 | Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story
Release Date: March 18, 2008Jody never asked to become a vampire. But when she wakes up under an alley Dumpster with a badly burned arm, an aching back, superhuman strength, and a distinctly Nosferatuan thirst, she realizes the decision has been made for her. Making the transition from the nine-to-five grind to an eternity of nocturnal prowlings is going to take some doing, however, and that's where C. Thomas Flood fits in. A would-be Kerouac from Incontinence, Indiana, Tommy (to his friends) is biding his time night-clerking and frozen-turkey bowling in a San Francisco Safeway. But all that...
 |  | The Last of Her Kind: A Novel
Release Date: December 12, 2006 A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the YearA Christian Science Monitor Best Book of the Year Ann Drayton and Georgette George meet as freshmen roommates at Barnard College in 1968. Ann, who comes from a wealthy New England family, is brilliant and idealistic. Georgette, who comes from a bleak town in upstate New York, is mystified by Ann's romanticization of the underprivileged class, which Georgette herself is hoping college will enable her to escape. An intense and difficult friendship is born. Years after a fight ends their friendship, An...
|  | Tow-Away Stowaway (Astrokids, Book 10)
Publication Date: September 2002| Age Level: 7 and up Book 10 of AstroKids. Tag is sick of tagging along, so he hops his sister’s space scooter and heads to the nearest spaceship, only to find himself trapped on a vessel where the digital food copiers are stuck on astro Cheesies! Tag knows he’s in deep-space trouble, but he also realizes that with God, he’s never completely alone. Theme verse: "Where can I run from you?" (Psalm 139:7). ...
|  | The Greatcoat
Release Date: March 5, 2012A terrifyingly atmospheric ghost story by the Orange-prize-winning Helen Dunmore. In the summer of 1954, newly wed Isabel Carey arrives in a Yorkshire town with her husband Philip. As a GP he spends much of his time working, while Isabel tries hard to adjust to the realities of married life. Life is not easy: she feels out-of-place and constantly judged by the people around her, so she spends much of her time alone. One cold winter night, Isabel finds an old RAF greatcoat in the back of a cupboard that she uses to help keep warm. Once wrapped in the coat ...
|  | If It Ain't Baroque: More Music History As It Ought To Be Taught
Publication Date: October 1, 1992Many entertaining (and entirely true!) facts await your discovery as bestselling author David W. Barber takes you on another delightful romp through the pages of music history - as it ought to be taught. ...
|  | The Vampire: A Casebook
Publication Date: September 24, 1998Vampires are the most fearsome and fascinating of all creatures of folklore. For the first time, detailed accounts of the vampire and how its tradition developed in different cultures are gathered in one volume by eminent folklorist Alan Dundes. Eleven leading scholars from the fields of Slavic studies, history, anthropology, and psychiatry unearth the true nature of the vampire from its birth in graveyard lore to the modern-day psychiatric patient with a penchant for drinking blood. The Vampire: A Casebook takes this legend out of the realm of literature ...
|  | The Merchant of Venice (SparkNotes No Fear Shakespeare)
Publication Date: July 3, 2003| ISBN-10: 1586638505 | ISBN-13: 978-1586638504No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of The Merchant of Venice on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right. Each No Fear Shakespeare containsThe complete text of the original playA line-by-line translation that puts Shakespeare into everyday languageA complete list of characters with descriptionsPlenty of helpful commentary ...
|  | After the Trojan War: Women of Troy, Hecuba, Helen (Absolute Classics)
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|  | Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems (American Poets Project)
Release Date: October 5, 2006| Series: American Poets Project (Book 23) With the publication of Chicago Poems in 1916, Carl Sandburg became one of the most famous poets in America: the voice of a midwestern literary revolt, fusing free-verse poetics with hard-edged journalistic observation and energetic, sometimes raucous protest. By the time his first book appeared, Sandburg had been many things--a farm hand, a soldier in the Spanish-American War, an active Socialist, a newspaper reporter and movie reviewer-and he was determined to write poetry that would explode the genteel conventions of ...
| | Selected poems of the Tang dynasty =: Zhong Ying dui zhao Tang shi xuan yi
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| | Tang shi he jie jian zhu (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | The Liberated Imagination: Thinking Christianly about the Arts
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|  | The Vatican Mythographers (Medieval Philosophy: Texts and Studies)
Publication Date: June 30, 2008| ISBN-10: 0823228924 | ISBN-13: 978-0823228928| Edition: 1 The Vatican Mythographers offers the first complete English translation of three important sources of knowledge about the survival of classical mythology from the Carolingian era to the High Middle Ages and beyond. The Latin texts were discovered in manuscripts in the Vatican library and published together in the nineteenth century. The three so-called Vatican Mythographers compiled, analyzed, interpreted, and transmitted a vast collection of myths for use by students, poets, and artists. In terms ...
|  | Dead Man's Folly: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
Release Date: August 30, 2011| Series: Hercule PoirotSir George and Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village fete, hit upon the novel idea of staging a mock murder mystery. In good faith, Ariadne Oliver, the well-known crime writer, agrees to organize their murder hunt. Despite weeks of meticulous planning, at the last minute Ariadne calls her friend Hercule Poirot for his expert assistance. Instinctively, she senses that something sinister is about to happen…....
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|  | Fire Season (Frank Coffin Mysteries)
Release Date: July 17, 2012| Series: Frank Coffin Mysteries (Book 3) Until a replacement can be found, Frank Coffin is pulling double duty as a detective and interim police chief for the Provincetown, Massachusetts, police force. Luckily, the off-season has just started for this tourist town, and Frank hopes the quiet streets will allow him more time to stay at home and take care of his very pregnant girlfriend.When Frank responds to a call about—of all things—the murder of some local seals, and immediately afterward has to investigate a Dumpster fire, he starts losing hope that ...
|  | DK Readers: Star Wars: A Queen's Diary
Publication Date: September 17, 2007| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | Shipwreck (Island, Book 1)
Publication Date: June 1, 2001| Age Level: 8 and up Luke, J.J. Will, Lyssa, Charla, and Ian. They did'nt want to be on the boat in the first place. They didn't want to be stuck at sea with a bunch of strangers. But when you're in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, there's no easy way out. And when a terrifying storm hits, there's no way to fully prepare. It's all about survival. ...
|  | Wisdom from Africa: African Fables
Release Date: June 30, 2005In the words of author Dianne Stewart, 'African proverbs reflect both the past and the present, and are as relevant to contemporary society as they were to traditional society.' As with so much of African culture, proverbs have been passed on in the oral tradition so it's rare to find such a treasure trove as this; from across Africa, Dianne has compiled a fascination collection. The text is given in the language of origin, an English translation and an explanation of the meaning. The proverbs are divided into subject groups such as human nature, family life, good ...
|  | My Daddy Loves Boston College Football (Sports Outdoor Recreation Chil)
Publication Date: February 10, 2010| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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