 | The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam
Release Date: April 1, 1996Bao Ninh, a former North Vietnamese soldier, provides a strikingly honest look at how the Vietnam War forever changed his life, his country, and the people who live there.Originaly published against government wishes in Vietnam because of its nonheroic, non-ideological tone, The Sorrow of War has won worldwide acclaim and become an international bestseller ...
 |  | The Coin: A Story of The Holocaust
Publication Date: September 18, 2012Gustav Junker considered himself a good man, a good soldier and a good Nazi.His current assignment for the Fatherland is to drive a Sonder Wagen, a machine of death, one of the vehicles used as a mobile gas chamber. However, he is having trouble justifying his actions and he wonders if he's doing the right thing. Sgt. Brewmeister, his co-driver, has no such doubts.When they meet Herta, a young Polish woman scarred by the war, their lives change forever as they are continually shadowed by death. ...
|  | Anchors of Mist
Publication Date: March 26, 2012"Anchors of Mist" takes the reader on an intimate journey through the heart of a young man's unbridled quest to liberate the essence of his dreams. ...
|  | Understanding the Poetry of William Blake Through a Dialectic of Contraries: A Study of the Philosophical Contexts Within Which Blake Developed His Ideas
Publication Date: September 15, 2011| ISBN-10: 0773416056 | ISBN-13: 978-0773416055An interpretation of William Blake which employs his own method of the dialectic of contraries. ...
|  | Letters From Alain
Publication Date: April 1, 2008The moving tale of a child coming to terms with the realities of emigration in a troubled society. Award-winning Cuban-born writer Enrique Perez Diaz creates another contemporary novel for teenage readers steeped in the burning issues of today’s world. ...
|  | Baseball Haiku: The Best Haiku Ever Written about the Game
Publication Date: April 17, 2007Presenting more than two hundred of the greatest haiku ever written about the game.One of the most unusual baseball books of the 2007 season, this remarkable new collection, which includes poems from both America and Japan, captures perfectly the thrill of baseball—a double play, a game of catch, or the hushed pause as a pitcher looks in before hurling his pitch. Like haiku, the game is concerned with the nature of the seasons: joyous in the spring, thrilling in summer's heat, ripening with the descent of fall, and remembered fondly in winter. Featuring...
|  | The Captain's Verses: Love Poems (New Directions Books)
Publication Date: February 25, 2009| Series: New Directions Books The Nobel Prize winner 's classiccollection of love poems.Pablo Neruda, winner of the Nobel Prize forLiterature, finished writing The Captain'sVerses in 1952 while in exile on the island of Capri—the paradisal setting for theblockbuster film Il Postino (ThePostman). Surrounded by sea, sun, andCapri's natural splendors, Neruda addressedthese poems to his lover Matilde Urrutia beforethey were married, but didn't publish thempublicly until 1963. This complete, bilingualcollection has become a classic for love-struckreaders...
|  | Everywhere That Mary Went
Release Date: November 1, 1993Mary DiNunzio is trying to make partner in her cutthroat Philadelphia law firm. She's too busy to worry about the crank phone calls that she's been getting—until they fall into a sinister pattern. Mary can't shake the sensation that someone is watching her. Following her every move. Then the shadowboxing turns deadly, and she has to fight for something a lot more important than a partnership—her life. ...
|  | FIRST CHANCE: A Suspense Novel
Publication Date: November 4, 2003If you've ever been lucky enough to experience the Public School System in suburban America, then you will empathize with Marty Mason and delight at his teenage experiences in the sleepy town of Kappaqua Falls. While most people never have the opportunity to use what they learned in High School, Marty leverages the teachings from his classes in real-time to outwit and defeat several abusive bullies. His victory celebration is short lived as he is brought before the ruthless Principal of the school and subjected to a ground breaking behavior modification trea...
|  | The Raven's Bride: A Novel
Release Date: February 15, 2011When eight-year-old Virginia "Sissy" Clemm meets her handsome cousin, Eddy, she sees the perfect husband she's conjured up in childhood games. Thirteen years her elder, he's soft-spoken, brooding, and handsome. Eddy fails his way through West Point and the army yet each time he returns to Baltimore, their friendship grows. As Sissy trains for a musical career, her childhood crush turns to love. When she's thirteen, Eddy proposes. But as their happy life darkens, Sissy endures Poe's abrupt disappearances, self-destructive moods...
|  | All-Weather Friends
Publication Date: March 1, 1999| Age Level: 5 and up His animal friends are convinced that frogs can predict the weather, but Moss the frog repeatedly disappoints them with his inaccurate predictions. ...
|  | Peek-a-Poo What's in Your Diaper?
Publication Date: January 1, 2010| Age Level: 2 and up Mouse is so curious that he wants to look into everything—even into his friends’ diapers! After he investigates Hare’s seven hare pellets, Goat’s clump of little black droppings, and the contents of many of his other friends’ diapers, they are in for a big surprise: in Mouse’s diaper there is nothing, for he knows how easy it is to use the potty. Perfect for little ones, this delightful picture book will make kids aware of the contents of their own diapers and encourage them to keep them ...
|  | Una ballena en pajas blancas/ A Whale In Pajas Blancas (Multicolor) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Steven Spielberg: Gente Que Hay Que Conocer (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Reference 5+: Children's Picture Encyclopedia (Childrens Encyclopedia 5+)
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|  | Mach's Gut!: Level 1 (English and German Edition)
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|  | Welcome to the Book of Common Prayer (Welcome to the Episcopal Church)
Publication Date: August 1, 2005| Series: Welcome to the Episcopal Church An introduction to the prayer book of the Episcopal Church. The Book of Common Prayer is nearly 1,000 pages long, yet most Episcopalians have only a passing acquaintance with this book, which is a spiritual gold mine. In this thorough introduction to the BCP, the author leads readers through each of its parts, explaining the history and background and helping make the book a more meaningful spiritual tool. ...
|  | Quakers, Newgate and the Old Bailey
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|  | Supply Management
Publication Date: January 5, 2009| ISBN-10: 0073381454 | ISBN-13: 978-0073381459| Edition: 8th Supply Management is a major revision of the classic text in the field of procurement. The Eighth Edition builds on the strengths of prior editions, while including state of the art coverage and enhancements to help prepare students for the globalized world of business they will enter. ...
|  | Biobanks: Governance in Comparative Perspective
Publication Date: June 22, 2008| ISBN-10: 041542738X | ISBN-13: 978-0415427388| Edition: 1 In recent years, a number of large population-based biobanks – genetic databases that combine genetic information derived from blood samples with personal data about environment, medical history, lifestyle or genealogy – have been set up in order to study the interface between disease, and genetic and environmental factors. Unsurprisingly, these studies have sparked a good deal of controversy and the ethical and social implications have been widely debated. Biobanks: Governance in Com...
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