 | Gaitherins Fae Annie's Kist
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 |  | Lost Daughters
Publication Date: February 6, 1997Children of single parents in post-war London, Cathy and Ros find the transition into adulthood difficult. Cathy marries her godfather but feels lonelier than ever while Ros finds her career threatened by a theatrical mother. But through a joint business venture, the women find their independence. ...
|  | Combat Ops (Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon, Book 2)
Release Date: March 29, 2011The U.S. Army's Special Forces are known for their highly specialized training and courage behind enemy lines. But there's a group that's even more stealthy and deadly. It's composed of the most feared operators on the face of the earth-the soldiers of Ghost Recon. ...
|  | Dances with Wolves
Release Date: August 12, 1988Ordered to hold an abandoned army post, John Dunbar found himself alone, beyond the edge of civilization. Thievery and survival soon forced him into the Indian camp, where he began a dangerous adventure that changed his life forever. Relive the adventure and beauty of the incredible movie, DANCES WITH WOLVES. ...
|  | Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders
Publication Date: August 31, 2007It's the summer of 1998 and for five years, over a hundred mangled and desecrated bodies have been found dumped in the Chihuahua desert outside of Juárez, México, just across the river from El Paso, Texas. The perpetrators of the ever-rising number of violent deaths target poor young women, terrifying inhabitants on both sides of the border. El Paso native Ivon Villa has returned to her hometown to adopt the baby of Cecilia, a pregnant maquiladora worker in Juárez. When Cecilia turns up stra...
|  | The Terrible Girls
Publication Date: January 1, 2001The girls on the prowl in The Terrible Girls are indeed terrible—relentless in love, ruthless in betrayal. These thematically linked stories depict a contemporary Gothic world in which body parts are traded for love, wounds never heal, and self-sacrifice is often the only way out. ...
|  | Courage
Release Date: November 25, 2008The Year is 1950. In the North Atlantic west of Ireland the destinies of two ships fuse. One, an English tramp, breaks apart in a winter storm. Five survivors cling to the wreckage. Chance puts the novel's central character--an officer of a nearby liner--at the helm of a boat that must battle its way through the mountainous waves in a desperate attempt to reach the castaways. In this evocation of the life of the sea, author Alan Littell has created a world of isolation, frailty and endurance whose overarching theme is the...
|  | Songs at the River's Edge: Stories from a Bangladeshi Village
Publication Date: March 20, 1997Katy Gardner’s account of her fifteen-month stay in the small Bangladeshi village of Talukpur has become a classic study of rural life in South Asia. Through a series of beautifully crafted narratives, the villagers and their stories are brought vividly to life and the author’s role as an outsider sensitively conveyed in her descriptions of the warm friendships she makes. Above all Songs at the River's Edge is written from a deep respect of Bangladesh and its country. ...
| | The Comic Theatre of Greece and Rome (Ancient culture and society)
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|  | The Golden Apples of Hesperides: Three New Plays in the Style of Greek Drama
Publication Date: July 2000| ISBN-10: 1857764137 | ISBN-13: 978-1857764130This is a compilation of three plays written in the style of Greek drama. Seek the New Helen takes place in Troy 20 years after Paris seized Helen. A fresh group of Greek soldiers discover Menelaus' daughter, a new beauty with the strength and application to be Helen's successor. The Usurpers takes place in Tiryns, where Tisamenes is the first male ruler in a land where a queen previously always held power. Desperate to find a conflict to prove his claim to the throne, he neglects those in his court who plot to ret...
|  | Der Trompeter von S
Release Date: March 22, 2002This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1878 edition by Adolf Bonz, Stuttgart. ...
|  | Haiku! Gesundheit : An Illustrated Collection Of Ridiculous Haiku Poetry
Publication Date: March 2001 Reality time is not nearly as much fun as fantasy time.And it's definitely fantasy time, as pop surrealist Kenny Scharf illustrates Ross Venokur's zesty, zany poems written in the ancient Japanese form of haiku. While keeping to haiku's strict limit of three lines totaling seventeen syllables -- five, then seven, then five -- Venokur and Scharf create an alternate universe in which Rossi the dog-boy barks at the moon, Anne becomes an eggplant, and a vacuum cleaner turns on its owner.Welcome to the world of Haiku! Gesundheit. ...
|  | Victorian Poetry, Europe, and the Challenge of Cosmopolitanism
Publication Date: July 28, 2011 The scope and complexity of the encounter with Europe in Victorian poetry remains largely underappreciated despite recent critical attention to the genre’s global and transnational contexts. Providing much more than colorful settings or a convenient place of self-exile from England, Europe—as destination and idea—formed the basis of a dynamic, evolving form of critical cosmopolitanism much in tune with attempts to theorize the concept today. Christopher M. Keirstead’s Victorian Poetry, Europe, and the Challenge of Cosmopolitanism s...
|  | Secret Nights (Topaz historical romances)
Release Date: January 1, 1995| Series: Topaz historical romances Elise Rand, the daughter of a wealthy merchant, risks herreputation, her sanity, and her heart when she offers to become themistress of Patrick Hamilton, Regency London's most brilliant triallawyer, if he will defend her father from a scandalous murder charge. ...
|  | Wanted: One Groom
Publication Date: June 1, 2004If Hanna Rockwell isn't married by the time she reachesher 30th birthday, she will lose her entire inheritance, which not only effects her, but effects her mother and brother,who live at Rockwell Place with her.Tired of the pressure her mother, Mary, and brother, Will are putting on her to get married to save their home,she challenges them."Mother, you plan the wedding. Will, you find the groom.And I'll get married on my 30th birthday!" --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Randall McDaniel (Grolier All-Pro Biographies)
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|  | Dawn Patrol (Orca Sports)
Release Date: May 1, 2012| Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Dinner with Dracula
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|  | A Critical History of French Children's Literature: Volume One: 1600-1830 (Children's Literature and Culture) (v. 1)
Publication Date: July 20, 2007| ISBN-10: 0415973260 | ISBN-13: 978-0415973267| Edition: 1 These books are the first full-length, comprehensive study written in English of French children’s literature. They provide both an overview of developments from the seventeenth century to the present day and detailed discussion of texts that are representative, innovative, or influential best-sellers in their own time and beyond. French children’s literature is little known in the English-speaking world and, apart from a small number of writers and texts, has been relatively neglecte...
|  | Everything I Know About Pirates
Release Date: May 1, 2003| Age Level: 4 and up Pirates will often carry their knives in their mouths, although the practice is frowned upon by the American Dental Association. ...
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