 | Teach Your Children Well: Parenting for Authentic Success
Release Date: July 24, 2012 Psychologist Madeline Levine brings together cutting-edge research and thirty years of clinical experience to explode once and for all the myth that good grades, high test scores, and college acceptances should define the parenting endgame. Parents, educators, and the media wring their hands about the plight of America's children and teens—soaring rates of emotional problems, limited coping skills, disengagement from learning and yet there are ways to reverse these disheartening trends. Teach Your Children Well acknowledges that every parent wants successfu...
 |  | Latino and Latina Writers (Scribner Writers Series)
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|  | Nice Girls Don't Date Dead Men (Jane Jameson, Book 2)
Release Date: August 25, 2009 Following Nice Girls Don’t Have Fangs, the second in a hilarious, smart, sexy romantic series about an out-of-work librarian who is turned into a vampire. With her best friend Zeb’s Titanic-themed wedding looming ahead, new vampire Jane Jameson struggles to develop her budding relationship with her enigmatic sire, Gabriel. It seems unfair that she’s expected to master undead dating while dealing with a groom heading for a nuptial nervous breakdown, his hostile werewolf in-laws, and the ugliest bridesmaid dress in the history of marriage. Meanwh...
|  | Judy Garland, Ginger Love
Release Date: August 19, 1998In her extraordinary debut novel, critically acclaimed poet Nicole Cooley takes readers on a humorous, achingly beautiful journey to a world of magical escapes and startling restorative truths. Judy Garland, Ginger Love is about motherhood and sisterhood, being and becoming, loving and learning to let go.I know about sisters. Being a sister is the role in life I've always been best at, the one part I could play well. When I tried to become a mother, I failed.After a tragic pregnancy leaves Alice Carson bereft and unmoored, she turns for comfort not to her hus...
|  | The Borgia Bride: A Novel
Release Date: April 21, 2005Vivacious Sancha of Aragon arrives in Rome newly wed to a member of the notorious Borgia dynasty. Surrounded by the city's opulence and political corruption, she befriends her glamorous and deceitful sister-in-law, Lucrezia, whose jealousy is as legendary as her beauty. Some say Lucrezia has poisoned her rivals, particularly those to whom her handsome brother, Cesare, has given his heart. So when Sancha falls under Cesare's irresistible spell, she must hide her secret or lose her life. Caught in the Borgias' sinister web, she summons her courage and uses her cunni...
|  | The Hunted (Tom Clancy's Endwar #2)
Release Date: February 1, 2011She's known as the Snow Maiden-an operative of a secret group dedicated to world domination. To get their hands on her, U.S. Special Forces Captain Alexander Brent and his team will have to outmaneuver a terrorist faction bent on wiping her off the face of the earth. ...
|  | The Hunt for Bigfoot: A Novel of Adventure & Romance in the North Woods (Human Origins Series, Book 1)
Publication Date: March 15, 2011Ancient cosmic visitors. Atlantis. Human evolution. Bigfoot sightings. Many researchers have raised the questions and offered answers. Now, Lisa A. Shiel explores her own theories to solve the age-old mystery--where did we come from?** The Hunt for Bigfoot -- A novel of adventure and romance in the north woods **Katy Gallagher and her mentor, historian Charlie Bergren, scour the Earth for proof current evolutionary theories are flawed. Their quest turns dangerous when Katy is threatened and Charlie vanishes. To find him, Katy must join forces with his so...
|  | Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves: A Jeeves and Wooster Comedy
Publication Date: October 18, 2011It is the stuff of nightmares for Bertie as he is hauled back to Totleigh Towers and the whole loony crew of Madeline, Gussie, Roderick Spode, Stiffy Byng, and the dog Bartholomew—stiff upper lip, Jeeves! ...
|  | Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
Publication Date: April 9, 2012Robert Burns is more than Scotland's national poet. With Shakespeare, Burns is an icon for the UK and Scotland he is a national symbol. This volume of poems and songs is a best selling, beautiful edition of his work. ...
|  | Edad de Oro
Publication Date: May 2001| ISBN-10: 0897299477 | ISBN-13: 978-0897299473Un clasico de la literatura infantil en idioma espanol. Comprende articulos, cuentos, cronicas y poesias inolvidables para ninos de todas edades y de todos los tiempos. La presente edicion critica contiene el texto integro de la original con notas anadidas que analizan o explican cada trabajo y acercan el mensaje martiano a los pequenos lectores de hoy. ...
|  | Antho de La Poe Relig (Poesie/Gallimard) (French Edition)
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|  | Aus da Gmolnan Truchn: Weststeirische Mundartdichtung
Publication Date: 1987"Aus da Gmolnan Truchn" birgt Mundartgedichte aus vier Jahrzehnten, den Gro...
|  | A History of Reading and Writing: In the Western World
Release Date: November 24, 2009| ISBN-10: 0230001629 | ISBN-13: 978-0230001626| Edition: 1 Offering a fresh history centred on the reactions and experiences of ordinary readers and writers, Lyons deals with key turning points that occurred throughout the centuries, such as the invention of the codex, the transition from scribal to print culture, the reading revolution and the industrialisation of the book. Tracing the major historical developments across Europe and North America which revolutionized our relationship with texts, this book provides an engaging and invaluable overview of th...
|  | Allusion: A Literary Graft (Emf Reprints)
Publication Date: September 1, 2002| Series: Emf Reprints Originally published in 1994 by the University of Toronto Press, this pioneering study looks empirically at the way allusion works in specific fictions and affects the reading process. Clear, concise definitions and distinctions are illustrated by brilliant close readings of Flaubert, Stendhal, Balzac, Zola, Proust, and Robbe-Grillet. "A model of what criticism should be and the definitive book on the subject of allusion in literature" - Jeanine Plottel, Hunter College ...
|  | The History of NASCAR
Publication Date: February 1, 2008| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Carbohydrates for a Healthy Body (Body Needs)
Publication Date: March 14, 2009| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Paint Me a Poem: Poems Inspired by Masterpieces of Art
Publication Date: October 1, 2005| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up As she composed these thirteen poems, Justine Rowden wondered how a child would respond to the glorious paintings she viewed in the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. Now she shows readers that paintings don't need to be understood by children in an art-historyish way; when adults stand back and let children react with abandon, their responses will amaze everyone. And their appreciation of art will soar.These poems are sprightly, elliptical, sometimes silly, sometimes serious. They teach us that it's okay to sim...
|  | Amaranth (Volume 1)
Publication Date: June 14, 2012Soleil wishes to be human. Born a living doll, she falls under the care of Marjorie Gifford, a rich French girl who teaches her everything she needs to know about being human. But when misfortune falls upon the Gifford family, and Marjorie dies, Soleil is locked away and trapped in darkness. Thirty years pass and Soleil awakes lost in England. In the midst of madness, she meets Crystal—a seven-year-old girl who knows how to live. But just when she settles down, a deadly plague sweeps through the land, killing mercilessly. Tired of deaths, Soleil falls in...
|  | Justice for All: December 5, 1773-September 5, 1774 (Liberty's Kids)
Release Date: July 28, 2003| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up A revolutionary animated series from PBS and DIC Entertainment, Liberty's Kids tells the tale of the birth of democracy in America, through the eyes of two teenagers working in Ben Franklin's printshopThe show features the voices of many celebrities, including; Walter Cronkite as Ben Franklin, Billy Crystal as John Adams, Whoopi Goldberg as Deborah Sampson, Annette Bening as Abigail Adams, and Aaron Carter performing the title song.The Boston Tea Party. Taxation without representation. Intolerable Acts. The First Contin...
|  | Mammals at Your Fingertips
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