 | The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
Publication Date: February 1, 1982With a preface written by the author especially for this edition, this is the complete collection of stories by Eudora Welty. Including the earlier collections A Curtain of Green, The Wide Net, The Golden Apples, and The Bride of the Innisfallen, as well as previously uncollected ones, these forty-one stories demonstrate Eudora Welty's talent for writing from diverse points-of-view with “vision that is sweet by nature, always humanizing, uncannily objective, but never angry” (Washington Post). ...
 |
 | The Family Tree
Release Date: December 29, 2004 Rebecca Monroe is terrified of turning into her mother. On the day Lady Diana married Prince Charles, Rebecca’s mother locked herself in thebathroom of 24 Beech Drive and never came out.Was it because the holiday dinnerdidn’t turn out just right?Because Rebecca’s grandmother married her first cousin? Orwas she simply, unalterably unhappy?According to Rebecca’s scientist husband, ourgenes control our fate, but Rebecca isn’t so sure.Leaving everything to science allowslittle room for the events that shape our lives. Looking for clues in ...
|
 | Old Devil Moon
Publication Date: August 1, 2008“[Christopher] Fowler repeatedly challenges the reader to redraw the boundaries between innocence and malevolence, rationality and paranoia. His strength lies in the way he unveils the darker side of the ordinary.”—Guardian A geologist trapped in a town without water is lured into a desperate escape plan. A boy plans a murder in an eerie funfair. A cop witnesses an inexplicable plague of madness. A teenager learns a deadly trick with his cell phone. Christopher Fowler’s tenth collection of uniquely disturbing short stories contains ...
|
 | War and Peace (Modern Library Classics)
Release Date: August 31, 2004Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic Wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit. Tolstoy’s genius is seen clearly in the multitude of fully realized and equally memorable characters that populate this massive chronicle. Out of this complex narrative emerges a profound examination of the individual’s place in the historical process, one that makes it clear why Thomas Mann praised Tolstoy for his Homeric powers and placed War and Peace in the same category as the Iliad...
|
 | The Spanish Tragedy (New Mermaids)
Publication Date: August 25, 2009| ISBN-10: 1408114216 | ISBN-13: 978-1408114216| Edition: Revised edition The first fully-fledged example of a revenge tragedy, the genre that became so influential in later Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, The Spanish Tragedy (1589) occupies a very special place in the history of English Renaissance drama. Hieronimo, Knight-Marshal of Spain during its war with Portugal, fails to obtain justice when his son is murdered for courting Bel-Imperia, the Duke of Castile's daughter, and decides to take justice into his own handsThis new student edition has been f...
|
 | Zhongguo gu dai shi ge li cheng (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
...
|
 | Cali Boys (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Boyfriend Season (PB))
Publication Date: April 1, 2012| Series: Boyfriend Season (PB) FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Kassidy Maddox enjoys being the center of attention, juggling three men until she meets a new one who wants her for himself. ...
|
 | Kissing the Gunners Daughter
Publication Date: May 1, 1993Investigating the murder of a socialite family, Inspector Wexford is forced to face his own deepest feelings. Called "one of Rendell's darkest and most suble character studies" (SF Chronicle). ...
|
 | The Empress and the Silkworm
Release Date: January 1, 1995| Grade Level: P and up Almost five thousand years ago, a young Chinese empress was having tea in the garden. A cocoon from a mulberry tree fell into her cup. Through a dream and her persistence, the first silk cloth was made. ...
|
 | The Rain Came Down
Publication Date: October 1, 2000| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up An unexpected rain shower causes quarreling among the members of a small community. ...
|
 | Myka the Goddess Witch and Libby's Paranormal Time Travel: Combo
Publication Date: August 28, 2012"Myka the Goddess Witch: Zeus Secret" When the father of all gods Zeus discovered his beloved daughter Athena was pregnant with Apollo’s baby, he ordered all gods and goddesses to keep it a secret because he wanted all mortals to believe Athena was an eternal virgin. The moment I was born Zeus gave me away to a loyal mortal 'witch' named Maia which means 'nursing mother'. My father Apollo had to have a special magic spell done by Maia because he was the god of truth who can’t speak a lie. Zeus also asked Maia to cast a spell on my mother so she ...
|
 | Stay: The True Story of Ten Dogs
...
|
 | The Legend of Old Abe: A Civil War Eagle (Legend (Sleeping Bear))
Publication Date: July 20, 2006| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|
 | It's a Wrestling Mat, Not a Dance Floor (Sports Illustrated Kids Victory School Superstars (Quality))
Publication Date: January 2, 2011| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|
| Clean Air, Dirty Air (Earthwatch)
Publication Date: March 1994 ...
|
 | The World's Wildest Roller Coasters (Built for Speed (Capstone))
Publication Date: January 1, 2006| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|
| ARAB-ISRAELI WARS (WARS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD S.)
...
|
 | Kristina: Queen of Vampires - Chapter II (v. 2)
Publication Date: October 1, 2007| Series: Kristina Queen of Vampires (Book 2) Resurrected from her last story, Kristina seeks to get back into the minds of her former slaves for complete sexual control! But a local band of vampires sense her presence, find her, and inform her of her all-powerful past as a lustful Queen of vampires. She’s not sure she wants that throne back. After all, all she wants is some good warm blood and a lot of very hot sex! ...
|
 | St. John Chrysostom Old Testament Homilies Volume 1
Publication Date: February 26, 2007Three volumes with Chrysostom's homilies on Old Testament prophets, heroes and texts. Volume One includes homilies on Hannah, David and Saul. Volume Two includes homilies on Isaiah and Jeremiah. Volume Three includes homilies on various Psalms and on the obscurity of the Old Testament. "Sometimes by choice, sometimes of necessity, St John Chrysostom in the course of his ministry in Antioch and Constantinople addressed congregations on Old Testament texts and figures, including the prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah. It may have been political developments in ...
|
 | The Oxford Study Bible: Revised English Bible with Apocrypha
Publication Date: March 12, 1992| ISBN-10: 0195290003 | ISBN-13: 978-0195290004| Edition: Annotated This volume combines a cultural guide to the biblical world and an annotated Bible.Its notes feature the reflections of Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Jewish scholars. * Twenty-three insightful articles on aspects of the history, literary background, and culture of the biblical era. * A special index of people, places, and themes of the Bible. * 36 pages of full-color New Oxford Bible Maps, with index. ...
|
留言列表
