 | Ramona's Adventure (Modern Dramas 4) Publication Date: April 14, 2008| ISBN-10: 0135131804 | ISBN-13: 978-0135131800| Edition: 1 In Ramona's Adventure, by Elizabeth Neblett, students will read about Ramona Rivera, a widowed florist from New Jersey. Life still holds some surprises for Ramona, as she discovers when she goes to Mexico for a few weeks to take care of her mother. Modern Dramas 1-4(Beginning to High Intermediate) Modern Dramas will keep your students turning the pages to find out what happens next. Each book in thie four-level series tells the lively, action-filled story of a memorable main character. Features *F...
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 |  | Pitbulls In A Skirt (The Cartel Publications Presents) Publication Date: February 1, 2008If you make it through the gates which house Emerald City, one of D.C. s deadliest projects, you ll run into four women with colorful ski coats and designer jeans. And if you don t belong, you ll quickly find out what they have nestled inside the Marc Jacob or Louis Vuitton purses they keep closely to them. These females aren t just pretty faces. They were taken out of their beds and placed on the throne by the hustler s they loved. Their only request was that the Emerald City squad remain true. But when Thick, the self proclaimed leader of the clique decide...
 |  | Arms of Love Publication Date: April 3, 2012| Series: Arms of Love The year is 1777. America is in turmoil. And Amish life is far different than today. Pennsylvania in the late 18th century, once called William Penn’s Woods, was an assortment of different faiths living together for the first time in American history. Included in this tapestry was a small and struggling population called Amish.Surrounding this peaceful people were unavoidable threats: both Patriots and the British were pillaging land and goods for the sake of the war, young Amishmen were leaving the faith to take up ar...
 |  | Mary's Son: A Tale of Christmas Publication Date: October 15, 2010Eleven-year-old Sarah Stone is lonely in a mansion amidst butlers, nannies, housekeepers, and a father who is too busy for her. She is angry at the world. On the other side of town, in a slum called the "Sink," Jared Roberts and his gang barely survive broken families and a hardscrabble existence. Jared, too, is angry, and intends to do something about it. He eyes Sarah's mansion for a pre-Christmas burglary that will show the world who he really is.Into this mix comes a mysterious little man named Nicholas, who intrigues, yet scares, Sarah and Jared. Agains...
 |  | Terra Nova : Settling the Red Planet Publication Date: January 15, 2005If you think space travel to Mars is just dream, think again! Thelma Ritchie makes those dreams come alive and takes you on the adventure of a lifetime! ...
 |  | I HAD DREAMS Publication Date: March 3, 2007I Had Dreams is a novel based on the author's amazing journey from the death of her children through a frustrating investigation to shocking secrets revealed in the courtroom.I Had Dreams is based on the author's most tragic experience.It is a story of murder and mystery, love and tragedy, heartache and justice, as well as victory. ...
 |  | Crimson Waters (Deathlands) Publication Date: September 4, 2012| Series: Deathlands (Book 106) NUKE SPAWN Everyone who lives in Deathlands must endure the hellscape of a world mutilated by nukes and madness. Survival is a grim pursuit, achieved only by the most ruthless means. Yet Ryan Cawdor and his companions remain determined to persevere by doing whatever it takes to survive. DEATH INFESTATION When a mat-trans malfunction strands Ryan Cawdor and his friends in a gutted redoubt in the West Indies, the crystal waters offer them a tantalizing glimpse of untouched splendor. But the oasis is abruptly shat...
 |  | Walk the Blue Fields: Stories Publication Date: June 28, 2008Claire Keegan’s brilliant debut collection, Antarctica, was a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year, and earned her resounding accolades on both sides of the Atlantic. Now she has delivered her next, much-anticipated book, Walk the Blue Fields, an unforgettable array of quietly wrenching stories about despair and desire in the timeless world of modern-day Ireland. In the never-before-published story The Long and Painful Death,” a writer awarded a stay to work in Heinrich Böll’s old cottage has her peace interrupted by an unwel...
 |  | The Spirit of Butterflies: Myth, Magic, and Art Publication Date: November 1, 2000Butterflies have inspired humankind since antiquity, not just for their decorative value but also as spiritual beings, symbolic of metamorphosis, rebirth, love, hope, and freedom. This is the only book that explores the butterfly's role in myth, religion, literature, art, and the decorative arts, and includes magnificent pictures ranging from ancient stone carvings to modern furniture, Pompeiian mosaics to Sevres porcelain. ...
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 |  | The Real Thing: A Play Publication Date: 1984The play begins with Max and Charlotte, a couple whose marriage seems about to rupture. But nothing one sees on a stage is the real thing, and some things are less real than others. Charlotte is an actress who has been appearing in a play about marriage by her husband, Henry. Max, her leading man, is also married to an actress, Annie. Both marriages are at the point of rupture because Henry and Annie have fallen in love. But is it the real thing?In The Real Thing, Tom Stoppard combines his characteristically brilliant wordplay and wit with flashes of insight that illumi...
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 |  | Hate That Cat: A Novel Release Date: February 23, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and upJack Room 204Miss Stretchberry February 25 Today the fat black cat up in the tree by the bus stop dropped a nut on my head thunk and when I yelled at it that fat black cat said Murr-mee-urrr in anasty spiteful way. I hate that cat. This is the story ofJack words sounds silence teacher and cat....
 |  | The Blair Reader: Exploring Contemporary Issues Publication Date: February 8, 2007| ISBN-10: 013230869X | ISBN-13: 978-0132308694| Edition: 6thThis collection offers provocative selections designed to appeal to readers with varied backgrounds. Accessible and engaging, The Blair Reader encourages critical thinking; you can make your own decisions about issues that shape the world. The sixth edition includes new ficiton, literature, and poetry as well as new essays and new illustrations.Varied and numerous, the themes covered in this collection include: Family and Memory, Issues in Education, The Politics of Language, Media and...
 |  | Turkish Embassy Letters Publication Date: January 1, 1994| ISBN-10: 1853816795 | ISBN-13: 978-1853816796| Edition: Reprint Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was described by a contemporary as "one of the most extraordinary shining characters in the world." Her letters, collected here, tell of her travels through Europe to Turkey in 1716, where her husband had been appointed Ambassador. Her liveliness makes them delightfully readable, and her singular intelligence provides us with insights that were exceptional for their time. Her ability to study another culture according to its own values, and to see herself through t...
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