 | Horse Heaven
Release Date: April 4, 2000"It's not true," says a character in Jane Smiley's funny, passionate, and brilliant new novel of horse racing, "that anything can happen at the racetrack," but many astonishing and affecting things do -- and in Horse Heaven, we find them woven into a marvelous tapestry of joy and love, chicanery, folly, greed, and derring-do. Haunting, exquisite Rosalind Maybrick, wife of a billionaire owner, one day can't quite decide what it is she wants, and discovers too late that her whole life is transformed . . . Twenty-year-old Tiffany Morse, stuck in he...
 |  | The Tenth Song
Release Date: October 12, 2010When life is at its best, the unimaginable can shatter everything you think you know… Abigail Samuels has no reason to feel anything but joy on the morning her life falls apart. The epitome of the successful Jewish American woman, she is married to a well-known and respected accountant and is in the middle of planning her daughter Kayla’s wedding. Kayla, too, wakes up that morning with the world in the palm of her hand. Having lived the charmed life of a well-loved child from a happy family, she is bright, pretty, a Harvard law stud...
|  | The Magician's Nephew Read-Aloud Edition (Narnia)
Release Date: May 30, 2006| Age Level: 4 and up...
|  | Her-Bak: The Living Face of Ancient Egypt
Release Date: August 1, 1978In these fictional accounts, the wisdom of Ancient Egypt is revealed through the eyes of a young Her-Bak, a candidate for initiation into the Inner Temple. The events related take place between the XX and XXI dynasties. In this volume Her-Bak's training in the living school of Nature and in the Outer Temple unfolds. ...
|  | The Vampire Hunt
Publication Date: May 2001| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up There's nothing that vegetarian vampire Count Alucard would sooner sink his teeth into than a fresh, juicy peach, washed down with a glass of tomato juice. He wouldn't hurt a fly -- but sadly the vengeful villagers of Tolokovin don't realize this. Chased from his castle, Count Alucard stumbles upon a troupe of traveling actors and, to his horror, finds himself center stage and in the limelight! Can his friend Henry Hollins help the poor Count melt back into the shadows, or will an actor's life be the death of him? ...
|  | Summer's Child
Release Date: May 31, 2005THERE’S A PLACE IN OUR HEARTS RESERVED FOR MIRACLES…From Luanne Rice, the celebrated author of Beach Girls and many other New York Times bestsellers, comes this powerful novel of a mystery, a love affair, and a bond that cannot be broken set in a seaside town where miracles are made...On the first day of summer, Mara Jameson went out to water her garden–and was never seen again.Years after her disappearance, no one could forget the expectant mother whose glowing smile had captured the heart of everyone who’d known her: Maeve Jameson, stil...
|  | Year of the Rhinoceros
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|  | The Blue Circus
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|  | Matrix of the Gods
Publication Date: September 1, 1994The world teeters on the brink of apocalyptic destruction or a new millennium of universal peace and spiritual awakening. The author suggests that both future worlds coexist in their own dimensions, and we choose by our vibratory levels which world we will inhabit.Rama, a 21st-century Buddha, who is imprisoned in a psychically impenetrable prison in the Swiss Alps, is the object of intense scientific scrutiny. During his long, unjust incarceration, he has passed into what he calls "the natural state of being."Twenty-five years earlier, the earth had suffere...
|  | We
Release Date: August 1, 1993A seminal work of dystopian fiction that foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet Russia, Yevgeny Zamyatin's "We" is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand. This "Penguin Classics" edition is translated from the Russian with an introduction by Clarence Brown. In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, ruled over by the all-powerful 'Benefactor', the citizens of the totalitarian society of OneState live out lives devoid of passion and creativity - until D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes ...
|  | The Templar Conspiracy
Release Date: January 4, 2011In Rome, the assassination of the Pope on Christmas Day sets off a massive investigation that stretches across the globe. But behind the veil of Rex Deus-the Templar cabal that silently wields power in the twenty-first century-the plot has only just begun. When retired Army Ranger Lt. Col. John Holliday uncovers the true motive behind the pontiff's murder, he must unravel a deadly design to extend the Templar influence to the highest levels of power. ...
|  | The Cyclist and His Fifth Woman: Two Plays by Vijay Tendulkar (Oxford India Collection)
Publication Date: February 23, 2006| ISBN-10: 0195676408 | ISBN-13: 978-0195676402This volume includes two plays by Vijay Tendulkar: the Fifth Woman, which address the injustices and inequalities suffered by married women, and The Cyclist, intended to be his last play. ...
|  | Iceland: Land of the Sagas
Release Date: October 6, 1998"We raised our fists and cheered. . . . With the sagas in our heads, with Iceland at its wildest beneath our boots, it would not have been impossible to see Bárdr clumping along the summit ridge, prodding the glacier with his staff, ready to show us the way down."Iceland is a pictorial classic on one of the last "undiscovered" countries in Europe--reissued for the first time in paperback. Iceland is often thought to be covered by ice, but in fact it is gloriously green. Lush meadows, wildflower fields, and miles...
|  | Frogs in the Rain Barrel
Publication Date: January 1, 1995In the title poem of this extraordinary first book, Sally Ito remembers her childhood in Alberta, when she set frogs in the rain barrel and watched them swim like stars in a "pool of still and nether depths/ whose mirrored surface was all." Those imagined depths become a powerful metaphor in these poems, which reflect Ito's experiences as a young Japanese Canadian living and writing in Alberta, the Northwest Territories, the West Coast and Japan. Hers is a distinct poetic voice, equally at ease with such diverse images as an aged Chinese man on the train, the...
|  | Fear Itself: A Fearless Jones Novel
Publication Date: July 2003| Series: Fearless Jones Novels Paris Minton doesn't want any trouble. He minds his used bookstore and his own business. But in 1950s Los Angeles, sometimes trouble finds him, no matter how hard he tries to avoid it. When the nephew of the wealthiest woman in L.A. is missing and wanted for murder, she has to get involved-no matter if she can't stand him.What will her church think?She hires Jefferson T. Hill, a former sheriff of Dawson, Texas, and a tough customer, to track him down and prove his innocence.When Hill goes missing too, she tricks his friend Fearless J...
|  | The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume II (D,E,F): The Seventeenth and Eighteen Centuries, The Nineteenth Century, and The Twentieth Century (2nd Edition)
Publication Date: July 2, 2008| ISBN-10: 0205625924 | ISBN-13: 978-0205625925| Edition: 2The Longman Anthology of World Literature offers a fresh and highly teachable presentation of the varieties of world literature from the 17th century to the present day....
|  | Dressed for Death: A Guido Brunetti Mystery
Publication Date: June 1994An investigation into the vicious murder of a transvestite takes Venice Police Commissario Guido Brunetti on a trail that leads him into a confrontation with the highest levels of the financial world, the Italian government, and the Church. ...
|  | Goddesses Coloring Book (Dover Coloring Books)
Publication Date: July 17, 2012 ...
|  | The Magic School Bus Gets Eaten (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)
Publication Date: February 1, 1996| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | Wiggly Wobbly's Tales for Children - (and the Young at Heart)
Publication Date: August 11, 2009Wiggly Wobbly's Tales for Children is an illustrated collection of delightful poetry for children. Meet Wiggly Wobbly Worm, Freddie the Fish, Farmer McDuck and others in this wonderful book. ...
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