 | The Lost Art of Gratitude (Isabel Dalhousie Mysteries, No. 6)
Release Date: September 21, 2010 The sensational sixth installment in the best-selling chronicles of the irrepressibly curious Isabel Dalhousie finds our inquisitive heroine and new mother racing two very troublesome people from her past. Isabel’s son, Charlie, is only eighteen months, but his social life is already kicking into high gear, and it's at a birthday party, where Isabel is approached by Minty Auchterlonie, an old adversary and now a high-flying financier. Minty, it seems, is having trouble in her personal life, and seeks Isabel's ...
 |  | Medea (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: April 19, 1993| ISBN-10: 0486275485 | ISBN-13: 978-0486275482One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Euripides' masterwork centers on the myth of Jason, leader of the Argonauts, who has won the dragon-guarded treasure of the Golden Fleece with the help of the sorceress Medea — whom he marries and eventually abandons. Authoritative Rex Warner translation. ...
|  | Creepy Archives Volume 4
Publication Date: August 4, 2009| Series: Creepy Archives (Book 4) Pulpy, smart, and scary, the stories in Creepy constituted some of the best short-form horror fiction ever told in comics. With legendary comics writer/editor Archie Goodwin both editing the magazine and crafting most of its storytelling, Creepy was at once a newsstand favorite with fright fans, and a vaunted showcase of fine comics art for serious fans of the art form. For decades, the only sources for these stories were the expensive, collectible, original issues. Now Dark Horse is collecting all of the original material fr...
|  | .hack//Another Birth Volume 3 (v. 3)
Release Date: February 6, 2007| Series: .Hack//Another Birth (Book 3) Akira once again enters the online game - The World in order to save her younger brother, who has lapsed into a coma. With the virus infection now spreading to protected areas, she joins forces with Kite to unravel the mystery of the Epitaph of the Twilight and the Cursed Wave. Should they make a deal with Balmung? ...
|  | Ramage & the Saracens (The Lord Ramage Novels)
Publication Date: September 1, 2002| Series: The Lord Ramage Novels (Book 17) Barbary Coast pirates—the Saraceni—are capturing slaves and terrorizing fishing villages along the coast of Sicily. Ramage and his crew are sent to track them down before they can devastate another town. ...
|  | The Little House: A Novel
Publication Date: October 1996Giving up her job as a reporter for a mediocre radio station,Ruth Cleary becomes pregnant and moves to Bath, only to become lonelyand depressed and find that her mother-in-law is beginning to controland manipulate her life. 15,000 first printing. ...
|  | Silk Tapestry and Other Chinese Folktales (Songs of Our Ancestors) (Vol 2)
Publication Date: September 2004| Series: Songs of Our Ancestors (Book 2) In three Chinese folk tales, an old woman, a young boy and a wild spirit are all bound by a passion to create, changing the world around them forever. In The Silk Tapestry, an impoverished elderly woman's only hope against a life of hardship lies in the completion of a magical tapestry. It is said to be the key to a paradise. Already living in squalor, how much more of herself is she willing sacrifice to see her dream come to fruition? In Sausage-Boy and his Magic Brush, a young boy's remarkable talent for paintings th...
|  | The Stories of Hans Christian Andersen: A New Translation from the Danish
Publication Date: November 6, 2003| ISBN-10: 0618224564 | ISBN-13: 978-0618224562| Edition: 2nd This new collection -- returning faithfully to the original Danish -- takes Andersen out of the nursery and places him squarely in the literary pantheon. While Hans Christian Andersen's tales continue to seize the imagination with their singular blend of simplicity, eccentricity, and charm, readers have had to content themselves with inaccurate retellings and inadequate translations. Now Diana Crone Frank, a Danish novelist and linguist, and Jeffrey Frank, a novelist and editor at The New York...
|  | Aristophanes: Wasps (The Comedies of Aristophanes, V. 4)
Release Date: December 1, 1983| ISBN-10: 0856682136 | ISBN-13: 978-0856682131| Edition: First Edition Text with facing translation, commentary and notes. (Aris and Phillips 1983) ...
|  | Chrétien de Troyes: A Study of the Arthurian Romances
Publication Date: November 25, 2010Originally published in 1981, this book provides an interpretation of the five Arthurian romances of Chrétien de Troyes. It attempts to show the ways in which this most enigmatic and influential of medieval romance-writers reveals his ideas about man, society and God. The evolution of these ideas is studied in texts ranging from Chrétien's earliest known romance, Erec and Enide, through Cliges, Lancelot and Yvain, to the unfinished Perceval or Le Conte du Graal. Dr Topsfield demonstrates the importance of Chrétien de Troyes for the developmen...
|  | The Mammoth Book of Regency Romance
Publication Date: July 27, 2010From some of the biggest names in Regency historical romance, over twenty witty, romantic, and sensual short stories. The collection will include stories from Mary Balogh, Julia Templeton, Sara Bennett, Jo Beverley, and Amanda Grange. ...
|  | Proof Positive CD
Release Date: June 27, 2006 Doug Weaver is a defense attorney who always believes the best of his clients, and Jacob Cohen, on trial for murder, is no exception. Jacob may be homeless and mentally ill, but Doug can't believe that this meek and intensely religious man could have killed and dismembered a woman. Yet Bernard Cashman, a forensic expert at the Oregon State Crime Lab, finds evidence that indisputably connects Cohen with the crime. Frustrated and confused, Doug consults Amanda Jaffe, who, with her father, Frank, is working on a case that seems completely unrelated -- gangster Art ...
|  | The Lime Pit (Harry Stoner Pi)
Publication Date: December 15, 2005| Series: Harry Stoner Pi (Book 1) The first Harry Stoner mysteryHarry Stoner is a private eye in the classic tradition. A loner with a history of failed relationships with women and all-too-successful relationships with bottles of scotch, he's unable to look away from the world's corruption and unable to avoid trying--futiley--to do something about it. His latest hopeless cause is Cindy Ann, a teenage hooker. Neither pretty nor engaging, she doesn't have much to offer at all, and somehow that makes her disappearance all the more disturbing for Stoner, who ...
|  | The Winged Cat: And Other Tales of Ancient Civilizations
Release Date: May 28, 2002| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up Journey to the Egyptian Netherworld with a young girl named Merit, a wicked priest, and a winged cat.Face the challenges of the Goddess with Minoan prince Akros and his sister Illyra.Fight for freedom in ancient Babylon with slave boy Enki and his ally, the demon of storms.Step into three glorious ancient worlds, where magic amulets are gifts of the gods, where angry Priestesses set impossible tasks, and where compassion can help set people free. Master storyteller Deborah Nourse Lattimore brings to wondrous life all the...
|  | Cuentos Y Leyendas De La Mitologia Griega (Espoasa Juvenil) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: June 30, 2004| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | Make-a-Splash Writing Rules (Grammar All-Stars)
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|  | Ghosts of the Civil War
Publication Date: January 1, 2002Lindsey couldn't have cared less about the Civil War, let alone a battle reenactment. After all, who cares about a boring old war that happened more than a hundred years ago?And then she meets Willie -- but he's not just another kid, he's actually Willie Lincoln, and he's traveled back to the present to explain exactly what the Civil War was really about. He takes Lindsey by the hand and leads her on a tour like no other as they witness heated debates about abolition, secession, and patriotism. They visit Fort Sumter as the war is declared, witness bloody bat...
|  | Turtle (Baby Bobber Books)
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|  | Pocket Guides: Birds
Publication Date: March 1, 2004| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | The Forgetful Bears (Family Storytime)
Release Date: February 15, 2000| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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