 | El sindicato de policia Yiddish / The Yiddish Policemen's Union (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: April 30, 2008El sindicato de policía yiddish imagina una historia alternativa en la que, durante más de sesenta años, los judíos refugiados y sus descendientes han vivido tranquilamente en el distrito federal de Sitka, un espacio temporal dependiente de Estados Unidos, en Alaska, en el que los judíos han residido en paz. Sin embargo, el sueño de «un hogar para los judíos» parece llegar a su final, y una vez más la Historia los arrastra a un destino incierto. El asesinato de un carismático miembro de la comunidad jud...
 |  | La Caba
Publication Date: December 4, 2008La hija menor de Mackenzie Allen Phillips, Missy, desaparece durante unas vacaciones familiares. En el proceso de su busqueda se encuentran evidencias de que pudo haber sido brutalmente asesinada en una cabana abandonada en lo mas profundo de los bosques de Oregon. Transcurridos cuatro anos, Mack recibe una extrana carta, firmada por Dios, que la conmina a reunirse con el en el lugar donde la nina murio. A pesar de lo aparentemente absurdo de la situaticion, decide acudir a la cita y sumergirse de nuevo en su mas oscura pesadilla; lo que alli sucede camibara...
|  | Latter-Day Cipher: A Novel
Publication Date: April 1, 2009When rebellious Utah socialite Kirsten Young is found murdered in Provo Canyon with strange markings carved into her flesh and a note written in a 19th Century code, questions arise about the old laws of the Mormon Church. Journalist Selonnah Zee is assigned the story—which quickly takes on a life of its own. Even before the first murder is solved several more victims appear, each one more mysterious than the last. Adding to a slew of other distractions, Selonnah’s cousin, Roger, has recently converted and is now a public spokesperson for the Mormon...
|  | Conspiracies (Repairman Jack)
Release Date: September 30, 2008| Series: Repairman Jack Repairman Jack, F. Paul Wilson's vigilante hero from the New York Times bestseller The Tomb, returns in a thriller that thrusts him back into the weird, supernatural world that he thrives in.Looking for clues to the mysterious disappearance of leading conspiracy theorist Melanie Ehler, Jack attends a convention of bizarre and avid conspiracy theorists. It's a place where aliens are real, the government is out to get you, and the world is hurtling toward an inevitable war of good versus evil incarnate.Jack finds that nobody can be trust...
|  | Courtney Crumrin & the Night Things
Publication Date: December 27, 2002Courtney's parents have dragged her out to a high-to-do suburb to live with her creepy Great Uncle Aloysius in his spooky old house. She's not only the new kid in school, but she also discovers strange things lurking under her bed. ...
|  | Why Aren't You Smiling?
Publication Date: October 25, 2011When 14-year-old Leonard decides to quit being a Dweeb and instead joins the Burnouts, his “good boy” persona is abandoned as he embarks on a comically painful journey of self-discovery through an unconventional friendship with Rick, an older Jesus-freak barefoot hippie. Growing up in the 1970s has never before been portrayed with such delightful ludicrousness and heartrending tenderness. ...
|  | Bite: The Most Gripping Thriller You Will Ever Read
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|  | The Poseidon Adventure
Release Date: April 12, 2006 The inspiration for the 2006 Warner Bros. film, Poseidon, Paul Gallico’s ThePoseidon Adventure is an intense and dramatic story about a gigantic ocean liner andits unimaginable final journey.When a rogue wave capsizes the luxury cruise ship, a small group of survivors findthemselves unlikely allies in a battle for their lives.As the unstable vessel rapidly fillswith water each must draw on skills and strengths they didn’t even know they possessed,fighting against time for their own survival and for each other. --This text refers to an out of print or ...
|  | Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore: A Novel
Release Date: September 27, 2011"A bravura performance: a witty, moving, sexy book that burstswith as much color and excitement as the city of Constantinopleitself." -Financial TimesRoman historian Procopius publicly praised Theodora ofConstantinople for her piety-while secretly detailing her salaciousstage act and maligning her as ruthless and power hungry. So who wasthis woman who rose from humble beginnings as a dancer to become theempress of Rome and a saint in the Orthodox Church? Award-winningnovelist Stella Duffy vividly recreates the life and times of a womanwho left her ma...
|  | Romeo y Julieta / The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (Biblioteca Shakespeare / Shakespeare Library) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: December 2, 2008| Series: Biblioteca Shakespeare / Shakespeare Library (Book 924) Inspirandose en una antigua leyenda acerca de la rivalidad entre dos familias de la Italia medieval, William Shakespeare (1564-1616) encarno en la tragedia de Romeo y Julieta el simbolo universal por excelencia del amor juvenil contrariado. La feroz enemistad entre el clan de los Capuletos y el de los Montescos no consigue, en efecto, evitar que dos jovenes miembros de ambos se enamoren y lleguen a casarse en secreto, union que la oposicion de sus progenitores y las pasiones ajenas tornaran fu...
|  | Chugoku bokuchiku meihin no kansho to giho (Japanese Edition)
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|  | Renaissance Tropologies: The Cultural Imagination of Early Modern England
Publication Date: November 30, 2008Tropes provide access into habits of thought and worldviews-they express a climate of opinion and a hermeneutical context. Focusing on the textual activity of major cultural tropes, this study demonstrates the ways in which they enunciate and transform the cultural imagination on matters of love and power in the world, the body politic, and the rising sphere of personal life in early modern England. In 12 essays, prominent Renaissance scholars extend the theoretical analysis and application of the four tropes identified by Gale Carrithers and James Hardy: t...
|  | Exilio (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: April 1, 2009David Wolfe se encuentra en el mejor momento de su vida: es un exitoso abogado de San Francisco, esta a punto de casarse y se prepara para presentarse al Congreso. Sin embargo, cuando suena el telefono y escucha la voz de Hana Arif (la mujer palestina con la que tuvo una aventura secreta en su epoca de estudiante universitario) pidiendole ayuda, toda su situacion da un giro de ciento ochenta grados.../David Wolfes life is approaching an exhilarating peak: hes a successful San Francisco lawyer, hes about to get married, and hes being primed for a run for Congres...
|  | Secret of the White Rose
Release Date: February 28, 2012The murder of Judge Hugo Jackson is out of Detective Simon Ziele’s jurisdiction in more ways than one. For one, its high-profile enough to command the attention of the police commissioner. The judge was presiding over the trial of Al Drayson, an anarchist, who set off a bomb at a Carnegie wedding, but instead of killing millionaires, it killed passersby, including a child. The trial has captured the attention of 1906 New York City.Furthermore, Simon’s precinct doesn’t include Gramercy Park, which is where the judge is found in his town ho...
|  | How To Kill A Monster (Goosebumps Series)
Publication Date: September 1, 2003| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Caillou: My Book of Great Adventures (Treasury Collection)
Publication Date: May 1, 2009| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | How the Crane Got Its Crown: A Ugandan Folk Tale
Publication Date: June 12, 2012A long time ago on the African Plains, when the earth was flat and the sun never set, a terrible drought threatened the lives of the animals that lived there.Lion, king of the animals, is a wise leader and calls all the animals to an emergency meeting to see what can be done. First he sends cheetah, the fastest of the animals, and then elephant, the largest of the animals, to find water. But both fail.Finally, lion calls on crane. Crane devises a plan, and along with all the other Ugandan cranes, they fly into the sky to peck at the rain-filled clouds high abov...
|  | The Jamie and Angus Stories
Release Date: May 22, 2007| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up "Sentimental in only the right ways. . . .A perfectly charming collection." — THE HORN BOOK (starred review)The moment Jamie sets eyes on Angus in the toy shop, with his silky coat and forlorn gaze, he knows they belong together. On Christmas morning, the two are united at last, and the coveted Highland bull becomes Jamie’s constant companion — through an ill-fated run-in with the washing machine, Uncle Edward’s jump-training sessions, a stay at the hospital, and three more amusing adven...
|  | More Stories Huey Tells (Stepping Stone,paper)
Release Date: January 9, 1999| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Spider-Girl, No. 1: Family Values
Publication Date: September 14, 2011| Grade Level: 4 and up An all-new hero for an all-new era! Not every fight can be resolved by punching someone in the face - but Spider-Girl's gonna punch somebody anyway, just to make sure. Follow the swinging adventures of Anya Corazon, the Splendiferous Spider-Girl, as she balances the daily grind of teenage life with the bumps and bruises brought by banging 'bows with bad guys! Guest-starring the Fantastic Four - and a villain our hero could never, ever defeat. Plus: Ana Kravinoff explodes onto the scene to prove to her father, Kraven the Hunter, she'...
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