 | Good Things
Publication Date: October 2, 2012Nick Knittel enchants with stories as dark and moving as your favorite Bruce Springsteen song. Characters maneuver their way through not only a dead-end town, but a dead-end existence. Caught in complex relationships—friendships, marriages, and families—they chronicle what it’s like to be blue-collar and barely making it. ...
 |  | If Memory Serves
Release Date: June 1, 2011Scandalous secrets, impossible choices, and supreme tests of faith combine in this thrilling new novel from bestselling author Vanessa Davis Griggs. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | The Boy's Catlin: My Life Among The Indians (1909)
Publication Date: October 22, 2007This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. ...
|  | One Candle's Light
Publication Date: December 3, 2009Your name is William Brewster. You live in "glorious" Elizabethan England during the Reformation. Church doctrine and attendance are strictly mandated by the ruling monarchy. Nonconformists are fined, imprisoned, or executed.At Cambridge, some insist that "good men must never submit to tyranny." After your dearest friends are betrayed by the country they serve, you hunger to hear the secret preaching of the newly translated Scriptures. Is it worth the risk?Decades before the Mayflower voyage and Plimouth Plantation, English "commoners," emboldened by reading...
|  | Mr. Monk Goes to Hawaii
Release Date: July 5, 2006| Series: Monk Some people think Hawaii is paradise. But Monk knows that danger—like dirt—lurks everywhere. Look at Helen Gruber, the rich tourist who took a fatal blow from a coconut. The police say it fell from a tree, but Monk suspects otherwise. His assistant, Natalie, isn’t exactly thrilled about Monk’s latest investigation. It was bad enough that Monk followed her on vacation, and now it looks as though the vacation is over.... Smooth-talking TV psychic Dylan Swift is on the island and claims to have a message from beyond—from Hel...
|  | Pygmalion and Major Barbara (Bantam Classics)
Release Date: July 1, 1992| Series: Bantam Classics George Bernard Shaw was the greatest British dramatist after Shakespeare, a satirist equal to Jonathan Swift, and a playwright whose most profound gift was his ability to make audiences think by provoking them to laughter.In one of his best-loved plays, Pygmalion, which later became the basis for the musical My Fair Lady, Shaw compels the audience to see the utter absurdity and hypocrisy of class distinction when Professor Henry Higgins wagers that he can transform a common flower girl into a lady—and then pass her off as a duchess...
|  | Collected Plays & Short Stories (2 Vol.set)
Publication Date: January 1, 1971Sri Aurobindo, in his dramas, shows very pointedly, by the labor he has spent on personalities and situations set in a variety of climes and ages that, despite being a yogi and a philosopher, he never shies away from the touch or clutch of man as he is.He refuses nothing, he takes every chance to seize on multi-coloured life and, within matters mundane and along roads of day-to-day history, he renders visible the ideal, the highest motive possible to whatever may be the complex of circumstances, the maze of desire and ambition and vocation. ...
|  | Fire in the Soul: 100 poems for human rights
Publication Date: October 1, 2009Supporting Amnesty International, this is a rousing collection of poems by an international array of poets, mixing well-known names with relative newcomers. They are as much about assertiveness and hope as they are about injustice and the outrages that scar human history.One hundred poems deal with colossal historic events (for example, Siamanto's "The Dance," about the Armenian genocide), as well as more domestic concerns (Rita Ann Higgins' exploration of deprivation in Ireland, for instance).Includes the work of Adrienne Rich, Kimiko Hahn, Lorna Goodison, A...
|  | World History by Era - Vol. 4 The Renaissance (hardcover edition)
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|  | Secret Life of a Vampire (Love at Stake, Book 6)
Release Date: March 31, 2009 Nothing's sexier than an man who can keep a secret. A typical bachelor party is all about beers and beautiful women. A vampire bachelor party is no different -- except the men are drinking Blissky (whiskey-flavored synthetic blood). And no one can throw a party quite like Jack, the illegitimate son of the legendary Casanova. But when the party gets out of hand and the cops show up, Jack has some explaining to do . . . if only he wasn't struck speechless by the beauty of Officer Lara Boucher. Lara is sure there's something more than a bachelor party going on. ...
|  | Fitzwilliam Darcy An Honourable Man
Publication Date: April 15, 2011Fitzwilliam Darcy, An Honourable Man is a Pride and Prejudice variation. Not a simple retelling, it is an intriguing new story. Leaving England after his disastrous proposal was refused at Hunsford, Darcy spent two lonely years in Scotland and Ireland before returning home to face Elizabeth Bennet, certain that he could regard her as an indifferent acquaintance. Events that transpired in his absence have left Elizabeth a changed woman.The victim of a marriage by deception to Count Stefano, she has suffered greatly at his hands. Will Mr. Darcy rescue the woman ...
|  | Dreamquest (Time Travel Romance)
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|  | Surreal Serial
Publication Date: January 29, 2009Three fast paced short stories that revolve around serial killer, Mary Jade.The reader has the freedom to read them in any order and see how the episodes are connected and how characters are developed.Violence meets sex meets art, in a witty fashion. ...
|  | Heroes of the Game: True Baseball Stories
Publication Date: March 1, 1997A collection of stories focuses on people who have beeninfluenced by the game of baseball and chronicles the successes andtrials of major stars, average players, and baseball fans. Reprint.SLJ....
|  | Million Dollar Bucket: And Other Stories about Your Favorite Sports (Sports Shorts)
Publication Date: November 2000| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | The Melting of Maggie Bean
Release Date: April 24, 2007| Age Level: 9 and up Maggie Bean is a top student, a loyal friend, and has a great sense of humor. But the past year's been kind of rough, what with her dad losing his job and her loads of schoolwork. Maggie's learned to cope by eating chocolate. Lots and lots of chocolate. So much so, that Maggie is dragged by her aunt to weekly Pound Patrollers meetings. No big deal, just utter social devastation. She keeps her mind off PP meetings by "accidentally" running into gorgeous 8th grader Peter Applewood; updating her study spreadsheet--a.k.a, Maggie's Master Multi-Ta...
| | Best Of The Best In Soccer (Women of Sports)
Publication Date: September 1, 1998| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | How to Draw Nickelodeon Avatar: The Last Airbender
Publication Date: March 1, 2007| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Recipe and Craft Guide to China (World Crafts and Recipes) (World Crafts & Recipes)
Publication Date: May 11, 2010| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | If I was a Turtle: Girls version
Publication Date: April 3, 2011Learn, imagine and explore the life of a turtle seen from a child's eye. With large font and small words it's easy for kids to expand their reading experience. The first part of this book will take you on an exploration of how a turtle might live. The second half will allow you to use your imagination and insert your own ideas of how you would be turtle. It also contains a list of facts about different types of turtles. ...
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