 | The Blue Jay's Dance: A Memoir of Early Motherhood
Release Date: February 23, 2010 Louise Erdrich's first major work of nonfiction, The Blue Jay's Dance, brilliantly and poignantly examines the joys and frustrations, the compromises and the insights, and the difficult struggles and profound emotional satisfactions the acclaimed author experienced in the course of one twelve–month period—from a winter pregnancy through a spring and summer of new motherhood to her return to writing in the fall. In exquisitely lyrical prose, Erdrich illuminates afresh the large and small events that every parent will recognize and appreciate....
 |  | The Arabian Nights: A Play
Publication Date: November 1, 2003A twelve-member cast enacts Scheherazade's tales of love, lust, comedy, and dreams. Scheherazade's cliffhanger stories prevent her husband, the cruel ruler Shahryar, from murdering her, and after 1,001 nights, Shahryar is cured of his madness, and Scheherazade returns to her family. This adaptation offers a wonderful blend of the lesser-known tales from Arabian Nights with the recurring theme of how the magic of storytelling holds the power to change people. The final scene brings the audience back to a modern day Baghdad with the wail of air raid sirens thr...
|  | Korean War: Primary Sources (Korean War Reference Library)
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|  | So Far Back: A Novel
Publication Date: October 6, 2000Sixty-year-old Louisa Hilliard--the last descendent of one of Charleston's oldest and most prominent families -- is caring for her ailing mother.An upright, unmarried spinster, Louisa has spent her life looking after others.In the aftermath of a hurricane that turns her life upside down, she finds a battered diary kept by one of her ancestors. The journal recounts the story of Diana, a 19th-century slave who worked for the Hilliards, but sought to improve her life and her means, and was severely punished.Diana's fate is gradually revealed, even as Louisa disc...
|  | Flight of the Raven (Mysteries of Sparrow Island Series #2)
Publication Date: February 15, 2007A small plane disappears from the sky above Sparrow Iland, and Abby knows she must do something to help. Together, she and Sergeant Henry Cobb, set off to hunt for survivors. They find the plane but not the passengers - who it seems don't want to be found. Abby's wilderness skills are put to the test as she and Henry go on a chase to try to uncover the secrets of the passengers' hidden pasts. An exciting, suspense-filled story, "Flight of the Raven" is a riveting tale of determination, ingenuity and courage. ...
|  | Promesas guardadas (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: February 28, 2012Es su destino morir joven. El hombre que la ama no puede vivir así. Promise, una talentosa joven vocalista con una enfermedad terminal, cuenta con la fama para mantener su memoria después de la muerte. Porta es una vieja bruja coleccionista de arte en busca de la diosa que le proveerá inmortalidad.Cuando Promise inexplicablemente sobrevive a una serie de extraños accidentes, Porta cree que Promise es aquella a la que busca. Pero Chase, un artista autista que se enamora de Promise y se opone a Porta, se interpone entre ambas mujeres con...
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|  | Nightshade
Publication Date: May 18, 2010In a land where two countries have been torn by war for generations, Princess Jessa is sent as a peace offering to the country of Arravan, understanding all too well that she is being sacrificed upon the altar of her father’s ambitions—and condemned to an uncertain and possibly short-lived future, if the machinations of her own family are any indication.But what she finds at Blackstone Keep is most certainly not what she expects, and for a daughter of royal blood who has known little of freedom and even less of love, the members of the Durand family ...
|  | The Crimson Rooms
Publication Date: January 4, 2011From the author of the #1 international bestseller, The Rose of Sebastopol--an unforgettable historical novel. Still haunted by the death of her brother James seven years ago in World War I, Evelyn Gifford is shocked when a young nurse named Meredith and her six-year-old son appear on her London doorstep. Meredith claims the child is James's son, and the grief-stricken Evelyn welcomes them into her home.At the same time Evelyn, a struggling attorney, is defending a veteran charged with murdering his wife. She believes her client is innocent, just as she s...
|  | The Strange Illness: A Commedia Dell 'Arte
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|  | La fabula del tiempo. Antologia (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 2005En La fábula del tiempo, antología poética de José Emilio Pacheco, Jorge Fernández Granados, uno de los mejores poetas y críticos de la nueva generación mexicana, pone al alcance del lector en un solo volumen una selección crítica de una obra extendida ya a lo largo de varias décadas, testimonio de su país y de su tiempo pero también prueba de amor y fe en el poder de la palabra. Fernández Granados propone una visión conjunta y rigurosa de una obra viva en cuyo c...
|  | My journey Through Life, Love and Passion
Publication Date: October 20, 2007Being a romantic by heart Lee says: "I get great joy when writing about the precious gift of Love. I do hope you enjoy this recounting of my life. May it bring a smile or even a tear but most of all may it capture the love and passion that is in your heart."Lee writes poetic love stories, about everything that had touched her, trying to capture all her hopes and dreams and past memories of family and friends. So take a walk with Lee and enjoy the romantic tones and rhythmic verse of her journey through life, love and passion. ...
|  | Letters to Penthouse XV: Outrageous, Erotic, Orgasmic!
Publication Date: April 1, 2002| Series: Letters to Penthouse (Book 15) From the bestselling Letters to Penthouse series comes another spicy collection of letters written to one of the most popular men's magazines. ...
|  | What Happens After Dark
Release Date: November 1, 2011She's pushed all the limits-but can she finally free herselfcompletely? Bree Mason wants more out of life, but she is ruled by fear andcontrolled by her secrets. And there's one great secret she's hiddenfor years, even from herself. But now a tragedy is causing hercarefully constructed world to unravel...Bree is like no other woman Luke Raven has ever known. He's alwaysgiven her what she's asked for. But now he craves more-a lot more. Lukewants a relationship outside their strictly sexual affair. But can hehelp Bree exorcise her demons and free her from her abus...
|  | Dreams
Publication Date: January 2003An artist of the spectacular. Each collection sparkles with pieces seen on book covers from around the world. Fantasy, science fiction, eroticism, etc... Royo has devised a special personal mix of media that makes his work so uncannily real, so beguilingly engaging as to make him a best-selling star. ...
|  | A Thousand Kisses: The Perfect Date\The Price Of Kissing\Valentine Bliss (Arabesque)
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|  | Man She Married (By Request)
Publication Date: April 1, 1999| Series: By Request An incredible value-packed three-in-one collection, these stories delve into the lives of three special women and their extraordinary journeys to find true love. ...
|  | Worth Dying For: A Jack Reacher Novel
Release Date: April 26, 2011| Series: Jack Reacher There’s deadly trouble in the corn country of Nebraska . . . and Jack Reacher walks right into it. First he falls foul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire county into submission. But it’s the unsolved, decades-old case of a missing child that Reacher can’t let go.The Duncans want Reacher gone—and it’s not just past secrets they’re trying to hide. For as dangerous as the Duncans are, they’re just the bottom of a criminal food chain stretching halfway around the world. For R...
|  | The Secret Message
Release Date: October 26, 2010| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Alone, imprisoned in a golden cage, and far from the jungles of home, a parrot longs to escape. Will he ever fly free again?Based on a poem by the ancient Persian philosopher Rumi, The Secret Message is a funny story of surprising twists, powerful solidarity, exotic travels, and a simple wish fulfilled. This witty tale, told with humor and vibrant images, will enchant young readers as it introduces them to the culture, literature, and history of Persia....
|  | Extreme Bicycle Stunt Riding Moves (Behind the Moves (Capstone))
Publication Date: January 1, 2001| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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