 | The Bear in the Attic
Publication Date: June 1, 2003Now in paperback, the beloved humorist’s latest and funniest collection of essays ever—“McManus at his curmudgeonly best”(Spokane Spokesman-Review)Patrick F. McManus’s wry wit has made him an American classic, his trademark outdoorsman’s humor endearing him not only to fellow wilderness enthusiasts but to anyone who enjoys a good laugh. In his newest collection of hilarious essays, he ponders the strange allure of the RV, a thirtieth-century hunting trip, the art of wrestling toads, the existential implications of being lost, ...
 |  | Found (Firstborn)
Publication Date: September 29, 2011| Series: Firstborn (Book 3) A fresh new look for the bestselling Firstborn series—the second installment in the continuing Baxter Family Drama from America’s number one inspirational novelist, Karen Kingsbury. Revisit the Baxter family in all their life-changing events, or share the series with someone who hasn’t discovered it yet.Driven by his wife’s dying wish—to find their firstborn son—John Baxter sets about the search of a lifetime. But when the answers finally come, they shake John to his core. Can he walk a...
|  | Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry
Publication Date: June 1979| ISBN-10: 0048070033 | ISBN-13: 978-0048070036An invaluable guide for the student, which provides information about classical and Christian ideas in a compact, readable and accessible form. It offers extracts from original sources as well as giving suggestions for further reading. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | The Memoirs of Cleopatra: A Novel
Publication Date: May 15, 1998Bestselling novelist Margaret George brings to life the glittering kingdom of Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile, in this luch, sweeping, and richly detailed saga.Told in Cleopatra's own voice, this is a mesmerizing tale of ambition, passion, and betrayl, which begins when the twenty-year-old queen seeks out the most powerful man in the world, Julius Caesar, and does not end until, having survived the assassination of Caesar and the defeat of the second man she loves, Marc Antony, she plots her own death rather than be paraded in triumph through the streets of Rome.Mo...
|  | Dead Shot (A Sniper Novel)
Release Date: March 3, 2009| Series: A Sniper Novel In this follow-up to the highly successful Kill Zone, former Marine sniper Kyle Swanson faces his most deadly enemy yet, a legendary enemy sniper working with a fringe Islamic organization that has created a terrifying new weapon of mass destruction In Baghdad’s Green Zone, an Iraqi scientist is murdered just before he is to reveal the monstrous secret that Saddam Hussein took to his grave: the Palace of Death, home to a chemical weapon that Islamic militants quietly have been developing and whose formula is nearly complete. The assas...
|  | TheShorter Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature
Publication Date: December 15, 2000| ISBN-10: 0231119992 | ISBN-13: 978-0231119993 0 With its fresh translations by newer voices in the field, its broad scope, and its flowing style, this anthology places the immense riches of Chinese literature within easy reach. Ranging from the beginnings to 1919, this abridged version ofThe Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature retains all the characteristics of the original. In putting together these selections Victor H. Mair interprets "literature" very broadly to include not just literary fiction, poetry, and drama, but folk and popul...
|  | States of Fantasy (Clarendon Lectures in English Literature)
Publication Date: July 25, 1996| ISBN-10: 0198182805 | ISBN-13: 978-0198182801In September 1993, Israel and the PLO signed their first peace treaty; in April 1994, South Africa held its first nonracial elections. Jacqueline Rose argues here for the importance of these two arenas of historic conflict to the English literary and cultural imagination and to the new disciplinary boundaries of the humanities today. As in her previous books, her fundamental question is the place of fantasy in public and private identities. But in States of Fantasy she pushes her investigation into what at firs...
|  | The Dynasty Of Raghu
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|  | Three Masters of the Renaissance: Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael (Bravo)
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|  | A New Species: Gender and Science in Science Fiction
Publication Date: April 1, 1993This fascinating study is the first to examine the history of gender and science fiction and the first to discuss science fiction pulp magazines' images of women, as well as postmodernism and feminist science fiction. Robin Roberts begins with Shelley's Frankenstein, in which a female alien appears, and continues through H. G. Wells, the 1950s pulp science fiction magazines, Doris Lessing and feminist utopias, and the new generation of science fiction writers, including Joan Vinge, Sheila Finch, Vonda McIntyre, Ursula Le Guin, and Octavia Butler. Roberts explor...
|  | Crossing Boundaries: Postmodern Travel Literature
Publication Date: December 8, 2000| ISBN-10: 0312233884 | ISBN-13: 978-0312233884Crossing Boundaries examines experimental novels about travel by William Gaddis and Thomas Pynchon as precursors of innovative contemporary travel narratives, represented by the work of authors such as Bruce Chatwin, William Least Heat-Moon, and William T. Vollmann, among others. While these texts may be read as cultural criticism—functioning as a collective portrait of the world at a time when global space seems exhausted, dominated by multinational corporations and threatened with ecological devasta...
|  | Cortafuegos (Spanish Edition) (Serie Wallander)
Publication Date: May 1, 2010| Series: Serie Wallander Ystad, Suecia, otono de 1997. Un hombre muere en extranas circunstancias a las puertas de un cajero automatico. Poco despues, dos muchachas asesinan salvajemente a un taxista. Detenidas y trasladadas a la comisaria, las dos adolescentes sorprenden a todo el mundo con su agresividad y su indiferencia ante el crimen que han cometido. En un descuido de los agentes, una de ellas logra huir. Al dia siguiente, un problema en el suministro electrico deja a oscuras gran parte de la region de Escania; cuando el tecnico de mantenimiento acude a la...
|  | A Hidden Affair: A Novel
Release Date: August 23, 2011PAST WARS, PAST LIVES, PAST LOVES . . . CAN WE EVER REALLY LET THEM GO . . . AND SHOULD WE? Ten years ago, U.S. State Department intelligence officer Jordan Weiss’s life was turned upside down when she was told her college boyfriend, Jared, drowned in the River Cam. In a shocking discovery, though, she realizes that things weren’t as they seemed and that she had been lied to and betrayed by those closest to her. Reeling from the shock— and the knowledge that Jared is still alive—Jordan resigns her State Department post and sets off i...
|  | The Eternals, Book 2
Publication Date: September 24, 2008| Grade Level: P and up A time of titans, terror, and time travel - as only the King could conceive! Imagine a race of immortal beings possessed of seemingly limitless superhuman abilities including energy projection, strength, and flight. Once worshipped as gods, this fantastic group left Earth to explore the stars after warring with the Greek, Roman, and Norse pantheons for supremacy over mankind. In 1976, Jack Kirby introduced what was to be his final great Marvel Comics creation: the Eternals! With nearly four decades of experience creating iconic char...
|  | A Wave in Her Pocket: Stories from Trinidad
Publication Date: April 22, 1991| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Five young cousins have plenty to do on the island but there's always time to hear one of Tantie's stories. ...
|  | Pecos Bill (Spanish edition)
Release Date: October 19, 1995| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up Incidents from the life of Pecos Bill, from his childhood among the coyotes to his unusual wedding day. Spanish language edition. ...
|  | World Series (DK Eyewitness Books)
Publication Date: September 6, 2004| Age Level: 1 and up...
|  | NASCAR Truck Series (Blazers: World of NASCAR)
Publication Date: January 1, 2008| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Scott Hamilton (OA) (Overcoming Adversity)
Publication Date: February 1999| Age Level: 11 and up...
|  | Anaheim Mighty Ducks (NHL Today)
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