 | Six Nuevomexicano Folk Dramas for Advent Season (Paso'por Aqui Series on the Nuevomexicano Literary Heritage) (English and Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: September 1, 1999| Series: Paso'por Aqui Series on the Nuevomexicano Literary Heritage These folk plays are performed during the period before and after Christmas known as the Advent Season—from December 12 to January 6—but they can be appreciated any time during the year. Whether approached as dramas, literature, or vernacular religious expression, these works are important in New Mexico’s literary and cultural heritage.Products of late medieval Spain modified over the past 400 years in New Mexico, these dramas mix didactic morality, miracle stories, and fol...
 |  | The Trial of the Catonsville Nine
Publication Date: March 30, 2004| ISBN-10: 0823223310 | ISBN-13: 978-0823223312| Edition: 4 On May 17, 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War, nine men and women entered a Selective Service office outside Baltimore. They removed military draft records, took them outside, and set them afire with napalm.The Catholic activists involved in this protest against the War included Daniel and Philip Berrigan; all were found guilt of destroying government property and sentenced to three years in jail. Dan Berrigan fled, and later turned himself in.The Berrigans and their colleagues went on to live...
|  | Among Others
Release Date: January 3, 2012Winner of the 2011 Nebula Award for Best Novel Winner of the 2012 Hugo Award for Best NovelStartling, unusual, and yet irresistably readable, Among Others is at once the compelling story of a young woman struggling to escape a troubled childhood, a brilliant diary of first encounters with the great novels of modern fantasy and SF, and a spellbinding tale of escape from ancient enchantment.Raised by a half-mad mother who dabbled in magic, Morwenna Phelps found refuge in two worlds. As a child growing up in Wales, she played among the spirits who made their ho...
|  | Stranger In The Night (Haven)
Publication Date: May 1, 2009| Series: Haven In the dead of night, there's a knock on the door at Haven, an inner-city youth center in St. Louis. A refugee family—scared, tired and hungry—seeks shelter. Fresh back from Afghanistan, former marine sergeant Joshua Duff takes on the mission. He recruits aid worker Liz Wallace, but she has questions for Joshua. Such as why a Texan with an oil magnate for a father is working at Haven. Or why a man who fears nothing—including the gang violence threatening the center—seems scared of opening his heart to her.Joshua will call upon ...
|  | Nacidos para Alentar a Otros: El escriba: Caleb... uno de los cinco hombres que silenciosamente cambi
Publication Date: April 29, 2008| Series: Nacidos para Alentar Otros Series The book tells the story of the man behind the spotlight who recorded most of the New Testament Scriptures we read today. Along the way readers will be captivated by the growth of the early church and the trials Paul suffers before he is martyred for the cause of Christ. ...
|  | Appalachian Winter Hauntings: Weird Tales from the Mountains
Publication Date: October 23, 2009Appalachian Winter Hauntings includes eleven bone-chilling accounts-penned by many of the preeminent storytellers in the business-that are appropriate to the Appalachian region and relative to the heart of the holiday season. This anthology, edited by Michael Knost and Mark Justice, is designed for cozying up close to a blazing fireplace on the coldest of winter nights.Contributors include: Ronald Kelly, Brian J. Hatcher, Patricia Hughes, Steve Vernon, S. Clayton Rhodes, Steve Rasnic Tem, Sara J. Larson, Scott Nicholson, J.G. Faherty. EmmaLee Pallai, and Eli...
|  | Ripper (Event Group Thrillers)
Release Date: July 17, 2012| Series: Event Group Thrillers The real Jack the Ripper is loose, and this time he’s brought friends to the darkness of the deep desert in the newest adrenaline rush from David Golemon, The New York Times bestselling author of Legacy. In the tradition of works by James Rollins, Preston and Child and Matthew Reilly, Ripper is the latest in an action-packed series about the nation’s most secret agency—The Event Group. In 1887, the British Empire contracted brilliant American professor Lawrence Ambrose to create a mutant gene to turn an or...
|  | The Outlaws of Medieval Legend
Publication Date: December 1989Wonderfully written and beautifully presented , The Outlaws of Medieval Legend brings the popular heroes of the Middle-Ages to life. Featuring both famous - Robin Hood and William Wallace - and now forgotten rogues such as Gamelyn and Fulke Fitzwarin, this book explains the popularity of these semi-mythical figures, and how their stories appealed to the common people of the Middle Ages.Long unavailable, and now featuring a new introduction from the author, this is the perfect book for anyone with a fondness for medieval history and folklore. --This text refers ...
|  | The Seven Poems Suspended from the Temple at Mecca
Publication Date: November 2, 2002A collection of seven pre-Islamic Arabic poems, the Mu`llaqat form the most celebrated forms of poetry, and "the place assigned to them by Arab literary men has not been without a certain overshadowing effect on western criticism in its turn.". A tool for students of Arabic literature, this book gives a literal translation of these poems with a commentary. ...
|  | Taboo
Release Date: April 21, 2009 Every indiscretion has its price…Cassandra Willows has made a name for herself as one of London's most sought-after seamstresses—and as the creator of intimate "toys" much beloved in the bed chambers of elite ladies and lords. But her success cannot soothe her guilt and pain over a most devastating betrayal.Nathan Manning, Earl of Blackhearth, will never forgive the exquisite Cassandra for abandoning him without a word on the day they were to elope. Now he is back in London and hungry for revenge. Armed with scandalous, provocative memories, the han...
|  | The Care and Feeding of an Alpha Male
Release Date: October 2, 2012Beth Ann needed a hero… Beth Ann Williamson has finally had it with her on-and-off fiancé of nine years. The problem? No one in town seems to believe her when she says it’s really over. Now Beth Ann is determined to show the small town of Bluebonnet, Texas, that she can take care of herself. That means opening her own salon and not taking the help that her ex-fiancé seems determined to offer. Of course, even the best laid plans go awry when she’s stranded in the woods in the middle of a downpour. Some independent woman she is. She...
|  | Hard Evidence (I-Team, Book 2)
Release Date: October 3, 2006After the murder of a teenage girl, a mysterious man in a black leather jacket was seen lurking near the crime scene. Investigative reporter Tessa Novak has him in her sights as the culprit… That man was Julian Darcangelo, an undercover FBI agent working with the Denver police. He’s closing in on the trail of a human trafficker and killer. Tessa’s accusations could blow his cover, and he wants her off the investigation. But just as Tessa has made Julian a target of interest, she is now a target of the killer. And as they are forced to trus...
|  | The Complete Adventures of Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Publication Date: 1975Facsimile copies of the classic detective stories in the original type face on buff "antique" paper, with original illustrations. ...
|  | Adventures in Cartooning: How to Turn Your Doodles Into Comics
Release Date: March 31, 2009| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up In this action-packed cartooning adventure, kids will have as much fun making comics as reading them! Once upon a time . . . a princess tried to make a comic. And with the help of a magical cartooning elf, she learned how – well enough to draw her way out of an encounter with a dangerous dragon, near-death by drowning, and into her very own adventure! Like the princess, young readers will discover that they already have the drawing and writing skills it takes to make a comic – they j...
|  | The Nightmare Before Christmas
Release Date: August 1, 2006| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up Meet Jack Skellington. He's in charge of making Halloweenland the coolest creepy place around. But when Jack suddenly grows bored with tricks and treats, he goes searching for new ways to celebrateâĶ and he finds them in Christmas Town! Christmas, Jack decides, is just what HalloweenlandâĶand the worldâĶneeds! He sets out to take over the role of Santa. But can anything good come of a tall and lanky skeleton dressed up as everyone's favorite jolly old el...
|  | M & M and the Haunted House Game
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|  | The Sisters Club
Release Date: April 8, 2008| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Jiggy and the Witchfinder: A Warts and All Tale! (Jiggy's Genes)
Publication Date: June 1, 2012| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | When Dragons' Hearts Were Good
Publication Date: June 1, 1999| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Bible stories are so fun to read, especially as a family. They tell us of long-ago places and people. But have you ever been confused by what the Bible says because some say dinosaurs lived so long ago?In this delightful book, you'll see that the secrets of dinosaurs aren't so secret after all. By learning to look at the World through a reading of the Bible as history (and not just stories), your whole family will come to understand that once upon a timedragonshearts were really good! ONUS FREE CD-ROM INCLUDED! Enjoy...
|  | A Child's Garden of Verses
Publication Date: September 1993| ISBN-10: 1558008500 | ISBN-13: 978-1558008502This classic edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's "A Child's Garden of Verses" is justly famed because it so beautifully pairs Stevenson's sometimes exuberant, sometimes melancholy poems on childhood with the extraordinary illustrations of Tasha Tudor. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
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