 | Till You Hear from Me: A Novel
Release Date: April 20, 2010From the acclaimed Pearl Cleage, author of What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day . . . and Seen It All and Done the Rest, comes an Obama-era romance featuring a cast of unforgettable characters. Just when it appears that all her hard work on Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is about to pay off with a White House job, thirty-five-year-old Ida B. Wells Dunbar finds herself on Washington, D.C.’s post-election sidelines even as her twentysomething counterparts overrun the West Wing. Adding to her woes, her father, the Reverend Horace A. Dunbar,...
 |  | Comfort & Joy: A Novel
Release Date: October 31, 2006New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah is beloved by readers around the world for her unique blend of powerful emotion and exquisite storytelling. In Comfort & Joy, she offers a modern-day fairy tale—the story of a woman who gets a miraculous chance at happiness. Joy Candellaro once loved Christmas more than any other time of the year. Now, as the holiday approaches, she is at a crossroads in her life; recently divorced and alone, she can’t summon the old enthusiasm for celebrating. So without telling anyone, she buys a ticket and board...
|  | The Norton Anthology of Western Literature, Volume 2
Publication Date: June 17, 2005| ISBN-10: 0393926168 | ISBN-13: 978-0393926163| Edition: Eighth Edition Read by millions of students over seven editions, The Norton Anthology of Western Literature remains the most trusted undergraduate survey of Western literature available and one of the most successful college texts ever published.Firmly grounded by the hallmark strengths of all Norton anthologies—thorough and helpful introductory matter, judicious annotation, complete texts wherever possible—the Eighth Edition features a significantly expanded selection of literature (37...
|  | Berlin Blues
Release Date: December 28, 2004It's 1989 and, whenever he isn't hanging out in the local bars, Herr Lehmann lives entirely free of responsibility in the bohemian Berlin district of Kreuzberg. Through years of judicious sidestepping and heroic indolence, this barman has successfully avoided the demands of parents, landlords, neighbours and women. But suddenly one unforeseen incident after another seems to threaten his idyllic and rather peaceable existence. He has an encounter with a decidedly unfriendly dog, his parents threaten to descend on Berlin from the provinces, and he meets a dangero...
|  | Middle Mania: Imaginative Theater Projects for Middle School Actors (Young Actors Series)
Publication Date: December 30, 2001| ISBN-10: 1575252546 | ISBN-13: 978-1575252544| Edition: 1 Middle Mania is a compilation of interactive, collaborative projects written for middle school teachers who spend a good part of their summer sifting through piles of plays in search of the perfect production to do with students. Middle Mania! offers many creative alternatives that are "drama healthy" for kids, providing every student with a chance to get involved. The projects challenge students to stretch their imagination while giving shy students a chance to build self-confidence. These pro...
|  | Dante's Comedy: The Inferno (v. 1)
Publication Date: May 1, 1985| ISBN-10: 0828318840 | ISBN-13: 978-0828318846Translated by Nicholas Kilmer, and illustrated by Benjamin Martinez.Dante called his great work The Comedy - signifying a narrative with a happy ending. The narrative is about the journey of the human spirit through trial, and toward salvation. The journey takes place in three segments of which this, "The Inferno," is the first. ...
|  | Successful selling of the self & sex series
Publication Date: 1907This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition....
|  | Vico's Cultural History: The Production and Transmission of Ideas in Naples, 1685-1750 (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)
Publication Date: January 1997A study of the cultural world of Giambattista Vico, one of the most creative social theorists of the eighteenth century. Based on extensive manuscript as well as printed materials, and relying on the methods of book and publishing history, this volume describes Vico's intellectual community. Special attention is paid to the interaction between scholars and Naples' vibrant operatic and artistic community. The first part of the book investigates a controversy concerning an inquisitorial investigation, Neapolitan travel literature, the papers of a scientific academ...
|  | Terpsichore in Sneakers: Post-Modern Dance (Wesleyan Paperback)
Publication Date: June 15, 1987| Series: Wesleyan Paperback Drawing on the postmodern perspective and concerns that informed her groundbreaking Terpischore in Sneakers, Sally Bane's Writing Dancing documents the background and development of avant-garde and popular dance, analyzing individual artists, performances, and entire dance movements. With a sure grasp of shifting cultural dynamics, Banes shows how postmodern dance is integrally connected to other oppositional, often marginalized strands of dance culture, and considers how certain kinds of dance move from the margins to the mainstrea...
|  | Suite 606
Release Date: November 4, 2008 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Nora Roberts writing as J.D. Robb headlines a hot new anthology of paranormal romance. FEATURING A NEW EVE DALLAS NOVELLA. J.D. Robb plunges Lieutenant Eve Dallas into the violent aftermath of a ritualistic murder. Mary Blayney, investigates a deception that has kept two lovers apart for years. Ruth Ryan Langan brings a lost man out of a storm to face a breathtaking twist of fate. And Mary Kay McComas follows a mother, her son, and a wizard lost through the threads of time. ...
|  | Ice: A Novel
Release Date: November 23, 2010On holiday leave from the service, Gabriel McQueen is sent into a brewing ice storm to make sure that his father’s distant neighbor, Lolly Helton, who has fallen out of contact, is safe and sound. It’s a trip that Gabriel would rather not make, given the bitter winter weather—and the icy conditions that have always existed between him and Lolly. Arriving at Lolly’s home, Gabriel spots strangers through the windows—one of them packing a weapon—and kicks into combat mode. But once Lolly is rescued, the heat—and the...
|  | A Small Town in Germany
Release Date: February 26, 2002John le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him unprecedented worldwide acclaim.A man is missing. Harting, refugee background, a Junior Something in the British Embassy in Bonn. Gone with him are forty-three files, all of them Confidential or above.It is vital that the Germans do not learn that Harting is missing, nor that there's been a leak. With radical students and neo-Nazis rioting and critical negotiations under way in B...
|  | TORN BRANCH (Scribner Crime Classic : An Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Mystery)
Publication Date: November 1, 1986| Series: Scribner Crime Classic : An Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Mystery Collier 1st edition paperback, fine ...
|  | Sherlock Holmes: The Missing Earl & Other New Adventures
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|  | Cartoon Network Block Party: Get Down! - Volume 1 (Cartoon Network Block Party (Graphic Novels))
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|  | The Gate of Dreams
Publication Date: January 1, 1996| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up The Gate of Dreams, illustrated profusely in silhouette, is reminiscent of classic fairy tale editions. Yet the three stories, which appeal to adults as well as children, are entirely new. The sympathetic characters in The Woodcarver's Daughter, Franz the Fool, and The Girl of the Bells, along with the rural settings of these stories, recall to the reader that sense of delight, recognition, suspense and wonder found in the classic tales of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen. Indeed, it was the revered ...
|  | DK Readers: Bermuda Triangle (Level 3: Reading Alone)
Publication Date: March 1, 2000| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Derek Jeter: Captain on and Off the Field (Sports Stars With Heart)
Publication Date: March 1, 2009| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Kitty Cat, Kitty Cat, Are You Waking Up? (Broad Buddies) (Board Buddies)
Publication Date: September 1, 2011| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: Pre K and up...
|  | Adaline Brotherton: Heroine of Chickamauga
Release Date: February 6, 2009Adaline Brotherton played no active role in the Civil War battle of Chickamauga, but she is still remembered today for the difficult choice she made in the aftermath that brightened the outlook for so many wounded soldiers of both armies.Her small place in history is enlivened by the role of some remarkably lucky milk cows.This story includes factual background details of the lifestyle of small-farm children growing up in antebellum North Georgia.Brief details regarding the Civil War and the battle of Chickamauga relate to Adaline’s pre-war experiences an...
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