 | Head in the Clouds Publication Date: October 1, 2010Adelaide Proctor is a young woman with her head in the clouds, longing for a real-life storybook hero to claim as her own. But when a husband-hunting debacle leaves her humiliated, she interviews for a staid governess position on a central Texas sheep ranch and vows to leave her romantic yearnings behind.When Gideon Westcott left his privileged life in England to make a name for himself in America's wool industry, he never expected to become a father overnight. And five-year-old Isabella hasn't uttered a word since she lost her mother. The unconventionality o...
 |  | Ghost Singer: A Novel Publication Date: December 1, 1994Human ears, strung like beads on a cord; scalps with hair and ears still intact; infant bones in a medicine bundle; corpses, whole, in a cardboard box. These artifacts in an obscure corner of the Smithsonian cause Indian ghosts to haunt, torment, and murder researchers--even as they themselves are tormented by the items in the museum's collection. Only the sacred rituals of Indian medicine men can make it safe to be around these dangerous artifacts. ...
 |  | L' Etoile Solitaire (Yaoi) Publication Date: October 15, 2007Micah, a cut throat American businessman, is intent on taking over a floundering Japanese hotel chain and whipping it into shape. All that currently stands in his way is its clumsy yet endearing president, Yuki. Will this hostile takeover end up being a vehicle for love? ...
 |  | The Peace of Aristophanes (Classic Reprint) Publication Date: March 16, 2010THE PLAY 3 by-scenes little more irrelevant than is usually the case in Aristophanes. The political ideas which run through the play are those which we have learned to expect from the author. Extreme democracy is hateful to him, as ever; the dead Cleon1 and the living Hyperbolus2 are alike lashed, and the memory of Pericles the Olympian does not escape.3 To oligarchs and their creed he makes no reference, nor is there in any of his plays a trace of oligarchic sympathies.4 Though no doubt he belonged to the " middle party,"5 he does not trouble to mention a sin...
 |  | Janeites Publication Date: October 15, 2000Over the last decade, as Jane Austen has moved center-stage in our culture, onto bestseller lists and into movie houses, another figure has slipped into the spotlight alongside her. This is the "Janeite", the zealous reader and fan whose devotion to the novels has been frequently revoked and often derided by the critical establishment Jane Austen has long been considered part of a great literary tradition, even legitimizing the academic study of novels. However, the Janeite phenomenon has not until now aroused the curiosity of scholars interested in the poli...
 |  | Postmodernism, Culture and Class in John Edgar Wideman's Selected Fiction Publication Date: November 18, 2009John Edgar Wideman's Literary Genius Priscilla R. Ramsey has designed her research and critical interpretation in this book so that her writing can extend its reach to popular reading audiences then college undergraduates andScholars in the academy. She takes complicated concepts and insights from such theorists as Derrida, Jameson and Eagleton among many other critics. This text attempts to guide readers through Wideman's meanings without becoming an oversimplified guide book. Rather, this book looks carefully at Wideman's experimental strategi...
 |  | Development of the Syntax-Discourse Interface (Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics) Publication Date: August 1, 1999| ISBN-10: 0792359364 | ISBN-13: 978-0792359364| Edition: 1 The main focus of the book is the development of referentialabilities in young children. A number of findings suggest that errorsexhibited by young children in various experiments and spontaneousspeech result from the inability to implement discourse-relatedknowledge. It is further argued that the deficiency is due to the lackof language-specific processing resources characteristic for youngchildren. In order to support the lack of processing resourcesargument, certain similarities between the lan...
 |  | LLES.GILMOUR: VICTORIAN 1830-90_P: THE INTELLECTUAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, 1830 - 1890: THE INTELLECTUAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT OF ENGLISH ... (LONGMAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH SERIES) ...
 |  | Dogs and Goddesses Release Date: February 3, 2009Abby has just arrived in Summerville, Ohio, with her placid Newfoundland, Bowser. She’s reluctantly inherited her grandmother’s coffee shop, but it’s not long before she’s brewing up trouble in the form of magical baked goods and steaming up her life with an exasperating college professor. And then there’s Daisy, a web code writer, and her hyperactive Jack Russell, Bailey. Her tightly-wound world spins out of control when she discovers the chaos within and meets a mysterious dog trainer whose teaching style is definitely hands-on.Fi...
 |  | The Winemaker's Dinner: Appetizers Publication Date: July 31, 2012Recently named executive chef at one of Miami Beach's hottest restaurants, Jaden Thorne is determined to make her culinary mark and fulfill her professional dreams. When Jaden is given highly coveted tickets to the ultra-exclusive Winemaker's Dinner, she jumps at the opportunity to meet South Florida's wealthiest and most influential food and wine enthusiasts. Jaden's eyes are drawn to the VIP section even before the appetizers appear, but she soon finds herself thinking less about networking and more about the intriguingly sexy stranger eying her from across t...
 |  | Cr Publication Date: January 1, 2004Crônicos is a book to leave critics scratching their heads in search of a title that will never catch - has a literary composure before suffering which, while confirming Daniela Abbott as exponent of the new generation of Brazilian writers, make her profoundly different from all that exists there. ...
 |  | (Quinn's Way (Harlequin American Romance, No. 558) Publication Date: February 1, 2003| Series: Timetwist (Silhouette) Worlds ApartOne wrong turn and twenty-fourth-century explorer Quinn had fallen through a crack in time -- three hundred years the past . . . and straight into the arms of the woman of his dreams. Now he was stranded in another time and entranced by Houston Malloy, the beauty who had taken him in.She had never experienced anything like the sexy stranger who had tumbled into her world. Common sense told Houston he must be lying about who he truly was, yet his eyes, his touch compelled her to believe in something so extraordinar...
 |  | Max (Maximum Ride, Book 5) Publication Date: February 1, 2010| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock have barely recovered from their last arctic adventure, when they are confronted by the most frightening catastrophe yet. Millions of fish are dying off the coast of Hawaii and someone--or something--is destroying hundreds of ships. Unable to discover the cause, the government enlists the Flock to help them get to the bottom of the disaster before it is too late.While Max and her team are exploring the depths of the ocean, their every move is being carefully tracke...
 |  | Bad Kitty Meets the Baby Release Date: January 17, 2012| Age Level: 7 and up...
 |  | Something to Prove: The story of hockey tough guy Bobby Clarke (Lorimer Recordbooks) Release Date: October 1, 2010| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up...
 |  | Secrets Of The Pyramids: National Geographic Maze Adventures Release Date: October 1, 2002| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
 |  | The Complete Screech Owls, Volume 5 Release Date: March 6, 2007| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
 |  | The Philadelphia Adventure Release Date: July 8, 2002| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up Vesper Holly has foiled murderers, crossed mountains, and narrowly escaped earthquakes. Now she's home in Philadelphia, where she can relax-until President Ulysses S. Grant asks for her help.The Centennial Exposition of 1876 is about to begin, and luminaries from around the world will be there. But so will Vesper's arch-nemesis, the evil Doctor Helvetius.There's only one person who can thwart his evil plans-Vesper Holly!"A combination of historical fact, nonstop danger and intrigue, and masterful writing."(The Bulleti...
 |  | The Adventures of Browser and Sequoia Publication Date: September 16, 2009Be Part of the Adventure! with this exciting action adventure children's and young adult novel about the Ice Age.The Adventures of Browser and Sequoia is a story about the life and times of a Mammoth named Browser who rescued a young native boy named Sequoia from drowning in a salt pond, some 14,000 winters ago.They became friends because Sequoia had the uncanny ability to "speak to the animals."To many, Sequoia was thought to possess a powerful and magical "Medicine".Browser and Sequoia would face many dangers---forest fires, floods, and crashing glaciers...
 |  | The Storyteller's Candle/La velita de los cuentos Publication Date: March 28, 2008| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: K and up It is the winter of 1929, and cousins Hildamar and Santiago have just moved to enormous, chilly New York from their native Puerto Rico. As Three Kings' Day approaches, Hildamar and Santiago mourn the loss of their sunny home and wonder about their future in their adopted city. But when a storyteller and librarian named Pura Belpré arrives in their classroom, the children begin to understand just what a library can mean to a community. In this fitting tribute to a remarkable woman, Lucía González and ...
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