 | Song of the Water Saints
Release Date: September 9, 2003| Series: Vintage Contemporaries This vibrant, provocative début novel explores the dreams and struggles of three generations of Dominican women. Graciela, born on the outskirts of Santo Domingo at the turn of the century, is a headstrong adventuress who comes of age during the U.S. occupation. Too poor to travel beyond her imagination, she is frustrated by the monotony of her life, which erodes her love affairs and her relationship with Mercedes, her daughter. Mercedes, abandoned by Graciela at thirteen, turns to religion for solace and, after managing to...
 |  | The Turtle Mound Murder (A Daffodils Mystery)
Publication Date: May 7, 2003| Series: Daffodils Mystery ***TV/Movie Rights Optioned***IS THERE LIFE AFTER DIVORCE? YOU BET!Meet the DAFFODILS*(*Divorced And Finally Free Of Deceitful, Insensitive, Licentious Scum)Rebecca Leigh Stratton is divorced, depressed, and thoroughly disgusted. Thanks to her two-timing, asset-hiding, lawyer husband, Leigh faces the prospect of starting over at forty-six. Fortunately, her sassy, Southern sorority sisters, Penny Sue Parker and Ruthie Nichols, are old hands at divorce. The three single-again ladies take off for New Smyrna Beach, their college-days haunt...
|  | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: Tea with Mr. Tumnus (I Can Read Book 2)
Release Date: October 25, 2005| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | The Great Gatsby
Release Date: April 30, 2013The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted “gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession,” it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.The Great Gatsby is one of the great classics of twentieth-century literature. ...
|  | The Bluest Eyes in Texas
Publication Date: June 2002Kennedy Nocona is an out, liberal, driven attorney, living in Austin, the heart of the Texas hill country. Once a player in the legal community, she now finds herself in the position of re-evaluating her life - a position brought on by a personal tragedy for which she blames herself. Seeking redemption for her tormented past, she loses herself in her work, strict discipline of mind and body, and the teachings of Native American roots she once shunned.Dallasite Carson Garret is a young paralegal overcoming the loss of her parents and coming to terms with her own sex...
|  | The Divine Comedy, Vol. II: Purgatory
Release Date: February 5, 1985This vigorous translation of Inferno preserves Dante's simple, natural style, and captures the swift movement of the original Italian verse. Mark Musa's blank verse rendition of the poet's journey through the circles of Hell re-creates for the modern reader the rich meanings that Dante's poem had for his contemporaries. Musa's introduction and commentaries on each of the cantos brilliantly illuminate the text.@HolyHaha I have to climb a mountain now? You got to be kidding me. Is this a joke? Who the hell came up with story? VIIIRRRGGGILLLLLLLLLLL! From Twitterat...
|  | Titus Andronicus (World's Classics)
Publication Date: May 17, 1984| ISBN-10: 0192814427 | ISBN-13: 978-0192814425The drama about the cruelties and excesses of the Roman court is accompanied by information about the play's background. ...
|  | Geisha Fan Book
Publication Date: November 15, 2007Enjoy an incredible collection of 128 images showing the fleeting, effervescent beauty of young geisha apprentices captured over a century ago. This keepsake, fan-shaped book captures a moment now lost to history, when Japanese girls were indentured as young as 6. Dressed like dolls, they were paraded through parties and celebrated for their beauty, charm, and innocence, all the while learning the music, dance, conversational, and gaming skills expected in a master of their craft. Here is a wonderful opportunity to see these girls in the glory of their colo...
|  | Zhongguo bai jia xian dai shi xuan (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | A History of Design from the Victorian Era to the Present: A Survey of the Modern Style in Architecture, Interior Design, Industrial Design, Graphic Design, and Photography (Second Edition)
Publication Date: July 11, 2011| ISBN-10: 039373272X | ISBN-13: 978-0393732726| Edition: Second Edition An abundantly illustrated overview of modern design across continents and cultures, highlighting key movements and design traditions.A unique cross-disciplinary survey of design history, A History of Design from the Victorian Era to the Present offers a concise overview of the modern milestones of architecture, interior design, graphic design, product design, and photography from the Crystal Palace of 1851 to the iPhone at the turn of the twenty-first century. This abundantly illustrat...
|  | Chemical Oscillations and Instabilities: Non-linear Chemical Kinetics (International Series of Monographs on Chemistry)
Publication Date: June 16, 1994| ISBN-10: 0198558643 | ISBN-13: 978-0198558644Today, scientists in many fields are expressing considerable interest in non-linearity and the ideas of oscillations and chaos.Chemical reactions provide perfect examples of these phenomena.This book is an excellent introduction to the area of nonlinear phenomena in chemical kinetics that involve chemical feedback such as chain branching, autocatalysis, and self-heating. The emphasis is on physical and pictorial representation, and on identifying those gross features which are essential.The experimental conditi...
|  | Blood Lines (The World of the Lupi, Book 3)
Release Date: January 2, 2007FBI agent Cynna Weaver teams up with sorcerer Cullen Seabourne to help identify elected officials who have accepted demonic pacts. But the passion simmering between them-and their investigation-spiral out of control when an ancient prophecy is fulfilled. ...
|  | You Have to Write
Release Date: July 1, 2002| Age Level: 8 and up You have to write! It's a class assignment. But you have nothing to write about. All the other kids seem to have something to tell because they start in right away. What can you do? Stop and think. No one else can tell your stories -- about your family, your dog or cat. No one else can tell how it was when your library book got soaked in the rain.But what if you don't like what you write? There are all sorts of ways to change it, to make it better. Keep on playing with your words, putting them together in different ways. You want whatever you...
|  | Vordak the Incomprehensible #3: Double Trouble
Release Date: August 28, 2012| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
| | Bikes
Publication Date: September 1996This little book gives basic information on safe bike riding and competitions for mountain bikes and roadracers, including the basic skills, techniques, tricks and stunts. It covers choosing the right bike for the individual's needs, and gives advice on skills, racing tactics, maintenance checks, training, diet and fitness, and what to look for when watching the experts. Photographs, illustrations and diagrams show how to master and develop tricky movements. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Volcano! (Jake Maddox: Survival Stories)
Publication Date: January 1, 2009| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Fun with Rain Forest Animals Stencils (Dover Stencils)
Publication Date: June 25, 1999| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | LEGO City: Escape from LEGO City!: Sticker Storybook
Publication Date: January 1, 2011| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
Publication Date: October 1, 2007| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up Enter the magical world of Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium!What happens when a small, not very gifted boy named N.E. Bode gets lost on a class trip and stumbles into a toy store one rainy day? He is found by a man named Bellini who tells him the most wonderful tales -- from A to Z -- all about the beginnings of Mr. Magorium's now famous magical toy store. From the Age of Enlightenment to the Wright Brothers with stops along the way to play capture the Flag (for an entire year!) and meet Thomas Edison until finally ...
|  | Here Comes Halloween!
Publication Date: July 1, 2009With glitter, flocking and touch-and-feels galore, Caroline Jayne Church tackles a not-so-spooky Halloween!Help this little boy decide what to be for Halloween:A robot?A dinosaur?A monkey?Find out what he chooses! Caroline Jayne Church's sweet line and color make a not-too-scary Halloween! Glitter, flocking, and fancy touch-and-feels on every spread will keep toddlers enthralled. ...
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