 | I Did (But I Wouldn't Now)
Publication Date: May 2, 2006Are you ready to rock?Lily Crandell has always lived in the shadow of her older sister, Lauren, who has a successful career as a wedding planner and a perfect husband and baby boy. Known within her family for being an aimless, impulsive trouble-magnet, Lily finally decides she may as well live up to her reputation: she elopes with new beau and would-be rock star Ted Dayton. But just as quickly as his band skyrockets, Lily's marriage crashes and burns. When news of her ex's new love with sultry and silicone-enhanced actress Melanie Slate hits the tabloids, she fle...
 |  | Lengua Fresca: Latinos Writing on the Edge
Publication Date: November 16, 2006Brazen, bold, edgy, and fresh: an unexpected take on Latino life, spotlighting some of the culture’s most exciting innovative and emerging voices.An entertaining, provocative and often exhilarating collection, Lengua Fresca celebrates some of the most original and cutting-edge work to emerge from the cultural collide that is Latino life in the United States. Featuring an eclectic mix of Latino writing—including fiction, journalism, essays, comics, and even cultural ephemera—this unique anthology showcases literature found in unexpected place...
|  | Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics)
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|  | Darkest Child: A Novel
Release Date: January 1, 2005“Evil’s regenerative powers and one girl’s fierce resistance. . . . A book that deserves a wide audience.”—The Cleveland Plain Dealer“Filled with grand plot events and clearly identifiable villains and victims . . . lush with detail and captivating with its story of racial tension and family violence.”—The Washington Post Book World“[An] exceptional debut novel. . . . [Has] a depth and dimension not often characteristic of a first novel.”—Library Journal (starred) “Phillips writes...
|  | Rockin Robin
Release Date: June 7, 2005Robin Sessoms spends her weeks working forty-plus hours as the head reservation clerk at the Gray Pearl, in Asbury Park, New Jersey.Her boss is Todd Kendricks, an undercover drug addict who is still sleeping with his drug-addicted ex-wife, the mother of his first son.He's also involved with Chanel, a friend of Robin's who is the mother of Todd's second son.Todd's life might be scandalous, but Robin has some shadows of her own to deal with.She seeks the help of a therapist, Dr. Christopher, who she visits twice a week when she decides something inside of her just isn...
|  | The Last Prophecy
Release Date: November 30, 20041945: While liberating a concentration camp, an American medical unit uncovers something beneath a body-laden trench. Sixty years later, the survivors of that unit are systematically murdered because of what they saw. The Present: Enter former Palestinian-American detective Ben Kamal and his Israeli counterpart, Danielle Barnea. Working for the United Nations, Ben and Danielle are forced to return to the Middle East to investigate a massacre in a Palestinian village. The quickly learn that the roots of that massacre lie elsewhere, in another era, on another con...
|  | The Native American Oral Tradition: Voices of the Spirit and Soul
Publication Date: April 30, 2000| ISBN-10: 027595790X | ISBN-13: 978-0275957902Einhorn, a rhetorical scholar, explores the rich history of the Native American oral tradition, focusing on stories, orations, prayers, and songs. Because American Indians existed without written language for many generations, their culture was strongly dependent on an oral tradition for continuity and preservation. Not surprisingly, they spent many hours perfecting the art of oral communication and learning methods for committing their messages to memory. Einhorn thoroughly examines the important aspects of t...
|  | A Companion to Homer's Odyssey
Publication Date: June 30, 2003| ISBN-10: 0313318549 | ISBN-13: 978-0313318542Odysseus lost his way, but students shouldn't have to. This delightful companion, written in a lively narrative style and full of fresh insights and interpretations, offers teachers a wealth of ideas for making Homer's timeless epic come alive for students. Introductory chapters provide the historical and mythological background necessary to fully appreciate the events in the Odyssey. A fascinating essay acquaints students with Homeric values and another examines the Odyssey as literature, offering expert discu...
|  | Contemporary French Poetry: Fourteen Witnesses of Man's Fate
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| | Fifty years' recollections of an old bookseller;: Consisting of anecdotes, characteristic sketches, and original traits and eccentricities, of ... half century, with appropriate selections;
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|  | Beatrix Potter: Writing in Code (Children's Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: December 27, 2002| ISBN-10: 0415943523 | ISBN-13: 978-0415943529Beatrix Potter was one of the inventors of the contemporary picture book, and her small novels published at the turn of the twentieth century are still available and popular today. Writing in Code is the first book-length study of Potter's work, and it covers the entire oeuvre, examining all facets of her work in relation to her private life. Daphne Kutzer reveals the depth of the symbolism in Potter’s work and relates this to the issues of the author's own development as an independent woman and wri...
|  | The Pin-up Art of Dan DeCarlo
Publication Date: March 2, 2005The late cartoonist who defined Betty & Veronica's look for Archie comics also produced hundreds of exquisite ink-wash cartoons for the Humorama line of girlie digests from 1956 to 1963. This handsome volume collects many of the best.A handsome collection of rare pin-ups from the late cartoonist who defined Betty & Veronica's look. For nearly half a century, Dan DeCarlo was the Archie comic book artist and defined the look of every adolescent boy's wet dreams, Betty and Veronica, with their trademark upturned noses, tight sweaters, and barely-there mini...
|  | Sarah's Promise (Country Road Chronicles #4)
Publication Date: September 1, 2008Frank Hammond makes a wintry journey of over two hundred miles to help his brother and look into a job offer he hopes will be the new beginning he is searching for. But all Sarah wants is to make a home as close as possible to the farms where they were raised. Why would Frank even consider moving so far away? As Frank strives to make a new start in a fresh location, he comes face-to-face with his own handicaps and a new-found call of God. At the same time, Sarah struggles for the faith to fulfill her own promise to trust God, and Frank, no matter what the c...
|  | Traveler (Timeswept)
Publication Date: January 1996| Series: Timeswept Strolling through a Civil War battlefield park and musing over her uneventful life, businesswoman Shelby Manning is shocked when she encounters confused soldier Carter Lindsey, who has been transported from the past....
|  | Driven
Publication Date: April 3, 2012Drivenis the sequel toDrive, now also an award-winning film. As we exit the initial novel, Driver has killed Bernie Rose, “the only one he ever mourned,” ending his campaign against those who double-crossed him.Driventells how that young man, done with killing, later will become the one who goes down “at 3 a.m. on a clear, cool morning in a Tijuana bar.” Seven years have passed. Driver has left the old life, become Paul West, and founded a successful business back in Phoenix. Walking down the street one day, he and his fiancee are attack...
|  | A Classic Christmas Crime
Release Date: November 1, 1998Rejoice in this delightfully lethal collection of thirteen original Christmas tales written by today's best mystery writers. Whether set in Yorkshire Dales or sun-baked Florida, these short stories are gift-wrapped with mistletoe and murder--all to celebrate the season of Christmas in the spirit of crime...Contributors include:* P.D. James * Simon Brett * Susan Moody * Catherine Aird * Robert Barnard * Liza Cody * Tim Heald * H.R.F. Keating * Peter Lovesey * Mike Seabrook * Nicole Swengley * David Williams * Margaret Yorke ...
|  | Marvel Comics Presents: Wolverine, Vol. 3 (v. 3)
Publication Date: June 21, 2006| Grade Level: 4 and up A murderous mutant is loose, forcing Wolverine to face a feral former teammate whose descent into death could be his own! Plus: the clawed Canadian gets another rematch with the Incredible Hulk! Featuring the return of a long-forgotten X-Man! Collects Marvel Comics Presents #51-61. ...
|  | Animals Could Talk
Publication Date: March 2, 2006| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up Aesop was a storyteller and slave who lived 2,500 years ago in ancient Greece. Because of his humble position in society, Aesop could not speak his thoughts openly. So he told fables, stories in which animals speak and act like people. Aesop could not speak out, but in his fables the animals could talk and comment on human society without rebuke. To this day, Aesop's fables are retold by storytellers the world over. ...
|  | The Witch's Child
Publication Date: September 1, 2007| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up A creator of the bestselling Mommy? and an acclaimed illustrator will BEWITCH READERS! Who wants to be a witch’s child? When a witch wishes to have a child of her own, she creates one from straw and names her Rosalie. But when the witch tries to coax the straw girl into life, she is thwarted at every turn, until finally she abandons her inanimate creation. Then one day while the witch is away, a young girl wanders into the witch’s house. She befriends Rosalie, but she tarries too long. The witch is com...
|  | A Cup of Cold Water: The Compassion of Nurse Edith Cavell
Publication Date: September 1, 2007| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up "The secret password is yore," the princess whispered. Edith longed for her girlhood in England, when her secrets had been kept safe by her dog Reddie. But now in God's timing, Edith is director of a nursing school in Belgium. Caught in the turmoil of World War I, Edith finds herself surrounded by enemy spies. As a nurse protected by the Red Cross, will Edith turn her back on the Allied soldiers who desperately need her help?The Chosen Daughters series highlights the lives of ordinary women who by God's ...
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