 | The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey Through Language and Culture
Publication Date: September 25, 2000What makes a great Jewish book? What makes a book "Jewish" in the first place? Ruth R. Wisse, one of the leading scholars in the field of Jewish literature, sets out to answer these questions in "The Modern Jewish Canon." Wisse takes us on an exhilarating journey through language and culture, penetrating the complexities of Jewish life as they are expressed in the greatest Jewish novels of the twentieth century, from Isaac Babel to Isaac Bashevis Singer, from Elie Wiesel to Cynthia Ozick. The modern Jewish canon Wisse proposes comprises those books that co...
 |  | American War Library - Vietnam War: Primary Sources
Publication Date: March 28, 2002| Series: American War Library American War Library is a series of vividly written, multi-volume sets that examine the most fascinating topics about each of America's wars. Individual volumes in every set present readers with a historical perspective and a comprehensive picture of the causes of the war, crucial battles, key personalities, weaponry, daily life on the battlefield, public sentiment toward the war, and the war's eventual outcome. Dramatic narrative enlivened by primary and secondary source accounts, offers young readers insight into the triumphs a...
|  | The Half-Stitched Amish Quilting Club
Release Date: April 3, 2012Join the club of unlikely quilters who show up for Amish widow Emma Yoder s quilting classes. A troubled young woman, a struggling couple, a widower, a rough and tough biker, and a preacher s wife make up the mismatched lot. But as their problems begin to bind them together like the scraps of fabric stitched together in a quilt, they learn to open up and lend a helping hand. Is this what God had in mind to heal hurting hearts and create beauty from fragments? (20120128) ...
|  | Yvonne Goes to York (Thorndike Press Large Print Paperback Series)
Publication Date: December 1993| Series: Thorndike Press Large Print Paperback Series No coach journey is ever dull with Miss Pym aboard, and this one proves no exception: Hannah meets Yvonne Grenier, fleeing the Horror in France, and very soon determines to find a suitable match for this beautiful and charming Frenchwoman. Book six in the Travelling Matchmaker series of Regency Romances. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | Medical School Is Murder: A Ben Candidi Mystery (Ben Candidi Mysteries)
Publication Date: August 1, 2001| Series: Ben Candidi Mysteries This is the third in the Ben Candidi Mystery Series by biomedical scientist Dirk Wyle. From the back cover: When Rebecca said it was a great career opportunity, Ben had to agree. But with Rebecca in the middle of her training program, Ben's opportunity will mean separation for six months. Ben Candidi, Ph.D., leaves his physician soulmate in Washington DC and returns to Miami's Bryan Medical School to take over a dead scientist's laboratory and two-year grant. And when he is offered $20,000 to write the biography prescribed in ec...
|  | Clara: A Novel
Release Date: February 17, 2004With "some of the greatest words ever written on thwarted love since Romeo and Juliet" (The Times, London), Clara reignites, from between the lines of history, the great love of Robert and Clara Schumann.This impassioned novel gives voice to Clara Wieck Schumann, one of the most celebrated pianists of the nineteenth century, who today is best remembered not for her music but for her marriage. "How often you must purchase my songs with invisibility and silence, little Clara," says Robert, and, for Clara, the price of his love is dear. Shrouded in alternate lay...
|  | Utopia (Norton Critical Editions)
Publication Date: December 17, 1991| ISBN-10: 0393961451 | ISBN-13: 978-0393961454| Edition: Second Edition Robert M. Adams’s celebrated translation of Utopia has beenmeticulously revised for the Second Edition of this Norton CriticalEdition as have the accompanying annotations."Backgrounds" is designed to assist student readers in an appreciation ofUtopia by shedding light on the different points of view contemporarywith More’s work. Included are new selections from Saint Benedict and Tasso, as well as amedieval satire on the land of Cockayne. "The Humanist Circle", a care...
|  | "Dearest Georg": Love, Literature, and Power in Dark Times: The Letters of Elias, Veza, and Georges Canetti, 1933-1948
Release Date: February 2, 2010In 1934, Veza Taubner and Elias Canetti were married in Vienna. Elias describesthe arrangement to his brother Georges as a “functional” marriage. Meanwhile, anintense intellectual love affair develops between Veza and Georges, a young doctorsuffering fromtuberculosis.Four years later, Veza and Elias flee Nazi-ruled Viennato London, where they lead an impoverished and extremely complicated marital lifein exile. Spanning the major part of Elias’s struggle for literary recognition,from 1933, before the publication of his novel, Auto-da-Fé,...
|  | In Your Arms Again
Release Date: May 25, 2004Since North Ryland and Octavia March were wrenched apart and their childhood friendship destroyed, much has changed. North has had a successful career as a Bow Street runner, and has made quite a name and fortune for himself. So much so that when Octavia’s fiancé (for she is now engaged to one of the most desirable men of the town) needs to hire a man to investigate threats on Octavia’s safety, he is the only man that will do. ...
|  | Sleepwalker
Release Date: December 27, 2011Cops and robbers don’t mix It’s not that Micayla Lange is afraid of the clinking she hears coming from the first floor of the empty McMansion she’s housesitting for her uncle Nicco. She’s a cop, after all. It’s just that finding out her boyfriend was cheating on her was enough drama for one night. Now she’s alone on New Year’s Eve, wearing flannel pajamas and wielding a Glock 22 as she zeroes in on the unmistakable source of the sound: Uncle Nicco’s private office. Jason Davis steals things for a living, so unexpe...
|  | Jane and the Stillroom Maid: Being the Fifth Jane Austen Mystery (Being A Jane Austen Mystery)
Release Date: May 1, 2001| Series: Being A Jane Austen Mystery Jane Austen is enjoying August, 1806, among Derbyshire's craggy peaks, sparkling streams, and cavernous gorges. That is, until she discovers the corpse of a young gentleman whose blond curls and delicate features suggest the face of an angel. More shocking still is the coroner's revelation: the deceased is no man but a maidservant — clad in the garb of her master, Mr. Charles Danforth of Penfolds Hall. Tess Arnold had ruled the stillroom at Penfolds for many years — until she was labeled a witch and dismissed for indi...
|  | Pulgarcito/Tom Thumb: Version Del Cuento De Los Hermanos Grimm /a Retelling of the Grimm's Fairy Tale (Read-It! Readers En Espanol) (Read-It! Readers ... Fairy Tales Green Level) (Spanish Edition)
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| | Wayne Gretzky: The Great One (Book Report Biographies)
Publication Date: September 1999| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | Girl in a Cage (Stuart Quartet)
Release Date: August 19, 2004| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | A Pair of Polar Bears: Twin Cubs Find a Home at the San Diego Zoo
Release Date: March 7, 2006| Age Level: 4 and upTWIN POLAR BEAR CUBS Kalluk and Tatqiq were only three months old when they were found orphaned in Alaska. Together they were brought to the World-Famous San Diego Zoo to be cared for. From the cubs' first tentative months in the zoo's infirmary to their home in the Polar Bear Plunge, this book chronicles the twins' development with exclusive photographs from the zoo and Joanne Ryder's poetic, informative text. Playful and curious, Kalluk and Tatqiq have won the hearts of more than three million people who visit the zoo each year. Whether the...
|  | Little Bear Audio CD Collection: Little Bear, Father Bear Comes Home, Little Bear's Friend, Little Bear's Visit, and A Kiss for Little Bear
Release Date: August 14, 2007| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and upNo one can resist Little Bear. This charming little fellow spreads happiness just by being himself. Now, for a new generation of children, here are the beloved stories of the adorable bear cub and his loving mother—and their friends Hen, Duck, and Cat. This collection includes all five books: Little Bear, Father Bear Comes Home, Little Bear's Friend, Little Bear's Visit, and A Kiss for Little Bear....
| | El Polisapo (Spanish Edition)
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|  | See More Readers: Giant Machines -Level 1
Publication Date: March 1, 2002| Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Erik's Christmas Gift Exchange
Publication Date: September 25, 2006When Erik draws Todd's name for the Christmas gift exchange, Erik can't wait for it to be over. But he later learns a valuable lesson about giving and the importance of Jesus' birth. ...
|  | Inside the Body (Lift-The-Flap Book)
Publication Date: July 1, 1996| Age Level: 9 and up...
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