 | The 47 Ronin Story (Tuttle Classics)
Publication Date: September 15, 2006| Series: Tuttle Classics 47 Ronin Story is the classic Japanese story of Lord Asano of Ako and one of the bloodiest vendettas in Japan's feudal history.In a shocking clash between the warriors and the merchant class of seventeenth century Japan, there emerged the most unlikely set of heroes--the forty-seven ronin, or ex-samurai, of Ako. ...
 |  | Finding Casey: A Novel
Release Date: October 2, 2012Glory Vigil, newly married, unexpectedly pregnant at forty-one, is nesting in the home she and her husband, Joseph, have just moved to in Santa Fe, a house that unbeknownst to them is rumored to have a resident ghost. Their adopted daughter, Juniper, is home from college for Thanksgiving and in love for the very first time, quickly learning how a relationship changes everything. But Juniper has a tiny arrow lodged in her heart, a leftover shard from the day eight years earlier when her sister, Casey, disappeared-in a time before she'd ever met Glory and Joseph. W...
|  | The Marriage Menders (G. K. Hall Romance)
Publication Date: June 2000| Series: G. K. Hall Romance Imogen's move to Taunton is an attempt to find a new lease of life for her sinking marriage. Perversely, as her husband repairs the house, she is obsessed with a man whose behaviour becomes increasingly irrational. Alarmed at her daughter's uncharacteristic behaviour, Nina starts investigating. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition....
|  | Vengeance Is Mine
Release Date: June 7, 2005They've already started coming across. The drug dealers and the petty criminals. The terrorists and the parasites. For one man on the West Texas border, the time to stand against them is now. John Howard Stark, a Vietnam vet whose family has worked their ranch for generations, has set off a trip wire - and an ambush has exploded all around him. A Columbian drug cartel commander, with the help of an ex-special forces hit man and his own deadly army, has killed three Americans - including Stark's uncle and his neighbor - and will slaughter anyone else who stands in hi...
|  | Gathering String
Publication Date: August 8, 2012A long-ago fire that killed two boys in a small Iowa town emerges as a threat to the front-runner in a presidential campaign. The two journalists pursuing the mystery could hardly be more different. Though he works for the website Politifix, surly Sam Waterman disdains the digital tools that are taking over journalism. All he wants is a political scalp. Congenial Jack Westphal, a basketball star turned editor, is leading and tweeting his small-town newspaper into the digital age. When they start pursuing the mystery, the men have only one thing in common: They...
|  | Yeats and Women
Publication Date: July 21, 1997Yeats and Women, published originally in the Yeats Annuals series, collects eight essays on Yeats's relationships with women, two collections of letters to him and his broadcast, 'Poems about Women'.e The essays cover sexuality and its dynamic in Yeats's writing: his attitude to feminism and to the 'feminist occult'; his relationships with Maud Gonne, Dorothea Hunter, Olivia Shakespear, Florence Farr, Iseult Gonne and George Yeats. Yeats's relationship with Lady Gregory and her co-authorship of Cathleen ni Houlihan is analysed. The collection includes 12 plates...
|  | The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: June 15, 2009| ISBN-10: 0199538719 | ISBN-13: 978-0199538713Crossley-Holland--the widely acclaimed translator of Old English texts--introduces the Anglo-Saxons through their chronicles, laws, letters, charters, and poetry, with many of the greatest surviving poems printed in their entirety.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, inc...
|  | Four Major Plays: A Doll's House : The Wild Duck : Hedda Gabler : The Master Builder (Classics, No 120)
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|  | Verse & Universe: Poems about Science and Mathematics
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|  | Ardeur: 14 Writers on the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Series (Smart Pop series)
Publication Date: April 6, 2010| Series: Smart Pop series Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series is a literary sensation, thanks to its strong female hero, well-fleshed (both literally and literarily) characters and unabashed attitude toward sex. The world Hamilton has created is powerfully compelling and stunningly complex—and it gets deeper, richer and more perilous, with every book.Straddling the series’ dominant themes of sex and power, Ardeur gives Anita fans a deeper look into the dynamics, both personal political, that have kept readers fascinated th...
|  | Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
Release Date: July 20, 1988 Here, in this compelling assembly of writings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard explores the world of natural facts and human meanings....
|  | In Search of Grace
Publication Date: August 31, 2012Alexandra Davis has a dark secret from her past that she has hidden from everyone, including those that love her the most.After meeting her new neighbor, she realizes that her secret has been holding her back from living a full life.Would she have the courage to open her heart to him before it is too late? Seth Walton, an ex-Navy Seal and now Massachusetts State Trooper knows his new neighbor has a past that she wants to keep buried yet is bound and determined to help her not only face her demons but confront them head on. Soon, he realizes that he would need...
|  | Moon Racer
Publication Date: August 2003Somewhere in the lush grasslands of the Texas hill country, three brothers and a sister fight to hold their family together, struggle to keep their ranch solvent, while they await the return of the one person who can shed light on the secrets of the past. Abby learned to ride and rope and wrangle as well as any of her brothers, but Major Jonah Tremain is looking for a lady. Abby tells herself she doesn't care that the major is engaged to a proper Eastern-bred miss, but when she looks into his searing blue eyes and feels his lips against hers, she decides to teach...
|  | Caroline and the Raider
Release Date: November 22, 2011Holding her lovely head high, Wyoming schoolmistress Caroline Chalmers did what no lady should: she marched right into the local saloon to see the dashing and reckless Guthrie Hayes. Worse still, she went to ask him for help. She needed the former Confederate raider to plan a jailbreak to rescue her fiancé, Seaton Flynn, from the hangman's noose. An orphan by spinster sisters, Caroline was prepared do almost anything to save her beloved Seaton.So why did her breath suddenly become a shivery sigh when she looked into Hayes's twinkling green eyes? Too la...
|  | A Bone to Pick (Aurora Teagarden Mysteries, Book 2)
Release Date: February 5, 2008Death comes calling on a small-town librarian whose life is passing her by. Aurora "Roe" Teagarden's fortunes change when a deceased acquaintance names her as heir to a rather substantial estate, including money, jewelry, and a house complete with a skull hidden in a window seat. Roe concludes that the elderly women has purposely left her a murder to solve. So she must identify the victim and figure out which one of her new, ordinary-seeming neighbors is a murderer-without putting herself in deadly danger. ...
|  | The Beast with a Thousand Teeth
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|  | Fairytails: Cinderella: Dog-eared Renditions of the Classics
Publication Date: January 25, 2005 ...
|  | Malaysian Children's Favourite Stories
Publication Date: December 15, 2004| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Retold for an international audience, the beautifully illustrated legends in this book will give children in other countries an insight into both the traditional culture and the environment of Malaysia. The country's rich tropical scenery provides the perfect backdrop for these tales, many of which incorporate the indigenous plant and animal life into their story lines. Though the book is aimed at children in the five to twelve age group, readers young and old will find much to love within its pages. ...
|  | Freddy Plays Football
Release Date: April 23, 2001| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up That clever pig returns a hero of the gridiron in Freddy Plays Football. And so what if it's all a fluke? Freddy was the best blocker and tackler the Centerboro High School football team had ever seen. In fact, he was so good on the field the Centerboro school board found itself hard put to find anything in the by-laws about preventing a pig from enrolling as a student. Between worrying about the big game against Tushville and the Bean family's troubles with the odious Aaron Doty, the stellar pig has his trotters full!...
|  | Mario Lemieux
Publication Date: October 1, 1992 ...
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