 | Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses
Release Date: October 25, 1979Euphoric State University with its whitestone, sun-drenched campus and England's damp red-brick University of Rummidge have an annual professorial exchange scheme, and as the first day of the last year of the tumultuous sixties dawns, Philip Swallow and Morris Zapp are the designated exchangees. They know they'll be swapping class rosters, but what they don't know is that in a wildly spiraling transatlantic involvement they'll soon be swapping students, colleagues, and even wives. Changing Places is a hilarious send-up of academic life, intellectual fashion, sex...
 |  | Into the Woods
Publication Date: January 1, 1993The Tony Award-winning musical,now adapted into a lavishly illustrated book"Into the Woods" is the imaginative account of what happens when the lives of new and old fairy-tale characters dramatically and humorously come together. Cinderella, Jack (of bean-stalk fame), Little Red Ridinghood, and the Baker and his Wife set out for the forest on a quest to find "happily ever after." Along the way they meet Rapunzel, a Wicked Witch, a lascivious Wolf, vengeful Giants, a couple of charming Princes, and their own destiny. With wit and wisdom, the authors have giv...
|  | The Bridge: A Novel
Release Date: October 23, 2012Number one New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury delivers an instant classic with this heartwarming Christmas story about a hundred-year flood, lost love, and the beauty of enduring friendships. Molly Allen lives alone in Portland, but she left her heart back in Tennessee with a man she walked away from five years ago. They had a rare sort of love she hasn’t found since. Ryan Kelly lives in Nashville after a broken engagement and several years on the road touring with a country music duo. He can still hear Molly’s voice encouraging him to...
|  | A Christmas Story: The Book That Inspired the Hilarious Classic Film
Release Date: October 28, 2003A beloved, bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana—the book that inspired the equally classic Yuletide film.The holiday film A Christmas Story, first released in 1983, has become a bona fide Christmas perennial, gaining in stature and fame with each succeeding year.Its affectionate, wacky, and wryly realistic portrayal of an American family’s typical Christmas joys and travails in small-town Depression-era Indiana has entered our imagination and our hearts with a force equal to It’s a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street.Th...
|  | Spectra
Publication Date: June 27, 2011Light years away from Earth a mining exploration crew makes an amazing discovery...intelligent life comprised entirely of energy. This living energy is so pure and unique, it could provide proof of the existence of the human soul. Those exposed to the entities gain unimaginable cognitive abilities but at a terrible cost.A rogue scientific group will do anything to maintain their mind-enhancing gifts, even if it leads to the destruction of the peaceful beings. Only two people stand in their way, and they will sacrifice everything to end the slaughter.Could the q...
|  | The BEST OF Stanley G. WEINBAUM
Release Date: December 12, 1978This Halcyon Classics ebook contains nine works by early science fiction writer Stanley Weinbaum (1902-1935), including his highly acclaimed and influential A MARTIAN ODYSSEY.In A MARTIAN ODYSSEY, Weinbaum created the sympathetic alien, one who is able to think and reason in a decidedly non-human way.Previously, aliens tended to be two-dimensional plot devices or villains, not characters in their own right.A MARTIAN ODYSSEY was voted the second best science fiction short story in 1970, coming in behind Isaac Asimov's NIGHTFALL.This collection is DRM free and in...
|  | Refiguring Revolutions: Aesthetics and Politics from the English Revolution to the Romantic Revolution
Publication Date: August 5, 1998Refiguring Revolutions presents an original and interdisciplinary reassessment of the cultural and political history of England from 1649 to 1789. Bypassing conventional chronologies and traditional notions of disciplinary divides, editors Kevin Sharpe and Steven Zwicker frame a set of new agendas for, and suggest new approaches to, the study of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England.Customary periodization by dynasty and century obscures the aesthetic and cultural histories that were enacted between and even by the English Civil Wars and the French Revol...
|  | Werewolf in the North Woods: A Wild About You Novel
Release Date: October 4, 2011| Series: Wild About You Novel (Book 2) When Abby Maddox's grandfather swears he saw Bigfoot in the woodsbehind his Portland, Oregon, home, his neighbors decide to bring in aprominent anthropologist to prove him wrong. Rather than see hergrandpa made a laughing stock, Abby sets out to send the professorpacking...until she sees how hot he is.Roark Wallace can't risk having tourists comb the woods for Bigfoot-notwith a local pack of werewolves to protect. When Roark meets Abby,sparks fly-but can he pursue this fiery red-head without compromisinghis pack? ...
|  | Tappin' On Thirty
Release Date: January 29, 2008From Candice Dow comes a sexy, soul searching novel about love lost, new beginnings, and the big 3-0... As a successful legal consultant, Devin Patterson's professional life is good. But his personal life is another story. Devin let his true love slip away when his now ex-wife intentionally got pregnant. He loves his six-year-old daughter, but as the clock ticks on his thirtieth birthday, he can't help reminiscing about the past--and he's not alone...With her model looks and her law career, people wonder why Taylor Jabowski is still single as she's approaching...
|  | Bride of the Night (Vampire Hunters)
Release Date: November 22, 2011| Series: Vampire Hunters She's the vampire that could destroy a nation.At least, that's what Pinkerton detective Finn Dunne thinks of Tara Fox. Capturing her aboard a ship sneaking its way northward, he's convinced she's been sent to take out President Lincoln. While she's certainly the most attractive assassin he's ever faced, that won't keep him from his duty.Tara has always been caught between worlds. As a vampire born and raised in Key West, she has many friends among the humans. Many friends that are now fighting and dying in t...
|  | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Detecting Social Order (Twayne's Masterwork Studies)
Publication Date: December 1994| Series: Twayne's Masterwork Studies Binding: HardcoverPublisher: Twayne PublishersDate published: 1995ISBN-13: 9780805783841ISBN: 0805783849 ...
|  | Kingdom Keepers IV: Power Play
Release Date: February 28, 2012| Age Level: 5 and up...
|  | AFC East: The Buffalo Bills/The Miami Dolphins/The New England Patriots/The New York Jets (Inside the NFL (Child's World))
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|  | The Outrageous Crossword Puzzle and Word Game Book for Kids
Publication Date: May 3, 2002| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Riddle Me This!Can you name four things you eat with a spoon? The largest state in the USA? The sound made by a lion? If so, this brand-new collection of word searches, fill-in-the-blanks, crossword puzzles, and word scrambles is just for you! Full of riddles and jokes, these puzzles are not only fun, but funny, too. A special introduction by Will Shortz, the crossword editor of The New York Times, points out just how fun these games can be....
|  | Trap and Skeet Shooting for Fun!
Publication Date: September 1, 2008| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Books Children Love (Revised Edition): A Guide to the Best Children's Literature
Publication Date: October 30, 2002A love for reading is one of the most precious gifts that we can give children. It nurtures their imagination and creativity, lets them explore other worlds, and opens their minds to new truths and knowledge in appealing, inspiring ways. But how can we sort through thousands of children's books to discover the really worthwhile ones? Elizabeth Wilson offers us a newly revised, comprehensive guide to the very best in children's literature. Just as in the original volume, she comments on the tone and content of excellently written, captivating books in over tw...
|  | I'll Teach My Dog a Lot of Words (Bright & Early Board Books(TM))
Release Date: August 17, 1999| Age Level: 2 and up...
|  | The Complete Dog Book for Kids (Howell reference books)
Publication Date: October 30, 1996| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Little Cheetahs
Publication Date: October 5, 2012This is the story of four Little Cheetahs left at the watering hole while Mama Cheetah goes hunting for dinner.Mama tells them they will be safe if they stay where she leaves them.An Ostrich, some elephants, a crocodile, a couple of giraffes and a couple of Zebras come to the watering hole and each of them encourage the Little Cheetahs to do things they really shouldn't do.And, The Little Cheetahs make the right decision each time.The animals all leave and they meet Mama Cheetah as she returns to the watering hole and they all tell her how good her children h...
|  | Living Lights: Fireflies in Your Backyard (Backyard Bugs)
Publication Date: August 2003| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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