 | Harry Potter Paperback Box Set (Books 1-7) Release Date: July 7, 2009| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
 |  | Floricanto Si!: A Collection of Latina Poetry Release Date: March 1, 1998Floricanto Si! combines the poetry of such major literary figures as Sandra Cisneros, Julia Alvarez, and Ana Castillo, with the work of a second generation of post-Chicano movement poets whose startlingly original voices are just being discovered.The forty-seven Latina contributors hail from the U.S., from New York to North Dakota. Their roots are in Mexico and the Caribbean, Argentina and Peru, Brazil and El Salvador. Yet their work is bound by common cutural themes, such as identity, bilingualism, machismo and political oppression, and by recurring allusions to t...
 |  | The Gold Rush: Chinese Immigrants Come to America (1848-1882 (Primary Sources of Immigration and Migration in America) ...
 |  | The Third Bullet: A Bob Lee Swagger Novel Release Date: January 8, 2013| Series: Bob Lee Swagger A blockbuster alternate narrative to one of the most enduring controversies of our time: The assassination of John F. Kennedy. This time, Bob Lee Swagger is on the case.Why did the third bullet aimed at John F. Kennedy explode? The Warren Commission had no idea. The 4,000 authors and investigators who followed the case remain clueless. But Bob Lee Swagger knows. Fifty years after the shots that brought America to its knees, the tough-as-nails sniper turns his forensic skills toward the most baffling rifle crime of all time: What happened...
 |  | The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel Release Date: February 8, 2011Emily Benedict has come to Mullaby, North Carolina, hoping to solve at least some of the riddles surrounding her mother’s life. But the moment Emily enters the house where her mother grew up and meets the grandfather she never knew, she realizes that mysteries aren’t solved in Mullaby, they’re a way of life: Here are rooms where the wallpaper changes to suit your mood. Unexplained lights skip across the yard at midnight. And a neighbor, Julia Winterson, bakes hope in the form of cakes, not only wishing to satisfy the town’s sweet tooth bu...
 |  | A Princess of Roumania Release Date: June 23, 2005This is a truly magical tale, full of strangeness, terrors and wonders. Many girls daydream that they are really a princess adopted by commoners. In the case of teenager Miranda Popescu, this is literally true. Because she is at the fulcrum of a deadly political battle between conjurers in an alternate world where "Roumania" is a leading European power, Miranda was hidden by her aunt in our world, where she was adopted and raised in a quiet Massachusetts college town. The narrative is split between our world and the people in Roumania working to protect or to captu...
 |  | The Nativity Story Publication Date: October 25, 2006Exclusive photos taken on the set of The Nativity Story, together with scripture from the New Living Translation, present the story of Jesus' birth in vivid detail.Similar to The Passion, this gift book presents the most memorable and magical scenes from the movie.The Nativity Story tells the extraordinary tale of two common people, Mary and Joseph, a miraculous pregnancy, an arduous journey, and the history-defining birth of Jesus.Driven by powerful moving images and told through the Scriptures, this book will enhance the movie experience. ...
 |  | Dusk and Summer Publication Date: September 30, 2008Does Heaven await beneath the waves? One man needs to know.For when his dying father whispers a cryptic message, he has no choice but to summon his courage and begin the quest of a lifetime. It’s a race against time to realize his father’s wish and fulfill his own destiny. It’s a discovery of the unbreakable bond between father and son. It’s a mystery which only the chosen guard between dusk and summer. ...
 |  | The Norse king's bridal; Publication Date: 1912This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuab...
 |  | A Press Achieved: The Emergence of Auckland University Press 1927-1972 Publication Date: April 1, 2002| ISBN-10: 1869402391 | ISBN-13: 978-1869402396Written by a former managing editor who is also a distinguished writer, this book charts the origins of the Auckland University Press up to its formal recognition in 1972. It provides a valuable document in the history of the book in New Zealand, an intriguing view of university politics and administration, and glimpses of New Zealand culture in the making. ...
 |  | Hooked!: True Stories of Obsession, Death, and Love from Alaska's Commercial Fishing Men and Women Publication Date: September 1, 2011Hooked! begins where The Deadliest Catch ends. The rousing sea stories are here: the dramas of near-death battles, the sickening tragedy of lovers and friends lost to the waters---but this is not the whole story. This collection represents an extraordinary holistic view of Alaskan fishing: not just men's lives on the water, but women's as well. Not just winter crab fishing, but the challenges and thrills of fishing for cod, salmon, halibut, and herring. Not just the dying, but the passionate living as well. Readers will understand as never before why so man...
 |  | Eternal Craving (Leisure Paranormal Romance) Publication Date: May 1, 2009| Series: Leisure Paranormal Romance He's been promised a new life as the hunter he once was. But Al soon learns that all the rules have changed. Now he must control his most basic urges—the need to kill, to feed, to mate. And the woman he wants looks at him with both heat and fear in her eyes. Jenna Maloy doesn't buy this story that he's come to Philadelphia to save souls. She seems to see through the layers of deception to the primitive heart of him. With her beside him, Al stalks the dark forces that crouch in the city's night shadows. But the real batt...
 |  | Brisingr (The Inheritance Cycle) Release Date: April 13, 2010| Age Level: 12 and up | Grade Level: 7 and up...
 |  | The Exquisite Corpse Adventure Release Date: August 23, 2011| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Take twenty top kids' authors and illustrators. Give them free rein to take turns creating a zany progressive story. What could possibly happen next?It all starts with a train rushing through the night. . . . Well, actually, it starts when Jon Scieszka, former National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, writes a cliff-hanger episode and passes it on to the next member of a cast of celebrated writers and illustrators, who continues the story and passes it on. And what happens between episodes one and twenty-seve...
 |  | X-Babies Classic - Volume 1 (X-Babies Classics) Publication Date: October 27, 2010| Grade Level: 4 and up...
 |  | The Scarecrow's Hat Publication Date: January 1, 2011| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up A resourceful chicken seeks the help of her farm animal friends to solve a problem, while giving something of herself along the way. Chicken really admires ScarecrowÂs hat. Scarecrow would gladly trade his hat for a walking stick to rest his tired arms. Chicken doesnÂt have a walking stick to tradeÂbut she knows someone who does. Thus begins her quest to find items to trade among her farm friends, all to obtain a walking stick to swap for ScarecrowÂs hat. But why does Ch...
 |  | The Truth About My Name: and What it Reveals About Me! (Klutz) Publication Date: January 1, 1948| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
 |  | Blood Red Crescent Publication Date: October 24, 2007| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up It's the year 1570. Fourteen-year-old Guido Callatta,son of a wealthy Venetian merchant, spends his freetime roaming the docks, listening to the wild tales ofgnarled old sailors, and dreaming of adventures at sea.But his carefree life is about to change forever. Armies ofOttoman Turks threaten Europe from all sides, conqueringChristian towns and forcing their people to convert. Moslemcorsairs are raiding the coastlines at will.Guido even hears talk of a massive Turkish fleet preparingto sail from the East, bent o...
 |  | Croco'nile Publication Date: April 9, 2001| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up A romp through ancient Egypt, with hieroglyphics, too!Set sail for adventure with Hamut and his sister Nekatu as they stow away on a sailboat, paint a pyramid, and win the favor of a pharoah. But when conniving kidnappers threaten the pair, they discover that a crocodile in need is a friend indeed! ...
 |  | Igraine the Brave Release Date: September 25, 2007| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Igraine, who turns twelve tomorrow, dreams of becoming a famous knight. But today, like most days, life at the family castle remains . . . rather boring. Until the nefarious nephew of the baroness-next-door shows up. Greedy Osmund’s got a dastardly plan to capture Pimpernel Castle and steal the singing magic books that belong to Igraine’s mom and dad. Complicating matters, on the eve of the siege her parents misspeak a spell and turn themselves into pigs! (How inconvenient.)Igraine’s birthday wish...
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