 | Lucky Stars
Publication Date: April 11, 2003| Series: Heller, Jane Stacey Reiser left Cleveland for Hollywood to pursue an acting career—and to escape her lovable but meddlesome mother, Helen. But her plan backfires when the widowed Helen sells her house and follows Stacey to tinsel town, invades every aspect of her daughter’s world and drives her crazy. As in eye twitch crazy. Insomnia crazy. Acid reflux crazy. “If only Mom would get a life,” Stacey wishes after her mother has called for the zillionth time that day to nag her about her clothes, her hair, her lack of a wedding ri...
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 | Isherwood on Writing: The Lectures in California
Publication Date: December 28, 2007In the 1960s, Christopher Isherwood gave an unprecedented series of lectures at California universities on the theme “A Writer and His World.” During this time Isherwood, who would liberate the memoir and become the founding father of modern gay writing, spoke openly for the first time about his craft—on writing for film, theater, and novels—and on spirituality. Isherwood on Writing brings these public addresses together to reveal a distinctly—and surprisingly—American Isherwood. Given at a critical time in I...
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 | Noah's Flood: The Genesis Story in Western Thought
Publication Date: November 10, 1999| ISBN-10: 0300076487 | ISBN-13: 978-0300076486This intriguing book by a master historian explores the ancient story of Noah and the Flood -- its origins in pre-Biblical culture, its development in Western thought over 2,000 years, and its fascination for theologians, scientists, and even psychoanalysts. Generously illustrated throughout, the book includes compelling accounts of individuals who endorsed or rejected the story, and of painters, sculptors, poets, dramatists, and composers who found inspiration in it. ...
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 | Communicating for Results: A Guide for Business and the Professions
Publication Date: February 16, 2010| ISBN-10: 1439036438 | ISBN-13: 978-1439036433| Edition: 9 This best-selling text will show you the basic concepts and techniques you need to successfully communicate in today's business world, regardless of your current level of business experience. Covering every aspect of the communication process, COMMUNICATING FOR RESULTS: A GUIDE FOR BUSINESS AND THE PROFESSIONS, 9e, will give you a competitive edge in any business situation-from the initial interview to making skilled presentations (complete with professional visual aids) to assuming a leadershi...
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 | The New Oxford Book of Romantic Period Verse
Publication Date: May 6, 1993| ISBN-10: 0192141589 | ISBN-13: 978-0192141583| Edition: 1St Edition As Jerome McGann writes, the poets whom we call the Romantics--Wordsworth, Coleridge, Burns, and Blake, Byron, Shelley and Keats--belonged to an age that saw the development of an extremely diverse array of writing styles.Byron's romanticism--a form that dominated the practice of 19th-century poetry throughout Europe--differs greatly from Wordsworth's and Coleridge's, whose works influenced the way the twentieth century came to think about romantic pieces. And Blake's romanticism holds a ve...
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 | Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis (Introducing Qualitative Methods series)
Publication Date: April 1, 2009| ISBN-10: 184787455X | ISBN-13: 978-1847874559| Edition: Second Edition This book provides a concise, comprehensible, and thoroughly up-to-date introduction to CDA, appropriate for both novice and experienced researchers. This new edition has been updated throughout, with a new introduction contextualizing the development of the CDA approach, and two entirely new chapters on the ‘social actor approach’ to CDA and the use of quantitative corpus linguistic methods. The editors have brought together contributions from leading experts in the fiel...
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 | Barthes and the Empire of Signs (Postmodern Encounters)
Publication Date: August 7, 1997| ISBN-10: 1840462779 | ISBN-13: 978-1840462777Roland Barthes' experience of Japan, a morass of signs where appearance and reality intermingle, led him to move from linguistic semiology to a much broader critical enquiry into the field of mass media and popular culture. Do we inhabit today an 'empire of signs'? ...
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 | Blame It on Bath: The Truth About the Duke
Release Date: February 28, 2012 A marriage of convenience . . . or of destiny? Gerard de Lacey is determined to find the man who is blackmailing his family, but with his inheritance and status at risk, a hasty marriage to a wealthy bride also seems in order—just in case things take a turn for the worse. Charismatic and capable, Gerard knows he can win the hand of any lady he chooses. Still, he's not expecting a rich widow to find him and propose the very thing he wants: a marriage of convenience. Katherine Howe's first marriage was one of dreary duty. Now that she's being pressured ...
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 | A Vampire' Reckoning: The Stone Masters Vampire Series
Publication Date: October 17, 2011| Series: The Stone Masters Vampire Series Is it fair for the sins of the father to be paid by the son?Jadeon Artimas lived in the 18th century among vast wealth and privilege, oblivious to the knowledge that he was born into a secret society of vampire hunters known as the Stone Masters. When Orpheus, the world’s most notorious vampire, discovers the identity of the Stone Lord who murdered his beloved, he sets his undead ambition to making Lord Artimas pay the ultimate price—by turning his son Jadeon into a creature of the night.In A Vampire...
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 | This Book Is Not Good For You (The Secret Series)
Publication Date: September 1, 2009| Grade Level: 3 and up...
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 | The Enormous Egg
Publication Date: April 1, 1993| Grade Level: 3 and up Young Nate Twitchell is surprised when one of the hens on his family farm lays a giant egg.After a painstaking wait, Nate is even more surprised when it hatches and out pops a baby triceratops that he names Uncle Beazley!But when Nate decides to keep the dino and raise it on his own, he has no idea what he's getting himself into.As Uncle Beazley grows, Nate and his family realize they are not equipped to take care of a full-sized dinosaur, and so with the help of their scientist friend, Nate and Uncle Beazley set off for the National Mus...
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 | O Dinossauro Mais Feroz (Portuguese Edition)
Publication Date: August 26, 2012Você não vai querer brincar com este dinossauro. Ele é grande e é malvado. Ele é um lagarto como um trovão. E ele é um comilão!Ou pelo menos é isso que diz...Siga-o enquanto caminha em suas aventuras pelo Jurássico.22 páginas ilustradas. ...
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 | Walk in the Woods (How to Paint & Draw)
Publication Date: January 2000| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
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 | Cambridge Checkpoints VCE Food and Technology 2007
Publication Date: December 1, 2006 ...
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 | The Abominable Snowman
Publication Date: December 1977Briefly describes evidence that large ape-like creatures or Yeti live in the Himalaya Mountains. ...
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 | Sea and Cedar: How the Northwest Coast Indians Lived (How They Lived)
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 | Ke$ha (Blue Banner Biographies)
Publication Date: July 19, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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 | Soy Verdi (Coleccion Flauta de Pan de Inciacion a la Musica) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: April 15, 2007| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
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 | Gwendolyn Brooks (Young at Heart)
Publication Date: August 1, 1997| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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 | Me and God: A Daily Devotional for 3-7 Year Olds
Publication Date: July 1, 2001| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up This devotional book for children ages 3-7 is based on the classic, best-selling daily devotional, God Calling. God Calling is now available for young children to read on their own or with their parents. Each day's devotion includes a word of encouragement from their Friend, Jesus; a Bible passage to read; and something to think about or pray about. Full-color illustrations throughout make this book a delight for children and their parents. ...
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