 | Assegai
Release Date: March 30, 2010Ex-soldier Leon Courtney guides the rich and powerful from America and Europe on big-game safaris. After a successful expedition with U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, Leon became one of the world’s most sought-after hunters. Now, he is about to find out that celebrity comes at a hazardous price.Leon has been recruited by the British forces to gather intelligence on Count Otto von Meerbach, a German industrialist who builds aircraft for the Kaiser’s growing army. As his safari guide, Leon is closer to the Count than anyone—and it’s not lon...
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 | Eyeshield 21, Volume 11
Publication Date: December 5, 2006The Devil Bats are training harder than ever as they endure a grueling "death march" from Houston to Las Vegas! A biker gang whisks Sena off on a wild detour to San Antonio, where he tries to recruit a promising tight end prospect. And if the team survives the trek through the desert, what kind of havoc will they wreak in Sin City?! ...
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 | The Somnambulist: A Novel
Release Date: January 6, 2009 Once the toast of good society in Victoria's England, the extraordinary conjurer Edward Moon no longer commands the respect that he did in earlier times. Still, each night he returns to the stage of his theater to amaze his devoted, albeit dwindling, audience, aided by his partner, the Somnambulist—a silent, hairless, hulking giant who, when stabbed, does not bleed. But these are strange, strange times in England, with the oddest of sorts prowling London's dank underbelly. And the very bizarre death of a disreputable actor has compelled a baffled police co...
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 | Unload Your Own Donkey
Publication Date: October 17, 2002To understand a people, acquaint yourself with their proverbs runs an Arab adage, and here are the books that help you do just that. The popular Apricots Tomorrow, a selection of sayings from the Gulf region, is joined by sister titles The Son of a Duck is a Floater and the newest book in the series, Unload your own Donkey, which draws on sayings from the Maghreb and Levant. Paralleling age-old Arabic sayings with English equivalents, the proverbs highlight the uncanny similarity of inherited wisdom in both East and West. ...
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 | Pennsylvania Dutch: Folk Spirituality (Sources of American Spirituality)
Publication Date: March 1993| Series: Sources of American Spirituality Wentz inrtoduces readers to this distinctive American people and their curious customs and provides insight into their spirituality and the workings of their unique and rapidly vanishing culture. A fascinating and noteworthy book that brings an exploration of folk religion and culture to a wide American readership. ...
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 | God's Good News Through Puppets
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 | Airships
Publication Date: March 6, 1994Now considered a contemporary classic, Airships was honored by Esquire magazine with the Arnold Gingrich Short Fiction Award. The twenty stories in this collection are a fresh, exuberant celebration of the new American South — a land of high school band contests, where good old boys from Vicksurg are reunited in Vietnam and petty nostalgia and the constant pain of disappointed love prevail. Airships is a striking demonstration of Barry Hannah's mature and original talent. ...
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 | Poemas (Poesia) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: August 31, 2011| Series: Poesia Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (Camagüey, 1814-Madrid, 1873). Cuba. Era hija de un oficial de la marina española y de una cubana. Escribió novelas y dramas y fue actriz. Estudió francés y leyó mucho, sobre todo autores españoles y franceses. Tras una corta estancia en Burdeos, vivió un año en La Coruña y después en Sevilla, donde conoció a Ignacio Cepeda, con quien tuvo un romance. Por esta é...
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 | The successful bookshop, a manual of practice information,
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 | The Morgan Library: An American Masterpiece
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 | Shakespeare Suppressed: The Uncensored Truth About Shakespeare and His Works
Publication Date: September 1, 2011WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE is the most celebrated and most read poet and dramatist in history, but his personal life and artistic life is a mystery. How did he obtain the extensive learning and experience displayed in his works? When were his plays written and why were his works so often pirated by printers? Although publicly lauded during his lifetime, why was Shakespeare's death not noticed by those in the literary world near the time that it had occurred? These are only a few problems that the Shakespeare professor cannot answer definitively after two centuries...
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 | Debate and Argument: A Systems Approach to Advocacy
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 | Yours Ever: People and Their Letters
Release Date: December 7, 2010A delightful investigation of the art of letter writing, Yours Ever explores masterpieces dispatched through the ages by messenger, postal service, and BlackBerry. Here are Madame de Sévigné’s devastatingly sharp reports from the French court, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tormented advice to his young daughter, the casually brilliant musings of Flannery O’Connor, the lustful boastings of Lord Byron, and the prison cries of Sacco and Vanzetti, all accompanied by Thomas Mallon’s own insightful commentary. From battlefield confe...
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 | Anna Karenina (Biblioteca De Autor) (Spanish Edition)
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 | A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet)
Release Date: May 1, 2007| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up...
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 | Magic Pickle And The Garden Of Evil
Publication Date: May 1, 2009| Age Level: 7 and up...
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 | Faeries Gift HC w CD
Publication Date: September 1, 2008| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up If you could make a single wish, what would you wish for? With so many possibilities and choices open to him, a humble woodcutter faces a tricky dilemma when he rescues a faerie one day in the woods. ...
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 | The Little Hummingbird
Publication Date: April 27, 2010| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up This inspiring children’s book is based on a South American indigenous story about a courageous hummingbird who defies fear and expectations in her attempt to save the forest from fire. The illustrated story is supplemented by a natural and cultural history of hummingbirds, as well as an inspiring message from Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai. The evocative artwork by internationally renowned Haida artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas complements this optimistic tale that encourages everyone to take res...
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 | Irish Fairy Tales and Legends
Publication Date: October 1997| Age Level: 8 and up Ageless tales of leprechauns and fairies--passed down through the centuries--come to life in this beautifully illustrated book. This varied collection includes ten of the best-loved traditional Irish stories retold by author and poet Una Leavy. Illustrations inspired by ancient Celtic art and culture capture the wild and windswept Irish landscape. Full color. ...
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 | Amzat and His Brothers
Release Date: November 1, 1994| Age Level: 9 and up Five delightful Italian tales include the stories of clever Amzat and his wife outwitting his greedy brothers, five animals who join forces against a wolf, and a poor mother and son who end up living in luxury. Reprint. C. K....
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