 | Snapped: A Novel
Release Date: January 5, 2010As the pampered wife of Frankie Bingham, Camille wants for nothing. After all Frankie and their life together are her whole world. So Camille tries not to be bothered by his closeness with his coworker and dear friend Gillian. But it soon becomes clear that Camille’s suspicions are correct. When his indiscretions become a public matter for the world Camille is pushed to a dangerous breaking point that spells disaster for them all.Camille's sister Misa is newly divorced and clueless about men. She smothers men with phone calls, emails and pops up unanno...
 |  | Bridesmaid, The (Home to Hickory Hollow)
Release Date: September 11, 2012| Series: Home to Hickory Hollow The Latest in Chart-Topping Amish Fiction from Beverly LewisTwenty-seven-year-old Joanna Kurtz has made several trips to the altar, but never as a bride. The single young Amishwoman is a closet writer with a longing to be published something practically unheard of in her Lancaster County community. Yet Joanna's stories aren't her only secret. She also has a beau who is courting her from afar, unbeknownst even to her sister, Cora, who, though younger, seems to have suitors to spare. Eben Troyer is a responsible young Amishman wh...
|  | Lie for Me: A Novel
Release Date: August 2, 2011Lauren Holloway's ex-fiance, Tucker Kane, is without an alibi when his ex-wife is murdered. Tucker claims to have been alone at a job site at the time, but he needs Lauren to lie for him so that he won't become a suspect in the murder. She refuses; now as a prime suspect, Tucker disappears without a trace. Years later, she sees him at an antique fair, and worried that Lauren will reveal his carefully constructed life, he forces his into her hotel room and tells her that he's trying to find evidence to clear his name. As Lauren tries to help Tucker, she q...
|  | To The Limit (Harlequin NASCAR)
Publication Date: March 1, 2007| Series: Harlequin NASCAR Engineer Kristen McKenna loves to make things go fast. So when NASCAR team owner Matthew Knight offers her a job, Kristen's competitive spirit shifts into overdrive. But she has to struggle to keep her mind on her blueprints and off her dangerously appealing boss. Kristen's always been more comfortable in a lab than on a date—but suddenly both Matthew and Todd Peters, the supersexy team driver, are vying for her attention! Things heat up both on and off the track as Kristen finds herself torn between the two men. And as sparks be...
|  | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: May 20, 1993| ISBN-10: 0486275434 | ISBN-13: 978-0486275437Beloved classic describes a little girl's adventures in a topsy-turvy land underground and her encounters with such improbable characters as the White Rabbit, March Hare and Mad Hatter, the sleepy Dormouse, grinning Cheshire Cat, Mock Turtle, and the dreadful Queen of Hearts. Includes all 42 of Sir John Tenniel's original illustrations. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative. ...
|  | Yoruba Ritual: Performers, Play, Agency
Publication Date: May 1992Yoruba peoples of southwestern Nigeria conceive of rituals as journeys sometimes actual, sometimes virtual. Performed as a parade or a procession, a pilgrimage, a masking display, or possession trance, the journey evokes the reflexive, progressive, transformative experience of ritual participation. "Yoruba Ritual" is an original and provocative study of these practices. Using a performance paradigm, Margaret Thompson Drewal forges a new theoretical and methodological approach to the study of ritual that is thoroughly grounded in close analysis of the thoughts and ac...
|  | The Blue Bird: A Fairy Play in Six Acts
Publication Date: May 30, 2012The Blue Bird (French: L'Oiseau bleu) is a 1908 play by Belgian author Maurice Maeterlinck. It premiered on 30 September 1908 at Constantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre and has been turned into several films and a TV series. The French composer Albert Wolff wrote an opera (first performed at the N.Y. Metropolitan in 1919) based on Maeterlinck's original play. The story is about a girl called Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl seeking happiness, represented by The Blue Bird of Happiness, aided by the good fairy Bérylune. Maeterlinck also wrote a relatively li...
|  | Life & Love Through My Eyes
Publication Date: July 12, 2012To view life and love through another's eyes is to ultimately acknowledge a different perspective. What we feel and what we think is almost always a direct result of what we know. When we come to the conclusion that another's standpoint cannot exist, we cheat ourselves and deny sight of the bigger picture. We are each interconnected by parallel experiences through life and love. This book is that crossroad. The lens, the looking glass, the kaleidoscope. Each twist, turn, torment and triumph can all be seen, through my eyes. ...
|  | Collaborative Information Literacy Assessments (Information Literacy Sourcebooks)
Publication Date: December 28, 2009| ISBN-10: 1555706932 | ISBN-13: 978-1555706937| Edition: 1 Constructive partnerships between academic librarians and faculty play a crucial role in effectively assessing and improving information literacy efforts. Collaboration is not just a nice idea; it is essential to improving the value of library services, personnel, and instruction. Here, highly respected editors Thomas P. Mackey and Trudi E. Jacobson, whose previous works include Information Literacy Collaborations That Work (2007) and Using Technology to Teach Information Literacy (2008), explo...
|  | Ways with Words: Writing about Reading Texts from Early China (Studies on China, 24)
Publication Date: September 19, 2000| Series: Studies on China (Book 24) Ways with Words presents interpretive essays by scholars from different disciplines on seven core, premodern classical Chinese texts. The remarkable diversity of these works--drawn from literature, philosophy, religion, and art history--challenges the presumption of a monolithic Chinese tradition that has been promoted by scholars and popular culture alike, both in China and the West. The texts themselves include a poem from the Classic of Poetry compiled in the sixth century b.c.e.; passages from Mencius and Zhuangzi; ...
|  | Wind Warrior
Publication Date: February 1, 2010With all the drama, sensuality and action that she is known for, O’Banyon spins a thrilling tale of a beautiful white captive and the Blackfoot warrior who wins her heart. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | Deception
Publication Date: July 1998Deception is a medical-political thriller - with alittle romance as well.The President of the United States has toundergo a life-threatening operation. Powerful enemies seize thissurgical event in an attempt to assassinate the President and changethe essence of the country's government. ...
|  | Birds of a Feather (Maisie Dobbs, Book 2)
Release Date: August 2, 2005| Age Level: 18 and up | Grade Level: 12 and up Jacqueline Winspear’s marvelous and inspired debut, Maisie Dobbs, won her fans from coast to coast and raised her intuitive, intelligent, and resourceful heroine to the ranks of literature’s favorite sleuths. Birds of a Feather finds Maisie Dobbs on another dangerously intriguing adventure in London "between the wars." It is the spring of 1930, and Maisie has been hired to find a runaway heiress. But what seems a simple case at the outset soon becomes increasingly complicated when three of the heiress&rsq...
|  | The Lady in the Lake
Release Date: August 12, 1988A couple of missing wives—one a rich man's and one a poor man's—become the objects of Marlowe's investigation. One of them may have gotten a Mexican divorce and married a gigolo and the other may be dead. Marlowe's not sure he cares about either one, but he's not paid to care. ...
|  | The Herring in the Library: Ethelred & Elsie #3
Publication Date: June 16, 2011| Series: Ethelred & Elsie (Book 3) TWO BOOKS IN THE SERIES, TWO EDGAR NOMINATIONS Ethelred and Elsie are an unlikely duo: He’s a deeply mediocre mystery writer (first encountered in the Edgar-nominated The Herring Seller’s Apprentice), and she’s his deeply nosy, chocolate-chomping agent. And yet they are stuck with one another, if only because their combined sleuthing abilities are much more impressive than anything either one of them can come up with alone. Tonight’s agenda: Dinner with Ethelred’s pal “Shagger” Muntha...
|  | On the Scent of Sherlock Holmes
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|  | Dinos Are Forever (The Adventures of Jo Schmo)
Release Date: July 3, 2012| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | Mitologia para chicos (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 2007Te has preguntado de donde salieron las expresiones talon de Aquiles, manzana de la discordia, figura apolinea, geografia, cronometro, miedo, panico o aurora? Aunque te cueste creerlo, estas palabras y muchas otras que usamos cada dia, tienen un origen muy antiguo y lejano. Zeus mismo te ira contando las historias que imaginaron los antiguos griegos para poder explicar el mundo en el que vivian. Descubriras la vasta inteligencia y la grandiosa fantasia de este pueblo en un libro fascinante que leeras una y otra vez. ...
|  | Young Robin's Hood
Publication Date: September 1, 2002| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Supposes how the boys who would become Robin Hood and his Merry Men met and got their names. ...
|  | Small Beauties: The Journey of Darcy Heart O'Hara
Release Date: September 12, 2006| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up "One day this child shall hold the very heart of our family in the palm of her hand," predicts Granny on the day Darcy Heart O'Hara is born in a cottage on Derry Lane, in the town of Pobble O'Keefe, in County Kerry, Ireland.Darcy grows up to be a noticer, delighting in the small beauties all around her: a dew-covered spider web, castles in the clouds, a shiny wooden rosary bead. Life is simple but sweet in Pobble O'Keefe, with her family gathered round the hearth in the evenings while Granddad's voice fills the sma...
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