 | Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child
Publication Date: April 1, 1999A vividly told autobiographical account of the life of a child growing up in a family of migrant farm workers. It brings to life the day-to-day existence of people facing the obstacles of working in the fields and raising a family in an environment that is frequently hostile to those who have little education and speak another language. Assimilation brings its own problems, as the original culture is attenuated and the quality of family relationships is comprimised, consequences that are not inevitable but are instead a series of choices made along the way. It ...
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 | Josefina's Surprise: A Christmas Story (American Girls Collection: Josefina 1824)
Publication Date: November 1, 1997| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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 | If Tomorrow Comes: When the world fell apart, all they had was hope.
Publication Date: March 13, 2012What will life be like when "normal" is just a word? *When the once-protected Constitution of the United States is trashed with the Bill of Rights, the first casualty? *When an unprecedented barrage of natural disasters force world governments to unite and seek a religious solution that disregards the law of God? *When the denomination you grew up in is declared a "dead religion" by the government and forced to shut down its operations? *What will life be like when the world goes insane?When the end comes? If Tomorrow Comes is the story of five people--a famil...
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 | Tea and Sex and Shakespeare (Gallery Books)
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| The Complete Latin Poetry of Walter Savage Landor (Salzburg Romantic Reassessment , Vol 151a)
Publication Date: November 1998| ISBN-10: 0773412492 | ISBN-13: 978-0773412491The first of a two-volume set, this work collects together all the Latin poetry of Walter Savage Landor, who believed that Latin was the only language suitable for memorializing the great contemporary political struggles of his lifetime. ...
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 | Evgenii Onegin (Classic Literature with Classical Music)
Publication Date: May 1, 2012| Series: Classic Literature with Classical Music Evgenii Onegin is best known in the West through Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin. But the original narrative poem (consisting of 389 stanzas, the form of which has become known as the 'Pushkin sonnet') is one of the landmarks of Russian literature. In the poem, the eponymous hero repudiates love, only to later experience the pain of rejection himself. Pushkin's unique style proves timeless in its exploration of love, life, passion, jealousy and the consequences of social convention. This is the first time the wo...
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 | A History of Arthurian Scholarship (Arthurian Studies)
Publication Date: February 16, 2006| ISBN-10: 1843840693 | ISBN-13: 978-1843840695This book offers the first comprehensive and analytical account of the development of Arthurian scholarship from the eighteenth century, or earlier, to the present day. The chapters, each written by an expert in the area under discussion, present scholarly trends and evaluate major contributions to the study of the numerous different strands which make up the Arthurian material: origins, Grail studies, editing and translation of Arthurian texts, medieval and modern literatures (in English and European langu...
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 | Arthurian Literature II
Publication Date: March 18, 1999| Series: Arthurian Literature (Book 2) The second of these annual volumes contains five wide-ranging pieces. In the medieval field, Neil Wright examines Geoffrey of Monmouth's use of Gildas; Beate Schmolke-Hasselmann contributes an important illustrated essay on the Round Table; and Fanny Bogdanow looks at Chrétien de Troyes' use of troubadour ideals. Mary Wildman contributes to a bibliography of 20th-century creative literature on Arthur. Finally, Toshiyuki Takamiya and Andrew Armour present a translation of Soseki's Arthurian story 'Kairo-ko: A Dirge',...
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 | Out Of Control (The McCloud Brothers, Book 3)
Release Date: April 1, 2006Disillusioned P.I. Davy McCloud has an ironclad rule: never follow blind impulse when it comes to women. But he breaks it the instant gorgeous Margot Vetter shows up to teach at the gym next door. The sexual hunger - and the instinctual protectiveness - that she awakens is much too strong to resist. Broke and on the run, framed for a murder she didn't commit, Margot has no one to turn to but Davy McCloud. But the closer he comes, the more Margot discovers that holding back - or hiding - from this enigmatic, powerful man is impossible. In every way...Then passion fl...
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 | Love Frustration : A Novel
Release Date: October 1, 2002Jayson Abrahms is tired of dating, tired of the games involved, and wants nothing more than to settle down. Thankfully, in less than a week he will marry Faith Sheppard, the love of his life. But there is one minor issue -- Jayson's longtime best friend, Asha Mills. Not only is she gorgeous, but Asha and Jayson also used to be lovers. Concerned about Asha's intentions, Faith delivers an ultimatum to Jayson, forcing him to face the toughest decision of his life: Either Asha goes, or there will be no wedding.Jayson reluctantly sets out to end the friendship but c...
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 | To Know Evil
Publication Date: October 1, 2009The source of evil and the conflict between faith and knowledge are among the themes examined in this complex intellectual puzzle set in a medieval monastery. An Irish monk dies in a Benedictine abbey in northern Italy on the eve of the second millennium. When Brother Thomas of Worms attempts to investigate the murder, his abbot accuses him of inventing trouble to avoid his duty to God and assigns Thomas the chore of copying a Biblical text as penance. Neither copying nor humility comes easily to an intelligent man like Thomas, who struggles with his commitme...
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 | Pronto: A Novel
Release Date: January 3, 2012 The feds want Miami bookmaker Harry Arno to squeal on his wiseguy boss. So they’re putting word out on the street that Arno’s skimming profits from “Jimmy Cap” Capotorto—which he is, but everybody does it. Harry was planning to retire to Italy someday anyway, so he figures now’s a good time to get lost. U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens knows Harry’s tricky—the bookie ditched him once in an airport while in the marshal’s custody—but not careful. So Raylan’s determined to find the fugitive’s Italian hideaway be...
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 | Spider-Man/Mary Jane: ...You Just Hit The Jackpot (Spider-Man (Graphic Novels))
Publication Date: September 2, 2009| Grade Level: 4 and up...
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| Demons of Deep Space (Dc Super Heroes (Dc Super Villains))
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 | String Music
Publication Date: April 3, 2002| Age Level: 10 and up Robby Denwood is an 11-year-old on a losing streak. Obsessed with basketball, he worships J.J., the NBA superstar of the mighty Thunder. Unfortunately, Robby is himself a terrible player, benched for all of his school team’s games. After one hard day on the practice field, Robby decides to run away from home, toward the Thunder’s arena. When a chance meeting brings him together with his hero, he finds that nothing is quite what he thought it would be. Robby’s friendship with the superstar leads him to the bright lights of t...
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| Synchronized Swimming Is for Me (Sports for Me Books)
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 | Baby Says (Sesame Street)
Release Date: August 14, 2007| Age Level: 1 and up...
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 | A Faraway Island
Release Date: November 10, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Torn from their homeland, two Jewish sisters find refuge in Sweden.It's the summer of 1939. Two Jewish sisters from Vienna—12-year-old Stephie Steiner and 8-year-old Nellie—are sent to Sweden to escape the Nazis. They expect to stay there six months, until their parents can flee to Amsterdam; then all four will go to America. But as the world war intensifies, the girls remain, each with her own host family, on a rugged island off the western coast of Sweden.Nellie quickly settles in to her new surroundin...
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 | Beowulf: AND Treasures of the Ancient North
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 | The Berenstain Bears Visit the Dentist
Release Date: October 12, 1981| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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