 | Birthday Parties in Heaven: Thoughts on Love, Life, Grief, and Other Matters of the Heart
Release Date: August 1, 2000With The Chin Kiss King, her critically lauded debut novel, Ana Veciana-Suarez joined the ranks of Julia Alvarez and Cristina Garcia, authors who have defined the Latina experience in contemporary fiction. In Birthday Parties in Heaven, Veciana-Suarez's first collection of essays, the acclaimed writer and mother of five offers seventeen wise and generous-hearted takes on subjects as diverse as: living in exile; the untimely death of her first husband; being a single mother; interfaith marriage; and the bond between sisters. She also offers reflections, by turns hu...
 |  | The Intellectual and Cultural World of the Early Modern Inns of Court
Release Date: March 29, 2011| ISBN-10: 0719082366 | ISBN-13: 978-0719082368This is a collection of essays on an important but overlooked aspect of early modern English life: the artistic and intellectual patronage of the Inns of Court and their influence on religion, politics, education, rhetoric, and culture from the late fifteenth through the early eighteenth centuries. This period witnessed the height of the Inns’ status as educational institutions: emerging from fairly informal associations in the fourteenth century, the Inns of Court in the fifteenth and sixteenth centu...
|  | Las legiones malditas (Zeta Maxi) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 2012| Series: Zeta Maxi Quinto Fabio Maximo envia a Publio Cornelio Escipion a liderar las legiones V y VI, estacionadas en la remota Sicilia. Asi, cree, se librara del Africanus. Pero las legiones tendran otro destino./Quintus Fabius Maximus sent Publio Cornelio Escipión to lead the legions V and VI, stationed in the remote Sicily. Thus, he believes, will get rid of Africanus. But the legions will have another destination. ...
|  | Eternal Beast: Mark of the Vampire
Release Date: August 7, 2012| Series: Mark of the Vampire (Book 4) A Taste of BloodEver since his abduction by the Eternal Order of Vampires, Gray Donohue has finally found his true calling: vengeance. He will stop at nothing to bring his fellow Impure vampires the freedom they deserve. Now if he could just release his primal need for the beautiful vampire who saved his life—and rules his thoughts and desires… After nearly killing the senator she was assigned to protect, Dillon is now in mortal danger. The jaguar within her has been unleashed, and she can no longer control it....
|  | Love Across Time
Publication Date: May 20, 2002Love Across Time is a mixture of adventure, romance, and a little science fiction. It shows that love has no bounds—not even time. There are two stories going on simultaneously, Frank and his friend, George, in the future and Sue and her friend, Rebecca, in the present. Frank buys an ancient computer and discovers he can send and receive email from the past to the previous owner, Sue. Sue becomes Frank’s email pen pal disbelieving his claim to be from her future. Love gradually unfolds between them. The girls fly to the Caribbean for a vacation whe...
|  | A Hard Ticket Home (Mac McKenzie Mysteries)
Publication Date: March 1, 2006| Series: Mac McKenzie Mysteries Ex-St. Paul cop Rushmore McKenzie has more time, and more money, than he knows what to do with. In fact, when he's willing to admit it to himself (and he usually isn't), Mac is downright bored. Until he decides to do a favor for a friend facing a family tragedy: Nine-year-old Stacy Carlson has been diagnosed with leukemia, and the only one with the matching bone marrow that can save her is her older sister, Jamie. Trouble is, Jamie ran away from home years ago. Mac begins combing the backstreets of the Twin Cities, tracking down...
|  | Outsider in Amsterdam (Grijpstra & de Gier Mystery)
Release Date: July 1, 2003| Series: Grijpstra & de Gier Mystery Piet Verboom is found dangling from a beam in the Hindist Society he ran as a restaurant-commune in a quiet Amsterdam street. Detective-Adjutant Gripstra and Sergeant de Gier of the Amsterdam police force are sent to investigate what looks like a simple suicide.Outsider in Amsterdam is the first in the Amsterdam Cops series of internationally renowned mysteries. ...
|  | The Beckoning
Publication Date: July 24, 2012Forced to leave the few friends she’s ever had and the only life she’s ever known, snarky fifteen-year-old Marissa arrives at Briar Creek, a remote Virginia plantation house, lonely and unhappy.Immediately upon arrival, she learns that her parents have come under the power of the demon that has dwelled there for over a century and that her very life hangs by a thread.With her life in peril, Marissa makes several discoveries that would turn any teenager’s life upside down.Finding out that the nearby town of Mills Run is inhabited by the soul...
|  | Apollo & Daphne: Masterpieces of Greek Mythology
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|  | Square Cat
Release Date: January 4, 2011| Age Level: 4 and up Eula is the only square cat in town. Everything that normal cats do is hard for her -- she can't get her square paw into mouseholes, she can't wear her favorite circle skirt, and all of her friends are round! Eula is sad until her two best friends show her just how well a square cat can fit into this round world. ...
|  | Plants
Publication Date: September 1, 2001| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Unlock Rocks: Explore Clues in Crystals with Kitchen Science
Publication Date: May 14, 2010How can we trust the age of a rock? UnLock Rocks explains the ages of crystals and rocks in an easy-to-understand way, using familiar ingredients in the kitchen. The mystery and science of crystal birth and growth, along with rock dating, unfolds in a friendly conversation. While light-hearted, the presentation of physics and geology is carefully correct. UnLock Rocks combines insights from food, physics, jewelry, geology, metallurgy, materials science, forensic science, chemistry, and beekeeping. In this book, you will explore rock formation, crystals growing, ...
|  | Planet Earth (Science & Experiments Series)
Publication Date: April 1991| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
| | Col Eye Explorers Weather (Eyewitness explorers)
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|  | Mr. Finger's Space Adventures with Lyric
Publication Date: August 10, 2010I got the idea for this book from my grandson Lyric. It was something I thought would make a nice birthday gift for his third birthday. He was about a year and a half when one night I noticed he was looking at the Moon, so I started tell him about the Moon, stars, and planets, satellites and aliens. Then I started walking my fingers up his back and he asked, “Who is that, Grandpa?” I said, “That's Mr. Fingers; maybe one day he will take you on his spaceship and go visit the planets.” He said, “Ya, Grandpa!” So Mr. Fin...
|  | Rosie O'Donnell: America's Favorite Grown-up Kid
Publication Date: July 21, 2000| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Island of the Undead (Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks)
Publication Date: November 26, 1992 ...
|  | iExplore Dinosaurs (I Explore (Make Believe Ideas))
Publication Date: August 7, 2012| Age Level: 6 and up...
| | Great women of the Bible (Macartney Bible characters library)
Publication Date: 1974| Series: Macartney Bible characters library Macartney's unique descriptive style brings these women of the Bible to life and provides inspirational reading for Christians. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Beyond Budgeting: How Managers Can Break Free from the Annual Performance Trap
Publication Date: April 11, 2003| ISBN-10: 1578518660 | ISBN-13: 978-1578518661The annual budgeting process is a trap. Pressured by fixed targets and performance incentives, managers focus on making the numbers instead of making a difference, meeting set goals instead of maximizing potential. With their compensation at stake, managers often resort to deceitful-even unethical-behavior. In the end, everybody loses-the employee, the company, and ultimately the customer. Now, finance experts Jeremy Hope and Robin Fraser reveal the results of an intensive study aimed at fixing the broken budg...
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