 | Cruel Fictions, Cruel Realities : Short Stories by Latin American Women Writers (Discoveries)
Publication Date: August 1, 1997| ISBN-10: 0935480870 | ISBN-13: 978-0935480870Editor and translator Kathy Leonard created this superb and diverse anthology to provide a literary outlet for the best of the new fiction by contemporary Latin American women authors. Through her work with the authors represented here, Leonard brings to these stories an uncompromised clarity of translation as well as useful biographical information about the authors. Subjects of the stories vary widely, with most of the stories marked with heavy doses of magic realism or black humor. ...
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 | The Road Not Taken: A Selection of Robert Frost's Poems
Publication Date: April 1, 2002| Series: Owl Book The best-loved poems from one of American literature's most towering figuresNo poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. From "The Road Not Taken" to "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," he refined and even defined our sense of what poetry is and what it can do. T. S. Eliot judged him "the most eminent, the most distinguished Anglo-American poet now living," and he is the only writer in history to have been awarded four Pulitzer Prizes.Henry Holt is proud to announce the republication of four editions of Frost's most beloved ...
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 | Trade WInds (Gloucester)
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 | Death Underground: Terror Trios Featuring Wyatt Blassingame
Publication Date: July 19, 2012Welcome to another volume of Terror Trios from Altus Press. Each volume in this series will present three novels from the great weird menace pulps from Popular Publications. Dime Mystery Magazine, Terror Tales, and Horror Stories frequently ran lengthy pieces of 20,000 words or more that have sadly been ignored by anthologists due to their length. This series will present for the first time in book form notable works by authors such as Hugh B. Cave, Wyatt Blassingame, Wayne Rogers and others. Noted horror author and pulp scholar, John Pelan has assembled a seri...
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 | Longarm #400: Longarm and the 400 Blows
Release Date: February 28, 2012| Series: Longarm (Book 400) Longarm comes to Fort Marion to extradite prisoner Anton Gardner, who robbed a military payroll and killed seven men. But when he's set upon by too many enemies to handle, Gardner escapes with Longarm's badge and impersonates him. One thing's for sure...Longarm is not down for the count. ...
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 | Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians as Sung by Jean Ritchie
Release Date: March 6, 1997With Forewords by Alan Lomax and Ron Pen Jean Ritchie is the best known and most respected singer of traditional ballads in the United States. The youngest daughter of one of the most famous American ballad-singing families, the Ritchie family of Perry County, Kentucky, Jean carries on her family's legacy as a singer of folk songs and traditional ballads. The music found here tells the story of the ""Singing Ritchie Family."" Built upon a foundation of balladry inherited from old-world Scotland, the family's repertoire was certainly eclectic but not haphazard. The ...
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| Language of French Symbolism
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![Aristotle's Metaphysics [theta] 1--3: On the Essence and Actuality of Force (Studies in Continental Thought)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51uaMj33M0L._SL500_SS500_.jpg) | Aristotle's Metaphysics [theta] 1--3: On the Essence and Actuality of Force (Studies in Continental Thought)
Release Date: October 22, 1995Martin Heidegger's reading of Aristotle was one of the pivotal influences in the development of his philosophy. First published in German in 1981 as volume 33 of Heidegger's Collected Works, this book translates a lecture course he presented at the University of Freiburg in 1931. Heidegger's careful translation and his probing commentary on the first three chapters of Book IX of Metaphysics show the close correlation between his phenomenological interpretation of the Greeks (especially of Aristotle) and his critique of metaphysics. Additionally, Heidegger's conf...
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 | The Ink Garden of Brother Theophane
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 | When Your Pet Dies
Publication Date: June 22, 2001is is a beautiful, powerful and poignant book that teaches children how to cope with and recover from the loss of a pet. Often, the loss of a beloved companion animal is the first loss a child experiences, and the child is ill-prepared or ill-equipped to handle this painful and complex experience.Featuring charming, whimsical illustrations by a young artist, When Your Pet Dies touchingly and sensitively provides information that will help both children and adults recover not only from the loss of a pet, but from other inevitable losses we all encounter. ...
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 | Pok'along in the Valley of the Digadoos
Publication Date: June 15, 2008Pok'along, a very inquisitive rabbit, meets two individuals, Ground Hog and Charlie the Chicken. Though Pok'along has never seen anything like these two individuals, the strangers become friends, and together they travel the forest searching for a path to the top of the mountain. Discovering the Valley of the Digadoos, they must confront the council of elders and cross the kingdoms belonging to Tarifess, the prince of evil, and that of his brother, Goda. Death will accompany the three in their travels, obstacles will block their progress, but their strong bond ...
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 | Crocodiles/Cocodrilos (Let's Read About Animals/ Conozcamos a Los Animales) (Spanish Edition)
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 | God Bless Me, God Bless You
Publication Date: October 2001| Age Level: 4 and up What better way to teach young children to pray and ease those nighttime fears than with a bedtime prayer of blessing?Young children ages three to six will love to follow along with the rhyming prayer in God Bless Me, God Bless You. The book teaches children to pray for people in their family and in other countries, reassures them that God takes care of animals and creation, and ends in confidence that God will bless both me and you. It also reminds children that God created all things and that we should appreciate His gifts.Colorful illust...
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 | Matthew's Dream (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)
Publication Date: April 1, 1995| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A visit to an art museum inspires a young mouse to become a painter. ...
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 | Some Friend
Release Date: January 9, 2007| Age Level: 8 and up Finding a friend isn't easy. Especially when there aren't many kids age eleven in your neighborhood. Being a friend is even harder. In Pearl's neighborhood Lenore is everyone's friend of choice. She has her hair straightened and curled at a real beauty shop, her own pink phone, and a canopy bed. The most Pearl hopes for is to be included as one of Lenore's followers. Then outcast Artemesia comes into Pearl's life. Artemesia is everything Pearl dreams of being -- a dancer and an artist. But then Lenore makes it clear she can't stand Artemesia...
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 | Noah's Busy Ark (3D Story Magnets)
Publication Date: March 13, 2006Children will love making the soft, 3-D magnetic pieces stick to the pages of the book! Noah's Busy Ark is a lively retelling of a favorite Bible story and an interactive learning experience. The magnetic pieces are used to complete the pictures and act out the story on each page. It's a great way for your child to develop valuable cognitive skills while becoming fully involved in a timeless tale from the Bible! ...
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 | Nina Rose's Toes
Publication Date: January 9, 2004Children's Ballet Story ...
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| Careers Working Outdoors (3rd Edition) (Kogan Page careers)
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 | Loving Monday: Succeeding in Business Without Selling Your Soul
Publication Date: May 31, 2006Instead of grinding it out until Friday and living only for weekends, a successful Ohio manufacturing executive has seen how his work can be filled with meaning and purpose. The key is integrating his work and beliefs. As a result, both grow--along with his love for Mondays.Beckett brings all of life together: work, belief, value, character, relationship, truth, worship and joy. The result is employees who feel valued, enjoy their work, work hard and are successful at what they do. Here is a book for everyone who wants to succeed in business without selling out....
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 | How Wall Street Rips You Off-and what you can do to defend yourself
Publication Date: October 10, 2012How Wall Street Rips You Off - and what you can do to defend yourself is a "one-stop source" of information and defenses for many different groups and individual investors.The various sections of this book will walk readers through obstacles faced by the average investor in dealing with Wall Street.The authors explore the many ways in which Wall Street rips off investors and provide readers with the knowledge, tools and strategies that can be employed as defenses against becoming a Wall Street victim.Readers will learn of the many steps investors can take to...
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