 | Windfalls: A Novel
Publication Date: April 20, 2004 Lush, compelling, and unforgettable -- an epic tale of motherhood and an urgent narrative of vulnerability and power from the author of the acclaimed Into the Forest.Windfalls is a passionate story of motherhood -- both tender and tough -- that takes an unflinching look at the many choices facing every woman. Young and pregnant, Cerise and Anna make very different decisions about their lives. While teenage Cerise struggles to support herself and her young daughter, Anna finishes college, marries, and later gives birth to two daughters of her own. After the ...
 |  | Obasan
Release Date: December 27, 1993Based on the author's own experiences, this award-winning novel was the first to tell the story of the evacuation, relocation, and dispersal of Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry during the Second World War. ...
|  | The Wedding That Saved a Town (Kar-Ben Favorites)
Publication Date: September 1, 2008| Series: Kar-Ben Favorites This charmingly ghoulish folktale based on an old European Jewish cusotm of holding a wedding in a cemetery to ward off the "Evil Eye." Klezmer musician Yiske and his band of musicians must find a groom to participate in this unconventional wedding and save the town from the plague. ...
|  | The Year 2012
Publication Date: February 2, 2002Will You Be Ready When The Last Days Are Here?---Millions of people believed they were when they saw a hooded figure come down from the sky, and take on the form of a man. In just six days, this man, Natas Reficul, took over the world, and formed The Global Village. He not only had the people eating out of his hands, he also had them believing he was God. Many people knew there was something dreadfully wrong. As they saw their freedom being taken away, they began to protest. It was to no avail. They were being killed for believing differently. They went into...
|  | Jane-Emily: And Witches' Children
Release Date: August 7, 2007 Emily was a selfish, willful, hateful child who died before her thirteenth birthday. But that was a long time ago. Jane is nine years old and an orphan when she and her young Aunt Louisa come to spend the summer at Jane's grandmother's house, a large, mysterious mansion in Massachusetts. Then one day . . . Jane stares into a reflecting ball in the garden—and the face that looks back at her is not her own. Many years earlier, a child of rage and malevolence lived in this place. And she never left. Now Emily has dark plans for little Jane—a blood-...
|  | A Working Class Vampire is Something to Be: Book 1: Coming Into Blood (Bk. 1)
Publication Date: November 2001A young worker overdoses on halloween and drowns before his time. Death rejects him. He wakes up a vampire. Now he and his friends have to deal with it. Come to Seattle in the Autumn of '67, it's interesting. ...
|  | Kindle Effect: A Medical Thriller Special Edition
Publication Date: October 8, 2008 To Be a Doctor is to Know Fear A physician’s greatest skill is not her ability to make keen diagnoses. Her greatest asset is her ability to hide. Not just behind the white coat, where even the most predatory lawyer fears to trend. The safest place a physician has to hide is her mind. Who would dare to follow her there…Two young physicians in training. A patient on the brink of death. A senior physician bent on using an untested medical procedure. At a page-turning clip, Michael R. Collins, author of The Hero Myth Revisited, draws on his own med...
|  | Just Say Yes: A Novel
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|  | Don Vicente: Two Novels (Modern Library Paperbacks)
Release Date: August 17, 1999| Series: Modern Library Paperbacks Written in elegant and precise prose, Don Vicente contains two novels in F. Sionil José's classic Rosales Saga. The saga, begun in José's novel Dusk, traces the life of one family, and that of their rural town of Rosales, from the Philippine revolution against Spain through the arrival of the Americans to, ultimately, the Marcos dictatorship. The first novel here, Tree, is told by the loving but uneasy son of a land overseer. It is the story of one young man's search for ...
|  | The Making of Early Chinese Classical Poetry (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
Publication Date: November 1, 2006| ISBN-10: 0674021363 | ISBN-13: 978-0674021365Over the centuries, early Chinese classical poetry became embedded in a chronological account with great cultural resonance and came to be transmitted in versions accepted as authoritative. But modern scholarship has questioned components of the account and cast doubt on the accuracy of received texts. The result has destabilized the study of early Chinese poetry.This study adopts a double approach to the poetry composed between the end of the first century B.C.E. and the third century C.E. First, it examine...
|  | Wake Forest Series Of Irish Poetry
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|  | Bound to Differ: The Dynamics of Theological Discourses
Publication Date: October 16, 1992In this analysis of theological conflict, Wesley Kort treats theologies as discourses that generate power and significance by their relations to and differences from one another. He identifies the traditional or putative claims of theological power and meaning sources, referents, and patterns or structures as distractions from or even concealments of the discursive situation in which theologies arise.Kort first describes the dynamics of difference and conflicts constituted by theologies and the importance of power for opposing theologies. He provides a model...
|  | Cartas a un joven novelista (Letters to a Young Novelist) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: May 30, 2011In this work, Mario Vargas Llosa addresses magnificent reflections on the art of narrating to all who dream of becoming writers. Written as a collection of letters, the Nobel Laureate responds to questions such as how to transform this calling into tangible literary works, where to begin the journey, how the plot of a novel is created, where does a novelist find inspiration. With the style that characterizes him, Vargas Llosa makes this a masterly lesson on the writers trade.Spanish Description: En esta obra, Mario Vargas Llosa dirige a todos aquellos que tienen...
|  | Ice Wolf
Publication Date: August 1994Conspiring to reclaim a legendary lost treasure and in doing so restore the Reich's power, the infamous Otto Rahn pirates the seas in a U-boat, until the SEAL team of the U.S.S. Springfield challenges his efforts. Original. ...
|  | Knock 'em Dead: A Murder, She Wrote Mystery
Release Date: October 1, 1999When one of her mystery books is turned into a Broadway play, Jessica hits the Big Apple to help out the production.But when dead bodies offstage start upstaging the performers onstage, it's up to Jess to drop the curtain on a killer!...
|  | Greek Myths
Publication Date: November 15, 2011| Grade Level: 1 and up Enter a world where anything is possible. A god could be a mountain or a shower of gold. A nymph could be a stream or an echo in the wind. The myths of ancient Greece are full of such wonders, as well as a host of courageous heroes, cunning heroines, and terrible monsters. From the tragedy of Persephone to the fearsome minotaur; from Perseus's quest for Medusa to greedy King Midas, this collection includes a broad range of the most well-known and celebrated myths. Each is skillfully retold by Ann Turnbull, and readers young and old a...
|  | El dragon Tomason conoce a Juanita/ The Tomason's DragonMeet Juanita
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|  | Summer Of My German Soldier (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Puffin Modern Classics)
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|  | Adventure Bible for Early Readers, NIrV
Release Date: June 10, 2008| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up Ready for Adventure?The Adventure Bible for Early Readers takes you on a fun, exciting journey through God's Word.Along the way you'll meet all types of people, see all sorts of places, and learn all kinds of things about the Bible.Most importantly, you'll grow closer in your relationship with God. Here's a quick tour through the features: 'Life in Bible Times'Articles and illustrations describe what life was like in ancient days 'People in Bible Times' offer close-up looks at amazing people of the Bible 'Did You Know?'...
|  | Naya, the Inuit Cinderella
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