 | Paw Prints in the Stars: A Farewell and Journal for a Beloved Pet
Publication Date: October 15, 2008Paw Prints in the Stars was created to help one deal with the loss of a beloved pet. The book is written in the voice of the pet that has passed and brings peace and comfort while celebrating life and the lessons learned. There is a place for treasured photos and journal pages for favorite memories as well as a special ribbon to hold collar tags. ...
 |  | ReGeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow
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|  | Car Talk: The Greatest Stories Ever Told: Once Upon a Car Fire . . .
Release Date: October 1, 2006| Series: Car Talk You decide to waste another perfectly good hour getting bogus car advice from the Car Talk guys when what should happen but some remark from the caller launches either Tom or Ray off topic and onto a story about The Sleek Black Beauty, their most recent wife, or their days at MIT. ...
|  | Devil's Eye
Publication Date: December 15, 2010An evil cult, spawned long ago in the desert wilderness of Egypt, has realized its goal.The people of the United States have been gifted with the presence of the Devil's Eye. It pulsated an ancient curse.An infiltrator has risen to the highest levels of society to bring about the collapse of the American way of life.Colonel Christopher Caine is a commando in the ultra-secret Omega Group, tasked to prevent the theft of nuclear weapons and ferret out world terrorists.Dr. Laura Mitchell, a brilliant and seductive professor of French History, is versed through ...
|  | Clutch
Publication Date: December 31, 2009It has healed generations after times of war and throughout the depression. In more recent years, America's pastime has lost its prestige. Even so, baseball is still one of the most popular sports among youth all over the world. These kids don't care about contracts and don't cheat to be better at baseball. They still dream about playing for their favorite team. Zeke Morgan had the same dream. He and his best friend, Ronnie, dreamed of playing on the same diamond in the pros throughout their childhood. After a falling out and after fielding many of life's c...
|  | Pericles on Stage: Political Comedy in Aristophanes' Early Plays
Publication Date: January 1997Since the eighteenth century, classical scholars have generally agreed that the Greek playwright Aristophanes did not as a matter of course write "political" plays. Yet, according to an anonymous Life of Aristophanes, when Dionysius the tyrant of Syracuse wanted to know about the government of Athens, Plato sent him a copy of Aristophanes' Clouds. In this boldly revisionist work, Michael Vickers convincingly argues that in his earlier plays, Aristophanes in fact commented on the day-to-day political concerns of Athenians. Vickers reads the first six of Aristopha...
|  | Brecht's Poetry: A Critical Study (Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs)
Publication Date: November 14, 1985| ISBN-10: 0198155417 | ISBN-13: 978-0198155416| Edition: 1St Edition This is the first comprehensive, critical survey of Brecht's poetry, from its beginnings in World War I to the 1950's, to appear in either English or German.Offering a new perspective on the poet's work, it draws on the most current publications and on unpublished archival material to relate the poems to Brecht's other writings and to st them in historical context.Individual texts-many not previously discussed elsewhere-are anlyzed and many earlier readings of well known poems are rea...
|  | Divine Comedy: Journeys Through a Regional Geography: Three New Works
Publication Date: September 17, 2008A three-part, epic work challenging ournotions about the environmentby Australia’s preeminentpoet of the natural world.Consisting of Purgatorio: Up Close,Paradiso: Rupture,and Inferno:Leisure Centre, JohnKinsella's"distractions" on Dante's Divine Comedyjourney through time andspace. Setin a wheat-belt Western Australia, thesepoemsare a phantasmagoria ofthe realandimagined, depicting nature in its full regalia,resisting forces ofenvironmental damage and human indifference. ...
|  | Philip's Phoenix: Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke
Publication Date: January 18, 1990| ISBN-10: 0195057791 | ISBN-13: 978-0195057799| Edition: 1St Edition In contrast to previous studies that have portrayed Mary Sidney as a demure, retiring woman, this biography shows that she was actually an outspoken and dynamic figure. Basing her work on primary sources including account books, legal documents, diaries, and family letters, Hannay shows that Sidney was a vibrant, eloquent, self-assertive woman who was deeply involved in Protestant politics.Although she did confine her writings to appropriately feminine genres, she called herself "Siste...
|  | Ballads of the Lords of New Spain: The Codex Romances de los Senores de la Nueva Espana (William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere)
Publication Date: May 1, 2010| ISBN-10: 0292723458 | ISBN-13: 978-0292723450| Edition: 1 Compiled in 1582, Ballads of the Lords of New Spain is one of the two principal sources of Nahuatl song, as well as a poetical window into the mindset of the Aztec people some sixty years after the conquest of Mexico. Presented as a cancionero, or anthology, in the mode of New Spain, the ballads show a reordering--but not an abandonment--of classic Aztec values. In the careful reading of John Bierhorst, the ballads reveal in no uncertain terms the pre-conquest Aztec belief in the warrior's paradise a...
|  | La Bahia Azul/ Chesapeake Blue (Chesapeake Bay) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: July 30, 2006 ...
|  | The Wishing Chalice (Berkley Sensation)
Release Date: February 3, 2004| Series: Berkley Sensation Isabel journeyed to England to escape her failed marriage. But what she found instead was a portal to the past--and possibly the key to her future.Transported back in time, and into the body of a beautiful woman, she cannot deny her growing attraction to her 'husband' Hunter.Nor can they ignore the danger surrounding them, which they must confront--before tragedy strikes. ...
|  | Jedidiah Boone
Publication Date: December 2002Army scout, Indian fighter, bounty hunter, and great nephew of the legendary frontiersman, Daniel Boone, Jedidiah hung up his guns and retired to his mountain hideaway.But an Apache massacre and the kidnapping of two young girls changed all that.Jedidiah will need all his skills and more as he battles the harsh elements of the vast New Mexico desert, and the warriors of the Apache, in a desperate attempt to rescue the captive girls before it is too late.Read by Gene Engene.6 CDs 6 Hrs. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition....
|  | Fugitive: A Novel
Release Date: June 2, 2009 Amanda Jaffe, the heroine of Wild Justice and Proof Positive, is back—in this twisting tale of international intrigue and murder that leads her deep into the past . . . and into the crosshairs of a killer. Charlie Marsh, a petty thief and con man, becomes a national hero when he rescues the warden of a state penitentiary during a prison riot, but it doesn't take long before he is wanted again, suspected of killing a United States congressman. After twelve years of living in the African nation of Batanga, at the mercy of Jean-Claude Baptiste, a sadistic, pow...
|  | Hide My Eyes: Albert Campion #16
Publication Date: November 16, 2010| Series: Albert Campion (Book 16) Returning to the darker themes of Tiger in the Smoke, Allingham introduces a serial killer who is haunting London's Theatreland. The sparring between Sergeant Luke (who thinks he's got the case sewn up) and Albert Campion (who wonders what the old couple on the bus saw) is sparkling as ever, but readers will note that Allingham was shifting toward psychological themes that put her in the company of Ruth Rendell and Patricia Highsmith. ...
|  | The Case of the Reluctant Agent: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
Publication Date: September 2001It is 1917 and the Great War has been raging for three long years. Mycroft Holmes grows suspicious of one of his agents who reports back to him from the heart of the Ottoman Empire: Constantinople. Naturally, he wants to send out a man to investigate--one who knows the area, the language, the people, and has an exemplary war service record, including a fourteen-month stint posing as a German officer at the High Command in Berlin. But Sherlock Holmes proves to be, for once, stubbornly reluctant to fulfill his older brother's request. ...
|  | Lazy Jack
Release Date: October 1, 2002| Age Level: 3 and up A mournful princess sits at her castle window. Meanwhile, Jack, probably the laziest person in the world, is sent out to work by his mother. On his first day he is paid a shiny coin, but he drops it on the way home. "You should have put it in your jacket pocket!" cries his mother. So the next day, having worked for a dairyman, he pours the jug of milk he is given in payment into his jacket pocket! In fact, he always follows his mother's most recent advice when bringing home his day's earnings, and it results in the most ridiculous scenarios....
|  | New Orleans Saints 101 (101: My First Team-Board-Book)
Publication Date: September 7, 2010 ...
|  | The Official Manchester United Activity Book
Publication Date: August 1, 2001| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up This activity book for the young soccer fan includes stickers, word searches, crosswords, trivia, and much more. ...
|  | Chicken Socks Make Your Own Tiaras Activity Book
Publication Date: May 15, 2005| Age Level: 4 and up...
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