 | Newfangled: A Novel
Release Date: February 24, 2000From award-winning writer Debra Monroe comes a funny and poignant story of a woman's quest to find a physical and emotional home.Maddie, a refugee from two marriages, wanders from place to place seeking new options and new connections. She eventually settles in a cozy old neighborhood in Tucson, gets a job, and contemplates her life so far: a mother who's been missing for two decades, a father she rarely sees, two sisters married to the same men for fifteen years, and a circle of quirky, spiteful, but loyal friends. Just as she's trying to decide whether she'...
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 | Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics
Release Date: November 3, 2011Henry Burton, a former congressional aide, is pressed into service as an assistant to Jack Stanton, the governor of a small Southern state who has set his sights on the presidency. Thus begins a rollicking adventure of backyard barbeques, draft-dodging dilemmas, sex and seduction scandals, and media mayhem. Combining familiar events with juicy behind-the-scenes gossip, the novel presents a unique picture of the politics of a nation which is at once tiredly cynical and hopefully idealistic. National ads/media. ...
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 | The Cambridge Companion to Rudyard Kipling (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Publication Date: October 17, 2011| Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is among the most popular, acclaimed and controversial of writers in English. His books have sold in great numbers, and he remains the youngest writer to have won the Nobel Prize for literature. Many associate Kipling with poems such as 'If-', his novel Kim, his pioneering use of the short story form and such works for children as the Just So Stories. For others, though, Kipling is the very symbol of the British Empire and a belligerent approach to other peoples and races. This Companio...
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 | South Asian Folklore: A Handbook (Greenwood Folklore Handbooks)
Publication Date: April 30, 2006| ISBN-10: 0313331936 | ISBN-13: 978-0313331930| Edition: 1 South Asia is a distant, exotic place to most American students. It is also a land of diverse and fascinating cultures, exemplified by the folklore of the region. This book gives students and general readers a thorough introduction to South Asian folklore. Included are chapters on different types of folklore, the place of folklore in popular culture, and the scholarly response to South Asian folklore. The volume also provides numerous legends, tales, myths, riddles, jokes, and other examples of fo...
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 | Camembert Comes From the Sea
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 | Promised Sunrise
Publication Date: July 2001When the Civil War drives him off his plantation, Tucker Branigan sets out on the rugged Oregon Trail, where he crosses paths with Maggie Harris, a lonely woman fleeing west. By the author of Remember When. Original. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
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 | Promised Land (A Spenser Novel)
Release Date: December 5, 1992Acclaimed mystery author Robert B. Parker continues to win an even greater audience with each new Spenser novel. For all crime fiction lovers who discovered Parker through his latest bestsellers "Pastime" and "Double Deuce", his entire Dell backlist is now available in attractively repackaged editions. ...
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 | Ten Timid Ghosts (Read With Me Paperbacks)
Publication Date: September 1, 2000| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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 | Chocolates & Candies (Usborne Chocolates and Candies)
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 | The Age of Giants (The Dinosaur Files)
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 | Jump Into Science: Moon
Release Date: May 13, 2008| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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 | The Inside-Outside Book of Libraries
Release Date: September 1, 1996| Age Level: 4 and up A comprehensive look at libraries, the purposes they serve, and their history demonstrates the various types of libraries, from the vast Library of Congress to a personal library at home, and offers predictions about the future of libraries. ...
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 | Disney Princess Enchanted 123s (with audio CD) (Learning Anywhere)
Publication Date: June 13, 2011| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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 | U.S. Navy Special Warfare Forces (U.S. Armed Forces Series)
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 | Sea Clocks
Publication Date: June 1, 2005 "For hundreds of years ships had been sailing to places far and near without really knowing where they were!"Sailors knew how to measure latitude, their location north or south of the equator, but they could not measure longitude, their location east or west of their home port. Because of this, many lives were lost worldwide. The key to solving this problem lay in devising a clock that could keep absolutely accurate time while at sea, unaltered by rough water or weather conditions. With such a timekeeper sailors would be able to know the time back at their ho...
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 | Amped Up: The Official Biography
Release Date: November 8, 2007| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Go behind the scenes with these pop princesses! What do you get when you mix Miley Cyrus, Hilary Duff, and Mary- Kate & Ashley? Aly & AJ—the mega-talented acting and singing sister act! Now find out what makes these sisters so special and what their super-sweet lives are like behind the scenes. Whether they are making music, filming movies, or just hanging around, these girls always have something amazing going on, and we’ve got the inside scoop with 16 pages of exclusive photos and interviews with Aly ...
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 | Georgia O'Keeffe (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists)
Publication Date: January 1994| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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 | Jesse Jackson: Civil Rights Activist (African-American Biographies (Enslow))
Publication Date: June 2000| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up...
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 | Four Square: The Personal Writing Coach for Grades 1-3
Publication Date: December 31, 2004| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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 | Living Your Strengths: Discover Your God-Given Talents and Inspire Your Community
Publication Date: October 10, 2004While millions of people in the U.S. are actively involved in some sort of religious organization, many people feel disengaged from their faith communities. More than half report that they really don't get the opportunity in their congregation to do what they do best. The problem is this: too many people's talents are going unappreciated. But it doesn't have to be this way. Living Your Strengths shows readers how to use their innate gifts to enrich their faith communities. The book shows people how to identify and affirm their talents, and how to use them fo...
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