 | The Dinner
Release Date: February 12, 2013An internationally bestselling phenomenon: the darkly suspenseful, highly controversial tale of two families struggling to make the hardest decision of their lives -- all over the course of one meal.It's a summer's evening in Amsterdam, and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant for dinner. Between mouthfuls of food and over the polite scrapings of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of polite discourse -- the banality of work, the triviality of the holidays. But behind the empty words, terrible things need to be said, and with every forced smi...
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|  | Hawaii
Release Date: September 12, 1986"[A] mammoth epic of the islands, [a] vast panorama, wonderful."THE BALTIMORE SUNAmerica's preeminent storyteller, James Michener, introduced an entire generation of readers to a lush, exotic world in the Pacific with this classic novel. But it is also a novel about people, people of strength and character; the Polynesians; the fragile missionaries; the Chinese, Japanese, and Filipinos who intermarried into a beautiful race called Hawaiians. Here is the story of their relationships, toils, and successes, their strong aristocratic kings and queens and...
|  | Rules of the Wild: A Novel of Africa
Release Date: September 7, 1999A mesmerizing novel of love and nostalgia set in the vast spaces of contemporary East Africa.Romantic, often resonantly ironic, moving and wise, Rules of the Wild transports us to a landscape of unsurpassed beauty even as it gives us a sharp-eyed portrait of a closely knit tribe of cultural outsiders: the expatriates living in Kenya today. Challenged by race, by class, and by a longing for home, here are "safari boys" and samaritans, reporters bent on their own fame, travelers who care deeply about elephants but not at all about the people of Africa. They all k...
|  | Less than Zero
Release Date: December 1, 1987Clay comes home to L.A. for Christmas vacation and re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege and moral entropy, where everyone drives Porsches, dines at Spago, and snorts mountains of cocaine. He tries to renew feelings for his girlfriend, Blair, and for his best friend from high school, Julian, who is careering into hustling and heroin. Clay's holiday turns into a dizzying spiral of desperation that takes him through the relentless parties in glitzy mansions, seedy bars, and underground rock clubs. Morally barren, ethically bereft and tinged with implicit vi...
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|  | Milton Among the Romans: The Pedagogy and Influence of Milton's Latin Curriculum (Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies)
Publication Date: November 2001| Series: Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies In the 1640's, John Milton led a group of students through an extensive curriculum of ancient authors. In Milton Among the Romans, DuRocher provides the first scholarly study of Milton's Latin tutorial by tracing the reshaping of Roman ideas and expressions in Milton's poetry. Drawing upon previously unexamined evidence from Milton's classical curriculum, this book takes a new approach to Milton as a teacher, scholar and poet. It is necessary reading for Milton scholars and students of the classics. Milton Among...
|  | A cada rato lunes (Letras Mexicanas) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: December 31, 2003| Series: Letras Mexicanas Reconocida como una de las principales poetas contemporáneas, Ulalume González de León(Montevideo, 1932) comenzó su trayectoria literaria como narradora, precisamente con estos cuentos, publicados por primera vez en 1970. La autora engarza una serie de relatos de tintes autobiográficos que dan cuenta de su poética narrativa. ...
|  | For Your Eyes Only
Publication Date: May 4, 2001Five secret occasions in the life of James Bond, 007: The destruction of a Russian hideout at Shape headquarters near Paris; the planned assassination of a Cuban thug in America; love and hate in Bermuda; the tracking of a heroin ring from Rome to Venice; and sudden ghastly death in Seychelles. For Bond it's just routine, for anyone else: certain death! --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition....
|  | The Amazing Hamweenie
Release Date: October 11, 2012| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up A truly unique debut about a precocious cat with BIG dreamsDressed in his signature top hat and black cape, Hamweenie is poised to earn his place among the most famous celebrities and daredevils of all time. From the stage to the red carpet, the skies to the sea, Hamweenie believes, without a doubt, that he will be the greatest star the world has ever seen.The horrors of reality, alas, befall him: a beautiful apartment, a loving little girl, his every need fulfilled to excess. His treats are simply too delicious. His...
|  | The Chicken or the Egg? (Rookie Read-About Science)
Publication Date: September 1, 1993| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | John James Audubon (Conservation Heroes)
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|  | Gee Wiz! How to Mix Art and Science or the Art of Thinking Scientifically (Brown Paper School Book)
Publication Date: September 1983Presents projects to perform, using materials commonly found around the house, that enable Smart Art to present logical explanations for the magic and mystery created by Wiz. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Francium to Polonium (F to P) (Elements)
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| | Nicaragua (Children of the world)
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| | The Mustache
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|  | What Did the Ancient Greeks Do for Me? (Linking the Past and Present)
Publication Date: September 1, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | New Strong's Exhautive Concordance (Super Value Series)
Publication Date: May 23, 2003| Series: Super Value Series Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible has been the standard Bible concordance for pastors, scholars, and laypersons for over a century.The Nelson's Super Value Series edition provides the classic Strong's features in a smaller, more convenient form.And unlike smaller-sized editions that call themselves "Strong's." this portable New Strong's Exhaustive Concordance is truly exhaustive.It indexes every word of the King James Version, including articles, conjunctions, and prepositions.Not one word has been left out. This handbook-...
|  | New Believer's Bible NLT
Publication Date: June 27, 2007The New Believer's Bible is uniquely designed to help the new Christian read, study, and understand the Bible. It includes features that help Christians develop and deepen their faith, while providing a foundation for their new life in Christ. Features and benefits: Clear and accurate New Living Translation How You Can Know God How to Study the Bible Four Devotional Reading Tracks Memory Verses One Year New Testament Reading Plan 52 Great Bible Stories Prophecies about Jesus Overview of the Bible Glossary of Christian Terms Charts and Indexes Versefinders Book ...
| | Records and Recollections of James Jenkins (Texts and Studies in Religion, Vol 18)
Publication Date: May 1984| ISBN-10: 0889468079 | ISBN-13: 978-0889468078This volume presents James Jenkins' account of his life in the Quaker community of the early-19th century. ...
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