 | Your Brain on Latino Comics: From Gus Arriola to Los Bros Hernandez (Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: June 1, 2009| ISBN-10: 0292719736 | ISBN-13: 978-0292719736Though the field of comic book studies has burgeoned in recent years, Latino characters and creators have received little attention. Putting the spotlight on this vibrant segment, Your Brain on Latino Comics illuminates the world of superheroes Firebird, Vibe, and the new Blue Beetle while also examining the effects on readers who are challenged to envision such worlds. Exploring mainstream companies such as Marvel and DC as well as rising stars from other segments of the industry, Frederick Aldama provides a ne...
 |  | This Side of Heaven: A Novel
Release Date: January 6, 2009A story of secrets, broken relationships, and a love strong enough to reunite a family. A stirring novel from New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury. ...
|  | I Heart Bloomberg (86 Bloomberg Place Series #1)
Publication Date: April 1, 2008 Kendall’s managed to wrangle her grandmother’s house—free and clear—except for the rules. No male roommates. But that’s ok, with the right ad she’ll pull in some girls, their rent and if she’s lucky, she won’t have to go to work any time soon.For their part, Anna, Lelani, and Megan all have their reasons for wanting to move in: Anna has got to get out from under her overprotective parents; Lelani can’t take another day in her aunt’s tiny crackerbox house overflowing with toddlers and Megan needs a pla...
|  | The Sacred Vault: A Novel
Release Date: March 22, 2011A DARING HEIST. A PRICELESS ARTIFACT. A SECRET LOCKED SAFELY AWAY—UNTIL NOW. When Michelangelo’s David is stolen from its museum in Florence, it’s only the latest in a series of audacious raids on the world’s greatest treasures. But American archaeologist Nina Wilde and her husband, ex-mercenary Eddie Chase, discover the raiders’ ultimate target when the Talonor Codex—a cryptic travel journal that Nina found in Atlantis—is snatched from a well-guarded exhibition right in front of their eyes.The codex holds clues t...
|  | Repo Men
Release Date: March 9, 2010In a brave new world, you'll never have to die . . . as long as you keep up with the payments.Thanks to the technological miracle of artiforgs, now you can live virtually forever. Nearly indestructible artificial organs, these wonders of metal and plastic are far more reliable and efficient than the cancer-prone lungs and fallible kidneys you were born with—and the Credit Union will be delighted to work out an equitable payment plan. But, of course, if you fall delinquent, one of their dedicated professionals will be dispatched to track you down and take their...
|  | No More Tomorrows: Two Lives, Two Stories, One Love (Zane Presents)
Release Date: June 30, 2009| Series: Zane Presents A Simon & Schuster eBook --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | A Fan's Notes
Release Date: August 12, 1988This fictional memoir, the first of an autobiographical trilogy, traces a self professed failure's nightmarish decent into the underside of American life and his resurrection to the wisdom that emerges from despair. ...
|  | Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
Publication Date: April 1986One million dollars - that's what Harvey Metcalfe, lifelong king of shady deals, has pulled off with empty promises of an oil bonanza and instant riches. Overnight, four men - the heir to an earldom, a Harley Street doctor, a Bond Street art dealer and an Oxford don - find themselves penniless. But this time Harvey has swindled the wrong men. They band together and shadow him from the casinos of Monte Carlo to the high-stakes windows at Ascot and the hallowed lawns of Oxford. Their plan is simple: to sting the crook for exactly what they lost. To the penny. 'Marve...
|  | Lulu Plays and Other Sex Tragedies (German Expressionism) (v. 1)
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|  | I Witness News: Live from Jericho: A Children's Musical with Good News About God's Provision and Faithfulness
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|  | The Theory of Light and Matter (Vintage Contemporaries)
Release Date: January 5, 2010| Series: Vintage Contemporaries These ten stories take us across the country—from rural Pennsylvania to Southern California to suburban Connecticut—and deep into characters struggling to find meaning in their day-to-day lives. The Theory of Light and Matter is a stunningly astute vision of contemporary American suburbia, full of tension, heartbreak, and emotional complexity—the work of an important new voice.Long Listed for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year, Short Fiction One of...
|  | The Reader Revealed
Publication Date: March 2002| ISBN-10: 0295981830 | ISBN-13: 978-0295981833Books are such an integral part of every facet of our lives that, even as we wonder about their future, we easily forget how precious they were to early modern readers. The close relationship between reader and book, between reading and writing, during the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries has left us with a large body of evidence not only of the habits of individual readers but of the social and intellectual worlds they inhabited. The Reader Revealed brings to life the early owners and readers of books from the Folg...
|  | Sunrise Shows Late: A Novel
Publication Date: March 18, 2002Set against the devastation of post-World War II Europe, Sunrise Shows Late is a love story about a young Polish Underground veteran, Manya who flees anti-Jewish violence in her country for a displaced-persons camp om Germany where she must make an anguished choice. ...
|  | We Goddesses: Athena, Aphrodite, Hera
Publication Date: September 15, 1999| Age Level: 10 and up In "life" they hardly got along, but their book is a triumph of witty, robust, spell-casting collaboration. The Greek myths have never before been told by their leading ladies. Nor ever before in such a charming, conversational yet dramatic and modern way. The tellings of Athena, Aphrodite, and Hera intertwine (though none repeats a myth), enabling us to hear more than one perspective on events and motives -- say, for instance, their wrangle over the golden apple and the outbreak of the Trojan War. And the cast of Olympian, mortal, a...
|  | The History of Dallas Cowboys: NFL Today (NFL Today (Creative Education Hardcover))
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|  | 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...
|  | Peter Rabbit Baby Book (Peter Rabbit Naturally Better)
Publication Date: January 8, 2009| Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Scrawny Cat
Release Date: October 11, 2011| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up A lonely cat, a rainynight, and an emptydinghy launch aheartwarming,seafaring tale aboutfinding home inunlikely places.The scrawny cat used to belong to someone, someone who scratched his ears and let him lick her chin and knew his name. Now the only thing anyone ever calls him is "get out of here!" But when a snarling dog and a blowing rain turn the scrawny cat into a sailor cat, he learns that even a scared and shivery stray can find a kindred soul at the end of a storm-tossed night. Phyllis Root's lyrica...
|  | The Obvious Elephant
Publication Date: August 17, 2002| Age Level: 4 and up An elephant wanders into a village-announced and unexpected-but no one has seen an elephant before! The villagers attempt to identify this visitor and finally rely upon a professor who runs tests and experiments to determine what Eric, a clever little boy, has been saying all along is true: indeed it is an elephant!...
|  | Maximum Triceratops (Step-into-Reading, Step 5)
Release Date: January 27, 2004| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up Tyrannosaurus rex was the biggest, baddest bone-crunchingest meat-eater of its time, right? And every other dinosaur was afraid of it, right? Wrong! There was one animal that scared even the mighty T. rex. It’s name? Triceratops maximus—a 100% plant-eating veggie-saur that scientists have been arguing about for over 70 years. World renowned paleontologist Dr. Robert T. Bakker examines this fascinating fossil—and the controversy surrounding it—in an easy-to-read format that young dinophiles...
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