 | Can't Hurry Love
Release Date: July 31, 2012From award-winning author Molly O’Keefe comes a wonderfully written contemporary romance about second chances at life and at love. Victoria Baker, the penniless widow of a disgraced financier, is ready to stand up, be counted, and make a new life for herself and her beloved son in Texas. She’s taking over Crooked Creek ranch, her birthright, and turning it into something special. All that stands in her way is Eli Turnbull, a rugged, too-handsome cowboy who wants the land just as badly. If Victoria wants a fight, Eli will give her one...
 |  | Hopeful Heart, A
Publication Date: June 1, 2010Dowryless and desperate, Tressa Neill applies to the inaugural class of Wyatt Herdsman School in Barnett, Kansas, in 1888. The school's one-of-a-kind program teaches young women from the East the skills needed to become a rancher--or the wife of one. Shy and small for her twenty-two years, Tressa is convinced she'll never have what it takes to survive Hattie Wyatt's hands-on instruction in skills such as milking a cow, branding a calf, riding a horse, and cooking up a mess of grub for hungry ranch hands. But what other options does she have? Abel Samms wants not...
|  | Desmond: A Novel About Love and the Modern Vampire
Publication Date: July 1, 2000When a gay vampire falls in love with a young man, his dark world is forever changed, in this welcome addition to the canon of vampire literature. ...
|  | No Rules of Engagement
Publication Date: October 13, 2009With wounded soldiers all around her, Major Logan Sharp doesn't have time to pamper some photographer from stateside. What spare energy she does have goes to worrying what she'll do when she ships home from Afghanistan. Home--for Logan, the word means nothing. But photographer Jillian Knight is not what she expects, and certainly not what she needs complicating her last tour.Leaving her partner and daughter at home, Jillian Knight is on assignment in Kandahar to record the heroic work of medical units in war zones. She knows it'll be rough, but Logan Sharp's...
|  | Othello (The Shakespeare Parallel Text Series)
Publication Date: August 2004| Series: The Shakespeare Parallel Text Series Othello The Shakespeare Parallel Text Series...William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1564, and his birth is traditionally celebrated on April 23. The facts of his life, known from surviving documents, are sparse. He was one of eight children born to John Shakespeare, a merchant of some standing in his community. William probably went to the King's New School in Stratford, but he had no university education. In November 1582, at the age of eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway, eight years his seni...
|  | Nathan the Wise (Bedford Series in History & Culture)
Publication Date: November 1, 2004| ISBN-10: 0312442432 | ISBN-13: 978-0312442439One of the most frequently performed and widely read comedies of the eighteenth century, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Nathan the Wise (1779) combines rich characterization with an engaging plot. Set in Muslim-ruled Jerusalem at the time of the Crusades, it deals with universal themes -- including the nature of God, antisemitism, wealth and poverty, and the conflict between love and duty. Today the play is as timely as ever. This edition, the first English version expressly intended for undergraduates, contains...
|  | Civil War Poetry (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: July 11, 1997| ISBN-10: 0486298833 | ISBN-13: 978-0486298832A superb selection of poems from both sides of the American Civil War, this compilation reflects the struggle's heroism, horror, exaltation, and anguish. More than 75 inspired works include famous poems by Melville, Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, and Whitman, as well as lesser-known verse by Julia Ward Howe, Edwin Markham, and many others. ...
|  | As Though the Gods Love Us
Publication Date: July 1, 2000In As Though The Gods Love Us, Goh brings a lifetime of love, despair and passion to his work with the skill of a master craftsman. Amidst some of the world's most exotic locales, he uses graceful and lyrical language to understand his world and to bring us closer to ourselves and each other. From Vancouver neighbourhoods to the tropical darkness of a night in Bali, Goh's sensibility touches both people and landscapes, ranging in tone from the epic and political to the intimate and personal. Hailed as "one of Asia's finest living poets" (Asia Magazine), Goh Poh ...
|  | The Answering Voice: Love Lyrics By Women
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|  | Playing With Time: Mothers And The Meaning Of Literacy (Gender & Society: Feminism Perspectives)
Publication Date: December 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 1857288912 | ISBN-13: 978-1857288919Against a background of press reports of declining literacy standards, there is a dominant idea that both the responsibility for literacy learning and the key to literacy success lies as much within the family as in the school. Using a historical framework, this book explores the lives of mothers born after 1870, through accounts from the Mass Observations's archives of correspondence and on interviews by the author with children of these mothers. The study reveals an enormous variety of attitudes of mothers...
|  | Love Cures: Healing and Love Magic in Old French Romance (Penn State Romance Studies)
Publication Date: August 30, 2009| ISBN-10: 0271035315 | ISBN-13: 978-0271035314What is love? Popular culture bombards us with notions of the intoxicating capacities of love or of beguiling women who can bewitch or heal, to the point that it is easy to believe that such images are timeless and universal. Not so, argues Laine Doggett in Love Cures. Aspects of love that are expressed in pop music such as "love is a drug", "sexual healing", and "love potion number nine"— trace deep roots to Old French romance of the high Middle Ages. A young woman heals a poiso...
|  | Some Enchanted Evening: a ghostly romance
Publication Date: February 26, 2010A crumbling mansion is the setting for a gothic romance of young love and true friendship that spans the early decades of the 20th century. One young boy finds himself in another -- but which is it, the boy in the mirror or the boy lost in shadows beyond time? ...
|  | The Octonauts & the Sea of Shade
Publication Date: October 23, 2007| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: K and up The books that launched the hit cartoon!"The crisply drafted pages bloom with fascinating detail: every tree, shadow, rock, and animal has an endearing, individual personality…the book itself is a lush visual treat." - Utne Reader"It's great to find a book that appeals to both kids and adults—even if the appeal is for different reasons... In other words, these are the best. children's book. animals. ever. I can't get enough of them & I can read this book for hours—and have.”—The Poop, SF...
|  | The King of Kumari Kandam (Secret Saturdays, The) (Secret Saturdays (Quality))
Release Date: August 11, 2009| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | Will's Quill
Release Date: May 11, 2004| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up A goose named Willoughby visits London, meets a friendly actor-playwright named Shakespeare, and helps make literary history. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Alchemy and Meggy Swann
Publication Date: April 26, 2010| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Fans of Karen Cushman's witty, satisfying novels will welcome Meggy Swann, newly come to London with her only friend, a goose named Louise. Meggy's mother was glad to be rid of her; her father, who sent for her, doesn't want her after all. Meggy is appalled by London,dirty and noisy, full of rogues and thieves, and difficult to get around in—not that getting around is ever easy for someone who walks with the help of two sticks.Just as her alchemist father pursues his Great Work of transforming bas...
|  | Playtime Devotions: Sharing Bible Moments with Your Baby or Toddler (Heritage Builders (Standard))
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|  | In the Beginning
Publication Date: March 1996| Age Level: 3 and up In this adaptation of the creation story, Adam awakes, surveys his room and the larger world, decides that all is good, and then proceeds to deal with his loneliness. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Adam Raccoon at Forever Falls
Publication Date: February 1, 1999| Age Level: 4 and up...
|  | McGillycuddy Could!
Release Date: March 15, 2005| Age Level: 3 and up Introducing a new kangaroo character–McGillycuddy! A young read–aloud from popular picture book author Pamela Duncan Edwards.McGillycuddy is new to the barnyard, and the other animals have never seen a kangaroo before. They try to figure out what McGillycuddys do: Make milk? Grow wool? Lay eggs? No, McGillycuddy can't do any of those things, but she can scare away a threatening fox who is looking for dinner! Pamela Duncan Edwards's lively read–aloud text is just right for preschoolers. Sue Porter's energetic drawings provi...
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