 | The Norton Field Guide to Writing with Readings, 2nd Edition
Publication Date: December 14, 2009| ISBN-10: 0393933814 | ISBN-13: 978-0393933819| Edition: Second Edition The most successful new rhetoric in a generation, plus an anthology of 60 readings. Designed as 2 books in one, so that teachers can center their courses on the rhetoric or the readings—and draw from the other part as needed.Easy to use, flexible, and a great value. With just enough detail – and color-coded links that send students to more detail if they need it – this is the rhetoric that tells students what they need to know and resists the temptation to tell...
 |  | New and Selected Poems, Volume One
Release Date: April 15, 2004When New and Selected Poems, Volume One was originally published in 1992, Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award. In the fourteen years since its initial appearance it has become one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the country. This collection features thirty poems published only in this volume as well as selections from the poet's first eight books.Mary Oliver's perceptive, brilliantly crafted poems about the natural landscape and the fundamental questions of life and death have won high praise from critics and readers alike. "Do you love this w...
|  | Dog People
Publication Date: April 15, 1998The Dalton house, built almost 300 years ago by 12-year-old Trisha Dalton's ancestors, is the setting for the unravelling of Trisha's family under the pressure of cocktail hours that grow ever longer, gambling debts that grow larger, and bonds of love and loyalty that grow weaker.Growing up, Trisha learns the story of Sara Wilde, her "many greats" aunt who lived in the same house when it was new. A suitor had offered Sara's father an important tract of land in exchange for Sara's hand in marriage and Sara's father agreed. But when she refused the suitor, the s...
|  | Valley of Dry Bones: A Medieval Mystery (Medieval Mysteries)
Publication Date: November 2, 2010| Series: Medieval Mysteries In the late summer of 1274, King Edward has finally been anointed England’s ruler, and his queen contemplates a pilgrimage in gratitude for their safe return from Outremer, a journey that will include a stay at Tyndal Priory. Envoys are sent to confirm that everything will be suitable for the king’s wife, and Prioress Eleanor nervously awaits them, knowing that regal visits bring along expense and honor. The cost is higher than expected, however, when Death arrives as the unexpected emissary. One of the courtiers is m...
|  | The Shepherd's Voice
Release Date: July 18, 2000A Man with a Past...For ten years, Gabe Talmadge languished in prison, convicted of a horrible crime. Now, he is free once again but unable to find work in the midst of the Great Depression. In desperation, Gabe returns to Ransom, Idaho, hoping that his uncaring father will give him food and shelter, if not love. But the prodigal son is not welcomed home. Hudson Talmadge, who virtually owns the town of Ransom, despises his youngest son as much as ever-and Gabe is as powerless to win his father's approval as when he was a child. A Man with a Future...Hungry and hope...
|  | Human Croquet: A Novel
Release Date: November 12, 2011A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearPart fairy tale, part mystery, part coming-of-age novel, this novel tells the story of Isobel Fairfax, a girl growing up in Lythe, a typical 1960s British suburb. But Lythe was once the heart of an Elizabethan feudal estate and home to a young English tutor named William Shakespeare, and as Isobel investigates the strange history of her family, her neighbors, and her village, she occasionally gets caught in Shakespearean time warps. Meanwhile, she gets closer to the shocking truths about her missing...
|  | Billionaire Doctor, Ordinary Nurse (Harlequin Medical Romance)
Publication Date: August 12, 2008| Series: Harlequin Medical Romance Dr. Iosef Kolovsky is part of Melbourne's wealthiest and most notorious family. By day he works as one of Australia's top doctors, by night he attends glamorous parties with the world's elite. Nurse Annie Jameson is a plump plain Jane who's having a bad week. Not only must she drop two dress sizes before the weekend, the presence of Dr. Kolovsky has got her flustered and reaching for the cookie jar! She knows she doesn't fit into his glitzy, privileged world, but his searing seduction is impossible to resist....--This tex...
|  | The First to Land (The Royal Marines Saga)
Publication Date: April 1, 2002| Series: The Royal Marines Saga Captain David Blackwood is embroiled in the Boxer Rebellion. Ordered to escort a beautiful German countess on a dangerous journey up the Hoshun River, Blackwood sees death and slaughter unlike anything he has known. Finally, standing before the walls of Tientsin, he must hold on against a torrent of frenzied Chinese warriors. ...
|  | Project June Bug
Publication Date: February 14, 2008"Smart, funny, poignant and relevant, it captures the best and worst of a system where no child should be left behind." George Anastasia, columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer Life is good for Jenna Bianchi. She’s just started her second year of teaching English at Morrison High School, a job she loves. She has a pet parrot with attitude. And there’s a handsome math teacher who wants to be more than just friends. But everything changes when a defiant, disruptive tenth grader walks into her classroom. With a smart mouth and a swagger to match, Mi...
|  | Under This Unbroken Sky: A Novel
Release Date: August 24, 2010 Spring 1938. After nearly two years in prison for the crime of stealing his own grain, Ukrainian immigrant Teodor Mykolayenko is a free man. While he was gone, his wife, Maria; their five children; and his sister, Anna, struggled to survive on the harsh northern Canadian prairie, but now Teodor—a man who has overcome drought, starvation, and Stalin's purges—is determined to make a better life for them. But the family's hopes and newfound happiness are short-lived when Anna's rogue husband, the arrogant and scheming Stefan, unexpectedly returns, stirrin...
|  | A Race Of Female Patriots: Women and Public Spirit on the British Stage, 1688-1745 (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850)
Publication Date: December 23, 2011| ISBN-10: 1611483646 | ISBN-13: 978-1611483642A Race of Female Patriots argues that public-spirited women proliferated on the eighteenth-century British stage to catalyze an affective experience of political belonging, as dramatists imagined new forms of affiliation, allegiance, and loyalty suitable to the new British constitution established by the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Brett D. Wilson examines both staples of the repertory (The Fair Penitent, Jane Shore) and lesser-known plays (Liberty Asserted, The Revolution of Sweden, Edward and Eleonora) t...
|  | Li dai shi fen lei jian shang ci dian (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | Writing and Rebellion: England in 1381 (The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics)
Publication Date: December 1, 1996| ISBN-10: 0520206975 | ISBN-13: 978-0520206977In this compelling account of the "peasants' revolt" of 1381, in which rebels burned hundreds of official archives and attacked other symbols of authority, Steven Justice demonstrates that the rebellion was not an uncontrolled, inarticulate explosion of peasant resentment but an informed and tactical claim to literacy and rule.Focusing on six brief, enigmatic texts written by the rebels themselves, Justice places the English peasantry within a public discourse from which historians, both medieval and modern,...
|  | Finder
Publication Date: September 1, 1998As a bodyguard, Atticus Kodiak knows danger is part of the job. But he still can't shake his guilt over his best friend's death in their last assignment. As a bouncer at a hard-core club on the Lower West Side, Atticus is responsible for nothing more than keeping the scene under control. Until he sees Erika Wyatt, the teenage daughter of an Army colonel Atticus once guarded. Stalked by a cold-eyed commando fondling a wicked knife, Erika draws Atticus back into the protection business. In a case built on lies, vengeance, and sins of the past, Atticus is pull...
|  | Darkwing Duck Classics Vol. 1
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|  | LEGO Hero Factory: Secret Mission #1: The Doom Box
Publication Date: September 1, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | That's Not My Dolly... (Usborne Touchy-Feely Books)
Publication Date: January 1, 2004| Age Level: 2 and up...
|  | Moray Eels (Naturebooks: Underwater Life)
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|  | Big Apple Barn #2: Happy's Big Plan
Publication Date: February 1, 2007| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | When I Feel Angry (Way I Feel)
Release Date: January 1, 2000| Grade Level: P and up...
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