 | Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Release Date: November 16, 2010On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War.The lieutenant’s name was Louis Zamperini. In boyhood, he’d been a cunning and incorrigible delinquent, breaking ...
 |  | Amigoland: A Novel
Publication Date: August 10, 2009In a small town on the Mexican border live two brothers, Don Fidencio and Don Celestino. Stubborn and independent, they now must face the facts: they are old, and they have let a family argument stand between them for too long. Don Celestino's good-natured housekeeper encourages him to make amends--while he still can. They secretly liberate Don Fidencio from his nursing home and travel into Mexico to solve the mystery at the heart of their dispute: the family legend of their grandfather's kidnapping. As the unlikely trio travels, the brothers learn it's never...
|  | The Third Gate: A Novel
Release Date: June 12, 2012Under the direction of famed explorer Porter Stone, an archaeological team is secretly attempting to locate the tomb of an ancient pharaoh who was unlike any other in history. Stone believes he has found the burial chamber of King Narmer, the near mythical god- king who united upper and lower Egypt in 3200 B.C., and the archaeologist has reason to believe that the greatest prize of all—Narmer’s crown—might be buried with him. No crown of an Egyptian king has ever been discovered, and Narmer’s is the elusive “double” crown of the ...
| | Chronicles of the Host Power Pack
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|  | Love in the Time of Cholera (Vintage International)
Release Date: October 30, 2007In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again. ...
|  | Out of the Ashes
Publication Date: September 25, 2010The sequel to A Strong and Sudden Thaw at last! The world after the Ice remains a dangerous place. Callan and David have survived the dragons but rebuilding lives is no easy task. When the army comes to their town to enforce an evacuation, Callan is suspicious about their claims of tainted groundwater and radiation. David feels he must join his family in defending town, even if rebellion means deadly force is needed. Tragedy strikes when the Brethren, a crazed religious order, seeks to control the new world through not only preaching intolerance but forced...
|  | BERMUDA CROSSING
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|  | Battle Flag (The Starbuck Chronicles, Book 3)
Publication Date: February 1995In the third book of the acclaimed Civil War series, filled withvivid, realistic battle scenes and true life characters, Nate Starbuckis arrested for disobeying orders but is exonerated by General Jacksonin time for the Second Battle of Manassas. $20,000 ad/promo. ...
|  | The windways of the Navaho
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|  | Estrogenius 2008: a celebration of female voices
Publication Date: November 20, 2009A compilation of the works presented at the 9th annual Estrogenius Festival in 2008, produced by Manhattan Theatre Source. For more information, go to http://www.theatresource.org or http://www.estrogenius.org. ...
|  | Letters from Black America
Release Date: February 3, 2009| ISBN-10: 0374101094 | ISBN-13: 978-0374101091| Edition: First Edition Letters from Black America fills a literary and historical void by presenting the pantheon of African American experience in the most intimate way possible—through the heartfelt correspondence of the men and women who lived through monumental changes and pivotal events, from the 1700s to the twenty-first century, from slavery to the war in Iraq.The first-ever narrative history of African Americans told through their own letters, this book includes the thoughts of politicians, writ...
|  | Cartas de relacion (Clasicos Castalia) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: May 10, 1993| ISBN-10: 8470396706 | ISBN-13: 978-8470396700| Edition: 1 Edition Las Cartas de relacion son largos informes oficiales dirigidos al emperador Carlos V para que este sancionara la legalidad de la empresa conquistadora, tratando de ganar la partida contra Velazquez, quien igualmente se dirigia al monarca denunciando la rebeldia de Cortes. Cortes debia asimismo dar puntual descripcion de las nuevas tierras y de sus habitantes, asi como explicar las alianzas, guerras y demas sucesos politicos y militares de la campana conquistadora. Las cinco relaciones fueron...
|  | Lakeshore Christmas (The Lakeshore Chronicles)
Release Date: September 28, 2010| Series: The Lakeshore Chronicles Maureen Davenport finally gets to direct Avalon's annual holiday pageant, and she's determined to make it truly spectacular. But former child star Eddie Haven is turning out to be a tattooed lump of coal in her stocking. Eddie can't stand Christmas, but a judge's court order has landed him right in the middle of the merrymaking. He and Maureen spar over every detail of the pagaeant, from casting troubled kids to Eddie's original—and distinctly untraditional—music.Is he sabotaging the performance to spite her, or is ...
|  | Dark Cries of Gray Oaks
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|  | World of 1001 Mysteries
Publication Date: February 21, 1994The Council of the Federation of Universes has decreed that the universe is to be destroyed. Not just the Earth, but the Sun, the Stars, Space, Time - everything. No-one can convince the appeals judge that he is wrong - until he visits Earth. ...
|  | La Cucarachita Martina (Spanish Edition)
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|  | The Random House Book of Nursery Stories
Release Date: September 26, 2000| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Hungarian Folk-Tales (Oxford Myths and Legends)
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|  | Jeremy Lin: From the End of the Bench to Stardom
Publication Date: March 31, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up The world is exposed to an individual like Jeremy Lin only once in a generation. His journey has taken him from practicing lay-ups on the court at the local YMCA to hitting last minute game-winners on the grand stage at Madison Square Garden. This book charts Jeremy’s life story, from the streets of Palo Alto to the dormitories of Harvard to the major arenas throughout the country. Through exclusive interviews, play-by-plays, and colorful recollections, we get an intimate look at Jeremy’s story. It is one of unyielding determi...
|  | Window Art (Crafts)
Publication Date: March 15, 2007| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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