 | How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
Release Date: September 4, 2012Why do some children succeed while others fail?The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one about intelligence: success comes to those who score highest on tests, from preschool admissions to SATs.But in How Children Succeed, Paul Tough argues that the qualities that matter most have more to do with character: skills like perseverance, curiosity, conscientiousness, optimism, and self-control.How Children Succeed introduces us to a new generation of researchers and educators who, for the first time, are using the tools of science to peel back...
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|  | The Dragons of Chiril: A Novel
Release Date: June 21, 2011Before DragonSpell, on a different continent and a different time, a young emerlindian’s desperate decision threatens to disrupt the foundation of the world. Tipper has been caring for her family’s estate for years now, ever since her father disappeared, making a living by selling off his famous artwork. Then she learns that three statues she sold were carved from an ancient foundation stone, and the fabric of her reality is crumbling. She must free her father and save the world. But she can’t do it alone. Her ragtag band of adv...
|  | Messenger
Publication Date: August 2004A little bit of Hell has just come to earth.Would you like to become someone else? Well, someone else is about to become you. He will share your heart and your mind, he will seep into your body, he will feel all your ecstacy...And then he will take you on a slaughterfest.Occult rites. Ritualistic murder.You have become possessed. But not by a ghost.Not by a demon.It's something much worse. Just as God has a messenger, so does the devil, and that messenger is here, now, in your town. He has a message to send...The Messenger.A diabolical novel of ultimate erotic ho...
|  | El descubrimiento de las brujas (A Discovery of Witches: A Novel) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: May 30, 2011When historian Diana Bishop opens a bewitched alchemical manuscript in Oxford s Bodleian Library it represents an unwelcome intrusion of magic into her carefully ordinary life. Though descended from a long line of witches, she is determined to remain untouched by her family s legacy. She banishes the manuscript to the stacks, but Diana finds it impossible to hold the world of magic at bay any longer. For witches are not the only otherworldly creatures living alongside humans. There are also creative, destructive daemons and long-lived vampires who become interes...
|  | Nights Of Rain And Stars (Signet Novel)
Release Date: June 28, 2005| Series: Signet Novel Four strangers, with nothing in common but a need to escape, meet in a Greek taverna high above the small village of Aghia Anna. From Ireland, America, Germany and England, they have each left their homes and old lives, when a shocking tragedy throws them unexpectedly together. Fiona is a young nurse, trying to make her family understand her need to follow her own path. Thomas desperately misses his young son and fears that his ex-wife will come between them. Elsa abruptly left her career as a television presenter, but someone from her ...
| ![The Fortune of War [UNABRIDGED] (Aubrey-Maturin)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61N18J7298L._SL500_SS500_.jpg) | The Fortune of War [UNABRIDGED] (Aubrey-Maturin)
Publication Date: February 1, 2005| Series: Aubrey-Maturin (Book 6) Captain Jack Aubrey, R.N., arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the Royal Navy. He and his friend Stephen Maturin take passage for England in a dispatch vessel, but the War of 1812 breaks out while they are en route. Bloody actions precipitate them both into new and unexpected scenes where Stephen’s past activities as a secret agent return on him with a vengeance. ...
|  | Anthology of Living Theater
Publication Date: December 13, 2006| ISBN-10: 0073514136 | ISBN-13: 978-0073514130| Edition: 3 This anthology of 18 plays offers a convenient and affordable alternative to ordering individual play scripts, with the additional benefit of a general introduction and headnotes. ...
|  | Statius, Thebiad 4: Edited with an Introduction, Translation, and Commentary (Oxford Classical Monographs)
Publication Date: May 18, 2012| ISBN-10: 0199695253 | ISBN-13: 978-0199695256Modern readers are becoming increasingly drawn to the works of Statius, an erudite poet of the first century AD who gained particular popularity in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Thebaid is a twelve-book Latin epic, which he composed around AD 80-92, and tells the mythological story of the expedition of the seven warriors against Thebes as they try to oust Eteocles from the throne in favour of his brother Polynices. Book 4 includes a catalogue of the attacking warriors, a depiction of a necromantic summonin...
|  | The Poems of Callimachus
Publication Date: June 28, 2001| ISBN-10: 0198152248 | ISBN-13: 978-0198152248| Edition: First Printing This important new verse translation of the extant works and major fragments of Callimachus includes a full Introduction, covering the poet's life and times, the range of his achievements, and the difficulties in the way of appreciation. It does not offer, as other translations do, a mere selection of fragments but presents them as integral parts of the poetry books in which they originally figured, as these can be reconstructed in the light of modern research. Eachfragment is introduc...
|  | Fire's Goal: Poems from the Hindu Year
Publication Date: July 1, 2003The poems of Fire's Goal reflect a year of journeys to sacred river sources in India. Laurie Patton's poems were written after a decade of writing and reading in interpretation of India's most sacred Sanskrit compositions — the Vedas. The book's first half, "Festavals," follows the main festivals of a Hindu year. Each poem is written in the voice of a bhakta, or devotee, as he or she performs rituals of devotion — whether it be floating a flame down a river at Diwali or listening to the bell at a Ganesh temple at Ganeshotsav. The second half of the boo...
|  | Belleza del Fisico Mundo (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: November 2004La belleza del fsico mundo es un delicioso libro de poemas que canta las bellezas y las esencias de lo cubano. Las bellezas del aire, de las aguas, de la tierra, y del fuego de la isla pendiente, la asolada tierra de sueos inconclusos. Bellos poemas inspirados y dedicados al nieto, a quien presenta lo mejor de su pas. Con ilustraciones de Israel Guevara.Poetry book depicting the beauty of being a grandfatherand a Cuban one at that! ...
|  | Reports From The Present Selec (Jonathan Cape original)
Release Date: February 28, 1995| Series: Jonathan Cape original Described as a writer of savage indignation and uncomfortable humour, Leonard's concerns are with language, power, class and politics. This collection of his poetry and prose is taken from the past dozen years and includes a series of pieces he wrote on the Gulf War. ...
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|  | Nauti Deceptions
Release Date: February 2, 2010 The new book in the New York Times bestselling series from a major star in hot, hot romance.Caitlyn "Rogue" Walker left her life in Boston to become a teacher in a small Kentucky town. But her dream was shattered when she was framed in a sex scandal. Refusing to be run out of town, Caitlyn shed the identity she had and became Rogue. Sheriff Zeke Mayes knows there's more to her than meets the eye, though what meets the eye is pretty smoking. He's prepared for a long struggle getting Rogue to drop her defenses-and give in to desire. But soon Zeke will become em...
|  | Skirting the Grave (A Vintage Magic Mystery)
Release Date: July 5, 2011| Series: A Vintage Magic Mystery Maddie Cutler thought she was taking on a new design intern for her boutique. But instead she finds her dead at the train station under suspicious circumstances. Now, Maddie is determined to iron out the wrinkles of this mystery. ...
|  | Shadow on the Wall: A Mr. Fortune Novel (Rue Morgue Vintage Mysteries)
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|  | Super Hero Squad: Super Heroes Versus Villains Reusable Sticker Book
Publication Date: April 5, 2011| Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Pooh Welcomes Winter (My Very First Winnie the Pooh)
Publication Date: September 1999| Age Level: 2 and up...
|  | Natural Wonders: A Patrick Hruby Coloring Book
Publication Date: October 1, 2011 Natural Wonders is a beautiful new coloring book by Patrick Hruby that features forests, flora and fauna. Patrick's colorful and intricate illustrations are gracefully translated here into 32 black-and-white line drawings for young, budding artists to interpret in their own color palettes. As a reference, the back cover shows every one of the 32 images featured in their full-color original versions. As a reference, the back cover features all 32 images in full color. Each drawing is printed on white paper one one side only so that markers don't bl...
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