 | 2000 Years of Mayan Literature
Publication Date: November 4, 2011Mayan literature is among the oldest in the world, spanning an astonishing two millennia from deep pre-Columbian antiquity to the present day. Here, for the first time, is a fully illustrated survey, from the earliest hieroglyphic inscriptions to the works of later writers using the Roman alphabet. Dennis Tedlock--ethnographer, linguist, poet, and award-winning author--draws on decades of living and working among the Maya to assemble this groundbreaking book, which is the first to treat ancient Mayan texts as literature. Tedlock considers the texts chronolog...
 |  | Chicano Narrative: Dialectics of Difference (Wisconsin Project on American Writers)
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|  | The Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Release Date: October 11, 1994State-of-the-art, digitally generated graphic images and tricky visual puns accompany the complete text of the cult classic story of one young man's zany adventures in outer space. 50,000 first printing. ...
|  | Walled Garden
Publication Date: May 4, 2001Beth flew the coop as soon as she could, making a life for herself and her daughter in London. James, her dutiful brother, stayed in Dublin, raising a family not far from their mother, Alice. Now Alice is dying and Beth has returned to the shabby grandeur of her childhood home to keep vigil by her bedside. Unable to speak, the only way Alice feels she can bridge the gap of understanding between her and Beth is to write to her and seek reconciliation. Set during the last days of Alice's life, this is also an extraordinary preceptive novel about childhood and growi...
|  | Sophie Under Pressure (Faithgirlz!)
Release Date: May 19, 2009| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Creek Songs: (and Other Seductions)
Publication Date: June 7, 2012When you’re a child, the world is full of shiny things – arrowheads and anthills; tiny skulls and frog’s eggs; gopher holes and bottle caps; snakeskins and polliwogs; strange, cool artifacts and cooler characters that come from somewhere off the grid – maybe outer space.You can’t grab them, touch them, taste them fast enough. Wonder is part of your daily routine. As you grow older, you realize the true power of shiny things. The power to distract and deflect and seduce. The power to empower transcendence. The power to rob you o...
|  | The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea: Poems
Release Date: April 11, 2006From the phenomenally bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time comes Mark Haddon’s first collection of poems. That Mark Haddon’s first book after The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is a book of poetry may surprise his many fans; that it is also one of such virtuosity and range will not. The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea reveals a poet of great versatility and formal talent. All the gifts so admired in Haddon’s prose are in strong evidence here – the humanity, t...
|  | Anthologie des poetes delaisses: De Jean Marot a Samuel Beckett (French Edition)
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|  | Dream Writing Assignments: 600+ Prompts for Creative Writing
Publication Date: February 23, 2004| ISBN-10: 0867095571 | ISBN-13: 978-0867095579| Edition: 1Creative questions elicit creative responses. That's what English teacher David LeCount demonstrates in this collection of quirky, provocative writing prompts designed to release students from standardized writing assignments. More than 600 prompts serve as multidisciplinary opportunities for students to write creatively. Dream Writing Assignments can be used in two ways: as a practical, flexible, and handy resource for teachers who are looking for creative topics to assign, and as a stimula...
|  | The Bamboo Broom An INtroduction to Japanese Haiku
Publication Date: 1980Blue boards ...
|  | Passing Time in the Loo (Compact Classics)
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|  | Femmes D Alger Dans Leur Appartement (Ldp Litterature) (French Edition)
Publication Date: March 1, 2004| Series: Ldp Litterature (Book 30047) En 1832, dans Alger recemment conquise, Delacroix s'introduit quelques heures dans un harem. II en rapporte un chef-d'ceuvre, Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement, qui demeure un ...
|  | Binding Vows
Publication Date: November 6, 2009Duncan MacCoinnich's task... Travel to the twenty-first century Renaissance Faire, deflower the Druid virgins, and go home. Only his job is not so easily accomplished with the virgin in question, Tara McAllister. Time is running out. The evil is closing in on them both.Tara finds Duncan irresistible after what was supposed to be a mock Hand-fasting binds them.When Duncan whisks her to his home in Scotland she could accept that. But, can she forgive him for taking away her modern life when she finds herself in the sixteenth century?And is it love they feel? O...
|  | The Classic Treasury of Princess Fairy Tales
Publication Date: October 2, 2007| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up In opening The Classic Treasury of Princess Fairy Tales one will find refuge in a quiet, sun-dappled forest where magic still can and does happen. Featuring eight of the best loved princess heroines of all time, from Cinderella to Sleeping Beauty, little girls will revel in the fantasy world the beautifully rich artwork creates and long for the stories to never end. ...
|  | The 10 Greatest Hoop Heroes (10 (Franklin Watts))
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|  | Summer Surfs The Olympic Trials
Publication Date: July 17, 2008Seventeen year old Summer is off to the 10K Olympic Trials! She's very excited that she even qualified! She thought the trials were going to be based on pool times alone, and then (much to her surprise) she ended up qualifying for the Grand Prix10K (the qualifier for the trials) at the 5 mile double Waikiki swim, and when she swam Grand Prix she qualified for the trials!But all was not fun and games for Summer.She had problems with one of her college professors, and her coach and the college she was going to was way too controlling.Summer was a free spirit and ...
|  | How to Draw Nickelodeon Avatar: The Last Airbender
Publication Date: March 1, 2007| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Victory
Release Date: December 4, 2007| Age Level: 9 and up LIVING CENTURIES APART, BUT JOINED IN AN EPIC BATTLE. Sam Robbins is a farm boy, kidnapped to serve on HMS Victory, the ship on which Lord Nelson will die a hero's death at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Molly Jennings is a twenty-first-century English girl transplanted to the United States by her stepfather's job, who's fighting her own battle against loss and loneliness. Two lives that couldn't be more different, two hundred years apart, are linked by a tiny scrap of fraying cloth, tucked into an old book. It draws Molly into Sam's ...
|  | A Tugging String: A Novel About Growing Up During the Civil Rights Era
Release Date: October 16, 2008| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Duvy Greenberg is an ordinary twelve-year-old trying to fit in. He knows that his father, Jack, is a civil rights lawyer, but Duvy lives worlds away from Dorothy Milton, a black woman struggling to become a registered voter in Selma, Alabama. When Dorothy reaches out to Martin Luther King Jr. for help, she sets in motion a series of events that?with Jack Greenberg?s help?will open Duvy?s eyes to the reality of racial inequality and forever change the course of history. Blending facts, speeches, memories, and conjectu...
|  | One-Eyed Cat
Release Date: December 1, 2000| Age Level: 10 and up A Single ShotNed fired the forbidden rifle just once, at a flickering shadow in the autumn moonlight. But someone -- a face, fleetingly seen staring at him from an attic window -- was watching.And when a one-eyed cat turns up at an elderly neighbor's woodshed, Ned is caught in a web of guilt, fear, and shame that he cannot escape -- until another moonlit night, come spring, brings redemption and surprising revelations. ...
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