 | Midnight: A Gangster Love Story
Release Date: September 28, 2010A fierce fighter with heart and a powerful mind, Midnight is willing to do anything to defend his family, the women he loves, and his business and property. In this riveting prequel to her urban classic, The Coldest Winter Ever, Sister Souljah reintroduces readers to Ricky Santiago’s strong, humble, and dangerously attractive lieutenant. The intricate storytelling in this passionate tale of love, loyalty, strength, and survival will sweep readers from the wealthy North African estate of Midnight’s father to the complicated challenges and confrontat...
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|  | Front Porch Princess: Pritchett Series #1 (Life, Faith & Getting It Right #11) (Steeple Hill Cafe)
Publication Date: March 1, 2006A Wisconsin woman prepares for a Christian beauty pageant while dealing with her best friend's secrets and watching her teenage daughter follow in her footsteps by falling for a local boy. Original. ...
|  | The Penny: A Novel
Publication Date: April 10, 2008Jenny Blake has a theory about life: big decisions often don't amount to much, but little decisions sometimes transform everything. Her theory proves true the summer of 1955, when 14-year-old Jenny makes the decision to pick up a penny imbedded in asphalt, and consequently ends up stopping a robbery, getting a job, and meeting a friend who changes her life forever.Jenny and Miss Shaw form a friendship that dares both of them to confront secrets in their pasts--secrets that threaten to destroy them. Jenny helps Miss Shaw open up to the community around her, whi...
|  | Heart Divided, A: A Novel (Heart of the Rockies)
Publication Date: May 1, 2011| Series: Heart of the Rockies (Book 1) It is 1878 and the Caldwells and Wainwrights have been feuding for decades. Still, Sarah Caldwell has misgivings when her father pressures her into distracting a ranch hand while he and her brothers rob the Wainwright place. When it becomes clear that hand is actually Cord Wainwright, Sarah realizes she needs to lay low. But Cord spots her in town and, with the sheriff away, makes a citizen's arrest, dragging her off to the Wainwright ranch until the sheriff's return. As the feud boils over, Cord and Sarah make a most incon...
|  | Kiss of the Vampire (Mercer Mayer's LC + the Critter Kids)
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|  | The Golfer's Fairway of Verses
Publication Date: December 29, 2003"The golfer's Fairway of Verses" is a litany of descriptions of the character traits and golf swing foibles of close friends and family, all amusing and light hearted. It also uses the tunes of familiar songs including ballads, folk songs, and country songs. As a result the reader is permitted to combine his appreciation of familiar music with his love for the game of golf. Further, the golfers described in "The Golfers Fairway of Verses" as typical of all golfers and once more the reader will get much pleasure as he reads the tome of thinking of someo...
|  | Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics, 1627-1660
Publication Date: January 28, 2000This magisterial new history of seventeenth-century republican political culture sets key texts by Marvell and Milton in a richly detailed context, showing how writers reimagined English literary culture without kingship. The book draws on extensive archival research, bringing to light exciting and neglected manuscript and printed sources. Offering a bold new narrative of the whole period, and a timely reminder that England has a republican as well as a royalist heritage, it will be of compelling interest to historians as well as literary scholars. ...
|  | Statius: Thebaid, Books 8-12. Achilleid (Loeb Classical Library No. 498) (Bk. 8-12) (English and Latin Edition)
Publication Date: February 17, 2004| ISBN-10: 0674012097 | ISBN-13: 978-0674012097Statius published his Thebaid in the last decade of the first century. This epic recounting the struggle between the two sons of Oedipus for the kingship of Thebes is his masterpiece, a stirring exploration of the passions of civil war. The extant portion of his unfinished Achilleid is strikingly different in tone: this second epic begins as a charming account of Achilles' life. Statius was raised in the Greek cultural milieu of the Bay of Naples, and his Greek literary education is reflected in his poetry....
|  | Voyage of the Arctic Tern
Publication Date: June 2, 2003Things happen here in Plymouth in the winter And of such things you'd surely never learn. So take your seat and listen while I tell you Of Bruno and his ship, The Arctic Tern...The Voyage of The Arctic Tern is a classic tale of treason, treachery and treasure, sweeping across many centuries and different lands, from Scandinavia to Spain to the south-west of England. At its heart is the ship's skipper, Bruno, cursed to a life of eternal wandering in a moment of greed and betrayal. His quest for release brings him to the court of the King of Spain and a battle wit...
|  | Adolescence Clementine (Poesie/Gallimard) (French Edition)
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|  | The Mechanic Muse
Publication Date: November 27, 1986One of America's most celebrated critics here brings his customary wit and erudition to bear on a particularly provocative theme:the response of literary Modernism to a changing environment wrought by technology.In the early decades of the twentieth century, Hugh Kenner, observes, technology "tended to engulf people gradually, coercing behavior they were not aware of."The Modernist writers were sensitive to technological change, however, and throughout their works are reflections of this fact.Kenner shows, for example, how Eliot's lines "One thinks of all t...
|  | LEGO City: Fire Truck to the Rescue (Level 1): Fire Truck To The Rescue!
Publication Date: April 15, 2009| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Jack and the Beanstalk : Faith as a Seed
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|  | The Hiccoughing Dragon
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|  | Go To Sleep, Gecko!: A Balinese Folktale
Publication Date: June 8, 2006| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up We have all had nights when we could not get to sleep. We try counting sheep, drinking warm milk, or having a hot toddy. All Gecko wants is to go to sleep. If only the chief would make everyone pipe down! In this story we learn, as does Gecko, that there are some things you just have to put up with. ...
|  | The Baker's Dozen
Publication Date: August 27, 1993| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
| | Windsurfing (Adventurers)
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|  | On a Wintry Morning
Release Date: December 30, 2002| Age Level: 2 and up Daddy take the baby out. Take your bonny baby out. Show the baby all about, On a wintry morning. With a lilting text and glowing illustrations, this beautiful picture book captures all the joy of a winter outing for a father and his young daughter. The trip includes making snow angels, spotting animal tracks, and even visiting the market to buy a new puppy. Then, it's back home again for a cozy nap. Warm and tender, this is an ideal way to celebrate the special bond between parent and child. ...
|  | Top 10 American Women Sprinters (Sports Top 10)
Publication Date: June 1998| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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