 | Lesson in Romance (Kimani Romance)
Publication Date: September 18, 2012| Series: Kimani Romance (Book 304) Alex Dovington is a man with a secret. The internationally famous jazz musician never learned to read. If the world—and his legions of fans—knew, it would be a disaster. When he learns Cara Williams has been hired to teach him, he is reluctant to follow the plan. The sultry teacher will be given only three days to teach the music legend everything she knows. But the instructor becomes the student when Alex turns their mountaintop classroom into a sensual duet of passion.Cara will do anything to keep the doors o...
 |  | Long Distance Lover (Arabesque)
Publication Date: January 24, 2012| Series: Arabesque World-class sprinter Kelly Maxwell doesn't have time for romance. But when she suffers an injury on the track, she begins to reevaluate her life. Facing a difficult recovery at a physical rehab facility in New York, Kelly must decide whether she really loves the sport. But after meeting with her physical therapist, Dr. Alex Hutchinson, she faces yet another hurdle.Alex Hutchinson has fallen in love with the wrong woman before—another athlete just like Kelly. Now, years later, he doesn't want to make the same mistake twice. He...
|  | Illuminations: Women Writing on Photography,1850's to the Hb
Publication Date: December 1995This selection of women's writings on photography proposes a new and different history, demonstrating the ways in which women's perspectives have advanced photographic criticism over 150 years, focusing it more deeply and increasingly challenging its orthodoxies. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Northwest Angle: A Novel
Release Date: April 10, 2012With his family caught in the crosshairs of a group of brutal killers, detective Cork O’Connor must solve the murder of a young girl in William Kent Krueger’s latest unforgettable New York Times bestseller. During a houseboat vacation on the remote Lake of the Woods, a violent gale sweeps through unexpectedly, stranding Cork and his daughter, Jenny, on a devastated island where the wind has ushered in a force far darker and more deadly than any storm. Amid the wreckage, Cork and Jenny discover the body of a teenage girl. She wasn’t killed by the ...
|  | YESHUA a Personal Memoir of the Missing Years of Jesus
Publication Date: October 5, 2006The novel is based on a statement by Edgar Cayce, the late American prophet, that Jesus had visited "Persia, India, Syria and Egypt to complete His education." The author has thoroughly researched early Indian and Middle-Eastern history. He illustrates conditions in which such an education might have taken place to prepare Jesus for his ministry. As the story unfolds, Satia, the son of a wealthy caravan owner. meets the 12-year-old Yeshua (Jesus) as the latter flees in rebellion from his Essene teachers. The two become fast friends and stay that way for the 1...
|  | The Lake
Release Date: January 24, 2012Now in paperback: a quietly stunning tour de force about the redemptive power of love.While The Lake shows off many of the features that have made Banana Yoshimoto famous—a cast of vivid and quirky characters, simple yet nuanced prose, a tight plot with an upbeat pace—it’s also one of the most darkly mysterious books she’s ever written.It tells the tale of a young woman who moves to Tokyo after the death of her mother, hoping to get over her grief and start a career as a graphic artist. She finds herself spending too much time staring out...
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|  | First Love and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: August 1, 2008| Series: Oxford World's Classics Bringing together six of Turgenev's best known stories in volume, this collection includes "First Love," "Asya," "Mumu," "The Diary of a Superfluous Man," "Song of Triumphant Love," and "King Lear of the Steppes."About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by lea...
| | French Verse, The Penguin Book of (The Penguin Poets ; D182)
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|  | The Last of the Sweet Bananas: New and Selected Poems
Publication Date: December 28, 2004Because he was a radical poet-his first book of poems was banned-Jack Mapanje was imprisoned without trial or charge by the dictator Hastings Banda of Malawi for nearly four years. The themes of his poetry range from the search for a sense of dignity and integrity under a repressive regime, incarceration, release from prison, exile and return to Africa, and reconciliation with torturers, to the writer in Africa and the continuing African liberation struggle in a hostile world. His poems are lifted up by a generosity of spirit and irrepressible humor that he...
|  | Canti: Poems / A Bilingual Edition
Release Date: January 3, 2012| ISBN-10: 0374533059 | ISBN-13: 978-0374533052| Edition: First Edition A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 Giacomo Leopardi is Italy’s greatest modern poet, the first European writer to portray and examine the self in a way that feels familiar to us today. A great classical scholar and patriot, he explored metaphysical loneliness in entirely original ways. Though he died young, his influence was enormous, and it is no exaggeration to say that all modern poetry, not only in Italian, derives in some way from his work.Leopardi’s poetry is n...
|  | Remus: A Roman Myth
Publication Date: August 25, 1995This is an account of the foundation legend of Rome, how the twins Remus and Romulus were miraculously suckled by a she-wolf, and how Romulus founded Rome and Remus was killed at the moment of the foundation. What does the story mean? Why have a twin, if he has to be killed off? This is the first historical analysis of the origins and development of the myth, and it offers important insights into the nature of pre-imperial Rome and the ways in which myths could be created and elaborated in a nonliterate society. ...
|  | Lost Souls
Release Date: March 1, 2009"Solidifies Jackson's status as the queen of the modern-day suspense thriller." --The Providence JournalKristi Bentz wants to write true crime. All she needs is that one case that will take her to the top. She finds it when she enrolls at All Saints College after learning that four girls have disappeared in less than two years. "Expect the unexpected." --The Clarion Ledger All four girls were "lost souls" troubled, vulnerable girls with no one to care about them, no one to come looking for them if they disappeared. The only person that belie...
|  | Falling
Release Date: February 5, 2008Love hurts.While FBI agent Kelly Feinman is recovering from an attack by a serial killer called the "Acid Man," her husband leaves her. Physically and emotionally scarred by the murderer, Kelly feels she will never be the same. She is cut off not only from her husband and child, but also from her fellow FBI agents, who see her as a rogue for going after the Acid Man alone. Love is hell.Matt Connor's love for his girlfriend, Amy, is so intense that he feels he is in heaven when he is with her. When Amy leaves him for another man, Matt is shattered. In agony, he p...
|  | Bad Kitty vs Uncle Murray
Release Date: May 10, 2011| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Sandy Koufax (Baseball Legends)
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|  | Panda-monium!
Publication Date: March 1, 2011| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up What does a Panda do when his tummy rumbles? He looks for crunchy, munchy bamboo! But Beckett doesn't notice the two pandas behind him and the growing numbers who follow him as he leads them on a search for crunchy, munchy bamboo. And lots of hungry pandas can lead to only one thing... Panda-Monium! This bouncy, rhyming read-aloud offers an entertaining lesson in counting. ...
|  | Asterix gladiador / Asterix the Gladiator: La gran coleccion / The Great Collection (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Willow Run
Release Date: February 13, 2007| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Meggie Dillon's life has been turned upside down by World War II. Meggie's father has announced that they must help the war effort andmove to Willow Run, Michigan, where he'll work nights in a factory building important war planes that will help fight the enemy in Europe. Willow Run will be the greatest adventure ever, Meggie thinks. There she meets Patches and Harlan, other kids like her from far-off places whose parents have come here to do their part in the war. And there she faces questions about courage, and wh...
|  | Small Wolf (I Can Read Book 3)
Release Date: April 22, 1994| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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