 | Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised, 11th edition
Publication Date: September 27, 2011| ISBN-10: 030682020X | ISBN-13: 978-0306820205| Edition: 11th Edition "Robert's Rules of Order" is "the" book on parliamentary procedure for parliamentarians and anyone involved in an organization, association, club, or group and the authoritative guide to smooth, orderly, and fairly conducted meetings and assemblies. This newly revised edition is the only book on parliamentary procedure to have been updated since 1876 under the continuing program of review established by General Henry M. Robert himself, in cooperation with the official publisher of "...
 |  | The Man Who Could Fly and Other Stories (Chicana and Chicano Visions of the Americas series)
Publication Date: March 20, 2006| Series: Chicana and Chicano Visions of the Americas series "I am continually thinking stories," writes Rudolfo Anaya. "Even when I am working on a novel, the images for stories keep coming."Considered by many to be the founder of modern Chicano literature, Rudolfo Anaya, best known for Bless Me, Ultima and other novels, has also authored a number of remarkable short stories. Now for the first time, these stories, representing thirty years of Anaya’s writing, have been collected into a single volume. They constitute the best and most essential collectio...
|  | A Quilter's Holiday (Thorndike Core)
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|  | A Cornish Maid (Magna (Large Print))
Publication Date: April 15, 2007| Series: Magna (Large Print) Amber Penry's sheltered childhood with her grandmother is shattered by the outbreak of World War II and the arrival of Dolly Nash, a London evacuee who is billeted on them for the duration of the war. Resentful and wary of one another at first, the two girls gradually become firm friends, a friendship which strengthens as the war drags on and they blossom into beautiful young women. But their friendship is to be put to the sternest of tests when both girls fall for the same man: the boat-builder's son, Luke Gillam. As the old...
|  | First the Dead (Bug Man Series #3)
Publication Date: September 9, 2008When a national disaster strikes, "first the living" is the rule. Unless you're the Bug Man.When Hurricane Katrina strikes New Orleans, forensic entomologist Nick Polchak signs up to help with the recovery effort. He is known as the Bug Man for his knowledge of insects and what they can reveal about the dead. The government's mandate is clear—rescue the living first, recover the dead later.But something is very wrong in the toxic soup-bowl of post-Katrina New Orleans.Someone is using the cover of disaster to kill . . . hiding the victims of murder in...
|  | Mrs. Jeepers' Batty Vacation (Super Special, No.22)
Publication Date: June 1997The story of Mrs. Jeeper's batty relatives in the Transylvanian Alps is accompanied by puzzles, activities, and a bat that can be worn on the wrist. Original." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Chasing Midnight (Doc Ford)
Release Date: March 6, 2012| Series: Doc Ford It began peacefully enough, on one of Florida's privateislands.At a reception hosted by a notorious Russian black marketeer, DocFord uses darkness, and his friend Tomlinson, as cover to get anunderwater look at the billionaire's yacht. By the time Ford surfaces,everything has changed.Environmental extremists have taken control of the island. Or arethey thugs hired by the Russian's competitors? Whatever the motive,they have herded everyone together and threatened to kill one hostageevery hour until midnight unless their demands are met-at which po...
|  | Predator: South China Sea
Publication Date: October 15, 2008| Series: Predator On a remote South China Sea island, a deadly hunt is underway... but not the kind of expedition the participants expected. In this remote, jungle-covered island somewhere between Thailand and Indonesia some of the most exotic animals in the world have been gathered as the prizes in a challenge of human against nature. The hunters come from all walks of life. Each has come to the island for personal reasons, some secret, some deadly. But when the encampment's owner, ex-Khmer Rouge Colonel Rath Preap, finds the fences cut and his security me...
|  | Dirt Music : A Novel
Publication Date: May 15, 2002Luther Fox, a loner, haunted by his past, makes his living as an illegal fisherman -- a shamateur. Before everyone in his family was killed in a freak rollover, he grew melons and played guitar in the family band. Robbed of all that, he has turned his back on music. There's too much emotion in it, too much memory and pain.One morning Fox is observed poaching by Georgie Jutland. Chance, or a kind of willed recklessness, has brought Georgie into the life and home of Jim Buckridge, the most prosperous fisherman in the area and a man who loathes poachers, Fox abov...
|  | The Wood Demon
Publication Date: October 1993Those audiences fortunate enough to have seen a production of Chekhov's The Wood Demon, know that it is a marvel, a play equal to The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, and The Three Sisters.Unlike the others, The Wood Demon is a young man's play, bursting with vitality, energy, and hope. Chekhov has not yet drawn the sky close around his characters: they are able to continue on, undaunted, in the face of sorrow and disappointment. In its intermingling of tears and laughter, The Wood Demon may be one of the most astonishingly Chekhovian of all Chekhov's p...
|  | Selected Philosophical Poems of Tommaso Campanella: A Bilingual Edition
Publication Date: March 30, 2011A contemporary of Giordano Bruno and Galileo, Tommaso Campanella (1568–1639) was a controversial philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet who was persecuted during the Inquisition and spent much of his adult life imprisoned because of his heterodox views. He is best known today for two works: The City of the Sun, a dialogue inspired by Plato’s Republic, in which he prophesies a vision of a unified, peaceful world governed by a theocratic monarchy; and his well-meaning Defense of Galileo, which may have done Galileo more harm than good because ...
|  | Fireflies
Publication Date: January 1, 2002Poems published 1926-1940s. ...
|  | The Unknown Ajax
Release Date: September 1, 2011"Wonderful entertainment from first page to last."– Chicago Sunday TribuneA past dispute . . . When the irascible Lord Darracott's eldest son dies unexpectedly, the noble family must accept their estranged Yorkshire cousin as heir apparent. They are convinced he will prove to be a sadly vulgar person, but nothing could have prepared the beleaguered family for the arrival of Major Hugo Darracott . . . A present deception . . .His clever and beautiful cousin Anthea is sure there's more to the gentle giant than Hugo's innocent blue eyes and broad Yorkshire br...
|  | How to Write and Sell Mystery Fiction
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|  | The Enchanted Moccasins and Other Native American Legends (Dover Children's Classics)
Publication Date: June 26, 2007| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Best Of The Best Basketball
Publication Date: September 1, 1998| Age Level: 10 and up...
|  | Beyond the Desert Gate
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|  | Art Pengriffin & The Curse Of The Four (The Pengriffin Chronicles)
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|  | Jasmine's Lion
Release Date: May 2, 2005| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up A charming story about a little girl's BIG imagination, illustrated with gloriously fresh and lively watercolors. There's a lion in Jasmine's house! He's having a tea party with her toys, playing with her playdough, painting pictures, and even baking cookies. But when he starts trying on Jasmine's pajamas and cuddling her bears, Jasmine thinks enough is enough…It's time for lion to go! ...
|  | Buglette, the Messy Sleeper
Release Date: May 10, 2011| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up All sleepers will adore Buglette—a tidy little bug by day, a messy little sleeper at night. That's when she tosses and turns and kicks and flips while she dreams of doing BIG things like building mountains and kicking balls over the moon. Her quirky habit annoys her family—after all, what if her messy sleeping wakes the scary crow?—until her big dreams help her to save the day. Whimsical watercolor illustrations of a ladybug family and an endearing story about being different, dreaming big, and learn...
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