 | Joy of Cooking: 75th Anniversary Edition - 2006
Release Date: October 31, 2006Seventy-five years ago, a St. Louis widow named Irma Rombauer took her life savings and self-published a book called The Joy of Cooking. Her daughter Marion tested recipes and made the illustrations, and they sold their mother-daughter project from Irma's apartment. Today, nine revisions later, the Joy of Cooking -- selected by The New York Public Library as one of the 150 most important and influential books of the twentieth century -- has taught tens of millions of people to cook, helped feed and delight millions beyond that, answered countless kitchen and f...
 |  | Green Cane and Juicy Flotsam: Short Stories by Caribbean Women
Publication Date: November 1, 1991| ISBN-10: 0813517389 | ISBN-13: 978-0813517384"Unique . . . a wonderful collection that will receive much attention." --Barbara Christian, University of California at Berkeley "The panorama of insights and visions is vast . . . the context of women's writings is a broadening link, connecting these writers with their contemporaries in other cultures around the world." --Gregory Rabassa "Provides wonderful insights into writing by women from the Caribbean." --J. Michael Dash, The University of the West Indies This collection of short stories features movi...
|  | Close Company: Stories of Mothers and Daughters
Publication Date: April 1989In this stunning collection of stories about mothers and daughters the world over, tales of pleasure and sadness, devotion and ambivalence, mix just as they do in real life. Ranging widely in time and place, the twenty-five stories here offer intriguing and moving perspectives on this complex and powerful bond. Authors include Margaret Atwood, Colette, Janet Frame, Zhang Jie, Sylvia Plath and Jeanette Winterson. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
|  | The Windrider Saga: Books I & II
Publication Date: February 29, 2012When Captain Vinyanel Ecleriast loses both a lifelong friend and faithful mount to a military mission gone awry, the elven cavalry officer must summon the inner strength to tackle an unexpected calling. A baffling encounter with a half-elven prophetess named Veranna reveals to Vinyanel that the Maker of All has ordained he should become not just an officer, but one day, the high commander of the cavalry's First Airborne Division. Circumstances introduce Vinyanel to Majestrin, the ancient silver dragon who becomes both mount and confidant. But the things har...
|  | The Best of Hawai'i's Best Spooky Tales
Publication Date: September 30, 2006Prepare to get chicken skin once again or for the very first time as you read the 45 stories representing the best of the Hawaii s Best Spooky Tales series. The goddess Pele, Pearl Harbor sailors, and the late Israel Kamakawiwoole all make appearances as inexplicable things happen to believers and nonbelievers alike. ...
|  | Dark Echo
Release Date: August 17, 2010Dark Echo is an unlucky boat. Despite this knowledge, Martin Stannard falls under her spell and prepares to sail her across the Atlantic with his wealthy father. But his lover Suzanne begins exploring the yacht's past. What she finds is terrifying. Because this boat isn't just unlucky, it's evil. It was built for Henry Spalding, a soldier and sorcerer who committed suicide yet still casts his malevolent spell nearly a century after his death. Suzanne must uncover his last, terrible secret before Dark Echo destroys the man she loves....
|  | Ghost story index;: An author-title index to more than 2,200 stories of ghosts, horrors, and the macabre appearing in 190 books and anthologies
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|  | Luna nueva /New Moon Movie Tie-in (Spanish Edition) (Twilight Saga)
Release Date: September 15, 2009| Series: Twilight Saga Legions of readers entranced by the New York Times bestseller Twilight won't be disappointed by this gripping sequel. In New Moon, Stephenie Meyer delivers another irresistible combination of romance and suspense with a supernatural twist. Passionate, riveting, and deeply moving, this vampire love saga is well on its way to literary immortality.Spanish DescriptionCuando el papel me corto el dedo, solo salio una gota de sangre del pequeno corte. Entonces, todo paso muy rapido. No! rugio Edward... Aturdida y desorientada, mire la bril...
|  | Knights
Release Date: January 1, 1987A collection of stories about the knights of the Middle Ages draws upon Arthurian and European legends. Full color illustrations throughout. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | The Al-Hamlet Summit
Publication Date: April 1, 2007| ISBN-10: 190280662X | ISBN-13: 978-1902806624| Edition: Bilingual Powerful and disturbing, this version of the Hamlet story is set in a modern Middle Eastern state whose leader has just died, to be replaced by his brother, a ruthless, Westernized dictator who juggles petro-dollars, arms dealers, and democratic slogans in an attempt to quell the rising tides of Islamic extremism. Presenting a composite of many Arab concerns that affect peoples from the Arabian Gulf to the Atlantic and beyond, it is a concrete and poetic formulation of an Arab viewpoint, co...
|  | One Hundred Poems of Kabir
Publication Date: November 8, 2007The poet Kablr, a selection from whose songs is here for the first time offered to English readers, is one of the most interesting personalities in the history of I ndian mysticism. Born in or near Benares, of Mohammedan parents, and probably about the year 1440, he became in early life a disciple of the celebrated Hindu ascetic Ramananda. Ramananda had brought to Northern India the religious revival which Ramanuja, the great twelfth-century reformer of Brahmanism, had initiated in the South... ...
|  | Leonardo da Vinci, The Treasures of
Release Date: May 9, 2006Born in 1452, Leonardo da Vinci is probably one of the world's best-known artists. This beautifully illustrated project looks at the major events in his life. Packed with information about his style of painting and drawing as well as his work as a civil and military engineer, it combines chapters on Leonardo's life with themed chapters on his inventions and key works, such as the "Mona Lisa" and the "Last Supper". With 30 beautifully produced facsimile documents relevant to Leonardo's life - such as actual records of the Da Vinci family births and deaths - this is un...
|  | In a Lonely Place (Femmes Fatales)
Publication Date: November 1, 2003| Series: Femmes Fatales "Puts Chandler to shame . . . Hughes is the master we keep turning to."—Sara Paretsky, author of the V. I. Warshawski novels"A superb novel by one of crime fiction's finest writers of psychological suspense. . . . What a pleasure it is to see this tale in print once again!"—Marcia Miller, author of the Sharon McCone novels"This lady is the queen of noir, and In a Lonely Place is her crown."—Laurie R. King, author of the Mary Russell novelsPostwar Los Angeles is a lonely place where the American Dream is showing its sea...
|  | The return of Sherlock Holmes (World's best reading)
Publication Date: 1991| Series: World's best reading Three years have passed since Sherlock Holmes and his nemesis Moriarty vanished into the abyss of the Reichenbach falls. In that time the criminals of London have been able to sleep safe in their beds. But with the appearance of a dangerous individual with an air gun, the capital has never been in greater need of its protector. And so it is that Dr Watson meets a mysterious deformed man who reveals the truth behind the fateful final conflict between Holmes and Moriarty, and paves the way for the extraordinary return of the world's greatest...
| | The Beekeeper's Apprentice -or- On The Segregation Of The Queen - A Novel Of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell And Sherlock Holmes
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|  | Archie's Classic Christmas Stories (Archie' Classics)
Release Date: January 22, 2003 ...
|  | Why Cats Chase Mice (Japanese Fairy Tales (Unnumbered))
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| | Cinderella, Or, the Little Glass Slipper
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|  | Fishing (Master This!)
Publication Date: August 15, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | How Do Animals Find Food?
Publication Date: March 2001| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
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