 | Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome
Release Date: August 7, 2007 In his "most accomplished work to date" (Los Angeles Times), master of historical fiction Robert Harris lures readers back in time to the compelling life of Roman Senator Marcus Cicero. The re-creation of a vanished biography written by his household slave and right-hand man, Tiro, Imperium follows Cicero's extraordinary struggle to attain supreme power in Rome. On a cold November morning, Tiro opens the door to find a terrified, bedraggled stranger begging for help. Once a Sicilian aristocrat, the man was robbed by the corrupt Roman governor, Verres, who is no...
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 | Tipperary: A Novel of Ireland
Release Date: June 3, 2008“My wooing began in passion, was defined by violence and circumscribed by land; all these elements molded my soul.” So writes Charles O’Brien, the unforgettable hero of bestselling author Frank Delaney’s extraordinary new novel–a sweeping epic of obsession, profound devotion, and compelling history involving a turbulent era that would shape modern Ireland. Born into a respected Irish-Anglo family in 1860, Charles loves his native land and its long-suffering but irrepressible people. As a healer, he travels the countryside dispensin...
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 | The London Merchant (Regents Restoration Drama)
Publication Date: November 1, 1965| Series: Regents Restoration Drama Mrs. Millwood is beautiful, intelligent, and ambitious, but London gives her no means of support except to seduce men. Love for her leads eighteen-year-old Barnwell to deceit, theft, and murder."What are your laws," Mrs. Millwood asks, "but the fool’s wisdom and the coward’s valor, the instrument and screen of all your villainies by which you punish in others what you act out yourselves, had you been in their circumstances? The judge who condemns the poor man for being a thief had been a thief himself, had he b...
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 | Eimhir (Scots Gaelic Edition)
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 | Marxism, Modernity and Postcolonial Studies (Cultural Margins)
Publication Date: August 5, 2002| ISBN-10: 0521890594 | ISBN-13: 978-0521890595What is the relationship between Marxism and postcolonial thought? Can a revolutionary European ideology be an emancipatory intellectual tool in the post-imperial world? Or, in sites where European thought is often treated with suspicion, does it repeat distrusted legacies and epistemologies? This collection is the first systematic attempt to provide an overview of this collision. An international cast of contributorschallenge the elision of Marxist thought in the debate on what the term "postcolonial" actuall...
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 | CLAY'S RULES
Publication Date: August 28, 2012Arriving in Montana to find she's been lost in a poker game does little to calm Abbra's fears about spending two entire weeks with a bunch of cowboys. Romance author, Abbra Truelove, finds herself in a predicament when her editor offers a promotion no fan can resist. A promotion that will intentionally thrust Abbra back into rural life while she researches a book she doesn't even want to write. As if to add insult to injury, this insane promotion requires she be a house guest of the winning fan! After one too many bad experiences with rough and rowdy cowboys,...
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 | The New Shoe
Publication Date: October 1, 1983Fiction:murder / detective ...
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 | DISNEY FAIRIES - TINKER BELL TAKES CHARGE: CHAPTER BOOK
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 | Eli Manning (Today's Superstars. Second Series)
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 | Zoom, Zoom, Zoom (My First Reader)
Publication Date: September 2004| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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 | Cooking the Lebanese Way (Easy Menu Ethnic Cookbooks)
Publication Date: January 1, 2003| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
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 | Seashells, Crabs & Sea Stars (Take Along Guides)
Publication Date: January 1, 1999| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
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 | Max's Christmas Stocking (Max Board Books)
Release Date: September 22, 2003| Grade Level: P and up...
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 | The Christmas Gift / El regalo de Navidad (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: September 27, 2000| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: K and up With honesty and rare grace, award-winning author Francisco Jiménez shares his most poignant Christmas memory in this remarkable book. Illustrated with paintings full of strength and warmth, written in spare bilingual text, this simple story celebrates the true spirit of Christmas, and illuminates how children do indeed draw strength from the bonds of their families. ...
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 | Brian's Hunt
Release Date: March 13, 2012| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Millions of readers of Hatchet, The River, Brian’s Winter, and Brian’s Return know that Brian Robeson is at home in the Canadian wilderness. He has stood up to the challenge of surviving alone in the woods. He prefers being on his own in the natural world to civilization. When Brian finds a dog one night, a dog that is wounded and whimpering, he senses danger. The dog is badly hurt, and as Brian cares for it, he worries about his Cree friends who live north of his camp. His instincts tell him to head nor...
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 | Bulldozers at Work (Big Trucks)
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 | The Korean War (Wars That Changed American History)
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 | John Deere (History Maker Bios)
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 | How to Draw Dragons (Drawing Fantasy Art)
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 | Wisdom and Wonderment: Thirty-One Feasts to Nourish Your Soul
Publication Date: September 1993This book is an invitation to awareness and to life. It is offered in the hope that the reflections it contains will help you feel welcome at the feast of life. May they serve to remind you that Grace come in many flavors. And nay you leave this book hungry, lonely, and empty no longer. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
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