 | Wolf's Coming! (Carolrhoda Picture Books)
Publication Date: January 10, 2007| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
 |  | I Hear the Train: Reflections, Inventions, Refractions
Publication Date: October 15, 2001| ISBN-10: 0806133546 | ISBN-13: 978-0806133546| Edition: 1St Edition In this innovative collection, Louis Owens blends autobiography, short fiction, and literary criticism to reflect on his experiences as a mixedblood Indian in America.In sophisticated prose, Owens reveals the many timbres of his voice--humor, humility,love, joy, struggle, confusion, and clarity. We join him in the fields, farms, and ranches of California. We follow his search for a lost brother and contemplate along with him old family photographs from Indian Territory and early Oklaho...
|  | Love Always
Release Date: June 21, 2011A compelling and heartrending tale of lost love, family secrets, and those little moments that can change your life forever . . . When Natasha Kapoor returns to her grandparents’ idyllic coastal home for her beloved grandmother’s funeral, her life is at a turning point. She thought by now she’d be a successful jewelry designer in London with a perfect marriage. Instead, she’s got mounting bills and a soon-to-be ex. After the funeral, Natasha’s grandfather gives her the long-lost diary of her aunt Cecily. No one in her large and complic...
|  | Down and Out in Paris and London
Publication Date: March 15, 1972| ISBN-10: 015626224X | ISBN-13: 978-0156262248| Edition: First Thus This unusual fictional account, in good part autobiographical, narrates without self-pity and often with humor the adventures of a penniless British writer among the down-and-out of two great cities. In the tales of both cities we learn some sobering Orwellian truths about poverty and society. ...
|  | Mark Twain : Historical Romances : Prince & the Pauper / Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court / Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (Library of America)
Release Date: August 1, 1994An anthology encompassing The Prince and the Pauper, AConnecticut Yankee, and Joan of Arcfeatures Twain'simaginative studies of the Middle Ages, in a children's classic, aunique comic-violent fantasy, and a respectful fictional biography. ...
|  | Deadline
Release Date: May 1, 2006Heart-Pounding Murder MysteryInvolved in a tragic accident under suspicious circumstances, award-winning journalist Jake Woods teams with detective Ollie Chandler to uncover the truth. This alluring repackage of the R andy Alcorn bestseller finds Jake drawing upon all his resources in an ever-intensifying, dangerous murder investigation. Unaware of the imminent threat to his own life, Jake struggles for answers to the mystery at hand and is plunged into a deeper search for the meaning of his own existence. His Body Hung Suspended Between Two Friends--His Soul Betwe...
|  | Murder on the Ol' Bunions (LaTisha Barnhart Mystery Series #1) (Heartsong Presents Mysteries #12)
Publication Date: February 29, 2008| ISBN-10: 159789639X | ISBN-13: 978-1597896399LaTisha Barnhart's bunions tell her something's afoot as she delves deeper into the murder of her former employer Marion Peters. When LaTisha becomes a suspect, the ante is upped and she is determined to clear her name and find the real culprit....
|  | Moving Targets
Publication Date: January 1, 2001| Series: Helen Black Mysteries (Bella) When the death of her beloved Uncle Loy draws Helen Black back to Mississippi, she finds herself in the midst of another mystery-- and this one involves her own family.Helen wonders whether Uncle Loy`s last words might have explained the photo she finds of Uncle Loy with a beautiful woman or the sudden apperance of corporate lawyers offering Aunt Edna what appears to be hush money.These strange events set Helen on the trail of a conspiracy that grows deeper and darker as she unravels the connections between human need, ...
|  | This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: August 1, 1992| ISBN-10: 0140186247 | ISBN-13: 978-0140186246| Edition: Reissue Tadeusz Borowski's concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where the will to survive overrides compassion and prisoners eat, work and sleep a few yards from where others are murdered; where the difference between human beings is reduced to a second bowl of soup, an extra blanket or the luxury of a pair of shoes with thick soles; and where the line between normality and abnormality vanishes. Published...
|  | Citizens of No Place: An Architectural Graphic Novel
Publication Date: May 23, 2012Citizens of No Place is a collection of short stories on architecture and urbanism, graphically represented using manga-style storyboards. Fiction is used as a strategy to unpack thoughts about architecture. Modeled as a proto-manifesto, it is a candid chronicle of a highly critical thought process in the tradition of paper architecture (especially that of architect John Hejduk and Bernard Tschumi's Manhattan Transcript). The short stories explore many architectural problems through the unique language of the graphic novel, helping usher the next generation of a...
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|  | Palladio's Venice: Architecture and Society in a Renaissance Republic
Publication Date: June 30, 2006Celebrated Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580) devoted much of his career to the city of Venice. Famous for public buildings he had designed in his native Vicenza and country villas he had built for wealthy patricians there, he arrived in Venice in the mid- 1550s confident of establishing a successful new practice. Yet Palladio’s Venetian career never matched his lofty expectations. Failing to achieve the position of state architect or to earn the kinds of commissions to which he was accustomed, he found himself working in a category n...
|  | Keeping Faith: A Father-Son Story About Love and the United States Marine Corps
Publication Date: December 15, 2003In 1998, Frank Schaeffer was a bohemian novelist living in "Volvo driving, higher-education worshipping" Massachusetts with two children graduated from top universities. Then his youngest child, straight out of high school, joined the United States Marine Corps. Written in alternating voices by eighteen-year-old John and his father, Frank, Keeping Faith takes readers in riveting fashion through a family's experience of the Marine Corps: from being broken down and built back up on Parris Island (and being the parent of a child undergoing that experience), to...
|  | Three's Company
Publication Date: August 1, 2009A Question of Trust by Jess Dee. Gabriel fulfills every one of Madelines sexual fantasies. Until he introduces her to his best friend Connor. Suddenly Maddie's horizons are expending in a whole new direction that breaks all the rules. Nice and Naughty by Jayne Rylon. Alexa limits her adrenaline rushes to boardroom negotiations-until she indulges in a high-octane encounter on the hood of her sports car. Justin is supposed to be just a refreshing summer affair, but he's called for the kind of backup that shifts the odds in love's favor. Wicked Garden by Lorelei ...
|  | Georgiana Darcy's Diary: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice Continued (Volume 1)
Publication Date: May 17, 2012Mr. Darcy's younger sister searches for her own happily-ever-after...The year is 1814, and it is springtime at Pemberley. Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy have married. But now a new romance is in the air, along with high fashion, elegant manners, scandal, deception, and the wonderful hope of a true and lasting love.Shy Georgiana Darcy has been content to remain unmarried, living with her brother and his new bride. But Elizabeth and Darcy's fairy-tale love reminds Georgiana daily that she has found no true love of her own. And perhaps never will, for she is convinced...
|  | The Bravo of Venice
Publication Date: February 29, 2008In the dark alleys and back streets of Venice lurks an uncontrollable evil: Aballino, The Bravo of Venice. When the Neapolitan Count Rosalvo is called upon to rid the city of the Bravo, he is torn between his love for the Doge's niece Rosabella and a dark secret. An adaptation of J. H. D. Zschokke's popular German Romance Aballino, Der Grosse Bandit (1794, The Bravo of Venice is brought to life by the master of Gothic horror, Matthew "Monk" Lewis. ...
|  | Chosen Prey
Publication Date: May 2001A New York Times bestseller!Lucas Davenport returns in the most harrowing and unexpected Prey novel yet—the story of a congenial man, and his most uncongenial obsession... Art history professor James Qatar’s hobby was taking secret photographs of women. At night when he was all alone he’d dream about them and indulge his fantasies. Then one day his fantasy went too far. Now it’s Qatar’s turn to become an obsession—of Davenport’s. And for both men there’s no turning back.--This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback...
|  | Invaders Classic, Vol. 4
Publication Date: July 28, 2010| Grade Level: 4 and up The Invaders return to New York just in time to aid the Liberty Legion against the deadly Iron Cross! Then, with the Kid Commandos, the Invaders face the deadly Super-Axis - Lady Lotus, U-Man, Baron Blood, Master Man, and Warrior Woman! Then, see the Invaders and their allies battle the Battle-Axis, a group of former heroes who have turned Nazi! Witness the continuing adventures of the greatest heroes of World War II, in both their ongoing series from 1975 and their 1993 limited series! Captain America! The Human Torch! The Sub-Mariner! ...
|  | The Deetkatoo: Native American Stories About Little People
Release Date: May 26, 1998| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up With a blend of magic and realism, John Bier horst presents 22 tales of little people from 14 different N ative American cultures. It includes a comprehensive bibliog raphy and source notes. ' ...
|  | At the Pool (All Aboard)
Release Date: April 8, 2004| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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