 | Essays of E. B. White (Perennial Classics)
Release Date: October 3, 2006The classic collection by one of the greatest essayists of our time. ...
 |  | Necklace of Words
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|  | Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Book 2)
Release Date: September 3, 2002Precious Ramotswe is the eminently sensible and cunning proprietor of the only ladies’ detective agency in Botswana. In Tears of the Giraffe she tracks a wayward wife, uncovers an unscrupulous maid, and searches for an American man who disappeared into the plains many years ago. In the midst of resolving uncertainties, pondering her impending marriage to a good, kind man, Mr. J. L. B. Matekoni, and the promotion of her talented secretary (a graduate of the Botswana Secretarial College, with a mark of 97 per cent), she also finds her family suddenly and un...
| | Gothic Documents: A Sourcebook 1700-1820
Publication Date: September 2, 2000In the 1790s, while across the Channel a political revolution raged, Britain was struck by a reading revolution, a taste for terror fiction that seemed to know no bounds. Ann Radcliffe and "Monk" Lewis were only the most celebrated of a host of writers purveying a new brand of "Gothic" literature. How is it that the age of Enlightenment gave rise to the genre of the literary ghost story? This is a landmark in the study of Gothic writing: nowhere else is the historical location of Gothic more richly or vividly illustrated. ...
|  | Dirty Little Angel
Publication Date: September 15, 2008Half Black and half Brazilian, Chaos life has been a whirlwind since the day her mother gave her up for foster care at the age of five. She grew up in the hard streets of the Bronx, New York, but left home at an early age to start up a new life in Philly with a pimp named Crown. Crown, a gorilla pimp who controls the minds of his girls with manipulation, abuse and influence only wants his hoes to have eyes and love for him while continuing to make him top dollar on the seedy backstreets of Philly.Soon, YB, a hardcore street dealer with a soft spot for Ch...
|  | Apologize, Apologize!
Publication Date: March 30, 2010Apologize, Apologize! takes us into the perversely charmed world of the Flanagans and their son, Collie (His parents named him after their favorite breed of dog.) Collie comes of age on Martha's Vineyard, trying to make sense of his wildly wealthy, hyper-articulate, resolutely crazy family members: a philandering father, incorrigible brother, pigeon-racing uncle, radical activist mother, and a domineering media mogul grandfather (accused of being a murderer by Collie's mother). As Collie searches for his place in the world, he suffers insurmountable loss and g...
|  | The Highwayman
Publication Date: June 25, 1987Winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal 1982. The magic of Alfred Noyes's classic poem is captured in Charles Keeping's illustrations. ...
|  | The Selected Poems of D. H. Lawrence (Poetry Library, Penguin)
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|  | Refractions on a laughing mountain
Publication Date: August 9, 2012REFRACTIONS ON A LAUGHING MOUNTAIN is an unforgettable collection of inspirational poems by celebrated poet, Yossi Lopez-Hineynu. His poems about life will encourage you to look beyond your challenges and the core beliefs that may be keeping you from living the life you dream of; his poems about love will unchain your heart and take you to places you’ve never dared to go; and his words of wisdom will open you up to the truth of all you are and set you free. Words weave tapestries. The poems within this book are not meant to be read; they are meant to be...
|  | Wishing You Well: Prayers and Poems for Comfort, Healing, and Recovery
Publication Date: April 2005An inspiring collection of prayers, poems, and blessings that provides encouragement for those facing difficulties in their lives.June Cotner, the best-selling author of Graces and Bedside Prayers, has collected comforting messages of hope and inspiration for those times when we, or someone we love, is going through a particularly difficult period. ...
| | Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola: Commentary on a Poem of Platonic Love
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|  | Unfinished Portrait (English and English Edition)
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|  | Worth the Detour: A History of the Guidebook
Publication Date: February 25, 2008Where would we be without guidebooks? All over the world travellers check out the sights of their chosen destination with their noses glued to a guidebook, and rely on them for every aspect of their visit - ordering meals, understanding the locals or avoiding wandering into the red-light district. Few realise the guidebook has a long and distinguished history, going back to Biblical times and encompassing major cultural and social changes that have witnessed the transformation of travel. Much as the modern "Blue Guide" will tell the visitor what the essenti...
|  | Sentimental Modernism: Women Writers and the Revolution of the Word (A Midland Book)
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|  | Shoulda Been A Cowboy (Rough Riders)
Publication Date: June 1, 2010| Series: Rough Riders (Book 7) The bigger they are, the harder they fall—in love. Soldier Cameron McKay has found his niche, and it ain’t ropin’ steers and wearin’ spurs. His deputy sheriff job, plus battle injuries that ended his military career, keep him right where he wants to be: Off the ranch and away from his family’s pity. His darkest war memories are on lockdown, leaving him skeptical he’ll ever find a woman who wants a man who’s less than whole. Domini Katzinski has had to control every aspect of her life since...
|  | Ravished
Release Date: June 1, 1992From the cozy confines of a tiny seaside village to the glittering crush of the a fashionable London soiree comes an enthralling tale of a thoroughly mismatched couple . . . poised to discover the rapture of love.There was no doubt about it. What Miss Harriet Pomeroy needed was a man. Someone powerful and clever who could help her rout the unscrupulous thieves who were using her beloved caves to hide their loot. But when Harriet summoned Gideon Westbrook, Viscount St. Justin, to her aid, she could not know that she was summoning the devil himself. . . . Dubbed the B...
| | WINX Club, Vol. 6
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|  | Red-Hot Hightops (Matt Christopher Sports Classics)
Publication Date: September 1, 1992| Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Tasty Poems
Publication Date: April 2, 1998| Age Level: 4 and up Popcorn, peanut butter, snow-cones, biscuits, sausages, oodles of noodles--all delicious to taste, delicious to eat, and delicious to read. Here's a mouth-watering collection of 12 tasty poems by the same authors who gave us Noisy Poems and Machine Poems. The Wobbling Race Two jellies had a wobbling race To see who was the wibbliest. Then the sun came out and melted them And made them both the dribbliest. --Clive Riche Popalong Hopcorn! I'm a hopalong popalong popcorn in the pan! In out up down! Catch me if you can! ...
|  | Grizzly Tales: Freaks of Nature: Cautionary Tales for Lovers of Squeam!
Publication Date: May 1, 2010| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
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