 | Spring Night (Peter Owen Modern Classics)
Publication Date: November 18, 2004| ISBN-10: 072061189X | ISBN-13: 978-0720611892Vesaas conjures brilliantly from the somber north.""-TLS. Vesaas (1897-1970), shortlisted for the Nobel Prize on a number of occasions, was one of Norway's greatest modern writers. In this 1954 novel sixteen-year old Sissel and her young brother Olaf have been left minding their parents' farm for the night. But when a strange family descends upon them, lost, in a broken-down car, the children have to cope alone. Grete, who is in labor, is accompanied by her distraught husband, childish father-in-law, and a ...
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 | Three Men in a Boat (A CSA Word Classic)
Publication Date: August 1, 2008| Series: A CSA Word Classic Three Men in a Boat recounts the semi-autobiographical adventures and misadventures of Harris, George, an unnamed narrator, and the remarkable dog Montmorency during a boat trip from London to Oxford. Harris intended his book to be a travel guide to the Thames Valley, but his publisher found it so entertaining that the book was published as a comic novel and found instant success. Surprisingly modern, marvelously light, and utterly irresistible, it remains one of the most-read and best-loved books of the era. ...
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 | Whatever Makes You Happy: A Novel
Release Date: April 14, 2009“An excellent comic novel that interweaves the romance, humor, and pathos of three complicated families.”—Publishers Weekly Three suburban moms who have long been friends decide to show up unannounced at the homes of their thirty-something layabout sons. Their goal: to swoop in and set things right. The result: a hilarious mix that will resonate with mothers who can’t turn a blind eye and their adult sons who can’t quite get it together. ...
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 | Reading Dante's Stars
Publication Date: February 9, 2000Astronomy is one of the most prominent and perplexing features of Dante's Divine Comedy. In the final rhyme of the poem's three parts, and in scores of descriptions and analogies, the stars are an intermediate goal and a constant point of reference for the spiritual journey the poem narrates. This book makes a sustained analysis of Dante's use of astronomy, not only in terms of the precepts of medieval science but also in relation to specific moral, philosophical, and poetic problems laid out in each chapter. For Dante, Alison Cornish says, the stars offer o...
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 | Bicycle Stunt Riding (Extreme Sports)
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 | What Is Pollination? (Big Science Ideas)
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 | Ingenious Genes (Microexplorers)
Publication Date: November 1997| Age Level: 8 and up...
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 | Autumn Leaves (Preparing for Winter)
Publication Date: August 2000| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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 | Empire State Building (All Aboard America)
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 | Crossing a Continent: The Incredible Journey of Cabeza De Vaca
Publication Date: March 31, 2005| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up An account of the trouble-plagued expedition that led Spanish explorerCabaza de Vaca from Santo Domingo to Florida to Texas to Mexico at thebeginning of the sixteenth century. ...
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 | Jacqueline Kennedy (Pebble Plus: First Ladies)
Publication Date: August 1, 2010| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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 | Baby Jesus
Publication Date: September 30, 2008This delightful board book is the perfect way to introduce little ones to the beloved story of the first Christmas. The book has six tabs that show characters and objects peeking out from the story, allowing kids to jump to their favorite parts. Simple, friendly text and whimsical illustrations makes this book and instant favorite of preschoolers. ...
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 | Time Warped: Five Read-Aloud Plays That Stretch the Truth About the Past
Publication Date: January 1, 2001Time Warped is a book of five read-aloud plays that stretch the truth about the past. With plays such as "Renaissance Reform School" and "The Idiodyssey," this book will have students laughing as they try to decipher what is real and what is not. The other plays are "The Schmikings," "There's No Ages Like Dark Ages," and "The Mummy's Purse.' The plays make great scripts for audio recordings, and students love supplying the sound effects.Each play includes follow-up activities for writing, discussion, and researc...
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 | Brain Buzz: India/Sports/Our World Book (Challenge)
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 | Fluffy Finds Love: Fluffy the cat discovers the true meaning of Valentine's Day
Publication Date: February 2, 2010Fluffy discovers that love and admiration cannot be bought or bribed, but must be inspired. Also, love is not always where we seek it. ...
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 | Soul Care: How to Plan and Guide Inspirational Retreats / Out of Print
Publication Date: November 25, 2003This product is Out of Print from the publisher. ...
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 | The Ministry of Communion (Collegeville Ministry Series)
Publication Date: September 10, 2004| Series: Collegeville Ministry Father Kwatera provides a short history of this min-istry and then offers directives on how to minister the Eucharist to the assemble at Mass or apart from Mass and to the sick and confirmed in their homes. ...
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 | The Service Hymnal (Compiled for general use in all religious services of the Church,School and Home)
Publication Date: 1962Compiled for general use in all religious services of the Church, School and Home. Printed in Round and Shaped Notes. Responsive and Unison Readings in back of book. ...
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 | Be a People Person
Publication Date: April 2002Being a leader means working with people, and that's not always easy! Interpersonal relationships can make or break a leader-whether in the office, the church, or elsewhere. ...
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 | Introduction to Scheduling (Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Science)
Publication Date: November 18, 2009| ISBN-10: 1420072730 | ISBN-13: 978-1420072730| Edition: 1 Full of practical examples, Introduction to Scheduling presents the basic concepts and methods, fundamental results, and recent developments of scheduling theory. With contributions from highly respected experts, it provides self-contained, easy-to-follow, yet rigorous presentations of the material.The book first classifies scheduling problems and their complexity and then presents examples that demonstrate successful techniques for the design of efficient approximation algorithms. It also disc...
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