 | The Songs of Salanda: And Other Stories of Sulu
Publication Date: May 1994In this engrossing collection of sixteen short stories, H. Arlo Nimmo tells of a young man coming of age while living among a remote cluster of islands in the southern Philippines with a people unlike any he had known. Nimmo combines an anthropologist's eye for the significant detail with a storyteller's gift for bringing his characters to life. His book is a vivid narrative of a people and their culture on the brink of momentous change. The Songs of Salanda is Nimmo's deeply personal exploration of his early anthropological field experiences in the Sulu archipelago...
 |  | Primary Justice
Release Date: January 3, 1995Ben Kincaid wants to be a lawyer because he wants to do the right thing. But once he leaves the D.A.'s office for a hot-shot spot in Tulsa's most prestigious law firm, Ben discovers that doing the right thing and representing his client's interests can be mutually exclusive.An explosive legal thriller that takes readers on a frantic ride of suspicion and intrigue, PRIMARY JUSTICE brings morality and temptation together in one dangerous motion.From the Paperback edition. ...
|  | Educating Seeta: The Anglo-Indian Family Romance and the Poetics of Indirect Rule (VICTORIAN CRITICAL INTERVENTIO)
Publication Date: April 30, 2010| Series: VICTORIAN CRITICAL INTERVENTIO Even though Edward Said’s Orientalism inspired several generations of scholars to study the English novel’s close involvement with colonialism, they have not considered how English novels themselves were radically altered by colonialism. In Educating Seeta, Shuchi Kapila argues that the paradoxes of indirect rule in British India were negotiated in “family romances” which encoded political struggle in the language of domestic and familial civility. A mixture of domestic ideology and liberal polit...
|  | Greg Iles CD Collection: The Quiet Game, Turning Angel, and Blood Memory
Publication Date: November 29, 2006The Quiet Game:Penn Cage is no stranger to death. As a Houston prosecutor he sent sixteen men to death row, and watched seven of them die. But now, in the aftermath of his wife's death, the grief-stricken father packs up his four-year-old daughter, Annie, and returns to his hometown in search of healing. But peace is not what he finds there. After twenty years away, Penn is stunned to find his own family trapped in a web on intrigue and danger.Turning Angel:Turning Angel marks the long-awaited return of Penn Cage, the lawyer hero of The Quiet Game, and intr...
|  | Sherlock Holmes 's Greatest Adventure THE EARTHQUAKE MACHINE
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|  | X-Men and Power Pack: The Power of X (X-Men Power Pack)
Publication Date: May 3, 2006| Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Baseball at War: World War II and the Fall of the Color Line (American Game Series)
Publication Date: April 1997| Age Level: 11 and up...
|  | Before the Creeks Ran Red
Release Date: January 7, 2003| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and upA tattered flag above Fort Sumter . . . riots in the streets . . . Union troops occupying private homes and harassing citizens . . . The months before the first major battle of the Civil War were marked by confusion, deep emotion, and bitter divisions between families, neighbors, and friends. Timothy Donovan, a bugler at Fort Sumter; Joseph Schwartz, a scholarship student from a working-class family in Baltimore; and Gregory Howard, son of a wealthy man in Alexandria, Virginia, all find their loyalties challenged by...
|  | Mike Mulligan and More: Four Classic Stories by Virginia Lee Burton
Publication Date: October 28, 2002| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: K and up Best known for the ever popular Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel and the Caldecott Medal winner The Little House, Virginia Lee Burton wrote and illustrated stories that have been entertaining children, parents, and grandparents for more than sixty years. Many of her books—with themes that honor a simple way of life and celebrate heroes who endure through determination and by adapting to change—have become classic American tales. With an introduction by Barbara Elleman, author of Virginia Lee Burton: A...
|  | Mocha: The Real Doctor
Publication Date: October 1, 2003| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Mocha, the real doctor, resides in Dr. Susan's veterinary clinic and sleeps by day, but when night has come and the staff has gone home, leaving the many sick and hurting animals to convalesce, it is time for Mocha to make his rounds. Up Mocha springs, straightens his tail, and sets to attentively visiting each patient. Gently, he sings, purrs, and coaxes every one to health. All his healing work done and having made his usual lordly daybreak stroll through Dr. Susan's flower beds, Mocha has his breakfast and sett...
|  | Shadow Horse
Release Date: March 27, 2001| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Horses + mystery + rescuing abused animals = a triple crown of perpetually popular preteen genres!Thirteen-year-old Jasmine is found guilty of assaulting Hugh Robicheaux, the owner of the horse farm where she works. But she's still determined to prove that Robicheaux killed Whirlwind, the mare she loved. Jas is sure that Shadow Horse, a scrawny brown gelding she rescues at a horse auction, is the key to the mystery—but just how is Shadow Horse connected to Whirlwind?Deftly written by a teacher and equestrian wh...
|  | Good Luck, Anna Hibiscus!
Publication Date: March 1, 2011| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | British Isles (Travel Through)
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|  | Going to War in Roman Times (Armies of the Past)
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|  | Let's Visit Tunisia
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|  | Little Miss Grace Promise Book
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|  | Ruth: Woman of Loyalty (Young Reader's Christian Library)
Publication Date: August 1, 2003| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Coqui Frogs and Other Latin American Frogs / Coqu-Es y Otras Ranas de Latinoam'rica (Animals of Latin America/Animales de Latinoam'rica) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Josh Discovers Chanukah!
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|  | Jesus Speaks to Teens
Publication Date: March 1, 2004These forty-four short yet hard-hitting readings cover such themes as purity, perseverance, loyalty, and forgiveness--all from a teen-centric viewpoint.Drawing speci?cally from the words of Jesus, each reading offers back story for the biblical passage, how Jesus' words apply to teens today, and additional Scriptures and inspirational quotes to reinforce the point.Perfect for birthdays, Easter baskets, graduation--or a gift "just because." ...
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