 | The Goon Volume 1: Nothin but Misery (2nd edition) (Goon (Graphic Novels))
Publication Date: May 24, 2011| Series: Goon (Graphic Novels) It all starts here! Dark Horse is proud to re-present the beginning of Eric Powell's acclaimed Goon saga, with a lavish new cover and redesigned to match the swanky "Goon Year" collections. The Goon's unique mash-up of horror, mob intrigue, and the sickest sense of humor in comics is an instant classic, one of the true breakout hits of the '00s. With new volumes of The Goon hitting stores throughout the year, this is the best time ever to find out what you've been missing! ...
 |  | She Wore Only White
Release Date: April 10, 2012At the turn of the twentieth century, five thousand people a day arrived at NewYork’s Ellis Island, their journeys to America signifying a new beginning. But theocean crossing also has a deeper symbolic meaning: there comes a time for us allwhen we find ourselves afloat, between phases of our lives, where we say goodbyeto our past and move on to new horizons. For Valentina Meyer, harboring a deep secret of tremendous guilt and pain drivesher to board a trans-Atlantic voyage as a stowaway, searching desperately for anew life on a distant shore. Accompanying ...
|  | Johannes Cabal the Detective
Release Date: July 13, 2010Johannes Cabal, necromancer of some little infamy, returns in this riotously clever and terrifically twisted tale of murder and international intrigue. In this genre-twisting novel, infamous necromancer Johannes Cabal, after beating the Devil and being reunited with his soul, leads us on another raucous journey in a little-known corner of the world. This time he’s on the run from the local government. Stealing the identity of a minor bureaucrat, Cabal takes passage on the Princess Hortense, a passenger aeroship that is leaving the country. The deception seems...
|  | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Classic Film Scripts)
Publication Date: June 1984| Series: Classic Film Scripts In this book, David Robinson challenges long accepted versions of the history and reception of Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, and seeks to redefine its relationship to the larger phenomenon of Expressionist art. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
|  | Our Game
Release Date: January 31, 1996"FURIOUS IN ACTION...TAKES US BY THE NECK ON PAGE ONE AND NEVER LETS GO."--Chicago Sun-TimesWith the Cold War fought and won, British spymaster Tim Cranmer accepts early retirement to rural England and a new life with his alluring young mistress Emma. But when both Emma and Cranmer's star double agent and lifelong rival, Larry Pettifer, disappear, Cranmer is suddenly on the run, searching for his brilliant protégé, desperately eluding his former colleagues, in a frantic journey across Europe and into the lawless, battered landscapes of Moscow...
|  | Vasilissa the Beautiful: A Russian Folktale
Publication Date: March 1994Mistreated by her cruel stepmother and jealous stepsisters, Vasilissa has only her little doll to comfort and protect her. But fierce powers await Vasilissa--deep in the forest lives an old witch named Baba Yaga. "Winthrop's supple, unobstrusive retelling is lively with entertaining incident."--Kirkus Reviews, pointered review. Full color. ...
|  | The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Publication Date: January 10, 2011| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Kit Tyler is marked by suspicion and disapproval from the moment she arrives on the unfamiliar shores of colonial Connecticut in 1867. Alone and desperate, she has been forced to leave her beloved home on the island of Barbados and join a family she has never met. Torn between her quest for belonging and her desire to be true to herself, Kit struggles to survive in a hostile place. Just when it seems she must give up, she finds a kindred spirit. But Kit’s friendship with Hannah Tupper, believed by the colon...
|  | The First Four Years CD (Little House the Laura Years)
Release Date: June 13, 2006| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Voices Beyond the Stream
Publication Date: August 16, 2007After many years spent exhibiting strange and erratic behavior, including two attempts to take his own life, twenty-seven-year-old Hunter Kraven is delivered to a psychiatric ward at a local hospital against his will. During the span of his three-week hospitalization, Kraven comes to understand that his bizarre ways of behaving are definitely beyond the realm of normalcy and that there is indeed an explanation for his madness.The moving story of one man’s painful struggle to overcome the mental illness that threatens his well-being as well as his ultimat...
|  | Mallard Duck at Meadow View Pond (Smithsonian's Backyard Book & Toy Set) (Mini book with stuffed toy animal)
Publication Date: September 1, 2001| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
Release Date: June 24, 2008| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 8 and upIt's 1966, and twelve-year-old Ji-li Jiang has everything a girl could want: brains, tons of friends, and a bright future in Communist China. But it's also the year that China's leader, Mao Ze-dong, launches the Cultural Revolution—and Ji-li's world begins to fall apart. Over the next few years, people who were once her friends and neighbors turn on her and her family, forcing them to live in constant terror of arrest. When Ji-li's father is finally imprisoned, she faces the most difficult dilemma of her life. T...
|  | Extreme Structures: Mega-Constructions Of The 21st Century (Science Frontiers)
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|  | Change and Decay (OPT)
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|  | Science Tutor, Grades 6 - 8: Physical Science (Tutor Series)
Release Date: January 1, 2006| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up...
|  | Cat, You Better Come Home
Publication Date: November 11, 2010| Grade Level: P and up Tired of plain old cat food, Puff leaves home, headed for Europe and the jet-set life, living it up on beaches in Greece and in villas in France-until the day disaster strikes. Then it's scratch, scratch, scratch on the windowsill . . . Garrison Keillor's wit and style enliven this fable based on one of his popular "Cat Songs." ...
|  | Shaka, King of the Zulus
Publication Date: September 1988Born in 1787, Shaka was just a boy when he and his mother were banished from their tiny Zulu clan, one among many clans that dotted the hillsides of southern Africa. By sheer will and military genius Shaka rose to lead a mighty nation, but he never forgot his outcast childhood.In this companion to Diane Stanley's lauded Peter the Great, the authors have researched African history to evoke the dramatic events of Shaka!s time. Shaka dreamed of becoming a warrior, and he proved himself again and again--against a springing leopard, in one-on-one combat with a fear...
|  | Dive! Dive! Dive!: Buoyancy (Raintree Fusion: Physical Science)
Publication Date: January 15, 2007| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Larousse Junior Frances / Larousse Junior French (Spanish Edition)
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|  | The Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican
Release Date: May 12, 2009The Shocking Secrets of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ArtworkThe recent cleaning of the Sistine Chapel frescoes removed layer after layer of centuries of accumulated tarnish and darkness. The Sistine Secrets endeavors to remove the centuries of prejudice, censorship, and ignorance that blind us to the truth about one of the world's most famous and beloved art treasures....
|  | Welcome to Sunday: An Introduction to Worship in the Episcopal Church (Welcome to the Episcopal Church)
Publication Date: December 1, 2002| Series: Welcome to the Episcopal Church The perfect book for newcomers who are often confused by the worship service, Welcome to Sunday is also an excellent book for those who have been sitting in the pews without fully understanding what happens on Sunday morning. Episcopal priest Christopher Webber takes the reader from the sidewalk outside the church, guides them through the service, and sends them out again when the service has ended. Webber explains the postures, the Christian year, the colors we use during various seasons, and all the elements in the...
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