 | Nothing to Hide (A Roland March Mystery)
Publication Date: July 1, 2012| Series: A Roland March Mystery The Stakes Have Never Been Higher for this Homicide CopPublishers Weekly calls J. Mark Bertrand's writing "gritty and chilling."He returns once more to the streets of Houston for another twisting mystery featuring Detective Roland March. This time, a new case is launched by the discovery of a headless corpse...only the investigation quickly becomes complicated when a blood sample analysis brings a phone call from the FBI.The body was an undercover agent working to bring down Mexican cartels. The feds want the case close...
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 | Gehenna: The Final Night (Vampire: The Masquerade)
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 | Tales of the Out & the Gone
Publication Date: December 1, 2006Comprising short fiction from the early 1970s to the twenty-first century—most of which has never been published—Tales of the Out & the Gone reflects the astounding evolution of America’s most provocative literary anti-hero.The first section of the book, “War Stories,” offers six stories enmeshed in the vola-tile politics of the 1970s and 1980s. The second section, “Tales of the Out & the Gone,” reveals Amiri Baraka’s increasing literary adventurousness, combining an unpredictable language play with a p...
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 | Booby Birds Let Them Fly Free
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 | Kumulipo: A Hawaiian Creation Chant
Publication Date: July 1, 1981| ISBN-10: 0824807715 | ISBN-13: 978-0824807719This book contains the traditional Creation and Geneological Chant of the Hawaiian royal family, and Beckwith's extensive textual, anthroplogical, and historical commentary. This is one of the few source documents available in the realm of Polynesian religion, and it is stunning. The full Hawaiian version of the chant is included. (Quote from sacred-texts.com)About the AuthorMartha Warren Beckwith (1871 - 1959)Martha Warren Beckwith was a student of the anthropologist Franz Boas, whose work on the Native culture...
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 | Haikube
Publication Date: May 1, 2006| ISBN-10: 0973974249 | ISBN-13: 978-0973974249The Haikube is a free-moving three-dimensional cube handmade from ebony. Each three-inch face is comprised of nine unit cubes. On the exterior face of each unit cube is a word. On each of the six faces of the cube, the nine unit cubes form a nine-word poem modelled after the syllabic structure of the traditional Japanese haiku. Beyond the horizontal symmetry of the haiku, the constraint of the Haikube follows a further vertical symmetry. Each column and row of the unit cubes can rotate around the central point. I...
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 | And I All Undressed
Publication Date: December 11, 2008"Sonnets, a pantoum and triolets are some of the formsof poetry in this collection that tell about lost love, warand the beauty of the sunrise. Some poems are powerfulwith a message for the reader; others are lyrical and gentle,caressing the reader with their words. Elvira demonstrates sheis able to handle different types of poetry with fl air and ease.And I all undressed has something for everyone…‘Since rearing a family of three children and retiring from teaching,I have been able to devote more time to my writing. If I live longenough, I wi...
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 | Inside The Bestsellers
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 | Leonardo Da Vinci As a Musician
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 | The Paris Review Interviews, IV
Release Date: October 27, 2009| Series: Paris Review Interviews (Book 4) With an Introduction by Salman Rushdie For more than fifty years, The Paris Review has brought us revelatory and revealing interviews with the literary lights of our age. This critically acclaimed series continues with another eclectic lineup, including Philip Roth, Ezra Pound, Haruki Murakami, Marilynne Robinson, Stephen Sondheim, E. B. White, Maya Angelou, William Styron and more. In each of these remarkable extended conversations, the authors touch every corner of the writing life, sharing their ambitions...
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 | Love in the Afternoon (Hathaways, Book 5)
Release Date: June 29, 2010 As a lover of animals and nature, Beatrix Hathaway has always been more comfortable outdoors than in the ballroom. Even though she participated in the London season in the past, the classic beauty and free-spirited Beatrix has never been swept away or seriously courted…and she has resigned herself to the fate of never finding love. Has the time come for the most unconventional of the Hathaway sisters to settle for an ordinary man—just to avoid spinsterhood? Captain Christopher Phelan is a handsome, daring soldier who plans to marry Beatrix’s...
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 | The Butterfly Legacy
Publication Date: December 13, 2011July 1952 is teenaged Raleigh Buchanan’s last vacation on Country Pond, New Hampshire, where for the previous two summers he and an Irish boy had traded notes. Feeling the familiar rush of intrigue, Raleigh removes the kid’s latest note from behind the ceramic half-moon tacked above the cottage door. The note contains a riddle half-written in Gaelic. Mystified and irritated, he puts the note away with other childish things – soon to be forgotten.Twenty-six years will pass before Raleigh, now a Boston police detective, realizes that the ...
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 | Legends Of Land Forms: Native
Publication Date: August 1, 1999| Age Level: 9 and up Presents the stories created by various native peoples to explain such natural wonders as the Hot Springs of Arkansas, the Grand Canyon, Horseshoe Falls at Niagara Falls, Crater Lake, and the Hawaiian Islands. ...
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 | Dragon in the Desert (Dragonblood)
Publication Date: January 1, 2010| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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 | The Legend of the Lady's Slipper
Publication Date: May 2001| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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 | How the Guinea Fowl Got Her Spots: A Swahili Tale of Friendship (Carolrhoda Picture Books)
Publication Date: August 1991| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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 | The End Zone (My First Graphic Novel)
Publication Date: January 1, 2009| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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| Lyn St. James: Driven to Be First
Publication Date: March 1997| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up A biography of the race car driver who, in 1992, became the second woman ever to participate in the Indianapolis 500 and the first ever to be named Rookie of the Year in that race. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
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 | Beauty and the Beaks: A Turkey's Cautionary Tale
Publication Date: August 2008| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up Beauty and her friends think Lance is the most conceited bird in the hen yard. From the moment the turkey arrives on the farm, he spends his time swaggering around the Chic Hen beauty shop, boasting that he is the only bird invited to a special feast. But when Beauty practices her favorite eggsercise, flying, she accidentally discovers just what kind of guest Lance will be at the feast. Can beauty come up with a plan to save Lance before his life eggspires? ...
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 | The Rainbow Fish Domino Game
Publication Date: February 1, 1999| Age Level: 3 and up For 2-4 players, ages 3-6 Game includes:-- 28 domino cards, of which one is a foil-stamped wild card-- Instructions ...
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