 | Youcat
Publication Date: April 1, 2011YOUCAT is short for Youth Catechism of the Catholic Church, which will be launched on World Youth Day. Developed with the help of young Catholics and written for high-school age people and young adults, YOUCAT is an accessible, contemporary expression of the Catholic Faith. The appealing graphic format includes Questions-and-Answers, highly-readable commentary, summary definitions of key terms, Bible citations and inspiring and thought-provoking quotes from Saints and others in the margins. What's more, YOUCAT is keyed to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, s...
 |  | The Onion Presents: Christmas Exposed (Onion Ad Nauseam)
Release Date: October 25, 2011| Series: Onion Ad Nauseam Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without impulse-priced holiday gift books—and now The Onion has unleashed its award-winning team of investigative journalists upon the genre. Christmas Exposed features more than one hundred shocking tales of Secret Santas, shopping mall mayhem,dysfunctional family dinners, and much, much more. ...
|  | Accelerated: A Novel
Publication Date: October 2, 2012In a striking debut novel, a single father and his son discover whatlies beneath the gilded façade of a tony Upper East Side private school:an epidemic of over-medicated children.Every afternoon Sean Benning picks up his son, Toby, on the marble stepsthat lead into the prestigious Bradley School. Everything at Bradleyis accelerated—3rd graders read at the 6th grade level, they have labsand facilities to rival most universities, and the chess champions arethe bullies. A single dad and struggling artist, Sean...
|  | What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories
Release Date: June 18, 1989In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver's characters are peripheral people--people without education, insight or prospects, people too unimaginative to even give up. Carver celebrates these men and women. ...
|  | Dinah's Story: When Joy Springs from Sorrow
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|  | Kristy and the Vampires (Baby-Sitters Club Mysteries)
Publication Date: June 1994| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | The Greatest Knight: The Unsung Story of the Queen's Champion
Release Date: September 1, 2009Royal protector. Loyal servant. Forgotten hero.A penniless young knight with few prospects, William Marshal is plucked from obscurity when he saves the life of Henry II's formidable queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine. In gratitude, she appoints him tutor to the heir to the throne, the volatile and fickle Prince Henry. But being a royal favorite brings its share of danger and jealousy as well as fame and reward. A writer of uncommon historical integrity and accuracy, Elizabeth Chadwick resurrects the true story of one of England's greatest forgotten heroes in a capti...
|  | Ruffians
Publication Date: December 1, 1999From the moment he signs his big contract with the NFL, Clay Blackwell's talents plunge him into a realm of ruthlessness, lawlessness and a conspiracy that makes playing for the Ruffians of Birmingham, Alabama, the most dangerous job a man could have. ...
|  | Folklore and Culture on the Texas-Mexican Border
Publication Date: 1995In an illustrious career spanning over forty years, Américo Paredes has often set the standard for scholarship and writing in folklore and Chicano studies. In folklore, he has been in the vanguard of important theoretical and methodological movements. In Chicano studies, he stands as one of the premier exponents. Paredes's books are widely known and easily available, but his scholarly articles are not so familiar or accessible. To bring them to a wider readership, Richard Bauman has selected eleven essays that eloquently represent the range and excellence of Parede...
|  | Art, Myth, and Ritual in Classical Greece
Publication Date: July 21, 2008What do Greek myths mean and how was meaning created for the ancient viewer? In Art, Myth and Ritual in Classical Greece, Judith Barringer considers the use of myth on monuments at several key sites - Olympia, Athens, Delphi, Bassai, and Trysa - showing that myth was neither randomly selected nor purely decorative. The mythic scenes on these monuments had meaning, the interpretation of which depends on context. Barringer explains how the same myth can possess different meanings and how, in a monumental context, the mythological image relates to the site and oft...
|  | Forms of tragedy (Prentice-Hall English literature series)
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|  | Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems
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|  | Kan Chazan, Rai Sanyo shishu (Shin Nihon koten bungaku taikei) (Japanese Edition)
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| | Tang shi jing hua (Zhongguo gu dian wen xue jing hua cong shu) (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | Aching for Always
Release Date: September 28, 2010RITA Award–winning author Gwyn Cready continues the “sexy fun” (BookPage) of her charming time-travel adventures with a high-spirited tale of a modern-day mapmaker and the eighteenth-century English navy captain she can’t resist.Ambitious and feisty Josephine “Joss” O’Malley has spent years fighting to keep her mother’s map-making company alive. Just when she finds herself considering taking a risky next step with bad-boy entrepreneur Rogan Reynolds— whose generosity has helped keep the business af...
|  | Glory Fades
Publication Date: November 11, 2010My name is Sarah Hunter. I've said that so many times that I'm starting to get sick of my own voice. For someone with as much self-love as I possess, that's pretty bad.I am Queen of the non-humans. Vampires, shape shifters, Faerie, and all the things that go bump in the night are at my beck and call. I personally don't believe in slavery, so I don't use that option. Emmett, my husband, and I rule what the humans believe is the minority. If it helps them to sleep at night to think of us as the minority, then fine.One of the council members has set up a whole...
|  | Spyware
Release Date: October 2, 2007Mac Savage, a former CIA officer; Marie Kovacs, a former nanotechnology scientist turned missionary; and Kate Chavez, a Texas Ranger investigating a murder, join forces to unravel a global conspiracy that starts with the diamond industry and ends with a plan to eliminate the human race. The Donovan Group, a high-powered global conglomerate, has used diamond-based technology to create an overarching artificial intelligence, known as ANNE. Using spyware nanotechnology implants, the group's members have interfaced their brains with this super-intelligent AI. T...
|  | The Dark Shield
Publication Date: December 21, 2010Before his demotion, Joe McKeefe was acelebrated and highly decorated detective who had been recognized as a rising star in the police department. Now he was finishing his career as a uniformed patrol officer in the precinct with city's highest crime rate, a place where the murder of a low-life junkie was so common as to be almost trivial.This victim, however, was different: hehad once been McKeefe's informant.McKeefe is disgusted by the superficial manner in which the official murderinvestigation is handled, so he begins to poke around. But this murder isn...
|  | Angel with Two Faces: A Mystery Featuring Josephine Tey (Mysteries Featuring Josephine Tey)
Release Date: June 29, 2010| Series: Mysteries Featuring Josephine TeyExhausted and disillusioned with the world of theater in May 1935, Josephine Tey has traveled to Cornwall to spend the summer with her friends the Motleys at their run-down but beautiful country estate. Ready to begin work on her second mystery novel, Tey finds much to inspire her in the landscape and its legends. Meanwhile, the Motleys have become involved in an amateur production at the nearby Minack Theater. Detective Inspector Archie Penrose has returned to his roots in Cornwall to attend the funeral of a family fr...
|  | Mrs. Jeeper's Batty Vacation (Adventures of the Bailey School Kids Super Special)
Publication Date: July 1997| Age Level: 7 and up...
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