 | Chelsea Horror Hotel: A Novel
Publication Date: May 10, 2001Dee Dee Ramone doesn't quite know what he's getting himself into when he and his wife Barbara move into the squalid Chelsea Hotel with their dog Banfield. He spends most of his time trying to score drugs and walking Banfield, with whom he can magically communicate. Meanwhile, he can't stand his neighbors and shies away from violence, but wishes everyone were six feet under. He also thinks that the room he's staying in is the very room where his old friend Sid Vicious stabbed Nancy Spungen, and begins having nightmares of Nancy emerging from the bathroom with a k...
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 | Fanny Herself
Publication Date: April 12, 2001Heralded by one reviewer as 'the most serious, extended and dignified of [Edna] Ferber's books', "Fanny Herself" is the intensely personal chronicle of a young girl growing up Jewish in a small midwestern town. Packed with the warmth and the wry, sidelong wit that made Ferber one of the best-loved writers of her time, the novel charts Fanny's emotional growth through her relationship with her mother, the shrewd, sympathetic Molly Brandeis. 'You could not have lived a week in Winnebago without being aware of Mrs. Brandeis', Ferber begins, and likewise the story...
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 | One Was a Soldier: A Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne Mystery (Clare Fergusson / Russ Van Alstyne Mysteries)
Release Date: April 12, 2011| Series: Clare Fergusson / Russ Van Alstyne Mysteries On a warm September evening in the Millers Kill community center, five veterans sit down in rickety chairs to try to make sense of their experiences in Iraq. What they will find is murder, conspiracy, and the unbreakable ties that bind them to one another and their small Adirondack town.The Rev. Clare Fergusson wants to forget the things she saw as a combat helicopter pilot and concentrate on her relationship with Chief of Police Russ Van Alstyne. MP Eric McCrea needs to control the explosive anger threa...
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 | Beloved and God: The Story of Hadrian and Antinous
Release Date: October 10, 1996Who was Antonius? Why did he become a God? in Beloved and God, Royston Lambert tackles all the mysteries the story presents. With many illustations of the people and places concerned in the affair and of the splendid and fascinating artefacts which it produced, this account, based on thorough research, is a compelling read. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
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 | 100 mejores poesias de Amado Nervo / 100 Best Poems by Amado Nervo (Spanish Edition)
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 | Silent Witness (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Release Date: October 4, 2011NOW A TNT MYSTERY EVENT MOVIE!After the murder of his high school sweetheart left him shattered, Tony Lord vowed never to return to his Ohio hometown of Lake City. Twenty-eight years later, Tony is a successful California criminal lawyer with a beautiful celebrity wife. He’s living the good life…until long-buried memories come crashing down when he hears from an old friend, who needs his help.Sam Robb is a track coach at Lake City High. He swears he is not responsible for the death of one of his female team members…even though forensic evidence ...
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 | Inspecting Jews: American Jewish Detective Stories
Publication Date: November 20, 2003Laurence Roth argues that the detective story, located at the intersection of narrative and popular culture in modern America, examines the need for order in a disorderly society, and thus offers a window into the negotiation of Jewish identity. He analyzes stories about American Jewish detectives—including Harry Kemelman’s Rabbi Small, Faye Kellerman’s Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus, Stuart Kaminsky’s Abe Lieberman, and Rochelle Krich’s Jessica Drake—not only as a genre of literature, but also as a reflection of contemporary ac...
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 | The Gingerbread Man
Publication Date: January 1, 1980| Age Level: 3 and up The gingerbread man outruns everybody, until he meets the quick-witted fox. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
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 | Up to Speed
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 | Follow Your Dreams (Positively for Kids)
Publication Date: October 1, 1996| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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 | Out of the Darkness: The Story of Blacks Moving North, 1890-1940 (Great Journeys)
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 | States & Capitals (Rhythm, Rhyme and Read Series)
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 | Germany (Celebrate!)
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 | Expedition Down Under (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Magic School Bus Science Chapter Books (Pb))
Publication Date: May 1, 2002| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
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 | Royal Murder: The Deadly Intrigue of Ten Sovereigns
Publication Date: July 11, 2008| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Danger and drama among the monarchs.What would you do for absolute power? For many monarchs throughout history, it was a question that ruled their lives. Step into the world of palatial intrigue, where holding the throne means evading death... or causing it.Some sovereigns were cunning at avoiding their killers. Cleopatra of Egypt once rolled herself into a rug and was carried out past her enemies' noses. Other royals were brutal when dealing with foes. VIad the Impaler's monstrous methods inspired the legend of Dr...
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 | Artist to Artist: 23 Major Illustrators Talk to Children About Their Art
Release Date: September 25, 2007| Age Level: 1 and up In this remarkable and beautiful anthology featuring the likes of MauriceSendak, Robert Sabuda, Rosemary Wells, and Eric Carle, twenty-three ofthe most honored and beloved artists in children’s literature talk informallyto children—sharing secrets about their art and how they began theiradventures into illustration. Fold-out pages featuring photographs of theirearly work, their studios and materials, as well as sketches and finished artcreate an exuberant feast for the eye that will attract bothchildren and adults.Self-portrai...
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| Noah and the Ark (Bible Stories S)
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 | Hello, School Bus! (Scholastic Reader - Level 1 (Quality))
Publication Date: July 1, 2004| Age Level: 4 and up...
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 | A Thanksgiving Turkey
Publication Date: September 2001| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up A thirteen-year-old boy and his mother move to a farm in rural Virginia, where he and his grandfather try to hunt a wild turkey. ...
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 | Open Gate
Publication Date: February 1995David Adam, a well-known poet in the Celtic tradition, offers prayers of confession, adoration, intercession and thanksgiving, leading the reader through gates of spiritual discovery to worlds filled with mystery and the glory of God. ...
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