 | The Alchemist
Release Date: April 25, 2006"My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky." Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams." The Alchemist is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the al...
 |  | Plays by American Women: 1900-1930
Release Date: May 1, 2000(Applause Books). Includes: Rachel Crothers'A Man's World ; Susan Glaspell'sTrifles ; Georgia Douglas Johnson'sPlumes ; Sophie Treadwell'sMachinal , Zona Gale'sMiss Lulu Bett . ...
|  | A Kingsbury Collection: Three Novels in One: Where Yesterday Lives, When Joy Came to Stay, On Every Side
Release Date: October 2, 2012Three Page-Turning Novels in One Volume! Where Yesterday Lives Ellen Barrett is a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist with an uncertain marriage, a forgotten faith, and haunting memories of her picturesque hometown and the love she left behind. The eldest of five siblings, she longs for the time, long ago, when they were a happy family. Now Ellen’s beloved father is dead, and she returns to her childhood home to make peace–with the people who still live there, with the losses and changes that time has wrought, and with the future God has set before her....
|  | Black Betty (Easy Rawlins Mysteries)
Publication Date: July 19, 2002| Series: Easy Rawlins Mysteries Los Angeles, 1961. Kennedy is in the White House and King is marching down South. It's a new day for many blacks in America - but not for Easy Rawlins.Easy's small real estate empire is in trouble and he is facing bankruptcy when Saul Lynx, an oily white private eye, offers him $200 to track down on Elizabeth Eady, a.k.a. "Black Betty." The sensuous Betty was a housekeeper for an immensely wealthy Beverly Hills family - but now has mysteriously disappeared.Easy takes the job, but he also has to deal with his murderous sidekick M...
|  | Three Maids for a Crown: A Novel of the Grey Sisters
Release Date: August 2, 2011| Series: The Grey Sisters In the second novel from Ella March Chase, we meet sixteen-year-old Jane Grey, a quiet and obedient young lady destined to become the shortest reigning English monarch. Her beautiful middle sister Katherine Grey charms all the right people--until loyalties shift. And finally Lady Mary Grey, a dwarf with a twisted spine whose goal is simply to protect people she loves--but at a terrible cost. In an age in which begetting sons was all that mattered and queens rose and fell on the sex of their child, these three girls with royal Tudo...
|  | Dot in The Universe: A Novel
Publication Date: February 21, 2004It's your worst nightmare: instead of being dead, you're alive!Dot thinks she's perfect, with her blond hair, pointy nose, and pink skin. She lives on the east coast of England with her magnificent hubby, cooking him gourmet meals and crashing the car. So one day she decides to End It All. But-Dot BLOWS it!After a brief sojourn in the underworld (populated by "underaged, underdeveloped underlings all, understated in their undershirts and UNDERSTANDING VERY LITTLE"), Dot is reincarnated, first as a possum, and then as a girl in Ohio. A hilarious and poignant...
|  | Somerset including Bath: Volume 1:The Records; Volume 2: Editorial Apparatus (Records of Early English Drama)
Publication Date: October 31, 1996| ISBN-10: 0802004598 | ISBN-13: 978-0802004598| Edition: 1 Somerset is a large, diverse county in southwest England, bordered by Devon, Dorset, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, and the Bristol Channel. Before the onset of the Reformation in 1532 Somerset became prosperous as its agriculture, industries,and coastal trade all flourished in the relative cultural stability and coherence that characterized that earlier period. By the start of the Civil War in 1642, the unified culture present in the 1530s had given way to a fragmented society. Those conflicts and...
|  | El medico de su honra (Clasicos Castalia) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: October 15, 2010El medico de su honra es un drama inquietante y perturbador. Hace cien anos, a Menendez y Pelayo le turbaba lo que el escribio como falsedad moral del pensamiento. Aplaudio muchos aspectos de este drama, pero solo despues de hacer constar su animadversion hacia la sugerencia de Calderon (segun el creia) de que una esposa inocente debiera morir para preservar el honor del marido. La critica de los ultimos anos ha comenzado a analizar esta obra de una manera diferente, a traves de sus metaforas y simbolos, entre los cuales figura prominentemente la medicina. J...
| | In Quest of Marie De France: A Twelfth-Century Poet (Medieval and Renaissance Series)
Publication Date: September 1992| ISBN-10: 077349586X | ISBN-13: 978-0773495869These essays treat a variety of aspects of Marie's production; the poet's voice, the moods of her original audience, the beauty and significance of the works' intellectual or emotional appeal, and their sexual and textual politics. ...
|  | Rain on the River
Publication Date: March 28, 2002Jim Dodge said he would consider publishing a volume of poetry if he lived to the millennium. Happily he did, and Rain on the River is the immediate result - work selected from his Tangram chapbooks, broadsides, and Solstice pieces, accompanied by three dozen new poems.If you've enjoyed his fiction, Dodge's first collection of poems and short prose offer similar pleasures: a splendid ear for language, great emotional range and subtlety, a sharp eye for the illuminating detail, and a sensibility that encompasses outright hilarity, savage wit, and tender marvel ...
| | Trio Poetry: No. 1
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|  | A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from
Publication Date: March 19, 2009This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition. --This ...
|  | The Complete Sherlock Holmes-(3 Books) (Chinese Edition)
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|  | Butt Wars: The Final Conflict (Andy Griffiths' Butt)
Publication Date: December 1, 2005| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Daniel X: Game Over
Release Date: June 5, 2012| Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | The Muppets: Miss Piggy in the Spotlight (Passport to Reading Level 3)
Publication Date: April 3, 2012| Grade Level: P and up...
Kermit announces that there is a big new star coming for the show! Miss Piggy tries to get more details out of him ...
--> |  | Reducing Your Foodprint: Farming, Cooking, and Eating for a Healthy Planet (Energy Revolution)
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|  | A Winning Attitude: The Olympic Sport of Gymnastics (Inspiring Athletes Non-Fiction)
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| | Tennis! (Wee Venture Books)
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|  | Half Magic: Fiftieth-Anniversary Edition
Publication Date: October 1, 2004| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Edward Eager's hilarious and heartwarming Half Magic has been working wizardry on young readers for fifty years. To celebrate the golden anniversary of this enduringly popular story, a deluxe edition of the book has been created. It features the original jacket and a new introduction by Jack Gantos, the award-winning author of Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key. ...
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