 | Sick Puppy
Release Date: January 4, 2000When Palmer Stoat notices the black pickup truck following him on the highway, he fears his precious Range Rover is about to be carjacked. But Twilly Spree, the man tailing Stoat, has vengeance, not sport-utility vehicles, on his mind. Idealistic, independently wealthy and pathologically short-tempered, Twilly has dedicated himself to saving Florida's wilderness from runaway destruction. He favors unambiguous political statements -- such as torching Jet-Skis or blowing up banks -- that leave his human targets shaken but re-educated.After watching Stoat blithely d...
 |  | Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution
Publication Date: October 5, 2007Female spoken word artists have become the spokeswomen for a new generation. This demanding oral poetry of the early 21st century has defined a vanguard of lithely muscled voices; women who think and act decisively to create their distinctive and desperately earned realities. The combination of the eminent slam movement and the upsurge of bold underground feminism has created a unique pool of women who verbally challenge society on all fronts.Editor Alix Olson (internationally touring spoken word artist-activist) brought together a variety of astounding spoke...
|  | Death and Honor (Honor Bound)
Release Date: May 26, 2009| Series: Honor Bound In 1943, Argentina Marine pilotturned- agent Cletus Frade is setting up an OSS-operated airline. But before Frade can get airborne, two interwoven German operations must be grounded. And for Frade-whose father was killed by the Nazis-the mission is about to get personal. ...
|  | Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
Release Date: January 12, 1985"A passionately felt, deeply poetic book. It has philosophy. It has humor. It has its share of nerve-tingling adventures...set down in a lean, racing prose, in a close-knit style of power and beauty."THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOKREVIEWEdward Abbey lived for three seasons in the desert at Moab, Utah, and what he discovered about the land before him, the world around him, and the heart that beat within, is a fascinating, sometimes raucous, always personal account of a place that has already disappeared, but is worth remembering and living through again and aga...
|  | Remind Me Again Why I Need A Man
Release Date: May 1, 2007 Amelia Lockwood doesn't mean to sound greedy. She's got a fabulous career in television, a posh apartment, and four fiercely loyal and wickedly funny friends. The only thing she's missing is a husband. So she swallows her pride, signs up for dating boot camp, and enlists the help of a professional—an acidic New Yorker with a black belt in "tongue fu"—who'll help Amelia apply proven business-marketing principles to finding her dream man. Amelia's first assignment is to track down all the lovers she's ever lost—from the guy who dumped her during L...
|  | Dancing with Joy: 99 Poems
Release Date: March 13, 2007In his collection Risking Everything, Housden addressed love’s many aspects. Now, in Dancing with Joy, he assembles 99 poems from 69 poets that celebrate the many colors of joy. Anything can be a catalyst for joy, these poems reveal. For Wislawa Szymborska, the catalyst is a dream; for Robert Bly, being in the company of his ten-year-old son; for Gerald Stern, it is a grapefruit at breakfast; for Billy Collins, a cigarette. Dancing with Joy includes English and Italian classical and romantic works; early Chinese and Persian verse; and poets from Chile, Fran...
|  | Asian Poets (Critical Survey of Poetry, Fourth Edition)
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|  | Gallery: A Selection (Salt Modern Poets S.)
Publication Date: July 1, 2003| Series: Salt Modern Poets S. With the publication of Shoot in 1999, Mark Pirie established himself as one of the most promising of the younger New Zealand poets. Gallery brings together the best of Pirie’s early work from his first five books published in New Zealand. ...
|  | Days
Publication Date: September 1, 2008| ISBN-10: 9780810676 | ISBN-13: 978-9780810672A new collection of poetry from one of Africa's great contemporary poets. A multi-award winner, Niyi Osundare presents the poems in three parts. "Children of the Week" presents poems for each day of the week - positing what are the real names of the children of the week? What are their peculiar characteristics and inclinations? What do they do to the passing of time? What dust is raised by their fleeting feet? And how do they manage their caravan of moments? In this unusual drama, every day is a character, ...
|  | Teaching the African Novel (Options for Teaching) (In the MLA Series Options for Teaching)
Publication Date: December 31, 2009| ISBN-10: 1603290389 | ISBN-13: 978-1603290388What is the African novel, and how should it be taught?The twenty-three essays of this volume address these two questions and in the process convey a wealth of information and ideas about the diverse regions, peoples, nations, languages, and writers of the African continent.The volume editor, Gaurav Desai, writes, "The point of the volume is to encourage a reading of Africa that is sensitive to its history of colonization but at the same time responsive to its present multiracial and multicultural condition...
|  | Beyond the Postmodern Mind: The Place of Meaning in a Global Civilization
Publication Date: July 25, 2003This new edition of acclaimed essays explores sea changes in the relationship between religion and science over the course of Western culture and suggest possible breakthroughs toward reaching an enlightened consciousness. ...
|  | The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad (The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Joseph Conrad) (Volume 6)
Publication Date: March 10, 2003| ISBN-10: 0521561957 | ISBN-13: 978-0521561952| Edition: Cambridge Ed This volume presents all known Conrad letters from the years 1917-1919 (many of them published for the first time) in a framework highlighting their literary, historical, cultural, and biographical significance. His correspondence reveals his state of mind as he and his family dealt with the anxieties of the war time years, and the return to a fragile peace. During this time, Conrad published The Shadow-Line, The Arrow of Gold, and The Rescue, along with a considerable amount of shorter...
|  | Phantom: An Alex Hawke Novel (Alexander Hawke)
Release Date: March 20, 2012| Series: Alexander HawkeCounterspy Alex Hawke must catch a villainous megalomaniac—a man obsessed with horrifying experiments in cyberwarfare—in this mesmerizing new espionage thriller in Ted Bell's New York Times bestselling series The first and most bizarre event nearly becomes a monumental catastrophe when something goes awry at an American theme park, wreaking havoc on visitors looking for nothing more than a sun-splashed holiday. In a different part of the country, a USAF F-15 pilot, escorting another jet in the skies over the Midwest, inexplic...
|  | Cat Crimes I, II, III
Publication Date: August 1998Three volumes of cat tales in one. Like footsteps in an empty alley, or screams in the dead of night, cats and mystery fit purr-fectly together. Here, from the pens of today's most prolific, popular, and feline-fancying mystery writers, comes the ultimate collection of Cat Crime stories, combining the first three collections of this successful series into one thick volume to cuddle in your lap. ...
|  | The Lost Hero (Heroes of Olympus, Book 1)
Release Date: April 3, 2012| Age Level: 10 and up...
|  | Deeper (Tunnels Book 2)
Publication Date: January 1, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up Now in paperback, the New York Times Bestselling sequel to TUNNELS, with bonus materials and a sneak peek at the third book in the series!In TUNNELS, boy archaeologist Will Burrows went in search of his missing father--and discovered a sinister subterranean world. Now, wandering the dark, hot bowels beneath the Colony with his best friend, Chester, and his brother, Cal, Will stumbles across the Styx's dastardly plan to enslave all Topsoilers by poisoning them with a lethal toxin. Slowly he begins to piece together the plot. But how can W...
|  | The Late Bus (Night Fall (Quality))
Publication Date: October 1, 2011| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up...
|  | The First Night
Release Date: September 4, 2008| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up With utter simplicity, the story of Jesus?s birth is recounted in this exquisite book. It frames the first few hours of his life?before the angels, the shepherds, and the kings?when this baby seemed like any other baby. The spare, moving text and luminous illustrations combine to create a sense of mystery and wonder that will captivate children and adults alike. ...
|  | Little Lion (Look at Me Books)
Release Date: April 1, 2012 ...
|  | Let's Look at Dinosaurs (Let's Look At...(Candlewick Press))
Release Date: June 14, 2011| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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