 | Where Is Baby's Belly Button? A Lift-the-Flap Book
Release Date: September 1, 2000| Age Level: 1 and up Karen Katz's adorable babies play peekaboo in this delightful interactive book. The sturdy format and easy-to-lift flaps are perfect for parents and children to share."Where are Baby's hands? Under the bubbles!" "Where are baby's eyes? Under her hat!" ...
 |  | Finding Casey: A Novel
Release Date: October 2, 2012Glory Vigil, newly married, unexpectedly pregnant at forty-one, is nesting in the home she and her husband, Joseph, have just moved to in Santa Fe, a house that unbeknownst to them is rumored to have a resident ghost. Their adopted daughter, Juniper, is home from college for Thanksgiving and in love for the very first time, quickly learning how a relationship changes everything. But Juniper has a tiny arrow lodged in her heart, a leftover shard from the day eight years earlier when her sister, Casey, disappeared-in a time before she'd ever met Glory and Joseph. W...
|  | All The Rave
Release Date: January 15, 2002| Series: Soul Survivor Series It's Labor Day weekend - and it is turning out to be a holiday that will not soon be forgotten.More than 15,000 ravers have gathered for a 72-hour dance party at the waterfront warehouse in Philadelphia.Kat is strung out on drugs and next to her lies the body of a dead boy who overdosed; Heather falls in love with a college freshman who threatens to leave her with nothing but feelings of rejection and serious regret.Experiencing firsthand the dangers of an unguarded heart, the girls are forced to reevaluate God's true place in thei...
|  | The Dangerous Journey of Sherman the Sheep
Release Date: October 1, 2005Sherman longs for adventure and acceptance by his peers. So, heedless of his father's warnings, he follows the advice of his new "friends" and sneaks away to climb the mysterious mountain ... only to encounter strange new enticements and dangers on its slopes. Like Pilgrim's Progress or Hind's Feet on High Places, this exciting allegory chronicles a young soul's awakening.Whether you're a youth striving to discover your own beliefs and values, or an adult seeking to help such a one, join Sherman and his friends for an unforgettable journey to God's Country! ...
|  | Mandie and the Buried Stranger (Mandie, Book 31)
Release Date: July 1, 1999| Age Level: 8 and up Mandie and Joe discover a huge pile of mica and no one knows who moved it there. The mystery gets bigger when the whole mound totally disappears the next day. Ages 8-13. Mandie book 31. ...
|  | Into the Mummy's Tomb
Release Date: April 1, 2001The Mummy. The first thing that comes to mind is the curse...reanimation... and revenge. But what further mysteries are there to be unwrapped in the tombs of the Ancient Egyptians?This exciting new anthology from the editor of Vampires, Wine and Roses features a diverse selection of remarkable talents, from major bestselling authors like Anne Rice (famous for her vampire and mummy novels) and Elizabeth Peters (mystery's master of Egyptology), to all-time favorites such as Bram Stoker (who wrote one of the first mummy novels) and Agatha Christie (queen of the sealed...
|  | Harlan's Race: A Novel
Publication Date: June 1, 1996In 1974, The Front Runner was published, a novel of love and loss that became a best-loved classic about gay life. Now, twenty years later, comes the sequel - a story of passion, and victory pulled from defeat.After his young athlete lover is assassinated on the Olympic track in Montreal, coach Harlan Brown is forced to enter the race of his life. To survive the hate and violence which threaten his chosen family - Betsy, valiant lesbian mother, Vince, angry activist seeking revenge, Chino, Vietnam vet with a wounded heart, and the secret child of Billy Sive, The...
|  | God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
Release Date: December 14, 2010From Slapstick's "Turkey Farm" to Slaughterhouse-Five's eternity in a Tralfamadorean zoo cage with Montana Wildhack, the question of the afterlife never left Kurt Vonnegut's mind. In God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, Vonnegut skips back and forth between life and the Afterlife as if the difference between them were rather slight. In thirty odd "interviews," Vonnegut trips down "the blue tunnel to the pearly gates" in the guise of a roving reporter for public radio, conducting interviews: with Salvatore Biagini, a retired construction worker who died of a heart atta...
|  | Snow White/the Unfairest of Them All: A Classic Tale (Point of View) (Steck-Vaughn Point of View Stories)
Publication Date: April 1, 1994| Series: Steck-Vaughn Point of View Stories After reading the classic tale of the beautiful princess who takes refuge from her wicked, jealous stepmother in the cottage of seven dwarfs, the reader is invited to turn the book upside down and read an updated version told from the point of view of the stepmother. ...
|  | Gilgamesh o la angustia por la muerte (poema babil
Publication Date: January 1, 2006| Series: Estudios De Asia Y Africa El poema épico de Gilgamesh constituye la obra cumbre de la literatura de la antigua Babilonia. Así fue percibido por los pueblos del Cercano Oriente, a juzgar por los numerosos fragmentos del poema rescatados en las ruinas de muchas ciudades de la Mesopotamia e incluso en sitios arqueológicos de Siria, de Palestina y de Turquía. Gracias a ello ha sido posible reconstituir gran parte de la obra original y seguir el hilo de su argumento: la historia de un tirano cuyo encuentro y amistad con un salvaje lo ...
|  | Ohayo Haiku
Publication Date: October 21, 2006For years students have been taught that haiku follow a specific pattern of lines and syllables.Five-seven-five was considered the correct formula.Today poets are aware that this Japanese pattern doesn't always translate very well into English rhythms.More and more, the haiku style is thought of as short-long-short with the idea that the thought should flow in one breath. Ohayo Haiku are first written in five-seven-five and then edited for clarity.In this way, the author attempts to achieve both the form and the spirit of haiku. ...
|  | Louise Fitzhugh (Twayne's United States Authors Series)
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|  | Victorian Honeymoons: Journeys to the Conjugal (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: January 29, 2007| ISBN-10: 0521868742 | ISBN-13: 978-0521868747| Edition: 1 While Victorian tourism and Victorian sexuality have been the subject of much critical interest, there has been little research on a characteristically nineteenth-century phenomenon relating to both sex and travel: the honeymoon, or wedding journey. Although the term 'honeymoon' was coined in the eighteenth century, the ritual increased in popularity throughout the Victorian period, until by the end of the century it became a familiar accompaniment to the wedding for all but the poorest classes....
|  | Letters from the Head and Heart: Writings of Thomas Jefferson
Release Date: October 9, 2002| Series: Monticello Monograph Series, Distributed By Unc Press for the Thomas Jefferson Foundation The letters of a person . . . form the only full and genuine journal of his life, noted Thomas Jefferson, who wrote nearly 20,000 letters in his own lifetime. Andrew Burstein invites readers to rediscover Jefferson through an exploration of his most enduring public and private writings. Among the public documents examined are two of Jefferson's best-known contributions to American history, the Declaration of Independence and his first inaugural address. On a more p...
|  | Aristotle's Poetics
Publication Date: May 17, 1982| ISBN-10: 0393952169 | ISBN-13: 978-0393952162| Edition: 1st Here is a new translation, remarkable for its accuracy and refreshing clarity of exposition, of the first major work of literary criticism.Aristotle's doctrines are basic to every critical discussion of Greek tragedy and of other literary forms. Although the Poetics has often been denounced or rejected, such rejection is usually the result of a misunderstanding of what Aristotle says. And that is where Hutton's work is uniquely important.Commentators have long recognized the need to view the Poeti...
|  | The Dream-Hunter (Dark-Hunters: Dream-Hunters)
Release Date: August 30, 2011| Series: Dark-Hunters: Dream-Hunters In the ethereal world of dreams, there are champions who fight to protect the dreamer and there are demons who prey on them... Arik is such a predator. Condemned by the gods to live eternity without emotions, Arik can only feel when he’s in the dreams of others. For thousands of years, he’s drifted through the human unconscious, searching for sensation. Now he’s finally found a dreamer whose vivid mind can fill his emptiness.Dr. Megeara Kafieri watched her father ruin himself and his reputation as he searche...
|  | Crimes of War
Publication Date: February 2001A respected retired businessman in Winnipeg, well liked by his neighbors, is shattered to receive mysterious photographs in the mail.Photos of him as a young man, in his SS uniform.The Special Prosecutions Unit in Ottawa is dedicated to investigating and indicting Nazi war criminals in Canada. However they never manage to successfully prosecute a single one.Dozens of lawyers, historians, policemen, and clerk amass hundreds of files on suspects, most of whom inconveniently die.Increasingly demoralized by the prospect of the inevitable closing of the unit, many a...
|  | The Mighty Egg Sitters (Backyardigans (8x8))
Release Date: January 8, 2008| Age Level: 3 and up...
|  | Los Tres Chivitos Gruff (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: July 12, 2007| Age Level: 2 and up The three billy goats gruff are hungry for the sweet green grass on the other side of the stream. To get there, they must pass the big hairy troll who lives underneath the bridge and wants to eat them for dinner. Will the billy goats reach the safe side before the hungry troll makes them his next meal? Brought playfully to life by the rich collage illustrations of Roberta Arenson, this lively retelling of a much loved fable will delight children as they cheer on three sprightly billy goats who refuse to let anything stand in their way. ...
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