 | The Space Child's Mother Goose
Publication Date: May 1, 2010A witty collection of 1950s Space Age poetry for the scientific minded individual, accompanied by unusual black white line drawings. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
 |  | The Fall & Other Poems
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|  | Vampires and Other Monstrous Creatures
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|  | Zoology
Release Date: May 8, 2007Zoology is the story of Henry Elinsky, a college flunk-out who takes a job at the Central Park Zoo and discovers that becoming an adult takes a lot more than just a weekly paycheck. ...
|  | Majestic
Release Date: August 2, 2011It is time for the truth to be told... On July 2, 1947 something crashed in the desert outside of Roswell, New Mexico. An explosion of light and sound made the sheep wail, the chickens squawk, and the children scream. And then the ranchers heard a noise they thought could only have come from the devil himself.For forty years, Majestic Agency director Wilfred Stone helped the CIA pretend the landing never happened. Then his conscience got the better of him.This is the real story, told to reporter Nicholas A. Duke by the guilt-racked shell of the man who once worked...
|  | The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rugen (Virago Modern Classics)
Release Date: March 27, 1994| Series: Virago Modern Classics (Book 360) This travel story is shot through with the Elizabeth von Arnim's special self-deprecating wit and character sketches. In 1901, the "real" Elizabeth holidayed on the Baltic island of Rugen with just her maid, a coachman, a carriage piled with luggage, and a woman friend. But from such unpromising beginnings Elizabeth weaves a captivating farrago round her encounters. There's the bishop's wife and her personable son, a dressmaker and, astonishingly, a long-lost cousin who is trying to evade the pursuit of her professor hus...
|  | How It All Began: A Novel
Release Date: January 5, 2012 A vibrant new novel from Penelope Lively-a wry, wise story aboutthe surprising ways lives intersect. When Charlotte Rainsford, a retired schoolteacher, is accosted by apetty thief on a London street, the consequences ripple across thelives of acquaintances and strangers alike. A marriage unravels afteran illicit love affair is revealed through an errant cell phonemessage; a posh yet financially strapped interior designer meets abusiness partner who might prove too good to be true; an old-guardhistorian tries to recapture his youthful vigor with an ill-conceivedi...
|  | La leyenda de los soles (Tierra Firme)
Publication Date: December 31, 1993| Series: Tierra Firme La leyenda de los soles es una historia situada en el año 2027 en la ciudad de México. La urbe agoniza; no hay árboles ni agua y escasea la energía eléctrica. El sol ya no es visible en las calles y la contaminación hace de los crepúsculos manchones de luz ocre. El terror cubre la ciudad. En sus calles, una pareja es testigo de una trama cósmica y realista urdida con los mitos aztecas y el panorama poco halagüeño de la ciudad más grande del mundo. ...
|  | The Sons of Ben: Jonsonian Comedy in Caroline England
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|  | Anthony Hecht (American University Studies, Series Xxiv, American Literature, Vol 7)
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|  | American Romanticism (Greenhaven Press Companion to Literary Movements and Genres)
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|  | How Am I to Be Heard?: Letters of Lillian Smith (Gender and American Culture)
Release Date: February 14, 1996| Series: Gender and American Culture This compelling volume offers the first full portrait of thelife and work of writer Lillian Smith (1897-1966), the foremost southern white liberal of the mid-twentieth century. Smith devoted her life to lifting the veil of southern self-deception about race, class, gender, and sexuality. Her books, essays, and especially her letters explored the ways in which the South's attitudes and institutions perpetuated a dehumanizing experience for all its people—white and black, male and female, rich and poor. Her best-known bo...
|  | The Craft of Writing Romance: A Practical Guide
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|  | McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia
Publication Date: March 1, 2005Started from Adelaide with the camels, etc., on 16th August, 1861, and overtook the remnant of the party, horses, cart, etc. etc., nothing of any particular note occurring on the journey to Blanchewater (Mr. Baker’s station) more than ordinary on such journeys, save the worthlessness of the cart and consequent detention thereon. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
|  | Trial and Terror
Publication Date: August 13, 2012The good news is that public defender Summer Neuwirth just won her first case, which involved a brutal rape and kidnapping. The bad news? Her client was guilty. What's more, he knows all about Summer's past. As Summer pursues her next case, this time to keep an innocent woman off death row, elements of that past--a mysterious case of childhood amnesia, her police officer father's involvement with a serial killer, a terrifying attack she survived just months earlier--entwine with her present legal work, her missing mother, and her rocky relation...
| | The Lion and the Mouse
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|  | Wee Sing Sing-Alongs book (reissue)
Release Date: April 15, 2002| Age Level: 2 and up...
|  | Stone Soup
Release Date: January 1, 1947| Age Level: 4 and up Three soldiers came marching down the road towards a French village. The peasants seeing them coming, suddenly became very busy, for soldiers are often hungry. So all the food was hidden under mattresses or in barns. There followed a battle of wits, with the soldiers equal to the occasion. Stone soup? Why, of course, they could make a wonderful soup of stones...but, of course, one must add a carrot or tow...some meat...so it went. Marcia Brown has made of this old tale a very gay book, a carnival of activity, of dancing and laughter. So much...
|  | Merlin and the Making of the King (Booklist Editor's Choice. Books for Youth (Awards))
Publication Date: September 1, 2004| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Tomando Partido/ Taking Sides (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: June 1, 2007| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Lincoln is in a jam when his basketball team at his new school where the students are rich and mostly white faces his old team from the barrio on the boards. How can he play his best game against his friends? Yet how can he betray his new teammates by not giving the game everything he's got? No matter who wins, it looks like it will be a lose-lose situation for Lincoln. ...
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