 | And It Is Still That Way: Legends Told By Arizona Indian Children
Publication Date: January 1, 1998| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up Byrd Baylor asked children—Navajo, Hopi, Tohono O'odham, Pima, Apache, Quechan, Cocopah—to choose a story told to them by someone in their own tribe. It should be their favorite story, maybe the best story in the world. That story would be their gift to other tribes, to other children. It would share some of the oldest magic of the Indian world.At a school in southern Arizona, Byrd Baylor saw a story about Rattlesnake and how he made the first brush shelter so the Papago people would have shade. This...
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|  | Ludwig II 1 (v. 1)
Publication Date: June 10, 2009It is the mid-19th century, and a remarkably beautiful 18-year-old has been crowned King Ludwig II of Bavaria. In the midst of a confrontation with Prussia and Austria, Ludwig II retreats from reality into an exquisite world colored by the music of Wagner! ...
|  | Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson
Publication Date: October 1, 1998For the first time, selections from Emily Dickinson's thirty-six year correspondence to her neighbor and sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson, are compiled in a single volume. Open Me Carefully invites a dramatic new understanding of Emily Dickinson's life and work, overcoming a century of censorship and misinterpretation.For the millions of readers who love Emily Dickinson's poetry, Open Me Carefully brings new light to the meaning of the poet's life and work. Gone is Emily as lonely spinster; here is Dickinson in her own words, passionate and fully ali...
|  | Behindlings: A Novel
Release Date: December 16, 2003Spurting with kinetic energy, nasty wit, and kindness to animals, Wesley ought to be a star. Or so it seems to the "Behindlings" -- followers who nip at his heels, turn up everywhere he goes, and lie in wait for him around every corner. They skulk through the dreary streets of their tiny English town, gathering their own scabby intentions, irritating habits, and weird manners, burying all differences in the common pursuit of their true prize, their Wesley.In Behindlings, the inimitable and ungovernable Nicola Barker takes her most compelling character to date...
|  | The Black Adder
Publication Date: September 8, 2009| Series: The Black Adder One of Britain's best-loved sitcoms! This production includes the original six BBC TV episodes starring Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny, Brian Blessed, Peter Cook, Miriam Margolyes and Rik Mayall. Includes "The Foretelling"; "The Queen of Spain's Beard"; "Born To Be King"; "Witchsmeller Pursuivant"; "Archbishop"; and "The Black Seal." ...
|  | The Miracle at Naples - Acting Edition
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|  | Romances (Everyman's Library)
Release Date: April 7, 1997| Series: Everyman's Library (Book 8) (Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) ...
|  | Hoof 'N Mouth Disease
Publication Date: January 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 0788011677 | ISBN-13: 978-0788011672<I>... Edward Thorn has written an excellent manual ... His sermons blend well the horizons of the Bible and the contemporary culture scape. Even pastors who never try a monologue sermon will enjoy reading this book and be enriched by the monologues.</I> (from the Foreword by Dr. Raymond Bailey, former faculty member, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky) The preacher who faces weekly the difficult task of speaking to a congregation is invariably in quest of help, and no...
|  | Crashlander
Release Date: March 2, 1994Crashlander Beowulf Shaeffer has long been one of the most popular characters in Known Space. Now, for the first time ever, Larry Niven brings together all the Beowulf Shaeffer stories--including a brand-new one--in one long tale of exploration and adventure! PLUS--an all-new framing story that pulls together all of Beowulf Shaeffer's adventures and allows Shaeffer and his family to make a clean start at life once and for all! ...
|  | The Case of the Shoplifter's Shoe (Perry MasonMystery)
Release Date: March 12, 1986| Series: Perry MasonMystery HELL ON HEELSAfter her well-to-do Aunt Sarah is caught shoplifting, Virginia Trent is convinced she needs to seek psychiatric help for kleptomania. So why does Virginia turn to legal eagle Perry Mason? Because a cache of valuable diamonds--left in Sarah's care--has suddenly vanished into thin air. Virginia thinks Sarah swiped the stones, but gem dealer Austin Cullens begs to differ. In fact, he's prepared to forgive and forget--until he is mysteriously murdered and Sarah is caught running from the crime scene. Now it appears the lady w...
|  | Life As It Could Be
Publication Date: July 11, 2011Our greatest and proudest creation, the internet, has continued to dazzle us with its breakneck evolution. Reaching ever higher levels of complexity, it has served us well, deeply affecting us and our civilization, but will it continue to do so?Will it ever be conscious? When and how will human technology spin out of control as is expected? These and other questions are pondered by scientists of an obscure institute in Cambridge when they are drawn into a vortex of catastrophic events that converge upon Bruno Haslop, a software tester in a personal crisis. In t...
|  | Ladrones en el foro/ Thieves in the Forum (Spanish Edition)
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|  | The Witches and the Singing Mice
Publication Date: September 6, 1993A retelling of a Celtic tale in which two cats set out to save children in a Highlands village who have been put under a sleeping spell by three wicked witches. ...
|  | Super.Activ Football
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|  | Portside Pirates! Puzzle
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|  | Charlie the Gentle Bear
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|  | The Cozy Book
Publication Date: August 16, 1999| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: K and up A delightful look at all the warm, delicious things that make up a cozy day. ...
|  | Latina and Latino Voices in Literature: Lives and Works, Updated and Expanded
Publication Date: May 30, 2003| ISBN-10: 0313323941 | ISBN-13: 978-0313323942| Edition: Rev Upd This revised edition of an award-winning resource celebrates the lives and works of 35 Latina and Latino authors who write for today's young readers. Expanded to include 12 additional authors, updated information on the original 23 authors profiled, and 135 new titles, this comprehensive reference tool helps teachers, librarians, and parents stay current on one of the most dynamic areas of contemporary literature. Both established and emerging voices are profiled. Personal quotes and photograp...
|  | Children of the Northlights
Publication Date: September 11, 2012From the beloved authors of D’Aulaires’ Book of Norse Myths and other classics comes a new edition of one of Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaires’s most beguiling children’s books. Long out of print, Children of the Northlights introduces readers young and old to siblings Lise and Lasse and to the captivating Sami people and culture of northern Scandinavia. At times mischievous and at others quite courageous, Lisa and Lasse, and their Sami culture, are brought brilliantly to life in the d’Aulaires’ illustrations.This r...
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