 | Shiver Me Timbers!: Pirate Poems & Paintings
Release Date: August 28, 2012Arrrgh you ready for this jaunty collection of pirate poems and paintings?Ahoy mateys—it’s time to hoist up the anchors and set sail with a pack of pesky pirates! In this hilarious collection of nineteen poems, readers will meet scoundrels, scalawags, and scurvy dogs (human and canine). They’ll partake in battles, treasure hunts, and some pirate-style grub (flounder, anyone?). And all the while, picture book greats Douglas Florian and Robert Neubecker will keep pirate fans laughing from bow to stern with their signature sense of humor. ...
 |  | Under a Stand Still Moon (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)
Publication Date: July 30, 2005FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. ...
|  | The Loner's Thanksgiving Wish (Love Inspired)
Publication Date: October 18, 2011| Series: Love Inspired The Outsider Returns Adopted as a baby, Mei Clayton never felt like she belonged in her family. She left tiny Clayton, Colorado, the moment she could. Now, to fulfill the terms of a will, she must move home for a year. But when she reunites with handsome Jack McCord—the mountain-rescue expert she once secretly loved—she has to keep her distance. Their relatives have feuded for years. She’ll never fit in with the Claytons if she gives in to her feelings for Jack. Unless faith and love can help open hearts in time f...
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|  | Same Socks Marriage
Publication Date: August 1, 2007Picking up where A Poem for What's Her Name left off, Same Socks Marriage continues the journey of Dani O'Connor.Forced to accept the death of her twin sister, Doc must learn that her own existence is not based on her sister's identity. In order to get on with her life, Doc must find a way to let other people inside.Along the way, she reestablishes a close bond with her brother and befriends a young couple from college.As life's lessons meet Doc at every turn, she ultimately discovers that sharing her life and planning a future with the woman of her dreams is ...
|  | Four by L'Amour: No Man's Man, Get Out of Town, McQueen of the Tumbling K, Booty for a Bad Man (Louis L'Amour)
Release Date: July 25, 2006| Series: Louis L'Amour CLASSIC WESTERN ADVENTURE FROM AMERICA’S FAVORITE STORYTELLERThis set, newly released on compact disc, contains four thrilling dramatizations of Louis L’Amour’s short stories, featuring all the excitement of the Wild West–the fierce passion and determination of the men and women who dared to tame the rugged terrain and call it their home, the villains who threaten their dreams, and the cowboys who sought their own destinies across a uniquely American landscape. Each story is presented with rousing music, authentic...
|  | The Unbelonging
Publication Date: August 1993This is a moving story of self-discovery and survival. It tells of an 11 year old girl, who finds herself in a land of strangers with hers the only black face in a sea of white, after being summoned to Britain by the father she has never known. ...
|  | Recycling the Cycle: The City of Chester and Its Whitsun Plays (Studies in Early English Drama)
Publication Date: July 25, 1998| Series: Studies in Early English Drama (Book 4) A consciousness of the past has been an essential determinant of community in the city of Chester, England. This awareness and fascination has been bolstered by a strong civic tradition of drama. In particular, the city's Whitsun Plays have been a vehicle for communicating the myth of the city's medieval heritage, helping to reinforce the sense of history that is part of Chester's identity.Building up the material in REED: Chester, David Mills has produced a detailed study of Chester's Whitsun Plays in their loc...
|  | German Romantic Stories: Eichendorff, Brentano, Chamisso, and others (German Library)
Publication Date: July 1, 1988| ISBN-10: 0826403131 | ISBN-13: 978-0826403131Includes: Anecdotes from the Last Prussian War, The Beggarwoman of Locarono, and The Story of a Remarkable Single Combat by Heinrich von Kleist; An Unexpected Reunion and Kannitverstan by Johann Peter Hebel; Freidrich de la Motte Fouque's Undine; Adelbert von Chamisso's The Strange Story of Peter Schlemihl; Clemens Brentano's The Story of Good Caspar and Fair Annie; and Joseph von Eichendorff's Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing. ...
|  | The History of Reading, Volume 3: Methods, Strategies, Tactics
Release Date: September 27, 2011| ISBN-10: 0230247563 | ISBN-13: 978-0230247567| Edition: 1 We inhabit a textually super-saturated and increasingly literate world. This volume encourages readers to consider the diverse methodologies used by historians of reading globally, and indicates how future research might take up the challenge of recording and interpreting the practices of readers in an increasingly digitized society. ...
|  | Argumentation: Inquiry and Advocacy
Publication Date: January 1990| ISBN-10: 0130460389 | ISBN-13: 978-0130460387| Edition: 2ndThis book presents a coherent introduction to the fundamental concepts of argumentation and debate, argumentation theory, and critical thinking. As the title suggests, the reader learns how to use argumentation effectively as a means of discovering what is worthy of belief and for gaining the support of others. Now comprised of nineteen in-depth chapters, this best-selling book offers a broad view of argumentation. The first two sections explain the field invariant concepts of critical inquir...
|  | The Wagon and Other Stories from the City (Chicago Visions and Revisions)
Publication Date: May 15, 2010| ISBN-10: 0226679802 | ISBN-13: 978-0226679808Martin Preib is an officer in the Chicago Police Department—a beat cop whose first assignment as a rookie policeman was working on the wagon that picks up the dead. Inspired by Preib’s daily life on the job, The Wagon and Other Stories from the City chronicles the outer and inner lives of both a Chicago cop and the city itself.The book follows Preib as he transports body bags, forges an unlikely connection with his female partner, trains a younger officer, and finds himself among people long forgotte...
|  | Total Chaos (Marseilles Trilogy)
Release Date: November 1, 2005| Series: Marseilles Trilogy "Jean-Claude Izzo's . . . growing literary renown and huge sales are leading to a recognizable new trend in continental fiction: the rise of the sophisticated Mediterranean thriller. . . . Caught between pride and crime, racism and fraternity, tragedy and light, messy urbanization and generous beauty, the city for [detective Fabio Montale] is a Utopia, an ultimate port of call for exiles. There, he is torn between fatalism and revolt, despair and sensualism."-The EconomistThis first installment in the legendary Marseilles Trilogy see...
|  | Spore (Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear, Book 9)
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|  | Aesop's Fables. (Collins Classics)
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|  | The Fate of Chaos (Fates #2)
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|  | In the Rainfield
Publication Date: February 2000| Age Level: 4 and up Angry Wind, boastful Fire, and mild Rain hold a contest to determine who is the greatest. In a satisfying ending, real power is found not in anger or violence, but in calm and gentle behavior....
|  | A Knight of the White Cross
Publication Date: December 1, 1999| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Young Gervaise Tresham leaves England and the turmoil of the Wars of the Roses to become a Knight of St. John. ...
|  | The War Within: A Novel of the Civil War
Release Date: September 1, 2002| Age Level: 10 and up Holly Springs, Mississippi, 1862Hannah Green can't believe what happens to her family after the war breaks out. First, her sister Joanna falls in love with a Union soldier -- an enemy. Next, the same soldier tells Hannah and her family about General Grant's General Order #11, which commands all Jews to evacuate the territory for violating trade regulations. The Greens escape from Holly Springs just before their home is destroyed. They lose everything -- even their slaves, when Lincoln declares them free.Now, because she is Jewish, Han...
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