 | The Aliens
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 | | Werewolf, Ghost, and Vampire Jokes You Can Sink Your Teeth into
Publication Date: February 28, 2010A zany compendium of ghoulish Halloween humor presents jokes, puns, and riddles about ghosts, mummies, vampires, werewolves, skeletons, and other spooky denizens of the dark. Original. ...
|  | Fish and Grits
Publication Date: August 23, 2010Narrated in the voice of her younger sister, Fish and Grits chronicles the life of Kala Johnson, an African American girl who finds redemption from abuse by eating a forbidden meal.After the death of her father, fourteen year old Kala, an exceptional student who dreams about the future before it happens, takes on the responsibility of raising four younger siblings while struggling to survive the "concrete jungle" they call home. Kala, who will do anything to keep her family from suffering, comes up with a plan to keep them together amidst the challenges of po...
|  | Big Girl Small: A Novel
Release Date: July 3, 2012Judy Lohden is your above-average sixteen-year-old, with a voice that can shake an auditorium. She should be the star of Darcy Arts Academy, so why is she hiding in a seedy motel room? Perhaps it has something to do with a devastating scandal---and the fact that Judy is three feet nine inches tall. Big Girl Small is a scathingly funny book about dreams and reality, at once light on its feet and profound. ...
|  | Speaking for the Chief: Okyeame and the Politics of Akan Royal Oratory (African Systems of Thought)
Publication Date: July 1995| Series: African Systems of Thought ...an unprecedented opportunity to understand West African oratory from the point of view of a native Akan speaker who is also a gifted linguist and ethnographer...[Yankah] shows with elegance the connections between verbal strategies and the cultural organization of West African social systems. - "Alessandro Duranti". Among the Akan of Ghana and in other areas of West Africa, royal speech is not articulated with a single voice but is rather a composite of the chief's words and their artistic relay by his orator and principal di...
|  | The Golden Grotto or Bracko, The Prince Frog
Publication Date: 1971A comedy for children and bright adults. ...
|  | Thebaid, Volume I: Thebaid: Books 1-7 (Loeb Classical Library) (Bk. 1-7) (English and Latin Edition)
Publication Date: February 17, 2004| Series: Loeb Classical Library (Book 207) Statius published his Thebaid in the last decade of the first century. This epic recounting the struggle between the two sons of Oedipus for the kingship of Thebes is his masterpiece, a stirring exploration of the passions of civil war. The extant portion of his unfinished Achilleid is strikingly different in tone: this second epic begins as a charming account of Achilles' life. Statius was raised in the Greek cultural milieu of the Bay of Naples, and his Greek literary education is reflected in his poetry. The po...
|  | Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon: Selected Poems
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| | Up to Date (Hodder Christian Paperbacks)
Publication Date: May 6, 1993| Series: Hodder Christian Paperbacks A tenth-anniversary edition of a collection of poetry, now published with a new extended preface and an index. The author also wrote "The King of Twist", another poetry collection. ...
|  | Crossing Boundaries with Children's Books
Publication Date: May 25, 2006| ISBN-10: 0810852039 | ISBN-13: 978-0810852037This annotated bibliography—organized geographically by world region and country, describing nearly 700 books representing 73 countries—is a valuable resource for librarians, teachers, and anyone else seeking to promote international understanding through children's literature. It is the third volume sponsored by the United States Board on Books for Young People. The first, Carl M. Tomlinson's Children's Books from Other Countries (1998) is a compendium of international children's literature with a...
|  | The Norton Anthology of American Literature: Shorter Version
Publication Date: January 2003| ISBN-10: 0393979695 | ISBN-13: 978-0393979695| Edition: 6th "From the inception of The Norton Anthology of American Literature, three goals have been paramount: first, to present a variety of works rich and substantial enough to enable teachers to build their own courses according to their own ideals; second, to make the anthology self-sufficient by featuring many works in their entirety and longer selections so that individual authors can be covered in depth; and third, to balance traditional interests with developing critical concerns."—Nina Baym, G...
|  | Time's River: The Voyage of Life in Art and Poetry
Publication Date: May 20, 1999Beginning with a celebration of childhood and ending with praise for the renewed creativity of age, this giftbook marries poems illuminating the journey of life with art from the collection at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA. Four paintings from Thomas Cole create the book's framework. ...
|  | Pushkin's Children: Writing on Russia and Russians
Publication Date: January 15, 2003These twenty pieces address the politics, culture, and literature of Russia with both flair and erudition. Passionate and opinionated, often funny, and using ample material from daily life to underline their ideas and observations, Tatyana Tolstaya’s essays range across a variety of subjects. They move in one unique voice from Soviet women, classical Russian cooking, and the bliss of snow to the effect of Pushkin and freedom on Russia writers; from the death of the czar and the Great Terror to the changes brought by Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and Putin in the...
|  | Plenty More Love (Arabesque)
Publication Date: October 1, 2005| Series: Arabesque Plenty More Loveby Christine TownsendCopyright 2005 ...
|  | A Perfect Love (Time Passages)
Release Date: August 1, 2000| Series: Time Passages A contemporary English beauty finds herself washed ashoreand clinging to life-in the 12th century. The only man who can rescueher is a knight who is driven by a remarkable prophecy. ...
|  | The Inquisitor's Key: A Body Farm Novel
Release Date: May 8, 2012| Series: Body Farm Miranda Lovelady, Dr. Bill Brockton's protÉgÉ, is spending the summer helping excavate a newly discovered chamber beneath the spectacular Palace of the Popes in Avignon, France. There she discovers a stone chest inscribed with a stunning claim: inside lie the bones of none other than Jesus of Nazareth. Faced with a case of unimaginable proportions, Miranda summons Brockton for help proving or refuting the claim. Both scientists are skeptical—after all, fake relics abounded during the Middle Ages—but evidence for authenti...
|  | Sherlock Holmes and the Abbey School Mystery (Sherlock Holmes Mysteries (Breese))
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|  | Don't Know Jack
Publication Date: June 14, 2012"Full of thrills and tension, but smart and human, too. Kim Otto is a great, great character. I love her!" - LEE CHILD - #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF JACK REACHER THRILLERS Jack Reacher: Friend or Enemy? It's been a while since we first met Lee Child's Jack Reacher in Killing Floor. Fifteen years and sixteen novels later, Reacher still lives off the grid, until trouble finds him, and then he does whatever it takes, much to the delight of readers and the dismay of villains. Now someone big is looking for him. Who? And why?Hunting Jack Reacher is a dan...
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|  | Gun History & Development (Gun Education and Safety)
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