 | Kaplan SAT 2013
Release Date: June 5, 2012| ISBN-10: 1609787064 | ISBN-13: 978-1609787066 The best program preparation guide a student can use to score higher on the SAT—guaranteed!The SAT is the most widely used college standardized admissions test, and in 2011, over 1.6 million—took the exam. The college admissions process is highly competitive, and a higher score on the SAT can help you get into a top school. Kaplan SAT 2013 is Kaplan’s latest essential SAT guide, filled with all of the vital tools students need to prepare for the exam this year. With indispensable strategies, proven practical...
 |  | You Don't Miss Your Water (Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary Series: Poetry)
Publication Date: January 1, 2004| Series: Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary Series: Poetry A reissuing of You Don't Miss Your Water, poems by Cornelius Eady. ...
|  | A Special Relationship: A Novel
Release Date: January 4, 2011About an hour after I met Tony Hobbs, he saved my life. Thirty-seven-year-old American journalist Sally Goodchild quite literally married her hero. Both foreign correspondents, both on assignment in Cairo, they quickly fell in love and settled into domestic life in London. From the outset, Sally’s relationship with both Tony and his hometown was an uneasy one—as she found both to be far more unfamiliar than imagined. But her adjustment problems are soon overshadowed by a troubled pregnancy. When she goes into premature labor, there are doubts whether ...
|  | Revelation: A Matthew Shardlake Mystery (Matthew Shardlake Mysteries)
Release Date: February 23, 2010| Series: Matthew Shardlake Mysteries"We can't recommend this book too highly; it's another virtuoso performance from a truly great talent." -The Denver PostReaders across America are discovering C. J. Sansom's marvelous Shardlake novels. Now, with the brilliant fourth installment in the series, Revelation is poised to bring his highly praised historical thrillers to an even wider audience. In 1543, while Tudor England is abuzz with King Henry VIII's wooing of Lady Catherine Parr, Matthew Shardlake is working to defend a teenage boy, a religious fanatic bei...
|  | Finding Faith: A Novel
Publication Date: January 7, 2003Taylor Connolly was a nice guy. So, when he came home to find his boyfriend of over two years in the arms of another man, it was only natural he had trouble finding room to forgive and forget if he was going to be nice, how could he expect less of the man he thought to spend his life with?Depressed, dejected, demoralized, and probably a few other de-words he couldnt think of right away, Taylor decided to move away from the big city to a small town. He was close enough to keep his job, but far enough away to try to forget him. For Taylor, it was time to start ...
|  | The Best Little Boy in the World
Release Date: May 11, 1993The classic account of growing up gay in America."The best little boy in the world never had wet dreams or masturbated; he always topped his class, honored mom and dad, deferred to elders and excelled in sports . . . . The best little boy in the world was . . . the model IBM exec . . . The best little boy in the world was a closet case who 'never read anything about homosexuality.' . . . John Reid comes out slowly, hilariously, brilliantly. One reads this utterly honest account with the shock of recognition." The New York Times"The quality of this boo...
|  | Young Man with a Horn (New York Review Books Classics)
Release Date: September 11, 2012| Series: New York Review Books Classics Rick Martin loved music and the music loved him. He could pick up a tune so quickly that it didn’t matter to the Cotton Club boss that he was underage, or to the guys in the band that he was just a white kid. He started out in the slums of LA with nothing, and he ended up on top of the game in the speakeasies and nightclubs of New York. But while talent and drive are all you need to make it in music, they aren’t enough to make it through a life. Dorothy Baker’s Young Man with a Horn is widely reg...
|  | Under the Frog: A Black Comedy (New Press International Fiction Series)
Publication Date: April 1994| Series: New Press International Fiction Series A finalist for the Booker Prize, this debut novel is thebitterly funny account of two young men who survive the chaos ofcommunism in post-World War II Hungary as part of a debauched travelingbasketball team. 10,000 first printing. ...
|  | Arabic Poetry: Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literature)
Publication Date: March 2, 2006| ISBN-10: 0415595916 | ISBN-13: 978-0415595919| Edition: Reissue Since the late 1940s, Arabic poetry has spoken for an Arab conscience, as much as it has debated positions and ideologies, nationally and worldwide. This book tackles issues of modernity and tradition in Arabic poetry as manifested in poetic texts and criticism by poets as participants in transformation and change. It studies the poetic in its complexity, relating to issues of selfhood, individuality, community, religion, ideology, nation, class and gender. Al-Musawi also explores in context ...
|  | 108 Mala Beads: A Year of Haiku
Publication Date: March 23, 2010Bradly Jay Keller's latest book,108 Mala Beads: A Year of Haiku, is a collection of haiku style poetry. Using Nature as his guide, the book is written within the span of one year. Within these haiku the seasons of time's passing are reflected like a clear pond reflects the image of clouds passing through the sky. The intent of reading these haiku, as stated by the author in the Preface, is a moment of spontaneous awakening and clarity. The author states that these haiku originally manifested in a moment of awakening and clarity. The author 's intent is that by...
|  | The Rule of Metaphor: Multi-disciplinary Studies of the Creation of Meaning in Language (University of Toronto Romance Series)
Publication Date: October 1, 1981| ISBN-10: 0802064477 | ISBN-13: 978-0802064479Originally published in English in 1978, this full-scale examination of the philosophy of metaphor from Aristotle to the present, brings together and discusses significant viewpoints on metaphor held by writers in various disciplines. These include linguistics and semantics, the philosophy of language, literary criticism, and aesthetics. ...
|  | Cartucho. Relatos de la lucha en el norte de Mexico. / Cartridge: Tales of the fight in Northern Mexico (Biblioteca Era) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: March 31, 2009| ISBN-10: 9684114559 | ISBN-13: 978-9684114555| Edition: 3 Marginado por villista, por ser de una mujer, por salirse del canon, Cartucho, Relatos de la lucha en el Norte de Mexico es uno de los grandes textos de la literatura mexicana. Como senala Jorge Aguilar Mora en su prologo a este libro, Catucho esta en todos los vertices criticos de nuestro discurso historico-literario: es quizas el libro mas extraordinario, donde se funden la singularidad autobiografica, el anonimato popular, la relacion historica, la transparencia literaria, la cronica familiar. ...
|  | The Smurfs #1: The Purple Smurfs
Release Date: August 31, 2010| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | The Kids' Nature Book: 365 Indoor/Outdoor Activities and Experiences (Williamson Kids Can! Series)
Publication Date: August 1, 1996| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Sweet Or Spicy?: More Quick Quizzes for BFFs
Publication Date: November 1, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rugen
Publication Date: March 11, 2010The Shelf2Life Children's Literature and Fiction Collection is a charming set of pre-1923 nursery rhymes, fairy tales, classic novels and short stories for children and young adults.From a tardy white rabbit, spirited orphan and loyal watchdog to a dreamer named Dorothy, this collection presents an assortment of memorable characters whose stories light up the pages.The young and young at heart will delight in magical tales of fairies and angels and be captivated by explorations of mysterious islands.The Shelf2Life Children's Literature and Fiction Collection a...
|  | I Pledge Allegiance
Release Date: June 3, 2004| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up "Finally, here's a picture book that helps young children move beyond rote recitation of the Pledge to find meaning in its language. This is the book parents and teachers have been waiting for." — BOOKLIST (starred review)"I led a pigeon to the flag" . . . "and to the wee puppet" . . . "onenation, and a vegetable" . . . What was that again? Children in the United States have been reciting the Pledge of Allegiance since 1892 — and for about that long, they've found its big words confusing. Now, beloved child...
|  | Shakespeare's Greatest Hits, Vol. 1
Publication Date: August 1, 2003| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up This highly successful series of Shakespeare adaptations comes to audio in a remarkable production that combines clear, accessible storytelling with the Bard’s gorgeous language. A huge cast of skilled readers brings the beauty, humor, and drama of these ageless classics to life in a recording that can be shared by the whole family. The perfect way to introduce youngsters—and adults—to the wonder of Shakespeare! ...
|  | You're All My Favorites: Candlewick Storybook Animations
Release Date: September 23, 2008| Age Level: 2 and up...
|  | Peanut
Release Date: October 28, 2008| Age Level: 2 and up An anxious little monkey finds that making a friend goes a long way toward easing his fears in a reassuring story with big appeal for young readers.Peanut, a monkey as small as a nut, has just come into the big, wide world. But the tiny monkey has one big problem: he's afraid of everything. When the petals on his tree start to droop and fall, Peanut thinks it's the end of the world. When the wind begins to blow, he fears that his tree is falling down. And when the setting sun glows brightly, he is sure the sky is on fire. At first Peanut is...
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