 | My Intended
Release Date: February 16, 2000Because love means having to say "I do". . .When Hannah's fiancé, Drew, dies suddenly of a heart attack days before their wedding, Hannah is left feeling devastated and guilty. Out of fear and misunderstanding, Hannah had foolishly neglected their impending ceremony. Now, a week before their intended wedding day, Hannah vows to set things straight with Drew by carrying out the event anyway. In struggling to pull together this unconventional wedding, Hannah contends with all the traditions and rituals of being a bride: buying the perfect dress, ordering the...
 |  | The Sabotage Cafe (Vintage)
Release Date: July 8, 2008| Series: Vintage As a teenager in the 1980s punk scene, Julia suffered an unspeakable trauma.Years later, she has made a new life for herself in the suburbs, desperately working to maintain a sense of normalcy.But when Julia's sixteen-year-old daughter, Cheryl, goes missing, Julia is forced to envision her every move. From the city's back alleys to the abandoned Sabotage Café, Julia watches her daughter retrace her own coming-of-age, a mélange of sex, drugs, and random acts of violence. ...
|  | Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel
Release Date: February 21, 2006In nineteenth-century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seven, is paired with a laotong, “old same,” in an emotional match that will last a lifetime. The laotong, Snow Flower, introduces herself by sending Lily a silk fan on which she’s painted a poem in nu shu, a unique language that Chinese women created in order to communicate in secret, away from the influence of men. As the years pass, Lily and Snow Flower send messages on fans, compose stories on handkerchiefs, reaching out of isolation to share the...
|  | The Book of Sorrows
Release Date: August 8, 1996This sequel to the award-winning The Book of the Dun Cow stands on its own as a powerful work of literature. In this absorbing, highly original fantasy, Chauntecleer, Pertelote, and the other familiar characters of the Coop struggle to piece together their shattered lives in the aftermath of the terrible conflict with the dreaded Wyrm. But their respite is short-lived: Into this struggling community, Wyrm again insinuates himself, with dire consequences for all. The reappearance of the dog Mundo Coni unveils a darker mystery yet -- and the threat of a final horror...
|  | Fanny Crosby Still Lives
Release Date: November 30, 2002This fictionalized biography sheds light on Fanny Crosby, who wrote thousands of hymns still regularly sung in churches across the country. ...
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| | Xian dai shi ba jia shi (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | El viaje del elefante (The Elephant's Journey) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: March 15, 2011During the mid-sixteenth century, king John III of Portugal presented his cousin Maximilian, the archduke of Austria, with an Asian elephant. This novel recounts the epic voyage of Salomon the elephant, and what he endured to satisfy royal whims and absurd strategies. Saramago wrote this novel ten years after being awarded the Nobel Prize. El viaje del elefante reveals a writer in the pinnacle of his literary splendor. Spanish Description: A mediados del siglo XVI el rey Juan III ofrece a su primo, el archiduque Maximiliano de Austria, un elefante asiatico. Es...
|  | Antietam Assassins (Harrison Raines Civil War Mysteries, Book 6)
Publication Date: November 1, 2005The new Harrison Raines American Civil War mystery Soon after starting to investigate the murder of a Presbyterian minister, Raines finds himself drawn into the battle of Antietam. Then follows a succession of murders of young Shepherdstown women who may or may not have been involved romantically with the slain pastor. The ultimate solution to the mystery not only lays bare the town's bitter divisions over slavery but proves to have the gravest possible national implications. ...
|  | THE MAN WHO WAS SHERLOCK HOLMES The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle by John Dickson Carr (1975 First Vintage Books Edition 447 pages Mass-market paperback)
Publication Date: 1975THE MAN WHO WAS SHERLOCK HOLMES The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle by John Dickson Carr 1975 First Vintage Books Edition 447 pages Mass-market paperback ...
|  | That's Not My Monster (Usborne Touchy-Feely Books)
Publication Date: June 1, 2010| Age Level: 0 and up...
|  | Walt Disney Treasury: Donald Duck Volume 2
Release Date: August 2, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Jake and the Never Land Pirates: Let's Get Jumping!
Release Date: July 10, 2012| Age Level: 3 and up...
|  | Paper Bag Princess (Little Hippo)
Publication Date: September 19, 2003 ...
|  | Tales from King Arthur (Wordsworth Children's Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
Publication Date: April 1, 1998| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | The Racecar Alphabet (Ala Notable Children's Books. Younger Readers (Awards))
Release Date: November 1, 2003| Age Level: 4 and up...
|  | Ultimate Sticker Book: Horse (Ultimate Sticker Books)
Publication Date: February 21, 2005| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Madoulina (Story from West Africa)
Publication Date: September 1, 1999| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
| | Infinity Ring: Book 4
Release Date: June 4, 2013| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Crazy Dog and the Wolf
Publication Date: September 24, 2010This is the story of a little boy with a big imagination in a time of great invention.Crazy Dog and the Wolf follows the adventures of a young Cro-Magnon boy, "Dog," who lived in prehistoric times before people lived in houses or had animals for pets. Dog befriends a wolf cub and, as their companionship develops, his village is uncertain about the safety of taming a wolf.That is just the beginning however, as Dog and his family discover and create new ways to make life easier.Dog's adventures show that as long as true man has walked the earth people have a...
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