 | The Magic Shades (Fortune Teller's Club Series)
Publication Date: September 8, 2003| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
 |  | The devil rides out: A novel
Publication Date: 1935The Duke de Richleau and Rex van Ryn know instinctively that something bizarre has happened to Simon Aron. Why else would he fail his most trusted friends? The Duke has a suspicion where the answer lies. But nothing can prepare him or van Ryn for the terrible confirmation of his fears. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Except the Protagonists' Names are Changed to Dr. Meowmers Imacat and Mr. Smella Buttface
Publication Date: March 9, 2012| ISBN-10: 1475016638 | ISBN-13: 978-1475016635In Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of split personality and latent violent animalism, John Utterson notices the peculiar behavior of his friend, Dr. Jekyll. Especially concerning is his strange new relationship to the suspicious and malevolent man, Mr. Hyde. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde couldn't seem to be two more different people and, in a dead giveaway to the mystery to modern readers, are never seen in the same room together. Except in this version of Stevenson's classic (and public domain) novel, the prot...
|  | Room: A Novel
Release Date: September 25, 2012To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. . . . It's where he was born, it's where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma it's the prison where she has been held for seven years. Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in this eleven-by-eleven-foot space. But with Jack's curiosity building alongside her own desperation, she knows that Room cannot contain either much longer.Room is a tale at...
|  | Songquest: The Journals of Great Lakes Folklorist Ivan H. Walton (Great Lakes Books)
Publication Date: January 1, 2005| Series: Great Lakes Books The field notes of a pioneering folklorist who collected the songs, stories, and cultural history of Great Lakes sailors in the 1930s. ...
|  | The Place That Inhabits Us
Publication Date: April 2, 2010The poems in this anthology embody what it's like to live in the astonishing weave of cities and towns, landscape and language, climate and history that make up the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Selected by the members of Sixteen Rivers Press, a regional poetry collective named after the web of rivers that flow into San Francisco Bay, the poems in The Place That Inhabits Us are drawn from both a physical and a metaphoric watershed. From the granite slopes of the Sierra to the Delta, through the Coastal Range to the bay and shores of the Pacific, one hundred p...
| | Russkii stikh nachala XX veka v kommentariiakh (Russian Edition)
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|  | Piano Hill
Publication Date: April 1, 2010This striking new collection features meditations on the universal themes of desire, love, death, and the passing of time. A convergence of the poet, the composer, and the performer, these poems are deeply influenced by music and encompass personal lyrics, contemplation, and narrative. ...
| | Lan se di feng jing xian: Xue yuan shi xuan (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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| | Edward Stratemeyer and the Stratemeyer Syndicate (Twayne's United States Authors)
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|  | Images of Postmodern Society: Social Theory and Contemporary Cinema (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)
Publication Date: September 26, 1991| Series: Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society (Book 11) By using a series of studies of contemporary mainstream Hollywood movies - Blue Velvet, Wall Street, Crimes and Misdemeanors, When Harry Met Sally, sex lies and videotape, Do the Right Thing - Norman K Denzin explores the tension between ideas of the postmodern, and traditional ways of analyzing society. The discussion moves between two forms of text: social theory and cinematic representations of contemporary life.Denzin analyzes the ideas of society embedded in poststructuralism,...
|  | Diodorus Siculus: Library of History, Volume VIII, Books 16.66-17 (Loeb Classical Library No. 422)
Publication Date: January 1, 1963| ISBN-10: 0674994647 | ISBN-13: 978-0674994645Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily, ca. 80–20 BCE, wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical history of peoples, non-Greek and Greek, to the Trojan War; history to Alexander's death (323 BCE); history to 54 BCE. Of this we have complete Books I–V (Egyptians, Assyrians, Ethiopians, Greeks) and Books XI–XX (Greek history 480–302 BCE); and fragments of the rest. He was an uncritical compiler, but used good sources and reproduce...
|  | Bewitching Ways
Publication Date: April 19, 2010"God help me...but ah need a witch." Such is the plea to the Fates of Andrew Dundouglas, Earl of Darrioch. The year is 1596, and he has been entreated by his younger sister to bring back a witch when he returns from his trip to London. Catherine Walden is a modern, adventure-seeking woman who yearns to experience a deep and lasting love in her life, as well as the chance to say goodbye to her foster father who'd died unexpectedly a year earlier. During a violent storm, these two worlds collide and Catherine is transported to Elizabethan England to fulfill her ...
|  | A More Perfect Union
Release Date: September 27, 2011 A shattering tale of corruption and homicide featuring Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont from the New York Times bestselling author of Betrayal of Trust J. A. Jance More Perfect Union A shocking photo screamed from the front pages of the tabloids—the last moments of a life captured for all the world to see. The look of sheer terror eternally frozen on the face of the doomed woman indicated that her fatal fall from an upper story of an unfinished Seattle skyscraper was no desperate suicide—and that look will forever haunt Homicide Detective J.P. ...
|  | "Cinderella": The Story of Rossini's Opera
Publication Date: October 22, 1981Retells the story of Rossini's opera "Cinderella," based on the Perrault version, but with no elements of magic. ...
|  | Cajun Folktales (American Storytelling)
Publication Date: December 19, 2005| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Amar the Earth Fairy (Minedition Bucher)
Release Date: January 31, 2008| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Animal Lore & Legend: Rabbit (American Indian Legends)
Publication Date: March 1996| Age Level: 6 and up...
|  | Young Fishing Enthusiast
Publication Date: May 1, 1999| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | A Newbery Christmas
Release Date: October 1, 1991| Age Level: 9 and up Christmastime and the Newbery Medal seem an almost irresistable combination. For what better time than Christmas, that most family-oriented of holidays, to read stories written by authors honored as winners of the John Newbery Medal for their contribution for literature for children? This collection comprises stories by authors today's children know and love, from E.L. Kongsburg and Nancy Willard to Beverly Cleary. It also contain stories by writers familiar to their parents and, perhaps, to their grandparents, from Ruth Sawyer and Rachel Fi...
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