 | Silent Spring
Publication Date: October 22, 2002Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of 1962. The book appeared in September of that year and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Carson’s passionate concern for the future of our planet reverberated powerfully throughout the world, and her eloquent book was instrumental in launching the environmental movement. It is without question one of the landmark books of the tw...
 |  | The Chick and the Dead (Pepper Martin Mysteries, No. 2)
Release Date: February 27, 2007 Ever since the former rich girl-turned-Cleveland cemetery tour guide banged her head on a headstone, she sees dead people. Worse still, she hears them—and they won't shut up! Now it's Didi Bowman, a poodle-skirted relic from the Great Beyond, who's bending Pepper's ear, complaining that her famous author sister, Merilee, has done her wrong. Trouble is, if Pepper proves it, she'll break the hearts of millions of Merilee's fans. And if she doesn't, Didi's ghost may never go away. Pepper needs peace and quiet (and rent money), so the cash-strapped ex-heir...
|  | Evil on Meadow Lane
Publication Date: September 11, 2009Get a Glimpse of Pure EvilThe Ainsworths moved into their new family home in a secluded little town, Big Bear Lake, set high up in the mountains. Unbeknownst to them, the previous family living in the home, the Johnsons, suffered a tragic ending to their lives in that home. Except, the Johnsons were not aware they were dead. The Johnson family quickly made their ethereal presence known to the new inhabitants whom they did not welcome in the house that Richard, the departed husband, built with his own two hands. His family kept an ominous secret. They had o...
|  | Purgatory: A Novel of the Civil War
Publication Date: March 5, 2012During the Civil War, two young soldiers on opposite sides find themselves drawn together. One is a war-weary but scholarly Southerner who has seen too much bloodshed, especially the tortures inflicted upon the enemy by his vicious commanding officer, his uncle. The other is a Herculean Yankee captured by the rag-tag Confederate band and forced to become a martyr for all the sins of General Sheridan's fires. When these two find themselves admiring more than one another's spirit and demeanor, when passions erupt between captor and captive, will this new romance ...
|  | Two Feet Off The Ground
Publication Date: April 12, 2011Lauren Woods is crazy about Paula McKenna. Paula's sexy, adventurous and the hero to Lauren’s twelve-year-old son, Owen. The two women are deeply attracted to each other, but there's one big problem that's keeping their love grounded. Paula accepts a job offer across the country, and Lauren, with a debilitating fear of flying, a son deeply rooted to his friends and life in Rhode Island, and a best friend who depends on her to keep her salon up and running, is in no position to up and move. Will these two find their footing together or crash land? ...
|  | Legends of the Space Marines (Warhammer 40,000)
Release Date: April 27, 2010| Series: Warhammer 40,000 Space Marines and their evil counterparts, the Traitor Marines, epitomise the wartorn Warhammer 40,000 universe. This short story collection focuses entirely on these superhuman warriors, telling high-action tales of heroism and savagery. Combining the talents of Black Library favourite authors such as Mike Lee and Nick Kyme with hot new talent, this collection is not to be missed. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | In the Mountains (The Roads We Take)
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|  | Memories of Rain: A Novel
Publication Date: April 1992'Memories of Rain marks the triumphant debut of a gifted and compelling voice...Gupta has built upon tradition and rendered it new and compelling. And she has done so in writing of the highest quality, perceptive, precise, and wholly original.'--Shashi Tharoor, The Washington Post--This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | El cuaderno verde del CHE /Che's Green Notebook (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: March 30, 2008Los tres oficiales con uniforme de rangers y el agente de la CIA revisaron la mochila minuciosamente. Al final solo pudieron extraer un magro botin: 12 rollos de pelicula, una veintena de mapas corregidos con lapices de colores, una radio portatil que hacia tiempo que no funcionaba, un par de agendas y un cuaderno verde. El cuaderno verde, donde puede leerse algo que parece una serie de poemas, no parece despertar mayor interes. Pocas horas mas tarde, el dueno de la mochila, el comandante Ernesto Guevara, sera asesinado en la escuelita de La Higuera y sus brev...
|  | Love reaches out: Meditations for people in love
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|  | Hiroshima (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: April 30, 2009On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey's journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that day. Told through the memories of survivors, this timeless, powerful and compassionate document has become a classic "that stirs the conscience of humanity" (The New York Times).Almost four decades after the original publication of this celebrated book, John Hersey went back to Hiroshima in search of the people whose stories he had told. His account of what he discovered ab...
|  | A Certain Kind of Magic
Publication Date: June 4, 2012When NYPD police detective Morgan Reilly discovers the lamp and frees the djinn, she thinks she's hallucinating. After all, she's just back on the job after a high-speed chase left her with a head injury, and it's not the first visual hallucination she's had since the auto accident. But freeing the djinn brings Mere, an exiled merman, charging into her life. He and his sidekick, Lynell, an elf, failed in their duty to protect a dragon's hoard that was stolen centuries ago. All this time they have sought to get it back.Because Morgan can see him although other hu...
|  | Kiss of Midnight (The Midnight Breed, Book 1)
Release Date: May 1, 2007Book 1 in the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling Midnight Breed vampire romance seriesHe watches her from across the crowded dance club, a sensual black-haired stranger who stirs Gabrielle Maxwell's deepest fantasies. But nothing about this night--or this man--is what it seems. For when Gabrielle witnesses a murder outside the club, reality shifts into something dark and deadly. In that shattering instant she is thrust into a realm she never knew existed--a realm where vampires stalk the shadows and a blood war is set to ignite.Lucan Thorne despises th...
|  | Complete Sherlock Holmes Treasury
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|  | Jason and the Golden Fleece: The Most Adventurous and Exciting Expedition of All the Ages
Publication Date: July 29, 2004| Age Level: 9 and up Inason and the Golden Fleece, Sofia Zarabouka adapts the classic tale of Jason and his companions, the Argonauts. Together, this brave crew ventures to the faraway land of Colchis to steal the woolen coat of the famed golden ram. Along the way, they face many challenges, including rescuing King Phineus from the menacing harpies, navigating through a deadly passageway of rocks, and plowing a filed planted with dragon's teeth that rapidly grow into fierce giants.Through words and pictures, Zarabouka describes many exciting episodes from the ...
|  | The Messenger of Spring (Native Legends)
Release Date: September 20, 1997| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Track and Field : Track Events (Sports Clinic)
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|  | Our School Garden!
Publication Date: March 6, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up New city. New school. Michael is feeling all alone—until he discovers the school garden! There’s so many ways to learn, and so much work to do. Taste a leaf? Mmm, nice and tangy hot. Dig for bugs? “Roly-poly!” he yells. But the garden is much more than activities outdoors: making school garden stone soup, writing Found Poems and solving garden riddles, getting involved in community projects such as Harvest Day, food bank donations, and spring plant sales. Each season creates a new way to learn,...
|  | Leonardito Y La Bicicleta/ Leonardo, And the Bycicle: Un Cuento Sobre Leonardo Da Vinci (Pequenos Grandes Genios) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Shhh!
Release Date: February 2, 2007| Grade Level: P and up Everyone is talking too loud, and moving too fast. But no one seems to hear what`s being said. What to do? A well-dressed shrew has all the answers. Just be still and listen... `One, two, three... Shhh! ` ...
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