 | A Dollar Outta Fifteen Cent IV: Money Makes the World Go 'Round
Publication Date: November 9, 2009| Series: A Dollar Outta Fifteen Cent A Dollar Outta Fifteen Cent IVMoney Makes the World Go RoundMoney makes the world go round, but can it buy love? Your favorite characters return. The saga continues...Portia and Jay were a match made in heaven, but Mo Money...Mo Problems ended with America s favorite couple split up. Jay put a younger woman in a ritzy apartment and paid her tuition. Awed by his generosity, she grew a thing for him and spun a web of seduction. Jay slipped inside, and Portia left. He s despondent and determined to get her back. But his mis...
 |  | Evolution Man: Or, How I Ate My Father
Release Date: August 30, 1994| Series: Vintage Contemporaries "Artfully told and laugh-out-loud funny", says the Los Angeles Times Book Review of this long out-of-print novel--now being rediscovered. Lewis's hilarious tale of one Stone Age family offers highly-revised accounts of the invention of fire, the origins of courtship, and much more. Charles Darwin may turn over in his grave. ...
|  | The Hammer
Publication Date: January 5, 2011Gignomai is the youngest brother in the current generation of met'Oc, a once-noble family exiled on an island for their role in a vaguely remembered civil war.On this island, a colony was founded seventy years ago. The plan was originally for the colonists to mine silver, but there turned out not to be any.Now, an uneasy peace exists on the island, between the colonists and the met'Oc. The met'Oc are tolerated, in spite of occasional cattle stealing raids, since they alone possess the weapons considered necessary protection against the island's savages.Gignom...
|  | The Mammoth Book of Historical Crime Fiction
Publication Date: September 6, 2011Ever since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle delighted readers with the fictional genius detective, Sherlock Holmes, crime fiction has been plumbed by mystery writers everywhere. This volume of 12 stories spans crime from the Bronze Age to World War II, and will appeal to the current readers of The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures and Best British Mysteries. ...
|  | Oxford Readings in Aristophanes (Oxford Readings Classical Stud)
Publication Date: August 1, 1996| Series: Oxford Readings Classical Stud Aristophanes is the only author of Greek Attic comedy whose work survives in any form beyond fragments. His eleven surviving comedies reflect the spirit of Athens in the golden age and its unique freedom of speech. This anthology brings together all the most important contributions to the study of Aristophanes; it addresses a range of subjects from the classic question of Aristophanes' relationship to contemporary politics to more modern issues such as performance context, the interaction between fifth century comedy an...
|  | Goof-Proof Skits for Youth Ministry 2
Publication Date: March 2000More skits your youth group can do!These 30 quick skits are fun, solid, Bible-based and easy-to-use. They include directions, Scripture, set-up ideas, discussion-questions, and more...all designed for thought-provoking, fun learning! They're perfect for meetings, retreats, Sunday school, or Bible studies. With skits on materialism, stress, parents, friendship, and more...you'll have a skit for every occasion! ...
|  | An Anthology of Modern French Poetry (1850-1950)
Publication Date: August 27, 1976This anthology is the companion volume to The Appreciation of Modern French Poetry, the aim of which was to give detailed preliminary help with the problems of poetic appreciation. The fourteen poets represented here provide a varied and exciting introduction to what is probably the richest century of French poetry, from 1850 to 1950. Hugo, the colossus of the nineteenth century, whose work gives new resonance and vitality to imaginative vision, opens the anthology, and Michaux, the most individual and 'modern' of twentieth-century poets in that he bridges th...
|  | Blues in Black and White: A Collection of Essays, Poetry and Conversations
Publication Date: May 2003The ever-engaging work of the controversial Afro-German activist/writer, May Ayim, covers a fascinating range of themes:biography, politics, love as well as the absurdities of everyday life. Her unique ability to passionately transform diverse subject matters into poetic language is revealed in this important collection of translated pieces. Her play with language is effective and at times transformative, as it expresses and exposes dangerous stereotypes and messages hidden in the everyday use of language and human behavior. Here, her readers will be surprised and f...
|  | The Sorrows of Young Werther, Elective Affinities, Novella (Goethe: The Collected Works, Vol. 11)
Publication Date: October 30, 1995| ISBN-10: 0691043469 | ISBN-13: 978-0691043463Containing three of Goethe's major prose works, this volume explores a range of themes: unfulfilled love, infidelity, divorce, tragic love, fantasy, and moral rebirth. One of Goethe's best known works, The Sorrows of Young Werther, explores the extremes of the subjective experience through the novel's depiction of a sensitive young man caught up in a love impossible to fulfill. In Elective Affinities, a novel of tragic love, Goethe employs all the requisites of sentimental romance to give a deeply ironic per...
|  | Why Read?
Release Date: August 11, 2005In this important book, acclaimed author Mark Edmundson reconceives the value and promise of reading.He enjoins educators to stop offering up literature as facile entertainment and instead teach students to read in a way that can change their lives for the better. At once controversial and inspiring, this is a groundbreaking book written with the elegance and power to change the way we teach and read. ...
|  | The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Publication Date: April 5, 2004| ISBN-10: 0521795362 | ISBN-13: 978-0521795364This Companion is designed for readers interested in the creation, production and interpretation of Victorian and Edwardian theater. An introduction surveying the historical period of the theater is followed by an essay contextualizing it within the culture as a whole. Succeeding chapters examine performance and production, (including music, actors, stagecraft and audience), plays and playwriting and issues of class and gender. Types of performances (such as comedy, farce, melodrama) and the economics of the th...
|  | La monta
Release Date: August 10, 2010| Series: Vintage Espanol “La clase de novela por la que uno se acuesta tarde para terminarla y acostado sigue pensando en ella”. —The San Francisco Chronicle En el primer día del siglo XX, un pequeño pueblo en lo más profundo del campo uruguayo se reúne para ver un milagro —la misteriosa reaparición de Pajarita, una niña que se había perdido. Años después, Pajarita comenzará una estirpe ferozmente independiente, tres generaciones de mujeres que lucharán por crearse una vida e...
|  | Dark Rider
Release Date: April 1, 1995An electrifying tale of deadly and forbidden desire that sweeps from the exotic islands of a tropical paradise to the magnificent estates of Regency England. Cassandra Deville's carefree life on the islands of Hawaii is shattered by the sudden arrival of a savagely seductive stranger. She's the key to Jared Daremount's plan to avenge his father, actually only a pawn in his plans, but once she becomes his captive, Jared realizes she's a prize he can never surrender. ...
|  | Reflections in Time (Timeswept)
Publication Date: April 1996| Series: Timeswept Turning to hypnotism to cure her sleeping problems, Renata O'Neal finds herself transported back in time to 1880s Louisiana and married to a handsome stranger, but the Victorian morals of the time hamper her new marriage....
|  | Stardust (Spenser #17)
Release Date: May 1, 1991Spenser's never had a client like Jill Joyce, the star of TV's Fifty Minutes. She's beautiful, bitchy, sexy--and someone is stalking her. Spenser can hardly blame the would-be assassin...until he means the true meaning of "stage fright." ...
|  | Knuffle Bunny Free: An Unexpected Diversion
Publication Date: September 1, 2011'Knuffle Bunny' goes international! The hilarious and touching final instalment in 'The Knuffle Bunny series' from bestselling, award-winning author Mo Willems. Trixie is growing up! Knuffle Bunny and Trixie are going on a very exciting holiday abroad to visit 'Oma' and 'Opa' in Holland. But when they finally get there, Trixie can't find her best friend Knuffle Bunny anywhere! With the absence of her beloved fluffy friend, everyone tries their best to help Trixie enjoy the rest of her holiday. Soon, she realizes that maybe she doesn't need Knuffle Bunny as ...
|  | Slam!
Publication Date: November 1998An exciting, eye-catching repackage of acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers' bestselling paperbacks, to coincide with the publication of SUNRISE OVER FALLUJA in hardcover.Seventeen-year-old Greg "Slam" Harris can do it all on the basketball court.He's seen ballplayers come and go, and he knows he could be one of the lucky ones.Maybe he'll make it to the top.Or maybe he'll stumble along the way.Slam's grades aren't that hot.And when his teachers jam his troubles in his face, he blows up. Slam never doubted himself on the court until he found himself going one-on-o...
|  | The Go-for-Gold Gymnasts: Balancing Act
Release Date: April 17, 2012| Age Level: 10 and up...
|  | My Little Car (Spanish Edition)
Release Date: April 20, 2006| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Teresa was so excited when her grandpa gave her a fantastic littlecarrito for her birthday. Everyone admired it when she rode down thesidewalk and it won Best Car at the playground hands down. Over time,though, she stops taking care of it and it practically falls apart. But whenit helps her escape from a neighborhood dog, she is reminded of howmuch she loves it. And her grandpa is just the person to help her fix itup. After all, he’s old, too, but he’s still fun to play with.A funny, touching story with zippy...
|  | Dirty Dog Boogie
Publication Date: March 1, 1999| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and upRead them alone Or read them aloud. Read them to your Mumsy or recite them to a crowd. Change the words, Arrange the words, Or rearrange the beat. Know a poem? Show it off ...
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