 | Pride and Prejudice (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: May 15, 2008| Series: Oxford World's Classics Pride and Prejudice has delighted generations ofreaders with its unforgettable cast of characters,carefully choreographed plot, and a hugely entertainingview of the world and its absurdities.With the arrivalof eligible young men in their neighborhood, the livesof Mr. and Mrs. Bennet and their five daughters areturned inside out and upside down. Pride encountersprejudice, upward-mobility confronts social disdain, andquick-wittedness challenges sagacity, as misconceptions and hasty judgements lead to heartache and scandal, buteven...
 |  | The Sugar Camp Quilt: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel
Release Date: June 26, 2012| Series: Elm Creek Quilts History is thick with secrets—and Pre–Civil War America comes to vivid life—in this stunning and suspense-charged Elm Creek Quilts novel from New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini Abolitionist schoolteacher Dorothea Granger faces the ultimate test of her courage and convictions when the national debate over slavery sets friends and neighbors against one another in rural Creek’s Crossing, Pennsylvania. . . . When her cantankerous Uncle Jacob designs five unusual patterns—and gives Dorothea an u...
|  | Heart of Stone: A Novel (Irish Angel Series)
Release Date: February 23, 2010| Series: Irish Angel Series (Book 1) She had the darkest of pasts. And he had everything to lose by loving her. Laura Foster, free from the bondage of an unspeakable childhood, has struggled to make a new life for herself. Now the owner of an elegant boardinghouse in Glory, Texas, she is known as a wealthy, respectable widow. But Laura never forgets that she is always just one step ahead of her past. When Reverend Brand McCormick comes calling, Laura does all she can to discourage him as a suitor. She knows that if her past were discovered, Brand's reputation ...
|  | What Goes Around: A Novel
Release Date: May 30, 2006THE SISTER HAD IT ALL–UNTIL KARMA CAME TO TOWN.A successful businesswoman, Catherine Hawkins has lived an enviable life of luxury, thanks to an ambition that has made her stop at nothing–including abandoning her own twin daughters when they were born eighteen years ago. After going AWOL, Catherine sent lavish gifts to Ariana and Alisa, while the children’s father, Terry Winston, and his wife, Jackie, reared the girls with all their love and care.Now, as the twins are ready to graduate high school, Catherine is suddenly begging to visit and full ...
|  | Showers of Blessings
Publication Date: March 1988Combining the poetry of Helen Steiner Rice with appropriate selections of Scripture, these uplifting poems remind readers of God's everlasting care and give them hope to grow through difficulties. ...
|  | The Poems of John Donne (Longman Annotated English Poets)
Publication Date: June 4, 2010| ISBN-10: 1408231247 | ISBN-13: 978-1408231241| Edition: 1 "No man is an island" and "For whom the bell tolls" are just two of the phrases from John Donne's poetry which are known to virtually everyone. John Donne (1572-1631) is considered the best of the metaphysical poets and one of the greatest writers of love poetry ever. This volume is a fully comprehensive annotated edition of Donne's poetry and a landmark volume in literature publishing. Extensive editorial commentary for each poemHeadnotes set poems in historical contextText has been modernise...
|  | Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: October 1, 1999| Series: Penguin Classics When Washington Irving first published this collection of essays, sketches, and tales--originally entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.--readers greeted it with enthusiasm, and Irving emerged as America's first successful professional author."The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle," two of America's most recognizable and loved works of fiction, display Irving's ability to depict American landscapes and culture so vividly that readers feel themselves a part of them. And it is on the basis of these two classic t...
|  | Return of the Portable Curmudgeon
Release Date: August 1, 1995When turning the other cheek just won't do, try fighting back with the cantankerous remarks of some of the crustiest, grouchiest, and cleverest curmudgeons of all time. Profiles of three world-class wordsmiths--Alexander Woollcott, Oscar Wilde, and Robert Benchley--plus interviews with a variety of caustic commentators make this a collection of barbed remarks second to none. ...
|  | Poemario Biling
Publication Date: June 12, 2012Poetry for daily reflection! ...
|  | Complete Love Lyrics including India's Love Lyrics, Stars of the Desert, Last Poems
Publication Date: 1942Author's Dedication toMALCOLM NICOLSONI, who of lighter love wrote many a verse,Made public never words inspired by thee,Lest strangers' lips should carelessly rehearseThings that were sacred and too dear to me.Thy soul was noble; through these fifteen years Mine eyes familiar, found no fleck nor flaw,Stern to thyself, thy comrades' faults and fearsProved generosity thine only law.Small joy was I to thee; before we met Sorrow had left thee all too sad to save.Useless my love -- as vain as this regret That pours my hopeless life across thy grave. L. H. ...
|  | Inside Picture Books (Yale Nota Bene)
Publication Date: August 11, 2000| Series: Yale Nota Bene "Inside Picture Books" raises the question of whether our childhood experiences of picture books can actually be profound enough to shape our adult lives. This book should be of interest to teachers, parents and therapists alike and a lesson to anyone reading a bedtime story. ...
|  | The Sacred Nectar of the Greeks: The Study of Greek in the West in the Early Middle Ages (Kings College London Medieval Studies)
Publication Date: January 1, 1988| Series: Kings College London Medieval Studies Contributors: A.C. Dionisotti, Michael W. Herren, Walter Berschin, Bernice M. Kaczynski, Haijo Jan Westra, Pierre Riché, Michael Lapidge, Anders Ahlqvist, Jerold C. Frakes, Edouard Jeauneau, Claudio Leonardi ...
|  | Angel's Peak (Virgin River Novels)
Release Date: January 26, 2010| Series: Virgin River Novels Four years ago, Air Force sweethearts Franci Duncan and Sean Riordan reached an impasse. She wanted marriage and a family. He didn't. But a chance meeting proves that the bitter breakup hasn't cooled their sizzling chemistry.Sean has settled down in spite of himself—he's not the cocky young fighter pilot he was when Franci left, and he wants them to try again. After all, they have a history…but that's not all they share.Franci's secret reason for walking away when Sean refused to commit is now three and a half: a redhea...
|  | Rachel (Springwater Seasons)
Publication Date: January 1, 1999| Series: Springwater Seasons Linda Lael Miller returns to the world of her triumphant Western romance, Springwater, to create a delightful new series. Each thrillingSpringwater Seasons novel takes place in the tiny stagecoach stop calledSpringwater, as it blossoms into a bustling Montana town. For a pretty schoolteacher who is new to Springwater, an unexpected love turns up in the most unlikely place.Rachel English as traveled to Springwater to take a post as the frontier teacher. Although the ramshackle schoolhouse -- and her half-wild pupils -- are not wha...
|  | Down by the River Where the Dead Men Go
Publication Date: July 27, 2011"You already been a punk. Least you can do is go out like a man." Then a dull popping sound and a quiet splash.In his third appearance in George Pelecanos's acclaimed series, Nick Stefanos has been spending too much time with bad women and bad booze. Which is why he wakes up one blurry morning on the banks of the Anacostia River, hungover and miserable--and now a witness to a murder. With the help of a partner as straight-arrow as Nick is bent, Nick decides to track down the killer, an investigation that leads them through the roughest part of the nation's capi...
|  | Double-Dare to Be Scared: Another Thirteen Chilling Tales
Publication Date: May 5, 2004| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Stowaway Monster (Dragonblood)
Publication Date: January 1, 2010| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Domitila: A Cinderella Tale from the Mexican Tradition
Publication Date: March 1, 2000| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up Domitila is not only "sweeter than a cactus bloom inearly spring," she is also a talented cook and an amazing leatherartist. most of the classical elements of a Cinderella story can befound in Domitila. A gentle weaving of her mother's nurturing withstrong family traditions is the secret ingredient for Domitila to riseabove hardship to eventually become the Governor's bride. Moreover,with a firm belief in simplicity and realism, Domitila makes a lastingimpression as a triumphant Cinderella in her humility, service, ...
|  | Lions: Life in the Pride (Animal Families)
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|  | Bugs, Beetles, and Butterflies (Easy-to-Read, Puffin)
Release Date: October 1, 1998| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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