 | Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times
Publication Date: February 1, 1993Lincoln on Leadership is the first book to examine Abraham Lincoln's diverse leadership abilities and how they can be applied to today's complex world. ...
 |  | Boys and Girls Like You and Me: Stories (Reading Group Guides)
Release Date: April 5, 2011| Series: Reading Group Guides ARYN KYLE, whose award-winning novel The God of Animals was hailed as "reason for readers to rejoice" (USA Today), turns her gift for storytelling to the lives of girls and women in this spectacular collection. These eleven stories showcase Kyle’s keen eye for character, her humor, and her uncanny grasp of the loneliness, selfishness, and longing that underlie female experience. In "Nine," a young girl given to exaggeration escapes a humiliating ninth birthday celebration with the help of her father’s new girlfriend. The d...
|  | My Loving Vigil Keeping
Publication Date: August 14, 2012Della's giving up all the comforts of bustling Salt Lake City to teach school in a rural coal mining camp. Little does she know, she may soon be giving up her heart as well. But when tragedy strikes in the Scofield Mine, Della's life will be changed forever. Based on true events, this thrilling new romance from award-winning and bestselling author Carla Kelly is a must-read! ...
|  | Keep Away from Bunk 13: And Other Spooky Campfire Stories (Under the Covers Books)
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|  | The Spider-Man Handbook: The Ultimate Training Manual Quirk Books
Release Date: September 1, 2006For Would-Be Super Heroes of All Ages The Spider-Man Handbook describes everything you need to live the Super Hero life—from the fine points of web-slinging and wall-crawling to keeping your identity a secret. You’ll also discover: • How to Treat a Radioactive Spider Bite • How to Design and Build a Costume • How to Swing from Building to Building • How to Maintain...
|  | Town & Country Dogs
Publication Date: June 3, 2008Meet some really lucky dogs! Whether purebred or mixed breed, every one of the 56 pooches showcased in this charming and elegantly designed gift book has graced the pages of Town & Country. What all these dogs have in common is that they are clearly adored by their owners. From Matthew Broderick and his affectionate border collie, Sally, to Carolyn Roehm and her Westies, Lucky and Lady, these portraits capture beloved pets romping through the hallways of penthouses and across the lawns of great estates. But even if the pooches are pampered, they haven ...
|  | New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City
Publication Date: January 31, 2006For two decades NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu has been living in and writing about his adopted city, where, as he puts it, the official language is dreams. How apt that a refugee born in Transylvania found his home in a place where vampires roam the streets and voodoo queens live around the corner; where cemeteries are the most popular picnic spots, the ghosts of poets, prostitutes, and pirates are palpable, and in the French Quarter, no one ever sleeps.Codrescu's essays have been called "satirical gems," "subversive," "sardonic and stunning," "funny," "go...
|  | Roland : Days of Wrath
Publication Date: July 1999| Series: Days of Wrath High in the treacherous passes between France and Spainin 778 A.D., Roland, captain of Charlemagne's conquering army,catapults his outnumbered flank of loyal vassals into a struggle sodesperate and bloody that its dead --and their deeds-- would beexalted for a thousand years in the most famous French medieval epic,the Song of Roland.Roland's bitter sacrifice, the apocalyptic battle-storm andCharlemagne's legendary grief, comes to life, as never before, in agraphic retelling that blends the beauty of oral poetry with the powerof narrative art...
|  | The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse: 1509-1659 (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: September 1, 1993| Series: Penguin Classics The years from the accession of Henry VIII to the crisis of the English republic in 1659 were one of the most fertile epochs in world literature, and this anthology offers a generous selection of its poetry. Arranged thematically, it is the first anthology fully to bring out the relationship between the period's poetry and politics, and to explore the growth of innovative humanist ideas and forms. It devotes generous space to women poets, is equally distinctive in its emphasis on popular literature and draws renewed attention to int...
|  | My Father Was a Toltec: and Selected Poems
Release Date: April 13, 2004| ISBN-10: 140003499X | ISBN-13: 978-1400034994| Edition: Bilingual Mixing the lyrical with the colloquial, the tender with the tough, Ana Castillo has a deserved reputation as one of the country’s most powerful and entrancing novelists, but she began her literary career as a poet of uncompromising commitment and passion. My Father Was a Toltec is the sassy and street-wise collection of poems that established and secured Castillo's place in the popular canon. It is included here in its entirety along with the best of her early poems. Ana Castillo’...
|  | The Culture of Joyce's Ulysses (New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature)
Release Date: December 21, 2010| Series: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature Reading James Joyce’s Ulysses with an eye to the cultural references embedded within it, R. Brandon Kershner interrogates modernism's relationship to popular culture and literature. Addressing newspapers and “light weeklies” in Ireland, this book argues that Ulysses reflects their formal innovations and relationship to the reader. Ultimately, Kershner offers a corrective to formal approaches to popular literary genres, broadening the spectrum of methodologies to incorpor...
|  | Always Faithful (Home)
Publication Date: December 23, 2011| Series: Home When Cade and Mark said their vows it was for always and forever. But that was before Mark entered the Marine Corps and before Cade enrolled in college. Four years later, with Mark's impending discharge and Cade's graduation, they're seemingly ready to finally have a long-awaited life together. Their hot and passionate attraction to each other remains as strong as ever. But their long separation has changed both men. And even the strongest of marriages can be threatened by temptation, suspicion, and broken promises. Can their love survive? Or...
|  | Vacation with a Vampire...and Other Immortals: Vampires in Paradise\Immortal (Harlequin Nocturne)
Publication Date: June 21, 2011| Series: Harlequin Nocturne (Book 115) Let's face it—vacation is great! We could all use a warm summer night on a beach, the sand still hot from the sun, with the moon rising on the horizon. If it could be paired with a handsome, sexy man—an immortal man—wouldn't that be the icing on the cake? Nothing says holiday quite like a walk in paradise with a gorgeous vampire…or spending a twilight eve with a charismatic Highlander. And the best part? While you may get a sexy bite or two, it's guaranteed that you won't get a sunburn!...
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|  | Juegos De Estado / Games of State (Tom Clancy's Op-Center) (Spanish Edition)
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| | Cat in a Red Hot Rage (Midnight Louie Mysteries)
Release Date: April 17, 2007Cat in a Red Hot Rage is the nineteenth title in Carole Nelson Douglas's sassy Midnight Louie mystery series. This tough talking twenty-pound tomcat PI is playing at the top of his game as he walks the walk and talks the talk on the mean streets of Las Vegas. Temple Barr and Midnight Louie are up to their tails in froufrou, chapeaux, and murder when the Red Hat Sisterhood convention hits Las Vegas. Electra Lark, Temple's spirited landlady, has dragged her to the con. Accused of murder after a woman is found strangled with an offi...
|  | Cry of the Benu Bird: An Egyptian Creation Story
Publication Date: March 3, 1996| Age Level: 5 and up A vibrant retelling of the ancient Egyptian story of the early days of men and gods on Earth. ...
|  | Rookie Quaterback
Release Date: September 21, 1993| Age Level: 11 and up A high school dropout returns from the Navy, revives his dedication to football, and is inspired to secure his future by using his academic as well as athletic abilities. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | The Barefoot Book of Mother and Daughter Tales (Barefoot Books)
Publication Date: October 1, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | The Boy Who Cried Abba: A Parable of Trust and Acceptance
Publication Date: September 1, 2001From the beloved author of The Ragamuffin Gospel comes a book for anyone who has ever felt left out, lonely, or worthless. The Boy who Cried Abba is the heartwarming parable of Willie Juan, orphaned, physically disabled, and friendless. Into his lonely life comes Jesus in the guise of the wise and mysterious Medicine Man and, Willie is changed forever. Through his friendship with the Medicine Man, Willie Juan learns of acceptance and unconditional love. Here is a charming retelling of the ancient gospel story - the good news of forgiveness, acceptance, and ...
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