 | Thoughts to Share with a Wonderful Mother (Language Of... (Blue Mountain))
Publication Date: May 1999| Series: Language Of... (Blue Mountain) The very best writings by the world's most celebrated authors, poets, and personalities have been gathered together in this endearing collection that says "I love you" in words mothers everywhere will cherish.The handmade paper chose for the cover of this book is specially crafted from mulberry trees, with real flower petals, grasses, leaves, and bark embedded in the paper. Using age-old techniques, this paper is made without cutting down trees or harming the natural environment. ...
 |  | Once Were Brothers: ORIGINS (Book One of the Once Were Brothers Series)
Publication Date: September 17, 2012A kingdom divided.Ties are sundered. Brother against brother. One race split by the sword. Two kingdoms One of the light One of the dark. One of the law One of war. Across countless galaxies,The many join as one The time is upon us. In the mirror of war all is revealed. One general to lead an army of millions. Thousands of galaxies under his command. A kingdom of law is now kingdom of war. Brother turns against a brother, and one race becomes two. When will division end? Close ties are broken. New ones are forged. A mixed group of leaders are drawn togethe...
|  | Homer & Langley: A Novel
Release Date: September 7, 2010NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, THE KANSAS CITY STAR, AND BOOKLISTHomer and Langley Collyer are brothers—the one blind and deeply intuitive, the other damaged into madness, or perhaps greatness, by mustard gas in the Great War. They live as recluses in their once grand Fifth Avenue mansion, scavenging the city streets for things they think they can use, hoarding the daily newspapers as research for Langley’s proposed dateless newspaper whose reportage will be a...
|  | Doctor Who: Dark Horizons HC
Release Date: September 4, 2012| Series: Doctor Who (Book 26) On a windswept Northern shore, at the very tip of what will one day become Scotland, the islanders believe the worst they have to fear is a Viking attack. Then the burning comes. They cannot run from it. Water will not stop it. It consumes everything in its path - yet the burned still speak. The Doctor is just looking for a game on the famous Lewis chess set. Instead he encounters a people under attack from a power they cannot possibly understand. They have no weapons, no strategy, and no protection against a fire sent to engulf t...
|  | Texas Rifles
Publication Date: January 15, 1998The new Confederacy, facing into the Union cannon, had too much on its hands to send troops to the Texas frontier to hold back the Indians. Instead, it authorized the State of Texas to raise its own troops.Many kinds of men drifted into the Texas Mounted Rifles. Some thought it might be safer than fighting in far off Virginia. Many were merely young men a-thirst for adventure. Some were settlers who saw this as the best way to protect their families and homes against the murderous thrusts of the Comanche. And some were men who still loved the Union, who had ...
|  | Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth 1598 (Malone Society Reprints)
Release Date: October 28, 2008| ISBN-10: 0719077117 | ISBN-13: 978-0719077111The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth was first published in 1598, and the play is widely held to have influenced Shakespeare’s Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V. Only two copies of the 1598 quarto are known to exist, and this edition reproduces the copy held at the Huntington Library. The introduction offers a detailed account of the text of the play and considers its authorship, dating and performance. ...
|  | Arden & D'arcy Plays 1 (World Classics) (v. 1)
Publication Date: June 10, 1991| ISBN-10: 0413649407 | ISBN-13: 978-0413649409This collection brings together some of the best and most frequently performed plays by John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy whose collaboration stems from the political years of the SixtiesThe Business of Good Government is a nativity play which develops a sense of a disappearing community; Ars Longa Vita Brevis is composed out of children's games and The Royal Pardon tells the story of the adventures of a group of strolling players who fall in with a deserter from the war in Flanders. Other plays in this collecti...
|  | Pushkin, Lermontov, Tyutchev; poems (Russian literature library)
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|  | What Matters in Jane Austen?
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|  | La magia y tu (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: September 8, 2002La magia y tú usa un claro raciocinio para explicar al lector las fuerzas creativas de la magia en la mente humana y como debe practicarse para acelerar su evolución espiritual. Entre los fascinates tópicos discutidos en el libro están el poder mental, la palabra mágica, el poder de la Luna, la ley del tres, los ángeles que rigen cada signo del zodiaco con sus números y colores y las leyes de la magia. ...
|  | Trader of Secrets: A Paul Madriani Novel (Paul Madriani Novels)
Release Date: May 31, 2011| Series: Paul Madriani NovelsDefense attorney Paul Madriani is embroiled in a case as perilous as any he has ever faced: one that involves an angry killer who will stop at nothing short of vengeance, and two missing NASA scientists who are holding secrets that a hostile government desperately wants to purchase—in blood if they must. Madriani's daughter, Sarah, has evaded the man known as Liquida, who has stalked her all the way across the country. For her own safety, she is being kept under armed guard on a farm in Ohio. But one morning, itching for a pr...
|  | Helpless: A Novel
Release Date: April 1, 2008Rachel is a nine-year-old girl whose luminous beauty inspires every form of admiration. One summer night, when a summer blackout plunges the city into darkness and confusion, her most fervent admirer--a middle-aged appliance repairman named Ron--abducts her from her home. Set over the next two weeks, Helpless moves between the perspectives of Rachel, her mother, Celia, and Ron, whose feelings for Rachel grow less innocent by the day. Tapping into the fear that resides just below the surface of contemporary city life, Helpless is a "brilliantly realized thriller abo...
|  | 1-2-3: A Child's First Counting Book
Release Date: September 6, 2007| Age Level: 1 and up One little girl wakes up to a wondrous fairy-tale world. She spies two dancing feet from the Golden Goose tale, three hungry bears just visited by Goldilocks, and four royal mattresses between the Princess and the Pea. Simple in format, with many objects to count on each colorful page, 1 2 3 is just right for children learning their numbers 1 through 10. As in her ABC and Picture This . . . , acclaimed as ?beautiful,? ?inventive,? and ?marvelous,? Alison Jay captivates with this clever work of art, treating readers of all ages to visual su...
|  | In the Moonlight Mist
Publication Date: April 1, 1999| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up A good-hearted woodcutter finds a heavenly wife in this retelling of a Korean folk tale. ...
|  | Frog
Publication Date: June 1, 2002 Little Joe isn't afraid of the water, but he can't swim. He only splashes around. This makes him sad because everyone in his family swims easily and well -- and Joe longs to.One day, a very small frog from a nearby pond hops over and right into the pool. Joe watches him swim back and forth, kicking hard with his strong back legs. Joe's brother and sister try to grab Frog or chase him out. Joe's dad brings a net to scoop up Frog. Even Joe's mother joins in. Joe just watches. But when his family grows tired of the chase, Joe manages to rescue the tiny frog. The...
|  | Bright Path: Young Jim Thorpe
Release Date: January 22, 2008| Age Level: 4 and up A Sac and Fox Indian, Jim Thorpe was born Wa-tho-huck ("Bright Path") in Oklahoma in 1888. His childhood was a mix of hard work on his family’s ranch, wild days hunting and living rough in the outdoors, and a succession of dreary, military-strict "Indian Schools" that sought to impose white culture on Indian children. Jim hated them and frequently ran away, but it was at one such school, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, that his life would change. Watching some student athletes practicing the high jump, Jim asked if he might try. Wearing o...
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|  | For Laughing Out Loud: Poems to Tickle Your Funnybone
Release Date: March 20, 1991| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Illus. in full color. "These nonsense verses combine the domestic and the gross, deadpan and slapstick, with a lilting rhythm and satisfying rhyme. The poets are well-known contemporaries including Prelutsky, Silverstein, Kuskin, Lobel, Viorst, and many more. The design is ebullient. Start or end story hour with these verses, and kids will know reading's a pleasure."--(starred) Booklist. ...
|  | Adventures of Little Wombat
Publication Date: September 2, 2008| Age Level: 2 and up In 2001, award-winning author and illustrator Charles Fuge introduced Little Wombat to the world: The wildly popular Sometimes I Like to Curl Up in a Ball sold more than 140,000 copies. Since then, the adorable and very childlike animal has starred in three more books and continued to charm both critics and kids. Now every one of Wombat’s adventures are finally together in one volume, so you can enjoy them all. It’s sure to be a big success! Sometimes I Like to Curl Up in a Ball Little wombat spends a day doing hi...
| | Fish Sticker Pack
Publication Date: February 14, 2001These stickers are more than just fun - they are a complete learning tool!Our wide selection of sticker packs is great for learning, rewards, or school projects. Unlike other sticker packs, these stickers can take learners one step further because they can be used in matching, sorting, and sequencing activities. All are full color and offer appealing images in both photography and illustration.This product helps promote:•Hands-on learning•Eye/hand coordination•Interactive play•Skill development ...
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