 | Spanish Jack
Publication Date: August 31, 2001Robert J. Conley is one of the most acclaimed writers of the American West and of his own people, the Cherokee, having won myriad fans with his moving historical novels about the Real People. In Spanish Jack, he brings to vivid life one of the most complicated figures in one of the most difficult times in Cherokee history.Jack Spaniard-- known as "Spanish Jack"-- was a Chickamauga, the Cherokee faction that sided with the British during America's Revolutionary War. After the British lost the war, the Chickamauga moved west to the Arkansas territory. Reorganiz...
 |  | The Youngest Hero
Publication Date: April 3, 2002In this emotional story of parental love, a single mother of a teenage baseball player who exhibits the batting eye of a professional athlete, tries to shield and protect her son from the world of over-zealous scouts, hard-nosed coaches, and money-hungry agents. Guided by his mother's firm and steadfast wisdom and his extraordinary talent, both mother and son make it to the major leagues. In the end, THE YOUNGEST HERO reveals that when it comes to finding your way in life, a God-fearing mother is more important than God-given talent. ...
|  | Ice Cats
Publication Date: January 4, 2012Sid Green has dreamed of running a professional women's hockey team for years. Phil Dobbins was a billionaire businessman looking to start a professional franchise. Their paths would cross and change the face of hockey forever. ...
|  | But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz
Release Date: November 10, 2009"May be the best book ever written about jazz."--David Thomson, Los Angeles Times In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skillfully evokes the music and the men who shaped modern jazz. Drawing on photos, anecdotes, and, most important, the way he hears the music, Dyer imaginatively reconstructs scenes from the embattled lives of some of the greats: Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; Thelonious Monk creating his own private language on the piano. However, music is...
|  | A Town like Mparntwe: A Guide to the Dreaming Tracks and Sites of Alice Springs (Jukurrpa Pocket Book)
Publication Date: September 1, 2007| Series: Jukurrpa Pocket Book Built on the land the Arrernte people call Mparntwe, Alice Springs is the place where caterpillar beings originated and where mountain ranges were formed by wild-dog fights.A town like Mparntwe takes you on a journey through Alice Springs that shows you how an Arrernte person sees the country.This new edition of the book originally called The Arrernte Landscape tells the stories of Altyerre, 'the Dreamtime', and describes the travels of the ancestral beings as they made the world.A map, illustrations and skyline drawings show ...
|  | The Worship Drama Library, Volume 3: 12 Sketches for Enhancing Worship
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|  | The Conference of the Birds
Release Date: October 27, 2011 Celebrated children's book author and illustrator Peter Síscreates his first book for adults, a beautiful and uplifting adaptationof the classic twelfth-century Sufi epic poem, The Conference of theBirds.In The Conference of the Birds Caldecott Honor-winningchildren's book author and illustrator Peter Sís breathes new life intothis foundational Sufi poem, revealing its profound lessons.Sís's deeply felt adaptation tells the story of an epic flight ofbirds in search of the true king, Simorgh. Drawn from all species, theband of birds is led b...
|  | The Pure Inconstancy of Grace: Poems (New Odyssey Series) (New Odyssey Series)
Publication Date: November 30, 2005| Series: New Odyssey Series Master craftsman Richard St. John eloquently illuminates the human condition in surprising and profound ways in this collection of poems. He finds genuine grace in the midst of suffering and despair as well as in mundane moments of daily life. These are powerful poems with clear-eyed empathy and uncanny insight. ...
|  | Poems from the Diwan (Poetica 32)
Publication Date: June 1, 2004Yehuda Halevi, who wrote both secular and devotional poems, is considered one of the finest poets in post-biblical Hebrew literature. Suffused with warmth, moving easily between the mundane and the otherworldly, and, above all, delicately elegiac, the poet's voice cuts across all the literary genres and religious modes on which he drew.Born in the second half of the 11th century, Halevi wandered in his youth between Muslim and Christian Spain before settling in Córdoba around 1110. Towards the end of his life, to the amazement and consternation of his frien...
|  | Cielo y Tierra / Heaven and Earth (Luz Portatil) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Caroline Cooney: Faith and Fiction (Scarecrow Studies in Young Adult Literature)
Publication Date: January 15, 2002| ISBN-10: 0810840685 | ISBN-13: 978-0810840683Cooney's large body of work for adolescents defies easy classification. She has written award-winning adventure, suspense, romance, family, mystery, and historical fiction, as well as action-driven horror stories and a time-travel trilogy. Her purpose in some books, most notably horror like The Perfume, is just to encourage reluctant readers to enjoy literature. However, in her most serious and artistic books, Cooney relies on a source that is likely to surprise her readers: biblical stories and parables. Fo...
|  | The Fashioning of Middle-Class America (Early American Literature and Culture Through the American Renaissance, V. 6)
Publication Date: December 2, 2003| ISBN-10: 0820469017 | ISBN-13: 978-0820469010Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature and Art, a Philadelphia periodical published monthly from 1849 to 1852, appealed to a quickly growing American middle-class readership through its rich variety of contents. In addition to providing a general history of this relatively unexplored antebellum periodical, this book argues that Sartain's sought to shape a distinctly American and middle class culture through its literary offerings, engravings, and columns on art, music, flowers, architecture, and fashion. It ...
|  | The Paul Goodman Reader
Publication Date: February 24, 2011A one-man think tank, Paul Goodman wrote more than 30 books, most of them before his decade of fame as a social critic in the 1960s. Goodman in those earlier days thought of himself mostly as an old-fashioned man of letters, and to do justice to his wide-ranging interests and growing activism, this compendium provides excerpts that span his entire career, from the bestselling Growing Up Absurd to landmark books on anarchism, community planning, education, poetics, and psychotherapy. Goodman's fiction and poetry are represented by The Emp...
|  | BARBARIAN CHICKS & DEMONS Vol. 3
Publication Date: September 16, 2010| Series: Barbarian Chicks & Demons (Book 3) In medieval times, powerful warrior chicks getting their way shamelessly with warlords to powerful demons themselves! Beautiful fully painted artwork. ...
|  | Texas Blue
Release Date: April 5, 2011Gambling man Lewton Paterson wants to marry into a respectable family. After fleecing a train ticket, Lewt makes his way to Whispering Mountain. But seducing a well-bred woman is hard, and Lewt realizes that to entice a McMurray sister, he'll need to learn a thing or two about ranching-and love. ...
|  | Eagle Strike Graphic Novel (Alex Rider Graphic Novel)
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|  | High-Speed Trains (Need for Speed)
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|  | Wemberly's Ice-Cream Star
Release Date: April 15, 2003| Age Level: 2 and up | Grade Level: P and upOne hot simmer day Wemberly finds that patience -- just like a frosty treat -- will go a long way....
| | LEGO Hero Factory: Secret Mission #4
Publication Date: March 1, 2013| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Fly Fishing (Great Outdoors)
Publication Date: September 1, 2001| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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