 | Indonesia (Ask About Asia)
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 |  | A Rock and A Hard Place
Publication Date: January 18, 2006This gripping novel draws the reader into the heartbreaking dilemma faced by Lucy a mother of three children, the oldest of whom, 9-year-old Hollie, has severe autism. Due to Hollie s erratic and often destructive behaviors, the day-to-day life of the rest of the family is fragmented and chaotic, putting a strain on Lucy s marriage and affecting her younger children. In trying to get the best possible educational services for her daughter, Lucy becomes overwhelmed and exhausted, and as she tries to preserve her family, she finds herself stuck between the pro...
|  | Revelation's Child
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|  | The Centaur
Release Date: August 27, 1996WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRE ÉTRANGER The Centaur is a modern retelling of the legend of Chiron, the noblest and wisest of the centaurs, who, painfully wounded yet unable to die, gave up his immortality on behalf of Prometheus. In the retelling, Olympus becomes small-town Olinger High School; Chiron is George Caldwell, a science teacher there; and Prometheus is Caldwell’s fifteen-year-old son, Peter. Brilliantly conflating the author’s remembered past with tales from Greek mythology, John Updike transl...
|  | Everbody Loves You
Publication Date: August 15, 1989A gay ghost, a talking dog, and a street kid who thinks he's an elf-child join our narrator Bud, best friend Dennis Savage, eternally young Little Kiwi, devastating hunk Carlo, and the other characters from I've a Feeling We're Not in Kansas Anymore and Buddies in this final volume in Mordden's trilogy on gay life in the big city.And there's trouble in paradise: Dennis Savage is suffering midlife crisisl; his lover little Kiwi who uses sex as a weapon, threatens to tear apart the delicate fabric of this gay family of buddies, lovers, and brothers and the AIDS...
|  | The Secret Annie Oakley
Publication Date: November 29, 2010The acclaimed historical novel of the Legendry Sharp Shooter; for 28 years Nobody knew the Dark Secrets behind the Legendary Woman of the Wild West. A Readers Digest Condensed Book selection. ...
|  | El amante del volcan/ The Volcano Lover (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: May 2008Ambientada en el Nápoles del siglo XVIII y basada en las vidas de sir William Hamilton, su famosa mujer, Emma, y lord Nelson, acompañados por muchas de las grandes figuras del momento, esta novela histórica poco convencional, firmada por una de las grandes pensadoras del siglo, nos habla del sexo y la revolución, del destino natural, del arte y de la obsesión del coleccionista, pero, sobre todo, del amor.«Una novela de ideas apasionada, y a menudo radical, que contiene todos los placeres al viejo estilo de las novelas históricas tr...
|  | The Evening Dew
Publication Date: May 13, 2008This third volume of stars light is intended to bring to the readers a quick sense of joy and laughter coupled with a shallow scratching of imagination for reflection. If the reader found some poems by accident hitting heart in some sort of shake up, the individualis advised to move quickly to the next and to the next poem or just hopping randomly through the text without getting bugged down by any of them. Thus, this introductory precaution before reading the book itself guarantees the readers to have a safe cushion before themfor protection for some of the unw...
|  | A Dangerous Love (Swanlea Spinsters, Book 1)
Release Date: November 7, 2000He was playing a dangerous masquerade...Griff Knighton′s found the perfect way to avoid being trapped into marriage with one of the Earl of Swanlea′s daughters: he′ll swap identities with his man of affairs during their next visit to Swan Park, and be free to pursue his own desires! After all, he′s not about to marry some homely spinster just to claim his rightful title. But Griff didn′t reckon on the brazen, voluptuous Rosalind, who could tempt even a saint into sinning, and Griff is no saint. She was determined...
|  | Christmas Letters: Forces of Love/The Missing Peace/Christmas Always Comes/Engagement of the Heart (Inspirational Christmas Romance Collection)
Publication Date: August 1, 2001Communication with the "home front" keeps love alive in this collection of World War Ii stories. ...
|  | Against All Odds (Arabesque)
Publication Date: July 24, 2012| Series: Arabesque Struggling to keep her corporate-recruiting firm afloat, Manhattan executive Melissa Grant has no time for love. Then Adam Roundtree walks into her life. But the charismatic businessman is no ordinary client. He's the man who can bring Melissa's career—and her heart—to life…until a shocking discovery jeopardizes their blossoming relationship.For Melissa and Adam, fate couldn't have played a crueler trick: their families have been embroiled in a stormy feud for generations, turning former business partners into life...
|  | The Little Red Hen
Release Date: January 1, 2002| Age Level: 3 and up...
|  | Indonesian Tales of Treasures and Brides (Asian Folktales Retold)
Publication Date: May 1, 2007| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Safe At Home
Publication Date: September 1, 2007| Age Level: 8 and up A high-interest sports novel from the author of PROMISES TO KEEP: HOW JACKIE ROBINSON CHANGED AMERICA.Ten-year-old Elijah Breeze, aka Jumper, is having the hardest summer of his life. His father has just died; his mother has moved them from the suburbs to New York City's Harlem area; and he has to spend the summer at baseball camp. Basketball is Jumper's game. He doesn't know anything about baseball, or city life, or how to keep going without his dad. Jumper struggles in his new life, but he's encouraged by the support of his coach and...
|  | Cooking the Israeli Way (Easy Menu Ethnic Cookbooks)
Publication Date: March 2002| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Camp Out!: The Ultimate Kids' Guide
Publication Date: July 15, 2007| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Bear bags, wilderness showers, and telling the temperature by counting the cricket chirps...Whether you're planning an over night in the backyard or a weekend in the wilderness, this book is packed with stuff to know. The basics, from gearing up to choosing a site to building a tarp tent. Tasty outdoor recipes: Solar Oven Pizza, Chow Down Chili and s' more's of course—with 8 variations.Plus: how to keep a Field Journal, exploring the nighttime sky, creepy campfire stories, and when it's time to go home, leav...
|  | The Donkey Who Carried a King
Publication Date: February 17, 2012Sproul has written a number of children's book that illustrate such theological and biblical concepts as God's holiness, the imputation of Jesus' righteousness to His people, and God's wrath against sin. In The Donkey Who Carried a King, he brings to life the amazing truth that Jesus, the Son of God, humbled Himself as a servant, gladly doing His Father's will, saving us from our sins, and leaving us a powerful example as to how we should live. When a little boy named Riley gets upset because his playmates pick him last for their games. When Grandpa hears a...
|  | Spy for the Night Riders: Martin Luther (Trailblazer Books #3)
Publication Date: February 1, 1992| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Thrilling adventure stories introducing young readers (ages 8-2) to Christian heroes of the past.Karl Schumacher was fifteen when he came to the German city of Wittenberg in 520 seeking an education. He had been very fortunate that the esteemed university professor, Doctor Martin Luther, had taken him into his household as a servant. Luther's promise of tutoring Karl in exchange for his labor was the chance of a lifetime--until a poster on the church door declared his master a heretic!Karl is asked to travel with...
|  | The Ghostwriter Secret (Brixton Brothers)
Release Date: October 4, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Grow! Babies!
Release Date: August 13, 2002| Age Level: 2 and up In her distinctive style, renowned photographer Penny Gentieu has ingeniously chronicled 20 babies over the course of an entire year. Spread by spread, month by month, babies and parents can share the fascinating stages of growth and celebrate each baby’s individual journey: smiling at three months, touching toes at five months, crawling at nine months–and developing his or her own special personality along the way! Every spread is brimming over with large, adorable photographs of this multicultural gang, who are sure to mesmer...
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