 | The Chronicles of Seth: In Pursuit of Giants
Publication Date: December 1, 2001An adventure romance story set in the time before the Biblical flood.Men, including giants, co-existed with dinosaurs.A young army officer must rescue the woman he loves and plans for the world's most destructive weapon from giant warriors. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
 |  | Bodies of the Dead and Other Great American Ghost Stories
Publication Date: October 15, 1995Thirteen terrifying American ghost stories include Ambrose Bierce`s "" Bodies of the Dead,"" Alexander Harvey`s "" The Golden Rat,"" and Edith Wharton`s "" Kerfol,"" along with tales by Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Willa Cather, and others. Original. " ...
|  | The Zone: A Prison Camp Guard's Story
Publication Date: January 17, 2012Written in Sergei Dovlatov’s unique voice and unmatched style, The Zone is a satirical novelization of Dovlatov’s time as a prison guard for the Soviet Army in the early 1960s. Snapshots of the prison are juxtaposed with the narrator’s letters to Igor Markovich of Hermitage Press in which he urges Igor to publish the very book we’re reading. As Igor receives portions of the prison camp manuscript, so too does the reader.Arguably Dovlatov’s most significant work, The Zone illuminates the twisted absurdity of the life of a prison ...
|  | The Book of Lost Things
Release Date: October 16, 2007High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness. Angry and alone, he takes refuge in his imagination and soon finds that reality and fantasy have begun to meld. While his family falls apart around him, David is violently propelled into a world that is a strange reflection of his own -- populated by heroes and monsters and ruled by a faded king who keeps his secrets in a mysterious book, The Book of Lost Things. Taking read...
|  | Shield of Justice
Publication Date: September 2005First in the Justice Series. Special Crimes Unit investigator Detective Sergeant Rebecca Frye is attempting to solve a series of sexual assaults and running into dead ends at every turn.Finally, she has a break in the case–a witness–one person who may help her bring a madman to justice.But, the witness is a victim herself and Rebecca must convince the injured woman's physician, Dr. Catherine Rawlings, to assist her–a task that will force both women to confront their own darkest fears.Amidst professional conflicts and a growing mutual attra...
|  | Seaflower: A Kydd Sea Adventure (Kydd Sea Adventures)
Publication Date: August 1, 2008| Series: Kydd Sea Adventures The third installment in a rousing naval-adventure series, this historical saga follows the shipwrecked Thomas Kydd and the rest of the crew from the ill-fated HMS Artemis. Returning to England for the court-martial of the sole-surviving officer from that voyage, Kydd has evidence that could destroy the officer's career, as well as his own. In a political act to shield the officer's reputation, Kydd and his mate find themselves forcibly shipped off to the Caribbean where they encounter a new set of challenges, including warri...
|  | The Virgin's Knot
Release Date: March 25, 2003She is called Nurdane, the famed weaver of Mavisu. From her remote mountain village in southwestern Turkey, she creates dowries for young brides: dazzling rugs that are marvels of shape and color, texture and light.Her unique rugs possess remarkable healing qualities that have inspired local legend, but it is her hands that are at the heart of her mystery.An artist's hands.A virgin's hands.An extraordinary series of events drives Nurdane to question the limitations of her faith and culture as she is caught between the cost of remaining pure in body and spirit......
|  | Tom Thumb (A Follett just beginning-to-read book)
Publication Date: 1982| ISBN-10: 0695315420 | ISBN-13: 978-0695315429Easy-to-read text relates a tiny boy's adventures in a cow's mouth, a fish's belly, on the back of a mouse, and at a king's table. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Obras reunidas I. Poes
Publication Date: December 31, 2003| Series: Obras Reunidas (Book 1) El primer tomo de las Obras reunidas de Jorge Cuesta incluye la totalidad de la producción poética del autor, 46 poemas que escribiera en vida, y las traducciones que emprendió de ciertos poemas de Paul Éluard, Stéphane Mallarmé, Stephen Spender y John Donne. ...
| | Selected Poems of Jacques Prevert
Publication Date: April 1, 2008tr Carol Porter...
|  | Readers: Vintage People on Photo Postcards (The Bodleian Library - Photo Postcards from the Tom Phillips Archive)
Publication Date: February 28, 2011| Series: The Bodleian Library - Photo Postcards from the Tom Phillips Archive To celebrate the acquisition of the archive of distinguished artist Tom Phillips, the Bodleian Library asked the artist to assemble and design a series of books drawing on his themed collection of over 50,000 photographic postcards. These encompass the first half of the twentieth century, a period in which, thanks to the ever cheaper medium of photography, ordinary people could afford to own portraits of themselves. Each book in the series contains two hundred images ch...
|  | Letters of Charles Dickens: 1833-1870 (Cambridge Library Collection - LiteraryStudies)
Publication Date: November 8, 2011| Series: Cambridge Library Collection - LiteraryStudies This selection from the letters of Charles Dickens (1812-70) was edited (as it says on the title page) 'by his sister-in-law and his eldest daughter'. The former was Georgina Hogarth (1827-1917), who stayed in Dickens' household and cared for the family when the author separated from his wife, her sister, in 1858; the latter was Mary (1838-96), known in the family as Mamie, his favourite child. They had published a three-volume edition in 1880, and a 'New Edition' in 1882; this reissue is of the single...
|  | The Maiden
Release Date: April 30, 1991He was wise, strong, and brave. His destiny was to be king. She was young, beautiful, a warrior princess. Her destiny was to love him.But when first they met, it was not as princess and king -- it was as man and woman only, consumed by a passion so sudden, so deep that the very world exploded with one kiss. Only later, with his touch still burning on her lips, did Jura discover that the knight of her secret tryst had been none other than the hated Prince Rowan! Rowan, who had returned from far-away England to usurp her brother's throne...Rowan, who vowed to unit...
|  | Someone to Watch Over Me : A Novel
Release Date: February 18, 2003| Series: Mcnaught, Judith After her car is forced off the road and plunges into a river, Broadway star Leigh Kendall drifts back to consciousness and finds herself in a stone-cold medieval setting - in which she plays the role of a lady locked in a power struggle with a notoriously cruel British warlord. ...
|  | The Pelican Brief
Publication Date: 1993Novel by John Grisham, Pelican Brief ...
|  | Seeing Is Deceiving (A Phoebe Fairfax mystery)
Release Date: April 20, 1996| Series: A Phoebe Fairfax mystery Seeing is Deceiving is Suzanne North’s second Phoebe Fairfax mystery, and it more than delivers on the promise of the first. The sardonic Phoebe and Candi Sinclair, her apparently ditzy colleague at the TV program “A Day in the Lifestyle,” are back, this time in New Age territory.Phoebe and Candi are filming at the Okotoks Psychic Fair when one of the exhibitors, the sleazy Jonathan Webster, collapses. A few hours later he is dead – poisoned (in a rather extreme way) – and the police immediately...
|  | Agatha Christie's True Crime Inspirations
Publication Date: April 1, 2011The true scandals, crimes, and murders that inspired the works of the Queen of Crime, and affected those around her Fact proves far stranger than fiction in this collection of events that either influenced the works of the world’s most popular mystery writer or affected the lives of many famous personalities involved in her long career. These include the exploits of Jack the Ripper, which inspired the serial killings in The ABC Murders; the kidnapping in Murder on the Orient Express was based on a family tragedy that befell aviato...
|  | Captain America: Fighting Chance - Denial (Captain America (Unnumbered Paperback))
Publication Date: June 17, 2009| Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Heckedy Peg
Publication Date: October 21, 1987| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: K and up In this story, seven sweet children are transformed by an evil witch into specific types of food. “The inherent drama of the story, combined with the haunting images the art provides, gives the picture book a timeless quality.”--Booklist ...
|  | Emma in Charge
Release Date: June 2, 2005| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up Emma is back! This time, the little bear with a big heart wants to be the boss.Emma shepherds her little flock of favorite toys through a busy schedule—there's breakfast and schooltime, a fun recess and music, and even a checkup at the doctor. After a full day, Emma gathers up the brood for a class trip and finally—a nap with Dad. Whew! Being in charge sure is hard work! Beloved author-illustrator David McPhail offers up another sweet and funny tale in this well-loved series, in the tradition of Fix-it, Emma'...
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