 | Goldie's Lox and the Three Bagels: Goldie's Lox and the Three Bagels and Other Jewish Fairy Tales (Fractured Jewish Fairy Tales)
Release Date: October 1, 2007| Series: Fractured Jewish Fairy Tales Mother Goose, Ver farblondjet!* Aesop? You're not fooling anyone. Brothers Grimm? Goniffs.** You didn't create the fairy tale--we did (The Chosen People) thousands of years ago, to keep the kids quiet when we were running from Pharoah.Here are all your favorite classic fairy tales as they're supposed to be told:Goldie's Lox and the Three BagelsRumpleforeskinSnow Whitefish and the Seven DwarfkinsThe Three Little ChazzersJake and Mr. BienstockPushkin BootsThe Ugly SchmucklingAnd more!* Get lost** Thieves ...
 |  | Someone Like You
Release Date: July 1, 2001Bestselling author Cathy Kelly makes her eagerly awaited U.S. debut with a novel that speaks to the hopes, dreams, and desires of women everywhere. Leonie, Emma, and Hannah are three women at a critical turning point in their lives-waiting for the final puzzle piece to fall into place, that one elusive thing that will leave them fulfilled. They meet on a holiday in Egypt and find themselves changing in completely unexpected ways.For Leonie, a forty-something divorced mother of three, taking a vacation she can't really afford could be her last chance to find true lov...
|  | Poetry and Parental Bereavement in Early Modern Lutheran Germany (Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs)
Publication Date: June 15, 2008| ISBN-10: 0199233365 | ISBN-13: 978-0199233366In early modern Europe it has been estimated that up to one in two children did not survive to the age of ten. In the light of this high mortality rate, some historians have argued that parents did not form close relationships with their children, especially the very young. This is clearly refuted by the testimony of bereaved parents such as Martin Luther, and by the volume of consolatory writings produced for grieving families in early modern Lutheran Germany. The authors, clergymen and lay people, regarded gr...
|  | Flesh Gothic
Publication Date: February 1, 2005House of PassionHildreth House. On a moonlight night in early spring, twenty-seven people entered the mansion’s labyrinthine halls, to partake in an orgy of diabolical debauchery, the likes of which beggared description. And one by one, twenty-six of them were butchered in place. The twenty-seventh body was never recovered.House of SinThe screams have faded, and the blood has dried but the spectral house remains...waiting. House of HellWelcome to the mansion made in HellFlesh GothicWhere the temple of evil is your own body... --This text refers to an ou...
|  | The Twisted Sword: A Poldark Novel
Publication Date: March 1991In Cornwall in 1815, Demelza sees a horseman riding down the valley and senses disruption to the domestic contentment she has fought so hard to achieve. Ross has little option but to accept the summons—and travel to Paris with his family, as an "observer" of the French armed forces. Parisian life begins well, but the return of Napoleon brings separation, distrust, and danger to the Poldarks—and always for Demelza there is the shadow of the secret she does not even share with Ross. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this t...
|  | Black Swan
Publication Date: January 11, 2008When Priscilla Harradine travels back to England accompanied by the rather dull Major Sands, she has no cause to expect her journey will be anything other than uneventful. But also on board the Centaur is Charles de Bernis - a mysterious and intriguing buccaneer. Just as their friendship is beginning to blossom, a dark figure from de Bernis' past emerges to propel them into a thrilling and perilous adventure, taking them right to the heart of pirate life. ...
|  | Island of the Phoenix
Publication Date: August 15, 2012Same war, different enemy... Captain Michael Hollands, United States Army Air Corps, is a combat-hardened pilot, battling Nazi fighter planes for control of the skies over North Africa.His life is difficult and sometimes it's brutal, but he understands his place in the world, and he understands the rules.Then an unexpected change of orders yanks him out of familiar surroundings, and sends him half-way around the world to fight the Japanese in the South Pacific. Shuffled to an obscure air base in the Solomon Islands, he discovers that his assigned unit has tra...
|  | Telling the Bible: Over 100 Stories to Read Out Loud
Release Date: May 31, 2007Bob Hartman, a master storyteller, has selected one hundred of the Bible's most gripping stories from the Old and New Testaments and has written them to be enjoyed when read aloud. This book presents a wonderful way for adults and children to learn while having fun, and each story can be performed either individually or as part of a group. Also included are storytelling tips, discussion questions, and the license to photocopy. This rich resource opens up new perspective on familiar truths and brings Scripture to life for all age groups. ...
|  | Cat Haiku
Publication Date: March 1, 2008The cat has been with us since time began. Enigmatic, independent, surprising, single-minded, loving - cats are all these things and impose themselves on our lives. The haiku is an ancient and honourable Japanese verse form - three lines, 17 syllables, encapsulating a vision of the essence of the thing, scene or person being written about. "Cat Haiku" presents cats as you've never seen them before. In a series of brilliant vignettes, Deborah Coates gets inside the minds of our cats and comes up with some surprising revelations. You will never look at your (or a...
|  | James I and the Politics of Literature
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|  | Hippocrates: Epidemics 2, 4-7 (Loeb Classical Library No. 477)
Publication Date: December 31, 1994| ISBN-10: 0674995260 | ISBN-13: 978-0674995260The medical treatises collected under Hippocrates' name are essential sources of information about the practice of medicine in antiquity and about Greek theories concerning the human body. In this seventh volume of the ongoing Loeb edition of the Hippocratic Collection, Wesley Smith presents the first modern English translation of Books 2 and 4–7 of the Epidemics (the other two books are available in the first volume).In the casebooks and notes that make up the seven books called Epidemics—the tit...
|  | Endless Experiments; Essays on the Heroic Experience in American Romanticism
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|  | The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time
Release Date: October 29, 2002A wise and witty compendium of the greatest thoughts, greatest minds, and greatest books of all time -- listed in accessible and succinct form -- by one of the world's greatest scholars.From the "Hundred Best Books" to the "Ten Greatest Thinkers" to the "Ten Greatest Poets," here is a concise collection of the world's most significant knowledge. For the better part of a century, Will Durant dwelled upon -- and wrote about -- the most significant eras, individuals, and achievements of human history. His selections have finally been brought together in a single,...
|  | The Conde Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys: Volume II: Great Writers on Great Places
Release Date: August 28, 2012Another spellbinding trip around the globe with some of today's most celebrated writers and journalistsCondé Nast Traveler is the preeminent travel magazine in the United States, boasting a readership of 3.5 million. This second collection of the award-winning magazine's best travel writings, includes essays by luminaries such as, Robert Hughes, Russell Banks, E. L. Doctorow, André Aciman, Pico Iyer, and Edna O'Brien.As the world becomes smaller and ever more accessible, interest in travel writing is only growing greater. So whether readers are prep...
|  | Show No Fear: A Nina Reilly Novel
Release Date: October 20, 2009| Series: Nina Reilly A brand-new Nina Reilly thriller takes readers back to Nina's first murder investigation, to the case that ignites her passionate commitment to fighting for justice. As a single mom working as a paralegal and attending law school at night, Nina has her hands full fighting for custody of her young son Bob and overseeing a medical malpractice lawsuit on behalf of her mother. But when a woman falls to her death off a bridge near Big Sur and witnesses disappear, Nina suspects there is more to the "accident" than the authorities are saying. With...
|  | Stardust: A Novel
Publication Date: July 6, 2010Hollywood, 1945. Ben Collier has just arrived from war-torn Europe to find his brother has died in mysterious circumstances. Why would a man with a beautiful wife, a successful movie career, and a heroic past choose to kill himself? Ben enters the uneasy world beneath the glossy shine of the movie business, where politics and the dream factories collide and Communist witch hunts are rendering the biggest star makers vulnerable. Even here, where the devastation of Europe seems no more real than a painted movie set, the war casts long and dangerous shadows. When B...
|  | Tales from Old Ireland HC w 2 CDs
Publication Date: September 1, 2008| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up This enchanting collection of favorite Irish folk tales deserves to be read aloud at every hearth. Described by Malachy Doyle in captivating language, the larger-than-life characters, dramatic landscapes, and magical happenings of all the tales, including the famous legend of the bewitched Children of Lir, are also brought vividly to life by the luminous art of Niamh Sharkey, making this a book that will transport readers to another world for many happy hours. ...
|  | Draw and Color: Dogs & Puppies
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|  | Yankee Spy: A Union Girl in Richmond During the Peninsular Campaign (Young American Series, #3)
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|  | Tirya: La venganza de la diosa (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: May 2, 2009| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up No resulta nada facil ser la hija del Faraon y portarse siempre como una princesa obediente, sobre todo si se tienen dieciseis años y se sueña con viajar. Tirya es activa, curiosa y un poco cabezota, pero ¡tan guapa! Ninetis se ha casado con el rey de Persia, pero aun sueña con la conquista de Egipto. Mientras, en el pais del Nilo, Tirya debe contraer matrimonio con su hermanastro, el heredero del trono, aunque esto suponga renunciar a su amado Hermes para siempre. Antes de que se celebre el enlace...
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