 | Crossroads: A Novel
Release Date: January 26, 2010Cassie Wright never saw it coming. As the owner of thriving Wright Glassworks, Cassie’s life was quiet, well-ordered . . . until a tragic accident forces her to take in a one-year-old child who has no one else to care for her. As the years pass, Cassie will raise young Gwen as her own, and the girl will flourish in a world of privilege and opportunity. Enter Jewel Fairbanks. Beautiful and conniving, Jewel will touch the lives of both Cassie and Gwen in powerful ways. Both Gwen and Jewel will marry; Gwen will fall for honest, hardworking Stan. And Jewel wil...
 |  | Miriam's Gift: A Mother's Blessing--Then and Now
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|  | An Angel by Her Side (A Heaven On Earth Novel)
Publication Date: January 1, 2013| Series: A Heaven On Earth Novel With the help of the angel Elias, one willfull schoolteacher is about to learn a lesson in what it means to carry a cross for the person she loves. Twenty-nine-year-old Katie Bender’s dream of marriage ended when her fiancé died seven years ago. She’s content as the Amish settlement’s schoolteacher, that is, until a tornado destroys the schoolhouse and several of the area’s farms. Supplies are low and the needs are great. Rebuilding the schoolhouse is a low priority. But Katie knows a lot abou...
|  | Dawn at Dusk
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|  | The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Washington Irving: Volume 2-Including Three Novelettes 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,' 'Dolph Heyliger' ... Short Stories of the Strange and Unusual
Publication Date: October 11, 2010Two volumes of the strange and ghostly by one of the earliest great American authorsThose who know anything of American literature know that Washington Irving was one of its earliest and most influential giants. Born less than a decade after the birth of the nation, it is clear through many of his writings that he embodied the very spirit of his nationality, age and place. He was a prolific author, a craftsman of fiction and non-fiction alike and his works of history are enduring classics. Whilst Irving is a true American writer his subject matter is by no m...
|  | The Blue Book
Publication Date: May 1, 2002Welsh poet, Owen Sheers's first collection has already garnered much critical acclaim. He was selected by The Times as Poet of the New Millennium, and this book won the prestigious Eric Gregory Award, given to first collections. At once, an exquisite observation of the life-affirming landscape that surrounds him, Sheers' poetry too describes the fruitless cruelty and suffering caused by human frailty. The ghost of death looms large in many of the poems, where memory and language struggle to contend with the enormity of emotion. And yet, his own language is driven...
|  | Conversation Pieces: Poems That Talk to Other Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
Release Date: March 20, 2007| Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets This utterly delightful anthology gathers poetic responses to other poems in a dialogue conducted across space and time.Here are poems that answer, argue with, update, elaborate on, mock, interrogate, or pay tribute to poems of the past.We hear Leda's view of the Swan; feel sympathy for La Belle Dame sans Merci, and find out how Marvell's coy mistress might have answered his appeal.Raleigh's famous reply to Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" sparked a centuries-long debate that John Donne, William Carlos Willi...
|  | Jour Apres La Vie Mait (Poesie/Gallimard) (French Edition)
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|  | The Bakchesarian Fountain
Publication Date: October 1987This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Russian poetry; American poetry; Literary Criticism / Russian ...
|  | Anabasis (Loeb Classical Library) (English and Greek Edition)
Publication Date: December 30, 1998| ISBN-10: 067499101X | ISBN-13: 978-0674991019| Edition: RevisedXenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BCE) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 and joined an expedition including ten thousand Greeks led by the Persian governor Cyrus against the Persian king. After the defeat of Cyrus, it fell to Xenophon to lead the Greeks from the gates of Babylon back to the coast through inhospitable lands. Later he wrote the famous vivid account of this 'March Up-Country' (Anabasis); but meanwhile he entered service under the Spartans again...
|  | After the Orgy: Toward a Politics of Exhaustion (Suny Series in Postmodern Culture)
Publication Date: July 2002| Series: Suny Series in Postmodern Culture Explores the post-Enlightenment obsession withapocalyptic endings. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition....
|  | The Chaplet of Pearls; or, The White and Black Ribaumont: Volume 1
Release Date: July 5, 2001This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1869 edition by Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig. ...
| | Sherlock Holmes: A Play
Publication Date: 1976Sherlock Holmes: A Play, by Gillette, William and Arthur Conan Doyle. BCE 8vo. ...
|  | Theseus and the Minotaur
Publication Date: September 30, 1989With luminous watercolor paintings and a straightforward text, here is a retelling, in picture-book form, of one of the great classic Greek myths. Full-color illustrations. ...
|  | Junie B., First Grader: Shipwrecked (Junie B. Jones, No. 23)
Release Date: May 24, 2005| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up Ship Ahoy!Room One is putting on a play. And guess what? It’s about explorers looking for the New World! And there’s ships and sea captains and everything! Plus here’s the bestest news of all—Junie B. Jones thinks she might be the star of the whole entire production! Only, sailing the ocean blue is not as easy as it looks, apparently. ’Cause problems keep on happening. Like the actors keep catching the flu. And bossy May keeps trying to take over the show.Can this play be saved? Will the shi...
|  | Sports Star Mad Libs Junior
Release Date: February 2, 2004| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Batchawana Silly Stuff
Publication Date: May 1, 2011Batchawana Silly Stuff by Emily Hearn, illustrated by Gailon Valleau is a wonderful, silly, colourful, rhyming poetry book - 8.5 X 8.5 perfect bound. Parents and child alike will enjoyfun times laughing over every page.You will find orange hippos in the porridge, a turkey in a blue shoe, dragons in a black sack and much, much more. The author says - "I hope you had fun with this book. There are ever so many more colours.Maybe you could pick a colour and make up your own rhymes and draw pictures to go with them. I had fun doing that and you can too!"Emily ...
|  | The Knight's Handbook: How to Become a Champion in Shining Armor
Release Date: May 1, 1997| Age Level: 9 and up A how-to guide for aspiring medieval knights includes fascinating facts about their careers and their lives and also gives instructions for making helmets, swords, shields, and even a castle." ...
|  | The Annotated Anne of Green Gables
Publication Date: August 28, 1997Since its publication in 1908, Anne of Green Gables has been a continuous international best-seller, enjoying successful television adaptations on PBS and The Disney Channel, and captivating children and adults alike with the irresistible charms of its remarkable heroine, Anne Shirley. This wildly imaginative, red-headed chatterbox tries to fit into the narrow confines of Victorian expectations, but her exuberant spirit keeps leaping delightfully beyond the bounds. Indeed, when Maud Montgomery decided to reject the sermonizing formulas of the children's books...
|  | When An Elephant Comes To School
Publication Date: July 1, 2005| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up What happens when an elephant goes to school?Well he fits right in so he can learn, nap, paint, and dance, of course!"When an elephant comes to school he may be shy at first. A special friend can show him where to put his lunch box."The first day of school is hard, especially when you are an elephant.But with the help of some new friends, any elephant could get into the swing of things.Jan Ormerod's beautifully illustrated story, WHEN AN ELEPHANT COMES TO SCHOOL, is sure to delight and dazzle any child with excitemen...
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