 | The Sprouted Kitchen: A Tastier Take on Whole Foods
Release Date: August 28, 2012Sprouted Kitchen food blogger Sara Forte showcases 100 tempting recipes that take advantage of fresh produce, whole grains, lean proteins, and natural sweeteners—with vivid flavors and seasonal simplicity at the forefront.Sara Forte is a food-loving, wellness-craving veggie enthusiast who relishes sharing a wholesome meal with friends and family. The Sprouted Kitchen features 100 of her most mouthwatering recipes. Richly illustrated by her photographer husband, Hugh Forte, this bright, vivid book celebrates the simple beauty of seasonal foods with origina...
 |  | Short Stories in Spanish: New Penguin Parallel Text (New Penguin Parallel Texts) (Spanish Edition)
Release Date: January 1, 2001| Series: New Penguin Parallel Texts Reflecting the variety of modern Spanish literature, these stories range from the sharp insights of Gabriel García Marquez's "María dos Prazeres" to Isabel Allende's powerful evocation of the oral traditions of the Amerindian "Walimai," the deceptive simplicity of Javier Marías's "On the Honeymoon," and the philosophical speculation of Laura Freixas's "Absurd Ending." ...
|  | On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection
Publication Date: May 1, 1993Miniature books, eighteenth-century novels, Tom Thumb weddings, tall tales, and objects of tourism and nostalgia: this diverse group of cultural forms is the subject of On Longing, a fascinating analysis of the ways in which everyday objects are narrated to animate or realize certain versions of the world. Originally published in 1984 (Johns Hopkins University Press), and now available in paperback for the first time, this highly original book draws on insights from semiotics and frompsychoanalytic, feminist, and marxist criticism. Addressing the relations of lan...
|  | Significant Other: STAGING THE AMERICAN IN CHINA
Publication Date: August 2004| ISBN-10: 0824826531 | ISBN-13: 978-0824826536Chinese views of the United States have shifted dramatically since the 1980s, with changes in foreign relations, increased travel of Chinese citizens to the U.S., and wide circulation of American popular culture in China. Significant Other explores representations of Americans that emerged onstage in China between 1987 and 2002 and considers how they function as racial and cultural stereotypes, political strategy, and artistic innovation. Based on fieldwork in Beijing and Shanghai, it offers a unique view of cont...
|  | Ariana: A Glimpse of Eternity
Publication Date: February 1, 2003Over the years, Ariana and Jean-Marc Perrault have endured many challenges and experienced great joy while raising their six children in the gospel. Now as their three daughters mature into adults, they must watch the young women struggle with their own heartaches and choices:JosetteBeautiful, willful Josette Perrault has a passion for life and a desire to enjoy herself. Yet the glitter and the whirl of her social life does little to satisfy the needs of her heart. She doubts she will ever find someone who will think of her as more than just a beautiful face...
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|  | The English Patient
Release Date: November 30, 1993With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II.The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last surviving patient. Caravaggio, the thief, tries to reimagine who he is, now that his hands are hopelessly maimed. The Indian sapper Kip searches for hidden bombs in a landscape where nothing is safe but himself. And at the center of his labyrinth lies the English patient, nameless and hideously burned, a man w...
|  | Chimera
Publication Date: June 2, 2001From the author of Dogland, a dark new vision of the future of gene-splicing and artificial intelligenceWill Shetterly has created a dark and intriguing future for this novel, a world of genetic engineering and cloning where human and animal genes can be melded to create chimeras, more often referred to as critters. These beings are human, for all practical purposes.They think, they feel, they love, and they dream.But they still have some of the qualities of the animals that they are bred from.Most importantly, they are not granted the rights of humans.They are ...
|  | Not Single Enough
Publication Date: July 23, 2007A funny, sexy modern romance about two lonely women who bond over the unexpected and fall in love despite their determination to do the opposite.Giselle was having a bad week, in fact, she was having a bad life. Her ex had finally copped to the affair she'd been having for months and they'd broken up, Giselle had just watched an idiot get the promotion she wanted at work, and her mother had showed up for lunch with a gigolo she is set to marry. Life gets even more complicated when, after drowning her sorrows at her local bar, Giselle finds a newborn baby in a d...
|  | Strike Swiftly: The 70th Tank Battalion: From North Africa to Normandy to Germany
Release Date: February 18, 1997The 70th Tank Battalion engaged in some of the bloodiest and most grueling battles of World War II. ...
|  | The Lilith Chronicles
Publication Date: August 26, 2011Lilith. The mere mention of her name, in a room full of people, will cause eyes to turn and look toward you questioningly. Of which Lilith do you speak? Lilith the storm demon, or Lilith the succubus, or Lilith Adam’s first wife: depending upon a cultures religious etymology. And a daughter was born, and the Dragon looked upon his first-born and called her name Lilith. In the beginning, the fallen angels had great desire for the human woman when first they laid eyes upon her. And so they fled their home to make a new home upon the Earth with the fairer...
|  | Elizabeth Gaskell, Victorian Culture, and the Art of Fiction: Essays for the Bicentenary
Publication Date: November 11, 2010This new collection assembles fourteen original essays on Elizabeth Gaskell and her work by some of the leading Gaskell scholars, including Joanne Shattock and Alan Shelston. It also introduces the work of younger scholars exploring the varied discourses, ideologies, and contexts that characterize Gaskell's writing. Focusing on examinations of texts ranging from Gaskell's journalism to her letters, short stories, and novels, the collection provides useful modern approaches to the author's oeuvre. The book investigates questions of class and gender (such as ...
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|  | Lady Audley's Secret
Publication Date: May 23, 2007This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition. ...
|  | Man Vs Machine
Release Date: July 3, 2007Fifteen original tales envision ever-more sophisticated technology-and the repercussions on humankind... As our world and daily lives become more and more involved with and dependent on complex technology, concern over what the future holds increases.If computers develop genuine Artificial Intelligence will they still willingly serve humankind? If the machines rebel, can we shut them down?And what kind of world would we be left with if we did? These are just a few of the questions explored in fifteenbrand-new stories by some of science fiction's most visionary minds...
|  | Mighty Avengers Vol. 3: Secret Invasion, Book 1
Publication Date: April 1, 2009| Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Dragons of Deltora #3: Isle of the Dead
Publication Date: December 1, 2004| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Merida's Wish (Disney/Pixar Brave) (Golden First Chapters)
Release Date: May 15, 2012| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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|  | Tin Toys
Publication Date: September 1, 2012| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up From the illustrator of Diary of a Wombat, a tale of Christmas magic Christmas Eve is drawing close. High on a shelf in an old toy shop, the wind-up Space Ride is gathering dust, having not worked in years. The tin toys remember how bright, how shining, how exhilarating the Space Ride was—but the new toys don't believe them. The tin toys are determined: this Christmas, they'll prove that even old toys can be magical. ...
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