 | The Bride Bargain (Prairie Promises Series #1)
Publication Date: September 1, 2008This stunning debut novel by Kelly Eileen Hake is full of wit and warmth. Set down upon the wild American plains during the 1850, Clara is desperate for a home and a future for herself and her aunt. Striking a bargain with a lonely trader to fool a head-strong doctor could lead Clara to an unexpected avenue of romance. ...
 |  | Big Brown Bap Monster (Mona the Vampire)
Publication Date: March 29, 2001| Series: Mona the Vampire TV tie-in editions of the original Mona the Vampire stories: Tinned Poltergeist - Disappearing keys and chairs moving can only mean one thing - a poltergeist! Jackpot Disaster - Angela's father hits the jackpot and Angela turns horrible overnight. Hairy Hands - Charley disappears after crashing his bike, the Hairy Hands must have grabbed him! Big Brown Bap Monster - The last bun in the bag transforms into the Big Brown Bap Monster! Mona the Vampire was screened in the UK on Nickelodeon in Autumn 1999 and BBC 1 in Spring 2000. ...
|  | The Women of Janowka
Publication Date: March 29, 2012Founded by Germans, people in the Volhynian village of Janowka once lived a peaceful and affluent life. They co-exist on friendly terms with their Ukrainian, Polish, Russian and Jewish neighbours. When the world political climate changes at the end of the 19th century, Tsar Nicholas begins to make things difficult for the Germans. More and more settlers leave the country in the direction of Prussia or North America. Those who remain suffer hell on earth after the outbreak of WW I. 200,000 German Volhynians are exiled to Siberia. The survivors of this exodus ar...
|  | The Quick and the Dead
Release Date: January 8, 2002Misanthropic Alice is a budding eco-terrorist; Corvus has dedicated herself to mourning; Annabel is desperate to pursue an ordinary American life of indulgences. Misfit and motherless, they share an American desert summer of darkly illuminating signs and portents. In locales as mirrored strange as a nursing home where the living dead are preserved, to a wildlife museum where the dead are presented as living, the girls attend to their future. A remarkable attendant cast of characters, including a stroke survivor whose soulmate is a vivisected monkey, an aging big-...
|  | Queenmaker: A Novel of King David's Queen
Publication Date: November 2002| Series: Recent Picador Highlights For over forty years, Michal lived and reigned in David’s court. She was the beautiful and proud daughter of King Saul and the prize David would risk his kingdom to win. Behind the palace doors, beneath the burning sun of the desert, or fleeing from Absalom’s warriors, Michal was at the center of court intrigues.Queenmaker introduces in unforgettable detail the characters of one of the greatest periods in Biblicalhistory—their public deeds and private thoughts—and gives us the court of the kings as onl...
|  | Las Palabras a Los Reyes y Gloria de Los Pizarros (Juan de La Cuesta Hispanic Monographs) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Five Major Plays: Ivanov; The Seagull; Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; The Cherry Orchard
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|  | Passio Christi
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|  | The Ice at the Bottom of the World: Stories
Release Date: January 1, 1991In these ten stories, Mark Richard, winner of the 1990 PEN/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award, emerges as the heir apparent to Mark Twain, Flannery O'Connor, and William Faulkner. ...
|  | An Aesthetics Of Vulnerability: The Sentimentum and The Novels Of Graham Swift (Gothenburg Studies in English)
Publication Date: December 31, 2003| ISBN-10: 9173464791 | ISBN-13: 978-9173464796This is a Ph.D. dissertation. Arguing against the view that postmodernism is marked by "the waning of affect," this book investigates the fate of sentimentality in postmodernist fiction. The investigation focuses on the novels of the British author, Graham Swift, tracing in them the emergence of a blending of representations of sentimentality with a postmodernist aesthetics and a postmodern ethico-spiritual imagination - a blending resulting in what is designated by the shorthand "the sentimentum." The expr...
|  | Spinsters Abroad: Victorian Lady Explorers
Publication Date: June 1989What spurred so many Victorian women to leave behind their secure middle-class homes and undertake perilous journeys of thousands of miles, tramping through tropical forests, caravanning across deserts, and scaling mountain ranges? And how were they able to travel so freely in exotic lands, when at home such independence was denied to them? This book draws upon the diaries and writings of more than 50 such women to describe their experiences and aspirations. Many of the journeys they made are re-constructed - Mary Gaunt's voyage along the West African coast, Mary K...
|  | On Symbols and Society (Heritage of Sociology Series)
Publication Date: July 15, 1989| ISBN-10: 0226080781 | ISBN-13: 978-0226080789| Edition: 1 Kenneth Burke's innovative use of dramatism and dialectical method have made him a powerful critical force in an extraordinary variety of disciplines—education, philosophy, history, psychology, religion, and others. While most widely acclaimed as a literary critic, Burke has elaborated a perspective toward the study of behavior and society that holds immense significance and rich insights for sociologists. This original anthology brings together for the first time Burke's key writings on sym...
|  | Blood and Gold (Vampire Chronicles)
Release Date: October 16, 2001| Series: Vampire Chronicles "Hardcover: 460 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.59 x 9.53 x 6.74 Publisher: Knopf; ISBN: 0679454497; (October 16, 2001) Time heals all wounds, unless, of course, you're a vampire. Cuts may heal, burns vanish, limbs reattach, but for the ""blood god,"" the wounds of the heart sometimes stay open and raw for centuries. So it is for Marius, Anne Rice's oft-mentioned and beloved scholar. We've heard parts of his tale in past volumes of the Vampire Chronicles, but never so completely and never from his own lips. In Blood and Gold, Rice ...
|  | The Tale of Zuko (Avatar, the Last Airbender: The Earth Kingdom Chronicles)
Release Date: February 5, 2008| Age Level: 7 and up I am Prince Zuko. After being betrayed by my wicked sister, Azula, Uncle Iroh and I have sought new lives in the Earth Kingdom. It is humbling to wander as a refugee, but it has also opened my eyes to the pain the Fire Nation has inflicted on the world -- as well as on me. On one hand I am proud to be a prince of the Fire Nation, but on the other hand I feel very ashamed. What is my destiny? Is it to turn my back on the Fire Nation and start anew, or is it to restore my honor and earn back my rightful place as the future Fire Lord? I have y...
|  | Baseball: Rules, Tips, Strategy, and Safety (Sports from Coast to Coast)
Publication Date: January 1, 2007| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | You Can Be a Woman Softball Player
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|  | LEGO City: Escape from LEGO City!: Sticker Storybook
Publication Date: January 1, 2011| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Zahara's Rose
Publication Date: July 1, 2009Multi-award winning Australian author Libby Hathorn's latest book. What will happen when Zahara reaches the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and tries to see the Queen? With a cart full of plants and the straggly weed her father calls The Flower of Heaven, she and her mother and grandmother pass through the Ishtar Gates on the way to the marvelLous Hanging Gardens, built by King Nebuchadnezzar for his Queen, Amyritis. But a guard refuses entry for Zahara and laughs at the Flower of Heaven... Libby Hathorn has told a gentle, celebratory tale, illuminated by the evocati...
|  | Clay Man: The Golem of Prague
Release Date: November 10, 2009| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up It is 1595, and the rabbi’s son Jacob is frustrated with having to live in the walled ghetto known as Jewish Town. Why can’t he venture outside of the gates and explore the beautiful city? His father warns him that Passover is a dangerous time to be a Jew and that the people from outside accuse the Jews of dreadful deeds. But one night, Jacob follows his father and two companions as they unlock the ghetto gates and proceed to the river, where they mold a human shape from the mud of the riverbank. When th...
|  | Duck! Rabbit!
Publication Date: March 11, 2009| Grade Level: P and upFrom the award-winning author of Little Pea, Little Hoot,and Little Oink comes a clever take on the age-old optical illusion: is it a duck or a rabbit? Depends on how you look at it! Readers will find more than just Amy Krouse Rosenthal's signature humor hereGÇöthere's also a subtle lesson for kids who don't know when to let go of an argument. A smart, simple story that will make readers of all ages eager to take a side, Duck! Rabbit! makes it easy to agree on one thingGÇöreading it again! --This text refers to th...
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