 | Island of the Sequined Love Nun
Release Date: May 25, 2004Take a wonderfully crazed excursion into the demented heart of a tropical paradise—a world of cargo cults, cannibals, mad scientists, ninjas, and talking fruit bats. Our bumbling hero is Tucker Case, a hopeless geek trapped in a cool guy's body, who makes a living as a pilot for the Mary Jean Cosmetics Corporation. But when he demolishes his boss's pink plane during a drunken airborne liaison, Tuck must run for his life from Mary Jean's goons. Now there's only one employment opportunity left for him: piloting shady secret missions for an unscrupulous medical ...
 |  | M*A*S*H
Publication Date: June 1968Before the movie, this is the novel that gave life to Hawkeye Pierce, Trapper John, Hot Lips Houlihan, Frank Burns, Radar O'Reilly, and the rest of the gang that made the 4077th MASH like no other place in Korea or on earth. The doctors who worked in the Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals (MASH) during the Korean War were well trained but, like most soldiers sent to fight a war, too young for the job. In the words of the author, "a few flipped their lids, but most of them just raised hell, in a variety of ways and degrees." For fans of the movie and the series alike, h...
|  | The Crowd You're In With: A Play (English and English Edition)
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|  | Two Wrongs
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|  | When A Heart Cries (Mountain Lake, Minnesota Trilogy)
Publication Date: October 31, 2012| Series: Mountain Lake, Minnesota Trilogy (Book 3) Samantha and Adam Klaassen started married life in the cozy little home built into the hill at the back of the Klaassen family farm. When they began looking forward to their own family, they knew they would need a real house with more room. But now the silent bedrooms in the farmhouse built with such love and hopefulness by her husband haunt Samantha's days and nights. Why does God not see her yearnings for a child and answer the nearly constant prayers? And watching her sister-in-laws joyfully welcoming ne...
|  | The Black Hare
Publication Date: September 20, 2010In need of a good bar to call your own? A bar with friends and top shelf whisky? Well, come on in, The Black Hare is home to all sorts: Faeries, demons, devils and clergy. Hobnob and rub elbows with the Tavern ditties of porter and stout. ...
|  | A Woman of Bangkok
Publication Date: January 16, 2012Acknowledged as one of the most memorable novels about Thailand, “A Woman of Bangkok” was first published to critical acclaim in London and New York in the 1950s and is a classic of Bangkok fiction. Set in 1950s Thailand, this is the story of an Englishman’s infatuation with a dance-hall hostess named Vilai. No ordinary prostitute, Vilai is one of the most memorable in literature’s long line of brazen working girls ...
|  | Learning Life Again
Publication Date: January 4, 2010In Learning Life Again, Maggie McLeod, adult brain injury survivor mentors a newly injured teen as they journey toward health, success, and fulfillment. Their struggle to regain physical and emotional ability after brain injury delves into universal feelings like anger, loss, and redemption. Learning Life Again explores the way we adapt to challenges and how we can learn to heal....
|  | Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord
Release Date: March 3, 1998From the bestselling author of "Corelli's Mandolin" and "The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts" comes an iridescent gem of storytelling that is "by turns wacky, mystical, and altogether compelling" ("Washington Post"). A young philosophy professor is the only citizen in his country who dares to renounce his country's cocaine mafia. This makes him the object of several assassination attempts and a national hero. His popularity, however, does not extend to the people he loves . ...
|  | Night Shall Overtake Us
Publication Date: May 1, 1994Four women take a pledge of eternal friendship shortly before World War I as the world they have known descends into chaos and their different destinies, which include obsession, murder, and insanity, begin to be played out. A first novel. 25,000 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo. ...
|  | Lost in the City
Release Date: November 30, 2004The nation's capital that serves as the setting for the stories in Edward P. Jones's prizewinning collection, Lost in the City, lies far from the city of historic monuments and national politicians. Jones takes the reader beyond that world into the lives of African American men and women who work against the constant threat of loss to maintain a sense of hope. From "The Girl Who Raised Pigeons" to the well-to-do career woman awakened in the night by a phone call that will take her on a journey back to the past, the characters in these stories forge bonds of com...
|  | Confessions from rain: a book of romantic poetry
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|  | Breath Of Life For All: Haiku Poetry In Defense of Nature
Publication Date: March 6, 2007...
|  | The Poetry of Business
Publication Date: August 15, 2003The Poetry of Business is a journey from your first resume through your mid-life crisis to retirement and beyond in a humourous and profound look at what you want from your career, where you are, and where you want to be.It is the second chance to do it all over again. ...
|  | An Educator's Guide to Information Literacy: What Every High School Senior Needs to Know
Publication Date: April 30, 2007| ISBN-10: 1591584469 | ISBN-13: 978-1591584469Serving as a text/resource book for teachers of high school students, this title provides practical help in preparing students to be active lifelong learners and efficient seekers and users of information. It provides a comparison of the AASL Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning to the ACRL information literacy standards, including specific lessons to teach these standards; check lists to make sure students know, understand, and can demonstrate their use; and formative and summative assessment i...
| | Temperamental Journeys: Essays on the Modern Literature of Travel
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|  | Developing Critical Thinking: The Speaking/Listening Connection
Publication Date: October 12, 1999| ISBN-10: 0867094915 | ISBN-13: 978-0867094916As the demand grows for students to reach new academic standards, teachers must be prepared to change their model for learning. To that end, Virginia O'Keefe's new book focuses on two modes of language that are currently undertaught, undervalued, but absolutely essential: speaking and listening. O'Keefe's premise is that if the climate for oral communication is favorable, students will take more risks and increase their potential for higher-level thought. In the first chapter of the book, O'Keefe discusses t...
|  | You Can't Scare Me (Goosebumps)
Publication Date: March 1, 2004| Age Level: 9 and up...
| | The Good Guys of Baseball: Sixteen True Sports Stories
Publication Date: March 1, 1997| Age Level: 8 and up A look at the lives of some the most famous men ever to have played the game of baseball--such as Cal Ripkin and Ken Griffey, Jr.--emphasizes their good sportsmanship and proper manners, both on and off the field, and celebrates their dedication to the sport. ...
|  | Mr. Greedy (Mr. Men and Little Miss)
Release Date: March 23, 1998| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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