 | A Kentucky Christmas
Release Date: October 1, 2003"Table of Contents A celebration of holiday poetry, fiction, essays, recipes, and songs by more than sixty of the Bluegrass state's finest writers. Gathered here are writings from some of the legendary voices of Kentucky -- and the nation -- as well as original Christmas stories and poetry from some of the state's emerging talents. Among the contributors to this handsome collection are Kentucky's visionaries, storytellers, historians, singers, cooks, children's authors, and poets, including all five Kentucky Poet Laureates. A delight for anyone interested in Kent...
 |  | The Redemption: The Family Chronicles - Book One
Publication Date: August 9, 2010| Series: The Family Chronicles Bartender Samuel Palo lives on the lovely Anna Maria Island in Florida. Surrounded by his adopted family and his coworkers from The Zoo, a bar where the drinks are cheap and the best food on the menu is frozen solid first. Sam is living with a secret he thinks is safely locked away in back of his mind. Some sins are not meant to be forgotten but forgiven. Blessed with incredible strength, Sam finds he can do little to stop his fragile world from coming apart. As the pains from his past surface, Sam finds himself slowly losing co...
|  | Mysterious Valley
Publication Date: September 15, 1996Like other residents of the strage communities of Crestone and the Baca, Christopher O'Brien was drawn to the sacred valley of Native American myth.He was soon compelled to document, in disturbing detail, the inexplicable events unfolding around him and the questions they raised:What is the truth behind the nightly light show of UFOs pulsing and glowing across the sky?What are the strange rumbling noises coming from underground?What is the origin of a mysterious crystal skull found in the Baca?And most frightening of all, who is responsible for the scores ...
|  | A Treasury of American Heartaches
Publication Date: March 5, 2012You are entering the very origin of the real twilight zone which has, at last, come to fatally infect the hearts of all Americans. Be prepared for the master of all Wake-up Calls. Kept Top Secret for decades, the deeply disturbing facts are set before you - that the United States government kept hidden for decades in a small city called Bannington, New York, a fully functioning evil capable of devouring every man, woman and child living on planet earth. As Ellen Leahy, the doyenne of it all said, all great tragedies begin in jest . Ron Silver believed every wor...
|  | Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Little House Books, Volume 2 (Library of America)
Release Date: August 30, 2012| Series: Library of America (Book 230) Originally published from 1932 to 1943, Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books are classics of children’s literature, beloved by millions. But readers who last enjoyed them as children may be astonished at the quiet poetry of Wilder’s prose and the force and poignancy of her portrait of the lives of American pioneers. Now The Library of America and editor Caroline Fraser present a new two-volume edition that affirms Wilder’s place in the American canon, reintroducing these enduring works to reader...
|  | I Love You
Publication Date: February 1, 1991In time for Valentine's Day, here is a collection of poetry that touches the heart, by one of America's bestselling poets, Susan Polis Schultz--the author of Mother, I Will Always Love You. Illustrated in full color with 25 watercolors, this is the perfect gift. ...
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|  | An African Epiphany
Publication Date: July 1, 2011Following in the footsteps of Ghanaian poets, such as Kwesi Brew, Kofi Awoonor and Kofi Anyidoho, Prince Kwasi Mensah delivers in An African Epiphany, a post-modern poetic take on all things African. The poems are fresh and irreverent yet mature and proud, at the same time. The poet, in his celebration of culture, questions it where it stands in the way of progress. ...
|  | Caesar Selections from his Commentarii De Bello Gallico
Publication Date: March 16, 2012| ISBN-10: 0865167524 | ISBN-13: 978-0865167520| Edition: First This text provides unadapted Latin passages from the Commentarii De Bello Gallico: Book 1.1 7; Book 4.24 35 and the first sentence of Chapter 36; Book 5.24 48; Book 6.13 20 and the English of Books 1, 6, and 7 It includes all the required English and Latin selections from Caesar's De Bello Gallico for the 2012-2013 AP* Curriculum. Features: Introduction includes historical context, an overview of the Roman army, and Caesar as General, Politician, and Writer Latin text accompanied by same-page ...
|  | Swing
Release Date: December 26, 2007Winner (3rd place), Laurel Wreath Finalist, Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence Award of Merit, Holt MedallionIt all started with an innocent request...Melissa's friend Shane asked her to accompany him on a business trip to an exclusive resort. But The Sweet Surrender is no ordinary vacation spot--it's for men and women who swing. As Melissa mingles with the other guests and discovers the resort's fantasy rooms, she's tempted to explore her naughty side and live out her most sinful fantasies--but she isn't prepared for the storm of desir...
|  | The Bayou Trilogy: Under the Bright Lights, Muscle for the Wing, and The Ones You Do
Publication Date: April 28, 2011A hard-hitting, critically acclaimed trilogy of crime novels from an author about whom New York magazine has written, "What people say about Cormac McCarthy ... goes double for [Woodrell]. Possibly more."In the parish of St. Bruno, sex is easy, corruption festers, and double-dealing is a way of life. Rene Shade is an uncompromising detective swimming in a sea of filth. As Shade takes on hit men, porn kings, a gang of ex-cons, and the ghosts of his own checkered past, Woodrell's three seminal novels pit long-entrenched criminals against the hard line of the law...
|  | Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them: Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir
Publication Date: September 12, 2008Early in the twentieth century a new character type emerged in the crime novels of American writers such as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler: the "hard-boiled" detective, most famously exemplified by Sam Spade inThe Maltese Falcon. Unlike the analytical detectives of nineteenth-century fiction, such as Edgar Allan Poe’s Inspector Dupin, the new detectives encountered cases not as intricate logical puzzles but as stark challenges of manhood. In the stories of these characters and their criminal opposites, John T. Irwin explores the tension withi...
|  | Costumes On! (X-Men Power Pack)
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|  | The Lion is No Longer King
Publication Date: September 1, 1997| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up The King of Beasts loses his crown. This African folktale begins a long time ago, when the lion declares himself king of beasts. The entire animal population of the savanna pays daily respects to a roaring tyrant who works them ragged and allows them no rest.His Majesty's fearless bodyguard, the mongoose, protects the king from snakes, until one day the mongoose decides instead to play in the babbling stream. Outraged, the king sends two birds, a buffalo and a turtle to fetch him for the purpose of sever punishm...
|  | Jim Aylesworth and YOU (The Author and YOU)
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|  | Heroes Don't Run: A Novel of the Pacific War
Release Date: February 6, 2007| Age Level: 8 and up"I WANTED TO SERVE, TO BE PART OF THIS THING MY FATHER HAD GIVEN HIS LIFE FOR. I DIDN'T WANT THE WAR TO END, AND ALL I'D BE ABLE TO SAY WAS, NO I DIDN'T SERVE, I WAS RIGHT HERE THE WHOLE WAR, SAFE IN BAKERSFIELD." Adam Pelko witnessed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that killed his father, a lieutenant on the USS Arizona. Even though Adam is underage, he defies his mother's wishes and enlists in the Marines. Sent first to boot camp, then to Okinawa, he experiences the stark reality of war firsthand -- the camaraderie and the glory as w...
|  | The Real Santa Claus: Legends of Saint Nicholas (Phyllis Fogelman Books)
Release Date: September 1, 2001| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Donavan's Word Jar (Trophy Chapter Book)
Release Date: August 8, 1998| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Dog in Charge
Release Date: May 10, 2012| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up When the going gets tough, Dog . . . takes a napDog can Sit.He can Stay.He can even Dance.But when he's in charge, can he keep the cats in line?All one, two, three, four, five of them?With slapstick silliness and utterly earnest charm, Dog will quickly wiggle his way into preschoolers' hearts. ...
|  | Kittens and Puppies Sticker Activity Book (Busy Kids)
Publication Date: August 3, 2010| Age Level: 3 and up...
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