 | Crossing The Line (Indigo Love Spectrum)
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 | Winter Count
Publication Date: June 1, 2003Winter Count is a historical novel set during the fifteen turbulent years leading up to the infamous Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890. Turtleheart, a Teton Sioux, and his wife, Evensigh, a white woman adopted by the Tetons as an infant, are thrust into this history when they are ambushed by a Santee Sioux working as a scout for white gold miners. Turtleheart is tortured and left for dead, while Evensigh is kidnapped and sent to St. Louis to assimilate into white culture. Their struggle to reunite is set against the backdrop of escalating conflicts with the U.S. cav...
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 | Lost Daughters (Hardscrabble Books-Fiction of New England)
Publication Date: March 1, 1999| Series: Hardscrabble Books-Fiction of New England A novel that turns the traditional adoption narrative on its head as it explores how lies move through generations. ...
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 | The Odyssey (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: December 23, 1998| Series: Dover Thrift Editions Excellent prose translation of the ancient epic poem recounts the adventures of Odysseus on his homeward voyage from the Trojan War. The clever hero circumvents the wrath of Poseidon to overcome an incredible array of obstacles, including a fantastic cast of adversaries — Cyclops, the one-eyed giant; the enchantress Circe; plus cannibals, sirens, and many other monstrous creatures. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative. ...
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 | The Long Song: A Novel
Release Date: April 27, 2010THE AUTHOR OF SMALL ISLAND TELLS THE STORY OF THE LAST TURBULENT YEARS OF SLAVERY AND THE EARLY YEARS OF FREEDOM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY JAMAICASmall Island introduced Andrea Levy to America and was acclaimed as “a triumph” (San Francisco Chronicle). It won both the Orange Prize and the Whitbread Book of the Year Award, and has sold over a million copies worldwide. With The Long Song, Levy once again reinvents the historical novel. Told in the irresistibly willful and intimate voice of Miss July, with some editorial assistance from her son, Thomas, The L...
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 | Selected Poems / Rogha Danta (Bright Wave)
Publication Date: December 31, 1988| Series: Bright Wave Now regarded as a landmark in contemporary Irish literature. ...
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 | Painting with Thread: Simple Embroidered Pictures to Make and Cherish
Publication Date: September 2000From simple landscapes that use only one or two kinds of stitches to fully realized raised and 3-D embroideries: use your needle and thread just like a brush and paint! This exciting and unique approach to producing exquisite embroidered pictures borrows freely from many areas of needlecrafts, including stumpwork and quilting techniques like trapunto. Packed with tips for designing and executing your own stitched "paintings," as well as 20 projects such as a Spanish Garden and Duck Pond.Inspiring!...
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 | Ronald Harwood Plays: Two : Taking Sides, Poison Pen, Tramway Road, the Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, After the Lions and the Guests (Contemporary Classics)
Publication Date: September 1995| Series: Contemporary Classics This play deals with the period leading up to Wilhelm Furtwangler's appearance before a de-Nazification tribunal in Berlin in 1946. Furtwangler was one of the great conductors, but his misfortune was to have been at the height of his career when the Nazis came to power. ...
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 | Peace and tranquility in Chinese poetry and painting
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 | Making the Modern Reader
Publication Date: August 5, 1996Inquiring into the formation of a literary canon during the Restoration and the eighteenth century, Barbara Benedict poses the question, "Do anthologies reflect or shape contemporary literary taste?" She finds that there was a cultural dialectic at work: miscellanies and anthologies transmitted particular tastes while in turn being influenced by the larger culture they helped to create. Benedict reveals how anthologies of the time often created a consensus of literary and aesthetic values by providing a bridge between the tastes of authors, editors, printers, ...
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 | An Anthology of Russian Literature from Earliest Writings to Modern Fiction: Introduction to a Culture
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 | F2f
Release Date: March 1, 1996When an electronic bulletin board user argues with the author of an ugly online threat, she is shaken by Snowflake's warning that she has been ""noticed"" and begins to fear for her life after a series of terrifying murders. 40,000 first printing. $40,000 ad/promo. ...
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 | Laws of Depravity
Publication Date: June 1, 2012In a 30-year murder spree, the Martyr Maker has left behind a legacy of torture and fear: 36 clergymen butchered in twisted scenes reflecting the martyrdom of the twelve Apostles. The same M.O. -- Twelve murders. Every ten years. All of the victims preachers and priests. And now, the Martyr Maker is back. The recent murder of a local priest signals the beginning of another three-week kill cycle. It falls to NYPD detectives Quincy Cavanaugh and Phee Freeman and FBI agent Janet Maclin to catch the killer even though dark family secrets, the need for revenge, and h...
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 | Underworlds #1: The Battle Begins
Publication Date: April 1, 2012| Age Level: 7 and up...
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 | The Red Fairy Book (Dover Children's Classics)
Publication Date: June 1, 1966| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
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 | Shaquille O'Neal (Sport Shots)
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 | A Wheel Life Lesson (Adventures of Marshall & Art)
Publication Date: July 1, 2008| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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 | Painter and Ugly
Release Date: January 20, 2011| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Painter and Ugly are best friends. They run together, they swim together, they eat out of the same dinner bowls. When one calls out, "Yip," the other answers back. They are inseparable! That is, until they are forced apart and put on two different teams for the junior Iditarod. But nothing can keep them apart. When during the race Painter finds a boy musher alone, stranded on the trail, he calls out, "Yip!" and Ugly answers his call. These old friends team up to finish the race, together again, side by side. Robert B...
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 | A Kid's Guide to Washington, D.C.: Revised and Updated Edition
Publication Date: April 1, 2008| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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 | Renegade Magic (Kat, Incorrigible)
Release Date: April 3, 2012| Age Level: 10 and up...
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