 | The Willowdale Handcar: or the Return of the Black Doll
Publication Date: October 6, 2003In this enigmatic, surreal, wonderfully entertaining tale, three mysterious figures set out from Willowdale, traveling by handcar. On the way to nowhere in particular they pass a number of odd characters and observe a series of baffling phenomena, from a house burning down in a field to a palatial mansion perched precariously on a bluff. At once deeply vexing and utterly hilarious, darkly mysterious and amusingly absurd, The Willowdale Handcar is vintage Edward Gorey. ...
 |  | Navaho Myths, Prayers, and Songs
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|  | Calling Home
Release Date: January 29, 2008Nothing much ever happens in Falling Rock, Kentucky. So when Virginia Lemmons' husband takes off in his Trans Am to take up with a beautician, there's not much to do but what people in rural Kentucky have always done - get on with it. Now, overwhelmed and unsure, Virginia's got her hands full trying to keep it together, body and soul, while raising her two teenage kids - eighteen-year-old son, Will, and her spirited fourteen-year-old daughter, Shannon.But Shannon has her own ideas for breaking free of Falling Rock, and in her reckless, wild-child daughter, Virgi...
|  | Realm of Shadows
Release Date: October 1, 2002A New York Times BestsellerIn an ancient churchyard just outside Paris, archeologists uncover an ancient tomb -- certain they have stumbled onto the find of the century. But something goes very wrong as the tomb is opened. Something too frightening to imagine . . . and too terrible to utter. For American visitor Tara Mason, the romantic city of her dreams has suddenly turned sinister. For she has heard the blood-curdling screams in the churchyard -- and knows that she must run away -- from the powerful stranger chasing after her . . . and from a legendary, sensua...
|  | The Harbor (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: December 27, 2011| Series: Penguin ClassicsErnest Poole's bestselling, muckraking classic about the plightof the worker. The best-known novel by the winner of the first Pulitzer Prize forfiction, Ernet Poole's The Harbor was published in 1915 toinstant acclaim and remains his most important book. At the heart ofthe story is Billy, an aspiring writer who struggles to reconcile hissympathy for workers with his middle-class allegiance to capitalistprogress. As Billy comes of age on the New York waterfront, aneyewitness to explosive tensions between labor and capital thatculminat...
|  | The Lost Continent of Mu
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|  | Tales of Moonlight and Rain (Translations from the Asian Classics)
Publication Date: December 24, 2008| ISBN-10: 0231139136 | ISBN-13: 978-0231139137First published in 1776, the nine gothic tales in this collection are Japan's finest and most celebrated examples of the literature of the occult. They subtly merge the world of reason with the realm of the uncanny and exemplify the period's fascination with the strange and the grotesque. They were also the inspiration for Mizoguchi Kenji's brilliant 1953 filmUgetsu. The titleUgetsu monogatari (literally "rain-moon tales") alludes to the belief that mysterious beings appear on cloudy, rainy nights and in mo...
|  | Icelandic-Canadian Popular Verse (Mercury Series)
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|  | Greatest hits, 1983-2002 (Greatest hits series) (English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese, Hindi, Tamil, ... Gujarati, Bengali and Korean Edition)
Publication Date: June 1, 2003| Series: Greatest hits series The poets in this series write about their lives as poets with much diversty--some focusing on how their life affect their work. Ohters focus on their education, teaching, and presentations. The poets have been asked to write about the lives of the poems as well. From academic poets to community and street poets, the Greatest Hits series provides their top 12 poems from a broad range of venues and publishing history. Jaeger's introductory essay in this collection of his twelve picks is a must read! ...
|  | Myth of Sisyphus (Great Ideas)
Publication Date: October 1, 2005| Series: Great Ideas Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are. Inspired by the myth of a man condemned to ceaselessly push a rock up a mountain and watch it roll back to the...
|  | Through the Glass Window Shines the Sun: An Anthology of Medieval Poetry and Prose
Publication Date: October 1995Illustrated with pages from illuminated manuscripts and paintings by Brueghel, Raphael, and other masters, this volume brings to life the unchanging rhythms of the medieval year--church festivals and feasts, sowing and harvesting, chivalry and battle, courtship and marriage. Here is a tapestry of medieval life and a fabulous gift for all seasons. ...
|  | Mastered By Love (Bastion Club Novels)
Release Date: July 28, 2009| Series: Bastion Club NovelsThe men of the Bastion Club proved their bravery secretly fighting for their country. Now their leader faces that most dangerous mission of all: finding a bride. As the mysterious leader of the Bastion Club known as "Dalziel," Royce Varisey, tenth Duke of Wolverstone, served his country for decades, facing dangers untold. But as the holder of one of England's most august noble titles, he must now take on that gravest duty of all: marriage. Yet the young ladies the grand dames would have him consider are predictably boring. Far mor...
|  | The Killer / Devil on Two Sticks (Stark House Noir Classics)
Publication Date: June 1, 2008| Series: Stark House Noir Classics Two hardboiled thrillers from the golden age of paperback publishing. ...
|  | The Shaman's Bones (Shaman Mysteries)
Release Date: September 1, 1998| Series: Shaman Mysteries A women of the Tohono O'otam tribe has been savagely--and ritually--murdered in Wyoming, outside the jurisdictions of Granite Creek, Colorado, Police Chief Scott Parris and Ute tribal policeman Charlie Moon. But a brutal, unprovoked assault by the suspected killer on one of Parris's detectives--and the dark, unsettling visions of Charlie's shaman aunt, Daisy Perika--are pulling two dedicated lawmen and an aging Native American mystic into the hunt.Daisy's dreams of raining blood tell her that more will die. Despite the healthy skeptic...
|  | Flying Solo (My Sister the Vampire)
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|  | A World-Class Swimmer (Making of a Champion)
Publication Date: August 2004| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | The Search For The Ultimate Race Car (Science Quest)
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|  | DK Reader Level 2 WWE:Hornswoggle (Dk Readers. Level 2)
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|  | Far from the Storm (The Young Underground #4)
Publication Date: August 1995| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Their enemies will stop at nothing to get revenge-World War II may be over, but for Danish twins Peter and Elise Andersen, the adventures are just beginning! Uncle Morten and Lisbeth return safely from Sweden, but the joyful reunion takes a tragic turn when an arsonist torches the Anna Marie.A series of menacing threats convince the twins that someone is out to destroy Uncle Morten for his work with the Danish Underground. But who? And why won't the adults take the warnings seriously?When Peter and Elise uncover a cru...
|  | With Frederick the Great: A Tale of the Seven Years' War
Publication Date: November 25, 2011A coalition of nations, including Austria, Sweden and Russia, seek the destruction of Prussia. Greatly outnumbered, Frederick the Great, leader of the diminutive country, prepares to defend Prussia's existence. A young Scottish officer, named Fergus Drummond, stands ready to help Frederick defy the odds. During the struggle, he will face adversity on, and off, the battlefield. Will Fergus survive the conflict? How will Frederick respond to overwhelming odds? Will Prussia survive or be crushed by her enemies? These questions, and more, are answered in With F...
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