 | Gump & Co.
Release Date: June 1, 2010Forrest Gump captured our hearts in the #1 New York Times bestselling novel Forrest Gump, and in the blockbuster film, winner of six Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Actor. Now he returns in the long-awaited sequel to the book hailed by Larry King as "the funniest novel I have ever read." A little older, and wiser in his unique way, Forrest is still running -- this time straight into the age of greed and instant gratification known as the 1980s.Whenever I really get stumped, I go visit Jenny's grave. She tells me she's always rooting for me. The Bubba ...
 |  | The Rest of Her Life
Release Date: August 7, 2007In The Rest of Her Life, Laura Moriarty delivers a luminous, compassionate, and provocative look at how mothers and daughters with the best intentions can be blind to the harm they do to one another.Leigh is the mother of high-achieving, popular high school senior Kara. Their relationship is already strained for reasons Leigh does not fully understand when, in a moment of carelessness, Kara makes a mistake that ends in tragedy -- the effects of which not only divide Leigh's family, but polarize the entire community. We see the story from Leigh's perspective, as sh...
|  | Lady of Milkweed Manor
Publication Date: January 1, 2008The engaging and moving story of a once-proper lady who finds herself in a most unexpected situation; a romance set in Regency England. ...
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|  | BABIES ARE LIKE BLOSSOMS: Beautiful Flowers in the Garden of Life
Publication Date: March 7, 2000 In Praise of Babies, A Delightful Tribute to Those Who Inspire the Greatest Love of AllBabies Are Like Blossoms offers nuggets of wisdom, advice, and even chuckles that are as irresistible as an infant. Full of heartwarming poems and clever quips, Babies Are Like Blossoms celebrates the blessings of parenthood -- from witnessing the miracle of life to surviving sleepless nights. Included are observations from famous personalities, such as Bill Cosby and Joan Rivers, poems to copy and stick on refrigerators, and suggestions to smooth the rough times or prolon...
|  | Grave Concerns (Dr. Rhea Lynch Novels)
Publication Date: January 1, 2004| Series: Dr. Rhea Lynch Novels Ms. Hunter crafts a tense and suspenseful tale with an ending that will leave readers gasping in disbelief." --Rendezvous on DELAYED DIAGNOSIS ...
|  | Golf in the Kingdom
Release Date: June 29, 2011A new deluxe edition of a golf classic by the director andco-founder of the Esalen Institute recounts the author's encounter withthe mystical golf pro Shivas Iron and explains the philosophical truthsto be gained from playing golf. 15,000 first printing. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Adultery & Other Choices
Publication Date: June 1, 1999| ISBN-10: 0879232846 | ISBN-13: 978-0879232849This second book of short stories by Andre Dubus established him as a master of the genre in the lineage of Hemingway and Chekhov, even as its gritty truths and spiritual attentiveness served to set his voice apart. The opening stories focus on the fragile nature of youth, exemplified in struggles with a father, a friend, an enemy, and obesity. In part two, Dubus contends with more adult forms of discipline: the military, the police, and fate and then leaves us with the most wrenchingof all emotional challenges ...
|  | Hickory Haiku
Publication Date: 2010A poetry chapbook. ...
|  | Wind of the Journey
Publication Date: May 2000Irina Ratushinskaya will forever be known as the poet who was arrested for her writing, sentanced to a Soviet prison camp. And who continued in the face of persecution to write new poems. She wrote them on bars of soap, memorised them, and then washed away the 'evidence'. Irina is a recognised poet in both the International community and the United States. Many of Irina's poems have the earmarks of a well-seasoned traveller: and eagerness for adventure, melancholy good-byes, and a faith forged from life's journey. ...
|  | 100 Christian Books That Changed the Century
Release Date: October 1, 2000In the twentieth century, a vibrant evangelical culture emerged. The authors explore the key books that influenced the dramatic changes of the past one hundred years. ...
|  | The Age of Renaissance and Reformation
Publication Date: August 26, 1981| ISBN-10: 0819118621 | ISBN-13: 978-0819118622Originally published by Dryden Press in 1977, this volume examines the period from 1300 to the end of the Thirty Years' War in 1648, an age of disorganization and turmoil, though also one of high achievement. It was an era that was somewhat grandiosely and quite inaccurately described as a rebirth of civilization, a Renaissance, and in religious matters, a Reformation. ...
|  | Homespun Christmas: Hope for the Holidays/More Than Tinsel/The Last Christmas/Winter Sabbatical (Inspirational Christmas Romance Collection)
Publication Date: September 1, 2002For the good citizens of Hope, Washington, the future appears hopeless- until a small boy's crazy idea for a Homespun Christmas begins to turn things around. A century earlier, when pastor Fergus McKay came as pioneer to the small logging village of Hope, he envisioned a place where couples could fall in love and grow old together in service to God and community. But over the years, the hope died - and all that remained was a village filled with despair. This Christmas, will the vision of that young minister find fulfillment at last? Can the Christmas wishe...
|  | Conrad and the Millennium
Publication Date: February 15, 2002| Series: Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives, Volume X (Book 10) This two-volume collection is international and interdisciplinary in scope drawing on a large range of theoretical perspectives ranging from archival scholarship to cultural geography and film studies. There are four sections: Modernism and Modernity; Postmodernism: Intertextuality; Postmodernism: Gaze, Vision and Voice; and Postcolonialism. ...
|  | A Celebration of Literature and Response: Children, Books, and Teachers in K-8 Classrooms (3rd Edition)
Publication Date: August 31, 2007| ISBN-10: 0136133940 | ISBN-13: 978-0136133940| Edition: 3This engaging book applies reader response theory to children's literature methods to help new and experienced teachers best involve kindergarteners through eighth graders in literature and literacy. Authentic student responses open chapters, book clusters and the accompanying CD database of children's literature provide guidance for involving students with literature, and Literature Resources on the Web guide users to lesson plans, standards, author interviews, projects, an...
|  | Beerspit Night and Cursing
Release Date: June 21, 2002 Unmasks the tough, street-smart persona of Charles Bukowski—America's "Ultimate Outsider" Amazing letters filled with passionate, literary, and personal observationInsights into the author of Tales of Ordinary Madness, Notes of a Dirty Old Man, and Run with the HuntedInsights into Sheri Martinelli: the protege of Anais Nin, an accomplished painter, and the mistress of Ezra Pound Charels Bukowski's persona as the Dirty Old Man of American Literature is just that: a persona, a mask beneath which there was a man better read and more cultured than most peop...
|  | Sleepless in Scotland (The MacLeans)
Release Date: July 21, 2009 The fourth and fifth exciting novels in New York Times bestselling author Karen Hawkins’s sparkling Scottish Regency series about two beautiful twin sisters who find romance with the sexy MacLean brothers. In Sleepless in Scotland, Catriona Hurst learns that her sister Caitlyn is getting into trouble in her societal debut, and she rushes to London to rescue her bolder, younger twin. Discovering that Caitlyn has planned to force Laird Alexander MacLean into marrying her by stowing away in his coach, Triond sneaks inside MacLean’s coach to dissuade her s...
|  | Copper River: A Novel (Cork O'Connor)
Release Date: August 11, 2009| Series: Cork O'ConnorTwo-time Anthony Award-winning author William Kent Krueger has "moved to the head of the crime fiction class" (Chicago Sun-Times) with his gripping series featuring Sheriff Cork O'Connor. In Copper River, Cork is running for his life -- and straight into a murderous conspiracy involving teenage runaways.Desperately avoiding the clutches of professional hit men who have already put a bullet in his leg, Cork finds sanctuary outside the small Michigan town of Bodine. But while he's hiding out in an old resort owned by his cousin Jewell D...
|  | Coyote Waits
Release Date: May 26, 2009 The car fire didn't kill Navajo Tribal Policeman Delbert Nez—a bullet did. And the old man in possession of the murder weapon is a whiskey-soaked shaman named Ashie Pinto. Officer Jim Chee is devastated by the slaying of his good friend Del, and confounded by the prime suspect's refusal to utter a single word of confession or denial. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn believes there is much more to this outrage than what appears on the surface, as he and Jim Chee set out to unravel a complex weave of greed and death that involves a historical find and a lost fortune. ...
|  | Ignatius MacFarland 2: Frequency Freak-out!
Publication Date: July 1, 2010| Grade Level: 3 and up...
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