 | I Am an Executioner: Love Stories
Release Date: April 10, 2012An explosive, funny, wildly original fiction debut: nine stories about the power of love and the love of power, two urgent human desires that inevitably, and sometimes calamitously, intertwine.In I Am an Executioner, Rajesh Parameswaran introduces us to a cast of heroes—and antiheroes—who spring from his riotous, singular imagination. From the lovesick tiger who narrates the unforgettable opener, “The Infamous Bengal Ming” (he mauls his zookeeper out of affection), to the ex-CompUSA employee who masquerades as a doctor; from a railroad mana...
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 | J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit (Playscript)
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 | Naked Heat (Nikki Heat)
Release Date: September 28, 2010| Series: Nikki Heat Nikki Heat and Jameson Rook are together again in Richard Castle’s thrilling follow-up to his New York Times bestseller, Heat Wave.When New York’s most vicious gossip columnist, Cassidy Towne, is found dead, Heat uncovers a gallery of high profile suspects, all with compelling motives for killing the most feared muckraker in Manhattan. Heat’s murder investigation is complicated by her surprise reunion with superstar magazine journalist Jameson Rook. In the wake of their recent breakup, Nikki would rather not deal with...
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 | Triumph
Publication Date: April 23, 2012A Buckhead Tale Appearances Trilogy: Book Three Charles and Philip Barnett have settled down to raise their children, but their domesticity is disrupted when Philip's nephew Steve is delivered to their doorstep early one morning after being beaten senseless by his homophobic father. So the family grows, but of course, that's the easy part. A rabidly fundamentalist sheriff and a gay-bashing incident leave Steve and his new boyfriend in legal hot water and at the mercy of the deputies' harassment, and Charles must once again take up the fight for justice for his...
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 | MISTER LUCKY
Publication Date: May 23, 2007A psychology professor, training for the Olympic weightlifting team, pushes his luck with steroids and coeds. Facing stroke recovery and misconduct charges, he finds, with the help of a young woman, that life offers more than Olympic gold. ...
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 | Candide: Ou L'optimisme (Librio) (French Edition)
Publication Date: March 30, 2004| ISBN-10: 2290335363 | ISBN-13: 978-2290335369| Edition: 2 This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
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 | Folktales of Egypt (Folktales of the World)
Publication Date: October 15, 1982| ISBN-10: 0226206254 | ISBN-13: 978-0226206257In this book Hasan M. El-Shamy has gathered the first authentic new collection of modern Egyptian folk narratives to appear in nearly a century. El-Shamy's English translations of these orally presented stories not only preserve their spirit, but give Middle Eastern lore the scholarly attention it has long deserved."This collection of seventy recently collected Egyptian tales is a major contribution to African studies and to international distribution studies of folktales. In the face of the recent anthropol...
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 | Junto al P
Publication Date: August 31, 2011| Series: Teatro Junto al Pásig, expresa las profecÃas de Rizal acerca de una Filipinas esclava de los poderes imperialistas. La obra dramática de Rizal se limita a dos obras teatrales, cada una de un acto que comprende una presentación de más o menos treinta minutos. Fueron escritas cuando el autor tenÃa diecinueve y estudiaba en la Universidad de Santo Tomás. Junto al Pásig está escrita en el tradicional romance de octosÃlabos, propio del Siglo de O...
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 | Silver Apples, Golden Apples: Best-Loved Irish Verse
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| Tan xian di feng qi: Lun 20 shi ji Zhongguo xian dai zhu yi shi chao (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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 | The Florida Reader: Visions of Paradise
Publication Date: November 1, 1994Anthology of writings about Florida-a historical and literary introduction to our state's rich and diverse culture. From early Spanish myths and Seminole and African-American folktales to the latest descriptions of modern Miami. For students of literature and Floridiana. ...
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 | Circles in Time (Timeswept)
Publication Date: March 2003| Series: Timeswept Investigative reporter Kendra O'Brien is swept back in time to thirteenth-century England and finds herself mistaken for a sorceress and believed to be the salvation of the enemy King Richard by a handsome knight in shining armor, Navarre de Galliard....
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 | Raptor
Publication Date: February 1, 2011Out in the mountains, Zack discovers a fossilised dinosaur egg. A once in a lifetime discovery - this could make a fortune! Zack takes it home to keep it safe. Only the egg isn't fossilised - it's hatching ...And there's an angry mother dinosaur on the loose who wants her baby back ... ...
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| Anansi and the Talking Melon
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 | Mary Engelbreit's Fairy Tales: Twelve Timeless Treasures
Release Date: October 12, 2010| Age Level: 4 and upWith twelve beloved stories meant for reading aloud and more than one hundred glorious illustrations, Mary Engelbreit's Fairy Tales is destined to become a family favorite! Every turn of the page brings fresh delight as Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, the Little Mermaid, and others come to life as only Mary Engelbreit could have imagined them. Images of Rapunzel alone in her tower, Cinderella’s pumpkin becoming a golden carriage, and Thumbelina's search for a home are unforgettable. Richly sparkling art in splendid colors, warm hum...
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| Chris Webber (NBA) (Basketball Legends)
Publication Date: February 1999| Age Level: 9 and up...
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 | Let's Sticker and Paste! Food Fun (Kumon First Steps Workbooks)
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 | How Angel Peterson Got His Name: And Other Outrageous Tales about Extreme Sports
Publication Date: January 20, 2011| Grade Level: 4 and up Gary Paulsen’s slapstick tales capture the “wonderful madness” of growing up in a small town in northern Minnesota, when high spirits, showing off for girls, and general idiocy led Gary and his pals to attempt some amazing stunts, including: • Shooting a waterfall in a barrel • Breaking the world speed record on skis• Hang gliding with an army surplus target kite• Inventing the skateboard • Jumping a bike through a hoop of fire • Wrestling—with a bear? Wacky, daring...
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 | The Arthur and Friends Collection: Buster's Dino Dilemma; Who's in Love with Arthur; Arthur Rocks with Binky; Francine, Believe it or Not
Release Date: March 13, 2007| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up Buster’s Dino DilemmaWhen Arthur’s third-grade class goes hunting for fossils at Rainbow Rock State Park,Buster actually finds one. There’s just one problem: he wants to keep it. Can Arthurpersuade Buster to return the important discovery?Who’s in Love with Arthur? When it comes to square dancing, there’s no better pair than Arthur and Francine. But does one of them have a different idea of what it means to be partners?Arthur Rocks with BINKYThe gang is so excited when they get covete...
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 | Uncle Wiggily's Story Book
Release Date: January 12, 1987| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Uncle Wiggily is everyone's favorite rabbit--he's funny, kind, and always comes up with a happy solution to any small problem. All children can relate to the experiences described in this amusing collection. ...
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