 | Criadas y senoras / The Help: Hay secretos que lo cambian todo / There Are Secrets That Change Everything (Spanish Edition)
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 | Summer Friends
Release Date: June 28, 2011Over the course of one eventful summer, nine-year-old native Mainer Delphine Crandall and Maggie Weldon, a privileged girl 'from away,' become best friends. Despite the social gulf between them, their bond is strengthened during vacations spent rambling around Ogunquit's beaches and quiet country lanes, and lasts throughout their college years in Boston. It seems nothing can separate them, yet after graduation, Delphine and Maggie slowly drift in different directions...With her MBA, Maggie acquires a lucrative career, and eventually marries. Delphine is drawn back ...
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 | Charles Darwin in Cyberspace: A Novel
Release Date: June 1, 2005This novel about Emma Wedgewood, wife of Charles Darwin, centers around her hallucinative mind. Her grief at the death of their child Annie is given a bizarre twist by some ergot mold on the bread she uses for her pudding; her world becomes the twentieth century. Burch presents her husband’s sympathetic letters which contain fragments from Darwin’s Expression of the Emotions In Man and Animals and contributions from other characters such as the social worker and Emma’s unusual later offspring, Ralph Waldo Business Administration. Claire Burch, whose a...
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 | An Uncertain Dream (Postcards from Pullman Series #3)
Publication Date: June 1, 2008Their community has been ripped apart by the company strike . . .can anything hold their love together? When Pullman Car Works employees walk out in protest of their wages and high rent, Olivia Mott is torn between her loyalty to the company and her love for Fred DeVault. Amidst the turmoil in Pullman, Fred is asked to act as a local delegate to the national convention of the American Railway Union, but when the delegates vote for a boycott of the famous Pullman sleeping cars, Olivia wonders if Fred will ever be able to show his face again in the company town. W...
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 | Maggie's Mistake (Heartsong Presents #487)
Publication Date: May 4, 2002| Series: HEARTSONG PRESENTS - HISTORICAL Historical inspirational romance ...
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 | Sword of Damocles (Star Trek: Titan, Book 4)
Release Date: November 27, 2007| Series: Star Trek: Titan, Book 4 (Book 4) Captain Riker and his crew have discovered a mysterious planet populated by a civilization where science and faith are struggling for supremacy, due in large part to a strange, unexplained phenomenon known as the Watchful Eye, visible in the sky above the planet. Two teams from the Titan have been sent to investigate. One must covertly observe the people and culture of the planet while the other team takes a shuttle to study the strange Watchful Eye. But when the team on the planet is discovered, a dramatic chain of e...
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 | Minghella Plays: 1: Whale Music; A Little Like Drowning; Two Planks and a Passion; Made in Bangkok (Contemporary Dramatists) (v. 1)
Publication Date: June 15, 1992| Series: Contemporary Dramatists Anthony Minghella's writing "sets a standard of emotional truth and clarity so sublimely high that everything around it looks stale, flat, tawdry and obvious"—The TimesWhale Music is: "genuinely tender, poignant and spikily anti-amle all at once" (Daily Mail); A Little Like Drowning "makes you laugh, makes you cry and makes you think" (Guardian); Two Planks and A Passion "is one of the best new plays I have seen in the past decade" (Financial Times) ...
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 | Haiku - The Sacred Art: A Spiritual Practice in Three Lines (Art of Spiritual Living)
Publication Date: October 26, 2009| Series: Art of Spiritual Living "Writing haiku offers the chance to honor, hold, and fully experience a fleeting moment that takes you out of yourself, a moment that hints at the deeper unity that lies beneath the surface of things."--from Chapter OneHave a "haiku moment"--when your mind stops and your heart moves.In this encouraging guide for both beginning and experienced haiku writers, Margaret D. McGee shows how writing haiku can be a consciously spiritual practice for seekers of any faith tradition or no tradition.Drawing from her experience as a spir...
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 | The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri
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 | Romanticism and Feminism
Publication Date: April 1988Excellent scholarly resource! ...
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 | Understanding Expository Text (Duro) (Psychology of reading and reading instruction)
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 | Introduction to Play Analysis
Publication Date: September 10, 2004| ISBN-10: 0072500328 | ISBN-13: 978-0072500325| Edition: 1 Fusing a variety of influences (Aristotle, Stanislavsky, Kenneth Burke, and structuralism), this new text takes students through progressively complex levels of play reading in which they: respond to a first reading; gather information from the play (including given circumstances); interpret the characters and relate them to the conflict; and synthesize perceptions that have been revealed through analysis. Its central principle is that conflict is the essence of drama: the book lays out a syst...
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 | Chateau de Ma Mere (French Edition)
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 | Captured by the Highlander
Release Date: March 1, 2011| Series: Highlander Lady Amelia Sutherland would rather die than surrender to a man like Duncan MacLean. He is the fiercest warrior of his clan—her people’s sworn enemy—and tonight he is standing over her bed. Eyes blazing, muscles taut, and battle axe gleaming, MacLean has come to kill Amelia’s fiancé. But once he sees the lovely, innocent Amelia, he decides to take her instead…Stealing the young bride-to-be is the perfect revenge against the man who murdered Duncan’s one true love. But Lady Amelia turns out to be more tha...
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 | Montana: A Legacy of Faith and Love in Four Complete Novels (Autumn Love / Contagious Love / Inspired Love / Distant Love)
Publication Date: August 1, 2000A CBA BestsellerMontanans are legendary for their courage and willingness to take on challenges as big as the Montana sky. Edith Harkness is a widowed teacher who quits her job after a shooting at school. Though her children urge her to retire and take life easy, Edith takes on a new job - and meets a new love interest. Can life begin afresh with an autumn love? --This text refers to the Hardcover edition....
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 | Call to Treason (Tom Clancy's Op-Center, Book 11)
Release Date: July 6, 2004Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Call to Treason is yet another gripping addition to the bestselling series masterminded by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik. The Op-Center's budget is slashed, leaving General Mike Rodgers in the market for a new job. When presidential candidiate Senator Donald Orr recruits Rodgers to act as his military advisor, it sounds like a perfect transition. There's just one problem. A spree of deaths may be tied to Orr's presidential run and Rodgers must decide whether to sign on or shut it down. ...
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 | Twenty-Two Splendid Tales to Tell From Around the World, Vol. 2
Publication Date: March 7, 2006| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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 | Martial Arts! Learn About Martial Arts And Learn To Read - The Learning Club! (45+ Photos of Martial Arts)
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 | Surf's Up!: A Surf Style Handbook (Trend Friends)
Release Date: May 27, 2002| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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 | Top Secret: A Handbook of Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing
Release Date: April 11, 2006| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up "The author's upbeat, positive tone is refreshing and his enthusiasm about his topic is contagious." — SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL (starred review)Pssst! Do you know the difference between a code and a cipher? Can you tell a St. Cyr slide from a Cardano grille? Did you know that the discovery of a substitution cipher caused Mary Queen of Scots to lose her head? Don't look now, but packed into this practical field guide is everything a young person needs to know about the art of concealment - making and breaking codes...
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