 | Vigil: A Novel (Wsp Readers Club)
Release Date: July 21, 2009| Series: Wsp Readers Club When a nanny from war-torn El Salvador moves in with a wealthy American family, the result is an inspiring story about the power of love to cross cultural boundaries.Cecilia Samartin’s most impressive work yet, Vigil is told from the perspective of Ana, a middle aged woman who is waiting at the deathbed of her husband as he loses his battle against cancer. While she waits, she thinks back on her life and the incredible journey that brought her from war-torn El Salvador, to a convent in the U.S., and finally to a wealthy California e...
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 | Marginal Man as Novelist: The Norwegian-American Writers H. H Boyesen and O.E. Rolvaag as Critics of American Institutions (European Immigrants and American Society)
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 | Chinese Americans (We Are America)
Publication Date: March 1, 2003| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
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 | Doctor Who: Paradox Lost
Publication Date: August 2, 2011| Series: Doctor Who (Book 157) London 1910: An unsuspecting thief gets more than he bargained for when he breaks into a house in Kensington and finds himself confronted by horrific, grey-skinned creatures that are waiting to devour his mind!London 3189: An unimaginably ancient city. The remains of an android are dredged from the Thames. It's one of the latest models, only just developed. But it's been in the water for over a thousand years. And when the android is reactivated, it has a message - a warning that can only be delivered to a man named the Doctor. ...
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 | Second Nature
Publication Date: November 1, 2009Lesbian Fiction: Shape-Shifter Romance. Novelist Jorie Price doesn't believe in the existence of shape-shifting creatures or true love. She leads a solitary life, and the paranormal romances she writes are pure fiction for her.Griffin Westmore knows better - at least about one of these two things. She doesn't believe in love either, but she's one of the not-so-fictional shape-shifters. She's also a Saru - an elite soldier, investigator, and if need be an assassin with the mission to protect the shape-shifters' secret existence at any cost.When Jorie gets too...
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 | The Awakening: Conquering the Sleeping Giant Within
Publication Date: December 30, 2003TOC f * MERGEFORMAT l '1-2' 1. Psychic Ability or Mystical Experience? The transcendent experience has been scientifically recorded for years and is practiced by humans.¿We have many names for it and each person is affected by another person's consciousness here on earth and beyond the veil of life. 2. Spiritual Self-Defense Electromagnetic energy is the force field around everyone. These complex structures or "auras" can be affected by people who maintain a negative thought atmosphere such as depression, suicide, etc., and can be directed toward us....
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 | Uncle Tom's Cabin (Dodo Press)
Publication Date: October 28, 2008George L. Aiken (1830-1876) was a nineteenth century American playwright and actor who is best known for writing the most popular of the numerous stage adaptations of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Aiken was a writer of dime novels before he turned to theatre. He became an actor in the troupe of his cousin, George C. Howard. In 1852, shortly after the publication of Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Aiken wrote his stage adaptation. His other works include a dramatization of Ann S. Stephen’s novel The Old Homestead. He...
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 | Hugh MacDiarmid and the Russians
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 | El invierno en Lisboa (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 2006Esta historia es un homenaje al cine negro americano y a los tugurios en donde los grandes musicos inventaron el jazz, una evocacion de las pasiones amorosas que discurren en el torbellino del mundo y el resultado de la fascinacion por la intriga que enmascara los motivos del crimen. Entre Lisboa, Madrid y San Sebastian, la inspiracion musical del jazz envuelve una historia de amor. El pianista Santiago Biralbo se enamora de Lucrecia y son perseguidos por su marido, Bruce Malcolm. Mientras, un cuadro de Cezanne tambien desaparece y Toussaints Morton, proceden...
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 | 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. ...
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 | Insatiable
Release Date: November 2, 2004New York Times bestselling author Virginia Henley weaves an enchanting tale of passion and intrigue in England's Golden Age-where a woman's reckless search for adventure leads her to the man destined to claim her... Catherine Seton Spencer, a young maiden of Queen Elizabeth's court, is cursed with impulsiveness. When she meets Patrick Hepburn, who's visiting the court after a tour of duty patrolling the Scottish borderlands, Cat thinks he's an arrogant brute-and Patrick thinks Cat's a spoiled shrew. Divided by loyalties and society, but bound by desire that driv...
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 | Last Vampire Standing (Paranormal Romance (Berkley))
Release Date: May 5, 2009| Series: Paranormal Romance (Berkley) Second in the delightful series featuring a vampire princess in the Sunshine State, adjusting to life, undeath, and that brutal Floridian sun. 228-year-old Francesca Marinelli thought her past was dead-then a stranger from the Atlanta vampire nest crashes her home looking for sanctuary. A budding stand-up comic, Jo-Jo's running from an undead superior eager to drive a stake through the heart of his dream job. But Jo-Jo's bad jokes aren't the only dark clouds on the horizon. A psychotic vampire with a murderous agenda has followe...
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 | Tell No One! (Ghost Detectors)
Publication Date: August 1, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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 | Whitby Series Pb Book 3 (Whitby Book Three)
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 | Magic Johnson: Basketball Star & Entrepreneur (Legendary Athletes)
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 | The Montreal Canadiens Hockey Team (Great Sports Teams)
Publication Date: January 1998| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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 | Toy Boat
Release Date: September 20, 2007| Age Level: 2 and up A little boy has a toy boat. He made it out of a can, a cork, a yellow pencil, and some white cloth. The boy and his boat are inseparable, until one day when the wind pushes the toy boat out into the wide lake. Alone now, the little boat must face fierce waves, a grumpy ferry, a sassy schooner, and a growling speed boat. How the little boat misses the boy! But if he is going to survive, he must figure a way to do it on his own. Loren Long has a timeless and magical touch. As he did with The Little Engine That Could, he creates a world of ...
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| How to Survive on a Desert Island (Tough Guides)
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 | FAIRY (Junior Version) (The FAIRY story)
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 | Twilight Dwellers: Ghosts, Gases, and Goblins of Colorado (The Pruett Series)
Publication Date: June 1, 2009| Series: The Pruett Series Ghost-story writer MaryJoy Martin brings to life the dead and not so dead in "Twilight Dwellers." During the past several years the author has collected thrilling and vivid accounts from her "midnight maneuvers" to include in this enlarged second edition. A book of inexplicable phenomena, "Twilight Dwellers" will haunt and delight you. ...
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