 | Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
Release Date: June 15, 1986Is your child halfway through first grade and still unable to read? Is your preschooler bored with coloring and ready for reading? Do you want to help your child read, but are afraid you'll do something wrong?SRAs DISTAR® is the most successful beginning reading program available to schools across the country. Research has proven that children taught by the DISTAR® method outperform their peers who receive instruction from other programs. Now for the first time, this program has been adapted for parent and child to use at home. Teach Your Child to Read in...
 |  | The Book of Emma
Publication Date: January 7, 2009Confined to a psychiatric hospital following the murder of her young daughter, Emma Bratte refuses to speak any language but her mother tongue. Dr. MacLeod has brought in an interpreter, Flore, to help him evaluate Emma's fitness to stand trial."Both crazy and too lucid," an articulate and knowledgeable Emma relates her long battle against despair, through striking images of her lonely but determined and creative struggle to win the love of a mother misled by a racist society and then through tales of the suffering and resistance of some of her female forebea...
|  | The Sweetest Thing (A Lucky Harbor Novel)
Publication Date: April 1, 2011| Series: A Lucky Harbor Novel (Book 2) Two Men Are One Too Many . . . Tara has a thousand good reasons not to return to the little coastal town of Lucky Harbor, Washington. Yet with her life doing a major crash-and-burn, anywhere away from her unfulfilled dreams and sexy ex-husband will do. As Tara helps her two sisters get their newly renovated inn up and running, she finally has a chance to get things under control and come up with a new plan for her life.But a certain tanned, green-eyed sailor has his own ideas, such as keeping Tara hot, bothered . . . and ...
|  | A Light In The Darkness
Publication Date: March 29, 2012"Standing in front of me was not a beautifully adorned bride.My eyes were fixed on a warrior.She had become a fighter.She had gone from a shy twelve year old who was embarrassed to sing a praise song in front of anyone, to an eighteen year old who would step in front of a bullet without hesitation if it meant the alternative was to deny God and take the mark." This entrancing novel by Melissa Klipfel takes the reader into a world just before the end of days and the great tribulation through the events in the lives of those discovering the truth about their fai...
|  | Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (Underworld (Pocket Star Books))
Release Date: December 30, 2008| Series: Underworld (Pocket Star Books)The official movie novelization of the latest film in the blockbuster action/horror movie series, Underworld—coming to theaters in January 2009 from Sony Pictures! Centuries ago...two ageless and terrifying races—the aristocratic vampires and the feral lycans—are bound by a cruel, ancestral relationship between master and servant, and eternally separated by the ongoing, violent rivalry between their two species. But unknown to both nobility and enslaved alike, a clandestine—and forbidden—af...
|  | Your John: The Love Letters of Radclyffe Hall (Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life & Literature)
Release Date: March 1, 1999| ISBN-10: 0814731252 | ISBN-13: 978-0814731253"Passionate and revealing love letters from the iconic lesbian novelist . . . Radclyffe Hall is getting a fresh look. . . . Glasgow has chosen these letters well and provides helpful context."--Kirkus Review "Many assumptions have been made about the degree to which Radclyffe Hall's lesbian classic, The Well of Loneliness, may be autobiographical. Your John dismisses such notions. This exhaustive collection of letters written between 1934 and 1942 to Evguenia Souline, a White Russian émigré with whom Hall...
|  | One Season in the Sun (Open Door)
Publication Date: August 24, 2012| Series: Open Door These are the tales of one-season wonders. The history of baseball is filled with forgotten names—players who are good enough to reach the top of the sport but who, for any number of reasons, land at the edges of the game. Some spend a week or two in the major leagues and then disappear back into the minors. Many leave the sport for good. Still, for an afternoon, a week, or a couple of months, these men stood on the field alongside the best players in The Show. Here are gripping stories of their brief moments in the sun. Pr...
|  | English Literature (Barron's Ez-101 Study Keys)
Publication Date: May 24, 1991| Series: Barron's Ez-101 Study Keys Designed to be compatible with virtually every standard textbook in their subject field, Barron's EZ-101 Study Keys give you a valuable overview of your college-level course. Classroom-style notes emphasize important facts, remind you what you need to remember for term papers and exams, and help guide you through the complexities of lectures and textbooks. This volume covers 100 key topics, titles, and authors, from Beowulf to the modern era. ...
|  | Pagan Grace: Dionysus, Hermes and Goddess Memory
Publication Date: April 23, 1998Paris uncovers the often unconscious pagan grace in our daily lives. Dionysos brings joy, protects sexual potency, and also affects addictions. Hermes' grace is today called communication and his relation with the healing arts balances usual medical practices. A book of beauty and sparkling insights. ...
|  | Romeo and Juliet (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
Publication Date: March 1, 1998| Series: The New Folger Library Shakespeare A prose retelling of Shakespeare's drama in which young lovers attempt to defy fate. ...
|  | The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
Publication Date: April 19, 1993| ISBN-10: 0691021236 | ISBN-13: 978-0691021232| Edition: 3 The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics is a comprehensive reference work dealing with all aspects of its subject: history, types, movements, prosody, and critical terminology. Prepared by recognized authorities, its articles treat their topics in sufficient depth and with enough lucidity to satisfy the scholar and the general reader alike. Entries vary in length from relatively brief notices to substantial articles of about 20,000 words.The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetic...
|  | The Paris Poems
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|  | The Victorian Novel in Context (Texts & Contexts)
Publication Date: August 30, 2012| ISBN-10: 1847064892 | ISBN-13: 978-1847064899| Edition: 1 This book introduces students to the Victorian novel and its contexts, teaching strategies for reading and researching nineteenth-century literature. Combining close reading with background information and analysis it considers the Victorian novel as a product of the industrial age by focusing on popular texts including Dickens's Oliver Twist, Gaskell's North and South and Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge. The Victorian Novel in Context examines the changing readership resulting from the gr...
|  | Literature: Reading and Writing with Critical Strategies
Publication Date: September 21, 2012| ISBN-10: 0321113497 | ISBN-13: 978-0321113498| Edition: 1 Steven Lynn's ground—breaking Literature: Reading and Writing with Critical Strategies energizes literary study by demonstrating, step by step, how to use critical approaches to engage literary texts and evolve critical arguments. Plentiful examples demonstrate the process of thinking and writing about literature—progressing from a blank page to an insightful response and, ultimately, to a final essay —using a variety of critical theories as invention strategies. A richly divers...
|  | Jasmine's Urban Cowboys (Siren Menage Amour 79)
Publication Date: November 13, 2009| Series: Siren Menage Amour [Menage Amour 79: Erotic Cowboy Menage a Trois, M/F/M, some public exhibition] After a nightmare marriage and a bitter divorce, Jasmine is ready to celebrate big time. Jasmine meets Ted and Gabe, two deliciously attractive, available men.Having spent a celibate year waiting for her divorce, waking up in the arms of a gorgeous hunk after a night of hot sex was at the top of Jasmine's list. Either of these dreamboats would be wonderful, but which one? When she has trouble deciding, Jasmine makes the decision that if either of them...
|  | Port Mortuary (A Scarpetta Novel)
Release Date: August 30, 2011| Series: A Scarpetta Novel The world's bestselling crime writer Patricia Cornwell presents anextraordinary novel in which Kay Scarpetta is confronted with a casethat could ruin her professionally-and personally. ...
|  | The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency Box Set: "The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency" "Tears of the Giraffe" "Morality for Beautiful Girls"
Release Date: October 28, 2003| Series: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency The first three books in Alexander MCCall Smith's beloved bestselling series, featuring Mma Precious Ramotswe, the traditionally built, eminently sensible, cunning proprietor of the only ladies' detective agency inBotswana, are now available in a beautifully designed boxed set. ...
|  | A Deadly Yarn (Knitting Mysteries, No. 3)
Release Date: August 1, 2006Kelly and Megan could not be happier for their friend Allison Dubois—a young, talented, up-and-coming artist. Invited by a designer to join her New York studio, Allison is about to embark on a new life. But when Kelly and Megan arrive at Allison’s apartment to drive her to the airport, they find her dead on the floor, apparently from an overdose of sleeping pills. The police suspect suicide, but Kelly and Megan aren’t convinced. Soon Kelly discovers that while Allison’s career was on the fast-track, her social life was a mess. A bad news bo...
|  | Quinn
Release Date: July 12, 2011#1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen explores the darkest corners of the human heart as forensic sculptor Eve Duncan closes in on the killer who stole her daughter so many years ago. As a former Navy SEAL turned cop, Joe Quinn has seen the face of evil and knows just how deadly it can be. When he first met Eve Duncan, he never expected to fall in love with a woman whose life would be defined by her dual desires to bring home her missing daughter and discover the truth behind her disappearance---no matter how devastating. With the help of CIA age...
|  | Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine 6
Publication Date: August 24, 2011The sixth issue of Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine features another stellar lineup of Holmes-themed non-fiction and Holmes-inspired mystery fiction. Included are:NON-FICTION: "The Rare Mexican Sherlock Holmes Series," by Gary Lovisi; "Remembering Edward D. Hoch and His Sherlock Holmes Stories," by Len Moffatt; "Screen of the Crime: Baker Street on a Budget," by Lenny Picker; and "The Autumn of Terror: Sherlock Holmes Investigates Jack the Ripper," by M. J. Elliott.FICTION: "A Memo from Inspector Lestrade," "The Curse of Bridges Falls," by William E. Chambers...
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