 | The Nanny Diaries: A Novel
Release Date: February 6, 2007WANTED:One young woman to take care of four-year-old boy. Must be cheerful, enthusiastic, and selfless--bordering on masochistic. Must relish sixteen-hour shifts with a deliberately nap-deprived preschooler. Must love geting thrown up on, literally and figuratively, by everyone in his family. Must enjoy the delicious anticipation of ridiculously erratic pay. Mostly, must love being treated like fungus found growing out of employer's Hermes bag. Those who take it personally need not apply. Who wouldn't want this job? ...
 |  | Windy City Danger (Red Rock Mysteries #11)
Publication Date: February 17, 2006| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Bryce and Ashley Timberline are normal 13-year-old twins, except for one thing—they discover action-packed mystery wherever they go. Whether it's tracking down a missing groom or uncovering a drug-dealing ring, Bryce and Ashley never lose their taste for adventure. Wanting to get to the bottom of any mystery, these twins find themselves on a nonstop search for the truth. ...
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|  | Bluebeard: A Novel (Delta Fiction)
Release Date: September 8, 1998| Series: Delta Fiction Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at age seventy-one, wants to be left alone on his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked inside his potato barn. But then a voluptuous young widow badgers Rabo into telling his life story—and Vonnegut in turn tells us the plain, heart-hammering truth about man’s careless fancy to create or destroy what he loves. ...
|  | The English Patient (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
Release Date: October 4, 2011| Series: Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics Michael Ondaatje’s Booker Prize–winning best seller lyrically portrays the convergence of four damaged lives in a bomb-riddled Italian villa in the last days of the war. Hana, the grieving nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the emotionally detached Indian sapper, Kip—each is haunted in different ways by the riddle of the man they know only as the English patient, a nameless burn victim who lies swathed in bandages in an upstairs room. It is this man’s incandescent memories&mda...
|  | Milton: Paradise Lost (Landmarks of World Literature (New))
Publication Date: November 10, 2003| ISBN-10: 052153979X | ISBN-13: 978-0521539791| Edition: 2 Offering a stimulating introduction to one of the most influential texts of Western literature, this book highlights Milton's imaginative daring, in considering the heretical dimensions of Paradise Lost and its theology. It situates Milton's great poem in its literary, religious, and political contexts and includes an extremely useful and newly updated guide to further reading. First Edition Hb (1993): 0-521-39303-5First Edition Pb (1993): 0-521-39899-1 ...
|  | Three Plays: Blood Wedding, Yerma, The House of Bernarda Alba
Publication Date: September 1, 1993In these three plays, García Lorca's acknowledged masterpieces, he searched for a contemporary mode of tragedy and reminded his audience that dramatic poetry-or poetic drama-depends less on formal convention that on an elemental, radical outlook on human life. His images are beautiful and exact, but until now no translator had ever been able to make his characters speak unaffectedly on the American stage. Michael Dewell of the National Repertory Theatre and Carmen Zapata of the Bilingual Foundation of the Arts have created these versions expressly for ...
|  | Phaethon: A Reconstruction
Publication Date: December 1, 2009A new version of “Phaethon”, unperformed since the fifth century BC, amounting to a new masterpiece. Classicist Alistair Elliot, renowned for his scholarly research and dramatic translations, has deciphered from the original Greek Euripides'327 lines and reconstructed the rest of the missing text, staying as faithful to the Greek masters time and context as possible. ...
|  | Modernism and Popular Music
Publication Date: June 30, 2011Traditionally, ideas about twentieth-century 'modernism' - whether focused on literature, music or the visual arts - have made a distinction between 'high' art and the 'popular' arts of best-selling fiction, jazz and other forms of popular music, and commercial art of one form or another. In Modernism and Popular Music, Ronald Schleifer instead shows how the music of George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Thomas 'Fats' Waller and Billie Holiday can be considered as artistic expressions equal to those of the traditional high art practices in music and literature....
|  | John Muir's "Stickeen" & the Lessons of Nature
Publication Date: October 1, 1996This is a literary detective story. Like all good stories, it could begin, "Once upon a time..." Once upon a time in 1880, a young man named John Muir spent a day crossing a rugged glacier in Alaska. Though he did not even think it worth recording in that evening's diary entry, a little black dog accompanied him on that storm-haunted trek. As time passed, the image of the dog and what it symbolized grew in Muir's mind, entering his after-dinner sessions of storytelling. Seventeen years after the event, the popular story of Stickeen finally saw print, though i...
|  | It's a Baby Hippopotamus! (Sandcastle: Baby African Animals)
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|  | Ten Little Monkeys: Jumping on the Bed (Classic Books With Holes)
Publication Date: April 2007| Age Level: 2 and up...
|  | Chelonia : Return of the Sea Turtle
Publication Date: December 1, 2000This is Sea Challengers' first children's book. The well-known artist and the two co-authors have produced a beautiful, entertaining and informative book based on a true event.The story describes the rescue, recovery and eventual return to the wild of a young green sea turtle off Baja California by a young girl and her father. ...
|  | The Hair of Zoe Fleefenbacher Goes to School
Release Date: June 23, 2009| Age Level: 6 and up Zoe Fleefenbacher has one blue eye and one green eye and bright red hair that goes on . . . forever. Her hair has always been unruly, but now she is in first grade and according to her teacher, Ms. Trisk, “first grade has rules.” It takes countless barrettes and scrunchies to finally hold Zoe’s hair. But when it can help with an uncooperative science lesson, will Ms. Trisk let Zoe’s hair free? Acclaimed author Laurie Halse Anderson and vibrant illustrator Ard Hoyt style a hair-raising story that is sure to be a ‘d...
|  | Iguanodon (Dinosaurs Ruled!)
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|  | What Is Sound?: Exploring Science With Hands-on Activities (In Touch With Basic Science)
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|  | Grab a Seat at the Periodic Table!: A Chemical Mystery (Shockwave: Science)
Publication Date: September 1, 2007| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Antarctica: Continents
Publication Date: September 1, 1997| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Examines the geography, wildlife, resources, conservation, and potential development of the roughly circular continent that surrounds the South Pole. ...
|  | DK Eyewitness Books: Vietnam War
Publication Date: May 16, 2005| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | I Love You, Jesus! The Story of Mary's Gift to Jesus (God Loves Me) (God Loves Me Storybooks)
Publication Date: July 1, 1998| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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