 | The Call of the Wild and Selected Stories (Signet Classics)
Release Date: August 4, 2009| Series: Signet Classics Robust tales of perilous adventure and animal cunning Includes Diable: A Dog, An Odyssey of the North, To the Man on the Trail, To Build a Fire, and Love of Life Out of the white wilderness, out of the Far North, Jack London, one of America's most popular authors, drew the inspiration for the novel and five short stories included here. Swiftly paced and vividly written, they capture the main theme of London's work: man's instinctive reversion to primitive behavior when pitted against the brute force of nature. ...
 |  | Multicultural bibliography for early childhood in the areas of Black, Spanish-speaking, Asian American, and native American cultures
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|  | John's Story: The Last Eyewitness (The Jesus Chronicles, Book 1)
Release Date: September 25, 2007The brand-new bestselling series from the authors of the phenomenal multi-million-selling Left Behind books. Now in paperback! Here is the first in the Biblically inspired series, The Jesus Chronicles, which brings to life the story of Jesus, told in the voices of those who knew and loved him best-the Gospel writers John, Mark, Matthew, and Luke. In this volume, readers will discover John's story, a thrilling account of the life of the man who came to fulfill the prophecies of the Old Testament and to save all of humankind-and the disciple who was the last eye...
|  | Kings Crossroads: A Parable of the Cross
Publication Date: December 1, 2002Behind every door is a life, and behind every life is a destiny fashioned by choices and crossroads. Kings CrossroadsCould be your town. It could be my town.Like any town, it is a microcosm of American life. But its politicians, preachers, contractors, teachers, and business owners, young and old, men and women alike, are about to discover that the terrorism of modern times can strike at the heart of small towns as well as large cities. When, as a result, individual crossroads beckon, and suddenly the shadow of an ancient cross falls across life's path, ever...
|  | Apartment 16
Publication Date: May 15, 2010Some doors are better left closed...In Barrington House, an upmarket block in London, there is an empty apartment. No one goes in, no one comes out. And it's been that way for fifty years. Until the night watchman hears a disturbance after midnight and investigates. What he experiences is enough to change his life forever. A young American woman, Apryl, arrives at Barrington House. She's been left an apartment by her mysterious Great Aunt Lillian who died in strange circumstances. Rumours claim Lillian was mad. But her diary suggests she was implicated in a horr...
|  | The Source
Release Date: March 12, 1986In the grand storytelling style that is his signature, James Michener sweeps us back through time to the very beginnings of the Jewish faith, thousands of years ago. Through the predecessors of four modern men and women, we experience the entire colorful history of the Jews, including the life of the early Hebrews and their persecutions, the impact of Christianity, the Crusades, and the Spanish Inquisition, all the way to the founding of present-day Israel and the Middle-East conflict."A sweeping chronology filled with excitement."THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER ...
|  | Night Watch
Release Date: July 26, 2006The Night Watch series has caused a sensation never before seen in Russia -- its popularity is frenzied and unprecedented, and driven by a truly great, epic story. In 2005 Fox Searchlight announced it had acquired the Russian film adaptation for an American release. Interest in the books here is now set to reach a fever pitch. Set in modern day Moscow, Night Watch is a world as elaborate and imaginative as Tolkien or the best Asimov. Living among us are the "Others," an ancient race of humans with supernatural powers who swear allegiance to either the Dark or the L...
|  | Rhapsody: A Dream Novel
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|  | Historical Memoir On Italian Tragedy, From The Earliest Period To The Present Time; Illustrated With Specimens And Analyses Of The Most Celebrated Tragedies, And Interspersed With Occasional Observations On The Italian Theatres, And Biographical Notices Of The Principal Tragic Writers Of Italy
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|  | Reflections of A Woman Child
Publication Date: April 10, 2011Reflections of A Woman Child is poetry that I started to write as a teen.This poetry was written beginning in the 1970's to Present.Love is the basis for the majority of the poetry. I grew up in a household with my maternal grandparents and my single parent mother, but love was very evident and a daily part of my life.The great love shown to me by my mother and my desire to share love with others is reflected in my poetry.GOD is love... ...
|  | Essays on the Odyssey, Selected Modern Criticism
Publication Date: June 1963Editor Charles H. Taylor, Jr. has selected seven essays designed to enhance the reader's and student's understanding of the Odyssey by exploring its fundamental and most significant features. The selections include: God and Men in Homer by Wk>C. Guthrie, Personal Relationships by W. B. Stanford, The Odyssey and the Western World by George DeF. Lord, The Name of Odysseus by Grogre E. Dimock, Jr., Calypso and Elysium by William S. Anderson, The Obstacles to Odysseus' Return by Charles H. Taylor, Jr. and The Reunion of Odyessus and Penlope by Anne Amory. ...
|  | Like Underground Water: The Poetry of Mid-Twentieth Century Japan
Publication Date: September 1, 1995A richly dynamic, one-of-a-kind collection of over 240 poems from eighty leading Japanese poets. ...
|  | Writing New York : A Literary Anthology (Library of America)
Release Date: October 1, 1998| Series: Library of America New York is simply too big -- too lush, too rich with history, too integral to the texture of human life during the past two centuries -- for any one writer to tell its story. A proper literary portrait of the storied city demands nothing less than a multiplicity of voices.For this ambitious purpose, Phillip Lopate has selected a stunningly expansive and deeply illuminating collection of the best writing about the world's greatest city. As seen through the eyes of more than one hundred writers -- from Washington Irving, the first New ...
|  | Unspeakable
Release Date: June 29, 2010ELAINA MCCORD WANTS TO FIND A KILLER. BUT HE’S ALREADY FOUND HER. Elaina McCord’s dream of being an FBI profiler is threatened by her very first case—investigating a string of murders near a Texas beach resort. The victims, all young women, were drugged and brutally murdered, their bodies abandoned in desolate marshland. Elaina’s hunch—met with disbelief by local police—is that these are only the latest offerings from a serial killer who has been perfecting his art for years, growing bolder and more cunning with each strike. True...
|  | Heartbreaker
Publication Date: October 30, 2012Rule number one: never settle down. J. B. Hammock treated his women well, but with a no-strings detachment they gladly accepted. Until sweet Tellie Maddox began hovering around, caring about him.And when Tellie lost her memory, she believed she was J.B.’s friend. Even he couldn’t be so heartless as to push Tellie aside, and so he played his role...until friendship turned into something deeper than a heartbreaker like J.B. had ever intended.Then Tellie’s memory returned.... ...
|  | The People of Sparks (Book of Ember (Pb))
Publication Date: April 1, 2005| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Young Inhumans
Publication Date: September 3, 2008| Grade Level: 4 and up The next generation of Inhumans star in this atmospheric ensemble drama, collected for the first time in one trade paperback!They're just ordinary exchange students from a far-off land, here to learn about our culture - except their home is a mysterious city on the moon, and they each possess fabulous, exotic abilities and appearances. The product of experiments on humanity by an alien culture millennia ago, the Inhumans are a race governed by the laws of genetics. Here as nowhere else, diversity and individuality are prized beyond c...
|  | The Little Ant / La hormiga chiquita
Release Date: August 15, 1995| Age Level: 5 and up A little ant seeks restitution from the humans, animals, and natural events that it holds responsible for its broken leg. ...
|  | Cinderella
Release Date: November 28, 2006| Age Level: 4 and up Featuring pull tabs, pop-ups and flaps throughout, the classic fairytale of Cinderella will comes to life for the youngest of readers. Adapted and beautifully illustrated in watercolor and ink by Phillida Gilli, this is a sumptuous, interactive treatment of everyone's favorite princess story....
|  | Kick It Soccer (Sports Starters (Crabtree Paperback))
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