 | Ten Dollar Dinners: 140 Recipes & Tips to Elevate Simple, Fresh Meals Any Night of the Week
Release Date: August 14, 2012Melissa d’Arabian, host of Food Network’s Ten Dollar Dinners and season 5 winner of The Next Food Network Star, makes good on the $10 promise of dinner for four in her eagerly awaited debut cookbook. For home cooks who care about what they feed their families and want to stretch their dollars, Melissa is the best guide for putting delicious meals on the table. With four young girls ages six and under, and a hit show on Food Network, Melissa d’Arabian focuses on savvy budgeting, efficient shopping, and full-flavored cooking. Ten Dollar Dinners ha...
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|  | Badlands
Publication Date: April 1996'Badlands' was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. 'Badlands' is a powerful novel, poetic love story set in the awe-inspiring landscape of the Wounded Knee Reservation in South Dakota.The narrator, a young Englishwoman, discovers her own history of abuse, as she plunges into the poignant destinies of the Lakota people. She forms a passionate bond with an adolescent Sioux girl and her charismatic father, Blackfoot.An intoxicating love emerges between them that transcends politics and destiny. 'Badlands' defines the challenge that faces contemporary America: to conf...
|  | Best Women's Erotica 2012
Publication Date: December 6, 2011| Series: Best Women's Erotica Sexy, smart and literate: Best Women's Erotica 2012 presents the year's hottest bedside reading.There's a hungry audience of readers who demand smart, literate, emotionally charged women's erotica--stories that tell the truth about women's sexuality in all its variety and emotional depth, with all its surprises and twists and turns....Best Women's Erotica 2012 is just for these readers. 5-star editor Violet Blue delivers exactly what readers want- fantasy-fueled, pulse-racing reads that push boundaries and are "let's try this a...
|  | The Other Mother: A Novel
Release Date: August 7, 2007Amanda is a successful book editor at a prominent publishing house in New York City. Thea is a stay-at-home mother of three who has never really left the community in which she grew up. Amanda, eight months’ pregnant with her first child, and her husband move in next door to Thea and her family, and the two women find themselves both drawn to and repelled by each other and their opposing choices in the constant struggle to balance career and family life.When a disaster forces Amanda and her family to take refuge in Thea’s home, the underlying tension...
|  | Doctor School
Publication Date: December 15, 2011Recently divorced, Kate Simpson moves to Boston to begin her first year of medical school.As a single mother of a four year old daughter, she is unprepared for the strains of medical education, the inequities within a patriarchal profession, and the demands of motherhood. More than overwhelmed, Kate faces futher emotional obstacles when her ex-husband is released from prison and contrives to abduct his own child. Intriguing suspense, a dash of romance, the comic relief of an eccentric detective, and the uniqueness of Boston circa 1970 is weaved within the e...
|  | A Welsh Childhood
Publication Date: January 1, 1995Shadow of a Soul marks the premier appearance of Russian poet Bella Dizhur in English. It is also thefirst complete collection of her poetry in any language. Included, in facing page translations, are poems, (written over a period of 50 years before the book was published in 1990) some of which brought her sharp criticism in the Soviet Union: she was denounced for being the "Akhmatova of her time" and criticized for an "aesthetic pessimism."Included for the first time is the entire poem "Janusz Korczak," which won Dizhur the title of Korczak Laureate from the...
|  | The History and Mystery of the Menger Hotel
Publication Date: June 1, 2000This is the definitive account of a beloved hotel that has played a memorable role in San Antonio's history. Generously illustrated, this is the fascinating story of the people who owned the Menger and the noteworthy folk they entertained. ...
|  | The Captain's Daughter and Other Stories (Vintage Classics)
Release Date: September 12, 1957| Series: Vintage Classics Introduction by John Bayley; Translation by Natalie Duddington --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Inferno (Dante's Divine Comedy)
Publication Date: July 9, 2010| Series: Dante's Divine Comedy A prize-winning translator presents a new verse translation of one of the most popular books of all time Dante’s dramatic journey through the circles of hell in search of redemption—and his encounter with devils, monsters, and the souls of some of the greatest sinners who ever walked on earth—is one of the cornerstones of Western literature, the summit of medieval thinking, and arguably the highest poetic achievement of all time. Inferno, the first part of Dante’s Comedy, is presented here in a new ver...
|  | 100 Works of Kyoshi: Kyoshi Hyakku
Publication Date: November 23, 2009Written by Kyoshi's granddaughter, 100 Works of Kyoshi is a unique collection of 100 haiku of one of Japan's greatest poets, Takahama Kyoshi. Many of these poems have never before been translated into English, and come from personal memoirs never previously published. This collection contains the original Japanese kanji, the Romanized version and the translation of each haiku. Also included is a brief biographical essay to give historical and environmental context to the writing. A disciple of Masaoka Shiki, Kyoshi is recognized to be one of the great maste...
| | You you qiu shui: Qiu shui 20 zhou nian shi xuan (Shi wen zhi mei) (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | The Man with the Getaway Face: A Parker Novel (Parker Novels)
Publication Date: September 1, 2008| Series: Parker Novels You probably haven’t ever noticed them. But they’ve noticed you. They notice everything. That’s their job. Sitting quietly in a nondescript car outside a bank making note of the tellers’ work habits, the positions of the security guards. Lagging a few car lengths behind the Brinks truck on its daily rounds. Surreptitiously jiggling the handle of an unmarked service door at the racetrack.They’re thieves. Heisters, to be precise. They’re pros, and Parker is far and away the best of them. If you’...
|  | Teaching Shakespeare: A Handbook for Teachers (Cambridge School Shakespeare)
Publication Date: February 28, 1998| ISBN-10: 0521577888 | ISBN-13: 978-0521577885Teaching Shakespeare is a major contribution to the knowledge and expertise of all teachers of Shakespeare in schools, colleges and institutions of higher education.It makes explicit the principles of active learning that underpin Cambridge School Shakespeare and helps teachers develop their existing good practice.Practical examples are given from the plays most frequently used in schools, but Rex Gibson shows that the principles apply equally to the less frequently studied plays, thereby extending the cano...
|  | Blue Pastures
Publication Date: November 10, 1995With consummate craftsmanship, Mary Oliver has fashioned fifteen luminous prose pieces: on nature, writing, and herself and those around her. She praises Whitman, denounces cuteness, notes where to find the extraordinary, and extols solitude. ...
|  | Pitch Perfect: A Cricket Creek Novel
Release Date: September 4, 2012| Series: Cricket Creek Cricket Creek, Kentucky, is a sweet river town known for its theater, shopping, and cuisine. But tough times are crushing tourism—until a hard-swinging baseball team and three hometown heroes begin revitalizing the community one inning at a time. Determined to prove her independence, Mia Monroe is no longer Daddy’s little rich girl. Buying an old car with the last of her money, she sets out for who knows where…until her clunker clunks out in Cricket Creek. With no plan and no credit cards, Mia has to find more res...
|  | 5 Centimeters per Second
Release Date: June 26, 2012| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up Love can move at the speed of terminal velocity, but as award-winning director Makoto Shinkai reveals in his latest comic, it can only be shared and embraced by those who refuse to see it stop.Takaki Tohno quickly befriends Akari Shinohara when she transfers to his school. They grow closer to each other due to similar interests and attitudes; for instance, they both prefer to stay inside during recess due to their constitutions. As a result, they form a strong bond. Upon ending their school year, Akari moves to Tochigi...
|  | The Closers/The Ladies of Garrison Gardens/Heartbreak Hotel/Julie and Romeo Get Lucky (Reader's Digest Select Editions, Volume 5: 2005)
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|  | One Perfect Shot: A Posadas County Mystery
Publication Date: January 3, 2012When a county employee is found shot to death in sun-drenched daylight while sitting in his county road grader, Undersheriff Bill Gastner is faced with puzzling questions. The simplest explanation--that an errant bullet from a careless target shooter's rifle blew out Larry Zipoli's brains--is soon discarded as inconsistencies surface. The fatal bullet shows no rifling marks, and investigation reveals that the shooter walked directly toward the road grader, in full view of the victim--who did nothing to defend himself. In addition to the demands of the investi...
|  | Swimming Upstream: Middle School Poems
Publication Date: September 24, 2002| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up Award-winning poet Kristine O’Connell George, author of several successful picture books, now turns her attention to the middle school experience. The first year brings an array ofchallenges: making new friends, moving from class to class, tests and homework, changing for PE, gossip, school dances, and, of course, budding romance. Short, accessible poems in a variety of forms, but all in a single voice—that of a new middle schooler—evoke the memorable moments of the school year, exploring situat...
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