 | The Graveyard Book
Release Date: September 28, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 5 and upIt takes a graveyard to raise a child. Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. There are adventures in the graveyard for a boy—an ancient Indigo Man, a gateway to the abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, he will be in danger from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod's family....
 |  | Hoodlum: A Novel
Release Date: July 14, 2005He set out to be the good son, but the streets had a different plan. Born to one of the city’s most notorious crime families, Shai Clark has always managed to be a good kid. A college hoops star, Shai shunned the world that his father had created and focused on his dreams of going pro. Tommy, Shai’s trigger-happy older brother, is next in line for the throne and rules under his father through brute force. But Poppa has bigger plans for Shai. The situation soon turns ugly when Poppa is murdered and Tommy is removed from the equation. Suddenly Shai finds ...
|  | Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya (National Geographic Directions)
Release Date: July 17, 2007| Series: National Geographic Directions In this delightful hybrid of a book—part memoir and part travel journal—the bestselling author takes us deep into the mountains of Nepal with a trio of botanist friends in search of native Himalayan plants that will grow in her Vermont garden. Alighting from a plane in the dramatic Annapurna Valley, the ominous signs of Nepal's Maoist guerrillas are all around—an alarming presence that accompanies the travelers throughout their trek. Undaunted, the group sets off into the mountains with Sherpas and bearers, en...
|  | The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)
Publication Date: June 17, 1996The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve.When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits.Yet the idea of biology as destiny dies hard, as witness the attention devoted to The Bell Curve, whose arguments are here so effectively anticipated and thoroughly undermined. In this edition, Stephen Jay Gould has written a substantial new introduction telling how and why he wrote the book and trac...
|  | Bar Mitzvah
Publication Date: April 1999A beautiful gift book that unites the words of David Mamet, one of America's most respected playwrights, with stunning artwork by contemporary artist Donald Sultan. 20 color illustrations. ...
|  | The Haunting of Maddy Clare
Release Date: March 6, 2012Sarah Piper's lonely, threadbare existence changes when her temporaryagency sends her to assist a ghost hunter. Alistair Gellis-rich, handsome,scarred by World War I, and obsessed with ghosts- has been summoned toinvestigate the spirit of nineteen-year-old maid Maddy Clare, who ishaunting the barn where she committed suicide. Since Maddy hated men inlife, it is Sarah's task to confront her in death. Soon Sarah is caught upin a deperate struggle. For Maddy's ghost is real, she's angry, and she haspowers that defy all reason. Can Sarah and Alistair's assistant, the r...
|  | The Man of My Dreams: A Novel
Release Date: April 10, 2007“Being raised in an unstable household makes you understand that the world doesn’t exist to accommodate you, which, in Hannah’s observation, is something a lot of people struggle to understand well into adulthood.”–from The Man of My DreamsIn her acclaimed debut novel, Prep, Curtis Sittenfeld created a touchstone with her pitch-perfect portrayal of adolescence. Her prose is as intensely realistic and compelling as ever in The Man of My Dreams, a disarmingly candid and sympathetic novel about the collision of a young woman’s fant...
|  | Spinning Around
Publication Date: April 5, 2005Helen's life never used to be so messy. Not when she had money in the bank, a great figure, a cutting-edge haircut and a suede brush that she only used on suede. In those days, her world was like a well-organised filofax, and her gorgeous boyfriend, Matt, was just the icing on the cake.Now it's all different. She seems to be losing her grip as she juggles two kids, a never-ending renovation and a part-time job that has unexpectedly become her refuge. As for that wildly sexy and endearingly impulsive boyfriend, he's turned into a wildly impractical and annoyingl...
|  | The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam: Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. With a Commentary by H. M. Batson and a Biographical Introduction by E. D. Ross
Release Date: November 30, 2005This Elibron Classics edition is a facsimile reprint of a 1900 edition by Methuen and Co., London. ...
|  | Amazons: A Study in Athenian Mythmaking
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|  | Remus: A Roman Myth
Publication Date: August 25, 1995| ISBN-10: 0521483662 | ISBN-13: 978-0521483667This is an account of the foundation legend of Rome, how the twins Remus and Romulus were miraculously suckled by a she-wolf, and how Romulus founded Rome and Remus was killed at the moment of the foundation. What does the story mean? Why have a twin, if he has to be killed off? This is the first historical analysis of the origins and development of the myth, and it offers important insights into the nature of pre-imperial Rome and the ways in which myths could be created and elaborated in a nonliterate socie...
|  | Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America
Publication Date: August 17, 2005| ISBN-10: 1558494863 | ISBN-13: 978-1558494862An experienced teacher of reading and writing and an award-winning historian, E. Jennifer Monaghan brings to vibrant life the process of learning to read and write in colonial America. Ranging throughout the colonies from New Hampshire to Georgia, she examines the instruction of girls and boys, Native Americans and enslaved Africans, the privileged and the poor, revealing the sometimes wrenching impact of literacy acquisition on the lives of learners. For the most part, religious motives underlay reading inst...
|  | A Glossary of Cultural Theory
Publication Date: May 30, 2003| ISBN-10: 0340807016 | ISBN-13: 978-0340807019| Edition: Second Edition This glossary provides the researcher and student with lucid and up-to-date guidance through the vibrant and changing debates in cultural studies and related disciplines. In a field where meanings are frequently complex and ambiguous, it has been praised for its clarity and helpfulness. This new edition has been updated throughout. Among the new terms are entries for Ecology, Everyday Life, The Event, Nomadism, Psychogeography, and Taste, along with terms at the cutting edge of new thin...
|  | The Point Is To Change It: Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present (Modern & Contemporary Poetics)
Publication Date: April 28, 2007| ISBN-10: 0817354085 | ISBN-13: 978-0817354084| Edition: 1 A preeminent critic maps the frontier of contemporary poetry.In this book, Jerome McGann argues that contemporary language-oriented writing implies a marked change in the way we think about our poetic tradition on one hand and in the future of criticism on the other.He focuses on Walter Benjamin and Gertrude Stein as important intellectual resources because both see the history of poetry as a crisis of the present rather than as a legacy of the past. The crisis appears as a poetic deficit in conte...
|  | The Little Book of Arthurian Wisdom (Element's Lttle Book Series)
Publication Date: December 1994| Series: Element's Lttle Book Series The best nuggets from the gold mine of Arthurian legend and lore are collected here in this informative and entertaining addition to the "Little Book" series. Full-color throughout. ...
|  | Insatiable
Publication Date: January 5, 2012Shawn Griffin and Rachel Cooper have been best friends practically since birth, thanks to their families' close relationship. But for the past few years, Shawn has been fantasizing about getting his best pal in his bed. When she announces she's taking a trip to reconnect with an old lover, Shawn knows the time has come to put up or shut up. If she wants to go to New York City, fine. But he's coming with her. Rachel doesn't know what to think of Shawn's sudden interest. Determined to live life on her own terms, she refuses to fall right in line with her wealth...
|  | Master of Ecstasy (Mackenzie Vampires, Book 1)
Publication Date: February 1, 2004WARRIOR, HIGHLANDER, VAMPIREMeet the MASTER OF ECSTASY. Darach MacKenzie is everything dark, dangerous, and delicious. His voice is a tempting slide of sin, and he's the primitive need that lives in every woman, no matter how much she denies it. But even five hundred years of sensual knowledge haven't prepared him for the woman who awaits him in his clan's ancestral castle.HAPPINESS IS HER BUSINESSIn a distant future, Blythe works for Ecstasy Inc. to make people happy. That's her job, and she does it well. Company policy forbids the use of sensual solutions ...
|  | Wheedle on the Needle
Release Date: September 22, 2009| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up Deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest lives a quiet old creature named the Wheedle. When humans move into his forests, bringing their loud city noises, Wheedle flees to the rocky peaks of Mount Rainier, and then to the very tip-top of Seattle's Space Needle.A national bestseller, the beloved <emWheedle on the Needle had much of its Seattle-centric storyline stripped from later editions. This glorious 35th anniversary keepsake edition brings back the book's original charm, inviting a new generation of reader...
|  | Camp Gold: Going for Gold
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|  | The Cincinnati Bengals (NFL Today)
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