 | Asian Holidays (Read-And-Discover Ethnic Holidays)
Publication Date: August 1, 1996| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
 |  | The Dark
Release Date: February 26, 2002The Dark, widely acclaimed, yet infamously banned, is John McGahern’s sensitive, perceptive, and beautifully written portrayal of a young man’s coming-of-age in rural Ireland. Imaginative and introverted, the boy is successful in school, but bitterly confused by the guilt-inducing questions he endures from the priests who should be his venerated guides. His relationship with his bullying, bigoted, widowed father is similarly conflicted — touched with both deep love and carefully suppressed hatred. When he must leave home to further his educati...
|  | The Scarlet Thread
Publication Date: May 18, 2012Two women, centuries apart, are joined through a tattered journal as they contend with God, husbands, and even themselves . . . until they fall into the arms of the One who loves them unconditionally. Sierra Madrid’s life has just been turned upside down when she discovers the handcrafted quilt and journal of her ancestor Mary Kathryn McMurray, a young woman who was uprooted from her home only to endure harsh conditions on the Oregon Trail. Though the women are separated by time and circumstance, Sierra discovers that many of the issues they face are rema...
|  | Meddling with Ghosts: Stories in the Tradition of M.R. James
Publication Date: February 9, 2002This collection offers some of the best stories from authors who influenced James, such as Sheridan Le Fanu and Augustus Jessopp, stories from his contemporaries, such as T.G. Jackson and "D.N.J.", and tales from more recent practitioners, including Fritz Leiber and Terry Lamsley. The collection also includes a checklist of writers in the Jamesian tradition. ...
|  | Spawn Collection, Vol. 1 (v. 1)
Publication Date: January 3, 2006Witness the power of pure McFarlane with this essential collection of comics that have been out of print for 10 years! The first issues of McFarlane's smash hit Spawn are here in a brand new collection - bigger and badder than ever! This collection includes issues #1-8, 11, & 12, featuring the pulse-pounding art of the master himself, Todd McFarlane! ...
|  | Potiki (Talanoa : Contemporary Pacific Literature)
Publication Date: June 1995| Series: Talanoa : Contemporary Pacific Literature Winner of the 1987 New Zealand Fiction AwardThis compelling novel will resonate for people everywhere who find their livelihood threatened by "Dollarmen" -- property speculators advocating golf courses, high rises, shopping malls, and tourist attractions. In Potiki, one community's response to attacks on their ancestral values and symbols provides moving affirmation of the relationship between land and the people who live on it. ...
|  | Singing Chameleon
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|  | American Folklore: An Encyclopedia (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
Publication Date: March 1, 1996Ranging over foodways and folksongs, quiltmaking and computer lore, Pecos Bill, Butch Cassidy, and Elvis sightings, more than 500 articles spotlight folk literature, music, and crafts; sports and holidays; tall tales and legendary figures, genres and forms; scholarly approaches and theories; regions and ethnic groups; performers and collectors; writers and scholars; religious beliefs and practices. Some 150 illustrations illuminate the material. The coverage is fully illustrated, cross-referenced, and indexed. ...
|  | Plays for Young Puppeteers: 25 Puppet Plays for Easy Performance
Publication Date: January 1993| Age Level: 6 and up A collection of twenty-five easy-to-stage puppet plays based on such familiar tales as "Beauty and the Beast," "Puss-in-Boots," and "Cinderella." Includes production notes on such aspects as costumes, special effects, and the presentation of puppet shows. ...
|  | Epics of Sumerian Kings: The Matter of Aratta (Writings from the Ancient World)
Publication Date: November 1, 2003| ISBN-10: 1589830830 | ISBN-13: 978-1589830837Epics of Sumerian Kings presents for the first time both the authoritative Sumerian text and an elegant English translation of four key epics from the Sumerian literary canon. These epics, the earliest known in any language, revolve around the conflict between the cities of Uruk (biblical Erech) in ancient Iraq and Aratta in neighboring Iran. Of special interest is “Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta,” which contains the story of the confounding of human language, often cited as a source of the biblic...
|  | Bear Meets Girl
Release Date: March 27, 2012He's big, burly, and way smarter than your average shapeshifting bear. He's also about to get trapped by own his game...Lou Crushek is a reasonable, mellow, easygoing kind of guy. But once someone starts killing the scumbags he works so hard to bust, that really gets under his fur. Especially when that someone is a curvy she-tiger with a skill set that's turning Crush's lone-bear world upside down - and bringing his passion out of hibernation...As a member of an elite feline protection unit, Marcella Malone has no problem body-dropping anyone who hunts her kind. B...
|  | True Blue
Publication Date: September 1, 2010Mason "Mace" Perry was a firebrand cop on the D.C. police force until she was kidnapped and framed for a crime. She lost everything-her badge, her career, her freedom-and spent two years in prison. Now she's back on the outside and focused on one mission: to be a cop once more. Her only shot to be a true blue again is to solve a major case on her own, and prove she has the right to wear the uniform. But even with her police chief sister on her side, she has to work in the shadows: A vindictive U.S. attorney is looking for any reason to send Mace back behind...
|  | Dead of Jericho (Inspector Morse Mysteries)
Release Date: December 28, 1996| Series: Inspector Morse Mysteries "[MORSE IS] THE MOST PRICKLY, CONCEITED, AND GENUINELY BRILLIANT DETECTIVE SINCE HERCULE POIROT."--The New York Times Book ReviewHe meets her at a suburban party. They share a flirtation over their red wine . . . and he doesn't see her again. It's the old familiar story for Morse. Then one day he just happens to be in Jericho, where Anne Scott lives. Nobody's home--and Morse should know since her door is unlocked and he takes a quick look inside. Only later does Morse learn that the lady was at home, just not alive....
|  | Ganesha Goes to Lunch
Publication Date: July 21, 2009This accessible collection of ancient India's most insightful myths celebrates well known stories and others that are unnoticed gems, not readily known to Western readers. These stories of Vishnu, Brahma, Ganesha and the other India, as well as humans struggling with life's problems, some of life's essential truths. The collection contains stories from the Mahabharata, Ramayana, Puranas, and Vedas. Writer Kamla K. Kapur brings her poet's eye and ear to the retelling of these stories, recreating and dramatizing them to illuminate their relevance to modern times....
|  | Hit the Ball Duck
Publication Date: March 1, 2006| Age Level: 3 and up...
|  | Gadgetology: Kitchen Fun with Your Kids, Using 35 Cooking Gadgets for Simple Recipes, Crafts, Games, and Experiments
Publication Date: March 15, 2007| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Kitchen fun for kids: full of recipes, crafts, games, and experiments using kitchen utensils. ...
|  | Missing in Action
Release Date: February 8, 2011| Age Level: 10 and up Dirty. Lazy. Good-for-nothing. Jay Thacker is used to being called names because his dad is half Navajo. But things are different after he and his mother move to a small town in Utah to stay with his grandparents during World War II. Jay makes friends and earns money working the fields for his well-respected grandfather—but he encounters a problem in Ken, a fellow worker who’s from the nearby Japanese internment camp. Ken’s a Jap. And Jay’s dad, who’s been fighting for the Navy out in the Pacific, is missing i...
|  | Lily's Passport to Paris (Lily Series #14)
Release Date: August 21, 2003| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Nothing in her previous experience could prepare Lily for what she would encounter in Paris! When Lily befriends a French boy, Christophe, he quickly becomes her 'mission,' and she wants to help him in anyway she can. She really likes him---perhaps more than she'd care to admit---but there's the issue of his sister, who totally hates Lily and will stop at nothing to keep Lily from getting in the way of her plans. Finally, Lily discovers her true God-intended self, and as we leave Lily after fourteen books full of her ...
|  | The Way Meat Loves Salt: A Cinderella Tale from the Jewish Tradition
Publication Date: September 15, 1998| Age Level: 4 and up Many years ago in Poland, there lived a rabbi who had a wife and three daughters. One day, the rabbi asks his children a powerful question: "How much do you love me?" His older daughters profess their love in gold and diamonds, but his youngest daughter, Mireleh, declares she loves her father the way meat loves salt. For this remark, she is banished from her father's home. In this flavorful Jewish Cinderella tale, Mireleh's courageous journey is peppered with a perfect blend of magic and romance, leading to a reconciliation with her b...
|  | Jock of the Bushveld
Publication Date: December 31, 1999This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition....
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