 | The Parish and the Hill (Contemporary Classics by Women)
Publication Date: May 1, 2002| Series: Contemporary Classics by Women A touchstone novel in Irish American literature, this reissue of the 1948 classic draws captivating portraits of love and strife amongst the unforgettable O’Connors. Brilliant and painful on themes of alienation, social class, and alcoholism, this candid account of mill town life in 1920s New England illuminates the often dear cost paid by poor immigrants to a nation that both needs and despises, lures and rejects, promises and abandons. "A brilliant first novel."—CommonwealMarketing Plans:• A major redi...
 |  | These Boots Weren't Made for Walking
Release Date: June 19, 2007Willing to make the necessary sacrifices–even skipping the occasional latte–to ensure career success, 31-year-old Cassidy Cantrell “invests” in a chic pair of boots, certain they’ll make a spectacular impression and help seal the deal on a long-anticipated promotion from her Seattle employer. But reality tromps all over her expectations. Cassie’s job is abruptly eliminated–and her love life obliterated, when her longtime boyfriend dumps her for a “friend.” Her self-esteem in tatters, Cassie limps home to the res...
|  | Color of Law
Publication Date: October 2000This is a rich, absorbing novel about good, evil, and the inability of the legal system to mediate between the two. Two white Milwaukee motorcycle cops pursue and kill a young black man on a bitterly cold winter night in 1959 and with the help of their superiors escape detection for twenty years. When at last the truth comes out -- first in a confession and then in a ground-breaking civil rights suit brought against the state by the victim's family many people find their present lives increasingly altered by this event from the past. This includes Milwaukee Time...
|  | Courage to Heal
Publication Date: November 1, 2007Set in a world of iron lungs, the Great Depression, and a World War, Courage to Heal is based on the true story of a young surgeon who, along with the twentieth century's boldest industrialist, changed the face of American medicine forever. History is brought to vivid life in this novel of an intransigent physician, his fight to provide health care to all, and his undying love for a beautiful nurse who marries the man determined to defeat him. At the height of the Great Depression, Doctor Sidney Garfield saw the thousands of men involved in building the Los ...
|  | REYES CATOLICOS I: CASTILLA PARA ISABEL (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: May 15, 2010| Series: Reyes Catolicos (Book 1) Recuerda siempre que si tu hermanastro Enrique muriera sin dejar herederos, tu hermanito Alfonso seria rey de Castilla; y si Alfonso muriera sin dejar descendencia, tu, Isabel, serias reina de Castilla. El trono seria tuyo de derecho, y que la desgracia caiga sobre quien intentara arrebatartelo. Una fantastica historia centrada en los primeros anos de Isabel la Catolica. Su infancia y adolescencia, bajo el cuidado de una madre ambiciosa y desequilibrada, su vida en la corte de su hermano Enrique IV y su ascension al trono del b...
|  | Antologia bilingue / Bilingual Anthology: Poesia / Poetry (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Apparat: Band 6 (Klopstock, Friedrich G.: Werke Und Briefe) (German Edition)
Publication Date: December 2, 1999| Series: Klopstock, Friedrich G.: Werke Und Briefe This final volume of the edition of "Messias" contains commentaries on the text reproduction together with the critical apparatus to all of the versions, texts and documents in Volume 3. ...
|  | Russian imagism, 1919-1924 (Bausteine zur Geschichte der Literatur bei den Slawen)
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|  | My Own Book
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|  | The Discourse of Politics in Action: Politics as Usual
Release Date: May 12, 2009This book is an interdisciplinary study providing first-hand evidence of the everyday lives of politicians; what politicians actually do on the backstage in political organizations. The book offers answers to the widely discussed phenomena of disenchantment with politics and depoliticization. ...
|  | Dante and the Victorians
Publication Date: January 1999In this text Alison Milbank explains why a comprehension of the Victorian reception of Dante is essential for a full understanding of Victorianism as a whole. Her focus on this topic allows her to reconfigure the British 19th century understanding of history, nationalism, aesthetics and gender, and their often strange intersections. The account also build towards a demonstration that the modernist perpetuation of the Dante obsession reveals an equal continuity with many aspects of Victorianism. The book provides not only an introduction to these important cultur...
|  | Within the Stone
Publication Date: April 2004With this book of color photographs of the polished hearts of stones portrayed as natural paintings, BILL ATKINSON completes his transition from whiz kid of Silicon Valley to high priest of Silica. After helping to usher in the age of personal computing by designing the graphical user interface of the Macintosh computer, Atkinson turned his visual and technical talents to nature photography. While shooting in the Painted Desert, Atkinson became intrigued with the brilliant colors in the petrified wood littering the ground. He brought home some polished rock slabs,...
|  | Cornelius Nepos: On Great Generals. On Historians. (Loeb Classical Library No. 467)
Publication Date: January 1, 1929| ISBN-10: 0674995147 | ISBN-13: 978-0674995147Cornelius Nepos was born in Cisalpine Gaul but lived in Rome and was a friend of Cicero, Atticus, and Catullus. Most of his writings, which included poems, moral examples from history, a chronological sketch of general history, a geographical work, Lives of Cato the Elder and Cicero, and other biographies, are lost. Extant is a portion of his 'De Viris Illustribus': (i) part of his parallel lives of Roman and non-Roman famous men, namely the portion containing lives of non-Roman generals (all Greeks except th...
|  | Mother Come Home
Publication Date: February 15, 2009Back in print: the debut graphic novel from the author of The Three Paradoxes. Mother, Come Home is Paul Hornschemeier's piercing graphic-novel debut: it secured the cartoonist's place as one of his generation's most skillful and ambitious practitioners. Mother, Come Home quietly studies the inner lives of recently widowed David and his 7-year-old son, Thomas. Thomas struggles desperately to keep up appearances while his father, a professor of symbolic logic, becomes lost in abstractions. Father and son begin to retreat into their fantasies, but only one em...
|  | San Antonio Spurs (NBA Champions)
Publication Date: January 31, 2008| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | For the Love of Judo (For the Love of Sports)
Publication Date: February 2002| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | Mommy, Buy Me a China Doll
Publication Date: April 1, 1989| Age Level: 4 and up "When Mommy wonders how to get a china doll for Eliza Lou, Eliza suggests they trade Daddy's featherbed...The ridiculous swapping of sleeping places is aptly portrayed in strong, boldly drawn, colored illustrations which underline the humor and folk quality of the lilting cumulative verses. A deliciously funny picture book for small children."-Booklist ...
|  | The Pelican Chorus: and Other Nonsense
Release Date: May 5, 1995| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up Lucky is the child who gets to know Edward Lear and his classic brand of nonsense in this spectacular picture book. In lavish illustrations, Marcellino makes the most of the fantasy and farce of three of Lear's best nonsense tales-- The New Vestments, The Owl and the Pussycat; and The Pelican Chorus. ...
|  | The Ugly Duckling (Fairy Tale Firsts)
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|  | Freddy and the Ignormus
Release Date: November 23, 2011| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Freddy the pig must summon all of his courage and detective skills when the chief suspect of a series of robberies on the Bean farm is a legendary beast from the Big Woods. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
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