 | Microsoft Office 2010: Illustrated Introductory, First Course
Publication Date: July 27, 2010| ISBN-10: 0538747153 | ISBN-13: 978-0538747158| Edition: 1 Loved by instructors for its visual and flexible way to build computer skills, the Illustrated Series is ideal for teaching Microsoft Office 2010 to both computer rookies and hotshots. Each two-page spread focuses on a single skill, making information easy to follow and absorb. Large, full-color illustrations represent how the students' screen should look. Concise text introduces the basic principles of the lesson and integrates a case study for further application.Features of This EditionEasy to f...
 |  | The Language of Life
Release Date: March 1, 1996"Poets live the lives all of us live," says Bill Moyers, "with one big difference. They have the power--the power of the word--to create a world of thoughts and emotions other can share. We only have to learn to listen."In a series of fascinating conversations with thirty-four American poets, The Language Of Life celebrates language in its "most exalted, wrenching, delighted, and concentrated form," and its unique power to re-create the human experience: falling in love, facing death, leaving home, playing basketball, losing faith, finding God. Listening to Linda M...
|  | Paper Angels: A Novel
Release Date: November 1, 2011Kevin Morrell is a forty-three-year-old husband and father who runs a successful design and marketing firm that's crashed into the suffering economy. Attempting to navigate the busyness of the mall at Christmas, Kevin is humbled when he stumbles across the Salvation Army's Angel Tree Project. His wife insists that he take a paper ornament. The name on the ornament is Thomas Brandt, a fifteen-year-old still reeling from the implosion of his family—from years of verbal abuse from an alcoholic father to a mother who finally ...
|  | The Ghosts of Sleath
Publication Date: July 1996Psychic investigator David Ash delves into the mysterious eventsterrorizing the community of Sleath, and as each dark secret isunveiled, evil forces are unleashed, and Ash fears for his own sanityas well as that of the village people. Reprint. ...
|  | Zombie Roller Derby Chicks From Hell: A Dead Crow Book
Publication Date: March 9, 2011Zombie Roller Derby Chicks From Hell is set in a New Jersey Seaside town. During a local roller derby bout a man comes in looking very sick. A violent shove sends one of the derby girls into the crowd and in contact with the fan who will set the town on fire and fill it with rabid flesh eating zombies ...
|  | Big Brown Bap Monster (Mona the Vampire)
Publication Date: March 29, 2001| Series: Mona the Vampire TV tie-in editions of the original Mona the Vampire stories: Tinned Poltergeist - Disappearing keys and chairs moving can only mean one thing - a poltergeist! Jackpot Disaster - Angela's father hits the jackpot and Angela turns horrible overnight. Hairy Hands - Charley disappears after crashing his bike, the Hairy Hands must have grabbed him! Big Brown Bap Monster - The last bun in the bag transforms into the Big Brown Bap Monster! Mona the Vampire was screened in the UK on Nickelodeon in Autumn 1999 and BBC 1 in Spring 2000. ...
|  | Painter of Silence: A Novel
Release Date: September 18, 2012It is the early 1950s. A nameless man is found on the steps of the hospital in Iasi, Romania. He is deaf and mute, but a young nurse named Safta recognizes him from the past and brings him paper and pencils so that he might draw. Gradually, memories appear on the page: the man is Augustin, the cook's son at the manor house at Poiana, where Safta was the privileged daughter. Born six months apart, they had a connection that bypassed words, but while Augustin's world stayed the same size, Safta's expanded to embrace languages, society, and a fleeting love one lo...
|  | Dusk and Summer
Publication Date: September 30, 2008Does Heaven await beneath the waves? One man needs to know.For when his dying father whispers a cryptic message, he has no choice but to summon his courage and begin the quest of a lifetime. It’s a race against time to realize his father’s wish and fulfill his own destiny. It’s a discovery of the unbreakable bond between father and son. It’s a mystery which only the chosen guard between dusk and summer. ...
|  | The Good Old Boys (Hewey Calloway)
Publication Date: April 15, 1999| Series: Hewey Calloway Hewey Calloway has a problem. In his West Texas home of 1906, the land of the way of life that he loves are changing too quickly for his taste.Hewey dreams of freedom--he wants only to be a footloose horseback cowboy, endlessly wandering the open range. But the open range of his childhood is slowly disappearing: land is being parceled out, and barbed-wire fences are spring up all over. As if that weren't enough, cars and other machines are invading Hewey's simple cowboy life, stinking up the area and threatening to replace horse travel...
|  | Little Shop of Horrors
Publication Date: October 2004| ISBN-10: 0573681821 | ISBN-13: 978-0573681820Little Shop of Horrors is a rock musical, by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman, about a hapless florist shop worker (Seymour) who nurtures a plant (Audrey II) and discovers that it's bloodthirsty and highly intelligent, forcing him to kill to feed it. The musical is based on the low-budget 1960 black comedy film The Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Roger Corman. The music, composed by Menken in the style of early 1960s rock and roll, doo-wop and early Motown, includes several well-known tunes, inc...
|  | The Mousetrap and Other Plays
Release Date: September 1, 2000From "The Mousetrap" (the longest-running play in history) to "Ten Little Indians" and "Witness for the Prosecution" (both made into classic film thrillers), here are eight brilliantly staged acts of murder featuring twice as many suspects and final-curtain twists. ...
|  | La dama duende (Castalia Prima) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: May 10, 2003Es una comedia de ambiente urbano que narra una historia coetanea al espectador del siglo XVII. En ella se dan cita el amor, los celos y las reglas del codigo del honor, junto con abundantes guinos comicos, equivocos, simulaciones y enredos, que la convierten en una obra divertida para un lector o espectador actual. La pareja protagonista de la historia la componen dona angela y don Manuel. Toda la accion gira en torno a las tretas que inventa dona angela para intentar burlar la pesada vigilancia de sus hermanos y poder disfrutar de libertad para moverse a su an...
|  | Old English Poetic Metre
Publication Date: December 30, 1995| ISBN-10: 0859914356 | ISBN-13: 978-0859914352The primary aim of this study is to provide an improved description of Old English metre. Making use of a computerized database containing 13,044 lines of Old English poetry (about 40% of the total which survives), it is unique among other studies of Old English metre (which have usually confined themselves to Beowulf) for the size of the corpus it examines. Although located firmly within the traditional `five types' theory of Old English metre, it departs from previous critical orthodoxies in several respe...
|  | Renaissance Literature: An Anthology (Blackwell Anthologies)
Publication Date: February 14, 2003| ISBN-10: 0631198970 | ISBN-13: 978-0631198970| Edition: 1 Responding to the broadening of the canon in recent years, this accessible anthology balances a generous selection of familiar Renaissance figures with important texts by women writers. Includes important texts by women writers alongside more familiar Renaissance masters. Offers many key works of the period in their entirety. Introductions and annotations to the texts reflect the developments in critical and cultural theory as well as the current state of Renaissance scholarship. One of the fir...
|  | Great Stories Remembered II
Publication Date: October 1, 1998| Series: Great Stories (Book 2) A sterling collection of almost "forgotten" literary gems destined to become instant favorites. ...
|  | The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, Volume V: Let the Oppressed Go Free: 1861-1867
Publication Date: October 9, 1979| ISBN-10: 0674526651 | ISBN-13: 978-0674526655| Edition: First edition. By 1861 William Lloyd Garrison's public image had progressed from that of impulsive fanatic to one of widely respected and influential abolitionist. As editor of The Liberator and president of the American Anti-Slavery Society, he was the acknowledged spokesman for radical antislavery opinion.Garrison was profoundly disturbed by the advent of war. In his correspondence, he kept military events at a distance, focusing on the morality of the conflict, an issue made the more poignant by...
|  | Wings in the Night: Twilight Phantasies / Twilight Memories / Twilight Illusions
Publication Date: December 1, 2001For centuries, loneliness has haunted them from dusk till dawn. Yet now, from out of the darkness, shines the light of eternal life . . . eternal love.Twilight PhantasiesCruel fate condemned Eric Marquand to walk forever in shadow -- alone. To possess his soulmate was to destroy her. But Tamara believed in taking fate into her own hands . . .Twilight MemoriesRhiannon was a dangerous creature of the night. If Roland cast her away, it would be like driving a stake through her heart -- exactly what the mortal on her trail wanted!Twilight IllusionsHe was the gre...
|  | Rogue's Delight (Signet Regency Romance)
Release Date: June 1, 1995| Series: Signet Regency Romance Hearing shocking stories about the Viscount Everly and his scandalous behavior that had followed his broken heart, impoverished Susan Winston nevertheless decides to become his wife of convenience....
|  | A Baobab is Big
Release Date: August 1, 2005| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Once again author and illustrator Jacqui Taylor has drawn inspiration from the animals, plants and images of Africa for this delightful book of verse. Children will love the bright colors, textures and detail in her illustrations, which are factual rather than fantastical and therefore educational, yet in a fun style. The verses themselves are rhythmical and make use of indigenous words in the context of the imagery. Also included is a section of fascinating facts that teach and ‘add value’ to the verses them...
|  | The Adventures of Buster Bear
Publication Date: July 21, 2008| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up The other animals are frightened when Buster Bear comes to live in the Green Forest, until he gets into trouble trying to steal blueberries from Farmer Brown's boy and they realize he is not very different from them. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition....
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