| A Circle of Nations: Voices and Visions of American Indians (The Earthsong Collection) Publication Date: September 1993| Series: The Earthsong Collection A stunning anthology of original essays and photographs by 20 American Indian writers and photographers includes the works of Gabriel Horn and Simon Ortiz. Celebrates the depth and diversity of contemporary Native American life. 80 photos, 40 in color. Media tour. ...
| | Mary Emma & Company (Bison Book) Publication Date: February 1, 1994| Series: Bison Book The protagonist, Mary Emma Moody, widowed mother of six, has taken her family east in 1912 to begin a new life. Her son, Ralph, then thirteen, recalls how the Moodys survive that first bleak winter in a Massachusetts town. Money and prospects are lacking, but not so faith and resourcefulness. "Mother" in Little Britches and Man of the Family, Mary Emma emerges fully as a character in this book, and Ralph, no longer called "Little Britches," comes into his own. The family’s run-ins with authority and with broken furnaces in winter a...
| | Faithful to Laura (A Middlefield Family Novel) Publication Date: August 7, 2012| Series: A Middlefield Family Novel Laura’s Amish faith requires her to forgive, but she can only think of revenge. Laura Stutzman leaves her Kentucky community for Middlefield, Ohio, with one purpose: to find Mark King, the man who pledged his love to her, then left. She can’t move on with her life until he explains why. Sawyer Thompson wasn't born Amish, but has lived in their community for years. Now he must commit to the Amish church or return to the Yankee world. Having suffered loss at a young age, he understands Laura’s anger,...
| | Psalter: A Sequence of Catholic Sonnets (New Odyssey) Publication Date: January 1, 2011| ISBN-10: 1935503103 | ISBN-13: 978-1935503101In a fresh telling of biblical stories, William Baer takes us on a poetic journey through the Old and New Testament scriptures. These fifty-five masterfully rendered sonnets reflect a deep creative insight and symbolic significance that expands our appreciation and understanding of the familiar stories. Baer is a sonneteer at his very best in these unique and unforgettable poems. ...
| | Kafka's Uncle And Other Strange Tales Publication Date: October 4, 2005An alternate universe?A different dimension?The "id" of America?Meet Anslenot and his tormentor/confident, a giant tarantula, as they wander through a blasted, desecrated landscape of broken ideals and shattered hopes.In this place, nothing is right.The Militant Lambs fight with the Opposition and no one knows whose side who is on.Add to that Martians...Venusians...Elvis....To top it off, Anslenot is hounded by his dysfunctional family and upbringing...and legendary surrealist Franz Kafka makes Anslenot his honorary uncle.Nightmarish, strange, bizarre--the wa...
| | Office Girl Publication Date: July 3, 2012"Meno has constructed a snow-flake delicate inquiry into alienation and longing.Illustrated with drawings and photographs and shaped by tender empathy, buoyant imagination, and bittersweet wit, this wistful, provocative, off-kilter love story affirms the bonds forged by art and story."--Booklist (starred review)"The talented Chicago-based Meno has composed a gorgeous little indie romance, circa 1999 . . . A sweetheart of a novel, complete with a hazy ending."--Kirkus Reviews"High on quirk and hipster cred."--Publishers Weekly, "Pick of the Week""Meno's book is a...
| | Billy Budd with Reader's Guide (AMSCO Literature Program) Publication Date: June 1971| ISBN-10: 0877208107 | ISBN-13: 978-0877208105With an introduction by Joyce Carol OatesCollected here are the legendary American author’s novella, Billy Budd, and his short stories: “The Piazza,” “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” “Benito Cereno,” “The Lightning-Rod Man,” “The Encantadas,” “The Bell-Tower,” and “The Town-Ho’s Story” (from Melville’s masterpiece, Moby-Dick). --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
| | Hurricane Katrina--What Really Happened?! Publication Date: July 31, 2006As a fictional work, this novel is used by the author to describe what could have or may have happened in the events of Hurricane Katrina. Daniel, the main character, is left behind in New Orleans with this three brothers and mother who all live in a poor section of the city. Like many in the Big Easy, his family does not evacuate.In the novel, Daniel appears to be smarter than the rest of his family. During the night before Katrina makes landfall, Daniel has dreams. In these dreams, certain things are revealed to the main character that really frightens him. H...
| | The Year of Adverbs Publication Date: October 1, 2007Arriving eight years after the poet's last prize-winning offering, this collection explores the stuff of daily life, fizzing with personalities and alive with incidents. Traveling from New Zealand to Paris and back again, the poems trace a wedding, a birth, and several deaths, and offer revealing glimpses of Fats Waller, Eliza Bennet, Dorothy Parker, John Steinbeck, and Jean-Paul Sartre. Featuring such imagery as a horse playing an accordion, the compendium adeptly showcases the poet's verbal playfulness, dist...
| | The Mother-Daughter Book Club Rev Ed.: How Ten Busy Mothers and Daughters Came Together to Talk, Laugh, and Learn Through Their Love of Reading Release Date: March 13, 2007Newly revised and updated! The tenth anniversary edition of the inspirational book that has brought countless mothers and daughters closer together!The Mother-Daughter Book Club is the story of a group of mothers and their daughters, and how their relationships were strengthened and changed by starting a monthly reading club. But it is also a practical step-by-step guidefilled with stories, anecdotes, and reading liststhat will inspire parents to start reading clubs of their own. Shireen Dodson's message is a powerful one: Reading, learning, an...
| | In Pursuit of a Scientific Culture: Science, Art and Society in the Victorian Age (Science & literaure series) ...
| | Dada and Surrealist Film Publication Date: August 1, 1996This groundbreaking collection of thirteen original essays analyzes connections between film and two highly influential twentieth-century movements. The essays, which comment on specific films and deal with theoretical and topical questions, are framed by a documentary section that includes a photographic reproduction of the manuscript scenario for Robert Desnos's and Man Ray's L'Etoile de mer, and an introduction by the editor that provides a cogent working model for the difference between Dada and Surrealist perspectives. ...
| | Glastonbury Abbey and the Arthurian Tradition (Arthurian Studies) Publication Date: March 29, 2001| ISBN-10: 0859915727 | ISBN-13: 978-0859915724The essays in this volume, some reprinted in their original form and some extensively revised, are concerned with the Arthurian traditions associated with Glastonbury Abbey. Certain of the essays are analytic and others provide editions of hitherto unknown texts. They all examine ways in which legendary materials and historical facts interconnected in the process by which Glastonbury Abbey came to present itself, nationally and internationally, as the custodian of King Arthur's relics and the burial place of J...
| | The Discourse on Foxes and Ghosts: Ji Yun and Eighteenth-Century Literati Storytelling ...
| | The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook Release Date: September 1, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
| | Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip - Book One Release Date: November 14, 2006 ...
| | Diary of a Wimpy Kid Box of Books Publication Date: September 1, 2011 ...
| | Goldilicious (Pinkalicious) Release Date: May 26, 2009| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
| | The Maiden of Northland: A Hero Tale of Finland Publication Date: May 1, 1996 TEACHERS AND LIBRARIANS -- A READER'S THEATER SCRIPT OF AN EXCERPT FROM THIS BOOK IS AVAILABLE FREE ON AARON'S WEB SITE. Not so long ago, in the tiny, isolated villages of Finland, where prolonged summer days gave way to endless winter nights, people would pass the time by singing the many adventures of their favorite heroes: the mighty, magical men and women of ancient days. They sang of old Vainamoinen, greatest of sages and magicians, who helped create the world but never could find a woman to wed him. They sang of his friend and ally Ilm...
| | Nba: Team Usa 2000 Publication Date: June 1, 2000| Age Level: 7 and up...
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