 | Texts and Lessons for Content-Area Reading: With More Than 75 Articles from The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, Car and Driver, Chicago Tribune, and Many Others
Publication Date: February 1, 2011| ISBN-10: 0325030871 | ISBN-13: 978-0325030876"To have any hope of kids investing fully in the subject matter, we have to start by evoking their curiosity and get them interested in the topic.Engaging the students can't wait.If we wait for the fun stuff that might pop up later, the kids will have already jumped ship." -Harvey "Smokey" Daniels and Nancy SteinekeToday we're all expected to be "teachers of reading"-no matter what our subjectarea. With Texts and Lessons for Content-Area Reading, Harvey "Smokey" Daniels and Nancy Steineke support content-a...
 |  | The Carousel
Release Date: October 2, 2001This is the love story of Michael Keddington and Faye Murrow, a love story that takes place not in seclusion but in the real world, with the challenges that all lovers must face. No relationship is an island: There are threads that bind us all and pull at our lives -- the demands of family, of friends, of work, and social obligation. And there are times that the pull of those threads becomes greater than the strength of the relationship. In these times, no matter how much two people love each other, a relationship must grow strong or be torn apart.The Carousel ...
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|  | Dreaming Maples
Publication Date: April 2002| ISBN-10: 0971718016 | ISBN-13: 978-0971718012| Edition: First Edition A baby born under a Renoir painting at an art museum?That's one ofthe climactic scenes from Dreaming Maples, a mother/daughter storythat follows bohemian artist Candace Burdett as she attempts to provea point: that she can do a better job as a mother than her own mother,Eileen. But despite her good intentions, adolescent Candace quicklylearns a lesson: she has more of her mother inside her than she caresto admit.Nominated for a Pushcart Prize, this mesmerizing firstnovel weaves Candace's h...
|  | A Texan's Honor: The Heart of a Hero Book #2
Publication Date: March 2012| Series: Heart of a Hero (Book 2) Texas, 1874. Years ago, Will McMillan had fought in the open, next to his Captain, Clayton Proffitt. Now, in book 2 of The Heart of a Hero series, he’s waging another war undercover, pretending to be a member of the notorious Walton Gang. But when a hostage situation goes awry and an innocent woman is in the middle of the fray, Will knows he must protect her no matter what happens. Even if they risk being killed by his gang or by the lawmen on their trail. Even if the woman he’s risking e...
|  | Untold
Publication Date: April 1, 2006Besieged by depraved creatures and spiritual apathy, the fantasy kingdom of New Geniss stands at the twilight of destruction. Only a lost boy possesses the key to unlocking their salvation. ...
|  | Ritual
Publication Date: October 1, 2011It was the dead thing they found hanging from a tree that changed the trip beyond recognition. When four old University friends set off into the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic Circle, they aim to briefly escape the problems of their lives and reconnect. But when Luke, the only man still single and living a precarious existence, finds he has little left in common with his well-heeled friends, tensions rise. A shortcut meant to ease their hike turns into a nightmare scenario that could cost them their lives. Lost, hungry, and surrounded by forest untouch...
|  | Devil's Dream: A Novel About Nathan Bedford Forrest
Release Date: November 3, 2009From the author of All Souls’ Rising which The Washington Post called “A serious historical novel that reads like a dream,” comes a powerful new novel about Nathan Bedford Forrest, the most reviled, celebrated, and legendary, of Civil War generals. With the same eloquence, dramatic energy, and grasp of history that marked his previous works, Madison Smartt Bell gives us a wholly new vantage point from which to view this complicated American figure.Considered a rogue by the upper ranks of the Confederate Army, who did not properly use his tal...
|  | The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets
Publication Date: November 1, 1999| Series: BelknapHelen Vendler, widely regarded as our most accomplished interpreter of poetry, here serves as an incomparable guide to some of the best-loved poems in the English language.In detailed commentaries on Shakespeare's 154 sonnets, Vendler reveals previously unperceived imaginative and stylistic features of the poems, pointing out not only new levels of import in particular lines, but also the ways in which the four parts of each sonnet work together to enact emotion and create dynamic effect. The commentaries--presented alongside the origina...
|  | Baudelaire Mallarmé and Valéry: New Essays in Honour of Lloyd Austin
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|  | 1,000 Years of Irish Poetry
Publication Date: April 1, 1999The most comprehensive single-volume collections of Irishpoetry. Contains all of Ireland's great poetic voices from theanonymous fashioners of the Cuchulain cycle to Yeats and the greatIrish poets of this century. ...
|  | Reviews and Essays of Austin Clarke
Publication Date: September 26, 1995| ISBN-10: 0861403371 | ISBN-13: 978-0861403370Austin Clarke is widely regarded as one of 20th-century Ireland's most important poets.In this selection of nearly fifty essays and reviews written over Clarke's long career, he demonstrates that he is an astute and provocative literary critic as well.Having grown up in Dublin when the excitement of the Irish Literary Revival was still running high, Clarke knew many of the principal figures of that movement personally, and his readings of Yeats, Joyce, Synge, O'Casey, Lady Gregory, George Moore, and others...
|  | Comparative Criticism: Volume 24, Fantastic Currencies in Comparative Literature: Gothic to Postmodern
Publication Date: February 24, 2003| ISBN-10: 0521818699 | ISBN-13: 978-0521818698Comparative Criticism addresses itself to questions of literary theory and criticism. Articles in this volume include: 'Credit Limit: Fiction and the Surplus of Belief;' 'In Possession: Person, Money and Exchange from 'Daphnis and Chloe' to 'Roger Ackroyd;' 'Christopher Marlowe: Iron and Gold;' 'Jan Potocki and His Polish Milieu: the Cultural Context;' 'The Comic Effect in the Manuscript found at Saragossa'. The winning entries in the 2001 BCLA/BCLT translation competition are listed in the Index to Volumes...
|  | The Beckford Painting
Release Date: April 16, 2007Elizabeth Beckford is finished with Los Angeles, hope, and love. She escapes to New Orleans, accepting a strange job offer from The Louisiana Historical Society, inventorying the multimillion-dollar estate of an obscure dead relative. However, someone doesn’t want her in New Orleans and her new employer is full of suspects. Even Charles Fabray, the Hollywood handsome estate attorney, is not above suspicion. Single and sexy, Charles pursues her. Can she learn to love again? While searching the attic of the two-hundred-year-old mansion in the Garden District, s...
|  | The Fallen and the Pure: Salem Moon (Volume 2)
Publication Date: March 29, 2012Volume # 2:In the exciting conclusion to Salem Moon, Gabriel is torn apart by guilt when he learns what became of his family over three hundred years ago.He has to go back to Salem, 1692. Hating himself for having to leave his beloved Lily and needing the help of the Fallen Angel Lucien once more, he knows he must do the right thing. When he leaves, there is no trace of him ever being in present day Salem. Lily knows she’s a powerful sorceress, capable of going after him, but fears she may not be able to control her abilities. Yet, her heart is breaking...
|  | A Flush of Shadows: Five Short Novels
Publication Date: June 1995A collection of the shorter cases of Constance Leidl and Charlie Meiklejohn, the husband-and-wife detective team, includes ""With Thimbles, with Forks, and Hope,"" ""Torch Song,"" ""All for One,"" ""Sister Angel,"" and ""The Gorgon Field."" ...
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|  | Racing Against the Odds: The Story of Wendell Scott, Stock Car Racing's African-American Champion
Publication Date: October 20, 2009| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1st and up Wendell O. Scott made history as the only black driver to win a race in a NASCAR Grand National (now Spring Cup) division. Born in Danville, Virginia, he scrimped and saved to buy his first car, a Model T, at age fourteen. Although he "loved to turn the wheel of a racecar, work magic on an engine, and then push it faster than it was ever meant to go," he never had the resources or sponsorship to buy a brand-new racecar. Using secondhand Fords that he fixed up in his garage, he competed in five hundred races in ...
|  | Glitter Nutcracker Ballet Stickers (Dover Little Activity Books Stickers)
Publication Date: April 26, 2005| Age Level: 3 and up...
|  | The Father Brown Reader II: More Stories from Chesterton
Publication Date: November 10, 2010Sequel to the popular Father Brown Reader: Stories from Chesterton. Includes adaptations for young readers of four of Chesterton's Father Brown murder mysteries: The Inivisible Man, The Mirror of the Magistrate, The Eye of Apollo, and The Perishing Pendragons. In these stories, the notorious criminal Flambeau has reformed and is now a great detective. He is often aided by his friend and confidant Father Brown. ...
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