 | Bearing Witness
Publication Date: May 30, 2000| Series: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology Greed, frustrated love, traffic jams, infertility, politics, polygamy. These--together with depictions of traditional village life and the impact of colonialism made familiar to Western readers through Chinua Achebe's writing--are the stuff of Nigerian fiction. Bearing Witness examines this varied content and the determined people who, against all odds, write, publish, sell, and read novels in Africa's most populous nation.Drawing on interviews with Nigeria's writers, publishers, booksellers, and readers, surveys...
 |  | Call Me Irresistible: A Novel
Release Date: January 18, 2011Call Me Irresistible R.S.V.P. to the most riotous wedding of the year . . .Lucy Jorik is the daughter of a former president of the United States. Meg Koranda is the offspring of legends. One of them is about to marry Mr. Irresistible—Ted Beaudine—the favorite son of Wynette, Texas. The other is not happy about it and is determined to save her friend from a mess of heartache. But even though Meg knows that breaking up her best friend's wedding is the right thing to do, no one else seems to agree. Faster than Lucy can say "I don't," Meg bec...
|  | Two Mighty Rivers: Son of Pocahontas (Legend of Pocahontas)
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|  | The Death of a Pope
Publication Date: May 15, 2009Juan Uriarte, a handsome and outspoken Spanish ex-priest, seems to be the model of nonviolence and compassion for the poor and downtrodden. So why is he on trial, accused of terrorist activities? His worldwide Catholic charitable outreach program is suspected of being a front for radicals. The trial is covered by Kate Ramsay, a young British reporter, who sets out to uncover the truth about Uriarte and his work. She travels with him to Africa to see his work first hand but soon finds herself attracted to him. Meanwhile an international conspiracy is growing, one...
|  | Without A Mark: Surviving the Apocalypse in small town America
Publication Date: November 28, 2009A world dictator emerges as millions disappear from the earth. Economic fraud is extinguished and identity theft eliminated with the taking of a mark. Global catastrophes become the norm as earthquakes, hail, and oceanic pollution brings death. The nuclear option becomes common as famine and war eliminate the food source. In a small midwestern city, unmarked believers seek to survive the next seven years. Their existence becomes entangled with the new world order while they long for their promised Messiah. The chance of survival is slim but their faith is n...
|  | The Marsh Birds
Publication Date: October 28, 2006As twelve-year-old Dhurgham As-Samarra’i waits at the mosque where his family was supposed to meet if separated during their attempt to flee Baghdad, he realizes that no one else is coming to meet him. Following Dhurgham, as he builds a new life for himself with no homeland, family, or hope for the future, this searing and honest novel about separation, journey, and justice probes, questions, illuminates, and humanizes important moral and social issues....
|  | Pouliuli (Pacific Classics, No. 8)
Publication Date: January 1981| ISBN-10: 0824807286 | ISBN-13: 978-0824807283| Edition: Pacific Classics Edition Description will be listed as soon as available. ...
|  | Tragedy and Athenian Religion (Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches)
Publication Date: March 2003| ISBN-10: 0739103997 | ISBN-13: 978-0739103999Stemming from Harvard University's Carl Newell Jackson Lectures, Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood's Tragedy and Athenian Religion sets out a radical reexamination of the relationship between Greek tragedy and religion. Based on a reconstruction of the context in which tragedy was generated as a ritual performance during the festival of the City Dionysia, Sourvinou-Inwood shows that religious exploration had been crucial in the emergence of what developed into fifth-century Greek tragedy. A contextual analysis of the pe...
|  | Indian Ink: Krishnan's Dairy, The Candlestickmaker, The Pickle King (New Zealand Playscripts)
Publication Date: April 1, 2006| ISBN-10: 0864734972 | ISBN-13: 978-0864734976The most significant works in recent New Zealand theatre, Krishnan's Dairy, The Candlestickmaker, and The Pickle King form a loose trilogy connected by theme and theatrical style that explores three eternal questions: Will I find love? How can I find happiness? and What is worth preserving? Western theatrical traditions fuse with Indian flavors in the telling of three stories that are accessible to all cultures. ...
|  | Billy Liar (Acting Edition)
Publication Date: December 31, 1960| Series: Acting Edition There are 8 reading parts. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
|  | Bad Poems Horrible Haiku Letters Erotic Stuff And ''Emerge''
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|  | Shi ge mei xue (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | The Officer and the Proper Lady (Harlequin Historical)
Publication Date: November 16, 2010| Series: Harlequin Historical (Book 1020) Major Hal Carlow was a fine soldier, but he was also a flirt, a rake and a scoundrel! In general, he tried to steer clear of proper young ladies—no fun at all—and spend time with the sort of women who appreciated his finer qualities….Miss Julia Tresilian's duty was to find a husband, but her prospective suitors bored her to tears. Yet even talking to the incorrigible Hal Carlow was dangerous to her marriage prospects, let alone anything more…. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | My Lord Eternity (Zebra Regency Romance)
Release Date: October 1, 2003| Series: Zebra Regency Romance Haunted by a series of vicious murders, a woman possessing a mysterious amulet finds herself torn between trusting a man who claims to be her friend, and a charming rake whom she desires. ...
|  | Su-il Vs. Su-il: A Story of Human Cloning Based on a Korean Fable
Publication Date: January 30, 2006| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Su-il versus Su-il is a fantasy novel for children based on the text of an old Korean folktale, re-interpreted in the setting of modern Korean society. In the folktale, a lazy boy cuts his nails and throws them away carelessly. A rat happens to eat the nail clippings and turns into that boy. The rat, now the duplicate of the boy, kicks the real boy out of his home. Finally the boy gets the help of a cat to drive the rat from his home.In the novel, Su-il, the main character, is forced to take summer school by his ...
|  | Coyote and the Grasshoppers: A Pomo Legend (Native American Legends)
Publication Date: February 1, 1998| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Go Long!
Release Date: October 4, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up Tiki and Ronde were the stars of their Pee Wee football team, the Cave Springs Vikings. But middle school is much bigger than elementary school and it’s a whole different game—on and off the field. When Coach Spangler takes a job coaching for the high school team and Tiki’s old science teacher Mr. Wheeler is tapped for the middle school coaching job, the beginning of the school year and the football season is off to a bumpy start. But through working together, the boys discover that the whole team is bigger than any of its ...
| | If I Were an Indianapolis Colt (NFL Series)
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|  | Magic Tree House Fact Tracker #13: Pilgrims: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #27: Thanksgiving on Thursday
Release Date: September 27, 2005| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | Egg Drop
Release Date: July 14, 2009| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Now for something completely different from Mini Grey!A mother hen tells her chicks about the egg that wanted to fly. “The egg was young. It didn’t know much. We tried to tell it, but of course it didn’t listen.” The egg loves looking up at the birds (yes, it has eyes). It climbs 303 steps (yes, it has legs) to the top of a very tall tower—and jumps. It feels an enormous egg rush. “Whee!” it cries. “I am flying!” But it is not flying, it is falling. Hold your tears, ...
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