 | Give Me Liberty!: An American History (Third Edition)(Vol. 2)
Publication Date: September 15, 2010| ISBN-10: 0393935434 | ISBN-13: 978-0393935431| Edition: Third Edition A clear, concise, up to date, authoritative history by one of the leading historians in the country.Give Me Liberty! is the leading book in the market because it works in the classroom. A single-author book, Give Me Liberty! offers students a consistent approach, a single narrative voice, and a coherent perspective throughout the text. Threaded through the chronological narrative is the theme of freedom in American history and the significant conflicts over its changing meanings, i...
 |  | Meritocracy
Release Date: June 17, 2004Meritocracy is the story of a generation when it was young, caught at the moment when history arrived to exact a tragic and inevitable price. It is the end of the summer of 1966 and a small group of friends, recent Yale graduates, gather in a Maine summer cottage to say good-bye to one of their own. Harry Nolan is joining the Army and may be sent to Vietnam. Also present is Harry's beautiful young bride, Sascha.Harry and Sascha represent to their friends the apex of their generation. Sascha has men falling for her "up and down the eastern seaboard," and Harry, a ri...
|  | Casino to Die For: The Hunt for Tears of the Sun
Publication Date: December 2003Casino To Die For is a murder mystery, written in the format of a legal thriller. The year is 2002. The protagonist, Jim Ryan, is a defense lawyer, who has a new secretary, Jennie Bond, and a new Internet videophone. A glitch occurs that thrusts both of them onto the grid of mysteries and murders that span a thousand years in Arizona. ...
|  | Envy: A Novel of the Fallen Angels
Release Date: September 6, 2011| Series: FALLEN ANGELS (Book 3) A man and a woman tread the lines of danger, desire, anddeliverance in the new novel of the Fallen Angels from the #1 New YorkTimes bestselling author of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series.As the son of a serial killer, homicide detective Thomas "Veck"DelVecchio, Jr., grew up in the shadow of evil. Now, on the knife-edgebetween civic duty and blind retribution, he atones for the sins of hisfather- while fighting his inner demons. Assigned to monitor Veck isInternal Affairs officer Sophia Reilly, whose interest in him ...
|  | The Front Of The Family
Publication Date: February 20, 2001Pour yourself a glass of tea with lemon, cut a slice of cheesecake, and settle down with this funny, warm, angst-ridden novel. Share the tea and cake with a group of Polish-Jewish eccentrics, and see if you can get them to say what really happened in Poland during the war.Advise Miriam on the wisdom of digging into the past. Wag your finger at her younger sister Felunia as she kvetches about her solid worthy husband and thinks about a more exciting sex life. Scream at them when they ignore your advice. In the end they may tell you more about how to handle r...
|  | Thunder of Heaven: A Joshua Jordan Novel (End Series, The)
Release Date: June 7, 2011| Series: End Series, The The End Series by New York Times bestselling author Tim LaHaye and Craig Parshall is an epic thrill ride ripped from today's headlines and filtered through Scriptural prophecy. As world events begin setting the stage for the 'end of days' foretold in Revelation, Joshua Jordan must weigh the personal price he must pay to save the nation he loves. Thunder of Heaven appeals to the tens of millions of readers who have already made Tim LaHaye a household name and one of the best selling authors of all time. This book is a return to form for Tim ...
|  | God Blessed the Broken Road Series (Volume 1)
Publication Date: April 6, 2012David had always felt at a young age he had a purpose in life. He believed that he could touch people’s hearts through love, compassion, and his faith in God; until one day when tragedy strikes leaving him heartbroken. Through time David’s life begins to spiral out of control. Feeling empty inside he turns to drugs and alcohol as a way of coping. As he quickly falls into a dark place in his life, his sister Mariza watches over him. Knowing David has Fallen from Grace, Mariza is determined to save him, but will it be too late? ...
|  | Beyond Birkie Fever
Publication Date: October 1, 2011What is Birkie Fever? Cross-country skiers are hearty folk. The compulsion to race marathon-length distances in subfreezing conditions requires an eternally optimistic and fiercely independent spirit. The fear of blinding snow or paralyzing cold does not deter them, and it has been said that skiers do not merely laugh at adversity; they are completely oblivious to its existence. America's greatest cross-country ski race is the American Birkebeiner or "Birkie" for short. Every year, thousands of people journey from all over the globe to Hayward, Wisconsin, for...
|  | Blood Bowl: Dead Ball
Publication Date: December 27, 2005| Series: Blood Bowl You can't keep a good player down. ...
|  | Native American Stories (Myths and Legends)
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|  | Crafting the Very Short Story: An Anthology of 100 Masterpieces
Publication Date: June 20, 2002| ISBN-10: 0130867624 | ISBN-13: 978-0130867629| Edition: 1This anthology is an international collection of stories and essays by critically-acclaimed authors, chosen for their intellectual and emotional appeal. Each story or essay is one to six pages in length, making these authors' short works easily accessible to a wide reading public. It provides an exciting taste of global literature, with classic, modern, and avant garde short stories. Over 100 authors are presented, including Alice Walker, Yasunari Kawabata, Helen Vivien Viramontes, Anton Chekh...
|  | Fooling with Words: A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft
Release Date: December 26, 2000A Celebration of Poets and Their CraftColeman BarksLorna Dee CervantesMark DotyDeborah GarrisonJane HirshfieldStanley Kunitz Kurtis LamkinShirley Geok-Lin LimPaul MuldoonMarge PiercyRobert Pinsky ...
|  | The Reader Revealed
Publication Date: March 2002| ISBN-10: 0295981830 | ISBN-13: 978-0295981833Books are such an integral part of every facet of our lives that, even as we wonder about their future, we easily forget how precious they were to early modern readers. The close relationship between reader and book, between reading and writing, during the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries has left us with a large body of evidence not only of the habits of individual readers but of the social and intellectual worlds they inhabited. The Reader Revealed brings to life the early owners and readers of books from the Folg...
|  | A Study in Seduction (A Daring Hearts Novel)
Publication Date: August 28, 2012| Series: A Daring Hearts Novel (Book 1) A HEART DIVIDEDThe lovely Lydia Kellaway can solve the most complex puzzles. The one challenge she can't top? Managing the most infuriating man she's ever encountered.Alexander Hall, Viscount Northwood, has purchased a one-of-a-kind locket from a pawnshop, unaware of the priceless sentiment it holds for Lydia. The gentlemanly thing to do would be to simply return it. But Alexander is curious to see just how bold this brilliant beauty will be...A LOVE UNEQUALEDWhat begins as a playful wager quickly escalates. As their s...
|  | Arizona Caress (Zebra Historical Romance)
Release Date: July 1, 2011| Series: Zebra Historical Romance For a man of Chance Broderick's charm and wealth, Boston offers plenty of tempting distractions. But when he receives word that his brother is in danger in Arizona Territory, Chance dutifully travels west. There he finds a wild, lawless land full of surprises. The biggest shock is discovering that the tracker he's hired is not the brash boy he assumed, but a beautiful, thoroughly independent young woman. Raised by her grandfather after the death of her white father and Pima mother, Rori has learned to fend for herself. Nothing woul...
|  | The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler
Release Date: February 20, 2007During a period of twenty years that stretched from his beginnings as a pulp writer for The Black Mask, through his writing of the novels The Big Sleep and Farewell, My Lovely, to the Hollywood years of the 1940s, Raymond Chandler kept a series of private notebooks. Filled with both public and private writings, these pages give us an intimate view of the writer at work and contain early ideas, descriptions, and anecdotes later used in such classics as The Long Goodbye and The Blue Dahlia. Read Chandler on such classic "Marlowesque" topics as pickpocket lingo, S...
|  | WUSA Girl's Guide to Soccer Life
Publication Date: August 31, 2003| Age Level: 8 and up The Women's United Soccer Association is the professional organization for women's pro soccer. It is committed to promoting the game and increasing its visibility nationally. Its board is comprised of highly visible active players who are helping propel women's soccer to a position of growing prominence today. The WUSA season is April - August and is televised each week on the PAX network. The WUSA Girl's Guide to Soccer Life is written for girls ages 8-16 (and their parents). The Stars of the WUSA provide insights into their on and off ...
|  | Teach Me to Play: A First Bridge Book
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|  | Our Wild World, Coyotes
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| | Turkeys (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Farm Animals)
Publication Date: April 1, 2003| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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