 | The Arcanum
Release Date: June 28, 2005It is 1919 and the Great War has come to a close. But in the shadows of the world’s major cities, the killing has just begun. In this perilous time, as the division between order and chaos grows increasingly slim, a select group of visionaries have taken it upon themselves to ensure the safety of humanity. They are known as the Arcanum.In London’s stormy Hyde Park, Konstantin Duvall, the Arcanum’s founder, has been killed in a suspicious accident. Dismayed, the group’s longest-lived member, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, determines to avenge Duvall...
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 | One Last Waltz (Stonewall Inn Editions)
Publication Date: March 15, 1988| Series: Stonewall Inn Editions (Book 11) In this brilliant and lyrical novel of family passions and personal fate, Ethan Mordden weaves a family saga of fiery intensity, as the scornful Witch of Fooley plays chess with the King of Tara to determine the fate of his sons....
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 | Song of the Selkies
Publication Date: May 11, 2001Cowrie and Sasha turn detectives to discover the truth behind Morrigan and the song of the selkies. ...
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 | Euripides: Helen (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
Publication Date: March 17, 2008| ISBN-10: 0521836905 | ISBN-13: 978-0521836906| Edition: 1 This up-to-date edition offers a detailed literary and cultural analysis of Euripides' Helen, a work which arguably embodies the variety and dynamism of fifth-century Athenian tragedy more than any other surviving play. The story of an exemplary wife (not an adulteress) who went to Egypt (not to Troy), Euripides' 'new Helen' skilfully transforms and supplants earlier currents of literature and myth. The Introduction elucidates Euripides' treatment of Helen and sets the play in its wider intellectu...
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 | The Complete Fairy Tales (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: September 1, 1999| Age Level: 18 and up | Grade Level: 12 and up...
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 | Quan Tang shi suo yin (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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 | Why Orwell Matters
Release Date: September 17, 2002Hitchens on Orwell:This is not a biography, but I sometimes feel as if George Orwell requires extricating from a pile of saccharine tablets and moist hankies; an object of sickly veneration and sentimental overpraise, employed to stultify schoolchildren with his insufferable rightness and purity. This kind of tribute is often of the Rochefoucauldian type; suggestive of the payoff made by vice to virtue, and also of the tricks played by an uneasy conscience.What [Orwell] illustrates, by his commitment to language as the partner of truth, is that "views" do not ...
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 | Confessions
Release Date: July 27, 2010In this dazzling debut, Sasha Campbell delivers a sexy, suspenseful tale of two women whose marriages will be put to the ultimate test...For almost ten years, radio talk show host Nikki Truth has shared life's ups and downs with her husband Donovan while doling out in-your-face relationship advice to her listeners. But lately it seems the good times in her own relationship—including the sex—are few and far between. Then she meets widower Kenyon Monroe, whose sizzling touch is too tempting to resist. But not everyone is under Kenyon's spell…Nikk...
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 | Death by Cashmere: A Seaside Knitters Mystery
Release Date: April 7, 2009| Series: SEASIDE KNITTERS MYSTERY Now in trade paperback-the new mystery series that spins a yarn about knitters and murder in a seaside village.Not long after Isabel "Izzy" Chambers opens up a knitting shop in the sleepy fishing town of Sea Harbor, Massachusetts, a diverse group of women begins congregating each week to form the Seaside Knitters. Izzy raises some eyebrows when she rents the apartment above her shop to Angie Archer, whose reputation for loose behavior and a quick temper has made her unpopular with many locals. But could any of them have wanted her...
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 | Kinderdike
Publication Date: March 1, 1994| Age Level: 5 and up Retells the story of the founding of Kinderdike, a town in southern Holland whose name--meaning ""the children's dike""--comes from the discovery of a baby and a kitten, found alive on a dike following a devastating flood. ...
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 | Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months
Release Date: March 15, 1991| Age Level: 4 and up...
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 | Try Your Best (Green Light Readers Level 2)
Publication Date: April 1, 2004| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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 | Rescue Josh McGuire
Release Date: January 1, 1900| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up A Daring Rescue...or a Deadly Risk? Ever since Josh`s older brother died, his father has been drinking too much and taking his anger out on Josh. But when he orphans a bear cub on a hunting trip, it`s more than Josh can stand. Josh insists on bringing the defenseless cub home-only to find out he must surrender it to game officials. Knowing the cub will be given to researchers, Josh makes a defiant choice. Taking only his brother`s motorcycle, the cub, and his dog, Josh runs away to the mountains, vowing to stay until...
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 | DK 24 Hours: Arctic
Publication Date: December 25, 2006| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
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| Indira Gandhi Hb (Women Achievers in Politics)
Publication Date: January 1997 ...
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 | The Usborne Book of Face Painting (How to Make)
Publication Date: January 1, 2003| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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 | The American Desk Encyclopedia
Publication Date: October 22, 1998Oxford's American Desk Encyclopedia is the most up to date, affordable, and convenient encyclopedia on the market, offering over 15,000 alphabetically arranged entries that put a world of information within arm's reach.Virtually any topic you would want information on you will find here. There are numerous biographical entrieswell over 3,000 in allthat cover artists, writers, and composers; military, political, and world leaders; religious and business figures; scientists and inventors, and much more. Readers will find concise entries on geographical placesf...
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 | Los tres
Publication Date: September 1, 2010| Age Level: 2 and up With over a million copies in print in 18 different languages, The Tale of Three Trees is a modern classic! Featuring the wonderful illustrations of Tim Jonke, this best-selling children’s book tells the Easter story from a new and unusual point of view. Children will be deeply touched as they understand, perhaps for the first time, the significance of Christ’s life and his atoning sacrifice on the cross. The story line is simple: Three trees growing on a hilltop each have grand dreams of what they will become in the futu...
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 | The Bible Wordbook: A Glossary Of Archaic Words And Phrases In The Authorized Version Of The Bible And The Book Of Common Prayer (1884)
Publication Date: September 10, 2010This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. ...
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| America's Top 300 Jobs
Publication Date: October 1993Based on extensive market research from the U.S. Department of Labor, this classic job information resource offers easy-to-read descriptions regarding job skills, education requirements, advancement opportunities, and salary data. Also contains a special section on growth projections for the 500 largest jobs through the year 2005. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
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