 | Joy of Cooking: 75th Anniversary Edition - 2006
Release Date: October 31, 2006Seventy-five years ago, a St. Louis widow named Irma Rombauer took her life savings and self-published a book called The Joy of Cooking. Her daughter Marion tested recipes and made the illustrations, and they sold their mother-daughter project from Irma's apartment. Today, nine revisions later, the Joy of Cooking -- selected by The New York Public Library as one of the 150 most important and influential books of the twentieth century -- has taught tens of millions of people to cook, helped feed and delight millions beyond that, answered countless kitchen and f...
 |  | Book of My Nights: Poems (American Poets Continuum, 68)
Publication Date: September 1, 2001Book of My Nights is the first poetry collection in ten years by one of the world's most acclaimed young poets. In Book of My Nights, Li-Young Lee once again gives us lyrical poetry that fuses memory, family, culture and history. In language as simple and powerful as the human muscle, these poems work individually and as a full-sequence meditation on the vulnerability of humanity.Marketing Plans: o National advertising o National media campaign o National and regional author appearances o Advance reader copies o Course adoption mailingLi-Young Lee burst ont...
|  | Before The Storm (Arabesque)
Publication Date: January 1, 2007| Series: Arabesque The Deveraux clan is a powerful and imposing New Orleans family. So when Maya Simpson married the eldest son, Julian Deveraux, the union quickly succumbed to the social pressures surrounding the young couple. Convinced of her husband's infidelity, Maya filed for divorce and later learned that she was pregnant. Four years later, Maya, now a successful physician, runs into her former sister-in-law who insists on reuniting her and Julian, and the daughter he doesn't know exists. Set against the backdrop of Hurricane Katrina, will the reunion ...
|  | The Homeless Bishop
Publication Date: July 11, 2011An accomplished young Italian bishop, Carlo Brunini chooses to become a homeless beggar so he can understand why Jesus so loved the poor. Girzone's latest novel is a "what if" book that readers will not be able to put down. Like the beloved Joshua, Carlo Brunini, aka Charlie, is destined to be cherished for decades to come. ...
|  | Loved In Pieces (The Intentions Series)
Publication Date: September 1, 2012| Series: Intentions A-list actress Liana Marie Michael struggles to find herself when Hollywood's obsession with youth and power threatens to destroy her future.While filming her seventh major motion picture, Liana Marie reveals her love for her childhood best friend, patient and compassionate Manuel Biro, a humble bus boy and student athlete. Shocked and thrilled to find he loves her in return, she tries living an almost normal life. All seems lost when her mother's mistakes lead to harrowing consequences for mother and daughter. Fortunately, Liana Marie ...
|  | Music of the Heart: The Roberta Guaspari Story
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|  | Shadowboxer
Publication Date: December 16, 2011Rookie police officer Willie Guyles has a secret he's been fighting to keep, something he thought he'd boxed up long ago. When he meets a drag prostitute while patrolling the streets of Oklahoma City, the old feelings return, and he can't force them back into the box.A story about identity crisis, the horrible consequences of bullying, and the detrimental effects of self-loathing, Shadowboxer descends into a world altogether familiar yet strangely askew. ...
|  | Tom Chatto: Second Mate
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|  | If It Ain't Baroque: More Music History As It Ought To Be Taught
Publication Date: October 1, 1992Many entertaining (and entirely true!) facts await your discovery as bestselling author David W. Barber takes you on another delightful romp through the pages of music history - as it ought to be taught. ...
|  | A Blake Dictionary: The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake
Publication Date: June 15, 1988| ISBN-10: 0874514363 | ISBN-13: 978-0874514360An indispensable guide to Blake's ideas and symbols is once again available in paper, with a new foreword and annotated bibliography ...
|  | Classical Rhetoric in English Poetry
Publication Date: August 21, 1989| ISBN-10: 0809314967 | ISBN-13: 978-0809314966Back in print after 17 years, this is a concise history of rhetoric as it relates to structure, genre, and style, with special reference to English literature and literary criticism from Ancient Greece to the end of the 18th century.The core of the book is a quite original argument that the figures of rhetoric were not mere mechanical devices, were not, as many believed, a "nuisance, a quite sterile appendage to rhetoric to which (unaccountably) teachers, pupils, and writers all over the world devoted much la...
|  | Lushootseed Culture and the Shamanic Odyssey: An Anchored Radiance
Publication Date: June 1, 1999This is the first comprehensive overview of the Native people of Puget Sound, who speak a Coast Salishan language called Lushootseed. They originally lived in communal cedar plank houses clustered along rivers and bays. Their complex, continually evolving religious attitudes and rituals were woven into daily life, the cycle of seasons, and long-term activities. Despite changes brought on by modern influences and Christianity, traditional beliefs still infuse Lushootseed life. Drawing on established written sources and his own two decades of fieldwork, Mille...
| | The Snow Queen
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|  | The Arthurian Romances of Chrétien de Troyes: Once and Future Fictions (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature)
Publication Date: April 26, 1991| Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature (Book 12) Chrétien de Troyes was one of the most important medieval writers of Arthurian narrative. A key figure in reshaping the 'once and future fictions' of Arthurian story, he was instrumental in the late twelfth-century shift from written and oral legendary traditions to a highly sophisticated literary cultivation of the Old French verse romance. While examining individually each of Chretien's five Arthurian romances, Donald Maddox looks at their coherence as a group, suggesting that their intertextu...
|  | Joan Bauer (Teen Reads: Student Companions to Young Adult Literature)
Publication Date: June 30, 2007| ISBN-10: 0313335508 | ISBN-13: 978-0313335501Joan Bauer is one of the most popular young adult novelists today. She is well-respected not only by her readers, but also by librarians and critics, having won a Newbery Honor for Hope Was Here (2001), among other awards. Drawing on personal experiences with divorce and family alcoholism, Bauer has her seemingly ordinary teenage characters face situations that test, and prove, their maturity and confidence. Following an introduction to Bauer's work, and a biographical chapter, this volume examines each novel b...
| | The Seven Sapphires of Mardi Gras
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|  | Le Roman du Renard: Mis en vers d'après les textes originaux. Précédé d'une Introduction et d'une Bibliographie par Ch. Potvin (French Edition)
Release Date: August 24, 2001This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1891 edition by Marpon & Flammarion, Paris. ...
|  | Black Ship (Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries)
Release Date: September 15, 2009| Series: Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries In September 1925, Scotland Yard DCI Alec Fletcher inherits a large house on the outskirts of London, from a recently deceased great-uncle. Fortunately so, as he and his wife, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, are the recent proud parents of twins and their house is practically bursting at the seams. Though in need of a bit of work, this new, larger house seems a godsend- set in a small circle of houses, with a communal garden and Hamstead Heath nearby, the setting is idyllic.Idyllic, that is until a...
|  | The Princess Mouse : A Tale of Finland
Publication Date: February 1, 2003 TEACHERS AND LIBRARIANS -- A READER'S THEATER SCRIPT OF THIS BOOK IS AVAILABLE IN AARON'S BOOK "FOLKTALES ON STAGE," OR FREE ON AARON'S WEB SITE. PLEASE CLICK "SHOW MORE," BELOW, TO SEE HONORS, REVIEWS, SAMPLE TEXT, AND AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR INFO. In Mikko's family, young men find their sweethearts by cutting down a tree and following where it points. As his father says, "That's how we've done it, and that's how we always will." Though Mikko's brother makes his tree fall how he wants, Mikko's tree seems to ...
|  | Mr. Sunny is Funny! (My Weird School Daze, No. 2)
Release Date: July 22, 2008| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 2 and upA.J.'s family rented a beach house for the summer, and you'll never guess in a million hundred years who rented the house next door. Well, you have to read the book to find out. So nah-nah-nah boo-boo on you!* *Okay, okay, it's Andrea and her family. And she has a monster crush on Mr. Sunny, the hunky (but weird) lifeguard. Ooooh! When are they gonna get married?...
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