 | Sixteen Years In Sixteen Seconds: The Sammy Lee Story
Publication Date: April 1, 2005| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up The inspirational true story of Sammy Lee, a Korean American who overcame discrimination to realize both his father's desire that he become a doctor and his own dream of becoming an Olympic champion diver. ...
 |  | Istanbul Passage: A Novel
Release Date: May 29, 2012A neutral city straddling Europe and Asia, Istanbul survived the Second World War as a magnet for refugees and spies, trafficking in secrets and lies rather than soldiers. Expatriate American businessman Leon Bauer was drawn into this shadow world, doing undercover odd jobs and courier runs in support of the Allied war effort. Now, as the espionage community begins to pack up and an apprehensive city prepares for the grim realities of postwar life, Leon is given one last routine assignment. But when the job goes fatally wrong—an exchange of gunfire, a body lef...
|  | Sunset Beach (The Beach House Series)
Publication Date: June 1, 2009| Series: The Beach House Series (Book 4) In the popular Beach House series (more than 60,000 copies sold), a worn and comfortable coastal home in San Diego intersects with charming, contemporary stories—Sally John’s The Beach House and Castles in the Sand followed by Trish Perry’s Beach Dreams. In Sunset Beach, Perry delights fans by returning to the beloved backdrop where women gather and lives change.Meet Sonny Miller, a recent college graduate with plans to get her master’s degree in psychology. With the intention of resolving som...
|  | California Angel
Publication Date: June 2, 2009Who she really is and what she really does are bewildering questions even for Toy Johnson. She only knows that a near death experience has launched her on a journey into the unknown-a journey she is destined to repeat again and again with astonishing results. When she returns to her familiar work world as a teacher in Southern California and her seemingly ideal marriage to a brilliant surgeon, she is haunted by dreamlike memories of children on the brink of death-children she believes she has somehow saved.Her husband, Stephen, thinks she is hallucinating. Her b...
|  | A Full and True Account of the Wonderful Mission of Earl Lavender, Which Lasted One Night and One Day: With a History of the Pursuit of Earl Lavender and Lord Brumm by Mrs Scamler and Maud Emblem
Publication Date: July 28, 2008Following in the tradition of Don Quixote, Earl Lavender is the story of two impecunious gentlemen who run away from their conventional lives, style themselves 'Earl Lavender' and 'Lord Brumm', and set out to preach the new creed of Evolution. Their hilarious romp across London leads them to all sorts of strange adventures, such as a wild hansom cab chase, a sojourn among a subterranean society of flagellants, and the discovery of the evolutionary 'Missing Link'.A key Decadent text, Earl Lavender (1895) is also Davidson's response to what he saw as some of the ...
|  | Inuit Folk-Tales (Adventures in New Lands)
Publication Date: June 30, 2009| ISBN-10: 0982170319 | ISBN-13: 978-0982170311Native languages and ways of living, including the arts of sea kayaking and dog sledding, fascinated Knud Rasmussen, himself of Inuit and Danish descent. Rasmussen devoted much of his life to ethnological and cultural studies throughout Arctic North America. Establishing a base station in Thule, Greenland, in 1910, he visited as many Inuit peoples as he could, taking meticulous notes and making sketches, collecting artifacts and compiling hundreds of Native legends and songs. The tales are grounded in the Inuit...
|  | General Prologue and the Reeve's Tale (Middle English Edition)
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|  | Polyphony 4
Publication Date: September 1, 2004INTRODUCTIONIt’s been a long, strange road since the first volume of Polyphony was conceived by the dashboard lights along the lonely miles of I-5 in the Willamette Valley. Two and a half years have gone by, three volumes have been published in the series, markets have changed, production technology has evolved, and somehow, our book has found a home in genre.When Polyphony first took off, it was on a wing and a prayer, with the help of a few dozen supporters and a hell of a lot of hope. New Weird was not the topic of the hour, the definition of slipst...
|  | The World is a Text: The Writing, Reading, and Thinking About Culture and Its Contexts (2nd Edition)
Publication Date: July 28, 2005| ISBN-10: 0131931989 | ISBN-13: 978-0131931985| Edition: 2The book teaches readers the usefulness of learning to actively "read" their surroundings. The new edition features a greatly expanded section on writing, editing, and making arguments.This cultural studies reader directly engages the process of writing about the "texts" one sees in everyday life. Its comprehensive and inclusive approach focuses on the relationship between reading traditional works–such as short stories, and poems–and other less-traditional ones–such as movi...
|  | Reading Hemingway's Men Without Women: Glossary and Commentary (Reading Hemingway Series)
Publication Date: November 30, 2008A close reading of one of Hemingway's short story collections"The aim of this book is not to have the final word on the meaning of the stories that compose Men Without Women. Rather, the study attempts to probe the events of each story as we encounter them. It seeks to explain historical references, to identify allusions, to see how form suggests meaning."--From the PrefaceBecause of the fame The Sun Also Rises brought Ernest Hemingway, when Men Without Women was published just one year later, in 1927, it commanded popular and critical attention. Even revie...
|  | Prophetic Thought in Postmodern Times (Beyond Eurocentrism and Multiculturalism, Vol. 1) (v. 1)
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|  | BARE TO DISCIPLINE, M/F Spanking Erotica Discipline Stories: The Apartment Collection, Vol. 1
Publication Date: September 21, 2010The Apartment Collection Vol. 1 is a delicious collection of M/F spanking and discipline stories. Naughty women get their bare bottoms spanked.They have two things in common, they all live in the same apartment complex and they all are spanked by the men in their lives. If the vision of a naughty bare behind getting her bottom soundly spanked excites you, this book delivers that and more. This book contains sexually explicit material and the spanking of adult women.ADULT ONLY. ...
|  | Gypsy Waves
Publication Date: January 30, 2008Action and uncommon adventure as two Stanford students unravel the messages our ancient extraterrestrial ancestors scattered across the planet before the last ice age.Two Stanford students unravel messages ancient ancestors scattered across the planet before the last ice age. An unusual young Gypsy woman and a nerdy, but good-looking guy, use scientific skills to uncover clues that have gone unnoticed for millennia.She's into biotech, genetics, and other people's locks, while he's all math and computers without a clue about girls.Follow them down the tunnels...
|  | Pyramid: And Four Other Kurt Wallander Mysteries
Publication Date: September 22, 2008| Series: Kurt Wallander Mysteries Now available for the first time in paperback from Vintage Canada, this international bestseller is the missing piece of the critically acclaimed Kurt Wallander mystery series: the story of Wallander's beginnings.The Pyramid is the prequel to the bestselling Kurt Wallander series, and reintroduces readers to a character they thought they knew everything about. Here, we see Wallander as a twenty-one-year-old patrolman, as a young father facing an unexpected danger on Christmas Eve, as a budding detective on the brink of mi...
|  | Sherlock Holmes and the Egyptian Hall Adventure (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)
Publication Date: May 1999| Series: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 112 pages ...
|  | Sita's Ramayana
Publication Date: September 27, 2011| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up The Ramayana is an epic poem by the Hindu sage Valmiki, written in ancient Sanskrit sometime after 300 BC. It is an allegorical story that contains important Hindu teachings, and it has had great influence on Indian life and culture over the centuries. Children are often encouraged to emulate the virtues of the two main characters — Rama and Sita. The Ramayana is frequently performed as theater or dance, and two Indian festivals — Dussehra and Divali — celebrate events in the story.This version ...
|  | Monster All-Stars
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|  | Raggedy Ann & Andy: I Spy! A Book of Shapes
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|  | Cranberries (Harvesttime Welcome Books) (Welcome Books: Harvesttime (Pb))
Publication Date: March 2004| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Lewis Carroll and His Illustrators: Collaborations and Correspondence, 1865-1898
Publication Date: September 18, 2003This new collection of the letters that Lewis Carroll wrote to the illustrators and prospective illustrators of his books affords fresh insights into Carroll's complex character, traces the history of the books that became great classics of the Victorian era, and charts the sometimes tempestuous seas of Carroll's relationships with his correspondents. Carroll, a meticulous artist, made detailed demands upon his illustrators, who included John Tenniel, Henry Holiday, Arthur Burdett Frost, Harry Furniss, and Gertrude Thomson.Lewis Carroll and His Illustrator...
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