 | Unresolved Issues (Urban Christian)
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|  | Purple Dots: A Novel
Release Date: May 28, 2002Charles Avenue Henderson claims to want nothing more than to relax in rural West Virginia with his beloved wife Mary Jane and live the genteel life of a successful bed-and-breakfast proprietor. But readers of Lehrer's Blue Hearts will know that Henderson can turn at the drop of a hat from the lovely dinners of Rappahannock oysters with sweet potatoes allumettes to his old tricks as a CIA agent whenever he or someone he cares about is in trouble. In Purple Dots, it is Henderson's longtime friend and CIA protege Joshua Bennett who is threatened by a group of senators ...
|  | My House in Umbria
Release Date: March 15, 2003Mrs. Emily Delahunty-a mysterious and not entirely trustworthy former madam-quietly runs a pensione in the Italian countryside and writes romance novels while she muses on her checkered past. Then one day her world is changed forever as the train she is riding in is blown up by terrorists. Taken to a local hospital to recuperate, she befriends the other survivors-an elderly English general, an American child, and a German boy-and takes them all to convalesce at her villa, with unforeseen results. ...
|  | When We Dead Awaken (Plays for Performance Series)
Publication Date: April 1, 1992| Series: Plays for Performance Series Ibsen's last work concludes the series of autobiographical dramas begun with The Master Builder which deal with the aging rebel, despairing of life and racked with guilt, who experiences an ambiguous victory at the moment of death. Plays for Performance Series. ...
|  | The Beauty I Have Seen. A Trilogy
Publication Date: December 1, 2010The Beauty I Have Seen. A Trilogy comprises three phases in a poetic journey, ranging from the poet (here called a minstrel) as a public figure, a traveller and observer of humanity, to one grounded in the landscape and fate of his native land. In the various sections of "The Beauty I have Seen", "Doors of the Forest" and "Flow and other Poems", Tanure Ojaide expresses multifarious experiences, private and public, that capture the poet's sensitive life in sensuous images. In these poems that flow like a narrative, form and content fuse into a mature poetic v...
|  | T.H. White's The Once and Future King (Arthurian Studies)
Publication Date: November 23, 1993| Series: Arthurian Studies (Book 30) The Once and Future King defies classification. Is it for children, or for adults? Is it fantasy or a psychological novel? In its great range, it encompasses poetry and farce, comedy and tragedy -and sudden flights of schoolboy humour. White's `footnote to Malory' (his own phrase) resulted in the last major retelling of the story based on Malory's Morte Darthur, and Elisabeth Brewer explores the literary context of White's finest work as well as considering his aims and achievement in writing it. White's story of Arthur...
|  | Inside the Hornet's Head: An Anthology of Jewish American Writing
Publication Date: October 26, 2005When compiler Jerome Charyn first read Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March, a world of letters opened up to him. It was his first exposure to the full potential of language, rendered breathlessly. In those pages he felt the terror and delight and buzz and ceaseless clatter of the inside of a hornet's head. Here, he shares with us nineteen stories, including one from Augie March, that evoke similar feelings of passion and pain and joy. Selected from some of America's most celebrated Jewish writers, as well as a few lesser known ones, Inside the Hornet...
|  | Bad Luck and Trouble: A Jack Reacher Novel
Release Date: August 7, 2012| Series: Jack Reacher #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Electrifying . . . This series [is] utterly addictive.” —Janet Maslin, The New York Times “[An] action-packed thrill ride.”—Chicago Tribune From a helicopter high above the California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the night. On the streets of Portland, Jack Reacher is pulled out of his wandering life and plunged into the heart of a conspiracy that is killing old friends . . . and the people he once trusted with his life. Reacher is the ult...
|  | Miss Mary Mac All Dressed in Black: Tongue Twisters, Jump-Rope Rhymes and Other Children's Lore from New England
Publication Date: August 1990A fascinating collection of jumprope rhymes, counting-out rhymes, everyday rhymes and tongue-twister gathered by Scott Hastings in his interviews with hundreds of children while traveling Vermont over the course of two years. Includes collection notes and "A Reader's Guide Collecting Children's Folklore. ...
|  | Out Standing In My Field
Publication Date: February 1, 2005| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up A funny, insightful, and poignant story about a Little League loser whose tyrant father is the team coach, by one of Scholastic Press's favorite talents.Ty has been named for baseball legend Ty Cobb, but the hero of Jennings' wonderful new novel isn't living up to his namesake's reputation when it comes to The Game. He loves baseball; he just isn't great at it, despite all the efforts of his coach and father, who himself once dreamed of playing in the majors. To complicate matters, Ty's younger sister Daisy is a ...
|  | How Many Elephants?: A Lift-the-Flap Counting Book
Release Date: April 12, 2004| Age Level: 2 and up Pay no attention to the elephants dancing behind you! The running visual joke in this lift-the-flap counting book will provoke more giggles with every new number.Let’s count things.How many elephantsare in your closet?Well, as every child knows, that’s a silly question! See, no elephants in here! Zero! Let’s get on to more reasonable things to count: shoes behind the curtain, markers in the box, toy dinosaurs in the drawer. And no, there are still no elephants in the closet — though someone seems to have left a tra...
|  | Victorian Floral Stickers and Seals: 62 Full-Color Pressure-Sensitive Designs
Publication Date: September 1, 1987| Age Level: 4 and up...
|  | Desert Explorer (Habitat Explorer)
Publication Date: March 2004| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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|  | The Brothers Grimm: Two Lives, One Legacy
Publication Date: October 15, 2001| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Children everywhere are familiar with the fairy-tale world of the Brothers Grimm, who made “once upon a time” a part of our universal vocabulary—but few people know much about the brothers themselves. Inspired by their desire to document their national literary heritage, the two devoted brothers spent most of their adult years collecting and publishing German Märchen and Sagen, fairy tales and legends. This thorough and compelling biography addresses the social, political, and historical inf...
|  | Thomas Jefferson (Profiles of the Presidents)
Publication Date: January 2002| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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Publication Date: February 1, 1995| Age Level: 4 and up...
|  | Zozobra!: The Story of Old Man Gloom
Publication Date: September 1, 2004| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up The crisp September evening in Santa Fe is going to be special. It's the annual burning of Old Man Gloom or Zozobra.* He stands across the large park where thousands of people gather--a fifty-foot sourpuss puppet whose gaping mouth and neon eyes make him appear dismal, which is his job. When Zozobra burns into smoldering ash, so, too, will people's gloomy thoughts disappear--or so everyone hopes.As with any spectacle worthy of the name, the lights, music, fireworks, and sense of frenzied expectation make the exp...
|  | The Potter's Freedom to Love the World
Publication Date: 2005A Refutation of Dr. James R. White on his claim that Christ did not intend to die for the world; that from eternity predestination by the Divine decree settled the destiny of mankind-- 218 pages. [Greek Grammar and Syntax Versus Calvinism coming 2007; 674 pages] NOTE: With the purchase of a book, three (3) free items are given: a 29 p. booklet-- The Calvinists and Another Gospel; with e-mail address, a PDF of The Potter's Freedom to Love the World; a chart on Sin Brings Death. ...
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