 | The Lost Night (A Rainshadow Novel)
Release Date: September 4, 2012| Series: A Rainshadow Novel Even the mysterious world of Harmony has people who don’t quite fit in. They’re drawn to places like Rainshadow Island, a beautiful sanctuary where anyone can feel safe—and where secrets are closely guarded...Schooled in an exotic form of martial arts, and with the ability to detect the auras of dangerous psychic criminals, Rachel Bonner and her dust bunny companion have found peace and quiet on Rainshadow Island, operating a bookstore and café. But her tranquil new life is thrown into chaos when Harry Seb...
 |  | Pierce the Veil: From Put-in-bay to Wall Street
Publication Date: May 1, 2004Max Ratek, the notorious Michelangelo of Wall Street takeover artists, quietly plots a takeover battle for a Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio headquartered tire company. Ratek's plan goes awry when the tire company's investor relations professional, who is battling the ravages of MS, prematurely discovers Ratek's scheme and launches a preemptive first strike against this titanic robber baron. Meanwhile, Put-in-Bay resident and Washington Post investigative reporter, Emerson Moore, discovers Ratek's sinister plan. Emerson is drawn into the abyss of corporate intrigue as he ch...
|  | Plain Tales From the Hills: Over 20 Unabridged Stories (A CSA Word Recording)
Publication Date: December 22, 2009| ISBN-10: 1934997498 | ISBN-13: 978-1934997499| Edition: Unabridged edition Plain Tales from the Hills conjures an intimate, evocative, often funny, and always vital portrait of India. Written by the much-loved Rudyard Kipling, these stories comprise his unabridged observations of the British in India, originally commissioned for the Civil and Military Gazette for whom he worked as a journalist in the 1880s. Incredibly, Kipling wrote these famous and atmospheric pieces before he was 22, and they aptly illustrate his genius as a storyteller whose words ...
|  | The Prodigy: Greatness has a price
Publication Date: January 1, 2012Questionable behavior blankets the world of American Football at every turn. Many wonder where the most profitable sport in the world is headed at its current pace. In the year 2021, the entire planet is captivated by a superior athlete who seems to have appeared out of nowhere. Miles Starr must cope with his unintended fame, while navigating his senior year of high school. Everyone wants a piece of what many have come to know as "The Prodigy." Miles is challenged to survive a deceptive girlfriend, manipulative teammates, a conniving sports agent, and Corpora...
|  | In the Hands of Anubis
Release Date: September 1, 2009Trevor Wallace, a tractor salesman with a lost childhood and a stalled relationship, is en route to Africa on business. In the Frankfurt airport he stumbles over the bag of Constance Ebenezer, a gregarious old woman who is travelling the world with extraordinary contraband in her luggagethe ashes of her three dead husbands. Marooned briefly in Cairo together, these two unlikely companions embark on an emotional journey that turns Trevors predictable and well-ordered world upside down.Replete with coyotes, dog-headed gods and broken tractors, In the Hands of Anu...
|  | Who Fears Death
Release Date: June 7, 2011The critically-acclaimed novel-now in paperback. In a far-future, post-apocalyptic Saharan Africa, genocide plagues one region. When the only surviving member of a slain village is brutally raped, she manages to escape, wandering farther into the desert. She gives birth to a baby girl with hair and skin the color of sand, and instinctively knows her daughter is different. She names her daughter Onyesonwu, which means "Who Fears Death?" in an ancient African tongue. Reared under the tutelege of a mysterious and traditional shaman, Onyesonwu discovers she possesses a ...
|  | Comes the Fiery Night
Publication Date: August 29, 20112,000 Haiku by man and machine ...
|  | El otono recorre las islas. Obra poetica (1961-1970) (Biblioteca Era) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Danse Macabre
Publication Date: April 25, 2000Francois Villon is one of the great enigmas of French medieval history. A lyric poet of beauty and depth, he was also a murderer, pimp, thief and denizen of the underworld of 15th-century Paris. The book describes a riotous and debauched student life in medieval Paris and Villon's first steps on a life of crime when he was publicly flogged for writing a scurrilous ballad and later involved in a scuffle which ended with his killing a priest. The rest of his short life was a round of arrests, imprisonment and torture, which is contrasted with his time at the cou...
|  | The Mistletoe Wager (Harlequin Historical)
Publication Date: December 1, 2008| Series: Harlequin Historical (Book 925) Harry Pennyngton, Earl of Anneslea, is surprised when his estranged wife, Elise, arrives home for Christmas, especially as she is still intent on divorce! The festive house party is in full swing when the guests are snowed in, and Harry and Elise find themselves together beneath the mistletoe.Maybe the magic of Christmas is just what these two need to reignite their love…. ...
|  | Blue Gold : A Novel from the NUMA Files
Release Date: August 1, 2000| Series: Kurt Austin Adventures A Kurt Austin AdventureIn "Serpent, " his "New York Times" bestseller, Clive Cussler introduced Kurt Austin, a hero for the new millennium, and "created a new bunch of NUMA supersleuths who infused his work with a...jolt of energy" "(The Denver Post)." Now Austin and his crew slake their thirst for action as they attempt to drown an eco-extortionist's plan to control the world's freshwater supply.BLUE GOLDA Novel from the NUMA FilesFrom deep within the Venezuelan rain forest emanates the legend of a white goddess and a mysterious t...
|  | Curiosity Thrilled the Cat: A Magical Cats Mystery
Release Date: February 1, 2011| Series: Magical Cats (Book 1) When librarian Kathleen Paulson moved to Mayville Heights, Minnesota, she had no idea that two strays would nuzzle their way into her life. Owen is a tabby with a catnip addiction and Hercules is a stocky tuxedo cat who shares Kathleen's fondness for Barry Manilow. But beyond all the fur and purrs, there's something more to these felines. When murder interrupts Mayville's Music Festival, Kathleen finds herself the prime suspect. More stunning is her realization that Owen and Hercules are magical-and she's relying on their skills t...
|  | Archie Americana Volume 3: Best of the 1960s
Publication Date: February 14, 2011 ...
|  | Ghosthunters #1: Ghosthunters and the Incredibly Revolting Ghost
Publication Date: August 1, 2006| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Dragolin
Release Date: May 29, 1984Short, plump, and unable to breathe fire like the other dragons, Dragolin is in despair until he learns the importance of believing in oneself. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Go Fish Card Game: 54 Flash Cards (Brighter Child Flash Cards)
Release Date: March 15, 2006| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Weird? (Me, Too!) Let's Be Friends
Publication Date: April 1, 2011| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Poetry that pokes, prods and punches its way right to the heart of friendship. Celebrated performance poet Sara Holbrook shows readers that a good poem is like a good friend, "something to keep close, never lose, or leave behind at a bus stop." This collection of 44 poems explores the territory of friendship with a hard-edged honesty rare in children's poetry. From schoolmates to teammates, pets to pests, Holbrook explores the heart-and the heartache-of friendship. ...
|  | Hey World, Here I Am! (Harper Trophy Book)
Release Date: April 25, 1990| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Love Song for a Baby
Release Date: September 1, 2002| Age Level: 1 and up Come hear a song about a baby, a very special baby. Come hear a song about you.This affectionate tribute to the all-encompassing love of a child will touch parents' and grandparents' hearts at the same time that it satisfies children's requests to tell them about when they were little. Best-selling author Marion Dane Bauer's lyrical text and award-winning illustrator Dan Andreasen's timeless paintings combine to create a gift of love -- for parent and child alike.And oh, how we love you! ...
|  | Salmon's Journey: and More Northwest Stories
Publication Date: January 1, 2010| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up In Jim Challenger's fourth collection of stories based on Canadian nature themes, the author/illustrator provides twenty new stories, expressing a philosophy of respect for the environment, and racial tolerance. Victoria's Times-Colonist praised Challenger's earlier work by saying he "knows how to write for the oral storyteller; the written words slip easily off the tongue." ...
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