 | Butterfly's Child: A Novel
Release Date: April 10, 2012When three-year-old Benji is plucked from the security of his home in Nagasaki to live with his American father, Lt. Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton, and stepmother, Kate, on their farm in Illinois, the family conceals Benji’s true identity as a child born from a liaison between an officer and a geisha—and instead tells everyone that he is an orphan. When the truth surfaces, it will splinter this family’s fragile dynamic and send Benji on the journey of a lifetime from Illinois to the Japanese settlements in Denver and San Francisco, then across the ...
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 | The Errant King (The Dark Sea Annals)
Publication Date: November 15, 2011| Series: The Dark Sea Annals (Book 2) Deep in the caves of the distant Hinderlands, an ancient menace stirs. Townsfolk shudder at violent memories of The Red Queen and even dare to whisper the name Raudrim. At the same time, word comes to Alastair that Cythraul has at last resurfaced, seeking a devastating weapon in the ruins of Grayvalon. Blood-soaked clues lead Alastair into a confrontation from which only one warrior will return alive. Meanwhile in Anglinore, young Lochlan Stormgarden, the new High King of Myriad, leaves the pomp and politics of the thr...
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 | Crossroad of Shadows
Publication Date: October 22, 2011After being forced to flee to the mysterious Dome house to escape a horde of armed raiders, Jarad and Myla are again reunited with their friends in Junction. There they discover the fate of their nation and the cause of the nationwide electrical blackout, and help share in the community's grim struggle for survival against seemingly hopeless odds. But Myla has a secret: using a wind-up radio found by her son, Myla discovers a land with electricity and civilized life. Thus Myla, Jarad, and their children, accompanied by the inscrutable Peter Rafferty, set out...
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 | The Prayer Chest: A Novel About Receiving All of Life's Riches
Release Date: October 23, 2007Since the beginning of time every man and woman has prayed—millions of prayers daily. Why then are only a handful of them answered? What roles do luck, chance, or fate have in our lives? How can we discover and live our destiny?Joseph Hutchinson is a man who knows the reality of tragedy all too well; his life has been filled with misfortune and adversity. A widowed father of two, living on a farm that is about to be taken from him, Joseph embarks on an unexpected journey that will bring him face to face with his greatest fears, and ultimately with his grea...
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 | The Shield of Achilles and the Poetics of Ekphrasis
Publication Date: March 21, 1995| ISBN-10: 0847679985 | ISBN-13: 978-0847679980In 'The Shield of Achilles and the Poetics of Ekphrasis', Becker explores how Homeric poetry shapes its own reception: how Homer's reaction to a visual image creates his audience's response to a literary description. Becker also enters into a fiercely raging literary debate about the modernist, self-conscious elements of Homeric narrative. ...
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 | The Four Hundred Songs of War and Wisdom: An Anthology of Poems from Classical Tamil, The Purananuru (Translations from the Asian Classics)
Publication Date: August 14, 2002| Series: Translations from the Asian Classics Two prominent translators present the first complete English-language edition of one of India's greatest works of classical literature: thePurananuru. This anthology of four hundred poems by more than 150 poets between the first and third centuries C.E. in old Tamil -- the literary language of ancient Tamilnadu -- was composed before Aryan influence had penetrated the south. It is thus a unique testament to pre-Aryan India.Beyond its importance for understanding the development of South Asia's history, culture, r...
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 | Selected Poems of Malcolm Lowry (N0.17 Pocket Poets Series)
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 | Cartas Para Claudia / Letters for Claudia (Bolsillo) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: October 2, 2007| Series: Bolsillo (Book 94) This book compiles the writings that Jorge Bucay dedicated to his patients for over three years of therapeutic work. With time, the patients themselves began to share and to distribute these letters, until, one day, due to the success that they were having, they suggested that Bucay publish them. In this imaginary correspondence, Claudia, the author's very loved friend, is the recipient of a revealing letter that will clear many of her doubts about self-knowledge, love, the beauty of life and the secrets of psychology. The book ha...
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 | Piano Tuner: Vol. 1
Publication Date: March 1, 2003We follow the piano tuner into all sorts of different homes and situations with more than one bored housewife or such ready to have quite a few other instruments tuned up than just their piano! More raunchy fun by the bestselling artist. ...
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 | Echo Class
Release Date: February 3, 2009June, 1967. In the waters of the Pacific, Captain Danny McDonald of the USS Monaghan is ordered to track down a Soviet submarine—without triggering World War III. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
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 | The Behavior Survival Guide for Kids: How to Make Good Choices and Stay Out of Trouble
Publication Date: September 15, 2003| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Up-to-date information, practical strategies, and sound advice for kids with diagnosed behavior problems (BD, ED, EBD) and those with general behavior problems. ...
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 | Body Story - Teen Dreams: The Journey Through Puberty
Publication Date: October 30, 2003| Age Level: 4 and up...
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 | Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Tree (Poster)
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 | The West (Regions of the United States)
Publication Date: September 29, 2006| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
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 | The History of Scotland for Children
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 | Kung Fu Panda
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 | I Am Responsible / Soy responsable (Kids of Character / Chicos Con Caracter)
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 | Anabaptism Revisted: Essays on Anabaptist/Mennonite Studies in Honor of C.J. Dyck
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 | Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 35: 1889
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 | Go Roth!: Your Guide to the Roth IRA and Other Roth Accounts
Publication Date: August 27, 2012This book (2012 edition, expanded and updated) makes it easy to learn how youcan get the most from Roth accounts, including Roth IRAs and Roth accounts in401k and other employer plans. In plain language it covers:Choices. Deciding whether a Roth account is best for you. Building wealth. Using contributions and conversions to build your account. Managing the account. A sound investment approach for long-term growth without excessive risk. Distributions. How to withdraw money from your Roth account without paying tax or penalties.Included are discussions of...
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