 | Marisol - Acting Edition
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 |  | Ojibway Ceremonies (Basil Johnston Titles)
Publication Date: March 1, 1990The Ojibway Indians were first encountered by the French early in the seventeenth century along the northern shores of Lakes Huron and Superior. By the time Henry Wadsworth Longfellow immortalized them in The Song of Hiawatha, they had dispersed over large areas of Canada and the United States, becoming known as the Chippewas in the latter. A rare and fascinating glimpse of Ojibway culture before its disruption by the Europeans is provided in Ojibway Ceremonies by Basil Johnston, himself an Ojibway who was born on the Parry Island Indian Reserve.Johnston f...
|  | The First Law
Publication Date: March 2, 2011Energy. It defines our universe and our lives. Yet as the first law of thermodynamics makes clear, energy is never destroyed. It only changes to a different state of matter. Beyond life, there is death. But death is only the beginning as the energy of life becomes a different state of understanding and leads to revelation.Dr. Logan Rainell confronts a deadly syndrome that threatens to consume the world. But when he begins to see auras and energy fields around the sick and healthy, he discovers a cure that may have been with us all along.A story of unconditional...
|  | Eerie
Publication Date: June 8, 2012From newcomer Jordan Crouch and Blake Crouch, author of the runaway bestseller Run, comes Eerie, a chilling, gothic thriller in the classic tradition of The Shining and The Sixth Sense.TRAPPED INSIDE A HOUSEOn a crisp autumn evening in 1980, seven-year-old Grant Moreton and his five-year-old sister Paige were nearly killed in a mysterious accident in the Cascade Mountains that left them orphans.WITH A FRIGHTENING POWERIt's been thirty years since that night. Grant is now a detective with the Seattle Police Department and long estranged from his sister. B...
|  | The Strain
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|  | The Stationmaster (Novel)
Publication Date: May 19, 2009L to R (Western Style). To face the future, sometimes you need a little help from the past… An aging railway man facing the closure of his station and the sorrows of his past meets a mysterious young girl who brings an unexpected warmth to the old man’s cold and empty days. A man who has seen the rough side of life finds comfort in the memory of a wife he never knew. A husband and wife struggle to recapture the love they once shared by visiting the movie theater where they met as children. And more… In these eight short stories by award-winn...
|  | Churchill's Hour: A Novel of Defiance
Release Date: September 1, 2008In this stunning novel, political insider Michael Dobbs brings alive the curmudgeon persona of Winston Churchill. It is 1941, a year of desperation for England battered by the war. Churchill has only one hope, that the U.S. will come to his country's aid, but Roosevelt is unable to do so because America is wedded to isolation.The prime minister's agony is compounded by a very personal dilemma. Pamela, the wife of his dissolute son, Randolph, has fallen in love with FDR's special envoy to England, Averill Harriman. With England threatened by a German invasion ...
|  | A Town Called Fury: Judgement Day
Release Date: August 1, 2011| Series: Town Called Fury It began with a handful of bedraggled pioneer survivors. It took root because of the courage of one young man. In William W. Johnstone's new blockbuster "Western" series, a town called Fury rises up in the midst of a hostile Arizona Territory - and lives every day as if it were its last...Between newcomers and original settlers, the few hundred people who inhabit Fury, Arizona, know about survival. After all, if man or nature had their way, the godforsaken Fury would be yet one more ghost town. But Jason Fury, whose father's name graces ...
|  | The Quotable Chesterton: A Topical Compilation of the Wit, Wisdom and Satire of G. K. Chesterton
Release Date: September 16, 1987A Topical Compilation of the Wit, Wisdom and Satire of G.K. Chesterton. ...
|  | Folktales of France; (Folktales of the world)
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|  | Who's Who in Classical Mythology
Publication Date: November 23, 2001| Series: Who's Who Who's Who in Classical Mythology is the most complete and detailed reference book of its kind. It offers scholarly, yet accessible accounts of those mythological tales surrounding such gods as Apollo, Zeus, Athena and Dionysus, and mortals such as Achilles, Odysseus, Jason, Aeneas, Romulus and Remus and Tarquin.It contains over 1200 extensive entries, covering both Greek and Roman characters, providing detailed biographical information, together with historical and geographical background. In addition there are comprehensive genealogical...
|  | Reading Goethe: A Critical Introduction to the Literary Work (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
Publication Date: August 1, 2007| Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture The year 1999 saw the 250th anniversary of the birth of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany's greatest writer. Appropriately, literary scholars within Germany and beyond paid tribute to this remarkable talent. But a number of commentators also noted that Goethe is often revered rather than read, known of rather than known. This study remedies this state of affairs by offering an introduction to Goethe and his works for the English-speaking reader -- now in paperback and with all quotations . The au...
|  | The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance (Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
Publication Date: January 1, 1978| ISBN-10: 0674796764 | ISBN-13: 978-0674796768Northrop Frye's thinking has had a pervasive impact on contemporary interpretations of our literary and cultural heritage. In his Anatomy of Criticism, a landmark in the history of modern critical theory, he demonstrated his genius for mapping out the realm of imaginative creation. In The Secular Scripture he turns again to the task of establishing a broad theoretical framework, bringing to bear his extraordinary command of the whole range of literature from antiquity to the present.Romance, a mode of literat...
|  | Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?: Teaching Great Poetry to Children
Release Date: June 16, 1990| ISBN-10: 0679724710 | ISBN-13: 978-0679724711In 'Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?' the celebrated poet Kenneth Koch conveys the imaginative splendor of great poetry--by Blake, Donne, Stevens, Lorca, and others--and then shows how it may be taught so as to help children write poetry of their own. ...
|  | Une Gourmandise (French Edition)
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|  | On the Prowl
Release Date: August 7, 2007These all-new paranormal romances from today's hottest authors feature a female werewolf who comes into her own; a Lord who crosses paths with a fiery mage; a mixed-blood Child of the Moon who faces an uncertain future; and a woman whose sixth sense proves to be a dangerous talent. ...
|  | Pale Gray for Guilt (Travis McGee Mysteries)
Release Date: February 21, 1996| Series: Travis McGee Mysteries With an introduction by CARL HIAASENJOHN D. MacDONALD"...the great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller." --STEPHEN KING"...a master storyteller, a masterful suspense writer."--MARY HIGGINS CLARK"...a dominant influence on writers crafting the continuing series character."--SUE GRAFTON"...my favorite novelist of all time."--DEAN KOONTZ"...the consummate pro, a master storyteller and witty observer."--JONATHAN KELLERMAN"...remains one of my idols."--DONA...
|  | Die Abenteuer des Sherlock Holmes
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|  | Lost in the Labyrinth
Publication Date: September 26, 2005| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up From the deepest layer of the Labyrinth under the Royal Palace to the topmost floor of the prison tower, this enthralling version of the myth of the maze and the Minotaur by master storyteller Patrice Kindl is filled with the marvelous and the strange. ...
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