 | Gantz Volume 1 (v. 1)
Publication Date: July 8, 2008| Series: Gantz (Book 1) How long will you stay in the game? The last thing Kei and Masaru remember was being struck dead by a subway train while saving the life of a drunken bum. What a waste! And yet somehow they're still...alive? Or semi-alive? Maybe it's reanimated... by some kind of alien orb with a nasty message... "Your lives are over. What you do with your new lives is up to me!" And what this orb called 'Gantz' intends to do with their lives is make them play games of death, hunting all kinds of odd aliens, along with a bunch of other ordinary citizens ...
 |  | Sierra Triumph (The Holts: An American Dynasty)
Release Date: April 1, 1992Heading west after a fight with his folks, seventeen-year-old Frank Blake, the great-grandson of frontiersman Whip Holt, finds adventure and danger, while, back in the city, his cousin, Tim Holt, meddles with a feisty suffragette....
|  | English Literature (Barron's Ez-101 Study Keys)
Publication Date: May 24, 1991| Series: Barron's Ez-101 Study Keys Designed to be compatible with virtually every standard textbook in their subject field, Barron's EZ-101 Study Keys give you a valuable overview of your college-level course. Classroom-style notes emphasize important facts, remind you what you need to remember for term papers and exams, and help guide you through the complexities of lectures and textbooks. This volume covers 100 key topics, titles, and authors, from Beowulf to the modern era. ...
|  | The Hundred Poets Compared
Publication Date: January 1, 2007| ISBN-10: 9074822827 | ISBN-13: 978-9074822824The Hundred Poets Compared is about a 1-print series made by three famous Ukiyo-e artists of the 19th century: Kuniyoshi, Hiroshige, and Kunisada. Each print compares one of the poems from the most-beloved collection of Japanese poetry, The One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each (Hyakunin Isshu), with a scene from Japanese history or theatre. ...
|  | Arthurian Myth and Legend: An A-Z of People and Places
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|  | Youth Poets (Counterpoints: Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education)
Publication Date: October 15, 2008| ISBN-10: 0820481963 | ISBN-13: 978-0820481968Youth Poets documents an ethnographic study of the literacy learning of urban high school youth in June Jordans Poetry for the People program. The book emphasizes how seven students adopted empowering literacies as they read, wrote, published, and performed poetry in and outside of school. Using a sociocultural and critical framework on literacy and pedagogy, the book focuses on the experiences of urban youthfrom their own perspectivesto examine the various processes, products, and practices associated with ...
|  | Walter Benjamin and the Antinomies of Tradition
Release Date: March 28, 1993Selected for honorable mention for the Morris D. Forkosch Prize in intellectual history, awarded annually by the Journal of the History of Ideas"This sophisticated yet reader-friendly study represents a significant advance in American criticism on Walter Benjamin. . . . I endorse Irving Wohlfarth's statement that this is 'the best book-length study of Benjamin yet to have appeared in English' and enthusiastically recommend it to novice and devotee alike."-Philosophy and Literature ...
|  | Ficciones
Publication Date: October 2000Ficciones es quizás el libro más famoso de Jorge Luis Borges, con el que obtuvo en 1961 el importante Premio Formentor.Obra imprescindible en la literatura contemporantea, sus cuentos pertenecen a la categoría de las página antolágicas. ...
|  | Shades of Temptation (Hqn)
Publication Date: September 18, 2012| Series: Hqn (Book 2) Carrie Ward understands dangerous men, and she's got the scars to prove it. These days, the Special Investigations Group detective saves her risk taking for the job. But when she's asked to pursue a high-profile serial killer, she'll have to join forces with the last man she wants to depend on—Jase Tyler, an ace senior detective who's as reckless as she is cautious. And despite her best intentions, the sparks begin to fly.As Carrie and Jase race to try to save the next victim, the passion that simmers between the...
|  | Cutting Edge: A Novel of Suspense
Release Date: July 28, 2009A RADICAL WAY TO DIEWhen security specialist Duke Rogan’s state-of-the-art computer system fails at a controversial bio-tech firm, a raging inferno spreads, and a grotesquely charred body is discovered in the aftermath. With an extremist anti-technology group claiming responsibility, the case grows even more complex when the victim’s autopsy unexpectedly reveals that he bled to death. Heading the FBI’s domestic terrorism unit, Agent Nora English is fiercely determined to track and stop a sadistic assassin. ...
|  | The Broken Kingdoms (The Inheritance Trilogy)
Publication Date: September 1, 2011| Series: The Inheritance Trilogy (Book 2) In the city of Shadow, beneath the World Tree, alleyways shimmer with magic and godlings live hidden among mortalkind. Oree Shoth, a blind artist, takes in a strange homeless man on an impulse. This act of kindness engulfs Oree in a nightmarish conspiracy. Someone, somehow, is murdering godlings, leaving their desecrated bodies all over the city. And Oree's guest is at the heart of it... ...
|  | Time to Dream (Time Passages)
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|  | In Another Country: One Woman's Struggle for Justice on The Border
Release Date: May 23, 2006Connie Rogers is vulnerable because she's old and alone in her farmhouse. The sheriff has warned her to move out because the youthful drug gang that invaded her home and robbed her has cased her house and they'll come back. He says they'll give her a month to replace the things they took; they'll come back and he can't protect her.If the authorities can't protect her, can an old woman alone in an isolated farmhouse protect herself from a gang of young men on drugs with only a Saturday night special and stubborn determination?Peggy Snodgrass's In Another Country is a...
|  | The Holy Thief: A Novel
Release Date: August 31, 2010Moscow, 1936, and Stalin’s Great Terror is beginning. In a deconsecrated church, a young woman is found dead, her mutilated body displayed on the altar for all to see. Captain Alexei Korolev, finally beginning to enjoy the benefits of his success with the Criminal Investigation Division of the Moscow Militia, is asked to investigate. But when he discovers that the victim is an American citizen, the NKVD—the most feared organization in Russia—becomes involved. Soon, Korolev’s every step is under close scrutiny and one false move will mean e...
|  | Tactics (Soccer School)
Publication Date: March 1, 1998| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | David Beckham Annual(Unofficial)
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|  | There Was an Old Man Who Painted the Sky
Release Date: July 21, 2009| Age Level: 3 and up When a child looks up to find drawings on the ceiling of a cave, she wonders how they were painted. Planets that spin, the birds and the beasts, woman and man—how did the old man in the sky paint it all? Based on the 1879 discovery of ceiling paintings in Spain’s Altamira Cave, this imaginative story expresses the awe of contemplating the creation of the world and locating beauty in an unexpected place. Children will revel in this timeless tale with truly breathtaking images. ...
| | Brendan and Belinda and the Slam Dunk! (Good Sports)
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|  | The Call of the Wild (Classic Starts)
Publication Date: March 1, 2005| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date),comes a dazzling new series: Classic Starts. The stories are abridged; the quality is complete. Classic Starts treats the world's beloved tales (and children) with the respect they deserve--all at an incomparable price.Here is the ultimate dog story, one filled with emotion, adventure, and excitement.During the Gold Rush, Buck is snatched away from his peaceful home and brought to the harsh and bitt...
|  | Fox
Publication Date: November 1, 2002| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Gerard is new to the city and new to his school. He is not getting on well at school and spends much time on his bike exploring his new neighborhood. By chance he comes across a homeless man and his live, pet fox. Gradually the man, boy, and fox strike up a friendship, and Gerard finds he has much to learn from the man on the street. A touching, moving story about a boy learning more about the world—and growing up. ...
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