 | Rude Hand Gestures of the World: A Guide to Offending without Words
Publication Date: September 7, 2011A hand gesture is arguably the most effective form of expression, whether you re defaming a friend's mother or telling a perfect stranger to get lost. Learn how to go beyond just flipping the bird with this illustrated guide to rude hand gestures all around the world, from asking for sex in the Middle East to calling someone crazy in Italy. Detailed photographs of hand models and subtle tips for proper usage make Rude Hand Gestures of the World the perfect companion for globe-trotters looking to offend. ...
 |  | Amelia's Road
Publication Date: September 1, 1995| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Amelia Luisa Martinez, a young girl from a migrant worker family, discovers a special tree that symbolizes her desire for a permanent home, away from the meandering roads that lead to work in the fields. --This text refers to the School & Library Binding edition....
|  | Galore
Release Date: March 29, 2011Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book, Caribbean & Canada and the Canadian Authors Association Literary Award; Finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Book Award, and the Winterset AwardWhen a whale beaches itself on the shore of the remote coastal town of Paradise Deep, the last thing any of the townspeople expect to find inside it is a man, silent and reeking of fish, but remarkably alive. The discovery of this mysterious person, soon christened Judah, sets the town scramb...
|  | Me, too, Zacchaeus: Conversations with the man in the tree and other Bible personalities
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|  | The True History of Paradise: A Novel
Release Date: July 14, 2009It is 1981. Jean Landing secretly plans to flee her beloved Jamaica–the only home her family has ever known, a place now rife with political turmoil. But before she can make her final preparations, she receives devastating news: Lana, her sister, is dead. The country’s state of emergency leaves no time to arrange a proper funeral. Even Jean’s mother, Monica, who hadn’t spoken to Lana in more than a decade, cannot fully embrace her grief. The tragedy only underscores Jean’s need to leave an island that holds no promise of a future. Her ...
|  | Fireside Romance Book 3: Heating Up
Publication Date: August 23, 2012| Series: Fireside Romance The third book in the Fireside Romance saga sees Simon Peters and Mark Smith return from their summer holiday in Menorca, Spain, where they exchanged wedding rings. As a committed couple, Simon and Mark widen their social circle. However, a near tragedy reminds them that togetherness needs to be celebrated because it can all too easily be snatched away. Much to his surprise, the serious and conservative librarian Simon discovers he has a kinky side, one which he and Mark take every opportunity to explore, even in unlikely places suc...
| | Grace and Favor
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|  | John Donne's Poetry (Norton Critical Editions)
Publication Date: January 4, 2007| ISBN-10: 0393926486 | ISBN-13: 978-0393926484“Donald Dickson's John Donne's Poetry is thebest text of Donne now available. It isscrupulously edited, and equally useful forstudents and for scholars.”—Harold Bloom, YaleUniversityThe texts reprinted in this newNorton Critical Edition have been scrupulouslyedited and are from the Westmoreland manuscriptwhere possible, collated against the mostimportant families of Donne manuscripts—theCambridge Belam, the Dublin Trinity, and theO’Flahertie—and compared with all seve...
|  | Vita D'un Uomo: Tutte Le Poesie
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| | Irish Poems from Cromwell to the Famine: A Miscellany
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|  | How to Read the Victorian Novel (How to Study Literature)
Publication Date: November 27, 2007| ISBN-10: 1405130563 | ISBN-13: 978-1405130561| Edition: 1 How to Read the Victorian Novel provides a unique introduction to the genre. Using examples from the classics, like The Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield, Jane Eyre, The Woman in White, and Middlemarch, it demonstrates just how unfamiliar their familiarity is. The book attempts to break free of the sense that the Victorian novel is somehow old fashioned, moralizing, and formally careless by emphasizing the complexity, difficulty, and rare pleasures of the Victorian writers' strenuous efforts b...
|  | Idolects in Dickens: The Major Techniques and Chronological Development.
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|  | Beneath The Texas Sky
Release Date: May 1, 2011Texas Ranger Josh Weston is a complete stranger to Bethanie Lane, and her only chance to escape from her uncle's grasp. Without hesitating, she strikes a deal with the rugged lawman to take her with him when he leaves San Antonio. And on the journey to his family's ranch near Fort Worth, they forge a bond as powerful as it is unexpected. When Bethanie's dream of a future with Josh falls apart, she's forced to make a harrowing choice. Yet through every danger and revelation, one thing remains - a love worth living and dying for. ...
|  | Fade Away: A Myron Bolitar Novel (Myron Bolitar Mysteries)
Release Date: August 31, 2010| Series: Myron Bolitar Mysteries In novels that crackle with wit and suspense, Harlan Coben has created one of the most fascinating heroes in suspense fiction: the wisecracking, tenderhearted sports agent Myron Bolitar. In this gripping third novel in the acclaimed series, Myron must confront a past that is dead and buried—and more dangerous than ever before. The home is top-notch New Jersey suburban. The living room is Martha Stewart. The basement is Legos—and blood. The signs of a violent struggle. For Myron Bolitar, the disappearance ...
|  | Black Mask 4: The Parrot That Wouldn't Talk: And Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine
Publication Date: December 6, 2011| Series: Black Mask (Book 4) From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner and John D. MacDonald got their start in Black Mask. The urban crime stories that appeared in Black Mask helped to shape American culture. Modern computer games, films, and television are rooted in the fiction popularized by “the seminal and venerated mystery pulp magazine” (Booklist).Otto Penz...
|  | The Complete Sherlock Holmes Volume 2 by Arthur Doyle (With a Preface by Christopher Morley)
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| | The Murder Mystique: Crime Writers on Their Art (Recognitions)
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|  | Imperial Traitor (Imperial Trilogy)
Publication Date: September 1, 2007| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | The Wooden Horse of Troy (Ancient Myths (Picture Window Books))
Publication Date: September 30, 2004| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Nursery Treasury: Best-loved nursery rhymes, fairytales and first poems
Publication Date: April 25, 2008| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up This beautifully illustrated book invites children to explore the magical world of nursery rhymes, first poems and classic fairy tales. Including much-loved rhymes and stories that have been treasured by children for generations, such as 'humpty dumpty' and 'sleeping beauty', nursery treasury is a perfect read-aloud companion. ...
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