 | Only Approved Indians: Stories (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series)
Publication Date: March 15, 1995| ISBN-10: 080612699X | ISBN-13: 978-0806126999| Edition: First Edition In these short stories, Jack D. Forbes captures the remarkable breadth and variety of American Indian life. Drawing on his skills as scholar and native activist, and, above all, as artist, Forbes enlarges our sense of how American Indians experience themselves and the world around them.Though all the main characters are of Indian descent, each is a unique combination of tribal origin, social status, age, and life-style-from native elder and college professor to lesbian barmaid and Chic...
 |  | The Kalahari Typing School for Men (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 4)
Release Date: March 9, 2004The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective AgencyFor All Confidential Matters and InquiriesSatisfaction Guaranteed for all PartiesUnder Personal ManagementThe phenomenal success of The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency continues with the bestselling Kalahari Typing School for Men, the fourth book in the series.Mma Precious Ramotswe is content. Her business is well established with many satisfied customers, and in her mid-thirties (“the finest age to be”) she has a house, two adopted children, a fine fiancé. But, as always, there are troubles. Mr. J.L.B. Matekon...
|  | The Future Homemakers of America
Publication Date: October 2002In the tradition of "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, " this moving novel, filled with warmth, wit, and wisdom, is about a group of women who discover--over the course of 40 turbulent years--the nature of true friendship. ...
|  | The Captain's Courtship (Love Inspired Historical)
Publication Date: July 3, 2012| Series: Love Inspired Historical The dashing Captain Richard Everard has faced untold dangers at sea. Steering his young cousin through a London season, however, is a truly formidable prospect. The girl needs a sponsor, like lovely widow Lady Claire Winthrop—the woman who coldly jilted Richard years ago.Claire believed herself sensible in marrying a well-to-do viscount rather than a penniless second son. How deeply she regretted it! Now their fortunes are reversed, and Richard's plan will help settle her debts and secure his inheritance. Yet it may yi...
|  | Annison's Risk (Adventures in Odyssey Passages Manuscript 3)
Publication Date: November 1, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up A game of hide-and-seek takes Maddy Nicholaivitch to Marus, where she is taken in by a beautiful princess who has just married the conquering king. After overhearing the secret plans of the king’s most trusted advisor, Maddy must decide if her loyalty to the princess is worth the price of her life. Based on the biblical story of Esther, Annison’s Risk takes readers on a journey with a queen who is willing to risk her life in order to save her people. Any fan of Tolkien will appreciate this fantasy s...
|  | The Titus Diary:The Story of an Incredible Adventure that Changed the World (First-Century Diaries)
Publication Date: August 1, 1999In this fictionalized account of the apostle Paul's second missionary journey, told through the eyes of Titus, readers accompany Paul as he travels throughout Asia Minor and Greece, and they listen in as he writes his letters to the Thessalonians. Churches are started, disagreements are settled, persecution is endured--and the life-changing gospel moves forward. ...
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|  | New York: The Novel
Release Date: September 21, 2010Winner of the David J. Langum, Sr., Prize in American Historical Fiction Named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post and “Required Reading” by the New York PostEdward Rutherfurd celebrates America’s greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga, weaving together tales of families rich and poor, native-born and immigrant—a cast of fictional and true characters whose fates rise and fall and rise again with the city’s fortunes. From this intimate perspective we see New York’s humble beginnings as a tiny...
|  | Wit of the Spectator
Publication Date: May 1990"The Spectator" is often suspected of being a high-minded publication, but this collection of its lighter moments shows another side. This collection includes pieces by William Deedes, Richard Ingrams, Auberon Waugh, and Jeffrey Bernard as well as cartoons by Michael Heath and David Austin. ...
|  | For Love of the Dark One: Songs of Mirabai
Publication Date: September 1998Erotic, rebellion, spiritual thirst, a strong hint of early feminism, and a steaming animal passion, these are what makes Mirabai's songs irrepressible four centuries after she sang them. To open this book is to get close to the oldest kind of song, sweet and bitter, sage and spontaneous. And to remember why we're on earth. ...
|  | The Greatest Sailing Stories Ever Told: Twenty-Seven Unforgettable Stories
Publication Date: April 1, 2004| Series: Greatest For thousands of years, man has sailed into battle, sailed for rumored wealth, and sailed for pure adventure. And for nearly as long, stories about the sea have entertained, intrigued, and inspired readers. The Greatest Sailing Stories Ever Told brings together some of the most compelling writing of the millennium. Here is Peter Goss's wrenching narrative of incredible courage in the world's most desolate ocean; Ernest Shackleton's understated and awesome account of one of the most daring small-boat journeys ever taken, where failure meant ce...
|  | Lucky In Love (Arabesque)
Publication Date: August 1, 2002| Series: Arabesque Andrea Benita Cochran has had more than enough of her controlling father, and the pressures of running the family business, Cochran Communications. She wants a life of her own--even if it means leaving Detroit for good. And she's found all the encouragement she needs in Atlanta media baron Clayton Arlington Deveraux, Jr., the kindest, most passionate man she's ever known.From the moment Clay meets Bennie, he is both attracted --and wary. The damage done by his father's affairs has left him unsure about whether love is worth the risk. But af...
|  | Death of a Citizen: Matt Helm #1
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|  | SEAL FORCE ALPHA
Release Date: January 1, 1999| Series: Rogue Warrior Series AS A U.S. NAVY SEAL, RICHARD MARCINKO KNEW NO LIMITS -- AS THE ROGUE WARRIOR, HE OBEYS NO RULES!SpecWar master Richard Marcinko has revealed classified, kill-or-be-killed operations in a series of New York Times bestsellers: Rogue Warrior, his #1 blockbuster autobiography, and four scorching Rogue Warrior novels. Now in an electrifying new adventure, the Rogue Warrior battles an ultra-secret, ultra-lethal military plot.The Rogue Warrior's taking a flying leap -- a high-altitude jump over the South China Sea. His mission: scuttle...
|  | Gulliver's Travels (Classic Starts)
Publication Date: March 28, 2006| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up Through the eyes of Lemuel Gulliver, Swift’s unforgettable satire takes readers into worlds formerly unimagined. Visit four strange and remarkable lands: Lilliput, where Gulliver seems a giant among a race of tiny people; Brobdingnag, the opposite, where the natives are giants and Gulliver puny; the ruined yet magical country of Laputa; and the home of the Houyhnhnms, gentle horses far superior to the ugly humanoid Yahoos who share their universe. ...
|  | Transformers Prime: Meet Team Prime (Passport to Reading Level 2)
Publication Date: April 3, 2012| Grade Level: P and up...
|  | At the Plate with...Sammy Sosa (Matt Christopher Sports Bio Bookshelf)
Publication Date: September 1, 1999| Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | The Toronto Maple Leafs (Team Spirit (Norwood))
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|  | Sesame Street A Day at the Park Sticker Activity Book (Sesame Street Activity Books)
Publication Date: October 22, 2009| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | For Love of the Game
Release Date: March 11, 1997Billy Chapel is a baseball legend, a man who has devoted his life to the game he loves and plays so well. But because of his unsurpassed skill and innocent faith, he has been betrayed. Now it's the final game of the season, and Billy's got one last chance to prove who he is and what he can do, a chance to prove what really matters in this life. A taut, compelling story of one man's coming of age, FOR LOVE OF THE GAME is Michael Shaara's final novel, the classic finish to a brilliantly distinguished literary career. ...
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