 | Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy (Booklist Editor's Choice. Books for Youth (Awards))
Release Date: August 26, 2004| Age Level: 10 and up...
 |  | Lone Wolf: A Novel
Release Date: February 28, 2012A life hanging in the balance . . . a family torn apart. The #1 internationally bestselling author Jodi Picoult tells an unforgettable story about family secrets, love, and letting go. In the wild, when a wolf knows its time is over, when it knows it is of no more use to its pack, it may sometimes choose to slip away. Dying apart from its family, it stays proud and true to its nature. Humans aren’t so lucky. Luke Warren has spent his life researching wolves. He has written about them, studied their habits intensively, and even lived with them for extended...
|  | In the Kingdom of Men
Release Date: May 29, 2012Here is the first thing you need to know about me: I’m a barefoot girl from red-dirt Oklahoma, and all the marble floors in the world will never change that.Here is the second thing: that young woman they pulled from the Arabian shore, her hair tangled with mangrove—my husband didn’t kill her, not the way they say he did. 1967. Gin Mitchell knows a better life awaits her when she marries hometown hero Mason McPhee. Raised in a two-room shack by her Oklahoma grandfather, a strict Methodist minister, Gin never believed th...
|  | The Homecoming of Samuel Lake: A Novel
Release Date: July 10, 2012“Raw, dark, and powerful . . . Southern Gothic at its best. The Homecoming of Samuel Lake puts one in mind of Erskine Caldwell and Flannery O’Connor.”—Fannie Flagg Every first Sunday in June, members of the Moses clan gather for an annual reunion at a sprawling hundred-acre farm in Arkansas. And every year, Samuel Lake, a vibrant and committed young preacher, brings his beloved wife, Willadee Moses, and their three children back for the festivities. In the midst of it all, Samuel and Willadee’s outspoken eleven-year-old daughter...
|  | Adam's Soul: The Collected Tales of Howard Schwartz
Publication Date: July 7, 1977Howard Schwartz, the author of this extraordinary collection of Jewish tales and parables, is one of the most creative, inventive, and inspiring Jewish writers of our generation. When one reads his work, the question arises: what is taken from a primary text and what is invented by the imagination of the author? The answer is a complex one, for as Cynthia Ozick has observed about the writing of Howard Schwartz, 'Each tale is original, yet grow(s) out of the old traditions and tellings.' Ozick adds that Schwartz is 'under the spell of Jewish dream and legend,' po...
|  | To Follow Yahweh's Plan
Publication Date: December 2001"Yahweh, will I ever love again?" is the cry of Ruth's heart. A widow and a foreigner, Ruth travels to Bethlehem to care for her mother-in-law Naomi. As Ruth follows Yahweh's plan for her life, will she find the love and happiness she longs for? ...
|  | The Duchess and the Dragon
Publication Date: April 1, 2008Rising romance novelist Jamie Carie’s second book, The Duchess and the Dragon, tells the epic story of two unlikely soulmates who live worlds apart but soon meet and turn each other’s world upside down. Drake Weston, Duke of Northumberland, is accustomed to a life of royalty until a tragic mistake followed by murderous rage results in his darkening character and sudden flee from England. With a hoarde of money on which to survive, Drake hops a ship of indentured servants to America but is duly robbed and taken ill by the merciless sea voyage....
|  | From the Dust Returned: A Novel
Publication Date: October 2001Ray Bradbury takes the listener to a most wondrous and unexpected destination: the heart of the Eternal Family.A gala homecoming will reunite this odd and remarkable family: Father, arisen from the Earth; Mother, who never sleeps but dreams; Cecy, the fairest and most special daughter; and Timothy, the sad foundling son who must share it all.Always ambitious, From the Dust Returned is the long awaited new novel by peerless storyteller Ray Bradbury -- an audiobook that sears with image and a quiet poetry that will surely be numbered among his most enduring master...
|  | We (Hesperus Modern Voices)
Publication Date: November 1, 2009| Series: Hesperus Modern Voices Inside its glass dome the One State is a place of mathematical precision, a community where everything belongs to everyone, and integrity, clarity, and unerring loyalty reign over all. D-503, Builder of the Integral, is an honest Cipher, ashamed of the hairy hands that link him to a barbaric ancestry. And yet he is tormented by the figure v-1, that impenetrable x, the legacy that makes him lust, imagine, that has given him a soul. Consumed by his sickness and obsessed with the mysterious I-330, he escapes outside th...
|  | Jimmy Begood
Publication Date: December 10, 2009I go by this rule, I never take a girl to bed that I'm not willing to look at in the morning! This novella is about a young guy (Jimmy Begood) seeking true love. He gets labeled as a womanizer and the reader has to make the judgment call on this handsome, lovable character... Lots of humor! Lots of female fistfights and way too much whiskey... This entire story takes place in the San Francisco Bay Area, where wealth and power clash with innate happiness. Jimmy Begood has lots of humor, lots of fistfights and is a fun, quick short story by James Halon. An en...
|  | Anna in the Tropics - Acting Edition
Publication Date: January 1, 2005Starring Jimmy Smits, this poetic Pulitzer Prize winning play captures 1929 Florida at a time when cigars are still rolled by hand and lectors are employed to educate and entertain the workers. The arrival of a new lector is a cause for celebration. But when he reads aloud from Anna Karenina, he unwittingly becomes a catalyst in the lives of his avid listeners, for whom Tolstoy, the tropics, and The American Dream prove a volatile combination. A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Alma Martinez, Jonathan Nichols, Winston Rocha, Onahoua Rodrigu...
|  | Sincerity and Authenticity (Harvard Paperbacks)
Publication Date: January 1, 1972| ISBN-10: 0674808614 | ISBN-13: 978-0674808614 "Now and then," writes Lionel Triling "it is possible to observe the moral life in process of revising itself." In this new book he is concerned with such a mutation: the process by which the arduous enterprise of sincerity, of being true to one's self, came to occupy a place of supreme importance in the moral life--and the further shift which finds that place now usurped by the darker and still more strenuous modern ideal of authenticity. Instances range over the whole of Western literature and thought, fro...
|  | No Choice But Seduction: A Malory Novel
Release Date: April 21, 2009#1 New York Times bestselling author Johanna Lindsey's "mastery of historical romance" (Entertainment Weekly) takes center stage in her eagerly anticipated new novel of the aristocratic Malory family -- a passionate, witty, and high-spirited tale that provides startling new information about a prominent member of the family. After her mother died, vivacious Katey Tyler fled her dull Connecticut town, hoping to meet her relatives in England and find adventure and romance on a grand tour of Europe. She had no idea that her life-changing travels would have both in sp...
|  | The Debutantes (Lone Star Country Club)
Publication Date: May 1, 2002Bestselling authors Ann Major, Christine Rimmer and BeverlyBarton cordially invite you to the year's most exclusive party at theLone Star Country Club, where three very different young womendiscover that wishes can come true!Jenna's Wild RideHold on tight when a good girl sets out to break the rules -- and a few hearts -- before the debutante ball. Who else but a sexy ranch hand could tame the angelic deb with the devilish eyes?Reinventing MaryTake one shy plain Jane. Add a dressmaking "fairy godmother." Mix in a healthy dose of the charming lawyer next door. Res...
|  | The Cat Who Brought Down the House
Release Date: February 3, 2003Moose County's most prominent columnist/philanthropist James Qwilleran and his clever cats, Koko and Yum Yum, return to unravel the twenty-fifth mystery in the beloved bestselling Cat Who...series.Unabridged * Four cassettes, 6 hours ...
|  | Mysteries According to Humphrey
Release Date: July 5, 2012| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Re-Reading Harry Potter
Release Date: July 7, 2009| ISBN-10: 0230219586 | ISBN-13: 978-0230219588| Edition: Second Edition This is the first extended text-based analysis of the social and political implications of the Harry Potter phenomenon. Arguments are primarily based on close readings of the first four Harry Potter books and the first two films - in other words, a 'text-to-world' method is followed. This study does not assume that the phenomenon concerns children alone, or should be lightly dismissed as a matter of pure entertainment. The amount of money, media coverage, and ideological unease involved ind...
|  | 123 Animals (Busypack)
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|  | Como Crece un Tiburon = Shark Pup Grows Up (Scholastic News Nonfiction Readers en Espanol) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Eagles (Our Wild World)
Publication Date: March 1, 2001| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
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