 | People of the Book: A Novel
Release Date: December 30, 2008The "complex and moving"(The New Yorker) novel by Pulitzer Prize-winner Geraldine Brooks follows a rare manuscript through centuries of exile and war Inspired by a true story, People of the Book is a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity by an acclaimed and beloved author. Called "a tour de force"by the San Francisco Chronicle, this ambitious, electrifying work traces the harrowing journey of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a beautifully illuminated Hebrew manuscript created in fifteenth-century S pain. When it ...
 |  | Two Women Of Galilee
Publication Date: March 1, 2006A courtier's wife encounters the mother of God in this debut novel--the beautifully imagined story of Joanna, mentioned in the Bible as "the wife of Herod's steward Chuza," who accompanied Jesus and the disciples. ...
|  | The Secret Hideout (Sugar Creek Gang Series)
Publication Date: June 1, 1997| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Dark Side: The Haunting
Publication Date: September 1, 1999Do you believe in miracles? Jenny Garrett does. Because only a miracle could have brought her through after a terrible car crash. Do you believe in ghosts?Jenny didn't either, until...A tenacious, talented surgeon made Jenny almost as good as new. Almost. Accidents happen--sometimes. But sometimes accidents are planned. Somebody wanted Jenny Garrett dead, and now Detective Rick Walker has to find out who and why. But Jenny can't help with the investigation. Jenny's memory of the accident, and the weeks preceding it, are gone. Yet somehow Rick has to get...
|  | Conviction: Star Wars (Fate of the Jedi)
Release Date: May 24, 2011| Series: Star Wars Chief of State Natasi Daala has been overthrown, and the Jedi Order has taken control of the Galactic Alliance. But while the new governors dismantle Daala’s draconian regime, forces still loyal to the deposed official are mobilizing a counterstrike. And even the Jedi’s new authority may not be enough to save Tahiri Veila, the former Jedi Knight and onetime Sith apprentice convicted of treason for the killing of Galactic Alliance officer Gilad Pellaeon.Meanwhile, Luke and Ben Skywalker are relentlessly pursuing Abeloth, the powerful...
|  | Christie and the Hellcat
Publication Date: February 15, 2006Zee Brodie can't seem to walk down the street without being reminded of her days as the notorious outlaw, Hellcat. Never mind that she paid her dues in Yuma prison and is now the Deputy Sheriff of Cochise County. Life for an outlaw-turned-deputy is never going to be tranquil. When Zee and her prisoner seek shelter in the home of the enchanting Miss Christie Hayes, the encounter imperils both Zee's life and her heart. ...
|  | Lost Paradise: Book One
Publication Date: April 2001Kristina and Nicole...meant for each other in every way. This book tells he story of love lost and found, with a surprising ending. As the title says, this is Part I and the story isn't finished. ...
|  | Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence
Release Date: April 15, 1995Original stories by C. S. Adler, Marion Dane Bauer, Francesca Lia Block, Bruce Coville, Nancy Garden, James Cross Giblin, Ellen Howard, M. E. Kerr, Jonathan London, Lois Lowry, Gregory Maguire, LeslÉa Newman, Cristina Salat, William Sleator, Jacqueline Woodson, and Jane Yolen Each of these stories is original, each is by a noted author for young adults, and each honestly portrays its subject and theme--growing up gay or lesbian, or with gay or lesbian parents or friends. ...
|  | Captain Charisma and the Fearsome Foursome: Fairway Fanatics
Publication Date: October 20, 2004This book tells the story of anaverage group of people playing a round of golf. The events that happen duringthis round of golf may happen to several people at different times duringseveral years. How can one person get so lucky during one round of golf? Read Captain Charisma and the Fearsome Foursome to find out whathappened during the foursomes round of golf. This story may not giveinstructions on how to play the game but it may give the weekend golfers outthere an idea of how to explain their good or bad rounds of golf to theirspouses and friends. Enjoy t...
|  | Nobody Will Ever Forgive Us (Methuen Drama)
Publication Date: November 20, 2008| Series: Methuen Drama Patrick comes home unexpectedly from the seminary and older brother Johnny's not slow to tap him for money. Mum is suspicious, Dad seems indifferent, and pissed, and little sister Cath is distracted and medicated.Nobody Will Ever Forgive Us is the story of a family under siege. Living on their wits and stalked by violence, they defend themselves with the blackest of humour.The play was produced as part of the National Theatre of Scotland/Traverse Theatre's Debuts season and premiered at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh in November...
|  | Monvel, 'Les Victimes clo
Publication Date: February 18, 2011Amants séparés, vertu persécutée, moines lubriques et meurtriers, confrontation de l'Ancien Régime et du nouvel ordre, avec la Révolution en guise de deux ex machina ; mais aussi passions déchaînées, proclamations enflammées et tableaux frappants : l'intrigue des Victimes cloîtrées, drame de Jacques-Marie Boutet dit Monvel, avait tout pour plaire au public de 1791, et connut, tout au long de la période révolutionnaire, un grand succès scénique ainsi que de nombreuses ré...
|  | Cuatro de oros (La Letra Herida) (Spanish Edition)
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| | Rodin and Other Prose Pieces (Quartet Encounters)
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|  | Silent Reading and the Birth of the Narrator (Studies in Book and Print Culture)
Publication Date: December 29, 2007| ISBN-10: 0802093647 | ISBN-13: 978-0802093646| Edition: 1 Although there is abundant evidence that silent reading existed in antiquity, the question remains as to when it became widespread. Silent Reading and the Birth of the Narrator asserts that, due to a rise in the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries in the number of parents who could afford to let their children read freely, widely, and for prolonged periods, an entire generation grew into fluent, silent readers in the later 1700s. At that point in time, the reader ceased to be a mout...
|  | LOST CAUSES: HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN VICTORIAN LI (VICTORIAN CRITICAL INTERVENTIO)
Publication Date: October 15, 2006| Series: VICTORIAN CRITICAL INTERVENTIO What if we didn't always historicize when we read Victorian fiction? Lost Causes shows that Victorian writers frequently appear to have a more supple and interesting understanding of the relationship between history, causality, and narrative than the one typically offered by readers who are burdened by the new historicism. As a return to these writers emphasizes, the press of modern historicism deforms Victorian novels, encouraging us to read deviations from strict historical accuracy as ideological bad faith. By cont...
|  | Mortal Wounds
Publication Date: September 1, 2001After the mysterious deaths of their parents, Jake Gaddy and his sister, Joanna, are hostile to the notion of a good and loving God. In their separate ways, they search for something else to believe in, something that will answer their questions and give their lives meaning. Jake's involvement with a spiritist and his "followers" is the beginning of a perilous journey for both Joanna and himself. Nothing is predictable when Jake stumbles upon a vicious conspiracy to sabotage an American president's reelection campaign. But their journey leads them to the on...
|  | Starlight (Warriors: The New Prophecy, Book 4)
Release Date: March 27, 2007| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Chronicles of Ancient Darkness #6: Ghost Hunter
Release Date: February 8, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Sardine in Outer Space
Release Date: May 2, 2006| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | I Was A Teenage Alien
Publication Date: March 26, 2009| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up Oas is sent from her home planet of Zorca-twenty-three to rescue her brother Ralb from the worst humanoid known in the solar system-a teenage girl. With her traveling companions, Rotsen, a plant with an attitude who watches too many Sopranos reruns, and Lehcarr, a Venus Fly Trap with the habit of eating her friends, they set out to find Ralb.Traveling through a black hole, Oas is transformed from her ananoid shape into a teenage humanoid, becoming what she fears most-a teenager. They land in Bedrocktown to find th...
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