 | A Nameless Witch
Release Date: August 26, 2008A tale of vengeance, true love, and cannibalism Being born undead can have its disadvantages, such as eternal youth and flawless beauty ---things most unsuitable for a witch. Hiding behind the guise of a grimy old crone, the witch is content living outside Fort Stalwart with her unlikely band of allies: a troll named Gwurm, an enchanted broom, and a demonic duck named Newt. She leads a simple life filled with spells, potions, and the occasional curse. So when a White Knight arrives at Fort Stalwart, the witch knows her days of peace are at an end....
 |  | The Sun Dances: Prayers and Blessings from the Gaelic
Publication Date: January 2000No one can say when or by whom, the Gaelic originals were composed; they were handed down by oral tradition to the men and women from whom Alexander Carmichael received them during his long life (1832-1912).Those who made and used these verses felt the presence of God and his messengers in all concerns of their lives : in their human relationships, in birth and death, in waking and sleeping, in their work, at home, in the fields, and on the sea. ...
|  | Impatient with Desire: The Lost Journal of Tamsen Donner
Release Date: March 15, 2011The Donner Party You know how some died. Here’s how some lived. “My heart is big with hope and impatient with desire.” —Tamsen Donner, a letter to her sister In the spring of 1846, Tamsen Donner, her husband, George, their five daughters, and eighty other pioneers headed west on the California-Oregon Trail in eager anticipation of new lives in California. Everything that could go wrong did, and an American legend was born. The Donner Party. We think we know their story—starving pioneers trapped in the mountains performing an uns...
|  | A Full and True Account of the Wonderful Mission of Earl Lavender, Which Lasted One Night and One Day: With a History of the Pursuit of Earl Lavender and Lord Brumm by Mrs Scamler and Maud Emblem
Publication Date: July 28, 2008Following in the tradition of Don Quixote, Earl Lavender is the story of two impecunious gentlemen who run away from their conventional lives, style themselves 'Earl Lavender' and 'Lord Brumm', and set out to preach the new creed of Evolution. Their hilarious romp across London leads them to all sorts of strange adventures, such as a wild hansom cab chase, a sojourn among a subterranean society of flagellants, and the discovery of the evolutionary 'Missing Link'.A key Decadent text, Earl Lavender (1895) is also Davidson's response to what he saw as some of the ...
|  | The Pantomime Book
Publication Date: January 5, 2009In this, the first ever - and still the only - published collection of pantomime sketches and gags, actor Paul Harris has gathered together a hilarious selection of theatrical material, much of which originated in Victorian times and which has been updated and refined over the past century. He introduces us to the stalwarts of just about every panto - the Dame, Comic and Feed - and the characters familiar to many generations of theatre goers: Dick Wittington, Cinderella, Buttons, Little Red Riding Hood, Sinbad the Sailor, Aladdin, Widow Twankey, Wishee Washee...
|  | Waiting for Godot: Character Studies
Publication Date: March 12, 2008| Series: Character Studies This book provides an introductory study of Beckett'smost famous play, dealing not just with the four maincharacters but with the pairings that they form, andthe implications of these pairings for the very idea ofcharacter in the play. After locating Godot within thecontext of Beckett's work, Lawley discusses some ofthe play's puzzles and difficulties-including theabsent "fifth character", Godot himself. ...
|  | The Path Through the Trees
Publication Date: May 12, 1983[This is the MP3CD audiobook format.] ''In my first book, The Enchanted Places,'' Christopher Milne writes in his preface, ''I was writing about my childhood, saying what I needed to say about Pooh and Christopher Robin. The present book is in a way a sequel, starting where the other left off. But, rather more than that, it is a complement, it is about the non-Pooh part of my life. It is an escape from Christopher Robin.'' Everyone who grows up within a family experiences the need to outgrow parents and teachers, to make a way of life that is his own, and to cre...
|  | The Literature of Melancholia: Early Modern to Postmodern
Release Date: December 20, 2011| ISBN-10: 0230293727 | ISBN-13: 978-0230293724This collection analyzes philosophical, psycho-analytic and aesthetic contexts of the discourse of melancholia in British and postcolonial literature and culture andseeks to trace the multi-faceted phenomenon of melancholia from the early modern period to the present. Texts discussed range from Shakespeare and Milton to Coetzee and Barker. ...
|  | The Godwulf Manuscript
Release Date: December 5, 1992Spenser earned his degree in the school of hard knocks, so he is ready when a Boston university hires him to recover a rare, stolen manuscript. He is hardly surpised that his only clue is a radical student with four bullets in his chest. The cops are ready to throw the book at the pretty blond coed whose prints are all over the murder weapon but Spenser knows there are no easy answers. He tackles some very heavy homework and knows that if he doesn't finish his assignment soon, he could end up marked "D" -- for dead. ...
|  | The Three Bears
Release Date: August 7, 2012| Age Level: 2 and up This classic Little Golden Book edition of the famous folk tale has had many imitators, but none can measure up to the way illustrator Feodor Rojankovsky brought Goldilocks and the three bearsto life. Originally published in 1948, The Three Bears is now back in print for a new generation of fans. ...
|  | Basketball Basics (Quickstudy: Sports)
Release Date: March 13, 2007 ...
|  | Friends for Calico!
Release Date: May 6, 2008| Age Level: 1 and up...
|  | Up, Up, and Away! (Skippyjon Jones)
Release Date: January 8, 2009| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Wind Dancers #4: Horses' Night Out (Breyer Wind Dancers)
Release Date: November 11, 2008| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | Este Soy Yo (Rana, Rema, Rimas)
Publication Date: February 28, 2006| Age Level: 2 and up...
|  | Now I Can Write: Green Bk
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|  | Changes For Addy (American Girls Collection)
Release Date: September 1, 1994| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
| | Mark Twain: A Writer's Life (Milton Meltzer Biographies)
Publication Date: September 1985| Age Level: 11 and up...
|  | Pieter Bruegel (Great Artists)
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|  | Bubbles The Bunny Rabbit (A Children's Book)
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