 | Small Change: The Secret Life of Penny Burford
Publication Date: September 15, 2002In 1965 Penny Burford takes a single nickel from her husband's overflowing mound of change on the bedroom dresser and hesitantly slips it into the pocket of her housedress. He won't miss it, she decides. With that single act Penny changes the course of her life -- and the lives of untold others.Roy is a good husband, Penny reminds herself, but he can pinch a nickel until Thomas Jefferson hollers Uncle!" A hard, dominating man, he bristles when Penny offers to roll the coins -- no wife of his needs to waste time rolling mere pennies.Penny has never kept a s...
 |  | Other Women
Publication Date: January 1, 2006Three women, all very different, but each with their own problems. Jane is determined to save the family home for her children, despite the financial problems she has had since her husband’s premature death. The only way she can survive is to sell off parcels of the property. So Sam has moved in next door, with her husband Ben, and is now marooned in the country with a teenage stepdaughter she resents. Down at the lodge, Bella and her family have been uprooted from London to follow her husband’s dream of an idyllic new life in the country. But the...
|  | The Children of ROLLING HILLS FARM
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|  | A Walk to Remember
Publication Date: September 1, 2004There was a time when the world was sweeter....when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats.... Every April, when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs, Landon Carter remembers 1958, his last year at Beaufort High. Landon had dated a girl or two, and even once sworn that he'd been in love. Certainly the last person he thought he'd fall for was Jamie, the shy, almost ethereal daughter of the town's Baptist minister....Jamie, who was destined to show him the depths of the human heart-and the joy and pain of living. Th...
|  | Little Vampire and the Midnight Bear (Dial Easy-to-Read)
Release Date: September 1, 1995| Age Level: 6 and up...
|  | Once a Catholic
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|  | Rilla of Ingleside
Publication Date: September 4, 2007| ISBN-10: 1434652858 | ISBN-13: 978-1434652850This 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....
|  | A Book of Love Poetry
Publication Date: December 11, 1986| ISBN-10: 0195042328 | ISBN-13: 978-0195042320From the civilization of the Lower Nile to that of the Lower Hudson, more poets have written more convincingly, more poignantly about love than about any other subject.Jon Stallworthy has here selected some of the most moving, funny, shameless, and erotic love poems in the English language. Representing the work of more than 190 poets, from Sappho to Byron and Browning, from Rossetti to Wordsworth and E.E. Cummings, he offers a startling collection of love poetry down through the ages.Arranged thematically,...
|  | Hebrew Love Poems
Publication Date: September 1, 1995Poets have been writing in Hebrew since Biblical times. One of the oldest tongues known to man, its rich simplicity has inspired poetry whose hallmarks are immediacy and passion. Although much of Hebrew poetry has traditionally focused on the religious and philosophical, the theme of love has remained vivid throughout the centuries of Jewish life. This beautifully illustrated book of more than ninety love lyrics translated from the Hebrew is a celebration of this enduring theme.Ranging from The Song of Songs to poetry from modern Israel, there are poems of ...
|  | Face to Face. Poems and Short Stories about a Virus
Publication Date: January 1, 1999A Collection of short stories and poems by twelve younger, or previously unpublished writers from Ghana. The publication was inspired by a literary workshop and creative writing competition on the subject of HIV/AIDS, conducted and judged by the established Ghanaian writers Esi Sutherland-Addy and Amma Darko, with the German author, Lutz van Dijk, and the German writer, Norman Ohler. Typical subjects of the pieces are AIDS in the context of love, friendship, guilt, sex and beliefs. ...
|  | Sixpence House
Publication Date: April 3, 2003Sixpence House is the bookworm's answer to A Year in Provence. -Boston Globe Paul Collins and his family abandoned the hills of San Francisco to move to the Welsh countryside-to move, in fact, to the village of Hay-on-Wye, the "Town of Books" that boasts fifteen hundred inhabitants-and forty bookstores. Taking readers into a secluded sanctuary for book lovers, and guiding us through the creation of the author's own first book, Sixpence House becomes a heartfelt and often hilarious meditation on what books mean to us. A #1 BookSense Pick "A delightful book."-Los...
|  | Death on Demand (Death on Demand Mysteries, No. 1)
Publication Date: August 2000The prime suspect in the murder of author Elliot Morgan, Annie Laurance Darling, owner of the Death on Demand mystery bookstore, embarks on an investigation in an attempt to clear her name. Originally in paperback. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | A History of Ancient Greek: From the Beginnings to Late Antiquity
Publication Date: February 12, 2007| ISBN-10: 0521833078 | ISBN-13: 978-0521833073| Edition: Rev. & Expanded Translation of the Greek Text This book provides the most comprehensive account of the history of the Greek language from its beginnings to late antiquity. In this revised and expanded translation of the Greek original published in 2001, a distinguished international team of scholars goes beyond a merely technical treatment of the subject by examining the language's relationship with politics, society and culture. An attempt is made to cover all aspects of the history of Greek, in...
|  | Dear Lama Zopa: Radical Solutions for Transforming Problems into Happiness
Publication Date: May 22, 2007Perhaps no other figure of Tibetan Buddhism today is so committed to the contemporary relevance of its traditional views as Lama Zopa. In Dear Lama Zopa, he shares letters from advice-seekers around the globe, each reproduced with his always inspired, often surprising replies. Lama Zopa’s counsel, radical as it may seem, is all about how to handle life’s problems big and small, age-old and modern: from final exams, depression, and eating disorders to jealousy, aging, and loss. The key is to consciously work to perceive our problems differently, and...
|  | The Saga of Gisli the Outlaw
Publication Date: April 23, 1999The Saga of Gisli was written early in the thirteenth century. It offers an imaginative reconstruction of the story of a man and his family who came to Iceland from Norway about AD 960. Soon after 960 Gisli, the central figure, was outlawed for killing his brother-in-law, and then, for thirteen years or more, he lived in hiding in remote parts of the northwest of Iceland until he was finally caught and killed by his enemies.Around this imaginative core the author has spun a web of conflicting passions - love, hare and jealousy between man and wife, brother and...
|  | Toltanica
Publication Date: January 9, 2012Archeology assistant professor Austin Tripp, an expert in Mesoamerican civilizations, accepts an assignment at the last minute to a recently discovered remote ancient Toltec city. The lack of any artifacts or personal possessions shrouds the city in mystery and adds suspense as to why the entire population seems to have vanished, and took everything with them. During a violent thunderstorm Austin is thrown into the cities ancient bathing pool by an unknown mysterious force and reemerges to find himself in a thriving civilization one thousand years earlier. He...
|  | Judge & Jury
Release Date: July 31, 2006Andie DeGrasse, an aspiring actress and single mom, is not your typical juror. Hoping to get dismissed from the pool, she tells the judge that most of her legal knowledge comes from a bit part curling around a stripper's pole in The Sopranos. But she still ends up as juror #11 in a landmark trial against a notorious mob boss.The case quickly becomes the new Trial of the Century. Mafia don Dominic Cavello, known as the Electrician, is linked to hundreds of gruesome, unspeakable crimes. Senior FBI agent Nick Pellisante has been tracking him for years. He knows Cavell...
|  | Shark Lake
Release Date: September 1, 2001"Absorbing...Drawing from his own experience as a commercial diver, McKinna is generous with the details." (Publishers Weekly)Ben has vowed to save his imprisoned friend Nick-but never has friendship required such courage. Because Nick's makeshift cell is a dry well on a prison island-surrounded by shark-infested waters... ...
|  | Poultrygeist
Publication Date: July 2003| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up On Halloween night, two rowdy young roosters encounter a "poultrygeist" in the barn. ...
|  | El dador
Publication Date: September 1996| Age Level: 10 and up...
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