 | Yom Kippur in Amsterdam: Stories (Library of Modern Jewish Literature)
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 |  | The Importance of Being Seven: A 44 Scotland Street Novel (6)
Release Date: August 21, 2012| Series: 44 Scotland Street All our favorite characters are up to new tricks in the utterly charming sixth novel in the bestselling 44 Scotland Street series. The great city of Edinburgh is renowned for its impeccable restraint, so how, then, did the extended family of 44 Scotland Street come to be trembling on the brink of reckless self-indulgence? After seven years and five books, Bertie is—finally!—about to turn seven. But one afternoon he mislays his meddling mother Irene, and learns a valuable lesson: wish-fulfillment can be a dangerou...
|  | Nature Girl
Release Date: October 30, 2007From "the funniest important writer in America" (Miami Herald) comes a tale that is gleefully zany and incisively sharp and now available in trade paperback for the first time. ...
|  | In One Person: A Novel
Release Date: May 8, 2012His most political novel since The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving’s In One Person is an intimate and unforgettable portrait of the solitariness of a bisexual man who is dedicated to making himself “worthwhile.”Advance praise for John Irving’s In One Person:“This tender exploration of nascent desire, of love and loss, manages to be sweeping, brilliant, political, provocative, tragic, and funny—it is precisely the kind of astonishing alchemy we associate with a John Irving novel. The unfoldi...
|  | A Priest to the Temple
Publication Date: June 20, 2003Written at a time of very lax standards in the parish ministry, this short, classic text by George Herbert exudes the wisdom, humility, and love for the priestly life for which the poet became renowned in his short life. ...
|  | The Cosmic Code: The Sixth Book of The Earth Chronicles
Release Date: March 1, 2002| Series: Earth Chronicles (Book 6) Reveals Zecharia Sitchin's groundbreaking research into the code left behind by the creators of humanity. • Explains how the Anunnaki were not merely the mythical gods of the Sumerians, but rather the founders of human life on Earth. • Using Biblical and ancient Sumerian sources, explains how to decode these messages our star ancestors left behind. Daring to challenge our long-held beliefs about the origins of man, Zecharia Sitchin suggests that humans are not the children of God, but rather the children of the Anunna...
|  | Kristin Lavransdatter II: The Wife (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: November 1, 1999In Kristin Lavransdatter (1920-1922), Sigrid Undset interweaves political, social, and religious history with the daily aspects of family life to create a colorful, richly detailed tapestry of Norway during the fourteenth-century. The trilogy, however, is more than a journey into the past. Undset's own life—her familiarity with Norse sagas and folklore and with a wide range of medieval literature, her experiences as a daughter, wife, and mother, and her deep religious faith—profoundly influenced her writing. Her grasp of the connections between past ...
|  | Who's Your Daddy, Baby?
Publication Date: July 5, 2012Who's Your Daddy, Baby? is a quirky paternity mystery with a Facebook twist. Inspired by the author's experience, it is the story of Lori Pomay, a happily married career woman living in suburban Washington, D.C. Lori undergoes genetic testing for in vitro fertilization and her world is rocked when she is told the dad she always knew could not possibly have been her biological father. This mid-life shocker sends her into an alternately hilarious, heartwarming, and heartbreaking search for truth about her heritage - from Appalachian Cherokees to a Purp...
|  | The Templar Conspiracy
Release Date: January 4, 2011In Rome, the assassination of the Pope on Christmas Day sets off a massive investigation that stretches across the globe. But behind the veil of Rex Deus-the Templar cabal that silently wields power in the twenty-first century-the plot has only just begun. When retired Army Ranger Lt. Col. John Holliday uncovers the true motive behind the pontiff's murder, he must unravel a deadly design to extend the Templar influence to the highest levels of power. ...
|  | The lion in winter (A Dell book)
Publication Date: 1968| Series: A Dell book Insecure siblings fighting for their parents’ attention; bickering spouses who can’t stand to be together or apart; adultery and sexual experimentation; even the struggle to balance work and family: These are themes as much at home in our time as they were in the twelfth century. In James Goldman’s classic play The Lion in Winter, domestic turmoil rises to an art form. Keenly self-aware and motivated as much by spite as by any sense of duty, Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine maneuver against each other to position their favorit...
|  | Hot Water Music
Release Date: May 31, 2002Hot Water Music is a collection of short stories by Charles Bukowski, published in 1983. The collection deals largely with: drinking, women, gambling, and writing. It is an important collection that establishes Bukowski's minimalist style and his thematic oeuvre. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | Der Ursprung Des Konzepts Um 1800 (German Edition)
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|  | The Poetry of Les Murray: Critical Essays (Australian Literary Studies, V. 20, No. 2.)
Publication Date: February 1, 2002| Series: Australian Literary Studies, V. 20, No. 2. Les Murray is acknowledged internationally as Australia's leading poet, yet the criticism of his work has not been commensurate with his substantial reputation.These groundbreaking, new essays range across Murray's considerable output, impressive in their depth as well as their coverage as they reveal the riches of his poetry.They examine its lyrical qualities and its remarkable linguistic inventiveness, its landscapes and 'soundscapes', its biographical qualities, its underlying poetics and world view, in...
|  | Happiness and Discontent (Great Books Foundation 50th Anniversary Series)
Publication Date: July 1998| ISBN-10: 1880323826 | ISBN-13: 978-1880323823| Edition: 1ST A Great Books Foundation anthology for book discussiongroups, including questions for discussion. Since 1947, thepublications and shared inquiry method of the Great Books Foundationhave helped people around the world organize and maintain thrivingbook discussion groups. Over the years, countless people have attestedthat the intellectual exchange fostered by their Great Books groupshas been one of the most meaningful experiences of their lives. Thisis one of nine volumes in the Great Books Foundation'...
|  | On Endings: American Postmodern Fiction and the Cold War (American Literatures Initiative)
Publication Date: July 27, 2011| ISBN-10: 0813931622 | ISBN-13: 978-0813931623What does narrative look like when the possibility of an expansive future has been called into question? This query is the driving force behind Daniel Grausam’sOn Endings, which seeks to show how the core texts of American postmodernism are a response to the geopolitical dynamics of the Cold War and especially to the new potential for total nuclear conflict. Postwar American fiction needs to be rethought, he argues, by highlighting postmodern experimentation as a mode of profound historical consciousness...
|  | Virgil's Garden: The Nature of Bucolic Space
Publication Date: July 26, 2011| ISBN-10: 071563867X | ISBN-13: 978-0715638675Virgil's book of bucolic verse, the Eclogues, defines a green space separate from the outside worlds both of other Roman verse and of the real world of his audience. However, the boundaries between inside and outside are deliberately porous. The bucolic natives are aware of the presence of Rome, and Virgil himself is free to enter their world. Virgil's bucolic space is, in many ways, a poetic replication of the public and private gardens of his Roman audience - enclosed green spaces which afforded the citizen s...
|  | The Forgotten Players: The Story of Black Baseball in America
Publication Date: February 1, 1993| Age Level: 11 and up Traces the history of the Negro leagues that evolved due to segregation in professional baseball and the experiences of black players from the late nineteenth through the early twentieth century. ...
|  | ART START Animals: How to Draw with Simple Shapes (Dover How to Draw)
Publication Date: August 19, 2010| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Farm Poems/Seasons Poems (Dingles Leveled Readers Poerty)
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|  | Fearless
Publication Date: August 1, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up The harrowing adventure of a boy, a real-life famous daredevil, and a monster storm!When a storm brings down his father's boat, Digory Beale is forced to leave home to discover his fate. For if Digory has been orphaned, he can never go home again. On his journey, Digory becomes the apprentice to Henry Winstanley, a charming stranger whose life's obsession is to save sailors' lives. Digory must face his fears of the sea to help Henry bring candles to the amazing rock lighthouse Henry has built on a killer reef. But who could have known the...
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