 | The Blinding Knife (Lightbringer)
Release Date: September 11, 2012| Series: Lightbringer (Book 2) Gavin Guile is dying. He'd thought he had five years left--now he has less than one. With fifty thousand refugees, a bastard son, and an ex-fiancée who may have learned his darkest secret, Gavin has problems on every side. All magic in the world is running wild and threatens to destroy the Seven Satrapies. Worst of all, the old gods are being reborn, and their army of color wights is unstoppable. The only salvation may be the brother whose freedom and life Gavin stole sixteen years ago. ...
 |  | American War Library - Vietnam War: Primary Sources
Publication Date: March 28, 2002| Series: American War Library American War Library is a series of vividly written, multi-volume sets that examine the most fascinating topics about each of America's wars. Individual volumes in every set present readers with a historical perspective and a comprehensive picture of the causes of the war, crucial battles, key personalities, weaponry, daily life on the battlefield, public sentiment toward the war, and the war's eventual outcome. Dramatic narrative enlivened by primary and secondary source accounts, offers young readers insight into the triumphs a...
|  | Cottonmouth Kisses
Publication Date: 2000Edgy and ironic, Clint Catalyst exposes the underside of all his many subjects - gay relationships, backwater adolescence, and spiraling addiction. Whether he's writing about a chance sexual encounter at a Goth club called Lilith ("Some New Kind of Kick") or revealing the inner thoughts of young hustlers in Hollywood ("Metaphor, and Remorse"), Catalyst unearths the trashy truth in his characters' unconventional lives. ...
|  | The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine
Release Date: April 26, 2011Rosa Achmetowna is the outrageously nasty and wily narrator of this rollicking family saga from the author of Broken Glass Park When she discovers that her seventeen-year-old daughter, “stupid Sulfia,” is pregnant by an unknown man she does everything to thwart the pregnancy, employing a variety of folkloric home remedies. But despite her best efforts the baby, Aminat, is born nine months later at Soviet Birthing Center Number 134. Much to Rosa’s surprise and delight, dark eyed Aminat is a Tartar through and through and instantly becomes the appl...
|  | Hometown Ties: A Novel (The Four Lindas)
Publication Date: September 1, 2010| Series: The Four Lindas (Book 2) In this second installment of Melody Carlson's engaging Four Lindas series, four fify-something women discover your really can go home again%u2026.but it's not always easy!After decades out of touch, four fifty-something childhood friends have returned to the little coastal town of Clifden, Oregon, where they grew up.They look forward to supporting one another as they reinvent their lives.But second acts can be a challenge, and each woman feels the stretch.Widowed lawyer Janie struggles to leave the past behind.Emerging ar...
|  | For Better, For Worse
Publication Date: July 1, 2001Divorce shatters a young woman's dreams in this novel of heartache and discovery. Jenny Richardson battles for peace of mind and happiness when her husband leaves her for another woman. ...
| | The Hofburg Treasures: A Novel of High Tech Espionage
Publication Date: May 1995It is the year 2045, and law and order has succumbed to mass corruption.The detective team of McBride and McBride must rely on their integrity and high moral character to discover the thieves and return the stolen articles. ...
|  | The Eye of Jade: A Mei Wang Mystery
Publication Date: April 7, 2009| Series: A Mei Wang Mystery "Having her own detective agency would give herthe independence she had always longed for. Itwould also give her the chance to show those peoplewho shunned her that she could be successful. Peoplewere getting rich. They owned property, money,business, and cars. With new freedom and opportunitiescame new crimes. There would be much thatshe could do."Present day, Beijing. Mei Wang is a modern, independent woman. She has her own apartment. She owns a car. She has her own business with that most modern of commodities -- a male secretary...
|  | The Poetic Edda (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: July 15, 2009| Series: Oxford World's Classics The collection of Norse-Icelandic mythological and heroic poetry known as the Poetic Edda contains the great narratives of the creation of the world and the coming of Ragnarok, the Doom of the Gods. The mythological poems explore the wisdom of the gods and giants, narrating the adventures of the god Thor against the hostile giants and the gods' rivalries amongst themselves. The heroic poems trace the exploits of the hero Helgi and his valkyrie bride, the tragic tale of Sigurd and Brynhild's doomed love, and the terrible drama o...
|  | The Ineffable Name of God: Man: Poems in Yiddish and English
Publication Date: January 25, 2007These 66 poems, here in English and Yiddish on facing pages, were collected in the first book Abraham Joshua Heschel ever published. They appeared in Warsaw in 1933 when Heschel was 26 years old and still a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the University of Berlin. Written between 1927 and 1933—and never published in English before—this is the intimate spiritual diary of a devout European Jew, loyal to the revelation at Sinai and afflicted with reverence for all human beings. These poems sound themes that will resonate throughout Heschel's lat...
|  | Homer's Trojan Theater: Space, Vision, and Memory in the IIiad
Publication Date: March 21, 2011Moving away from the verbal and thematic repetitions that have dominated Homeric studies and exploiting the insights of cognitive psychology, this highly innovative and accessible study focuses on the visual poetics of the Iliad as the narrative is envisioned by the poet and rendered visible. It does so through a close analysis of the often-neglected 'Battle Books'. They here emerge as a coherently visualized narrative sequence rather than as a random series of combats, and this approach reveals, for instance, the significance of Sarpedon's attack on the Achae...
|  | Managing Literacy, Mothering America: Women's Narratives on Reading and Writing in the Nineteenth Century (Pitt Comp Literacy Culture)
Publication Date: February 28, 2006| Series: Pitt Comp Literacy Culture Managing Literacy, Mothering America accomplishes two monumental tasks. It identifies and defines a previously unstudied genre, the domestic literacy narrative, and provides a pioneering cultural history of this genre from the early days of the United States through the turn of the twentieth century.Domestic literacy narratives often feature scenes that depict women-mostly middle-class mothers-teaching those in their care to read, write, and discuss literature, with the goal of promoting civic participation. These narrat...
|  | Circulation of the Blood (Everyman's Library (Paper))
Publication Date: October 15, 1993| Series: Everyman's Library (Paper) Deer Lake is a small Minnesota town where people know their neighbours and crime is something that happens on the evening news. But the illusion of safety is shattered when eight-year-old Josh Kirkwood disappears from a hockey rink as he waits for his mother to pick him up after practice. The only thing the police find is his duffel bag with a note stuffed inside, 'Ignorance is not innocence but SIN'. With each passing hour the search for Josh takes on a more ominus intensity. For Megan O'Malley, the new regional officer ...
|  | Thursday's Child
Publication Date: December 6, 1999Helen Forrester's moving story of an English girl and her love affair with an Indian man.Peggy Delaney was a Lancashire girl born and bred, beginning to live again after the heartache of the war.Ajit Singh was a charming young Indian student, shortly to return to his homeland and an arranged marriage.When Peggy and Ajit fell in love, each one knew the future would not be easy. But as they began their new life, far from their homes and their families, they found that love could bring two worlds together... ...
|  | Kids' First Cookbook: Delicious-Nutritious Treats to Make Yourself!
Publication Date: October 1, 1999| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: P and up Inside this beautifully illustrated cookbook are activities, colorful recipes, and cooking tips that helps turn meal preparation into exciting family fun. From the simplest snacks and drinks to masterful meals, kids create their own masterpieces using step-by-step illustrations and learn to make healthy and wholesome food choices that will benefit them for a lifetime. In addition to the 53 recipes that list the number of servings, calories, and fat grams in each meal, the book includes instructions on how to ...
|  | Big Snacks, Little Meals: After School, Dinnertime, Anytime
Publication Date: May 28, 2006| Age Level: 9 and up What will entice kids into the kitchen and turn them into budding chefs? Try yummy baked apples, to-die-for brownies, crunchy, munchy stove-popped popcorn with peanuts and chocolateÑall found in this lie-flat, spiral-bound cookbook made just for them. Inside, hungry snackers will find foods they can prepare to fill up that after-school empty belly, sate a postgame appetite, and banish movie-watching cravings. And, most important, all these bite-size mini-meals are fun to make, delicious, and (keep it a secret) healthy. A handy basics s...
|  | On the Edge With Coolhead Luke
Publication Date: October 15, 2009Brought to you by the mother and son team that created “Coolhead Luke and Other Stories”, this second collection will engage and delight even the most reluctant readers. Jennifer’s humorous poems and Colin’s whimsical illustrations play off each other beautifully, creating an inventive world in which characters are presented with a bizarre assortment of challenges and absurdities. The poems are composed in an animated, jaunty style that is a pleasure to read. In the midst of the fun, there are teachable opportunities to demonstrat...
|  | Where the Steps Were
Publication Date: March 1, 2008| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up The third-graders are sad that this will be their last year at Pleasant Hill Elementary before their school is torn down. Poems narrated in the voices of five different students - Dawn, Kayla, Jonathan, Anthony, and Carmen - relate the events of their last year together with their teacher, Miss D. But the year is busy as the students prepare to put on the play Cinderella, take field trips to a local farm, and do experiments in the science lab. They are studying the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, Jim Crow, Rosa Parks, G...
|  | Cartooning with Math
Publication Date: December 1998| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Simple step-by-step instructions enable children to draw cartoon characters whole practicing arithmetic, direction following, and pattern recognition skills. This book is designed for students in grades K-6. ...
|  | Ten Barnyard Babies
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