| Busboys at Big Bend Publication Date: 1974Describes the friendship between two teenage boys from different ethnic backgrounds during a summer of work and activity at Big Bend National Park in Texas. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
| | The Ladies Auxiliary (Ballantine Reader's Circle) Release Date: September 5, 2000| Series: Ballantine Reader's Circle When free-spirited Batsheva moves into the close-knit Orthodox community of Memphis, Tennessee, the already precarious relationship between the Ladies Auxiliary and their teenage daughters is shaken to the core. In this extraordinary novel, Tova Mirvis takes us into the fascinating and insular world of the Memphis Orthodox Jews, one ripe with tradition and contradiction. Warm and wise, enchanting and funny, The Ladies Auxiliary brilliantly illuminates the timeless struggle between mothers and daughters, family and self, reli...
| | The Full Catastrophe: A Novel Release Date: July 27, 2010Linguist Jeremy Cook knows how language works, but he doesn't know how marriage works. In fact, he is strangely hostile to the institution. So Cook is naturally uneasy about his job with the Pillow Agency, a St. Louis firm specializing in "the linguistically troubled marriage." His assignment is to move in with Dan and Beth Wilson, a prosperous suburban couple with an impoverished relationship, to analyze their verbal problems and help them-if he can. As Cook catalogs the Wilsons' missed signs and missed signals, he becomes increasingly, most unscientifically, invo...
| | Ultimas sesiones con Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn's Last Sessions: A Novel ) (Spanish Edition) Publication Date: August 25, 2012La actriz chispeante que enamoraba a la camara, el sueno erotico de cualquier hombre, la mujer que encandilo a Arthur Miller... Pero tambien la criatura fragil y desequilibrada, la muneca rota de Hollywood, la adicta a los barbituricos fallecida prematuramente. Una de las personas que mas se acerco a ella fue su psicoanalista Ralph Greenson. El 5 de agosto de 1962, con la muerte de Marilyn se truncaba una relacion de treinta meses en la que el fue testigo privilegiado del naufragio emocional de una mujer perdida, solitaria y consumida por su imagen publica. A...
| | Whatever Makes You Happy: A Novel Release Date: April 14, 2009“An excellent comic novel that interweaves the romance, humor, and pathos of three complicated families.”—Publishers Weekly Three suburban moms who have long been friends decide to show up unannounced at the homes of their thirty-something layabout sons. Their goal: to swoop in and set things right. The result: a hilarious mix that will resonate with mothers who can’t turn a blind eye and their adult sons who can’t quite get it together. ...
| | The history of printing in America: With a biography of printers, and an account of newspapers (Archaeologia Americana) ...
| | Kill the Shogun (Samurai Mysteries) Publication Date: August 2000| Series: Samurai MysteriesInKill the Shogun, award winning mystery writer Dale Furutani presents the latest in his popular samurai mystery series. He returns to the journey of Matsuyama Kaze, the masterless warrior destined to travel the seventeenth-century Japanese countryside until he fulfills the dying wish of his murdered lord's wife.Until now, Kaze's quick wit and samurai skills have enabled him to solve crimes, untangled himself from deadly schemes, and protect the innocent, all the while keeping his sense of justice and honor.But the danger now facing...
| | Who's Afraid of Fourth Grade? (Katie Kazoo, Switcheroo:Super Special) Release Date: July 22, 2004| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up At first, Katie and her friends can't wait to enter the fourth grade! But with the pressure of new classes, teachers, and friends, Katie isn't so sure she likes it after all. And to make matters worse, the magic wind appears twice-and turns her into her new friend Emma Weber, who has her hands full with three younger siblings to help take care of, and then into her former best friend Suzanne as she's about to make her fashion runway debut! What's a fourth-grader to do? ...
| | Fear the Shark (Dc Super Heroes (Dc Super Villains)) Publication Date: August 1, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
| | Luck (Outdoor Adventures) Release Date: April 25, 2006| Age Level: 4 and up...
| | For Horse-Crazy Girls Only: Everything You Want to Know About Horses Release Date: September 28, 2010| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up Is your first and second favorite animal a horse? Is your bedroom covered with horse posters on your walls and horse models on your shelves? Would you rather muck out a stall than clean your room? Then you are absolutely, undeniably horse crazy, and this is the only comprehensive book about everything a horse-crazy girl needs to know about horses. You’ll learn everything from the different breeds of horses, to how a horse’s body works, to the quirky little things that make the horse the BEST animal ever...
| | When the New Baby Comes, I'm Moving Out Publication Date: February 1, 2006| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Oliver is going to be a big brother, and doesn't like the idea one bit. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
| | My Baby Sister and Me (Memory Scrapbook for Kids) Publication Date: September 1, 2000| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
| | Let's Talk About Having Lyme Disease (The Let's Talk Library) Publication Date: August 1998 ...
| | Critter Sitters (We Can Read!) ...
| | Mosque Publication Date: April 28, 2008| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Following in the tradition he established with Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction and in the many books he has published in the thirty years since, David Macaulay provides explanations of the how and the why in a way that is both accessible and entertaining. His work has earned numerous accolades, including a Caldecott Medal, two Caldecott Honors, and a MacArthur Grant, and many fans around the globe. With Mosque, he turns his talents toward the magnificent structures of the Ottoman Empire. ...
| | Job: Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching (Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching & Preaching) Release Date: January 1, 1997| Series: Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching & Preaching In this volume, J. Gerald Janzen examines the text of the book of Job as a literary text within the context of the history of the religion of Israel and within the broader context of the universal human condition. He approaches the basic character of the book from a literary perspective which enables him to identify human existence as exemplified in Job and to expound on the mystery of good and evil, which gives human existence its experiential texture and which together drive humans to ask the...
| | Loving Yourself for God's Sake (Spirit Life Series) Publication Date: March 1, 1997| ISBN-10: 1878718355 | ISBN-13: 978-1878718358This exquisite book of meditations gently directs the reader to see the gift of self in an entirely new and beautiful light. It presents a spirituality of self-love not based on narcissism, but as a response to the divine invitation to self-nurturing. ...
| | Common Praise: The Definitive Hymn Book for the Christian Year Publication Date: June 30, 2000Since it was first introduced in the Summer of 2000, Common Praise the new Hymns Ancient & Modern has sold over one hundred thousand copies, and been adopted by parishes in every diocese in England and Wales including eight English cathedrals and in five of the seven dioceses in Scotland. It is also used in numerous schools, colleges, hospitals, residential homes, retreat houses, religious communities, crematoria, missions and military garrison chapels. ...
| | Father's Day - African American, Bulletin ...
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