 | Breathing Room
Publication Date: January 2, 2001In her dazzling debut novel, award-winning author Patricia Elam takes us into the lives of two completely different women whose friendship has helped them weather just about everything. But now they're at a crossroads where understanding may not be enough -- a place where they must risk it all to rediscover what they cherish most.Photographer Norma Simmons-Greer has a loving husband, a lively young son, and an upper-middle-class lifestyle. Probation officer Moxie Dilliard is as dedicated to her ideals as she is to her talented teenage daughter, Zadi. Best f...
 |  | Arthur & George
Release Date: January 9, 2007As boys, George, the son of a Midlands vicar, and Arthur, living in shabby genteel Edinburgh, find themselves in a vast and complex world at the heart of the British Empire. Years later—one struggling with his identity in a world hostile to his ancestry, the other creating the world’s most famous detective while in love with a woman who is not his wife–their fates become inextricably connected.In Arthur &George, Julian Barnes explores the grand tapestry of late-Victorian Britain to create his most intriguing and engrossing novel yet. ...
|  | Fukt 2 Start With: Short Stories & Broken Werd
Publication Date: April 10, 2012Inspired by life events Fukt 2 Start With: Short Stories & Broken Werd is a collection of short stories that follow the lives, times and numerous misadventures of various misfits who live so far on the edge that falling off is somewhat implausible. While facing the major struggles of everyday life, while often out of their own league, they learn to adapt and figure out new ways to make it through and ultimately survive. ...
|  | Old English Shorter Poems, Volume I: Religious and Didactic (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library)
Publication Date: May 14, 2012| Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library (Book 15) Old English poetry offers a large number of shorter compositions, many of them on explicitly Christian themes. This volume presents twenty-nine of these shorter religious poems composed in Old and early Middle English between the seventh and twelfth centuries. These texts demonstrate the remarkable versatility of early English verse. ...
|  | Selected Plays (Oxford Paperback Reference)
Publication Date: June 27, 1985| Series: Oxford Paperback Reference This book brings together for the first time in one volume five of Christopher Fry's most popular plays:The Boy With A Cart, A Phoenix Too Frequent, The Lady's Not For Burning, A Sleep of Prisoners, and Curtmantle. Displaying all the variety and richness that characterize verse drama at its best, the plays appear here in the order in which they were first performed. ...
|  | This Craft of Verse (4-CD Set)
Publication Date: November 2000| Series: Charles Eliot Norton Lectures Available in cloth, paper, or audio CDThrough a twist of fate that the author of Labyrinths himself would have relished, these lost lectures given in English at Harvard in 1967-1968 by Jorge Luis Borges return to us now, a recovered tale of a life-long love affair with literature and the English language. Transcribed from tapes only recently discovered, This Craft of Verse captures the cadences, candor, wit, and remarkable erudition of one of the most extraordinary and enduring literary voices of the twentieth century. ...
|  | Zhongguo xin shi bai shou shang xi (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | English Romanticism
Publication Date: May 17, 1988| ISBN-10: 0393955478 | ISBN-13: 978-0393955477The English Romantic period—when, as Wordsworth wrote, "the whole earth/The beauty wore of promise"—was also a time in which many of our contemporary attitudes, conventions, and institutions originated. The present book explores, in fascinating depth, the context given by human beings of the time to what its writers called "the spirit of the age."Professor Gaull begins her survey with a section entitled" The Human Context," in which she explores the literary marketplace, children's literature and e...
|  | The Complaints
Publication Date: November 2, 2011Nobody likes The Complaints--they're the cops who investigate other cops. It's a department known within the force as "The Dark Side," and it's where Malcolm Fox works. He's a serious man with a father in a nursing home and a sister who persists in an abusive relationship, frustrating problems about which he cannot seem to do anything. Then the reluctant Fox is given a new case. There's a cop named Jamie Breck, and he's dirty. The problem is, no one can prove it. As Fox takes on the job, he learns that there's more to Breck than anyone thinks--dangerous know...
|  | Boogie Monster
Publication Date: June 1, 2011Award-winning children s author Josie Bissett has done it again. Her first book, Tickle Monster, became a national sensation by getting kids and their parents to laugh, laugh, laugh. Now comes Boogie Monster, a loveable character from Planet Boogie whose only mission is to inspire kids to dance, dance, dance. ...
|  | Jason and the Golden Fleece
Publication Date: April 10, 2005| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up Award-winning children's author James Riordan boldly retells this story from Greek mythology, introducing readers to the first great European hero to undertake a grand journey. Accompanied by some of ancient Greece's bravest heroes, Jason leads an expedition to retrieve the Golden Fleece, the property of a king in a far-off land. Traveling by sea, they encounter trial after trial along their route — reeking Harpies, deadly clashing rocks, and fierce Amazon warrior women — and yet more challenges await the...
|  | Girls Play to Win Basketball
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|  | Soccer (Sports for Sprouts)
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|  | Orcas Around Me: My Alaskan Summer
Publication Date: June 1, 2003| Age Level: 6 and up A young boy describes his summers spent fishing for salmon with his parents and younger brother off the southeastern coast of Alaska. ...
|  | Inspector Calls: York Notes for Gcse (York Notes Gcse)
Publication Date: July 2, 2010 ...
|  | Gcse English Text Guide - An Inspector Calls (Pt. 1 & 2)
Publication Date: September 4, 2002 ...
|  | Come Here, Tiger! (Green Light Readers Level 1)
Publication Date: August 1, 2003| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Japan-Thank You, Meiling (Manners Children's Book)
Publication Date: November 1, 1999| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up On the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, the Song household will celebrate the Chinese Moon Festival. In preparation for this event, the boy Song Hai sets off on a shopping expedition, accompanied by an ill-mannered duck named Meiling. So begins this story of far-away customs and everyday courtesy. Song Hai and Meiling visit the bustling town market where eager shoppers buy paper lanterns, fat mooncakes, and baskets of melons, crab apples, grapes, and other fruits that are as round as the big harvest moon....
| | Nina, la pata / Nina, the Duckling (Movedizos / Mobile) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | One Elephant Went Out to Play (Classic Books With Holes)
Publication Date: March 2008| Age Level: 2 and up...
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