 | The Pilgrim's Progress
Publication Date: February 1, 19991992 Gold Medallion Award winner! For over 300 years Christians have found life within the pages of The Pilgrim's Progress. This edition by Cheryl Ford provides a fresh, modern rendering as biblical truths are weaved into a simple yet profound story that reveals the treacheries of the human heart and the power of conquering faith. Many modern translations of this Christian classic leave out significant parts or add passages not included in John Bunyan's original. But this translation is different. First, in contemporary English it faithfully presents the com...
 |  | American Music
Publication Date: November 1, 2007“Chris Martin . . . takes the O’Hara city poet eye in his own direction, showing a sweet vision for the distance between public and private spaces.”—Jacket American Music, selected by C. D. Wright from over one thousand manuscripts as winner of the Hayden Carruth Award for New and Emerging Poets, is uniquely attuned to the feedback symphony of a modern city, the lyrical product of “an earnest rage born of the absurd.”Chris Martin’s poems reflect all things found in the urban environment: asphalt, subways, technology,...
|  | Randy's Ride
Publication Date: October 27, 2009Randy never felt like he fit in.Adopted when he was young, he never found his place within his family.Because of this disconnected feeling, Randy decided to set out on his own.Author Barbara Blomquist invites readers to come along on Randy's Ride, a touching story of one young man's journey to self-discovery.During his travels, Randy meets interesting people who teach him many life lessons.There's Ellie, a hard woman struggling with the death of her mother; Bill, the teacher who encourages Randy to make something of himself; and Mindy, a young girl who touch...
|  | Moby Dick (Signet Classics (Pb))
...
|  | The Poisoned Chalice (Crowner John Mysteries)
Publication Date: April 1, 2004| Series: Crowner John Mysteries In December of 1194, the well-born ladies of Exeter are not having a good week. First, Christina Rifford, the daughter of a rich merchant, is raped. Then, just months before her marriage, Lady Adele de Courcy is found dead in one of the poorest areas of the city.The common factor is Godfrey Fitzosbern, the local silversmith. But despite Crowner John's suspicions and the vengeful accusations of the families, it is John's duty to protect Godfrey until he can find definite proof of his guilt. Aided by his mistress Nesta, and hinder...
|  | A Proper Woman
Publication Date: June 15, 1987Anna is a child living in a remote Hebridean community when she meets the enigmatic and romantic Jimmy Pearl. She carries the memory of their meeting through to adult life - a life that is full of hardships. Anna`s parents die and her brother and his wife sell the family croft, forcing Anna into a loveless marriage with the heartless Fergus. Anna doesn`t reckon on the return of Jimmy Pearl however... ...
|  | Does a Bear Sh*t in the Woods?: Answers to Rhetorical Questions
Release Date: July 26, 2011Serious answers to rhetorical questions--what's not to like?For those of us who have long wondered where bears go to take care of their business, if the Pope is actually Catholic, or whether anyone is really made of money, Caroline Taggart provides the answers to these and a host of previously unanswerable questions. From the most profound questions of philosophy to queries of geography and science, this deadpan book is full of hilarious information you never knew you needed including: What's love got to do with it? How many roads must a man walk down before you ...
|  | Hebbel's Prose Tragedies: An Investigation of the Aesthetic Aspect of Hebbel's Dramatic Language (Anglica Germanica Series 2)
Publication Date: April 14, 2011| Series: Anglica Germanica Series 2 A study of the nineteenth-century German writer Friedrich Hebbel, concentrating on his tragedies in prose, and examining in particular the way in which the language is used to convey Hebbel's beliefs, attitudes and intellectual preoccupations and also the dramatic effects. The three tragedies Judith, Maria Magdalene and Agnes Bernauer are studied in turn. ...
|  | The Woman I Kept to Myself
Publication Date: January 4, 2004The works of award-winning poet and novelist Julia Alvarez are rich with the language and influences of two cultures: the Dominican Republic of her childhood and the America of her youth and adulthood. They have shaped her writing just as they have shaped her life. Since her first celebrated novel, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, she has been articulating the passions and opinions of sisters and aunts, mothers and daughters, heroines and martyrs. In The Woman I Kept to Myself, seventy-five poems that weave together the narrative of a woman's inner li...
|  | Hitomaro and the Birth of Japanese Lyricism
Publication Date: April 1984Very nice, clean, strong copy with minimal signs of use. ...
|  | Everyday Theory: A Contemporary Reader
Publication Date: June 24, 2004| ISBN-10: 032119540X | ISBN-13: 978-0321195401| Edition: 1Everyday Theory introduces students to theory and how it applies to everyday life. By making students aware of their role as theorists in their own right, the authors reduce students' anxiety level. ...
|  | Sherlock Holmes' Lost Adventure: The True Story of the Giant Rats of Sumatra
Publication Date: May 12, 2004"Raw panic seemed to overcome Holmes' expression. I could only imagine that he suddenly foresaw the inexorable conclusion as vividly as any of his past deductions. We were about to face our own deaths!"A youthful Sherlock Holmes is recuperating from the ordeal destined to be chronicled by Dr. Watson as A Study in Scarlet. Holmes' next adventure, the lost adventure, starts mundanely enough with the theft of a typewriter but for one outré fact: The death of the beautiful supplicant's manservant. More thefts and purloined documents carry Holmes and Watson acro...
|  | Frankenstein: The Graphic Novel (American English, Original Text)
Publication Date: January 6, 2009| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Conceived as part of a literary game among friends in 1816, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is today regarded as a classic piece of 19th century literature. The story begins with the journey of an adventurer, Robert Walton, who saves the life of a man at the North Pole. That man, Victor Frankenstein, tells Walton about his experiments with the creation of life and how he ended up at the North Pole. Through this simple plot device, Shelley was able to deal with serious real-world issues like acceptance, tolerance...
|  | Awry (Archers of Avalon, Book Two)
Publication Date: June 29, 2012Three curses. Two brothers. One love triangle. Sometimes love is meant to be. But sometimes...love is the death of you. Seventeen-year-old Scarlet has just died. Only, dying isn't unusual for a girl under a centuries old curse that left her semi-immortal. This time, though, she comes back to her current life instead of awaking in a new one, and she realizes her curse is changing. With the help of the immortal Archer brothers, Scarlet tries to piece together her life and break the curse before her impending death comes again. Fans of Once Upon A Time and The Vam...
|  | Batman Begins: Deluxe Sound Storybook
...
|  | Dragon Gets By (Dragons)
Publication Date: September 1, 1996| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Billy Sunday, Home Run to Heaven (Sowers)
Release Date: November 1, 1985| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | I Know Who Likes You
Publication Date: February 24, 2004 Newly appointed Little League team manager Ernie fears it's the end of the Central Comets when Swimming Pool's mom gives her an ultimatum: go to charm school, or no more Little League. Swimming Pool, the tomboy -- in charm school? That's a stretch. And no matter how hard she tries, she can't seem to get the hang of acting like a "girlie-girl." To makematters worse, Ernie's dad is dating Cat Lady, and Ernie's teammates think it's a big joke. But just when it seems like all is lost, Ernie comes up with a plan -- he'll enlist Dusty and open his own charm scho...
|  | Pinch Hit
...
|  | Gymnastics Events: Floor, Vault, Bars, and Beam (Snap Books)
Publication Date: September 1, 2006| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|
Data Source by Amazon.com |
留言列表
