 | The LEGO Ideas Book
Publication Date: September 19, 2011| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up You have what it takes! Did you ever wonder what you can do with all of those LEGO® bricks after you have created the project they came with? Now with The LEGO Ideas Book, you can take what you already have and make something new! The book is divided into six themed chapters—transportation, buildings, space, kingdoms, adventure, and useful makes—each with basic templates of key models and spreads to inspire you to create your own. Hints and tips from Master Builders can help you turn your classi...
 |  | Manhunters (Texas Tradition Series)
Publication Date: September 1, 1994| Series: Texas Tradition Series (Book 22) As he flees to the sanctuary of Mexico, Chacho Fernandez is unaware of the fuel he has added to the already simmering racial hatreds in and around the quiet town of Domingo, Texas. Through events set in motion by a misunderstanding, Chacho becomes a folk hero to his people and a dangerous fugitive to a group of zealous lawmen.First published in 1974 by Ballantine Books, Manhunters, the tale of Chacho's legendary flight, was inspired by the story of controversial Mexican fugitive Gregorio Cortez. In 1901 Cortez, a y...
|  | Table For Three (Urban Soul)
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|  | Day of War (Lion of War Series)
Release Date: May 24, 2011| Series: Lion of War Series (Book 1) Day of War, author Cliff Graham's first novel, has earned him a film option for the entire book series---Lion of War---from director David L. Cunningham (Path to 9/11) and producer Grant Curtis (Spider-Man films). In ancient Israel, at the crossroads of the great trading routes, a man named Benaiah is searching for a fresh start in life. He has joined a band of soldiers led by a warlord named David, seeking to bury the past that refuses to leave him. Their ragged army is disgruntled and full of reckless men. Some are loyal to Da...
|  | The Constantine Codex (Skeleton Series)
Publication Date: May 18, 2011| Series: Skeleton Series Harvard Professor Jonathan Weber is finally enjoying a season of peace when a shocking discovery thrusts him into the national spotlight once again. While touring monasteries in Greece, Jon and his wife Shannon—a seasoned archaeologist—uncover an ancient biblical manuscript containing the lost ending of Mark and an additional book of the Bible. If proven authentic, the codex could forever change the way the world views the holy Word of God. As Jon and Shannon work to validate their find, it soon becomes clear that there ar...
|  | Poetics of the Incarnation: Middle English Writing and the Leap of Love (The Middle Ages Series)
Publication Date: November 16, 2012| Series: The Middle Ages Series The Gospel of John describes the Incarnation of Christ as "the Word made flesh"—an intriguing phrase that uses the logic of metaphor but is not traditionally understood as merely symbolic. Thus the conceptual puzzle of the Incarnation also draws attention to language and form: what is the Word; how is it related to language; how can the Word become flesh? Such theological questions haunt the material imagery engaged by medieval writers, the structural forms that give their writing shape, and even their ideas about lang...
|  | Dawn on a Distant Shore (Wilderness, Book 2)
Release Date: May 29, 2001In an icy, untamed world of pristine beauty, a husband and wife are torn apart by fate but reunited forever by a love that can't be broken....An unforgettable love comes alive in this masterful epic of passion, treachery, and adventure....Award-winning author Sara Donati's debut novel, Into the Wilderness, was hailed as "one of those rare stories that let you breathe the air of another time" (Diana Gabaldon). Now, in an eloquent blend of fact and fiction, Donati re-creates her beloved characters from Into the Wilderness in an enthralling new tale of romanc...
|  | Petronius: Selections from the Satyricon (Latin Edition)
Publication Date: October 1, 1995| ISBN-10: 0865162883 | ISBN-13: 978-0865162884| Edition: 3rd Latin students will be able to both manage and enjoy this book, which features a selection of highly entertaining episodes from the Satyricon. The book includes vocabulary and notes that enhance the student's enjoyment of the text.Also available:The Phaedra of Seneca - ISBN 0865160163Lucretius : Selections from De Rerum Natura - ISBN 0865163995For over 30 years Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers has produced the highest quality Latin and ancient Greek books. From Dr. Seuss books in Latin to Plato's A...
|  | Spider's Web and Zipper and His Father (Works of Joseph Roth)
Release Date: June 24, 2003| Series: Works of Joseph Roth Two novellas of rare energy and insight, The Spider's Web and Zipper and His Father are filled with Joseph Roth's surprising political foresight and compassionate sensitivity to the tremors of a world on the brink of collapse.The Spider's Web paints a chillingly realistic picture of the conspiracies of the radical right that were to undermine the Weimar Republic and pave the way for Hitler and National Socialism to take root among the disenchanted middle classes. Through the eyes of Theodor Lohse, a frustrated and disappointed veteran...
|  | Arcadia
Publication Date: June 8, 2012Populated by rockers, Deadheads, misfits, skinheads, Goths, surfers, preppies, cheerleaders, and jocks, ARCADIA by Mandana Towhidy is a Fast Times at Ridgemont High for the Metal years. It's an honest story of Ronnie and her friends (Ezze, Tess, Ash, and Syd), teen girls in the heart of the Hollywood Metal scene during the late 80s/early 90s, ruling it in their own way, with or without the boys, and having the time of their lives: scrounging dimes for burritos, ducking the hallway narcs, getting stoned in the parking lot, and hitching rides to the next party to ...
|  | Doc Lucas USN: A Novel of the Vietnam War
Publication Date: June 14, 2010Blair Beebe, M.D.Medical lessons from Vietnam; what did we learn?Almost fifty years after the beginning of American involvement in the Vietnam War, we still remain embroiled in military actions that generate disease, disability, and death. Frontline physicians who were in places like Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Vietnam faced the medical consequences of war every day. My new novel, Doc Lucas USN, based on real people and real events, brings the war down to a human scale, one person at a time. History gives us statistics and dates, but fiction hel...
|  | Posar desnuda en La Habana / Posing nude in Havana (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 30, 2012In 1922 Anais Nin travels to Cuba. The 19-year old is engaged to be married to a rich banker, a union his parents are opposed to. Although only nine entries were actually written in Cuba, after her sojourn in her parents' beloved city Anais writes the diary that will make her famous. Using references from this period, Wendy Guerra imagines what Anais may have felt on arriving to Cuba. Her misgivings on the idea of marriage, her dreams of becoming a writer living in Paris, and her resolve to live guided only by the cadence of her desire.Spanish Description:...
|  | Seniors Acting Up: Humorous New One-Act Plays and Skits for Older Adults : An Anthology
Publication Date: June 1996| ISBN-10: 0964977605 | ISBN-13: 978-0964977600Includes ten amusing one act plays, six skits, and additional information such as coping with stage fright. Themes range from the bittersweet final chapter of a caring waitress to the zany carryings-on of a mountain clan. Most of the playwrights and characters are seniors. All are funny.Go to the Senior Theatre Resource Center for more! ...
|  | The Study of Spirituality
Publication Date: December 11, 1986| ISBN-10: 0195041704 | ISBN-13: 978-0195041705Written by contributors representing the Anglican, Roman Catholic, Free Church, and Orthodox traditions, this collection examines the nature and form of individual Christian devotion throughout the centuries. ...
|  | Vinland the Good: The Saga of Leif Eiriksson and the Viking Discovery of America (Tanum's Tokens of Norway)
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|  | A Journey in Five Postcards Russian Poetry from the 20th Century (International Review of Russian Culture)
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|  | 3 Jewish Philosophers
Publication Date: May 1, 2006This anthology brings together the most important works of three Jewish Philosphers of the Middle Ages. Selections of the writings of Philo of Alexandria, edited with an introduction by Hans Lewy: Saadia Gaon's Book of Doctrines and Beliefs, abridged, introduced and translated from the Arabic by Alexander Altmann; and Yehuda Halevi's influential Kuzari, abridged and with an introduction and commentary by Isaak Heinemann, with a selection of Halevis poetry. All educated students of Jewish thought should be familiar with these seminal writers. ...
|  | Dime Detective Companion
Publication Date: March 22, 2011Dime Detective Magazine was second only to Black Mask as the dean of detective/P.I./hard-boiled pulp magazines, and was the home of Carroll John Daly, Frederick Nebel, John D. MacDonald, Cornell Woolrich, Erle Stanley Gardner, and many other top-notch scribes. This book indexes all 274 issues of Dime Detective, contains several articles on the series and its writers, and as a bonus, the fifth anniversary round-robin story from the November 1936 issue, "The Tongueless Men," by William E. Barrett, Carroll John Daly, Frederick C. Davis, T.T. Flynn, and John Lawre...
|  | The Elixir of Death (Crowner John Mysteries)
Publication Date: March 1, 2007| Series: Crowner John Mysteries "County Coroner Sir John de Wolfe investigates a series of brutal murders in 12th-century England. The discovery of the murdered crew from a shipwreck…is just the first in a string of atrocities. The captain was the husband of Sir John's former mistress, Hilda, and his investigation troubles both his shrewish wife Matilda and his current mistress…After a series of horrific murders, all related by the use of an unusual knife and crossbows with Arabic lettering, Sir John realizes that all the victims were connected to a ...
|  | Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher: A Magic Shop Book
Publication Date: November 1, 2007| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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