 | Best Friends, Occasional Enemies: The Lighter Side of Life as a Mother and Daughter
Release Date: November 22, 2011From the New York Times bestselling writing team comes a hilarious new collection of essays that observe life from a mother/daughter perspectiveNew York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline and her daughter Francesca Serritella are the best of friends—99.9% of the time. They’re number one on each other’s speed dial and they tell each other everything—well, almost everything. They share shoes and clothes—except one very special green jacket, which almost caused a catfight.In other words, they’re just like every mother and ...
 |  | Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life
Release Date: September 5, 1995With new illustrations on virtually every page and a striking new jacket, this is a Desiderata for the '90s. This classic book of inspiration has sold more than 190,000 copies and continues to give comfort and cheer to new readers year after year. Line drawings. ...
|  | Keepers of the Children: Native American Wisdom and Parenting - Workbook/Journal
Publication Date: June 10, 2009A companion to the parenting book, Keepers of the Children: Native American Wisdom and Parenting, the Keepers of the Children Workbook/Journal teaches parents how to create close, loving relationships with their children and raise them to develop their strengths, so they will lead purposeful and fulfilling lives as adults. The workbook is full of exercises that inspire action, change, reflection, insight and help parents get past the negative aspects of their own upbringing to give their children a springboard to happier, more conscious lives. ...
|  | Obama's Shorts
Publication Date: October 6, 2011A series of hilarious, haunting and insightful looks at the future of our nation.Obama’s Shorts takes readers on a journey into America after Obamacare, redistribution of the wealth and government control over our lives.Be there when Thomas Jefferson makes a late night visit to the Obama White House.Find out why the White House convened a top secret meeting with Bernie Madoff.Discover what Obama plans to regulate next and how “Chicago Politics”really works.Political satire has never been so delectable.You'll laugh, cheer and boo, but youw...
|  | Longarm and Lucky Lucy (Longarm #403)
Release Date: May 29, 2012| Series: Longarm (Book 403) LUCK BE A LADYAt first glance one might think fortune has smiled on the lovely, redheaded Lucy Horton. But as U.S. Marshal Custis Long soon discovers, she is fleeing a tragic past in Philadelphia—and dodging armed assassins on the streets of Denver. In order to protect her, Longarm needs to know who wants her dead. Unfortunately Lucy is playing her cards close to her ample chest. But as her past continues to catch up with her, Lucy’s buried secrets may land them both in an early grave… ...
|  | A Married Man
Release Date: April 22, 2003Widowed four years ago, London antiques dealer Lucy Fellowes was plunged into single motherhood with two growing boys. Since then, she’s had little time—or inclination—to think straight, much less fall in love again. Now, she’s been offered an incredible dream house in the country. Of course, accepting means having to cope with her domineering mother-in-law, her husband’s wacky family, and all their assorted scandals. But suddenly, none of it matters. Because she’s met HIM. His name is Charles; he’s a famous televis...
|  | Cowboy Versus Samurai
Publication Date: February 7, 2011ComedyCharacters: 3 male, 1 female A laugh-out-loud, romantic comedy exploring the sexual dynamics that surface around race when an attractive Korean American woman moves to town. The play is a politically edgy examination of inter-racial dating and identitythrough irony, humor, and social commentary. Travis Park is a high school English teacher and the only Korean American man living in a dusty cowboy town known as Breakneck, Wyoming. When a gorgeous, whip-smart Asian American woman moves into town, he immediately falls for her; the only problem is that she...
|  | The Worship Drama Library, Volume 1: 12 Sketches for Enhancing Worship
Publication Date: January 18, 1993| Series: Worship Drama Library (Book 1) Worship drama has become a viable tool for training and outreach. With this first volume in the Worship Drama Library Series, Lillenas launched what has become a premier collection of sketches to use as sermon starters or anytime a thought-provoking dramatic presentation is needed. While such scripts are often written without closure (allowing for a follow-up sermon), the Grays provide both open-ended and resolved scripts, which give them greater versatility. ...
|  | Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger
Publication Date: May 31, 2011Lee Smith is a "teller of tales for tale tellers to admire and envy . . . [and] a reader’s dream" (Houston Chronicle). A celebrated and bestselling writer with a dozen novels under her name, including Fair and Tender Ladies, Oral History, and The Last Girls, she is just as widely recognized for her exceptional short stories. Here, in Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger, Smith collects seven brand-new stories along with seven of her favorites from three earlier collections. The result? A book of dazzling richness. As the New York Times Book Review put it...
|  | The Caedmon Poetry Collection: A Century of Poets Reading Their Work
Release Date: April 26, 2000A rare and thrilling listening experience. A choice gathering of some of the twentieth century's greatest poetry... read by the century's greatest poets - here available on CDA reawakened love for the sound of poetry has made modern poems subtly different from the poems of the eighteenth and nineteenth centures. We have only to listen to these poets reading their own works to know how important their interpretations are to a full comprehension of their poems. The ministerial intonations of Eliot, the passionate orchestrations of Thomas, the very very precise formu...
|  | Christmas gifts in South Japan: Israel at equinox, wild geese, paddling setter, Sunium's templed steep, the wall is a window and other haibun, haiku essays
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|  | Modernism and Its Margins: Reinscribing Cultural Modernity from Spain and Latin America (Hispanic Issues)
Publication Date: May 1, 1999| ISBN-10: 0815332610 | ISBN-13: 978-0815332619| Edition: 1 This volume represents a rereading of modernism and the modernist canon from a double distance: geographical and temporal. It is a revision not only from the periphery (Spain and Latin America), but from this new fin de si cle as well, a revisiting of modernity and its cultural artifacts from that same postmodernity. Modernism and Its Margins is an attempt at introducing different perspectives and examples in the theoretical debate, redefine dominant assumptions of what modernism-or margins-mean in o...
|  | The Stolen Chalice: A Novel
Release Date: June 26, 2012CNN veteran Kitty Pilgrim returns with her second novel featuring the beautiful young oceanographer Cordelia Stapleton and the dashing, urbane archaeologist John Sinclair. Set in the international art world, The Stolen Chalice takes readers across the globe. Bombings, kidnappings, and Sinclair’s old love conspire against the couple as they search for valuable Egyptian art. The black-tie gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art promises to be a star-studded evening. Cordelia Stapleton and John Sinclair have flown in from Alexandria, Egypt, to help celebrate anci...
|  | Babymouse #12: Burns Rubber
Release Date: January 12, 2010| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Lacrosse (Composite Guides)
Publication Date: January 1998| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children's Literature
Release Date: March 15, 2010In 1912, a revolutionary chick cries, “Strike down the wall!” and liberates itself from the “egg state.” In 1940, ostriches pull their heads out of the sand and unite to fight fascism. In 1972, Baby X grows up without a gender and is happy about it.Rather than teaching children to obey authority, to conform, or to seek redemption through prayer, twentieth-century leftists encouraged children to question the authority of those in power. Tales for Little Rebels collects forty-three mostly out-of-print stories, poems, comic strips, primers, an...
|  | Emanuel and the Hanukkah Rescue
Publication Date: August 1, 2012Angry that his father is afraid to kindle the Hanukkah lights, Emanuel stows away on a whaling ship. When a storm overtakes the boat, it is his father’s change of heart and the family menorah that light the way home. ...
|  | 'Tis Pity She's a Whore and Other Plays: The Lover's Melancholy; The Broken Heart; 'Tis Pity She's a Whore; Perkin Warbeck (The World's Classics)
Publication Date: December 21, 1995| ISBN-10: 0192822535 | ISBN-13: 978-0192822536Ford wrote darkly about sexual and political passion, thwarted ambition, and incest. This selection of four plays also shows his ability to portray the poignancy of love as well as write entertaining comedy and create convincing roles for women. Setting Ford's earliest surviving independently-written play, The Lover's Melancholy, alongside his three best-known works, The Broken Heart, 'Tis a Pity She's a Whore, and Perkin Warbeck, this edition includes an introduction with sections on each play, addressing ...
|  | Many Winters - Prose and Poetry of the Pueblos
Release Date: October 1, 1974For the past 800 years, the Indians of Taos Pueblo have lived under Taos Mountain in the Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico. Their unique vision of the world, their deeply rooted attachment to the land and their own way of life, and the quiet wisdom of their elders are eloquently recorded in this classic volume. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | The Complete Tales in Verse
Publication Date: February 9, 2001| ISBN-10: 0415936578 | ISBN-13: 978-0415936576| Edition: 1 Racy tales in verse based on stories in Boccaccio, Rabelais, Ariosto, and other classic writers, Jean de La Fontaine's Complete Tales in Verse are here translated for the first time since the nineteenth century. ...
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