 | The Marge Book: Simpsons Library of Wisdom
Release Date: March 10, 2009| Series: Simpsons Library of WisdomMarge Simpson, the woman with the impossibly blue and improbably high hairdo, is a complex woman with an inner life, hopes and dreams, and an incorrigible family that she holds together with a healthy homemade helping of common sense. Join the coupon-clipping queen of discount shopping at the nearby Sprawl-Mart, at a meeting of the school PTA, in the middle of a bodice-ripping romance novel, at a theatrical performance of her one-woman show, or in her crusade against cartoon violence, domestic strife, and suburbia's quiet life...
 |  | Crumbs from the Table of Joy and Other Plays
Publication Date: February 1, 2003This collection includes Lynn Nottage’s best known work, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, which has been produced widely since its premiere in May 1995 and which the Chicago Tribune hailed as "a complex and thought provoking new play." Also included are Mud, River, Stone, Poof, Por’Knockers and her latest work, Las Meninas, inspired by the playwright’s research into the African presence in 17th century Europe.Lynn Nottage lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her plays have been produced in many theatres across the U.S. including Second Stage (NY), Sou...
|  | Vostock & Maybe This Could Have Happened to You
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|  | We Shall Not Sleep: A Novel (World War One Novels)
Release Date: March 25, 2008| Series: World War One Novels Anne Perry’s magnificent Victorian mysteries established her as one of the world’s best known and loved historical novelists. Now, in her vividly imagined World War I novels, Perry’s talents “have taken a quantum leap” (The Star-Ledger), and so has the number of her devoted readers. We Shall Not Sleep, the final book in this epic series featuring the dedicated Reavley family, is perhaps the most memorably enthralling of all Perry’s novels.After four long years, peace is finally in sight. But chapla...
|  | Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea (New Directions Paperbook)
Publication Date: May 5, 2009| Series: New Directions Paperbook An impressionistic memoir by the award-winning Iraqi-American writer, Dunya Mikhail, Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea covers her earliest sensations of childhood to a more complicated grasp of death, beginning with the death of her father to the Gulf War and the subsequent Iraqi War.Mikhail writes: “Death always looks for us. It comes from beyond the continents. It crosses long distances holding a basket of fire in its hand.”The two halves of Mikhail's book merge past and present in a lyrical memoir that moves between...
|  | Beowulf: Facsimile of British Museum MS. Cotton Vitellius A xv, with a transliteration (Early English Text Society Original Series)
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|  | Deception (Harlequin Intrigue Series)
Publication Date: October 2, 2012| Series: Harlequin Intrigue Series (Book 1379) Columbella House, a crumbling Victorian mansion on the coast, is packed with secrets and danger. Now it all belongs to Mia St. Regis. For police chief Dylan Reese, the return of the beautiful heiress rekindles an old attraction, one he thought ended long ago. Before he can focus on their past, though, Mia's reappearance rouses a killer, someone who's made her the ultimate—and most prized—target. Dylan knows keeping Mia safe is part of the job. Yet the image of an elusive enemy getting anywhere ...
|  | The Twilight Lord (Hqn)
Publication Date: April 17, 2012| Series: Hqn Lara, Domina of Terah, has mysteriously disappeared, and Magnus Hauk is frantic to find his beloved wife. When no trace of her can be discovered, he turns to two strong allies—Prince Kaliq of the Shadows and Ilona, the most powerful of the faerie queens.Meanwhile, Kol—the Twilight Lord—revels in his victory. The exquisite Domina is now in his possession, and her powers will soon help him to conquer first Hetar and then Terah. But Lara will not stand for his treachery, even as she is seduced by his charisma. She calls on all of her ...
|  | Only the Cat Knows
Release Date: May 29, 2007The prolific and delightful Marian Babson has penned another stupendous cozy for cat lovers. Vanessa has been rushed to hospital, having been found unconscious at the foot of the stairs. Was it an accident or something else? Now, smiling weakly, suffering from a head injury that has left her with complete amnesia about the fall, the events leading up to it, and even the people closest to her, here she is, back in their midst. Or is she? In fact, the real Vanessa is still in a coma and her devoted twin brother Vance, superbly disguised as a woma...
|  | What Do Fish Have to Do With Anything?
Release Date: March 8, 2004| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Avi charts the turning points in seven young lives in this extraordinary collection of short stories.In the overlapping years when childhood and adolescence blend and shift like waves and sand, nothing is certain and everything is changing. In this extraordinary collection of stories, Avi, one of the most innovative authors writing for young people today, charts the turning points in the lives of seven protagonists in their restless middle years. Here you will meet, among others, the subject of the title story, who won...
|  | Vengeance Trail (Wilderness)
Publication Date: October 1991| Series: Wilderness (Book 7) In two tales of the wild West, Nate King and Shakespeare McNair test their survival skills after accidentally offending two Flathead Indians, and Nate takes part in a deadly buffalo hunt, with the lives of his wife and child at stake. Original." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | The Norse Discoverers Of America: The Wineland Sagas (1921)
Publication Date: October 17, 2007This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. ...
|  | The Redress of Poetry
Publication Date: November 1995The Nobel laureate shares his thoughts on poetry's special ability to rectify spiritual balance as a counterweight to hostile and oppressive forces, in a collection of ten lectures on the work of such diverse poets as Christopher Marlowe, John Clare, Oscar Wilde, and Elizabeth Bishop. ...
|  | Four Seasons The Art of Hiroshige
Publication Date: July 1, 2005The perfect gift for lovers of Far Eastern culture, this beautiful collection of Japanese woodblock prints is from one of the world's most extensive collections. " The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has over fifty-five thousand woodblock prints and morethan five hundred original woodblocks, unsurpassed by any other institution. " Features the sumptuous work of Hiroshige, the premier and beloved Japanese artist ofthe nineteenth century. ...
|  | A Butterfly for Brittany: A Children's Book About the Death of Another Child, from a Child's Point of View
Publication Date: November 28, 2005A beautifully written and illustrated childrens book of how children cope with the loss of another child to cancer. Ages 3-7 Join Megan as she helps her cousin Brittany on the day Brittany goes to heaven. Megan paints a pretty butterfly with beautiful wings, which Brittany will wear when the angels take her to heaven. An ideal book that opens the door for discussion about the death of a child. ...
|  | You Can't Smell a Flower with Your Ear! (Penguin Young Readers, L4)
Release Date: May 4, 1994| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | Soil (True Books: Natural Resources)
Publication Date: March 2003| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Fort William (Project Maps)
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|  | Ulysses S. Grant: Union General and U.S. President (Signature Lives: Civil War Era series)
Publication Date: June 1, 2005| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Life on a Victorian Steamship Hb (History of Britain)
Publication Date: March 1997 ...
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