about Thomas Learmonth of Ercildoune, vassal and esquire of the Earl of Dunbar, poet and prophesier known as 'Thomas the Rhymer'. During the reign of the Scottish King Alexander III, a time when the sword ruled over all and the treachery of the powerful earls had never been greater, True Thomas became renowned for his extraordinary gift of prophecy - a gift which has echoed through the centuries. In this enthralling novel Nigel Tanter brings him and the wild and rugged times in which he lived to vivid and memorable life. 'Thr...
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 | The Rivals (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: June 19, 1998| Series: Dover Thrift Editions Immensely popular comedy of manners featuring such memorable characters as the lovely Lydia Languish, her suitor, Capt. Jack Absolute; and Lydia's aunt — Mrs. Malaprop, cleverly revolves around false identities, romantic entanglements, and parental disapproval. Brilliant comic masterpiece satirizing the pretentiousness and sentimentality of 18th-century society. ...
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 | The Birth of Tragedy & The Genealogy of Morals
Release Date: May 7, 1956Skillful, sophisticated translations of two of Nietzsche's essential works about the conflict between the moral and aesthetic approaches to life, the impact of Christianity on human values, the meaning of science, the contrast between the Apollonian and Dionysian spirits, and other themes central to his thinking. ...
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 | El Silencio de los Inocentes (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: September 6, 2011Estos poemas nacen en medio de unainvestigación del sincretismo religiosodominicano y encarnan la vivencia devisiones y revelaciones que se abrieronpaso ante la poeta mientras conducia la busqueda de datos e informacion,entrevistando y visitando a los devotos en Villa Mella, Bani, Higuey, y otros santuarios. ...
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 | Kansho kanshi no kokoro: Yukyu no shijo o tazunete (Yuhikaku sensho) (Japanese Edition)
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 | Gender on the Divide: The Dandy in Modernist Literature
Publication Date: March 1993In close readings of six major modernist writers, among them Willa Cather, Wallace Stevens, and Vladimir Nabokov, Jessica R. Feldman traces the significance of the dandy, not just as historical figure and fictional character but also as authorial presence and rhetorical mode. She shows that dandies, far from being foppish and shallow male figures, are women and men who personify the major conflicts within modernism. ...
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 | Le Morte Arthur (Early English Text Society Extra Series)
Publication Date: May 3, 2001| ISBN-10: 0859919978 | ISBN-13: 978-0859919975This Book Is In English. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition....
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 | The Celebrated Pedestrian
Publication Date: July 23, 2012Faith Wentworth's father is a renowned sportsman and national celebrity, but Faith despises all sport and wants to be admired for herself, not her father's exploits. So when Sir Anthony and Lord Frederick begin to pay her marked attentions she's suspicious of their motives. Sir Anthony obviously cares more for her father than for her, but it seems as if Lord Frederick is worthy of her trust... Or is he making sport of her, as well? ...
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 | A Season For Samantha (Zebra Regency Romance)
Release Date: December 1, 1998| Series: Zebra Regency Romance When country orphan Samantha Bennings runs away to escape marriage to a pinched-faced preacher, she encounters a handsome gentleman who mistakes her for a lightskirt, and kisses her soundly! Soon after that, Samantha agrees to impersonate a young lady who is also fleeing an unwanted bridegroom--only to find that the fiance is Samantha's amorous stranger. ...
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 | The Later Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Return of Sherlock Holmes / The Hound of the Baskervilles
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 | Anansi and the Talking Melon
Publication Date: April 1, 1995| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up A clever spider tricks Elephant and some other animals into thinking the melon in which he is hiding can talk. ...
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 | Bears in the Night
Release Date: August 12, 1971| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Illus. in full color. The Bears' adventures take them in, out, around, and about. "A good job of combining words and pictures into a slapstick but cohesive story."--School Library Journal. ...
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