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| | Matter of Spunk
Publication Date: September 1983When their family breaks up, Margery, her older sister, and their mother leave Atlanta for Hollywood and a new life among movie stars and the bohemian inhabitants of a theosophical colony. Sequel to "Whistle Down a Dark Lane." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Instant Prairie Family (Love Inspired Historical)
Publication Date: August 7, 2012| Series: Love Inspired Historical Will Hopkins's new housekeeper is the prettiest young woman he's ever seen—and that's the problem. Will thought Abigail Stewart would be a middle-aged matron well suited to hardscrabble prairie life. Even if his young sons are entranced by her wholesome kindness, his only option is to send Abby back east. For the sake of propriety…and his guarded heart.Answering the newspaper advertisement was Abby's chance of escape from her unhappy home. But now her employer has turned out to be a rugged widower in...
|  | Vagabond (The Grail Quest, Book 2)
Release Date: January 3, 2006 In 1347, a year of conflict and unrest, Thomas of Hookton returns to England to pursue the Holy Grail. Among the flames of the Hundred Years War, a sinister enemy awaits the fabled archer and mercenary soldier: a bloodthirsty Dominican Inquisitor who also seeks Christendom's most holy relic. But neither the horrors of the battlefield nor sadistic torture at the Inquisitor's hands can turn Thomas from his sworn mission. And his thirst for vengeance will never be quenched while the villainous black rider who destroyed everything he loved still lives. From intern...
|  | Death Rattle
Release Date: June 6, 2000With the end of the beaver trade at hand, free trappers like Titus Bass must somehow make their way on a changing frontier. Drawn by the promise of adventure and wealth, Bass joins an expedition to Spanish California, where the ranchos have horses and mules in abundance. Their plan is to steal the livestock and drive it back east across the great Mojave Desert to sell to fur traders for top dollar. But pursuit by formidable Mexican soldiers and an attack by fierce Digger Indians take their toll on Bass and his fellow raiders.Arriving back in the Rockies, the mountai...
|  | The Price
Publication Date: October 25, 2010ABOUT THE BOOK:The Price is a one-act play about an arrogant millionaire who neither believes in God nor accepts Jesus Christ's salvation. The millionaire refuses to accept the fact that he is in hell because he deserves to be there. He insists that his paperwork must have been misplaced or mixed up with someone else's and that God has made a mistake. In an effort to convince the millionaire that there has been no paper mix-up and that hell is where he belongs, Satan calls upon other residents of hell to tell the millionaire why they are there.****ABOUT THE ...
|  | Night Out Pb (Acting Edition)
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|  | Chinese Windmill
Publication Date: July 23, 2007A member of the group of Chinese poets known as "They," Li Sen is well-known in China. Chinese Windmill is a collection of thirty-three of his recent poems, presented in Chinese with facing English translations.Li's poems are profoundly influenced by American poetry, and he owes much of his inspiration to the poetics of Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, and William Carlos Williams. In his poetry, he undertakes to build a balance between metaphysics and deconstruction. His poems start with things and lead poetically to metaphysical questioning; at the...
| | Writing Another's Dream: The Poetry of Wen Tingyun
Publication Date: December 1, 1993| ISBN-10: 0804721653 | ISBN-13: 978-0804721653| Edition: 1 The first full-length study of the poetry of Wen Tingyun (ca.812-ca. 866), a major writer of the late Tang, this book contains translations of more than 60 of Wen's poems, most of which appear in English for the first time.It also examines the world of other poets in his milieu. ...
| | Robert Grosseteste: On the Six Days of Creation: A Translation of the Hexa
Publication Date: April 24, 1997| Series: Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi This is a new translation of Grosseteste's masterful commentary on the Biblical account of the Creation.Presenting a rich look at the unity of the medieval outlook, the Hexaemeron combines the learning of East and West in a distinctively English way. ...
|  | Cruel Optimism
Publication Date: October 27, 2011A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing. Offering bold new ways of conceiving the present, Lauren Berlant describes the cruel optimism that has prevailed since the 1980s, as the social-democratic promise of the postwar period in the United States and Europe has retracted. People have remained attached to unachievable fantasies of the good life—with its promises of upward mobility, job security, political and social equality, and durable intimacy—despite evidence that liberal-capita...
|  | Esposa por la manana (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: July 6, 2012Durante dos anos, Catherine Marks ha sido una companera de atencion de las hermanas Hathaway. Una posicion agradable, menos por un detalle. Su hermano mayor, Leo Hathaway, es totalmente desesperante. A Catherine le cuesta creer que sus constantes discusiones podrian enmascarar una atraccion mutua. Pero cuando una pelea termina en un repentino beso, Catherine es sorprendida por su respuesta de gran alcance, y mas aun cuando Leo le propone una relacion peligrosa. / For two years, Catherine Marks has been a paid companion to the Hathaway sisters,a pleasant position...
| ![Genealogies of Fiction: Women Warriors and the Medieval Imagination in the "Orlando furioso" (Modern Language Initiative)](https://imageproxy.pixnet.cc/imgproxy?url=https://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51u0GP8-1rL._SL500_SS500_.jpg&width=150 "Genealogies of Fiction: Women Warriors and the Medieval Imagination in the "Orlando furioso" (Modern Language Initiative)") | Genealogies of Fiction: Women Warriors and the Medieval Imagination in the "Orlando furioso" (Modern Language Initiative)
Publication Date: December 2, 2011| Series: Modern Language Initiative Genealogies of Fiction is a study of gender, dynastic politics, and intertextuality in medieval and Renaissance chivalric epic, focused on Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso. Relying on the direct study of manuscripts and incunabula, this project challenges the fixed distinction between medieval and early modern texts and reclaims medieval popular epic as a key source for the Furioso.Tracing the formation of the character of the warrior woman, from the amazon to Bradamante, the book analyzes the process of gender construc...
|  | White Trash Beautiful (Volume 1)
Publication Date: September 22, 2012" I'm not naive. I know I don't get the happily ever after. My knight in shining armor took the highway detour around this god forsaken shit hole. I've made peace with that. That doesn't mean I'm going to lay down like a doormat and let every cocky prick in the trailer park have his way with me. " Cass lives a depressing life in a small trailer park in Eddington, Ga with her mother and abusive boyfriend Jackson. She works hard to barely make ends meet. One day Tucker White, the lead singer in the band Damaged, walks into her diner. He...
|  | Gentle Yearning (Indigo)
Release Date: September 20, 2006| Series: Indigo Daniel Clinton's affair with his best friend's beautiful widow, Rebecca, yields more than love. Nearly torn apart by guilt and deceit, both yield to their over-whelming desires and love for each other, forever. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | No Such Creature: A Novel
Release Date: April 28, 2009Silver Dagger winner Giles Blunt delivers an exhilarating game of cat and mouse with a most unlikely—and likeable—pair of thieves Eight years ago, Owen Maxwell was saved from a foster home by the arrival of his uncle Max from England. Once a promising Shakespearean actor, Magnus “Max” Maxwell has since put his dramatic skills to new use: a master of disguise, a virtuoso of foreign dialects, and a performer to his core, he has become an extremely successful gentleman thief. Every summer, Max and Owen take a road trip across the United St...
|  | Once Upon a Folk Tale - Eight Classic Stories
Publication Date: May 21, 1994Contents: Chicken Little - Three Billy Goats Gruff - How the Camel Got His Hump - The Boy Who Cried Wolf - The Fox Who Lost His Dinner - The Gingerbread Boy - The Old Woman and Her Pig. Each story includes cued instrumental sounds related to characters' names and actions as the story is told. A short folk-style tune is sung after each story segment.Option: Templates provided for making stick or paper plate puppets to portray the characters as the story is read.Grades 1-3 recommended. ...
|  | The Wizard and the Dragon
Publication Date: March 29, 2010What would YOU do if YOU found a gynormous dragon egg on YOUR castle doorstep? This is the story of a wizard who finds himself the unlikely parent of a sweet and loving (but not very small for very long) baby dragon. With thirty-seven detailed, colorful, humorous full-page illustrations, it is an entertaining peek into the world of raising an awkward little one coming into its own rapidly in a truly non-traditional family. It's a book about raising a child who isn't biologically yours, who is very different from you, and who presents somewhat of a logistical c...
|  | Lost in the War
Release Date: June 1, 2000| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Lisa has had enough of the Vietnam War. Her father was killed in it and her mom suffers from terrifying nightmares about her experiences as a nurse in the war. So when her seventh grade class begins a study unit about Vietnam, Lisa is not thrilled. But ultimately she finds a way to make peace with the war that damaged her family. "A vivid and disturbing look at the effects of the Vietnam conflict on both its survivors and those who love them." --Kirkus Reviews...
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