 | La Hija de la Chuparrosa (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: September 28, 2006Los milagros y las pasiones abundan en esta novela fascinante que ha sido aclamada como obra maestra.Es la historia de una joven Mexicana cuyas facultades para curar a los aflijidos le prestan aura de santa.Ella llega a realizar su destino sorprendiente entre las llamas de una revolucion naciente...mientras el pueblo se levanta, gritando su nombre. ...
 |  | Fine Things
Release Date: February 1, 1988Smart, likable, Bernie Fine was the wonder boy of Wolff's, New York's most glamorous department store. A senior VP moving up, he arrives in San Fransisco to open a West Coast store. His career is skyrocketing, but his life is lacking a center. When he looks into the wide, innocent eyes of five-year-old Jane O'Reilly, and then into the equally enchanting eyes of her mother, Liz, Bernie knows he has found what he has been looking for. Bernie thought he had found love...
|  | !Yo!
Release Date: December 1, 1997At last! A zesty, exuberant follow-up to the wildly popular How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, full of Julia Alvarez's keen observations and tender affection for her characters. The Garcia Girls are back, most notably Yolanda, or Yo, who has grown up to be a writer.In the process, she has managed to get kicked out of college, break more than a few hearts, have her own heart broken many times, return for extended visits to the Dominican Republic her family fled when she was a child, and marry three times.She has also infuriated her entire family by publishi...
|  | Family Secrets
Publication Date: June 1, 1993Three generations of women--a grandmother, a mother, and a daughter--are linked by bonds of blood, passion, and one devastating family secret. 50,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo. ...
|  | Left for Dead: A Novel (Ali Reynolds)
Release Date: February 7, 2012| Series: Ali Reynolds Ali Reynolds investigates two shocking cases of victims brutally left for dead in New York Times bestselling J.A. Jance’s latest mystery-thriller. When Santa Cruz County deputy sheriff Jose Reyes, Ali’s classmate from the Arizona Police Academy, is gunned down and left to die, he is at first assumed to be an innocent victim of the drug wars escalating across the border. But the crime scene investigation shows there’s much more to it than that, and soon he and his pregnant wife, Teresa, both fall under suspicion of wrongdo...
|  | The Book of Tahkemoni: Jewish Tales from Medieval Spain (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)
Publication Date: August 1, 2003| ISBN-10: 1874774986 | ISBN-13: 978-1874774983Widely regarded as the crowning jewel of Heberew maqama literature (rhymed prose interspersed with verse) this book introduces a somewhat roguish protagonist, Hever the Kenite, often disguised as a teacher, beggar, adventurer, debater, or magician. Whether preaching, spinning history or fantasy, or working a crowd, Hever the Kenite is ever the consummate storyteller and wordsmith enlightening or astounding his listeners. The author displays great scope, moving from prayers to tales of battlefield carnage, from...
|  | The American Truth
Publication Date: September 3, 2007| ISBN-10: 1934248215 | ISBN-13: 978-1934248218| Edition: Updated Nathan Alexander, a media liaison at the Pentagon, survives the September 11th attack but tragically losses his wife in the event. Years after the tragedy, Nathan s suspicion leads him to discover that his wife had inside information of a major conspiracy within the U.S. government. While investigating into the conspiracy, Nathan comes across a computer hacker,Daniel Lewin, who is also interested in uncovering the truth about 9/11. Together, they use their computer skills and Pentagon acc...
|  | The Saskiad: A Novel
Publication Date: January 1998Longing to escape the rundown commune where she lives with her organic-farmer mother, assorted half-siblings, and a cow named Marilyn, the precociously well-read Saskia White, twelve, imagines herself as the noble contemporary of Odysseys, Marco Polo, and Horatio Hornblower. Saskia's elaborate fantasies are soon upstaged by her real-life, long-lost father, who leads Saskia and her best friend Jane on a camping trip that turns into an epic adventure of love, sex, and lies.Saskia is as unforgettable as her own heroes, a young girl whose story resonates with a rare...
|  | I Witness: Dramatic Monologues from Hebrew Scriptures
Publication Date: April 1997I Witness uses three key elements of drama - character, story, and suspense - as well as expressions, gestures, body language, pained silences, and bursts of exuberance to enliven ancient tests. Designed for worship, spiritual retreats, Bible study, religious education, mission, and evangelism, this book will be a welcome resource for both clergy and laity in the journey of faith. ...
|  | The Pedro Almodovar Archives
Publication Date: January 15, 2012| ISBN-10: 3836502836 | ISBN-13: 978-3836502832An in-depth exploration of Almodóvar’s complete œuvre Unfilm de Almodóvar: whether appearing in his stylish opening credits oron the suggestive poster that invariably accompanies each of his films,this announcement triggers a range of expectations. Sexy andsubversive, colorful and controversial, passionate and provocative,Pedro Almodóvar’s world is unlike any other director's. Thanksto his remarkably cohesive and consistent œuvre, the Manchegan maverickhas become ...
|  | Writing the Pre-Raphaelites
Publication Date: August 28, 2009| ISBN-10: 0754657175 | ISBN-13: 978-0754657170This vibrant collection of essays claims that a complex network of texts by critics, biographers and diarists established the credibility and influence of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Throughout the twentieth century, Modernist taste failed to acknowledge the achievement of oppositional groupings such as the Pre-Raphaelites. The essays collected here, however, reveal that the British group anticipated later avant-gardes by using the written word to configure for itself a radical artistic identity. Public and ...
|  | Paradise
Release Date: June 1, 1992Ruthless corporate raider Matthew Farrell was poised to move in on the legendary department store empire owned by Chicago's renowned Bancroft family. In the glare of the media spotlight, it was a stunning takeover that overshadowed the electric chemistry between Matt, once a scruffy kid from steel town Indiana, and cool, sophisticated Meredith Bancroft. Their brief, ill-fated marriage sparked with thrilling sensuality -- he was the outsider who dared to rock her country club world -- and ended with a bitter betrayal. Now, locked in a battle that should be all busine...
|  | Deadly Illusions (Hqn)
Release Date: December 28, 2010| Series: Hqn Irrepressible heiress and intrepid sleuth Francesca Cahill moves from her own glittering world of Fifth Avenue to the teeming underbelly of society, a place of pride, passions…and sometimes deadly perversion.Despite the misgivings of her fiancé, Calder Hart, Francesca cannot turn away from a threat that is terrorizing the tenement neighborhood of Lower Manhattan. A madman has attacked three women, but while the first two victims survived, the third is found dead. All the victims are impoverished but beautiful Irishwomen—andFrancesca...
|  | The Hunted (Vampire Huntress Legend)
Release Date: May 31, 2005| Series: Vampire Huntress Legend Each millennium brings a new Neteru, a vampire huntress whose mission is to vanquish evil from the world. This millennium's savior has come in the form of Damali Richards, a hip-hop diva with the heart of a warrior and an attitude to match. But a war in Hell has cost Damali both her powers and her past love, Carlos Rivera. Still, Damali can't let her grief stand in her way. Several gruesome deaths, starting with an American research team, have come to Damali's attention in Brazil. The nature of the deaths leads Damali to believe tha...
|  | 221 B : studies in Sherlock Holmes,
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|  | Kill My Darling (Bill Slider Mysteries)
Publication Date: September 1, 2012| Series: Bill Slider Mysteries A new Bill Slider mystery - When Melanie Hunter goes missing, the men in her life come under suspicion. And there's plenty to suspect; lies, half-truths, deceptions. When you pull one thread, the whole fabric of family life can come apart. There are secrets in Melanie's past, and pain she tried to hide from the world. slider and his team need to answer two questions: who loved Melanie, and who loved her too much . . . ...
|  | Fabulas de Esopo
Publication Date: January 1, 1996| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up This Book Is In Portuguese. ...
|  | The Ninth Jewel of the Mughal Crown : The Birbal Tales from the Oral Traditions of India
Publication Date: November 1, 2001| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | The North Carolina Tar Heels (Team Spirit (Norwood))
Publication Date: August 1, 2010| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Sopa de frijoles/Bean Soup (English and Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: April 7, 2009| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up For people who have left their homeland for a new country, comfort foods from home take on a huge emotional importance. This delightful poem teaches readers young and old how to make a heartwarming, tummy-filling black bean soup, from gathering the beans, onions, and garlic to taking little pebbles out of the beans to letting them simmer till the luscious smell indicates it’s time for supper. Jorge Argueta’s vivid poetic voice and Rafael Yockteng’s vibrant illustrations make preparing this healt...
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