 | 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 Ballad of the Sad Cafe: and Other Stories
Publication Date: April 5, 2005A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullers’s best stories, including her beloved novella “The Ballad of the Sad Café.” A haunting tale of a human triangle that culminates in an astonishing brawl, the novella introduces readers to Miss Amelia, a formidable southern woman whose café serves as the town’s gathering place. Among other fine works, the collection also includes “Wunderkind,” McCullers’s first published story written when she was only seventeen abou...
|  | Web of Dreams (Casteel Family 5)
Publication Date: May 9, 1991| Series: Casteel Family 5 The Casteel family saga concludes with this fifth and final book as Annie and Luke return to Farthinggale Manor to finally put her past behind her. But the Manor still holds one final key to the mysteries surrounding her family.GHOSTS FROM THE SHADOWS OF THE PASTOn their return to Farthinggale Manor, the mystery-shrouded luxury home of the Tatterton family, Annie and Luke believe that they will be putting the past finally to rest, and bringing peace to the spirit of Annie's mother, Heaven.But Annie discovers a diary at Farthinggale. The...
|  | Men Are From Earth. Women are From Earth: Deal With It
Publication Date: October 1, 2005This wry commentary of the relationship between the sexes admits that while some things have changed, some seem to have stayed the same. Are men and women so different after all? In a world where there is no perfect man and no perfect woman, do we have more in common than we would like to admit? ...
|  | Stolen Souls: A Jack Lennon Investigation Set in Northern Ireland
Release Date: September 4, 2012Galya Petrova travels to Ireland on a promise that she will work for a nice Russian family, teaching their children English. Instead, she is dragged into the world of modern slavery, sold to a Belfast brothel, and held there against her will. She escapes at a terrible cost—the slaying of one of her captors—and takes refuge with a man who offers his help. As the traffickers she fled scour the city for her, seeking revenge for their fallen comrade, Galya faces an even greater danger: her savior is not what he seems. She is not the first traffi...
|  | Ovid: Amores. Text, Prolegomena and Commentary, in four volumes. Vol. III. A Commentary on Book Two. (ARCA, 36) (v. 3)
Release Date: December 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 0905205928 | ISBN-13: 978-0905205922A fundamental work on the Amores. `McKeown combines the Oxford scholars' generic approach and distinctive layout with the German editor's gargantuan scale, austere manner and formidable philological learning'-JACT review. ...
| | Lichnost poeta: Po stranitsam russkoi sovetskoi poezii 1917-1987 gg (Russian Edition)
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|  | Rabash--The Social Writings
Publication Date: January 16, 2011Rav Baruch Shalom HaLevi Ashlag (Rabash), a student of his father, Rav Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag, author of the Sulam (Ladder) commentary on The Book of Zohar, played a remarkable role in the history of Kabbalah. His writings provide us with the necessary link connecting the wisdom of Kabbalah to our human experience. If not for these essays, his father's efforts to disclose the wisdom of Kabbalah would be in vain. ...
|  | The Honeysuckle and the Hazel Tree: Medieval Stories of Men and Women
Publication Date: June 22, 1995Known for her fine translations of octosyllabic narrative verse, Patricia Terry presents translations of four major practitioners of this dominant literary form of twelfth- and thirteenth-century France. Her introduction discusses the varying views of women and love in the texts and their place in the courtly tradition.From Chrétien de Troyes Terry includes an early work, Philomena, here translated into verse for the first time. The other great writer of this period was Marie de France, the first woman in the European narrative tradition. Lanval is newly...
|  | Strangers in Death
Release Date: August 5, 2008| Series: In Death #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR FIRST TIME IN PAPERBACK View our feature on J.D. Robb’s Strangers in Death.In 2060 New York, Lieutenant Eve Dallas is about to discover how the ties that bind strangers can kill. ...
|  | Dark of Night: A Novel (Troubleshooters)
Release Date: June 23, 2009| Series: Troubleshooters Only a handful of people in the world know that James Nash is alive.For years, Nash performed ultra-covert “Black Ops” missions for a shadowy government agency. But when he walked away from their dirty work, his ruthless bosses weren’t about to let him go. After their attempt to assassinate him nearly succeeds, his former partner Lawrence Decker, with the FBI’s help, fakes Nash’s death to protect him.With Nash secreted away in a safe house, Decker will risk everything–including his heart–as he race...
|  | Cowboys: Gay Erotic Tales
Publication Date: May 19, 2006The real rodeo starts when the spurs are hung up and the chaps come off. Twenty-four stories of ropin’ and ridin’ on the open range.Saddle up and go for a long, hot ride. There's nothing in this world like a sexy cowboy...mounting another cowboy. In this fiery collection of gay erotic fiction, today's top erotica writers offer up stories of devious cattle rustlers seducing naive farm hands; dangerous outlaws breaking in small-town deputies; young, hung buckaroos wrangling each other; and duels not on the streets but between the sheets. These maverick...
|  | The Collectors
Publication Date: September 1, 2007Oliver Stone and his Camel Club are in a race to stop a man who is determined to auction off America to the highest bidder: Roger Seagraves is selling America to her enemies, one devastating secret at a time.On a local level, Annabelle Conroy, the most gifted con artist of her generation, is becoming a bit of a Robin Hood as she plots a monumental scam against one of the most ruthless businessmen on earth.As the killings on both fronts mount, the Camel Club fights the most deadly foes they've ever faced. ...
|  | The Ghost Agent
Publication Date: August 7, 2008Below the radar, off the grid, and behind enemy lines, CIA agent John Wells plays a deadly game of risk...As a covert CIA special operative, John Wells knows the odds are always stacked against him. For every atrocity foiled, another deadly catastrophe awaits. So when it emerges that four of the world's most dangerous states are plotting together to unleash the ultimate nuclear threat, Wells realises that his odds on stopping them ranges from zero...to none. But that's never stopped him before. And it isn't going to stop him now... ...
|  | Fallout
Release Date: March 1, 1997When Eagle's Claw, one of the most extreme militia groups in theUnited States, infiltrates the Device Assembly Facility at the NevadaNuclear Test Site, FBI special agent Craig Kreident confronts aworld-threatening situation....
|  | Marsupial Sue Presents "The Runaway Pancake": Book and CD
Release Date: August 30, 2005| Age Level: 4 and up "I'm too fast, you're too slow. Pan, pan, patty-cake pan, I can get away from you, I can!"The much-loved story of the Runaway Pancake who pops out of the oven and is sure he can escape all who want to eat him, is given a new spin when Marsupial Sue and her friends put on a play version for their neighborhood. This has all of the wit and whimsy of Marsupial Sue and again features lively illustrations by Jack E. Davis. From the friends' preparations behind the scenes to the actors' final bows, readers will be inspired by the production. A CD...
|  | Swimming: Sprints, Medleys, Diving, Water Polo, & Lots, Lots More (Zeke's Olympic Pocket Guide)
Publication Date: July 2000 ...
|  | The The Cootie Catcher Book (Klutz)
Publication Date: January 1, 1948| Age Level: 6 and up...
|  | The Great Book of Mind Teasers & Mind Puzzlers
Publication Date: March 15, 1986| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Huge collection of tantalizing logic puzzles offers hints when you're stuck, plus step-by-step solutions, imaginatively teaching problem-solving skills. "Will challenge and delight."--Mathematics Teacher. "Fun for puzzle fans of all ages."--Booklist.256 pages, b/w illus. throughout, 5 3/8 x 7 3/4. ...
|  | Corn (True Books: Food & Nutrition)
Publication Date: September 1, 1999| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
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