 | The Little Bride
Release Date: September 6, 2011Inspired by the little-known real history of the Jewish settlement of the Great Plains, The Little Bride is an elegantly written tale of a sixteen-year-old Russian mail-order bride stranded on the South Dakota prairie, married to a man twice her age, and falling increasingly in love with her nineteen-year-old stepson.--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
 |  | Wild Delicate Seconds: 29 Wildlife Encounters
Publication Date: May 1, 2012In Wild Delicate Seconds, Charles Finn captures twenty-nine chance encounters with the everyday—and not so everyday—animals, birds, and insects of North America.There are no maulings or fantastic escapes in Finn's narratives—only stillness and attentiveness to beauty. With profundity, humor, and compassion, Finn pays homage to the creatures we share our world with —from black bears to bumble bees, mountain lions to muskrats—and, in doing so, touches on what it means to be human. ...
|  | Nobody Cries at Bingo
Publication Date: March 30, 2011The narrator, Dawn, in Nobody Cries at Bingo invites the reader to witness first hand Dumont family life on the Okanese First Nation. Beyond the stereotypes and clichés of Rez dogs, drinking, and bingos, the story of a girl who loved to read begins to unfold. It is her hopes, dreams, and indomitable humour that lay bear the beauty and love within her family. It is her unerring eye that reveals the great bond of family expressed in the actions and affections of her sisters, aunties, uncles, brothers, cousins, nieces, nephews, and ultimately her ancestors. ...
|  | Aleutian Palace, An Alaskan Play
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|  | New Perspectives on the Seventeenth-Century English Religious Lyric
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|  | 1222: A Hanne Wilhelmsen Novel
Release Date: August 7, 2012| Series: Hanne Wilhelmsen A train on its way to the northern reaches of Norway derails during a massive blizzard, 1,222 meters above sea level. The passengers head for a nearby hotel, centuries old and practically empty. With plenty of food and shelter from the storm, the evacuees think they are safe, until one of them turns up dead. With no sign of rescue and the storm raging, retired police inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen is asked to investigate. Paralyzed by a bullet lodged in her spine, Hanne has no desire to get involved. But when another body turns up, panic tak...
|  | Murphy's Du Fu: 3 of 4
Publication Date: December 5, 2008what follows are not true translations, more they are reactions in kind. but as i said there is no individual english voice for the complete du fu and these murphy versions of poems are a paltry beginning to such an enormous task. ...
|  | The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti 8: The Last Decade, 1873-1882: Kelmscott to Birchington III. 1878-1879. (The Correspondence D G Rossetti) (The Correspondence Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
Publication Date: August 20, 2009| ISBN-10: 1843841312 | ISBN-13: 978-1843841319On November 11, 1878, Rossetti wrote to Watts-Dunton: `Friday night exactly made a year since my return to London in 1877 & you know how well I have been the whole of that time.' Indeed, in 1878-79, Rossetti lived what might appear to be a more tranquil version of his first years at Cheyne Walk. The long breach with Ford Madox Brown finally ended, and he began to see his brother regularly again; and he managed to complete a number of commissions, and other paintings. However, as the correspondence collected h...
|  | Thinking of Home: William Faulkner's Letters to His Mother and Father, 1918-1925
Publication Date: December 2000"What a pleasure! . . . Essential forunderstanding Faulkner, and a good read foreverybody." —Noel Polk"How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home," says Darl Bundren in William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. How much Faulkner himself is speaking may be suggested by this moving collection of nearly 150 letters. Written during his twenties, these letters describe Faulkner's first encounters with the North ("...I made my first subway trip yesterday. The experience showed me that we are not descended from monkeys, as some sa...
|  | Catullus (Hermes Books)
Publication Date: May 27, 1992| Series: Hermes Books One of the most popular of the Roman poets, Catullus is known for the accessibility of his witty and erotic love poems. In this book Charles Martin, himself a poet, offers a deeper reading of Catullus, revealing the art and intelligence behind the seemingly spontaneous verse. Martin considers Catullus' life, habits of composition, and the circumstances in which he worked. He places him among the modernists of his age, who created a new ironic and subjective poetics, and he shows the affinity between Catullus and the modernists of our own a...
|  | Kade (Harlequin Intrigue Series)
Publication Date: July 3, 2012| Series: Harlequin Intrigue Series (Book 1360) One look at the baby girl, and there was no question Kade Ryland was the father. For three months, Kade had posed as Bree Winston's husband at the Fulbright Fertility Clinic, while the two FBI agents investigated a trail of illegal adoptions and surrogates. Nine months later, a baby was dropped at his feet—and Bree was nowhere to be found. Now Kade had to reopen a case that had gotten way too personal and find Bree—fast. But if the two of them had never been a real couple, were they ready to be parent...
|  | Renee And Jay
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|  | Lord Freddie's First Love
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|  | El Ultimo Jurado / the Last Juror (Spanish Edition)
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|  | The Smurfs Graphic Novels Boxed Set: Vol. #1 - 3
Release Date: November 8, 2011| Age Level: 7 and up...
|  | Archie: The Best of Stan Goldberg (Archie: The Best of Dan DeCarlo)
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|  | Tales of a Korean Grandmother: 32 Traditional Tales from Korea (Tut Books. L)
Publication Date: December 15, 1989| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | The White Cat: An Old French Fairy Tale
Publication Date: August 1990The White Cat helps the youngest prince win his father's throne. ...
|  | Ultimate Guide to Pro Football Teams (Sports Illustrated Kids: Ultimate Pro Guides)
Publication Date: August 1, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Rush for the Gold: Mystery at the Olympics
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