 | Sometimes I Feel Like a Nut: Essays and Observations
Release Date: February 1, 2011Demonstrating Woody Allen's magical math equation, comedy = tragedy + time, a sensational collection of witty essays about life, love, hate, kids, work, school, and more from the author of The Ex-Mrs. Hedgefund and Arm CandyJill Kargman is a mother, wife, and writer living the life in New York City . . . a life that includes camping out in a one-bedroom apartment with some unfortunate (and furry) roommates, battling the Momzillas of Manhattan, and coming to terms with her desire for gay men. In this entertaining collection of observations, Kargman offers h...
 |  | The Writer in the Jewish Community: An Israeli-North American Dialogue (Nursing Administration Quarterly Series)
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|  | Cochula's Journey
Publication Date: December 1996| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Describes the 1540 DeSoto expedition from the point of view of the daughter of an Alabama Indian chief whose village and people were devastated by the marauding Spaniards. ...
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|  | Big Brown Bap Monster (Mona the Vampire)
Publication Date: March 29, 2001| Series: Mona the Vampire TV tie-in editions of the original Mona the Vampire stories: Tinned Poltergeist - Disappearing keys and chairs moving can only mean one thing - a poltergeist! Jackpot Disaster - Angela's father hits the jackpot and Angela turns horrible overnight. Hairy Hands - Charley disappears after crashing his bike, the Hairy Hands must have grabbed him! Big Brown Bap Monster - The last bun in the bag transforms into the Big Brown Bap Monster! Mona the Vampire was screened in the UK on Nickelodeon in Autumn 1999 and BBC 1 in Spring 2000. ...
|  | ROE: Rules of Engagement
Publication Date: March 31, 2012With more than half of his tour of duty in Vietnam behind him Specialist Fourth-class Philip Lawson starts looking to the future, to a time beyond War. He begins to envision what awaits his life and with that greater questions emerge. He wonders what future he may have with Jane, the love of his life and where his post-war time may carry him. Although ever-hopeful with the image of Jane in his mind, he remains immersed in the hell that surrounds him where the ever-changing circumstances and seemingly randomness of combat continue to test his resilience. As his...
|  | The Legend of Shiloh Woods: ...a Fairy Tale of Present Times
Publication Date: October 1, 2001A trip into the woods to ?get away for a while? leads to life changing adventures for a free-lance writer from the city. Elves, Fairies and other nature spirits aid in his education about the inner workings of the forest. ...
|  | Howards End (Norton Critical Editions)
Publication Date: January 17, 1998| ISBN-10: 0393970116 | ISBN-13: 978-0393970111The text is that of the first English edition (1910), published by Edward Arnold. It is accompanied by textual annotations and a textual appendix."Backgrounds and Sources" presents a rich selection of Forster’s previously unpublished journals and letters and his working notes, which bring readers into the long and painstaking creative process that culminated in Howards End."Criticism" presents a superb selection of critical writing about the novel.The critics include Edward Garnett, A. C. Benson, ...
|  | Deep Navigation, Second Edition
Publication Date: April 4, 2011Deep Navigation is the 2010 Boskone Book by Boskone's Guest of Honor Alastair Reynolds. It contains a broad spectrum of his work, from his first published story, "Nunivak Snowflakes," through "The Receivers" and "Monkey Suit," both published within the last year, plus an introduction by his friend, and former Boskone Guest, Stephen Baxter. It is well-known that the scope of Dr. Reynolds' stories is vast; his Revelation Space stories alone attest to that. This collection shows his impressive range, from the claustrophobic Antarctic station, "Byrd Land Six," to t...
|  | But Isn't That The Way It Goes?
Publication Date: October 30, 2007Collected poems on love, loss, longing and renewal from 1998-2007. The author traces nine years and the dramatic changes that take place. ...
|  | South African Poets on Poetry
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|  | An Educator's Guide to Information Literacy: What Every High School Senior Needs to Know
Publication Date: April 30, 2007| ISBN-10: 1591584469 | ISBN-13: 978-1591584469Serving as a text/resource book for teachers of high school students, this title provides practical help in preparing students to be active lifelong learners and efficient seekers and users of information. It provides a comparison of the AASL Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning to the ACRL information literacy standards, including specific lessons to teach these standards; check lists to make sure students know, understand, and can demonstrate their use; and formative and summative assessment i...
|  | The Iliad: (The Stephen Mitchell Translation)
Release Date: October 11, 2011TOLSTOY CALLED THE ILIAD A miracle; Goethe said that it always thrust him into a state of astonishment. Homer’s story is thrilling, and his Greek is perhaps the most beautiful poetry ever sung or written. But until now, even the best English translations haven’t been able to re-create the energy and simplicity, the speed, grace, and pulsing rhythm of the original. In Stephen Mitchell’s Iliad, the epic story resounds again across 2,700 years, as if the lifeblood of its heroes Achilles and Patroclus, Hector and Priam flows in every word. And we a...
|  | The Cowboy and the Lady (Silhouette Desire #12)
Publication Date: August 1982Seven years ago Amanda Carson watched her affluent, well-respected family lose both face and fortune. Then her childhood crush—ice-cold cowboy Jace Whitehall—made her an offer she had to refuse. Now Amanda has returned to Casa Verde, Jace's luxurious home. And Jace isn't about to let her forget who she is or what she's lost.Yet beneath their heated words, something simmers, waiting. For what once drove Amanda from this land may be the one thing that can make her stay. --This text refers to an alternate Mass Market Paperback edition....
|  | Highland Wedding
Release Date: November 1, 2007The vivid scar that spans Sir Iain MacLagan's cheek is a daily reminder of the wife he lost - and of the enemy that still stalks him. Commanded by Scotland's king to remarry in order to unite two powerful border clans, lain reluctantly weds Islaen MacRoth, a woman whose delicate appearance belies a playful, seductive nature that proves dangerously attractive to a man who has vowed never to jeopardize his heart, or his loved ones, again...Raised with eleven boisterous brothers, Islaen has little time for foolish romantic notions. Even so, she hoped for more than ...
|  | One Gentle Knight (Kimani Romance)
Publication Date: July 1, 2007| Series: Kimani Romance Barbados sugar plantation owner Shayne Knight fantasizes about escaping into the arms of a beautiful stranger--and lovely, sensual travel agent Carla Thompson is the answer to his secret desires. When he's called away suddenly, he vows to return to the island hideaway they shared and turn their no-strings affair into something more. But he's too late....Carla awakens, blissful and in love, and discovers Shayne is gone. She's hurt, mad and outta there. Soon she discovers he did leave her something besides memories. She's pregnant! But to ...
|  | Hostile Witness: A Josie Bates Thriller (Volume 1)
Publication Date: March 22, 2012When sixteen-year-old Hannah Sheraton is arrested for the murder of her step-grandfather, the chief justice of the California Supreme court, her distraught mother turns to her old college roommate, Josie Bates, for help. Josie, once a hot-shot criminal defense attorney, left the fast track behind for a small practice in Hermosa Beach, California. But Hannah Sheraton intrigues her and, when the girl is charged as an adult, Josie cannot turn her back. But the deeper she digs the more Josie realizes that politics, the law and family relationships have created a c...
|  | Essential Marvel Two-In-One Volume 4
Publication Date: January 25, 2012| Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | The Lion King: The Lion King/The Lion King II Simba's Pride/The Lion King the Brightest Star (Disney's Read Along Collection)
Publication Date: September 1, 2005| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Mermaids
Publication Date: October 11, 2011| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up For hundreds of years women on Cheju Island in South Korea have supported their families by diving to the ocean floor to collect seaweed and the various edible creatures found there. It is Jae Hyun's dream to be a haenyo, a mermaid, like her mother and grandmother, but her mother forbids it. The life of a haenyo is a dangerous one. She wants a better life, a safer life, for her daughter. Then tragedy strikes and Jae Hyun's courage is tested, as is her dream. She must prove to herself and to her mother that she is...
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