 | Bubbles Betrothed (Bubbles Books)
Release Date: March 7, 2006| Series: Bubbles Books Debuting as a full-time reporter, Bubbles lands an interview with a woman accused of murdering a beloved high school principal. When the suspect keels over dead—in mid-revelation—Bubbles’s confidential notes become a life-threatening hot commodity among a romance-obsessed detective, a Polish Mafioso, and a foot fetishist on the lam. If that’s not enough to keep Bubbles on her toes, her ex-husband and her super-stud boyfriend Steve Stiletto are making some unexpected demands of the bleached-blonde sleuth. One comes wit...
 |  | The Green Studies Reader: From Romanticism to Ecocriticism
Publication Date: October 14, 2000| ISBN-10: 0415204070 | ISBN-13: 978-0415204071| Edition: 1 Green Studies is a booming area for study and The Green Studies Reader is a fantastically comprehensive selection of critical texts which address the connection between ecology, culture, and literature. It offers a complete guide to the growing area of 'ecocriticism' and a wealth of material on green issues from the romantic period to the present. Included are extracts from today's leading ecocritics and figures from the past who pioneered a green approach to literature and culture. This Reader ...
|  | Bird Lovers, Backyard
Publication Date: April 23, 2010Thalia Field’s third book with New Directions is a tour de force of blending literary genres (poetry, prose, essay, and drama) and examining our control of the natural world.Bird Lovers, Backyard continues Thalia Field’s interrogation of the act of storytelling and her experimentation with literary genre. Field’s illuminating essays, or stories, in poetic form, place scientists, philosophers, animals, even the military, in real and imagined events. Her open questioning brings in subjects as diverse as pigeons, chat rooms, nuclear testing, ...
|  | Do You Know the Cucuy? /
Publication Date: May 31, 2008| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up "The Cucuy is a tall, furry, three-eyed, four-armed monster with a mouth full of huge teeth," Papo tells his granddaughter. And, he warns, if she doesn't behave, the Cucuy will take her away!She used to be afraid of the Cucuy, until one day she meets him and learns that he is not the frightful beast her grandfather described. Instead, he's cute and likes to play. His fur is blue, and his teeth are small. He may not be just like her, but he does have two arms and two eyes. And the Cucuy also likes to play catch, blow ...
|  | City of Dreams: A Novel of Nieuw Amsterdam and Early Manhattan
Release Date: June 4, 2002In 1661, Lucas Turner, a barber surgeon, and his sister, Sally, an apothecary, stagger off a small wooden ship after eleven weeks at sea. Bound to each other by blood and necessity, they aim to make a fresh start in the rough and rowdy Dutch settlement of Nieuw Amsterdam; soon lust, betrayal, and murder will make them mortal enemies. In their struggle to survive in the New World, Lucas and Sally make choices that will burden their descendants with a legacy of secrets and retribution, and create a heritage that sets cousin against cousin, physician against surgeon, a...
|  | More Than Friends: featuring Finding Home & Saying I Do
Publication Date: April 18, 2011MORE THAN FRIENDS:Finding Home:Picking pockets and stealing cars, Adam Reyes does what he must to survive. Working Chicago's O'Hare airport, he feels pretty confident when he spots his next mark.Security expert Rhone Quinn can't believe the wiry kid who grabs his cell phone almost gets away with it. Logic says turn the teen over to the cops, but Rhone is a man who trusts his instincts, and his gut tells him to offer the young man a job and a chance to begin a new life. Little does Rhone know that when he makes this choice it will forever change his life.Over t...
|  | The Fox and the Flag (Fox series)
Publication Date: May 1, 2000| Series: Fox series "Signal that galley to prepare to be boarded" As captain of the 18-gun Fury, ex-British naval officer Patrick Dalton escorts merchant ships through treacherous Colonial war zones. Accused of treason by the Crown, Dalton is a man without a flag, relentlessly pursued by warrant officer Felix Croney. Dalton will do whatever he must to keep his freedom - even if it means taking Croney as his prisoner... ...
|  | An American Tune: A Novel (Break Away Books)
Release Date: September 26, 2012| Series: Break Away Books While reluctantly accompanying her husband and daughter to freshman orientation at Indiana University, Nora Quillen hears someone call her name, a name she has not heard in more than 25 years. Not even her husband knows that back in the '60s she was Jane Barth, a student deeply involved in the antiwar movement. An American Tune moves back and forth in time, telling the story of Jane, a girl from a working-class family who fled town after she was complicit in a deadly bombing, and Nora, the woman she became, a wife and mother living a...
|  | Paradise Lost
Publication Date: February 6, 2012| ISBN-10: 1604442336 | ISBN-13: 978-1604442335Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. The poem concerns the Christian story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Milton's purpose, stated in Book I, is to "justify the ways of God to men" and elucidate the conflict between God's eternal foresight and free will. Milton incorporates Paganism, classical Greek references, and Christianity within the poem. It deals with diverse...
|  | The Wadsworth Anthology of Drama, Brief Edition
Publication Date: January 1, 2010| ISBN-10: 1428288155 | ISBN-13: 978-1428288157| Edition: 6 THE WADSWORTH ANTHOLOGY OF DRAMA, BRIEF EDITION offers you a bold and most distinguished introduction to drama packed with exciting plays usefully situated within their historical and cultural contexts. ...
|  | The never-ending wrong,: And other renderings of the Chinese from the prose translations of Herbert A. Giles
Publication Date: 1902This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valua...
|  | Love Letters: Hearts Of Gold\Masquerade\To Love Again (Arabesque)
Publication Date: February 1, 2000| Series: Arabesque In "Hearts of Gold," a jilted lover rekindles lost love; whilein "Masquerade," a shy editor finds the man of her dreams on theInternet; and in "To Love Again," a revelation helps a widow let go ofthe past. Original. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | The Neverending Story
Release Date: March 1, 1997| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Bastian embarks on a wild adventure when he enters the magical world of Fantastica, a doomed land filled with dragons, giants, and monsters, and risks his life to save Fantastica by going on a very dangerous quest. ...
|  | Heidi Heckelbeck and the Cookie Contest
Release Date: May 8, 2012| Age Level: 5 and up...
|  | Poultrygeist
Publication Date: July 2003| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up On Halloween night, two rowdy young roosters encounter a "poultrygeist" in the barn. ...
|  | The Odyssey for Boys and Girls (Yesterday's Classics)
Publication Date: March 3, 2006Lively retelling of Homer's Odyssey, telling of the wanderings of Ulysses and his adventures with the giant Cyclops and the enchantress Circe as he makes his way home to his beloved Ithaca. There, after slaying the suitors who have been wooing his wife Penelope, he is reunited with his family after twenty long years. Suitable for ages 8 and up. ...
|  | What's the Hurry, Fox?: And Other Animal Stories
Release Date: April 13, 2004| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up Acclaimed anthropologist, folklorist, and novelist Zora Neale Hurston traveled the back roads of the rural South, collecting stories from men, women, and children in Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana so that the spirit and richness of the oral storytelling tradition could be shared and preserved. What's the Hurry, Fox? is a sampling of stories from Every Tongue Got To Confess, Ms. Hurston's third volume of folktales collected from the Gulf statesin the 1930s. They have been carefully adapted and shaped by Nation...
|  | Taran Wanderer (The Chronicles of Prydain)
Release Date: May 16, 2006| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | It's Me! (with Audio CD)
Publication Date: November 18, 2005| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up Patricia's joyful creativity is infectious as she takes on different roles in her lively game of dress-up. ...
|  | The Pile Up
Publication Date: May 10, 2012It’s the yearly event In the neighbourhood street When bikes, boards and scooters All meet to compete. Who’ll take out the race? Crowds gather to see But no-one can guess Who the winner will be. ...
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