 | Pacific Overtures
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 |  | Tracks
Release Date: August 7, 1989Set in North Dakota at a time in this century when Indian tribes were struggling to keep what little remained of their lands, Tracks is a tale of passion and deep unrest. Over the course of ten crucial years, as tribal land and trust between people erode ceaselessly, men and women are pushed to the brink of their endurance--yet their pride and humor prohibit surrender. The reader will experience shock and pleasure in encountering a group of characters that are compelling and rich in their vigor, clarity, and indomitable vitality. ...
|  | When Crickets Cry
Publication Date: April 4, 2006A man with a painful past. A child with a doubtful future. And a shared journey toward healing for both their hearts. It begins on the shaded town square in a sleepy Southern town. A spirited seven-year-old has a brisk business at her lemonade stand. But the little girl’s pretty yellow dress can’t quite hide the ugly scar on her chest. Her latest customer, a bearded stranger, drains his cup and heads to his car, his mind on a boat he's restoring at a nearby lake. The stranger understands more about the scar than he wants to admit. And the beat-up ...
|  | Night Before Christmas in North Carolina, The (Night Before Christmas (Gibbs))
Publication Date: August 1, 2003 ...
|  | Chaucer and Clothing: Clerical and Academic Costume in the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales (Chaucer Studies)
Publication Date: February 15, 2005| ISBN-10: 1843840332 | ISBN-13: 978-1843840336Religious and academic dress in the middle ages functioned as a metaphorical signifier of spiritual and intellectual standards, implied a given social status, signalled the rejection or possession of garment wealth, and, in the details, suggested the wearer's spiritual state. This book presents the first sustained analysis of the characterizing dress worn by Chaucer's pilgrims who are in holy orders and/or affiliated with universities; the author uses approaches from a variety of disciplines (received criti...
|  | Night Before Christmas in Minnesota, The (Night Before Christmas (Gibbs))
Publication Date: August 1, 2003 ...
|  | The Evil in Asheville
Publication Date: September 14, 2000From the award-winning author of HAUNTED ASHEVILLE comes a novel of mystery and the occult . . .Asheville has a secret. It stays locked away in a room, deep within a demonic castle, looming darkly above the city below. Few know what it is, and those who do are afraid to say. They call it simply, "The Horror." It has brought malign wealth and unchallenged power to those who control it. Unchallenged that is, until he came along.He was a stranger, as steely and mysterious as the castle itself. No one knows his name, or the place he calls home. But he will do ...
|  | Ghost In The Shell - Stand Alone Complex Volume 3: White Maze (v. 3)
Publication Date: January 2, 2007| Series: Ghost in the Shell (Book 3) The year is 2030. Advances in robotics and cyberbrain technology have transformed the world into a miraculous place where almost anything is possible - even the melding of humans and machines. In this not-too-distant future, the crimes of flesh and metal are investigated by Section 9, an elite counterterrorist squad headed by Chief Aramaki and his cyborg sidekick, Major Motoko Kusanagi. When dead bodies, drained of blood and with two bite marks on their necks, start turning up on the streets of Tokyo, it isn't long before...
|  | The Street Shrink Chronicles
Publication Date: November 11, 2010Jason Wittman is fond of saying, "teens and young adults deserves 24/7 access to at least one responsible, caring adult who loves them unconditionally"; Unfortunately, many teens get cut off from their families and end up on the streets fending for themselves. For the past thirty-five years, Jason has been a father figure to countless teens and young adults.Follow Jason as he deals with street violence, suicides, judges and cops. Be there as hopelessly lost kids begin to turn around their lives as they receive his attention and guidance. With a mixture of h...
|  | World Literature, 2nd Edition Student Edition softcover
Publication Date: May 1, 2003| ISBN-10: 0078603528 | ISBN-13: 978-0078603525| Edition: 2 World Literature © 2004 is a superb collection of short stories, poems, and plays from around the globe. This anthology is ideally suited for use as an integral part of the standard high school English curriculum or for a global literature elective. Content and activities provide valuable practice in preparing high school students for college classes or for the Advanced Placement exam. World Literature can also be used in an English-social studies core program that focuses on the study of world ...
|  | Chaucer and the Poems of "Ch"
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|  | Rhetoric and Community: Studies in Unity and Fragmentation (Studies in Rhetoric/Communication)
Publication Date: May 1998| Series: Studies in Rhetoric/Communication In Rhetoric and Community, seventeen contributors explore an area of growing scholarly interest-how rhetoric defines, rallies, polarizes, and marginalizes specific communities. The contributors consider such contentious issues as how individuals are forged into communities, what sustains constructive communities, how communities become fragmented, and what leads to divisions of race, class, and gender, the rhetoric of hatred and violence, or failures of public discussion to resolve common problems. The volume creates its o...
|  | Surrealism and Architecture
Publication Date: December 19, 2004| ISBN-10: 041532520X | ISBN-13: 978-0415325202| Edition: New edition This is a historically informed examination of architecture's perceived absence in surrealist thought, surrealist tendencies in the theories and projects of modern architecture, and the place of surrealist thought in contemporary design. This book represents current insights into surrealism in the thought and practice of modern architecture. In these essays, the role of the subconscious, the techniques of defamiliarization, aesthetic and social forces affecting the objects, interiors,...
|  | Orthodoxy (Hendrickson Christian Classics)
Publication Date: June 1, 2006| Series: Hendrickson Christian Classics Hardcover Classics at Paperback Prices!"One of the top 10 Christian books of the twentieth century." —Christianity Today Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936) has been called "the ablest and most exuberant proponent of orthodox Christianity of his time." One of the twentieth century’s most thoughtful authors, he greatly influenced countless Christian writers including C.S. Lewis and others. Described as one of 10 "indispensable spiritual classics" of the past 1500 years by Publishers Weekly, Chesterton ...
|  | Vampire Darcy's Desire: A Pride and Prejudice Adaptation
Publication Date: October 1, 2009Vampire Darcy’s Desire presents Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice as a heart-pounding vampire romance filled with passion and danger.Tormented by a 200-year-old curse and his fate as a half-human/half-vampire dhampir, Mr. Darcy vows to live forever alone rather than inflict the horrors of life as a vampire on an innocent wife. But when he comes to Netherfield Park, he meets the captivating Elizabeth Bennet.As a man, Darcy yearns for Elizabeth, but as a vampire, he is also driven to possess her. Uncontrollably drawn to each other, they are forced t...
|  | Winter in Taos
Publication Date: July 15, 2007| ISBN-10: 0865345937 | ISBN-13: 978-0865345935| Edition: Facsimile of original 1935 Winter in Taos starkly contrasts Luhan's memoirs, published in four volumes and inspired by Marcel Proust's Remembrances of Things Past. They follow her life through three failed marriages, numerous affairs, and ultimately a feeling of 'being nobody in myself,' despite years of psychoanalysis and a luxurious lifestyle on two continents among the leading literary, art and intellectual personalities of the day. Winter in Taos unfolds in an entirely different pattern, unclutte...
|  | The Hunt for Red October
Publication Date: October 1, 1984A deadly game of hide-and-seek played out in 18 days over 4000 miles of ocean. Red October is the Soviet Navy's newest ballistic missile submarine. When the whole crew decides to defect, the Soviet fleet sets out to destroy it, while the US and British fleets attempt to prevent them. ...
|  | X-Men Forever2 - Volume 2 (X-Men (Marvel Paperback))
Publication Date: March 9, 2011| Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Kayaking (All Action)
Publication Date: October 1992| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | It's Like This, Cat
Release Date: May 8, 1992| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up My father is always talking about how a dog can be very educational for a boy. This is one reason I got a cat. Dave Mitchell and his father yell at each other a lot, and whenever the fighting starts, Dave's mother gets an asthma attack. That's when Dave storms out of the house. Then Dave meets Tom, a strange boy who helps him rescue Cat. It isn't long before Cat introduces Dave to Mary, a wonderful girl from Coney Island. Slowly Dave comes to see the complexities in people's lives and to understand himself and his family ...
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