 | The Best American Essays 2005 (The Best American Series)
Publication Date: October 5, 2005The Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the very best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected--and most popular--of its kind.The Best American Essays 2005 includesRoger Angell • Andrea Barrett • Jonathan Franzen • Ian Frazier • Edward Hoagland &...
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 | Plays by and about Women
Release Date: January 12, 1974Eight plays, all written in this century, in which leading women dramatists present their own pictures of their sex. ...
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 | Paradise Valley (The Daughters of Caleb Bender)
Publication Date: January 1, 2011| Series: The Daughters of Caleb Bender (Book 1) An Amish settlement in Ohio has run afoul of a law requiring their children to attend public school. Caleb Bender and his neighbors are arrested for neglect, with the state ordering the children be placed in an institution. Among them are Caleb's teenage daughter, Rachel, and the boy she has her eye on, Jake Weaver. Romance blooms between the two when Rachel helps Jake escape the children's home. Searching for a place to relocate his family where no such laws apply, Caleb learns there's inexpensive land for sal...
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 | Haunted Heartland
Publication Date: October 10, 1988More than 150 true stories of the supernatural Midwest. Readers will enter an America they never knew existed--that of ghosts, haunted houses, possession and exorcism, of vanishing people and ships, mystery lights, premonitory dreams and more. A perennial Halloween favorite. ...
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 | Witchfinder: In the Service of Angels
Publication Date: April 20, 2010Mike Mignola teams up with artist Ben Stenbeck (B.P.R.D.: The Ectoplasmic Man) for a look into one of the Hellboy universe's greatest enigmas: nineteenth-century occult investigator Edward Grey!In one of Grey's first cases as an agent of the queen, he goes from the sparkling echelons of Victorian London to its dark underbelly, facing occult conspiracies, a rampaging monster, and the city's most infamous secret society: the Heliopic Brotherhood of Ra. ...
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 | The Source: A Novel
Release Date: July 9, 2002In his signature style of grand storytelling, James Michener sweeps us back through time to the Holy Land, thousands of years ago. By exploring the lives and discoveries of modern archaeologists excavating the site of Tell Makor, Michener vividly re-creates life in and around an ancient city during critical periods of its existence, and traces the profound history of the Jews, including that of the early Hebrews and their persecution, the impact of Christianity on the Jewish world, the Crusades, and the Spanish Inquisition. Michener weaves his epic tale of love, str...
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 | Ring Around the Bases: The Complete Baseball Stories of Ring Lardner
Publication Date: October 1, 2003A complete anthology of baseball fiction by Ring Lardner features short stories that capture the integral role of baseball in American life. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
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 | Black Light
Publication Date: October 1, 1991A wonderful adventure novel from the pen of Talbot Mundy. Joe Beddington is heir to an enormous fortune, but must kowtow to his domineering mother. They are in India searching for the lost daughter of a friend. Joe falls in love with Rita, a girl who is a devotee in a secret Hindu temple. His mother spins an elaborate web to frustrate Joe's intentions--but finds she has fallen instead into the web of her own karma. ...
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 | Revenge at Hatchet Creek
Release Date: June 7, 2011Half-white, half-Indian Yakima Henry has been ambushed and badly injured. Bleeding to death, he doesn't know who'll get to him first: the gunslingers or hungry wolves. Thankfully, comely widow Aubrey Coffin comes along and drags Yakima to safety. But as he heals, lawless desperados circle closer to finish the job they started-putting his innocent savior in the cross fire. ...
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 | Hans Christian Andersen: The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories (Anchor Folktale Library)
Release Date: August 9, 1983Translated by Erik Hougaard, this is the only version available in trade paperback that presents the fairy tales exactly as Andersen collected them in the original Danish edition in 1874. His notes accompany the text. ...
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 | The Secret of Sherlock Holmes
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 | Students Guide Louis Macneice (Student Guide)
Publication Date: February 5, 1996| Series: Student Guide A guide to the poetry of Louis MacNeice and its lasting place in 20th-century literature. Edna Longley argues that MacNeice's work absorbed the communal experience of four decades, not just the 1930s, and enters into the life of the senses and the psyche. ...
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 | G. K. Chesterton As Controversialist, Essayist, Novelist, and Critic (Studies in British Literature, 66)
Publication Date: May 2002| ISBN-10: 0773470964 | ISBN-13: 978-0773470965This book explores the link between G.K. Chesterton's style and characteristic arguments and the political, ideological and artistic changes of the early twentieth century which continue to shape our lives. The complex effects of the Modernist Revolution and conflicts within Liberalism found in Chesterton and attentive and highly intelligent observer, able to perceive and diagnose the coming crisis. ...
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 | Kaleidoscope: Love in Pursuit/Behind the Mask/Yesteryear/Escape (Inspirational Romance Collection)
Publication Date: April 1, 2004Secrets...four women's lives are laced with secrets and mysteries. They long to know and be known fully. But they're not sure how much of their hearts and lives they can afford to share: How much does Gail really know about the man of her dreams? If Jake knew the burden Carillon carries, would he still want her? Can Allison and Beau unravel the mystery that binds them together? Will Peter be able to break through the shroud of secrecy surrounding Daisy? Romance readers will enjoy these four contemporary novels of mystery, suspense, love, and faith. Four women l...
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 | Hidden Jungle
Publication Date: September 1, 2011The War on Drugs is never-ending. Does the 'establishment' need the War on Drugs? Hidden Jungle is about a lone F.B.I. agent (Jack McKay) that finds himself fighting against legalization of marijuana when a new, very useful, variety is produced. ...
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 | The Chestnut Soldier (The Magician Trlogy)
Publication Date: April 1, 2007| Age Level: 8 and up...
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 | I Got Game
Publication Date: January 1, 2003basketball comic strip book ...
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 | Monkey with a Tool Belt and the Seaside Shenanigans (Carolrhoda Picture Books)
Publication Date: July 1, 2011| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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 | African Soccer Stars Legends Tunis
Publication Date: January 27, 2010African Soccer Stars and Legends pays tribute to the African players who have used their talents on the football field to uplift, enrich and inspire their communities. Here is all you need to know about who's who in soccer today, from an upcoming super-striker to a famed football administrator. The African Soccer Stars and Legends series includes: * the club careers of today's African soccer stars * their team achievements * highlights in the lives of African soccer legends * fact files with need-to-know statistics on each player * spectacular in-action phot...
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 | The Cookbook for Kids (Williams-Sonoma): Great Recipes for Kids Who Love to Cook
Release Date: February 1, 2011Packed with more than 60 yummy recipes for easy-to-make treats, from crepes and cookies to fish tacos and nachos, Williams-Sonoma Cooking for Kids makes cooking loads of fun! This book features gorgeous photography and colorful illustrations in a fun, uncomplicated book that kids and parents are sure to love. Kids will love dishes like cinnamon-swirl French toast for breakfast, or granola bars for after-school snacks. Lots of colorful illustrations and fun facts ensure they will have a blast whipping up their own creations in the kitchen. Delicious and simple, t...
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