 | The Proposal (The English Garden Series #1)
Publication Date: January 1, 2002William, a confirmed bachelor, becomes guardian to threechildren. When the girl’s nanny proves abusive, William seeks counsel from hissister and her husband and meets Marianne—who changes his beliefs about women and God. ...
 |  | Fantasy and Your Family: Exploring the Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and Modern Magick
Publication Date: September 1, 2002Fantasy and Your Family by bestselling author Richard Abanes presents a much-needed assessment of fantasy—its benefits and its drawbacks. Abanes begins with an in-depth look at folklore, myths, legends, and fairy tales, and their connection to fantasy. Part one also discusses issues involving child development, the affects of literature on children, and how those affects can ultimately change the course of society. Additionally, Abanes examines pop culture, the media, mass marketing, and the commercialization of children’s literature by corporatio...
|  | Never Let It End: Poems of a Lifelong Love
Publication Date: April 2001This collection of personal writings-in a beautiful gift format-provides a window through which to glimpse the enduring nature of the relationship between Ruth Bell Graham and her husband, Billy. The poetry will touch readers' hearts and conveys a timeless message of romance. Each poem in this volume has been written by Mrs. Graham. As a whole, the volume reflects the blossoming and then enduring love between two very remarkable people. This is the ideal gift for brides-to-be, those who are romantic by nature, and those with an appreciation of poetry that expresse...
|  | The Illusionist
Publication Date: August 11, 2006Bored and lonely, 15-year-old Hélène decides to pay a visit to her father’s mistress. Within days, she is captivated by Tamara, a Russian émigré whose arts of enchantment include lingering kisses, sudden dismissals, and savage, rapturous reunions. As long as she submits to Tamara, Hélène is permitted to stay near her: reading forbidden novels, meeting Tamara’s bohemian friends, and learning more “refinements of depravity” than the gossiping matrons of her provincial French town could imagine existed.Flemish...
|  | The American Gas Station: History and Folklore of the Gas Station in American Car Culture
Publication Date: 1999An award-winning collection of great American gas station nostalgia and memorabilia. Take a trip down memory lane as you explore surviving small-town stations, old-time gas pumps, and classic ads. Pure Americana on every page! --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Greek and Roman Comedy: Translations and Interpretations of Four Representative Plays
Publication Date: June 2001Much of what we know of Greco-Roman comedy comes from the surviving works of just four playwrights--the Greeks Aristophanes and Menander and the Romans Plautus and Terence. To introduce these authors and their work to students and general readers, this book offers a new, accessible translation of a representative play by each playwright, accompanied by a general introduction to the author's life and times, a scholarly article on a prominent theme in the play, and a bibliography of selected readings about the play and playwright. This range of material, rare in a si...
|  | Beowulf CD
Release Date: September 25, 2007 It's never been easy to be a hero. When Beowulf arrives at Hrothgar's hall, he discovers that the hall is beset by Grendel, an evil creature that kills and pillages with impunity. Beowulf, in heroic fashion, bests Grendel in combat, then follows Grendel back to his lair to finish the job. But Beowulf couldn't have counted on meeting Grendel's mother. And then, later, there's this dragon. But why are you reading about it? This story was meant to be told, to be repeated aloud. Listen as J.B. Bessinger, Jr. reads Beowulf and many other Old English poems, i...
|  | I Promise to Be Good: The Letters of Arthur Rimbaud (Modern Library)
Release Date: November 4, 2003| Series: Modern Library One of the most written-about literary figures in the past decade, Arthur Rimbaud left few traces when he abandoned poetry at age twenty-one and disappeared into the African desert. Although the dozen biographies devoted to Rimbaud’s life depend on one main source for information—his own correspondence—a complete edition of these remarkable letters has never been published in English. Until now.A moving document of decline, Rimbaud’s letters begin with the enthusiastic artistic pronouncements of a fifteen-year-old...
|  | Sailing Lake Mareotis
Publication Date: May 21, 2012Sailing Lake Mareotis, Eamonn Wall's sixth collection to be published by Salmon Poetry, is both thematically and formally his most diverse and engaging work to date. In lyric poems, satires, and flash fictions, Wall engages robustly and ironically with the contemporary American and Irish worlds. He explores what is on the surface and what is hidden from view, particularly the lives of individuals who are forced to live on the margins of American and Irish societies. ...
|  | Dang dai qing nian ai qing shi xuan (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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|  | Heart of the Dragon (Atlantis)
Publication Date: January 1, 2010| Series: Atlantis Grace Carlyle's world was about to change . . . Deep in the jungle on the trail of her missing brother, Grace never expected to find a secret world populated by mythological monsters -- nor guarded by a sword-wielding being whose beauty put mortal men to shame. Darius en Kragin belongs to a race of shape-shifting warriors sworn to guard Atlantis and kill all travelers who stray within its boundaries. Yet when Grace stumbles into his realm, he finds himself tempted to betray his centuries-old vow. Now their forbidden love will either bring t...
|  | The Half-Breed Vampire (Harlequin Nocturne)
Publication Date: February 21, 2012| Series: Harlequin Nocturne (Book 132) Ignorant of his true heritage, half-breed Slade Donovan is fated to feel like an outsider among his clan. Until a mysterious woman arrives with the ability to unlock his secrets?and make him crave a future he never believed he could have?.As a game warden, Raina Ravenwing has only one mission in the Cascade Mountains: to hunt down a pack of rare wolves that is terrorizing her tribe. Her instant attraction to Slade is a distraction the beautiful wolf whisperer can't afford, unless she agrees to let him help her. Yet wo...
|  | Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine 4
Publication Date: October 2, 2010The fourth issue of Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine features Carla Coupe's new Holmes story, "The Adventure of the Elusive Emeralds,' plus tales by Stan Trybulski, Melville S. Brown, Marc Bilgrey, Hal Charles, William E. Chambers, Jean Paiva, and Roberta Rogow. This issue's classic reprint is "The Adventure of the Resident Patient," by Arthur Conan Doyle. Plus all the regular features, a look at the new Holmes movie, cartoons, and more. ...
|  | Sonic Saga Series 2: Order from Chaos
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|  | Steamboat Annie & the Thousand Pound Catfish
Release Date: October 1, 2001| Age Level: 6 and up A thousand-pound catfish? There's no such thing! Well, of course there is: His name's Ernie, and he's an ornery, stubborn, hot-tempered thousand-pound catfish at that. What's a town called Pleasant to do when this worthless whiskered rascal and his wormy sidekick are making it downright unpleasant? Call Steamboat Annie, that's what! Told in a rollicking voice that is a perfect compliment to Howard Fine's vibrant illustrations, here is a book in the tradition of Swamp Angel: tall-tale telling at its tallest, and picture book making at its mos...
|  | The Miami Heat (Team Spirit)
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|  | AGC Board Game (American Girls Collection Sidelines)
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|  | Little Cloud (Picture Puffins)
Release Date: March 19, 2001| Age Level: 2 and up...
|  | Tasty Poems
Publication Date: April 2, 1998| Age Level: 4 and up Popcorn, peanut butter, snow-cones, biscuits, sausages, oodles of noodles--all delicious to taste, delicious to eat, and delicious to read. Here's a mouth-watering collection of 12 tasty poems by the same authors who gave us Noisy Poems and Machine Poems. The Wobbling Race Two jellies had a wobbling race To see who was the wibbliest. Then the sun came out and melted them And made them both the dribbliest. --Clive Riche Popalong Hopcorn! I'm a hopalong popalong popcorn in the pan! In out up down! Catch me if you can! ...
|  | Silent Music: A Story of Bagdad
Release Date: March 18, 2008| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up WHEN BOMBS BEGIN TO FALL, Ali drowns out the sould of war with a pen. Like other children living in Baghdad, Ali loves soccer, music and dancing, but most of all, he loves the ancient art of calligraphy. When bombs begin to fall on his city, Ali turns to his pen, writing sweeping and gliding words to the silent music that drowns out the war all around him. Gorgeously illustrated with collage, pencil and charcoal drawings and, of course, exquisite calligraphy, this timely and yet universal story celebrates art and&...
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