 | Hometown Ties: A Novel (The Four Lindas)
Publication Date: September 1, 2010| Series: The Four Lindas (Book 2) In this second installment of Melody Carlson's engaging Four Lindas series, four fify-something women discover your really can go home again%u2026.but it's not always easy!After decades out of touch, four fifty-something childhood friends have returned to the little coastal town of Clifden, Oregon, where they grew up.They look forward to supporting one another as they reinvent their lives.But second acts can be a challenge, and each woman feels the stretch.Widowed lawyer Janie struggles to leave the past behind.Emerging ar...
 |  | The Rules of Engagement: A Novel (Brookner, Anita)
Release Date: December 30, 2003| Series: Brookner, Anita In this masterly new novel, the Booker Prize–winning author of Hotel du Lac and Making Things Better gives us an exquisite story about the changes in relationships over time, and how our life choices can both reflect the past and direct the future. Hailed as “one of the finest novelists of her generation” (The New York Times), Anita Brookner here weaves an impeccably crafted tale of two women, friends from youth, and the decisions and men that define their destinies.Elizabeth and Betsy knew each other as schoolchildre...
|  | The Two Sams: Ghost Stories
Publication Date: August 25, 2003In the title story of this unique collection a husband struggles with the grief and confusion of losing two children, and forms an odd bond with the infant spectrals that visit him in the night. “Dancing Men” depicts one of the creepiest rites of passage in recent memory, when a boy visits his deranged grandfather in the New Mexico desert. In “Mr. Dark’s Carnival,” a college professor confronts his own dark places in the form of a mysterious haunted house steeped in the folklore of grisly badlands justice. “Struwwelpe...
|  | The Honor Due a King
Publication Date: October 20, 2011(THE BRUCE TRILOGY: BOOK III)In the dawn of a kingdom, loyalties and lies collide. The truth will change England and Scotland forever. In the triumphant aftermath of Bannockburn, Robert the Bruce faces unfamiliar battles. His wife Elizabeth, held captive in England for eight long years, has finally returned home to Scotland. With his marriage in ruin and hopes for an heir quickly fading, Robert vows to fulfill an oath from long ago-one which will not only bind his daughter to a man she does not love, but challenge the honor of his most trusted knight, James ...
|  | A Journal of the Plague Year
Publication Date: September 5, 2012| ISBN-10: 160444228X | ISBN-13: 978-1604442281A Journal of the Plague Year is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in March 1722. The novel is a fictionalized account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague struck the city of London. The book is told roughly chronologically, though without sections or chapter headings. Although it purports to have been written several years after the event, it actually was written in the years just prior to the book's first publication in March 1722. Defoe was only five years old in 166...
|  | Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond
Publication Date: April 17, 2008| ISBN-10: 0393332381 | ISBN-13: 978-0393332384| Edition: 1 A landmark anthology, providing the most ambitious, far-reachingcollection ofcontemporary Asian and Middle Eastern poetry available.Language for a New Century celebratesthe artistic andcultural forces flourishing todayin the East, bringing together anunprecedentedselection ofworks by South Asian, East Asian,Middle Eastern, and Central Asian poets aswellas poets living in theDiaspora. Some poets, suchas Bei Dao and Mahmoud Darwish, areacclaimed worldwide, but many morewill be new to the reader. The...
|  | La Detonacion, y Las Palabras en la Arena (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Murder at Beechlands (Rue Morgue Vintage Mysteries)
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|  | Alien Invasions
Publication Date: December 12, 1993| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up First Place Award Winner for 1992 National Written &Illustrated By...Contest for Students. A very funny satire. When a boy wears his super-hero costuem, he can see aliens fromouter space. His attempts to catch the pesky invaders become funnierand funnier. The humorous drawings are right on target! ...
|  | Point Guard (Tip-Off: Basketball)
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|  | Gus Learns to Fly: Self-Defense Is Self-Discovery
Publication Date: June 1, 2012| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Gus is a 7-year-old boy taking an Aikido class with other kids. He is mad because a boy at his new school is bullying him and he's not sure what to do. He tells his friend, Zoe, who is in Aikido class with Gus, and she shares how she dealt with a bully using Aikido.Gus also talks to his Aikido teacher, Kimberly Sensei and seeks her advice. KimberlySensei tells Gus about the Japanese samurai who started Aikido; his name wasO Sensei. WhenO Senseiwas a kid, he was little and sick. Once his dad got beat up by rob...
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Publication Date: January 1, 1992| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Many kinds of dogs in a variety of fun-filled activities. "The canine cartoons make an elementary text funny and coherent and still one of the best around".--School Library Journal. Full-color illustrations. ...
|  | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Sterling Illustrated Classics)
Publication Date: March 2, 2010| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Pigs to the Rescue
Release Date: April 27, 2010| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Farmer Greenstalk and his family have the darnedest luck. Broken-down tractors, kites stuck in trees—they’re always having problems! It’s a good thing they have such helpful farm animals on hand.This time around, the pigs want to pitch in, and boy, do they ever! The Greenstalks soon find, though, that life might just be a little easier without their help… Pigs to the Rescue is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year. ...
|  | Peekaboo Farm (Touch-And-Feel Action Flap Book)
Publication Date: August 20, 2007| Age Level: 1 and up...
|  | Investigations Grade 2: Student Activity Book (NATL)
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|  | In Australia (Global Adventures)
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|  | Ten Scared Fish
Publication Date: September 1, 2012Simple but intelligent, bright, and cheerful, this early childhood concept book teaches animal names and celebrates indigenous art in a joyous, nondidactic, and playful wayIn an animal counting book with a difference, the reader follows the river to the sea, meeting and counting the animals until finally 10 little fish meet a big scary shark. Bold illustrations and a delightfully playful text help readers familiarize themselves with prepositions as well as animals and numbers. ...
|  | The Quarter-Pie Window
Release Date: May 6, 2003| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up Selected by the Pennsylvania School Librarians Association as one of the PSLA YA Top Forty Fiction Titles 2003Flames are bright against the night sky. Thirteen-year-old Emma watches with horrified fascination as they consume the family’s log cabin, leaving her and her younger brother orphaned. These three books are set in the early 1830s. Emma’s grief and shock, and her bravery in building a new life, are timeless. Marianne Brandis’s vivid evocation of pioneer life in Upper Canada – the textur...
|  | Frame-up on the Bowery: A Houdini & Nate Mystery (Houdini and Nate Mysteries)
Release Date: October 13, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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