 | Granny Dan
Release Date: July 5, 2000In my eyes she had always been old, always been mine, always been Granny Dan. Butin another time, another place, there had been dancing, people, laughter, love. .. . She had had another life before she came to us, long before she came to me. .. . She was the cherished grandmother who sang songs in Russian, loved to roller-skate,and spoke little of her past. But when Granny Dan died, all that remained was a boxwrapped in brown paper, tied with string. Inside, an old pair of satin toe shoes,a gold locket, and a stack of letters tied with ribbon. It was her legacy, h...
 |  | Minna Pegeen
Publication Date: March 1, 2011The Companions, on a quest to find their dying kings grandchild, descend on Minna Pegeens inn and declare her adopted brother, Tabare, to be the lost heir of the Sea Kingdom.Against her will, Pegeen abandons her inn to accompany them.During the journey, she becomes servant, advisor, healer, and friend to the Companions and they turn to her more and more for leadership and wisdom.By the time Tabare is crowned king, the Companions realize they have made a horrible mistake. ...
|  | Rock Star Babylon: Outrageous Rumors, Legends, and Raucous True Tales of Rock and Roll Icons
Release Date: June 24, 2008Why was Candle in the Wind for Diana a terrible mistake?Which rock star left an unspeakable gift inside a hotel room hairdryer?What's the story behind Ozzy Osbourne and the exploding mouse?Rock and roll and rumour go together like Peaches and Geldof. Tales of outrageous excess, of the filth and the fury (not to mention the furry) are part of music's heritage.Whether they're true or bare-faced lies, Jon Holmes has gathered together the greatest pop and rock myths and legends ever told. These stories have come straight from the mouths of those that were t...
|  | Measure for Measure: Unabridged (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: November 2, 2011| ISBN-10: 0486408892 | ISBN-13: 978-0486408897| Edition: Unabridged One of the author's "dark" comedies, its compelling characters include a duke masquerading as a monk, a would-be nun ordered to sacrifice her chastity to save her brother's life, and a hypocritical politician. Shakespeare's sensitive, forceful exploration of the basis of good government, public and private morality, and other themes. ...
|  | Selected Poems
Release Date: March 29, 1999When Viking published Borges's Collected Fictions last September, the book received nationwide acclaim. Richard Bernstein in The New York Times hailed the publication as "an event, and cause for celebration." The celebration continues this April with the next installment in Vikings projected three-volume set of the Collected Work: a new selection of Borges's finest poems edited by Alexander Coleman.Selected Poems brings together some two hundred poems -- the largest collection of Borges's poetry ever assembled in English, including many never previously translated...
|  | The Return of the Blue Cat
Release Date: April 17, 2005Who's Who in America lists the order of catsin hunting, fishing, bird-watching, farming,domestic service--the dictionary order of catswho have made it. So begins "Identity Crisis," one of the delightful poems in F. D. Reeve's witty, musical, biting book of verse. In the award-winning poet's seventh volume, the Blue Cat returns saucier and sassier than ever, "a courteous, outspoken, well-read, somewhat randy anarchist ready again to lay down one of his lives for what he believes." The poems that tell the story of the Cat's seemingly immortal existence set a standar...
|  | Conversational Competence and Social Development
Publication Date: August 31, 1990This book provides new insight into the development of the child's ability to become a competent participant in conversation.The author combines a pragmatic analysis of the functions language can perform with an innovative and extensive empirical investigation of the development of young children's language use and sociocognitive skills. She gives a detailed description of the development of children's language between the ages of three-and-a-half and seven, broadens the scope of theorizing about language development by placing it in relation to the developme...
|  | The Beat Generation and the Russian New Wave
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|  | The Creed Legacy (Creed Cowboys)
Release Date: June 28, 2011| Series: Creed Cowboys Rough-and-tumble rodeo cowboy Brody Creed likes life on the move. Until a chance encounter with his long-estranged twin brother brings him "home" for the first time in years. Suddenly Brody is in Creed territory—at thirty-three, he's a restless bad boy among family with deep ties to the land and each other. And a secret past haunts him as he tries to make plans for his future.Carolyn Simmons is looking for Mr. Right in Lonesome Bend, as the ticktock of her biological clock gets ever louder. Then she falls for gorgeous Brody ...
|  | The Dain Curse, The Glass Key, and Selected Stories (Everyman's Library)
Release Date: September 4, 2007(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)One of the most popular American writers of the twentieth century, Dashiell Hammett gave us crime fiction stripped down to its most subtle and searing essentials and, at the same time, elevated to literature. The diamond-sharp prose and artfully manipulated intrigue for which he is known are on full display in the four classic short stories and two riveting novels published here in one volume.The Continental Op, Hammett’s anonymous antihero, was the indelible prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. Single-minded, ...
|  | Ben 10 Alien Force: The Complete Guide
Publication Date: May 1, 2009| Age Level: 7 and up...
|  | Levi's Lost Calf
Publication Date: July 29, 2011New children’s author Amanda Radke, a fifth-generation South Dakota rancher, shows young readers what life is like on a cattle ranch in Levi’s Lost Calf. And, while Radke’s storyline is pitch perfect and filled with farm-inspired whimsy, the book’s unforgettable illustrations by up-and-coming Western artist Michelle Weber put this book over the top—really, it doesn’t get any better than this. At the end of a hard day on the ranch, the take home message is this: the faith-filled and independent spirit of cowboys—a...
|  | Plant Reproduction (Life of Plants)
Publication Date: August 5, 2008| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Bedtime Lullaby
Publication Date: May 30, 2008Embossed, illustrated pages feature 16 well-known bedtime lullabies to read and help soothe young children to sleep CD which comes with the book includes sing-along versions of each lullaby featured Multi-sensory book which encourages reading, speaking and musical skills --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Plane Rides (Let's Go) (Welcome Books Guided Reading Program Level H)
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|  | State And Local Government (Reading Essentials in Social Studies)
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|  | A Woman's Heart: God's Dwelling Place, Member Book UPDATED
Publication Date: June 1, 2007Discover the parallels of the Tabernacle s building and your life as a chosen vessel of God. (View a diagram of the Tabernacle.) While the title is familiar, the content for this in-depth video teaching series is all new and rich in detail. Taken primarily from the Book of Exodus, A Woman s Heart: God s Dwelling Place by Beth Moore will take you on a fascinating journey into why God would chose to live in a wilderness tabernacle, made by human hands. Taped in Beth s home church in Houston, this updated edition of A Woman s Heart contains all new video footage an...
|  | Securing Your Superannuation Future: How to Start and Run a Self Managed Super Fund
Publication Date: June 13, 2012Find Out if an SMSF is Right for YouAre you thinking about setting up a self managed superannuation fund but unsure where to start? Are you worried that you're not maximising all the benefits an SMSF offers? In Securing Your Superannuation Future, Daryl Dixon offers practical, easy-to-understand tools and strategies to help you set up and run your own super fund.More Australians than ever are deciding to take control of their super, and Daryl's insights go beyond the standard requirements for running an SMSF. He reveals many tax-saving tips and practical steps ...
|  | The Effective Executive
Publication Date: April 1993The measure of the executive, Peter Drucker reminds us, is the ability to "get the right things done." This usually involves doing what other people have overlooked as well as avoiding what is unproductive. Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge may all be wasted in an executive job without the acquired habits of mind that mold them into results.Drucker identifies five practices essential to business effectiveness that can, and must, be learned: management of time; choosing what to contribute to the practical organization; knowing where and how to mobilize str...
|  | Guerrilla Marketing for the New Millennium: Lessons from the Father of Guerrilla Marketing (Guerilla Marketing Press)
Release Date: September 15, 2005| Series: Guerilla Marketing Press History is full of stories where tiny, unadvanced armies have handily defeated better equipped and much larger armies. The history of these battles is the history of guerrilla warfare. It may shock you how many of the "big business" names (that are now household words) started out as struggling small businesses. The history of the ascent of these icons is the history of guerrilla marketing. Until 1984, the principles of guerrilla marketing were known only by a select few people in the world. They jealously kept this informati...
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