![Thom Pain (based on nothing) [Trade Edition]](https://imageproxy.pixnet.cc/imgproxy?url=https://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31dffcF6PLL._SL500_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-big,TopRight,35,-73_OU01_SS500_.jpg&width=150) | Thom Pain (based on nothing) [Trade Edition]
Publication Date: April 1, 2005“Astonishing in its impact. . . . One of the treasured nights in the theatre that can leave you both breathless with exhilaration and, depending on your sensitivity to meditations on the bleak and beautiful mysteries of human experience, in a puddle of tears . . . Thom Pain is at bottom a surreal meditation on the empty promises life makes, the way experience never lives up to the weird and awesome fact of being. But it is also, in its odd, bewitching beauty, an affirmation of life’s worth.”—Charles Isherwood, The New York Times ...
 |  | The Virgin Suicides: A Novel
Release Date: April 28, 2009First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters--beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys--commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together the mystery of the family's fatal melancholy, in this hypnotic and unforgettable novel of adolescent love, disquiet, and death. Jeffrey Eugenides evokes the emotions of youth with haunting sensitivity and dark humo...
|  | Haunted Savannah
Publication Date: July 19, 2011| Series: Haunted More than two dozen tales of ghosts, unexplained phenomena, and other spooky happenings in Savannah, GA, the city of legendary ghosts. Includes information so readers can check out the spirits themselves -- if they dare. ...
|  | Felicia's Favorite Story
Publication Date: November 1, 2002| Age Level: 3 and up It's bedtime, but before Felicia goes to sleep she wants to hear her favorite story, the story of how she was adopted by Mama Nessa and Mama Linda. And so Felicia's parents tell her how they flew off in a big silver airplane to meet the baby girl who was waiting for them, and how they loved her from the very first moment they saw her. ...
|  | Leaving Losapas
Publication Date: March 1, 2011Leaving Losapas begins on a tiny atoll in the equatorial Pacific. Leo Markin, a young US Marine and Vietnam combat veteran who survived the war, found himself so changed by the experience that he simply could not find a way to return to his home, family, and his fiancée in a working class city of his birth outside of Boston. The islanders in Losapas are kind to him-he had been living there for years-and he had found a woman he came to love. Various events conspire to convince him to return to America, but on his return home he feels lost. He has troubling ...
|  | King of Comedy: The Life and Art of Jerry Lewis
Publication Date: September 1997The French love the man; America loves this noholds-barred life of the uncomfortably funny Nutty Professor himselfJerry Lewis is -- by his own admission -- an American icon. He has been the highest-paid performer in history in film, on TV, and (in 1995!) on Broadway. A direct influence on giants from Woody Allen to Jim Carrey, today he has become a billion-dollar fundraiser -- and, arguably, one of the best-known faces on earth. And, as Eddie Murphy's Lewis-backed remake of The Nutty Professor shows, he isn't through with us yet.Shawn Levy's thorough and witty...
|  | The Magic Barrel: Stories
Publication Date: July 7, 2003Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction Introduction by Jhumpa LahiriBernard Malamud's first book of short stories, The Magic Barrel, has been recognized as a classic from the time it was published in 1959. The stories are set in New York and in Italy (where Malamud's alter ego, the struggleing New York Jewish Painter Arthur Fidelman, roams amid the ruins of old Europe in search of his artistic patrimony); they tell of egg candlers and shoemakers, matchmakers, and rabbis, in a voice that blends vigorous urban realism, Yiddish idiom, and a dash of artistic ...
|  | The Song of Roland: Formulaic Style and Poetic Craft (Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA)
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|  | Tradescantia y la Princesa de Haiku (Fairy Chronicles) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: December 1, 2008| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Desenganos Amorosos
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|  | Imperative: Volume 1: A Tale of Pride and Prejudice
Publication Date: February 22, 2012Fitzwilliam Darcy is a man with a great many secrets to keep, one involves his sister, and the other involves his heart.The problem is, he cannot just keep the secrets.They demand attention, and action, and in hopeless times, a good man does not always think things through, even when he is desperately trying to do the right thing for the two most important women in his life.In Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Fitzwilliam Darcy arrived in Ramsgate before his sister could leave with George Wickham.Things are not so easily remedied in this two-volume ...
|  | A Friendship For Today
Publication Date: January 1, 2007| Age Level: 8 and up From highly acclaimed, award-winning author Patricia McKissack comes a powerful, poignant, and timely tale of segregation, family, and one surprising friendship.The year is 1954, the place is Missouri, and twelve-year-old Rosemary Patterson is about to make history. She is one of the first African American students to enter the white school in her town. Headstrong, smart Rosemary welcomes the challenge, but starting this new school gets more daunting when her best friend is hospitalized for polio. Suddenly, Rosemary must face all the sta...
|  | A Walk in the Rainforest
Publication Date: March 1, 1992| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Written and illustrated by a 14 year-old in 1992, this best-selling book has introduced a whole generation to the wonders of a very important habitat. Following XYZ the Ant, young readers walk through the alphabet and engage in fun alliterations about the amazing anteater, majestic macaw, and quiet quetzal along with the other inhabitants they encounter in the rainforest. The colorful illustrations were done in magic marker. It reaches a large age range because the large text is for young readers, while smaller text...
| | Sex Education: Some Guidelines for Teachers (Modern teaching)
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|  | Mercury (Pebble Plus: Exploring the Galaxy)
Publication Date: August 1, 2003| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Inventions (FAQ)
Publication Date: February 1, 2003| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Why Pi?
Publication Date: August 31, 2009| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up This entertaining follow-up to DK's popular Go Figure!, Why Pi? presents even more mind-bending ways to think about numbers. This time, author Johnny Ball focuses on how people have used numbers to measure things through the ages, from the ways the ancient Egyptians measured the pyramids to how modern scientists measure time and space.Johnny Ball has hosted more than 20 UK children's television series about math and science. He is known for making math not just easy to understand, but genuinely fun and fascinati...
|  | From Then to Now: A Short History of the World
Release Date: March 22, 2011| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Just 50,000 years ago, our hunter-gatherer ancestors ventured off the African savannah and into the wider world. Now, our technology reaches far out into the cosmos. How did we get to where we are today?With lively text and colorful illustrations, From Then to Now explains how individual societies struggled to find their own paths, despite war, disease, slavery, natural disasters, and the relentless growth of human knowledge. From Hammurabi to Henry Ford, from Incan couriers to the Internet, from the Taj Mahal to the ...
|  | Now I See (Me Too!)
Publication Date: October 2001| Age Level: 2 and up...
|  | Shapes (Museum of Modern Art)
Release Date: May 1, 2006| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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