 | Llama Llama Time to Share
Release Date: September 4, 2012| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
 |  | Not a Copper Penny in Me House: Poems from the Caribbean
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|  | The Almost Moon: A Novel
Release Date: October 16, 2007A woman steps over the line into the unthinkable in this brilliant, powerful, and unforgettable new novel by the author of The Lovely Bones and Lucky.For years Helen Knightly has given her life to others: to her haunted mother, to her enigmatic father, to her husband and now grown children. When she finally crosses a terrible boundary, her life comes rushing in at her in a way she never could have imagined. Unfolding over the next twenty-four hours, this searing, fast-paced novel explores the complex ties between mothers and daughters, wives and lovers, the me...
|  | The Thread: A Novel
Release Date: July 10, 2012 From the internationally acclaimed author of The Island and The Return comes a sweeping and unforgettable story of love and friendship and the choices that must be made when loyalties are challenged. Thessaloniki, Greece, 1917: As Dimitri Komninos is born, a fire sweeps through the thriving multicultural city where Christians, Jews, and Muslims live side by side. It is the first of many catastrophic events that will forever change this place and its people. Five years later, as the Turkish army pushes west through Asia Minor, young Katerina loses her mother in t...
|  | Afterlife Odyssey: The Mystical Novel About God, Heaven And The Afterlife
Publication Date: August 2, 2004AFTERLIFE ODYSSEY is a journey through time across God's universe. It follows unassigned souls held in Limbo. Among them is Socrates, whose ghostly soul is trapped in Limbo, a parallel dimension from which his brilliant mind evaluates events on Earth. A compassionate God watches as Socrates tries to solve Earth's greatest crisis.This suspenseful novel offers long overdue solutions to irrational attitudes. In 2054 AD, alarmed that atomic bombs threaten to destroy Earth and alter the equilibrium of galaxies, God chooses Socrates for a vital mission. His release ...
|  | Kings of Colorado: A Novel
Release Date: January 3, 2012A heartfelt portrait of a bygone age. William Sheppard had never ventured beyond his Chicago neighborhood until, at thirteen, he was sent away to the Swope Ranch Boys’ Reformatory, hundreds of miles from home, for stabbing his abusive father in the chest with a pocketknife. Buried deep in the Colorado mountains, Swope is shrouded in legend and defined by one prevailing rumor: that the boys who go in never come out the same. Despite the lack of fences or gates, the boundaries are clear: prisoners are days from civilization, there exists only one accessible r...
|  | James Cameron's Titanic
Release Date: December 10, 1997Some jump, some fall, each dotting the water's surface like the period at the end of a sentence. Then, the stern slips under the water, plunging everyone into a coldness so intense it is indistinguishable from fire. Ten minutes.Twenty minutes. The inchoate wail of 1500 souls slowly fades to individual cries from the darkness. We know you can hear us!Save one life! 700 survivors stand by in lifeboats built for 1200, afraid to act for fear of getting swamped.They tell themselves that the voices from the water do not belong to their husbands or their loved ones. T...
|  | El retorno de Ah Kin: El sexto sol II (El Sexto Sol / the Sixth Sun) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: May 30, 2011| Series: El Sexto Sol/ the Sixth Sun A recent report issued by NASA through the United States National Academy of Sciences supports the apocalyptic predictions for the year 2012. Dr. Richard Fisher, Director of the Heliophysics Division at NASA, warns that a solar storm is expected to hit like lightning, with catastrophic consequences throughout the world, our national security and emergency services, unless preventive measures are taken. Based on over twenty years of extensive research, Jose Luis Murra brings us a novel that unites science with the millenary t...
|  | The Iliad / The Odyssey
Release Date: November 1, 1999 Gripping listeners and readers for more than 2,700 years, The Iliad is the story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles. Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic. If The Iliad is the world's greatest war story, then The Odyssey is literature's greatest evocation of every man's journey through life. Here again, Fagles has performed the translator's task magnificently, giving us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. Each volume...
|  | The Polyglots (Prion Lost Treasures)
Publication Date: July 1, 2001| Series: Prion Lost Treasures The Polyglots is the story of an eccentric Belgian family living in the Far East in the uncertain years after World War I and the Russian Revolution. The tale is recounted by their dryly conceited young English relative, Captain Georges Hamlet Alexander Diabologh, who comes to stay with them during a military mission. Teeming with bizarre characters—depressives, obsessives, paranoiacs, hypochondriacs, and sex maniacs—Gerhardie paints a brilliantly absurd world where the comic and the tragic are profoundly and irrevoca...
|  | A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore: The Oral Literature, Traditions, Recollections, Legends, Tales, Songs, Religious Beliefs, Customs, Sayings and Humor of Peoples of African American Descent in the Americas
Publication Date: December 10, 2002In A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore, editor Harold Courlander brings together an extensive and unique collection of tales, recollections, epics, traditions, beliefs, myths, historical chronicles, and songs from the numerous Negro cultures of the New World. Courlander explores the unwritten traditions and literature of the Spanish, French, and English-speaking islands of the Caribbean, the areas of Central and South America inhabited by people of African descent, the black communities of the United States, and many others. With a focus on the interconnec...
|  | Odin-Son: The Berserk Saga
Publication Date: December 17, 2007Pursued by a dangerous foe intent on extracting blood vengeance, young Magnus Thygard learns the old ways of the feared Norse Berserk.His mind and body shaped by fire and ice, he carves his way through a hostile landscape.Rescuing an Irish princess from certain death, they fight for survival amidst the time that men call the Dark Ages.Spanning from Norway to the turf longhouses of Iceland and climaxing in Ireland, the two of them wage a battle for the soul of her kingdom. Christian beliefs must look toward a pagan savior.Odin-Son, the Berserk Saga. ...
|  | Du Monde Ent Au Coeur (Poesie/Gallimard) (French Edition)
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|  | Stoppard's Theatre: Finding Order amid Chaos (Literary Modernism Series)
Publication Date: January 1, 2003| Series: Literary Modernism Series With a thirty-year run of award-winning, critically acclaimed, and commercially successful plays, from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967) to The Invention of Love (1997), Tom Stoppard is arguably the preeminent playwright in Britain today. His popularity also extends to the United States, where his plays have won three Tony awards and his screenplay for Shakespeare in Love won the 1998 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. John Fleming offers the first book-length assessment of Stoppard's work in nearly a de...
|  | A Century of Noir: Thirty-two Classic Crime Stories
Release Date: April 1, 2002Thirty-two stories of stunning ingenuity. Thirty-two writers of legendary genius. One hundred years of crime fiction in a one-of-a-kind collection. ...
|  | Afterlife
Publication Date: March 25, 2011Rachel gave up seeking a Master years ago. After a failed marriage and terrible tragedy, she’s walled her soul against going down that dangerous path again. Then Jon joins her yoga class. He’s thirteen years younger than she, but his Dominant nature threatens her shields from the moment she recognizes it. Not only does he understand what her body wants—he knows what her soul craves. Part of the five-man executive team of Kensington & Associates, Jon uses his calm, philosophical nature to defuse volatile acquisition negotiations. He can com...
|  | Naked Justice Volume 1
Publication Date: October 25, 2003The erotic artist Wolf has created a bizarre and juicy little fetish niche unlike anything before - superheroines in bondage! "Capes and kink" works for a growing legion of fans who just can't get enough of the nasty, nasty stuff! Horny apes, evil lesbians, maniacal mad scientists, all taking turns seeing just how much punishment these "so-called" super-types can really take! Fiendishly clever and expertly created, Wolf has pretty much cornered the market on this new form of entertainment. ...
|  | Denver Nuggets (The NBA: A History of Hoops)
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|  | Billy Moo
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|  | Cuac, Cuac/it S Quacking Time (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: November 1, 2006| Age Level: 3 and up When Mommy Duck lays an egg, Duckling doesn’t know what it is and hence begins asking lots of questions and exploring the “estrange phenomenon.” Illustrated by Jill Barton in the clear colors of a spring day, this warm tale by Hans Christian Andersen Medal winner Martin Waddell will be enjoyed by any family expecting a new arrival. ...
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