 | It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Zombies: A Book of Zombie Christmas Carols
Release Date: October 27, 2009 Fresh brains roasting on an open fire . . . Outside the temperature's dropping. The snow is falling, blanketing the world in white. Sleigh bells are jingling. Soon it will be that most wondrous time of the year! That time of flesh-devouring zombie horror! Yes, Christmas is on its way—and all the little boys and ghouls are dreaming of stockings filled with candied eyes and bleeding body parts. You'd better watch out! Santa Claws is coming to town—and he knows who's been naughty, who's been naughtier . . . and who'll taste best with a nice glass...
 |  | The Fourth Bear: A Nursery Crime (Jack Spratt Investigates)
Release Date: July 31, 2007The inimitable Jasper Fforde gives readers another delightful mash-up of detective fiction and nursery rhyme, returning to those mean streets where no character is innocent. The Gingerbreadman—sadist, psychopath, cookie—is on the loose in Reading, but that’s not who Detective Jack Spratt and Sergeant Mary Mary are after. Instead, they’ve been demoted to searching for missing journalist “Goldy” Hatchett. The last witnesses to see her alive were the reclusive Three Bears, and right away Spratt senses something furry—uh, funny...
|  | What to Keep: A Novel
Release Date: April 20, 2004Denny Roman at twelve: a midwestern girl with a clueless family, a bit part in the school play, a crush on the drama teacher, and concerns about frontal development. Her mother and father, divorced neuroscientists, are raising her with benign neglect. The family is virtually run by an agoraphobe named Maureen, who has a taxi fleet and a superorganized and compassionate method of managing other people’s lives, especially Denny’s.Denny Roman at twenty-six: jets home from Hollywood for the weekend and lands in the marital minefield of her mother and ste...
|  | The Islands of My Inland Seas
Publication Date: May 21, 2007The poetry of Elmo Daley is in nearly every sense remarkable, shot through with surprise, the sonnet for instance virtually redefined, the old Petrarchan and Shakespearean paradigms in places burst casually apart with unexpected syllables, words breaking at line's ending so as to reveal a rhyme that had been hiding latent in a word's interior, lines running short, running long, and at other times perfectly fulfilling the ancient pattern. Daley works with form and is willing to play with it - in the way that only a master can.The work is infallibly and sometimes ...
|  | Edgar Huntly; Or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker, With Related Texts
Publication Date: September 30, 2006| ISBN-10: 0872208532 | ISBN-13: 978-0872208537| Edition: First Edition In addition to the definitive UVA text of Brown's seminal novel, this edition includes an introduction setting the work in its historical, literary, and intellectual contexts. Selections from William Godwin's "Inquiry Concerning Political Justice" (1793), Erasmus Darwin's "Zoonomia" or "The Laws of Organic Life" (1794), Benjamin Franklin's "A Narrative of the Late Massacres" (1764), and Thomas Barton's "The conduct of the Paxton-men" (1764) a...
|  | Masks of God: Creative Mythology
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|  | I'll Be Home for Christmas: A Musical About Family and Hope in the Golden Days of Radio
Publication Date: March 1, 1994This 3-ring binder holds valuable information on the purpose, form and style of I’ll Be Home For Christmas.It also includes detailed information concerning the set, lighting, props, costumes, character development and staging suggestions, as well as information on the time period. ...
|  | The Best Plays of 1998-1999
Release Date: August 1, 2004| Series: Best Plays (Limelight). "An incredible source of information about everything you ever wanted to know about Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway shows..." Back Stage. This 80th edition features the New York season review by David Lefkowitz and Mel Gussow, programs and statistics, photographs of the year's highlights, a season of Al Hirschfeld drawings, and scenes from the prizewinning plays: Wit * Fosse * Closer * Side Man * Parade * Not About Nightingales. 556 pages, hardcover. ...
|  | Three Old Sundanese Poems (Bibliotheca Indonesica)
Publication Date: March 30, 2007| Series: Bibliotheca Indonesica This book is the first major contribution in English to the study of Old Sundanese literature. Old Sundanese texts have generally been preserved in undated palm-leaf manuscripts, often in a bad condition. Most of them contain prose texts of a historical, religious or didactic nature. Reliable editions are still largely lacking.The present book presents three long OldSundanese poems, each of them handed down in a single manuscript. Two of these – the story of King Rama, and Sri Ajnyana – were found in a nineteenth cent...
|  | Poetry from the Heart of Africa
Publication Date: April 5, 2010Poetry from the Heart of Africa is a book that takes you through a journey of unforgettable experiences. From the slums of Nairobi, Mabel Odima takes you right to a place that matters the most, your heart. This book is simply extraordinary. ...
|  | Do
Publication Date: December 10, 2009Deeply involved with the social issues of his times Romulo Gallegos crafted his representation of the stratified society around him by building upon firmly grounded and widespread images. These images highlight the underlying cultural and metaphysical beliefs (basis for a legitimized social order) from which the fictional world is finally drawn.But while doing so Romulo Gallegos offered new alternatives to those visions as he established and widened gaps in those socially accepted perceptions and values.The essential aspects of the social imaginaries and th...
|  | If You Dare (The MacCarrick Brothers, Book 1) (Bk. 1)
Release Date: April 26, 2005With If You Dare, Cole introduces a thrilling new romance trilogy featuring fierce Scottish brothers with dangerous lives, dark desires, and a deadly curse.Can he exact revenge?High in the Pyrenees, a band of mercenaries led by Courtland MacCarrick wages war for General Reynaldo Pascal. When Court turns on the evil general, Pascal orders him killed but Court narrowly escapes and exacts revenge by kidnapping Pascal's exquisite Castilian fiancée.Can she deny her passions?Lady Annalía Tristán Llorente despises her towering, barbaric captor almo...
|  | Big Sky Country
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|  | Shadows Still Remain: A Novel
Release Date: April 21, 2009 A Beautiful Woman, Missing New York City, 2005. Thanksgiving weekend. A topless Kate Moss peers down from a billboard over rain-spattered Houston Street. Escaping a troubled past, Francesca Pena came to the city and reinvented herself. At New York University, her beauty and charisma are the envy of her privileged pals, yet none knows the real Francesca—who, after a night of drinking, is now missing. A High-Stakes Gamble Detective Darlene O'Hara of the Seventh Precinct and her partner, Serge "K." Krekorian, set out to find Pena. But when the case turns...
|  | Innocent Blood
Release Date: July 31, 2001Adopted as a child into a privileged family, Philippa Palfrey fantasizes that she is the daughter of an aristocrat and a parlor maid. The terrifying truth about her parents and a long-ago murder is only the first in a series of shocking betrayals. Philippa quickly learns that those who delve into the secrets of the past must be on guard when long-buried horrors begin to stir."As a crime novel," wrote the London Times, Innocent Blood is "the peak of the art." "Flawlessly crafted...profoundly, masterfully moving," Cosmopolitan concurred. ...
|  | Satchel Paige (Baseball Hall of Famers of the Negro Leagues)
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|  | Blades, Boards, and Scooters (Popular Mechanics for Kids)
Publication Date: July 15, 2005| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | If A Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks
Release Date: January 1, 2003| Age Level: 5 and up...
|  | The Berenstain Bears: Honey Hunt Helpers (I Can Read! / Good Deed Scouts / Living Lights)
Release Date: April 23, 2012| Age Level: 4 and up A series of faith-based values readers inspired by the classic Berenstain Bears book, The Berenstain Bears and the Good Deed, recently acquired for reprint by Zonderkidz. The Good Deed Scouts are a group of bear cubs who are committed to doing a good deed each and every day. Scouts Brother, Sister, Cousin Fred and Lizzy set forth in each story to find a good deed to do. Each book begins with a Bible verse about the importance of doing good deeds to help others. Each story tells about a different need in the community that the scouts can fulfi...
|  | Mi Amor Por Ti/My Love for You (Spanish Edition)
Release Date: December 29, 2003| Age Level: 1 and up In both Spanish and English, two tiny mice express their love in big terms. On a walk together, the mice learn that their love is bigger than 1 bear, taller than 2 giraffes, larger than 3 blue whales. As they count from 1 to 10, the mice discover that their love is greater than anything they can imagine. Siempre. Forever. Charming collage illustrations and pages sturdy enough for even the littlest hands make this counting story ideal for sharing. ...
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