 | The Almost Archer Sisters: A Novel
Release Date: October 7, 2008Georgia "Peachy" Archer always thought she was happy with her choices in life: quitting college, marrying young, raising two boys in the same small town where she grew up. But just as Peachy's life is beginning to settle into a careful routine, her sister's life begins to dangerously unravel. Beth Archer chose a different life: fancy apartment in Manhattan, fancy friends, making lots of money. She's been on her own since she was a teenager, and she's still on her own, outgrowing dress styles and boyfriends faster than Peachy can inherit them. But on a visit home ...
 |  | Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions)
Publication Date: November 2002| ISBN-10: 0393978893 | ISBN-13: 978-0393978896| Edition: 4th The text of the novel is based on the first edition of 1847.For the Fourth Edition, the editor collated the 1847 text with the two modern texts (Norton’s William J. Sale collation and the Clarendon), and found a great number of variants, including accidentals. This discovery led to changes in the body of the Norton Critical Edition text that are explained in the preface. New to "Backgrounds and Contexts" are additional letters, a compositional chronology, related prose, and reviews of the ...
|  | Raven's Ladder: A Novel (The Auralia Thread)
Release Date: February 16, 2010 ...
|  | 7,000 Clams: A Novel
Release Date: January 11, 2005Frank Hearn is a down-on-his-luck bootlegger and bruiser, looking for the big score in the heart of the Roaring Twenties. When he loses a shipment of top-quality booze to a double-crossing government thief, Frank hunts him down, roughs him up, and finds something that catches his eye. What at first appears to be a scrap of paper is actually a handwritten and unmistakably authentic IOU for $7,000, signed by Babe Ruth. Seven-thousand clams is a lot of money—and when Frank gets a tip that the Yankees are about to begin spring training in St. Petersburg, Flor...
|  | Thunder In The Wind: Emergence II (Volume 2)
Publication Date: June 3, 2012“Thunder in the Wind” / Emergence IIThe continuing journey of the twin souls Thunder and Natalie, from the book Emergence.This second offering finds them six years later as they walk the path of discovery in this third dimension they call a dream reality. They find themselves having to deal with situations that test their purpose as Shamanistic Wisdom Keepers. They also face discrimination against their American Indian heritage. There is plenty of thrilling action in the form of flying, riding their Harley Davidson, martial arts, and dealing with p...
|  | Cold As Death (Tango Key)
Release Date: October 1, 2006| Series: Tango Key He's waited years for this moment: a perfect hideout, a screaming boy no one can hear, and a woman who will finally know the pain of losing what matters most...Mira Morales knows the burning house on the hill belongs to actress Suki Nichols, but who is the ghostly woman running down the driveway - on fire? And the car careening wildly away, a boy's face pressed against the window, his mouth a silent scream. Just like that, the vision - the fire, the woman, the boy - gone. And so is Suki Nichols's son. A boy's life hangs in the balance. Mira's ...
|  | Gotta Call BS on That One - How the world pretend
Publication Date: August 5, 2012Was Star Wars designed to save the empire or to build an empire? Which party actually saves money? Did the framers of the Constitution actually think out the whole concept of a Supreme Court? Is being a member of Congress a service or a career?BS is ubiquitous to life as we know it. We have been so swamped with it for so long that we sometimes forget it is BS. Opposite positions justified by two sides from the same Bible. Balancing the budget by 1) reducing spending, or 2) increasing spending. Justifying big kids playing in space by science and/or politics. Bu...
|  | Aristophanes: Acharnians. Knights. (Loeb Classical Library No. 178)
Publication Date: September 1, 1998 Aristophanes of Athens (ca. 446–386 BCE), one of the world's greatest comic dramatists, has been admired since antiquity for his iridescent wit and beguiling fantasy, exuberant language, and brilliant satire of the social, intellectual, and political life of Athens at its height. He wrote at least forty plays, of which eleven have survived complete. In this new Loeb Classical Library edition of Aristophanes, Jeffrey Henderson presents a freshly edited Greek text and a lively, unexpurgated translation with full explanatory notes. The general introducti...
|  | German Short Stories 2 (Parallel Text, Penguin)
Release Date: September 30, 1976| Series: Parallel Text, Penguin The eight stories in this volume offer a varied and representative collection of twentieth century German authors from a range of political and cultural backgrounds. Styles include the non-fictional manner of Kluge's montage technique and the contrasting classical storytelling of Penzoldt. With reading notes and parallel texts in German and English, this anthology is valuable to the German student of English as well as the English student of German. Reflecting trends in German literature, the stories have been selected for thei...
|  | Yum! Mmmm! Que Rico! Americas' Sproutings
Publication Date: October 31, 2007Peanuts, blueberries, corn, potatoes, tomatoes, and more-here is a luscious collection of haiku celebrating foods native to the Americas. Brimming with imagination and fun, these poems capture the tasty essence of foods that have delighted, united, and enriched our lives for centuries. Exuberant illustrations bring to life the delicious spirit of the haiku, making Yum! ¡Mmm! ¡Qué Rico! America's Sproutings an eye-popping, mouth-watering treat. Open it and dig in! ...
|  | Tall Tales: Collected Works 1986-2011 (Volume 1)
Publication Date: June 25, 2012Tall Tales - Collected Works (1986-2011) by Leeza Baric, takes you on a tumultuous ride through her life experiences. Leeza tackles difficult and controversial subjects, believing that by sharing our stories we can release the past, connect with others and instigate change on a personal and universal level. ...
|  | Aristotle's Poetics
Publication Date: December 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 0226313948 | ISBN-13: 978-0226313948| Edition: 1 In this, the fullest, sustained interpretation of Aristotle's Poetics available in English, Stephen Halliwell demonstrates that the Poetics, despite its laconic brevity, is a coherent statement of a challenging theory of poetic art, and it hints towards a theory of mimetic art in general. Assessing this theory against the background of earlier Greek views on poetry and art, particularly Plato's, Halliwell goes further than any previous author in setting Aristotle's ideas in the wider context of ...
|  | Applicative Constructions (Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory)
Publication Date: March 1, 2007| ISBN-10: 0199270929 | ISBN-13: 978-0199270927| Edition: 1 This book presents the first systematic typological analysis of applicatives across African, American Indian, and East Asian languages. It is also the first to address their functions in discourse, the derivation of their semantic and syntactic properties, and how and why they have changed over time. ...
|  | Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews
Release Date: March 29, 2011*Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism**A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice**A New York Times Top 10 Nonfiction Book of the Year, as selected by Dwight Garner* Geoff Dyer has earned the devotion of passionate fans on both sides of the Atlantic through his wildly inventive, romantic novels as well as several brilliant, uncategorizable works of nonfiction. All the while he has been writing some of the wittiest, most incisive criticism we have on an astonishing array of subjects—music, literature, photography, and travel jo...
|  | Der Kleine Prinz (German)
Publication Date: September 4, 2001| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up A beautifully packaged German language edition of the internationally beloved classic In 2000 Harcourt proudly reissued Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's masterpiece, The Little Prince, in a new edition with vibrantly restored artwork and a fresh translation by Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Richard Howard. As critics and readers across the country embraced this timeless tale for its purity and beauty of expression, Harcourt released uniform full-color foreign language editions for readers of all ages ...
|  | On Dangerous Ground
Publication Date: March 23, 1994As Hong Kong prepares for its 1997 return to China, powerful business concerns, including the Mafia, will do anything to stop the return, as a search begins for a mysterious document, the Chungking Covenant, that would allow for an extension of the treaty. ...
|  | David Beckham: Born to Play (All Aboard Reading)
Release Date: December 13, 2007| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | Girls' Softball: Winning on the Diamond (Girls Got Game series)
Publication Date: January 1, 2007| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | The Ramsay Scallop
Release Date: September 1, 1995| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 8 and up The year is 1299. Fourteen year-old Elenor reluctanly awaits the return of her betrothed -- a man she hardly knows -- from the Crusade. Thomas, broken and disillusioned from years of fighting, finds the very idea of marriage and lordship overwhelming. So When the village priest sends them on religious pilgrimage before the marriage, both are relieved. The journey means a postponement of the dreaded nuptials, and a last chance for adventure. As Eleanor and thomas wend their way toward the shrine of St. James, they me...
|  | Dino Express
Publication Date: May 8, 2012| Age Level: 1 and up Get ready for a prehistoric dino adventure!Join three of the smallest dinos as they board a train in search of the BIGGEST dino of them all.They’ll journey over a river, through a tunnel, and way up in the sky, asking all their friends, “Have you heard about the biggest dino?Where can it be found?”This fun, interactive book features pull tabs, flaps, glow-in-the-dark ink, and a big pop-up surprise ending. Tim Beaumont’s colorful and eye-popping art combined with his adorable and catchy verse will be irresistible to par...
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