 | The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
Release Date: September 18, 2012Here is the remarkable true story of the real Count of Monte Cristo – a stunning feat of historical sleuthing that brings to life the forgotten hero who inspired such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.The real-life protagonist of The Black Count, General Alex Dumas, is a man almost unknown today yet with a story that is strikingly familiar, because his son, the novelist Alexandre Dumas, used it to create some of the best loved heroes of literature.Yet, hidden behind these swashbuckling adventures was an ev...
 |  | Los que nos salvaron (Spanish Edition) (Coleccion Ancora y Delfin)
Publication Date: September 14, 2010| Series: Coleccion Ancora y Delfin (Book 1183) Durante cincuenta anos, Anna Schlemmer ha rehusado hablar de su vida en Alemania durante la segunda guerra mundial. Su hija, Trudy, tenia solo cinco anos cuando fueron liberadas por el ejercito americano y se trasladaron a Minnesota. El unico recuerdo que tiene Trudy de ese pasado es una vieja fotografia, un retrato de familia que muestra a Anna, a Trudy y a un oficial nazi, el Obersturmführer de Buchenwald. Acosada por los fantasmas de ese pasado, y con cierto sentimiento de culpa, Trudy, que es ahora p...
|  | Multicultural Theatre 2: Contemporary Hispanic, Asian and African-American Plays
Publication Date: September 1, 1998Teachers nationwide have a great need for good, up-to-date writing on themes related to cultural diversity for literature classes, oral interpretation, and forensics. Roger Ellis' original multicultural anthology of scenes and monologs has been in popular use for several years. Now, here's a unique anthology of complete plays from new writers of the multicultural experience. These plays have been gleaned from over 100 playscripts on the basis of the opinions of producers, directors and audiences. Each of these plays contains a significant number of roles ca...
|  | Daughter of Twin Oaks (A Secret Refuge Series #1) (Book 1)
Publication Date: April 1, 2000Seeking to fulfill the promise she made to her dying father, eighteen-year-old Jesselynn Highwood determines to take her little brother and the family's remaining Thoroughbreds from Twin Oaks plantation in Kentucky to her uncle's farm in Missouri, where they will be safe for the remainder of the Civil War.Dodging Confederate and Union troops, they ride at night and hide during the day. Finally, after encountering hunger, sickness, and the devastation of war, they arrive in Missouri only to discover the situation there puts them in even greater danger.But Jessel...
|  | To Follow Yahweh's Plan
Publication Date: December 2001"Yahweh, will I ever love again?" is the cry of Ruth's heart. A widow and a foreigner, Ruth travels to Bethlehem to care for her mother-in-law Naomi. As Ruth follows Yahweh's plan for her life, will she find the love and happiness she longs for? ...
|  | Harp of Burma (Tuttle Classics)
Publication Date: December 15, 1989| Series: Tuttle Classics Winner of the prestigious Mainichi Shuppan Bunkasho prize, and the subject of an acclaimed film by Ichikawa Kon, Harp of Burma is the story of a company of Japanese soldiers who are losing a desperate campaign against British forces in the jungles of Burma during World War II. In the midst of overwhelming challenges they discover the power of music to make even the toughest situations tolerable, and though they face inevitable defeat, singing the songs of their homeland revives their will to live. ...
|  | Journeys to the Mythical Past (Earth Chronicles Expeditions)
Release Date: September 22, 2007| Series: Earth Chronicles Expeditions (Book 2) The continuing autobiographical account of the investigations and discoveries that led to The Earth Chronicles series • Zecharia Sitchin reveals for the first time how his life was at risk inside the Great Pyramid and documents the existence of a secret chamber • Reports on Vatican encounters, the Iceman of the Alps, the Antikythera computer, the temples and Ruts of Malta--and offers a solution to the enigma of the Nazca lines In Journeys to the Mythical Past, the sequel to The Earth Chronicles Expe...
|  | Ardent Complaints and Equivocal Piety: The Portrayal of the Crusader in Medieval German Poetry
Publication Date: November 17, 2003| ISBN-10: 0761825509 | ISBN-13: 978-0761825500Ardent Complaints and Equivocal Piety treats three sets of medieval German crusade poems, in most of which the crusades are pictured as a source of distress, disenchantment, or even annoyance. The first group portrays the crusader as he tries to overcome strong reluctance to leave his home and loved ones. The second group, by some of the same poets, features the woman who is about to lose a beloved man to crusade duty and clearly objects to it. The third consists of three poets who give the impression of cr...
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|  | Plotinus V: Ennead V (Loeb Classical Library, 444)
Publication Date: January 1, 1984| ISBN-10: 0674994892 | ISBN-13: 978-0674994898Plotinus (204/5-270 CE) was the first and greatest of Neoplatonic philosophers. His writings were edited by his disciple Porphyry, who published them many years after his master's death in six sets of nine treatises each (the Enneads).Plotinus regarded Plato as his master, and his own philosophy is a profoundly original development of the Platonism of the first two centuries of the Christian era and the closely related thought of the Neopythagoreans, with some influences from Aristotle and his followers and t...
|  | The Day Louis Got Eaten (Andersen Press Picture Books)
Publication Date: August 1, 2012Another gem from the award-winning creator of Manfred the Baddie and Jeremiah Jellyfish Flies High!Louis has been eaten by a Gulper and it's up to his sister, Sarah, to rescue him! But, pulling a boy out of a gulper's tummy isn't all that simple. Especially when there are many other strange and scary creatures hungry for their dinner, too. ...
|  | Now You See Me .... Now You Don't(The Zack Files #12)
Release Date: March 23, 1998| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | The Adventures of Taxi Dog (Picture Puffins)
Release Date: March 1, 2000| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Eye of the Monster (Dragonblood)
Publication Date: January 1, 2010| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | There's a Dragon Downstairs
Publication Date: March 22, 2005There's a dragon downstairs at Sophie's house.She knows he is there. She can hear him rattling and snuffling - slinking through the rooms.She is scared, and hides beneath the bedclothes. But when he comes again, Sophie grows bolder...she picks up her sword and shield.She will go downstairs and fight that dragon. This is a book about childhood imaginings.Sophie grows braver through the story and the dragon of course is no longer there. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Zen Ghosts
Publication Date: September 1, 2010| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up It's Halloween.The trees are ablaze in fiery reds. Excited children don colorful costumes. And there's mystery and fun around every corner!When Addy, Michael, and Karl finish trick-or-treating, their bags are brimming with treats. But the fun isn't over yet. Their good friend Stillwater the panda has one more special surprise in store for them. A mysterious visitor is about to tell them a spine-tingling story -- one that will fill each and every reader with wonder. ...
|  | Soccer Cats #1: The Captain Contest
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|  | Jeff Gordon (Blazers: Stars of NASCAR)
Publication Date: September 1, 2008| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | The Biggest Boy (Mulberry Books)
Release Date: May 27, 1998| Age Level: 4 and up...
|  | The Journey Of A Turtle
Publication Date: March 2000Science facts of a turtle, Grades 1-5. ...
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