 | Mei Mei Little Sister: Portraits from a Chinese Orphanage
Publication Date: July 21, 2005The Chinese believe an unseen red thread joins those in this life who are destined to connect. For photographer Richard Bowen, that thread led him to China's state-run welfare institutions, where there are thousands of children, primarily girls, growing up without families to take care of them. Mei Mei presents a poignant glimpse of just a few of these remarkable children. Composed against neutral backgrounds, these portraits capture the girls inner lives, away from their often bleak surroundings. The images show an almost endless range of expressions: small fa...
 |  | How to Be an American Housewife
Publication Date: August 5, 2010A lively and surprising novel about a Japanese woman with a closely guarded secret, the American daughter who strives to live up to her mother's standards, and the rejuvenating power of forgiveness. How to Be an American Housewife is a novel about mothers and daughters, and the pull of tradition. It tells the story of Shoko, a Japanese woman who married an American GI, and her grown daughter, Sue, a divorced mother whose life as an American housewife hasn't been what she'd expected. When illness prevents Shoko from traveling to Japan, she asks Sue to go in h...
|  | Unchained Melanie
Publication Date: March 1, 2002Melanie finds herself single again after years of being one half of a couple. Her friends predict loneliness, frustration, and disaster. But Melanie is overwhelmingly excited to be able to do her own thing—she plans a program of behaving badly, after a lifetime of behaving properly. ...
|  | The Chase (Jill Lewis Mystery Trilogy #1)
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|  | Sparrows
Publication Date: August 10, 2012The small Kansas City suburb of Belton is stunned by the disappearance of two teens, one of which was almost certainly a case of abduction.Although they had been a couple, and statistics show that the most common suspect in violent crime is a “significant other”, Layla Maness’ boyfriend, Tanner, was incarcerated at the time of her disappearance. Plus, Layla’s friend, Sheryl , maintains that Layla certainly did not willing abandon her two small children just hours after she dropped them off at her apartment. Not only that, but Detec...
|  | The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Poetry of 2002 (The 2003 Rhysling Anthology)
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|  | Snow Angel
Publication Date: March 11, 2012Angel rescued his boyfriend, Kurt, from a hellish existence, but at the cost of exiling himself from his hometown of Blackford, Indiana.Fifteen-years-old and on the run, Angel must make his way until he can someday be reunited with Kurt.Along the way he faces loneliness, hardships, and a brutal blizzard, but makes new friends and finds acceptance he didn’t expect. Kurt’s life is back to normal, but the love of his life is gone.Kurt is determined not to let Angel’s sacrifice be in vain, but how can he wait three long years for the return of...
|  | The James Boys: A Novel Account of Four Desperate Brothers
Release Date: June 17, 2008A provocative and strikingly original new voice in fiction reinvents the historical novel–along with American history itself–in this wry “what if?” that merges and mashes up four of our most famous and infamous national icons.Historian Otis Pease once remarked that the story of nineteenth-century America could be encompassed in the lives of the two sets of James brothers–William and Henry in the East, Frank and Jesse in the West. The James Boys goes further by making all four of them the fruit of the same family tree and showing how it...
|  | The English Loathly Lady Tales: Boundaries, Traditions, Motifs (Studies in Medieval Culture XLVIII)
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|  | My Almost for His Highest
Publication Date: December 1, 2002(Lillenas Publications). When it comes to stewardship of our talents, our time, and our resources, too many of us are giving our "Almost for His Highest." In this her latest sketch collection, Martha Bolton explores the subject of stewardship. Delivering a message while keeping the audience laughing is a Bolton trademark. Help your congregation explore the subject of God's call to stewardship through laughter and fun. ...
|  | William of Saint-Amour: De periculis novissimorum temporum (Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations)
Publication Date: May 19, 2008| Series: Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations (Book 8) In early 1256, amidst growing tensions between Parisian secular and mendicant academies, the theologian William of Saint-Amour published his major assault on the friars, De periculis novissimorum temporum, or On the Dangers of the Last Times. As its title proclaims, the treatise employed the exegetical language of apocalypticism to expose the mendicants' success as the ultimate universal threat, and to warn their supporters that they were siding with the Antichrist. Official response to these audacious ac...
|  | Naked Came the Stranger
Publication Date: June 10, 2004In 1969, a group of reporters at Long Island Newsday decided to have some fun. They were appalled at the poor writing in the then-current best-sellers. They decided to have a contest to see who could write on an even lower level of tawdriness. ...
|  | The Legend of the Persian Carpet
Release Date: October 27, 1993| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up When King Balash's precious diamond is stolen, the grief-stricken king can no longer rule, and the country falls into chaos, until a clever young boy comes up with a scheme to bring the jewel's radiance back into the palace. ...
|  | Nursery Rhyme Time
Publication Date: May 1, 2003This adorable collection brings beloved nursery rhymes tolife with music and moving figure toys!Just attach the figure to themoving knob, press the matching button, and watch the toy characterclimb up and down the page to the musical rhyme.Features durable,easy-to-turn board pages, full-color illustrations, and all thebest-loved nursery rhymes, including:- Hickory, Dickory Dock - Mary Had A Little Lamb - The Cat and the Fiddle - Three Blind Mice - Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star - And more! Endless nursery rhyme fun for little ones ages 10 months and up. --This tex...
|  | Poor Puppy and Bad Kitty
Release Date: May 22, 2012| Age Level: 4 and up...
|  | Let's Play Baseball!: Super Sturdy Picture Books
Release Date: February 14, 2006| Age Level: 1 and up...
|  | Tampa Bay Buccaneers (Inside the NFL)
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|  | How to Improve at Karate
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|  | A Horse Named Seabiscuit (All Aboard Reading)
Release Date: September 15, 2003| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Cat (Eyewitness Books)
Release Date: October 1, 1991 ...
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