 | The Giver
Release Date: September 10, 2002| Series: Readers Circle (Laurel-Leaf) Jonas's world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear of pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the community. When Jonas turns 12 he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of the true pain and pleasure of life. Now, it is time for Jonas to receive the truth. There is no turning back. ...
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 | Canterbury Tales: Illustrated Prologue
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 | The Thing from the Lake
Publication Date: July 7, 2008This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition....
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 | The Lure of the Vampire: Gender, Fiction and Fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Williamson, Milly published by Wallflower Press Paperback
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 | Wicked Good Time
Publication Date: April 1, 2005As a cop, she was trained to take control of every situation.As a woman, she couldn't control her runaway heart. Fleeing her painful past, Christina Reynolds hopes to find peace by moving to an isolated house in rural Maine.But the solitude she sought so desperately is soon disturbed by suspicious noises, crank calls, and signs of trespassing.When the local police write the incidents off as products of an overactive female imagination, the distraught Christina turns to Forest Ranger Miki Jamieson for help.The first woman in her agency to make sergeant, Miki is ...
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 | The Square-Rigged Cruiser: Or Lorrain's Sea-Sermons
Publication Date: September 13, 2007This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. ...
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 | English Fairy Tales and Legends
Publication Date: January 1, 2009The stories that many children grown up with are very international—for example Snow White is German, Cinderella is French, and Aladdin is Arabian. Folk tales and legends are an intrinsic part of English national culture—so which are the fairy tales from England? Rosalind Kerven presents an answer here, as she has revived the best of these tales for a new generation with more than a dozen classics rewritten to engage readers. The 15 stories include tales of giants, dragons, fairies, beauty-and-the-beast, and A...
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 | Two Minutes To Shine Book IV: Contemporary Monologues for Mixed Ages
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| Dengonban messages: Oneline haiku and senryu
Publication Date: 1981Collection of oneline poems from James Kirkup, many of which appeared in the haiku magazine Shikai from Nagoya, Japan, and other publications. Japanese-style publication, text in English. ...
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| Xie du zhong di di san duo yu yan hua: Hou xian dai zhu yi shi ge (Dang dai chao liu: hou xian dai zhu yi jing dian cong shu) (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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 | Why Not Catch-21?: The Stories Behind the Titles
Publication Date: October 1, 2008Based on the author's long-running column in London's Sunday Telegraph, this diverting book offers literary history in bite sizes, presenting surprising details on each of 50 classic work's genesis and composition. Emphasizing books that are literally inexplicable without this background knowledge, the book covers iconic works from Thomas Moore's Utopia to Joyce's Ulysses. Along the way readers learn what Wordsworth's Prelude was a prelude to, the identity of the original Jeeves, why A Clockwork Orange wasn't A Robotic Banana, and much more. ...
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 | Faint Praise: The Plight of Book Reviewing in America
Release Date: June 29, 2007| ISBN-10: 0826217281 | ISBN-13: 978-0826217288| Edition: 1 For more than two hundred years, book reviewers have influenced American readers, setting our literary agenda by helping us determine not only what we read but also what we think about what we read. And for nearly as long, critics of these critics have lambasted book reviews for their overpraise, hostility, banality, and bias. Faint Praise takes a hard and long-overdue look at the institution of book reviewing. Gail Pool, herself an accomplished reviewer and review editor, analyzes the inner workings o...
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 | The Historian's Wizard of Oz: Reading L. Frank Baum's Classic as a Political and Monetary Allegory
Publication Date: June 21, 2002| ISBN-10: 0275974197 | ISBN-13: 978-0275974190| Edition: annotated edition The Historian's Wizard of Oz synthesizes four decades of scholarly interpretations of L. Frank Baum's classic children's novel as an allegory of the Gilded Age political economy and a comment on the gold standard. The heart of the book is an annotated version of The Wizard of Oz that highlights the possible political and monetary symbolism in the book by relating characters, settings, and incidents in it to the historical events and figures of the 1890s, the decade in which Baum wro...
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| The Surrealist Reader
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 | The Bhagavadgita in the Mahabharata
Publication Date: September 15, 1981| ISBN-10: 0226846628 | ISBN-13: 978-0226846620No other Sanskrit work approaches the Bhagavadgita in the influence it has exerted in the West. Philosophers such as Emerson and the other New England Transcendentalists were deeply affected by its insights, a dozen or more scholars, including Annie Besant and Mahatma Gandhi, have attempted its translation, and thousands of individuals struggling with the problems divided loyalties have found comfort and wisdom in its pages.The Bhagavadgita ("Song of the Lord") tells of the young and virtuous Prince Arjuna...
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 | The Fall of Lucas Kendrick
Release Date: October 25, 2011New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper blends intrigue and romance in this classic tale of love lost and found—as an undercover agent recruits the woman he abandoned for a dangerous assignment. Kyle Griffon has done more than flirt with danger over the past ten years; she’s embraced it with careless abandon. The rebel daughter of a powerful family, she’s walked on the wild side of everything from car racing to hang gliding—anything to fill the emptiness left by the man who loved and left her. Now Lucas Kendrick is back, needing...
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 | Into the Dark: The Darkest Fire\The Amazon's Curse\The Darkest Prison (Hqn)
Release Date: April 27, 2010| Series: Hqn Three otherworldly tales from the master of paranormal romance…and a brand-new Lords of the Underworld bonus guide!The Darkest Fire—a Lords of the Underworld prequelGeryon is the guardian of hell, more monster than man. Kadence is the goddess of Oppression, more angel than woman. Together they will enter the flames to battle a dangerous horde of demon lords—and discover a passion unlike any other.The Amazon's Curse—a tale of AtlantisZane, a fierce vampire warrior, has been enslaved by the Amazons. Nola, a lovely Amazon soldie...
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 | Just in Time
Release Date: March 1, 1995After visiting a gypsy fortuneteller who predicts she will save someone's life far in the future, young widow Beverly Newcastle finds herself transported from the fifties to the nineties, where she meets a dashing young motorcyclist....
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 | Super Hero Squad: Get Yer Hero on
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 | Scholastic Reader Level 1: I Spy A Scary Monster
Publication Date: August 1, 2005| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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