 | Aberrations
Publication Date: July 1, 2008Twenty-one-year-old narcoleptic Angel Duet knows her father harbors secrets. He loves and protects her, but his suspicious refusal to discuss her mother s death drives Angel to worship an image created from the little history she does have: her father's sketchy stories and her mother's treasured photography, studies of clouds that have hung in the their foyer for more than twenty years.When her father's girlfriend moves in, the photographs come down, and Angel's search for truth becomes an obsession. As she struggles to uncover the past and gain control over the...
 |  | In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 2 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Release Date: January 25, 2005In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is Proust’s spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrator’s memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. At the heart of the story lie his relationships with his grandmother and with the Swann family. As a meditation on different forms of love, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower has no equal. Here, Proust introduces some of his greatest comic inventions, from the magnificently dull M. de Norpois to the enchanting Robert de Saint-Loup. It is memorable as well for the first ...
|  | Women Pulitzer Playwrights: Biographical Profiles and Analyses of the Plays
Publication Date: October 2004In the first century of the coveted Pulitzer Prizes, only 11 women have won the prize for drama: Zona Gale (1921), Susan Glaspell (1931), Zoe Akins (1935), Mary Coyle Chase (1945), Ketti Frings (1958), Beth Henley (1981), Marsha Norma (1983), Wendy Wasserstein (1989), Paula Vogel (1998), Margaret Edson (1999), and Suzan-Lori Parks (2002). Here in this book are their stories and the stories of their landmark plays, beginning with Gale’s Miss Lulu Bett, which championed the unmarried woman forced to work in the home of a married relative, and closing with Par...
|  | How to Write and Market the Regency Romance
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|  | Karate (Martial Arts in Action)
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|  | The Jungle Book (Penguin Readers, Level 2)
Publication Date: January 22, 2001| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up A family of wolves takes a little boy into their home in the jungle. The child learns and plays with the other cubs. But can he really live in the jungle? And will the dangerous tiger, Shere Khan, catch him?Rudyard Kipling's much-loved tale of jungle animals with real personalities is popular with readers of all ages. ...
|  | The goodnight moon room (A Pop-up book)
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|  | I Remember Papa
Publication Date: April 1, 1998| Age Level: 4 and up Each weekend Audie rises at dawn to help out on his family's farm. Afterward he carefully saves the quarter he has earned, dreaming that he might eventually have enough to buy a baseball glove. Papa has promised him that someday they will see a real live game. But there always seems to be too much work and too little money.But Papa does keep his promise. In need of work boots, he announces that the two of them will go into town to buy a new pair and, best of all, see the Reds play baseball! Audie stuffs his entire savings into his pocket, ...
|  | The Steam Engine (Transforming Power of Technology)
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|  | Count Your Way Through Mexico
Publication Date: January 1, 1989| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Beatrice's Goat
Release Date: February 1, 2001| Age Level: 4 and up More than anything, Beatrice longs to be a schoolgirl. But in her small African village, only children who can afford uniforms and books can go to school. Beatrice knows that with six children to care for, her family is much too poor.But then Beatrice receives a wonderful gift from some people far away -- a goat! Fat and sleek as a ripe mango, Mugisa (which means "luck") gives milk that Beatrice can sell. With Mugisa's help, it looks as if Beatrice's dream may come true after all.Page McBrier and Lori Lohstoeter beautifully recount this...
|  | Explor A Maze
Publication Date: September 1, 1997| Age Level: 8 and up Text, maps, and mazes follow the journeys of ten explorers, including Leif Erikson, Marco Polo, Vasco da Gama, David Livingstone, and Neil Armstrong and "Buzz" Aldrin. ...
|  | My Very First Easter (Candle Bible for Toddlers)
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| | The Story of Prince Rama (Viking Kestrel picture books)
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|  | Phonics Intervention (Saxon Phonics Intervention)
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|  | Contribution of Methodism to Atlantic Canada
Publication Date: April 14, 1992Contents: "John Wesley and the Origins of Methodism" by Owen Chadwick; "Methodist Origins in Atlantic Canada" by John Webster Grant; "Laurence Coughlan and the Origins of Methodism in Newfoundland" by Hans Rollmann; "Henry Alline, William Black, and Nova Scotia's First Great Awakening" by George Rawlyk; "Give All You Can': Methodists and Charitable Causes in Nineteenth Century Nova Scotia" by Allen B. Robertson; "Methodism and the Problem of Methodist Identity in Nineteenth-Century New Brunswick" by T.W. Acheson; "Prince Edward Island Methodist Prelude to Chur...
|  | A Young Woman After God's Own Heart--A Devotional
Publication Date: January 15, 2008Elizabeth George shares the best of A Young Woman After God's Own Heart, A Young Woman's Call to Prayer, and 2007 Christian Book Awards finalist A Young Woman's Walk with God (combined sales of 290,000 copies). Teens and tweens will enjoy these dynamic, practical messages that build good habits, cultivate can-do attitudes, and fan the flames of passion for God.This beautiful, padded book is packed with stories, how-to advice, and enthusiastic energy. Each short devotion features a topic specifically for teens and a brief prayer. Readers will discover how to:...
|  | Organizational Learning
Publication Date: September 28, 1999| ISBN-10: 1574442597 | ISBN-13: 978-1574442595| Edition: 1 Companies around the world are beginning to recognize that only by increasing the speed and quality of their learning can they succeed in the rapidly changing global marketplace. Developing organization-wide learning and becoming a learning organization has become critical for adaptation and survival.Organizational Learning: From World Class Theories to Global Best Practices starts with a review of significant learning theory and research accomplished over the past 20 years. This research is i...
|  | The Value Sphere: The Corporate Executives
Publication Date: August 7, 2009| ISBN-10: 9814277967 | ISBN-13: 978-9814277969| Edition: 4th This book, written in story narrative form, traces the development of a company from a start-up to a global enterprise. It develops the key concepts related to this evolution - corporate strategy, raising external finance, capital budgeting, dividend policy, mergers and acquisition, globalization, marketing and human resource management. The focus is on topics in corporate strategy and corporate finance, and each topic is developed in depth with problem sets and reflection questions within the c...
|  | Crafting the Republic: Lima's Artisans and Nation-Building in Peru, 1821-1879
Publication Date: November 15, 2004This clearly written, cogently argued assessment of social and political mobilization in nineteenth-century Peru focuses on 5,000 Lima artisans, 70 percent of whom were black, Indian, or mestizo. García-Bryce traces the evolution of these guild artisans into class-conscious workers. His discussion gives special attention to how artisans' declining economic success meant not only a loss of income but undercut gains in social status. It is in this interplay of economics and race that García-Bryce's analysis of the origins of class identity is most r...
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