 | Sinners Welcome: Poems
Release Date: February 28, 2006Mary Karr describes herself as a black-belt sinner, and this -- her fourth collection of poems --traces her improbable journey from the inferno of a tormented childhood into a resolutely irreverent Catholicism. Not since Saint Augustine wrote "Give me chastity, Lord -- but not yet!" has anyone brought such smart-assed hilarity to a conversion story. Karr's battle is grounded in common loss (a bitter romance, friends' deaths, a teenage son's leaving home) as well as in elegies for a complicated mother. The poems disarm with the arresting humor familiar to reader...
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 | The Storytelling Stone (Laurel Original)
Release Date: September 1, 1991Creation and death, the wily trickster, wolves, magic, and passion -- these are part of a rich heritage of Native American mythology and folktales. From tribes that vanished long ago, as well as from great tribes like the Ojibwa and Zuni that proudly remain, here are the powerful ancient beliefs with which North American tribal societies bring order to the universe and understanding to the heart.Editor Susan Feldmann has assembled this introductory anthology of or...
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 | American Science Fiction: Nine Classic Novels of the 1950s
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 | Secrets: Book 1 in the Glenbrooke Series
Release Date: February 16, 2010| Series: Glenbrooke (Book 1) The Glenbrooke SeriesJessica ran from her past...but can she hide from love?Jessica Morgan wants desperately to forget the past and begin a new life. She chooses a small, peaceful town tucked away in Oregon’s Willamette Valley as the place to start over—Glenbrooke. Once there, Jessica conceals her identity from the intriguing personalities she meets—including the compassionate paramedic who desires to protect her and the jealous woman who wants nothing more than to destroy her. Will Jessica’s deceit ruin...
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 | Our Lady of Greenwich Village: A Novel
Publication Date: October 17, 2008An Irish hero seeks redemption on the streets of New York, seventy years after his death. ...
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 | The Mythical World of Atlantis, from Plato to Disney: Theories of the Lost Empire
Release Date: June 2, 2001| Age Level: 9 and up...
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 | Great Courses: Classical Mythology Course Guidbook and 24 Lectures on 4 DVDs
Publication Date: 2000teaching company ...
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 | Song of the Heart: Selected Poems by Ram
Publication Date: April 1, 1995| Series: Texas Pan American SeriesRamón López Velarde (1888-1921) was one of the most Mexican of Mexican poets, whose sense of history found expression in many poems, including his best-known "La suave Patria" ("Sweet Land"). This bilingual collection, drawn primarily from Poesías completas y el minutero, offers English-language readers our first book-length introduction to his poetry. Often called a "poet of the provinces," López Velarde gives us a glimpse into a slower and more gentle way of life. His poems present the contras...
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 | Further Convictions Pending: Poems 1998-2008
Publication Date: April 1, 2010| ISBN-10: 0864736061 | ISBN-13: 978-0864736062This definitive collection of celebrated poetry displays the wit, intellectual agility, and arresting beauty for which O’Sullivan is renowned. ...
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 | Before the Palm Could Bloom: Poems of Africa (The New Issues Press Poetry Series)
Publication Date: November 1, 1998| Series: The New Issues Press Poetry Series Poetry. African Studies. In BEFORE THE PALM COULD BLOOM, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley writes poems of the Liberian civil war and of the devastation it has wrought. And In poems ofvillage life and customs, the city life of Monrovia, the rites of childhoodand adolescence, Wesley records for the reader a world that has been foreverchanged. Wesley's poems incorporate many African voices, and range in tonefrom sorrow and longing, to humor and ironic wit. ...
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 | Jane Austen (Routledge Guides to Literature)
Publication Date: May 21, 2005| ISBN-10: 0415314356 | ISBN-13: 978-0415314350| Edition: 1 Jane Austen is one of England's most enduringly popular authors, renowned for her subtle observations of the provincial middle classes of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England.This guide to Austen's much-loved work offers:an accessible introduction to the contexts and many interpretations of Austen's texts, including film adaptations, from publication to the presentan introduction to key critical texts and perspectives on Austen's life and work, situated within a broader critical his...
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 | The Letters of Lady Arbella Stuart (Women Writers in English 1350-1850)
Publication Date: December 1, 1994| Series: Women Writers in English 1350-1850 Lady Arbella Stuart (1575-1615) was a claimant to the English throne whose more than one hundred letters to relatives, her husband, the royal family, court officials, and friends reveal a powerful personal and public drama. Stuart's royal birth and demand for independence twice placed her in direct conflict with Queen Elizabeth and King James over an unauthorized marriage, once in 1603 when she attempted to marry clandestinely and again in 1610 when she did marry, then escaped from her subsequent confinement and w...
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 | A Tale Of Two Goblins: Dulcie O'Neil Series (Volume 2)
Publication Date: February 26, 2012| Series: Dulcie O'Neil A Dreamstalker— a creature that stalks and kills its victims in sleep. A fairy in law enforcement determined to stop him. A potions smuggler who possesses something she wants. A vampire with his own agenda. And a partner who couldn’t possibly be sexier or more frustrating. Dulcie O’Neil is a fairy working in law enforcement for the Netherworld. When Knight Vander approaches her with a case regarding comatose victims, she agrees to help him, imagining the most difficult part will be combatting her attraction to hi...
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 | Farther Than I Meant To Go, Longer Than I Meant To Stay
Publication Date: October 16, 2006The author of "What a Sista Should Do" delivers a new novel about a woman struggling with the decisions she made that were based on fear and societal pressures instead of God's plan for her. ...
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 | Seven Tears for Apollo
Publication Date: 1969Ever since the sudden tragic death of her husband, pretty Dorcas Brandt lived in fear. Dorcas fled to Greece in search of sanctuary, but even there she could not escape. Suspense rising to a thrilling climax ...
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 | Star Wars: Rebel Force #4: Firefight
Publication Date: September 1, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up...
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 | Spider-Man: The Complete Ben Reilly Epic Book 1 (Amazing Spider-Man (Paperback Unnumbered))
Publication Date: August 10, 2011| Grade Level: 4 and up...
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 | How Chipmunk Got His Stripes (Picture Puffins)
Release Date: April 14, 2003| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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 | Teamwork: The Utah Starzz in Action (Teams of the Wnba)
Publication Date: August 1999| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
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| Young Gymnast Pb
Publication Date: February 27, 1997This work, using text and photographic sequences, aims to help readers understand the world of gymnastics. It explores the different gymnastic disciplines - artistic, rythmic and sports acrobatics - and shows what to look for and what to expect when starting to learn gymnastics. It explains the importance of warming up properly at the beginning of each training session and goes on to describe the basic skills learnt in the first lesson. It shows how to build on the skills learnt, how to improve technique, and how movements such as rolls, handstands and cart...
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