 | The Fortunes of Wangrin
Release Date: March 22, 2000| ISBN-10: 025321226X | ISBN-13: 978-0253212269The Fortunes of WangrinAmadou Hampaté Bâ [note special accents on the "e" in Hampate and "a" Ba not correctly reproduced here—see ms.]Translated by Aina Pavolini Taylor with an Introduction by F. Abiola IreleWinner of the Grand Prix Litteraire de l'Afrique Noire "I think this is perhaps the best African novel on colonialism and it draws very richly on various modes of oral literature." —Ralph Austen, University of Chicago"It is a wonderful introduction to colonial rule as experienced by Afr...
 |  | Miss Julia Rocks the Cradle: A Novel
Release Date: March 27, 2012 Pardon our French, but in Miss Julia's newest nonstop adventure,"steel magnolias kick butt" (Kirkus Reviews). Miss Julia has promised her adoring husband, Sam, to mind her ownbusiness. What a relief! Instead of trying to figure out why that deadbody was found in Miss Petty's toolshed, Miss Julia can concentrate ontaking care of just-in-time newlywed Hazel Marie as she prepares forher impending due date. But then Miss Julia-who has always balanced hercheckbook down to the penny-suddenly finds her checks bouncing all overtown. Just this once (as she tells...
|  | Noah's Compass: A Novel
Release Date: January 25, 2011Liam Pennywell, who set out to be a philosopher and ended up teaching fifth grade, never much liked the job at that run-down private school, so early retirement doesn’t bother him. But he is troubled by his inability to remember anything about the first night that he moved into his new and spare condominium on the outskirts of Baltimore. All he knows when he wakes up the next day in the hospital is that his head is sore and bandaged. His effort to recover the moments of his life that have been stolen from him leads him on an unexpected detour. What he need...
|  | Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: The classic collection of eerie and fantastic Chinese stories of the supernatural (Tuttle Classics)
Publication Date: October 10, 2010| Series: Tuttle Classics Long considered a masterpiece of the eerie and fantastic, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is a collection of supernatural tales compiled by Songling Pu in the eighteenth century. Full of stories of ghosts, magic, vampirism and other things bizarre and fantastic, this classic of Chinese literature—and of supernatural tales in general—has been revised and updated, and includes pinyin for the first time. Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is for anyone who loves hair-raising stories best read with the lights turned l...
|  | Doctor Zhivago (Vintage International)
Release Date: October 4, 2011| Series: Vintage International First published in Italy in 1957 amid international controversy, Doctor Zhivago is the story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds. Set against this backdrop of cruelty and strife is Zhivago's love for the tender and beautiful Lara, the very embodiment of the pain and chaos of those cataclysmic times. Pevear and V...
|  | My Invisible Husband (Urban Soul Presents)
Release Date: December 1, 2006| Series: Urban Soul Presents So when are you getting married? Is a question often posed to 34 year-old Nicolette Montana (Nikki). She wanders aimlessly from one dead-end relationship to another and now finds the dating game one big bore. To stop all the nagging by family and friends, she fakes a Las Vegas wedding. On her return trip to Dallas, ironically, she meets the dashing and successful, Byron Matthews. Nikki becomes entangled in a web of deception when her family insists on meeting her mysterious husband at a family gathering. Byron comes to the rescue, n...
|  | TheFearless Five: One Up
Publication Date: September 24, 2011Jordie, Jess, Marty, Robbie and Josh - The Fearless Five. Sure they come from the wrong side of the tracks, but money isn't everything. Using their imaginations and whatever resources they can scrounge up, The Fearless Five roll from one adventure to the next. Some of the stunts they pull-off are life defining. Some are just outright dangerous! Together, or individually, The Fearless Five get themselves into and out of many sticky situations, from being marooned on the pylon of a bridge, stuck halfway up a cliff face or seemingly left for dead in an underg...
|  | Crimson Vengeance
Publication Date: April 19, 2011Love, desire, and secrets—a trail littered with murder and the choice one vampire will have to make that will seal her fate or set her free…Spokane County Medical Examiner Riah Preston has a job to do and a secret to keep.Riah is a vampire and she’s on a mission to discover a cure for the very thing that has kept her a prisoner of darkness for over five hundred years.With the help of Moses Lake Coroner Ivy Hernandez and genetic scientist Adriana James, they are on the verge of a breakthrough.When victims of a rogue vampire begin to show up alon...
|  | Going Prep: The Inside World of Elite High School Basketball
Publication Date: June 9, 2012Going Prep: The landscape of high school basketball has changed. In order to get to the elite level, players must be able to navigate and create opportunities that can appear one day and then disappear the next.Going Prep is the first step in the new trend in amateur basketball today. To be in the game, you have to play by their rules. ...
|  | Winnie the Witch (Plays for Young People S.)
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|  | Federico Garc
Publication Date: June 1, 2010J.L. Gili’s selection of Lorca’s poems in Spanish, with his own unassuming prose versions as guides to the originals, first appeared in 1960. With its excellent introduction and selection it remains a perfect introductory guide to the great poet. The book is ideal for newcomers to Lorca who know, or are prepared to grapple with, a little Spanish. It influenced a generation of readers and poets, including Ted Hughes who first encountered Lorca through this book.Spain’s most celebrated modern poet, Federico García Lorca was born in 1898 n...
|  | The Book of Love
Publication Date: November 2000Roddy Lumsden's first collection, Yeah Yeah Yeah (available from Dufour), was shortlisted for both the Forward and Saltire prizes. These new poems eavesdrop on a half urban, half surreal world of ladies, men, and misfits, trying on roles and acting out fantasies. The Book of Love is a celebration of love in all its delightful perversity, whose characters include a randy actor, a vinegar addict, and couples courting in a cupboard, covered with marmalade. As voyeurs sneak into one poem, naturists streak across another, and there is the inevitable lurking presence...
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| | Favorite Haiku Volume IV
Publication Date: November 1, 2000Volume IV of this award winning series follows the sameformat as the preceding volumes: brief essays on the briefest poeticform. ...
|  | Chaucer's Pardoner's Prologue and Tale: An Annotated Bibliography, 1900-1995 (Chaucer Bibliographies)
Publication Date: March 7, 2000| ISBN-10: 0802047440 | ISBN-13: 978-0802047441| Edition: 1 The Pardoner's Tale is unique among the Canterbury Tales in that it showcases a character who also makes several other appearances throughout the Tales. One of only three pilgrims to be given a full-length prologue by Chaucer, the Pardoner takes on a dramatic force unequaled among the pilgrims. A research tool for specialist and graduate student alike, this volume on Chaucer's Pardoner's Prologue and Tale offers an exhaustive collection of material from the period 1900 to 1995, abstracting and cros...
|  | The Mystery Fancier (Vol. 5 No. 4) July/August 1981
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|  | Daffy Duck: You're Despicable! - Volume 1
Release Date: July 1, 2005Its duck season again! Everyones favorite foultempered fowl explodes into his own manga-sized collection with this first volume of Daffy Duck stories straight from the pages of LOONEY TUNES! Packed full of hilarity and anger management issues, DAFFY DUCK VOL. 1: YOURE DESPICABLE! will warm the hearts of curmudgeons everywhere. Of course you know this means war! ...
|  | The Lucky Baseball Bat: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition (Matt Christopher Sports Fiction)
Publication Date: August 24, 2004| Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Christina Katerina & the Box
Publication Date: April 1, 2012| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up The day the refrigerator arrives in its large brown carton, Christina Katerina and her mother are both excited, but for very different reasons. Christina quickly claims the box, where she creates a castle, a clubhouse, and other fantastic playthings with her sometimes-friend Fats Watson. ...
|  | Science of Coaching Tennis
Publication Date: March 1989This book combines the sport sciences of biomechanics, motor learning, exercise physiology, and sport psychology into one comprehensive volume. Every tennis coach can benefit from techniques designed to help them increase players' speed and improve reaction time, evaluate players' strengths and weaknesses, correct players' performance problems, maximize the effectiveness of drills and practices, scout opponents to better coach their players during competition, and help their players develop competitive mental attitudes. ...
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