 | The Coyote Bead
Publication Date: September 1, 1999When the "blue coats," United States federal forces, came to move The People from their land, many Navajo lost their lives, and most were driven away on The Long Walk. His tribe decimated, his parents murdered, one boy manages to escape with his shaman grandfather. Their quest: to save their people by finding and reuniting the mythical and powerful coyote beads, which balance the opposing energies of peace and violence, harmony and war.But the trickster Coyote, who appears in the guise of the brutal Ute Indian Two-Face, is hunting them for the blue coats, a...
 |  | The Lost Years
Release Date: April 3, 2012In The Lost Years, Mary Higgins Clark, America’s Queen of Suspense, has written her most astonishing novel to date. At its center is a discovery that, if authenticated, may be the most revered document in human history—“the holiest of the holy”—and certainly the most coveted and valuable object in the world. Biblical scholar Jonathan Lyons believes he has found the rarest of parchments—a letter that may have been written by Jesus Christ. Stolen from the Vatican Library in the 1500s, the letter was assumed to be lost forever. Now,...
|  | Small Change
Release Date: March 30, 2010Take a trip to the charming little town of Heart Lake, and meet three best friends who you’ll never forget…Rachel, Jessica and Tiffany have money problems—major money problems. Tiffany’s whipped out the plastic one too many times, and now a mountain of debt is about to come crashing down on her. Jessica’s husband lost his job—thrusting this longtime stay-at-home mom out into the cold, cruel workforce. And Rachel’s divorce has transformed her from an upper-middle-class mom to a strapped-for-cash divorcee....
|  | A Tale of Two Cities (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: December 31, 1998| ISBN-10: 0486406512 | ISBN-13: 978-0486406510| Edition: Unabridged Against the backdrop of the French Revolution, Dickens unfolds a masterpiece of drama, adventure, and courage featuring Charles Darnay, a man falsely accused of treason. He bears an uncanny resemblance to the dissolute, yet noble Sydney Carton. Brilliantly plotted, the novel culminates in a daring prison escape in the shadow of the guillotine. ...
|  | Postmodernism and Popular Culture
Publication Date: July 28, 1994| ISBN-10: 0415077133 | ISBN-13: 978-0415077132Postmodernism and Popular Culture brings together eleven recent essays by Angela McRobbie in a collection which deals with the issues which have dominated cultural studies over the last ten years.A key theme is the notion of postmodernity as a space for social change and political potential. McRobbie explores everyday life as a site of immense social and psychic complexity to which she argues that cultural studies scholars must return through ethnic and empirical work; the sound of living voices and spoken lang...
|  | Fictional Role of Childhood in Victorian and Early Twentiety Century Children's Literature (Mellen Studies in Children's Literature, V. 7)
Publication Date: May 2004| ISBN-10: 0773464514 | ISBN-13: 978-0773464513This book studies canonical children's literature during what is perceived to be the first Golden Age of this genre. Building upon critical studies, such as Jacqueline Rose's The Case of Peter Pan, the instability at the heart of children's literature is examined. The notion that children's fiction promotes a discursive innocence is resisted by analyzing texts written specifically for a child readership. Textual tensions and desires inscribed from adult culture's penmanship, and the subversion of childhood's mythopo...
|  | Brides of the West
Publication Date: January 5, 2008Brides of the West.With hope in their hearts, three women looking for a new life take fate in their own hands and head West to become the brides to men they have never met.Have they made a serious mistake or found the gold at the end of a rainbow? ...
|  | The Sacred Stone (Medieval Murderers Group 6)
Publication Date: October 1, 2011| Series: Medieval Murderers Group 6 A mysterious meteor brings treachery, discord, and violent death to those who seek to possess it in the sixth volume of these thrilling interlinked medieval mysteries 1067. In the desolate wastes of Greenland, a band of hunters stumble across a strangely shaped object which has fallen from the sky. At first, the mysterious "sky-stone" seems to bring them good luck, healing a lame boy and guaranteeing a good catch of furs. But violence and murder soon follow in fortune's wake as the villagers fight and s...
|  | How the Fox Got His Color Bilingual Chinese English (Chinese Edition)
Publication Date: August 4, 2011This delightful little story tells of a young girl's time with her grandmother as she relates a legend of how a mischievous little white fox, with all his grand adventures, became the red fox we all know today.How the Fox got His Color may well become an all-time children's classic and a perfect book for the young reader. English as a second language students will enjoy it as a valuable study tool, as well as those learning a foreign language. ...
|  | Bones, Bones, Dinosaur Bones
Release Date: September 30, 1990| Age Level: 4 and up Bones. Bones. We look for bones. We look for the bones of dinosaurs. Six small paleontologists search for bones. When they find them, they dig them up, wrap them, and load them on a truck, bound for the museum.There, they carefully put together the bones of a giant dinosaur.In bright, bold, exuberant pictures, with a text that is just right for reading or chanting aloud, Byron Barton looks at just what happens to the bones left behind by dinosaurs of long, long ago. ...
|  | Devine Combien Je t Aime (French Edition)
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|  | The Mystery of the Ivory Charm (Nancy Drew, Book 13)
Release Date: October 1, 1936| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Nancy Drew determines whether an ivory elephant charm really protects its wearer from harm when she investigates the involvement of a member of the Bengleton Wild-Animal Show in a mysterious scheme. ...
| | Natural Foods & Products (Making a Better World)
Publication Date: December 9, 1997| Age Level: 10 and up...
|  | Giraffe: Habitats, Life Cycles, Food Chains, Threats (Natural World (Hardcover Raintree))
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|  | 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...
| | Hindwaeth (Cyfres Cyflwyno) (Welsh Edition)
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|  | Beethoven Lives Upstairs (Orchard Paperbacks)
Publication Date: March 1999| Age Level: 5 and up...
|  | The Kids' Guide To Business
Release Date: April 6, 2004| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up This guide provides a kid-friendly approach to introduce, prepare and launch kids into business. Kids take steps to develop a business and are easily engaged in the book as they explore an advanced lemonade stand business case using an innovative business development tool for kids. ...
|  | Organization Theory: A Strategic Approach (6th Edition)
Publication Date: May 28, 2002| ISBN-10: 0130330647 | ISBN-13: 978-0130330642| Edition: 6Clearly written and well-organized, this book takes a strategic systems approach that focuses on how managers structure and operate organizations so that they are efficient and effective. With an emphasis on the decision-making processes of managers, the topics covered in this book include a brief history of organization theory; the structure and design of organizations; organizational goals and effectiveness; the global environment of organizations; managing the environment; organizational tec...
|  | Lean Thinking : Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation, 2nd Edition Revised
Release Date: June 1, 2003Expanded, updated, and more relevant than ever, the bestselling business classic by two internationally renowned management theorists shows how companies of any size in any industry can seize opportunities in the post-bubble economy.Lean Thinking begins by helping listeners to identify value, asking, "What does the customer really want?" instead of "What can we try to convince the customer to accept?" Lean thinkers then identify the value stream -- every step required to move a specific good or service from initial concept into the hands of the customer -- for eac...
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