 | Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains
Publication Date: April 15, 2002Charles A. Eastman, a Santee Sioux, was four years old at the time of the 1862 Sioux Uprising in Minnesota. Separated from his father in the aftermath of the rebellion, he spent eleven years with relatives in Canada before being reunited with him and taken to Dakota Territory. Deeply influenced by his father who had been converted to Christianity, he likewise followed "the white man's trail," attending Dartmouth and, in 1890, becoming a government physician at the Pine Ridge Agency. His fame today rests on the eleven books he wrote, in which he attempted to co...
 |  | CyberQuest: The Complete Virtual Adventure
Publication Date: May 9, 2000| Age Level: 10 and up The year is 2096 A. D….following the Great Water Wars, the Earth is a hostile place and Christianity has been outlawed.Two classes of people have emerged; wealthy Technocrats and the poverty-stricken Plebots.In Old Newyork, hundreds of thousands live no better than animals.The World Government is about to reclaim these slums by emptying them with a heat bomb, but a secret resistance committee has a plan to stop the slaughter and bring hope.All they need is a hero.Enter Mok, a Plebot with knowledge of the "Galilee Man."This previously...
|  | A Blessed Big Day: Collected Christmas Poems
Publication Date: December 9, 2010A Blessed Big Day brings together morethan fifty years of Ralph Brown'sChristmas poems. These poems arisefrom a variety of places, cultures andcircumstances. But while the subjectmatter of these verses spans the globefrom villages of southern Pakistan tothe woods of Royalston, Massachusetts,and ranges across an emotional scalefrom exhilaration to deep pain, they allreflect the transcendent joy, faith andreverence of an author who knows Jesusas God Incarnate, and who can writewith confidence:If Christmas means what one can doOr is shaped by good health or cli...
|  | The Gospel of the Beloved Disciple
Publication Date: November 1997In this literary and religious tour de force, Carse daringly revives the ancient tradition of writing gospels to communicate the contemporary meaning of Jesus' life and teaching.This tradition resulted in dozens of gospels, such as the Gospel of Thomas, but died out when the Church closed the New Testament with its four official or "canonical" GospelsMatthew, Mark, Luke and John.This, then, is the first full, all-new gospel in 1,500 years.It is not yet another novel about Jesus, such as those by Nikos Kazantzakis and Norman Mailer, nor is it is a harmonizing of...
|  | Torrent: A Novel (River of Time Series)
Publication Date: September 1, 2011| Series: River of Time Series When Gabi and Lia finally learn to surf the river of time, they realize they must make hard choices about life and love in Torrent, the third and final book in the River of Time series. Gabi and Lia Betarrini have learned to control their time travel, and they return from medieval Italy to save their father from his tragic death in modern times. But love calls across the centuries, and the girls are determined to return forever—even though they know the Black Plague is advancing across Europe, claiming t...
|  | Carpe Corpus (Morganville Vampires)
Publication Date: September 14, 2009| Series: Morganville Vampires (Book 6) In the small college town of Morganville, vampires and humans lived in (relative) peace-until all the rules got rewritten when the evil vampire Bishop arrived, looking for the lost book of vampire secrets. He's kept a death grip on the town ever since. Now an underground resistance is brewing, and in order to contain it, Bishop must go to even greater lengths. He vows to obliterate the town and all its inhabitants-the living and the undead. Claire Danvers and her friends are the only ones who stand in his way. But ev...
|  | Scar Night
Release Date: December 26, 2006Suspended by chains over a seemingly bottomless abyss, the ancient city of Deepgate is home to a young angel, an assassin, and a psychotic murderer hungry for revenge—or redemption. But soon a shocking betrayal will unite all three in a desperate quest....The last of his line, Dill is descended from legendary Battle-archons who once defended the city. Forbidden to fly and untrained even to wield the great sword inherited from his forebears, he has become a figurehead for a dying tradition. Now he lives a sheltered existence in one of Deepgate’s crum...
|  | The Water Ghost and Others
Publication Date: September 8, 2009John Kendrick Bangs (1862 - 1922) was an American author and satirist.He created the fantasy story that places the plot wholly or partially in the afterlife.Bangs went to law school but left to become an associate editor of Life magazine.Bangs worked for several magazines before being appointed to Puck in 1903.Stories in this collection include The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall, The Spectre cook of Bangletop, The Speck on the Lens, A Midnight Visitor, A Quicksilver Cassandra, The Ghost club, A Psychical Prank, andThe Literary Remains of Thomas Bragdon. ...
|  | Necroscope 4: Deadspeak
Publication Date: November 15, 1992| Series: Necroscope A new vampire stalks the earth, and only Harry Keogh can defeat him!The silence of the grave is not silent at all. In their millions, the dead are screaming...but no one can hear them!Atop a perilous cliff, deep in the Balkan mountains, rises the castle of the Ferenczy. Once it was a stronghold of the Vamphyri...and now it will be so again, for Janos Ferenczy, vampire and black magician, has risen from his ages-long sleep. Powerful and evil, Janos conjures dead men and women into a semblance of life and subjects them to fiendish torture...
|  | The Jungle Books (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: February 1, 1990| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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|  | White Leaping Flame/Caoir Gheal Leumraich
Publication Date: November 28, 2011| ISBN-10: 184697190X | ISBN-13: 978-1846971907| Edition: Bilingual This Collected Works of Sorley MacLean brings together published poetry from MacLean's own edited volumes of poetry, poetry previously published in various magazines, literary journals and anthologies, and poetry which has never been published before. The poems will be given in their original Gaelic with English translations. The volume opens with a biographical summary of Maclean's childhood on Raasay, his life at university and war experiences, and examines MacLean's effect on Gaelic ...
|  | Never Play Leapfrog with a Unicorn
Publication Date: November 19, 2003Lady G wrote: Chapter after wonderful chapter. Youdid a great job on this book. And I know one thing for sure, I will hate to see it end.All in all a fantastic book. Way to go my friend. Shaotzuwrote: I must comment on the writing. Comedic writing is often the mostdifficult thing an author must do. Dialogue is in the top five. Combine the two and askan author to present comedic dialogue- it's not easy. I like the work you did here andthe timing was great. Keep up the entertainment. Kromagwrote: The whole story was great, you set the tone in the first few li...
|  | Chansons Des Trouveres (Ldp Let.Gothiq.) (French Edition)
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|  | Antologia poetica / Poetic Anthology (El Libro De Bolsillo) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Australian Poems-Somewhere in the Sea
Publication Date: October 9, 2010The sea, with its tremendous forces, is the thematic centerpiece in Tony Woodward's collection of vivid, powerful poems. Throughout these verses, the symbolism of the sea resonates and echoes Woodward's life.The poems chart a journey where the energy of the water has led, followed, and accompanied him on his quest of reflection and understanding.About the Author: Tony Woodward lives in Killcare Heights, Central Coast near Sydney, New South Wales.As a poet, he is inspired by loss, close relationships and his role as a husband and father.By way of his riveting ...
|  | Architecture in Britain: 1530-1830 (The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art)
Publication Date: September 10, 1989| ISBN-10: 0300058861 | ISBN-13: 978-0300058864| Edition: 9 The author charts the development of architectural theory and practice from Elizabeth I to George IV. Questions of style, technology, and the social framework are resolved as separable but always essential components of the building worlds. ...
|  | The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing
Publication Date: August 9, 2010“I don’t know why we do it. We must be crazy./Welcome, fellow poet.”—Richard HugoRichard Hugo, whom Carolyn Kizer called “one of the most passionate, energetic and honest poets living,” was that rare phenomenon—a distinguished poet who was also an inspiring teacher. The Triggering Town is Hugo’s classic collection of lectures, essays, and reflections, all “directed toward helping with that silly, absurd, maddening, futile, enormously rewarding activity: writing poems.” From pieces that inclu...
|  | W.I.T.C.H. Graphic Novel: The Power of Friendship - Book #1
Release Date: May 5, 2005| Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Recycled Crafts Box
Publication Date: March 1, 2004| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Corrugated Castle. Fancy Foil Fish Mobile. Paper Bead Bangles. Braided Rag Coasters. Old Shoe Flower Pots. Puppy Dog Sock Puppet. With a little imagination, just about anything we think of as trash can be transformed into an art project good enough to give as a gift or to keep and treasure yourself. Master crafter Laura C. Martin shows kids how to make art out of the paper, plastic, metal, and cloth we usually consign to the recycling bin or the garbage can.The way Martin sees it, just about everything around us hol...
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