 | American Indian Stories
Publication Date: September 1, 2003American Indian Stories, first published in 1921, is a collection of childhood stories, allegorical fiction, and an essay. One of the most famous Sioux writers and activists of the modern era, Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin) recalled legends and tales from oral tradition and used experiences from her life and community to educate others about the Yankton Sioux. Determined, controversial, and visionary, she creatively worked to bridge the gap between her own culture and mainstream American society and advocated for Native rights on a national level. Susan Rose ...
 |  | Cry Of The Peacock
Release Date: November 1, 2000Peacock the Jew is nine years old and living in the Esfahan ghetto when she marries Solomon the Man. She is the descendant of a three-thousand-year-old tribe of Jews -- the oldest community in diaspora, a people largely unknown to the outside world. He is a singer in the royal court, a wealthy man known for his good looks and his charm. A decade later, she will become the first woman in her ghetto ever to have left her husband.Against the backdrop of two hundred years of history, CRY OF THE PEACOCK traces the story of a Jewish woman caught in the turmoil of tw...
|  | Dangerous Minds: They Were Problem Kids With One Last Chance . . . Her
Publication Date: August 15, 1995She bullied, bluffed, and bribed her students into caring about school.And if that didn't work, the pretty, petite ex-marine told them she'd been trained to kill with her bare hands.They were called the class from Hell-thirty-four inner city sophomores she inherited from a teacher who'd been "pushed over the edge." She was told "those kids have tasted blood. They're dangerous."But LouAnne Johnson had a different idea. Where the school system saw thirty-four unreachable kids, she saw young men and women with intelligence and dreams. When others gave up on them...
|  | Roman: A Novel of the West
Release Date: May 1, 2012 Young Roman Hasford stood by his mother and sister on the family’s Arkansas hill farm while his father was off fighting in the Civil War. Now that his father has returned, Roman heads west to blaze his own trail.Eager for adventure, Roman gets more than he bargained for—from the rough-and-tumble boomtown of Leavenworth, Kansas, to the blood-soaked prairies where he fights Cheyenne warriors at the Battle of Beecher Island.Authentic and action-packed, Douglas C. Jones’s Roman is an epic, unforgettable coming-of-age story, set against the backgro...
|  | Studies in Jonson's Comedy
Publication Date: June 1966| ISBN-10: 0877521239 | ISBN-13: 978-0877521235This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the...
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|  | Selected Stories
Release Date: November 11, 1997Spanning almost thirty years and settings that range from big cities to small towns and farmsteads of rural Canada, this magnificent collection brings together twenty-eight stories by a writer of unparalleled wit, generosity, and emotional power. In her Selected Stories, Alice Munro makes lives that seem small unfold until they are revealed to be as spacious as prairies and locates the moments of love and betrayal, desire and forgiveness, that change those lives forever. To read these stories--about a traveling salesman and his children on an impromptu journey;...
|  | Collected Stories of William Faulkner
Release Date: October 31, 1995“I’m a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can’t and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing that, only then does he take up novel writing.” —William Faulkner Winner of the National Book AwardForty-two stories make up this magisterial collection by the writer who stands at the pinnacle of modern American fiction. Compressing an epic expanse of vision into hard and wounding narratives, Faulkner’s stories evoke the intimate textures of place, ...
|  | Read On...Crime Fiction: Reading Lists for Every Taste (Read On Series)
Publication Date: December 30, 2007| ISBN-10: 159158373X | ISBN-13: 978-1591583738Mystery and crime readers looking for great new reads, and librarians looking for fresh reading lists for patrons will love this new resource. It categorizes hundreds of popular crime fiction titles according to five broad features: character, setting, story, language and mood-and then into thematic lists as Reading the Bones, Dynamic Duos, Love you to Death, and Bright Lights, Dead Bodies. For each title, you'll find bibliographic information and a brief, punchy description, designed to spark reader intere...
|  | Digital Communications Test and Measurement: High-Speed Physical Layer Characterization
Publication Date: December 10, 2007| ISBN-10: 0132209101 | ISBN-13: 978-0132209106| Edition: 1 A Comprehensive Guide to Physical Layer Test and Measurement of Digital Communication Links Today's new data communication and computer interconnection systems run at unprecedented speeds, presenting new challenges not only in the design, but also in troubleshooting, test, and measurement. This book assembles contributions from practitioners at top test and measurement companies, component manufacturers,and universities. It brings together information that has never been broadly accessible ...
|  | Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France
Publication Date: November 4, 2003Captivating variations on Arthurian myths and other stories of magic and mystery appear in this collection of the best works of the Middle Ages' greatest female author. Two additional famous medieval romances, "A Story of Beyond the Sea" and "The Chatelaine of Vergi," are also featured. ...
|  | Surrealism and the Politics of Eros, 1938-1968
Publication Date: October 31, 2005A radically new history of French surrealism by a brilliant young art historian.In contrast to the orthodox view that surrealism slid into a terminal decline after the 1930s, Alyce Mahon shows that the movement was instead transformed in the war and postwar years as the Surrealists redefined and extended their interests in social crisis, political engagement, transgressive art, myth, the occult, and the erotic.Through "the politics of Eros" the Surrealists attempted to shatter the repression intrinsic to bourgeois society by appealing to individual desire as...
|  | Breath of Magic
Release Date: February 1, 1996Precocious Puritan and aspiring witch Arian Whitewood spends her lonely nights dreaming of magic and excitement. She gets more excitement than she bargains for when she crash lands straight out of a witch hunt into the 20th century and the arms of Tristan Lennox, a reclusive billionaire. Arian blows through Tristan's climate-controlled existence like a breath of magic, only to discover that the spell he weaves around her heart is more compelling than any enchantment. ...
|  | The First Adventures of Spider: West African Folktales (Passport to Reading Level 4)
Publication Date: May 1, 2012| Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Basketball The Right Way
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|  | Blacky the Crow (Dover Children's Thrift Classics)
Publication Date: December 23, 1998| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Lily Hates Goodbyes (Navy Version)
Publication Date: August 1, 2011Lily Hates Goodbyes: a book for young military kids coping with a parent's deploymentBook website: jerilynmarler.comYouTube video (4 min). Have tissues handy! youtube.com/watch?v=2H9BUCQSFzk Two versions available! Navy Version (daddy wears Navy uniform) and All Military Version (daddy wears generic BDUs).March 2012: Lily Hates Goodbyes was named among the best in family-friendly media, products and services by the Mom's Choice Awards®!Lily is a young military child. Sometimes she has to say goodbye toher Daddy for about a billion days. She...
|  | English Literature for Boys and Girls, Illustrated Edition (Yesterday's Classics)
Publication Date: March 10, 2009| ISBN-10: 1599150891 | ISBN-13: 978-1599150895| Edition: Ill Delightful introduction to the writers of English literature whose works hold the greatest appeal for the youthful reader.The life and personality of each author is given in outline, with enough material quoted from his works to give an idea ofwhat he wrote. For most authors suggestions for further reading are included. The outline of historical background enables the young reader to grasp the connection between the literature and the life of the time. Excellent as a companion to a chronological...
|  | The 18 Penny Goose (I Can Read Book 3)
Release Date: February 17, 1999| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Here We Go 'Round the Year (Magic Castle Readers)
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