 | Suburgatory: Twisted Tales from Darkest Suburbia
Publication Date: October 11, 2011The title behind the new ABC TV Show, Suburgatory excoriates—through satirical local news “stories”—the mostly upper middle class American pieties and parenting obsessions that surround raising the perfect child amid the anxiety of an America in decline. The book uses laugh out loud humor to target racism, classism, sexism, submerged suburban sexuality, class warfare, willful ignorance, and the all-around bad behavior raging underneath the surface of those obsessively-tended suburban lawns and bikini lines. ...
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|  | A Texas Legacy Christmas (Texas Legacy Series #4)
Publication Date: September 1, 2007Zack Kahler heads back to Texas with a homeless eight-year-old pickpocket named Curly in tow. But soon Zack finds his hands full as he tries to run a newspaper, recover from a lost love, and keep his unruly charge out of trouble. Boardinghouse worker and life-long outcast Alice Hawkins has had her fair share of hurt and rejection. When Zack and Curly show up on her doorstep, more than one wounded heart is stirred with love. But soon a life-threatening illness and misunderstanding threaten to destroy all their hopes. Can the love of Christmas present a mirac...
|  | Fatal Harvest (Haven)
Publication Date: May 1, 2009| Series: Haven Teenager Matt Strong discovers a secret that could expose the indiscretions of the conglomerate who controls the world's food supply. Now he's been framed for murder and is on the run. Matt's father, Cole Strong, enlists the help of Matt's teacher Jill Pruitt to find the boy and save his life. Before long, the two are caught up in a dangerous quest with stakes much higher than either is prepared to face. Page-turning, contemporary, romantic suspense from bestselling author Catherine Palmer. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edit...
|  | The Dark Faith (Dark Harvest Trilogy)
Publication Date: August 31, 2012The ancient Dark Faith was destroyed long ago. Or so they thought...Morumus was but a boy when the murderous shadow of the Dark Faith fell upon his family. Now a devout monk, Morumus has been given the task of his life: translate Holy Writ into the language of those who practice the Dark Faith. His translation could be a great, sweeping sword, used to break its power. But as Morumus and two fellow monks begin the task, dark currents drag them toward a dangerous conspiracy. Shadows from his past appear--in his sleep, on a lonely road, even on the cover of an o...
|  | Light Bringer
Publication Date: February 28, 2011For centuries, the city of Silvardrassil has been cut off from the rest of the world and thrust into a state of eternal, starless night because of the folly of Fehar, who opened a connection between the city and the realm of the Shadow King. The Legion of Silvardrassil has fought the forces of the Enemy with the magical aid of the Light Bringers, a holy order of mage-priests whom the Radiant King has endowed with the power to bend the elements. The people of the city are slowly dying, but prophecy foretells that the last and greatest Light Bringer is coming...
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|  | Jack London in Paradise: A Novel
Publication Date: January 6, 2009 Jack London. The name stands for adventure.Explorer. Social activist. Romantic. Self-educated genius. White Fang. Call of the Wild. Martin Eden. The Sea-Wolf. Generations worldwide have been thrilled by his tales, probably never realizing how true to life they really were. He did not imagine the hardships and brutality of life in the Yukon, on the high seas, or in the back alleys of Oakland. He lived them. Few men were his equal and only one woman ever fully captivated his heart. By the time he was forty, no American was more famous. And in the winter of 1...
|  | The New Sappho on Old Age: Textual and Philosophical Issues (Hellenic Studies)
Publication Date: March 31, 2010| ISBN-10: 0674032950 | ISBN-13: 978-0674032958 The world has long wished for more of Sappho’s poetry, which exists mostly in tantalizing fragments. So the apparent recovery in 2004 of a virtually intact poem by Sappho, only the fourth to have survived almost complete, has generated unprecedented excitement and discussion among scholarly and lay audiences alike. This volume is the first collection of essays in English devoted to discussion of the newly recovered Sappho poem and two other incomplete texts on the same papyri. Containing eleven new essa...
|  | Rabindranath Tagore: Final Poems
Publication Date: 2001The brilliant and immensely prolific Indian writer Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is known the world over for his accomplished works in an astoundingly wide range of genres: fiction, short stories, poetry, drama, and essays. During the final year of his life, while suffering from the painful illness that would eventually end in his death, Tagore completed four volumes of poetry that expressed the emotional turmoil of facing one's own imminent extinction. Appearing here for the first time in English is a selection of these extraordinary poems that captures as closely as...
|  | Third World Girl: Selected Poems
Publication Date: December 7, 2011Jean `Binta' Breeze is a popular Jamaican Dub Poet and storyteller whose performances are so powerful she has been called a `one-woman festival.' Her poems are Caribbean songs of innocence and experience, of love and conflict. They use personal stories and historical narratives to explore social injustice and the psychological dimensions of black women's experience. Striking evocations of childhood in the hills of Jamaica give way to explorations of the perils and delights of growth and change - through sex, emigration, motherhood, and age. ...
|  | All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age
Release Date: August 9, 2011“What constitutes human excellence?” and “What is the best way to live a life?” These are questions that human beings have been asking since the beginning of time. In their critically acclaimed book, All Things Shining, Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly argue that our search for meaning was once fulfilled by our responsiveness to forces greater than ourselves, whether one God or many. These forces drew us in and imbued the ordinary moments of life with wonder and gratitude. Dreyfus and Kelly argue in this thought-provoking work that as...
|  | 1Q84 (Coleccion Andanzas) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: June 1, 2011| Series: Coleccion Andanzas (Book 7471) Dividida en dos libros de veinticuatro capitulos cada uno, siguiendo la estructura de El clave bien temperado de Bach, la novela, su primera obra larga desde Kafka en la orilla, es un compendio del mejor Murakami: una imaginacion portentosa tenida de un delicado sentido del humor; personajes solitarios y heridos pero impulsados por anhelos universales; y ambientes enrarecidos, cargados de una sensualidad y una violencia de turbadora belleza. Y, de fondo, el ruido del desmoronamiento de los suenos e ilusiones de los anos s...
|  | Eden (Volume 3)
Publication Date: April 3, 2012She had seen the unspeakable. She would learn the unknowable. Now, she would fight the invincible. In the third and final installment of the Providence series, Nina Grey will marry the wrong man, carry the child that was never supposed to be born, and fight a war she can't win. Faced with the impossible task of protecting his new wife and unborn child against the throes of Hell, Jared Ryel is allowed no mistakes. Pressured to return the Naissance de Demoniac to Jerusalem, he revisits St. Ann's to learn the answers were in front of him all along.Together, they m...
|  | Writes of Spring: Stories and Prose
Publication Date: March 22, 2012These short stories were written by authors asked only to use springtime as a setting and to make crime an important element of their stories. Some abandon reality a bit and delve into different genres. A few are nonfiction. Others are preview chapters from novels in progress. In short, there is something here for every taste! ...
|  | Egg Monsters from Mars (Goosebumps #42)
Publication Date: April 1996| Age Level: 8 and up Disgusted by his bratty kid sister's demand for an egg hunt aspart of a birthday celebration, Dana Johnson is amazed when he finds afootball-sized, purple-veined egg that hatches a terrifying surprise. ...
|  | DK Classics: Robin Hood
Publication Date: May 12, 1997| Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Cheerleading for Fun!
Publication Date: January 1, 2004| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Silly Sausage in Trouble (Read-It! Chapter Books)
Publication Date: September 1, 2006| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
| | Babe, Pigs and Robbers (Stepping Stone Books)
Publication Date: April 1999| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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