 | The Good Daughters: A Novel
Release Date: August 24, 2010The bestselling author of Labor Day returns with a spellbinding novel about friendship, family secrets, and the strange twists of fate that shape our lives The Good Daughters They were born on the same day, in the same small New Hampshire hospital, into families that could hardly have been less alike. Ruth Plank is an artist and a romantic with a rich, passionate, imaginative life. The last of five girls born to a gentle, caring farmer and his stolid wife, she yearns to soar beyond the confines of the land that has been her family's birthright for gener...
 |  | The Rain Catchers (Avon Flare Book)
Release Date: August 1, 1992| Series: Avon Flare Book Beyond YesterdayEvery story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. That's the way it is at grandmother's house where tea is served each day at four and tales of death and divorce, illness and abandonment are shared by grandmother's circle of friends. The women watch over one another and eveyone watches over Grayling -- whose own story has never been told her to hear.But in a summer of many changes, fourteen-year-old Grayling encounters love and romance, joy and saddness...and the need to know her own story -- from the very beginni...
|  | Cuentos/ Short Stories (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Happyslapped by a Jellyfish: The words of Karl Pilkington
Publication Date: October 29, 2007A collection of baffling, hilarious, infuriating yet curiouslycompelling insights and anecdotes, diary entries, poems, "true" facts, cartoons,and assorted witterings concerning travel from the mind of Karl Pilkington, theunlikely star of the Ricky Gervais Show, the World's funniest and mostsuccessful podcast. ...
|  | The Wizard of Oz (Wondrawhopper)
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|  | A World of Ideas: Essential Readings for College Writers
Publication Date: June 1983The Eclogues, ten short pastoral poems, were composed between approximately 42 and 39 BC, during the time of the 'Second' Triumvirate of Lepidus, Anthony, and Octavian.In them Virgil subtly blended an idealized Arcadia with contemporary history.To his Greek model - the Idylls of Theocritus - he added a strong element of Italian realism: places and people, real or disguised, and contemporary events are introduced.The Eclogues display all Virgil's art and charm and are among his most delightful achievements. Between approximately 39 and 29 BC, years of civil strife b...
|  | Dans le front gauche de l'art (Collection Action poetique) (French Edition)
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|  | Against the Hard Angle: Poems
Publication Date: April 1, 2010Part extended love song to a city and part meditation on those who live there, this collection—consisting primarily of one long poem and a selection of shorter pieces—offers a stop-and-start lyrical tour of Halifax, eastern Canada's largest urban center. ...
|  | Big Rock Candy Town
Release Date: July 6, 2006Big Rock Candy Town is the story of two sisters from Ontario who return to Fernie, BC in the fifties to live with their miner father and his new family. ...
|  | Sir Gawin and the Green Knight and the Order of the Garter
Publication Date: April 14, 2006Francis Ingledew's book makes the case that Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, one of the canonical works of medieval English literature, should be recognized as a response to King Edward III's foundation in 1349 of the chivalric Order of the Garter. As well as providing the basis for a thorough reinterpretation of the poem's purposes and meanings, this argument dates to the mid-fourteenth-century reign of Edward III (1327–77) a poem conventionally ascribed to the reign of Richard II (1377–99). Through close readings of the poem and of an array ...
|  | El psicoanalista (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: May 30, 2012Este es un thriller fuera de serie. Feliz 53 cumpleanos, doctor. Bienvenido al primer dia de su muerte. Pertenezco a algun momento de su pasado. Usted arruino mi vida. Quiza no sepa como, por que, pero lo hizo. Lleno todos mis instantes de desastre y tristeza. Arruino mi vida.Y ahora estoy decidido a arruinar la suya. Al principio pense que deberia matarlo para ajustarle las cuentas. Pero me di cuenta de que eso era demasiado sencillo. Es un objetivo pateticamente facil, doctor. Acecharlo y matarlo no habria supuesto ningun desafio. Y, dada la facilidad de ese a...
|  | The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (The Inheritance Trilogy)
Publication Date: October 1, 2010| Series: The Inheritance Trilogy (Book 1) Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north.But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky.There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king.But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle.The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is the debut novel from a major new voice in fantasy fiction. ...
|  | Tame A Wild Wind
Publication Date: March 20, 2012Former Texas Ranger Sam Colter isn't looking for love.Neither is pretty widow Cassie O'Malley.But when a man stalking Sam for killing his brother kidnaps Cassie, Sam discovers it's more than duty that sends him racing to her rescue.Will Cassie realize the truth about her own feelings before it's too late? ...
|  | Knuffle Bunny Free: An Unexpected Diversion
Publication Date: September 1, 2011'Knuffle Bunny' goes international! The hilarious and touching final instalment in 'The Knuffle Bunny series' from bestselling, award-winning author Mo Willems. Trixie is growing up! Knuffle Bunny and Trixie are going on a very exciting holiday abroad to visit 'Oma' and 'Opa' in Holland. But when they finally get there, Trixie can't find her best friend Knuffle Bunny anywhere! With the absence of her beloved fluffy friend, everyone tries their best to help Trixie enjoy the rest of her holiday. Soon, she realizes that maybe she doesn't need Knuffle Bunny as ...
|  | Washington Wax Museum (American Chillers)
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|  | Somebody Catch My Homework (Wordsong)
Publication Date: September 1, 1995| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | Shakespeare's Daughter
Release Date: April 13, 2004| Age Level: 10 and upSusanna Shakespeare finds the small town of Stratford-upon-Avon much too quiet and provincial. She yearns to travel to London to see her father's world of players and poets, and to follow a secret dream of her own. Once Susanna arrives in London, nothing is quite as she expected it to be -- least of all her relationship with her famous father. But propelled by her love for Thomas Cole, a Catholic chorister, and her desire to sing, Susanna discovers that it is only with the support of those who love her that she has the strength to succeed. ...
|  | Fawn and Her Family - a Smithsonian Baby Animals Book (with stuffed toy baby animal) (Smithsonian Institution Baby Animals)
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|  | Oink Oink
Publication Date: March 29, 1993| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Eight mischievous piglets are off on another adventure, this time to raid a corn field for a tasty snack. When Mama pig's angry cries interrupt their fun, the rambunctious octet scampers away through the countryside, with Mama chasing closely behind. ...
|  | My Cat, The Silliest Cat in the World
Publication Date: May 1, 2006| Grade Level: P and up A new book in the vein of The Story of the Little Mole Who Went in Seach of Whodunit and Elephant ElephantGilles Bachelet's cat behaves like any normal cat--sleeping, eating, getting in the way, making a mess--but in this warm and funny picture book he happens to be. . . a very large elephant. Whether he's keeping clean, playing with yarn, or posing for a portrait, this cat has his own unique way of doing things. Readers of all ages will delight in the whimsical and fun illustrations that accompany this "cat's" sweet and silly tale. ...
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