 | Women's Minyan
Publication Date: March 1, 2006Naomi Ragen's first play, which premiered in July 2002 at Habima National Theater in Tel Aviv. It is based on a true story: a Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) woman, wife of a rabbi, mother of 12, leaves her home and stays with a friend. The community's "modesty squad" tries in vain to force her to go back. Her friend is physically attacked, her arm and leg broken. The rabbi's wife is punished: she is cut off from her children, against her will. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
 |  | Ring of Bone: Collected Poems (New & Expanded Edition)
Publication Date: June 19, 2012"Lew Welch writes lyrical poems of clarity, humor, and dark probings . . . jazz musical phrasings of American speech is one of Welch's clearest contributions." — Gary SnyderLew Welch was a brilliant and troubled poet, legendary among his Beat peers. He disappeared in 1971, leaving a suicide note behind.Ring of Bone collects poems, songs, and some drawings, documenting the full sweep of his creative output from his early years until his death. First published by legendary poetry editor Donald Allen, this new edition includes photos, a biographic timeline, a...
|  | Word of Honor (Newpointe 911 Series #3)
Release Date: September 30, 1999What will it cost to keep a promise? Of the four people at the Newpointe post office when the bomb went off, three were killed instantly. The fourth, a five-year-old boy, lies comatose in the hospital and might not survive. Who would do such a thing? The answer comes in the form of a gunman crashing through the door of the hotel room where Jill Clark is staying. With a rifle barrel pointed at her temple, the young attorney suddenly finds herself the hostage of a desperate man whose actions hardly fit his claim that he's innocent of the bombing. Only later, whe...
|  | American Idol
Publication Date: April 2, 2011In a twisted yet somehow familiar version of America where militias, doomsday cults and self proclaimed Prophets are as commonplace as gas stations and fast food restaurants, The American Idol Company is born. After outraging millions across the world and coming dangerously close to starting World War Three, The American Idol Company is poised to become the next great religion, but the looming threat of disaster is never far behind.Their goal: resurrect Idolatry as a prominent religion and get rich manufacturing and selling Idols. They publicly promote their fl...
|  | Dreams of Decadence Vampire Poetry & Fiction
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|  | Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Series)
Release Date: October 19, 1993| Series: Hitchhiker's Series It’s easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up, the woman you love has vanished due to a misunderstanding about space/time, the spaceship you are on crashes on a remote and Bob-fearing planet, and all you have to fall back on are a few simple sandwich-making skills. However, instead of being disheartened, Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life a bit–and immediately all hell breaks loose.Hell takes a number of forms: there’s the standard Ford Prefect version, in the shape ...
|  | The Cold Commands (A Land Fit for Heroes)
Release Date: September 25, 2012| Series: A Land Fit for Heroes NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYKirkus Reviews • Fantasy Book Critic“Pulpy and hard-core, but with a heart of gold.”—io9The otherworldly Kiriath once used their advanced technology to save the world from the dark magic of the Aldrain, only to depart as mysteriously as they arrived. Now one of the Kiriath’s uncanny machines has fallen from orbit, with a message that humanity once more faces a grave danger: the Ilwrack Changeling, a boy raised to manhood in the ghostly realm of the Gray...
|  | The Sea House: A Novel
Release Date: April 13, 2004The architect Klaus Lehmann loves his wife, Elsa, with a passion that continues throughout their married life despite long periods of separation. Almost half a century after Lehmann's death in the village of Steerborough, a young woman, Lily, arrives to research his life and work. Pouring over Klaus's letters to Elsa, Lily assembles the story of their lives together and apart. And alone in her rented cottage by the sea, she begins to sense an absence in her own life that may not be filled by simply going home. The Sea House is the story of the village of Steerboro...
|  | The Poetry of Robert Frost
Publication Date: March 1996The poetry of Robert Frost, deftly combining a lyrical evocation of rural New England with longer narratives and dramatic forms, focuses predominantly on the themes of human isolation, the emergence of the poetic faculty, death and the spiritual significance of nature. ...
| | Song ci meng tai qi (Gu dian xi lie) (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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| | Handbook of Discourse Analysis: Discourse and Dialogue
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|  | The Mardu Aborigines: Living the Dream in Australia's Desert
Publication Date: May 1, 2002| ISBN-10: 0534440878 | ISBN-13: 978-0534440879| Edition: 2 Characterized by a simple technology and a complex socioreligious system, the Mardudjara have survived with much of their traditional culture intact. The Mardu culture challenges common assumptions about the relation between technology and progress. This edition describes changes as the Mardu adapt to social, economic, and political realities. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Dark Demon (The Carpathians (Dark) Series, Book 13)
Release Date: March 28, 2006Christine Feehan has worked magic on a legion of fans with her darkly thrilling Carpathian tales. Now she delivers the provocative tale of a female vampire slayer who proves as seductive—and mysterious—as the night dwellers she stalks…For as long as she can remember, Natalya has been fighting demons: first in the form of childhood nightmares, then later, immortal creatures that kill and prey on the innocent—including her own twin brother. Whether Carpathian or vampire, she slays those who murder by night, and has no equal—until she is...
|  | The Challenge
Publication Date: October 31, 2006She was shot protecting the president, and woke up naked, in the arms of a hunk...A hunk named Kahn, who told Secret Service agent Tessa Camen an outlandish story about traveling through time, saving the world, and a Challenge only she can accept. Kahn offers her proof she can't refute: Tessa has been brought forward through time to save Earth by winning an intergalactic challenge. Kahn only has a few weeks to train Tessa to use the psi-abilities he insists she has. He is confident in the success of a time-honored method that uses sexual frustration to bring...
|  | Iktomi and the Buzzard: A Plains Indian Story
Publication Date: March 1994| Age Level: 4 and up Iktomi the trickster tries to fool a buzzard into carrying him across the river on the buzzard's back. Asides printed in italics may be used by the storyteller to encourage listeners to make their own remarks about the action, as in traditional Iktomi storytelling. ...
|  | The Night Before the Tooth Fairy
Release Date: September 15, 2003| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up It wiggles, and waggles, and wiggles some more, but this little boy's stubborn tooth just won't come out! He hopes it will fall out soon, because he can't wait to meet the Tooth Fairy! This humorous tale based on Clement C. Moore's classic poem is a perfect addition to the best-selling series. Illustrated by Johansen Newman. ...
| | The Alabama Crimson Tide (Champions of College Football (Powerkids))
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|  | Game, Set, Match, Champion Arthur Ashe
Publication Date: September 30, 2010| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up A picture book biography of Arthur Ashe, who began playing on segregated courts and went on to become the top tennis player in the world. From the start, Arthur Ashe was an unlikely tennis player. As a young boy in the 1940s, he was small and skinny - and barred from most tennis courts because he was black. Still, Arthur was drawn to the game and began to play wherever he could. With patience, hard work, and humility, Arthur pursued his dream. Defeating player after player, match after match, he blazed a path o...
|  | Lili y Minino juegan al escondite (Palabras menudas series)
Publication Date: September 1, 2002| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | The Ravenmaster's Secret: Escape From The Tower Of London
Publication Date: September 1, 2005| Age Level: 8 and up Best-selling author Elvira Woodruff's thrilling novel set in 1700s London.Now in paperback!It's 1735. Forrest Harper's life inside the Tower of London consists of three ways to pass the time: chores, chores, and more chores. His only friends are the spirited ravens he tends with his father. So when vicious Scottish Rebels are captured, Forrest can't wait to prove himself by standing guard. If only Forrest's prisoner hadn't turned out to be the noble and daring Maddy. And if only Maddy wasn't about to be executed. . . .Now, as Forrest c...
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