 | The Crack-Up
Publication Date: February 27, 2009A self-portrait of a great writer 'srise and fall, intensely personal and etchedwith Fitzgerald's signature blend of romanceand realism.The Crack-Up tells the story ofFitzgerald's sudden descent at the age ofthirty-nine from glamorous success to emptydespair, and his determined recovery. Compiledand edited by Edmund Wilson shortly after F.Scott Fitzgerald's death, this revealingcollection of his essays—as well as letters toand from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T.S.Eliot, John Dos Passos—tells of a man with charm and talent to burn, whose gai...
 |  | I Swallow Turquoise for Courage (Sun Tracks)
Publication Date: September 1, 2007| Series: Sun Tracks (Book 61) ??k’iddaa’ jini. The stories begin.In poems that exude the warmth of an afternoon in the southwestern sun, Hershman John draws readers into a world both familiar and utterly new. Raised on a reservation and in boarding schools, then educated at a state university, John writes as a contemporary Navajo poet. His is a new voice—one that understands life on both sides of the canyon that divides, but does not completely separate, the Din© people from their neighbors who live outside the reservation. His po...
|  | Three Screenplays: To Kill a Mockingbird, Tender Mercies and The Trip to Bountiful (Foote, Horton)
Publication Date: January 22, 1994| Series: Foote, Horton Horton Foote’s uniquely personal style of screenwriting is at its peak in this collection of two Academy Award winners, To Kill a Mockingbird and Tender Mercies, and The Trip to Bountiful, a film widely named as one of 1985’s best. “In an age when the lexicon of cinema is largely visual,” noted Samuel G. Freedman in the New York Times Magazine, “Foote writes films. He stresses dialogue and character development rather than spectacle or even traditional narrative.”Each of the three screenplays sprang...
|  | The Not-So-Star-Spangled Life of Sunita Sen
Publication Date: May 3, 1993| Age Level: 9 and up s Indian culture continues to curry the movies, music, and literature of American culture, the time is perfect to re-introduce this Indian-themed novel about a young girl's heartfelt attempt to straddle her two worlds. Like any other eighth grader, smart and spunky Sunita Sen just wants to fit in. She feels she's doing pretty well, especially as her friendship with the school's tennis star starts to blossom into something more. But when Sunita's grandparents come from India to stay with her family, her lifestyle changes, and Sunita suddenly ...
|  | Target Lock
Release Date: November 26, 2002The disappearance of an industrial research satellite puts Commander Amanda Lee Garrett and her Navy task force on the hunt for a high-tech pirate-a criminal genius whose own sea force turns the mission into an international crisis. ...
|  | Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability
Publication Date: October 11, 2011Chosen by the American Library Association as a 2012 Notable Book in Poetry.Beauty is a Verb is a ground-breaking anthology of disability poetry, essays on disability, and writings on the poetics of both. Crip Poetry. Disability Poetry. Poems with Disabilities. This is where poetry and disability intersect, overlap, collide and make peace."[BEAUTY IS A VERB] is going to be one of the defining collections of the 21st century...the discourse between ability, identity & poetry will never be the same." -Ron Silliman, author of In The American Tree"This powerful ...
|  | Darkling Seas
Publication Date: June 1, 2010According to the tales passed down over generations, the mythological creatures had been known to lure the unsuspecting to their deaths. They were so awed by their discovery, so enthralled with the beautiful creature-they had to wonder, could it be that there was some substance to the myth?They were supposed to be nothing but myth-but the myth couldn't begin to compare to the truth. Was it certain death to indulge their desires? And, even if it was, could they resist?Rating: Carnal. Multiple sexual partners, adult situations, language-warning, the breeding pract...
|  | Invasion of Privacy
Release Date: June 9, 1997Twelve years ago, a young girl disappeared. Now a filmmaker has made a movie about it. The girl's parents call it invasion of privacy. A woman lawyer calls it murder.The bloodstains on the courtroom floor belong to attorney Nina Reilly. Months earlier she'd been shot during a heated murder trial. She should have died that day. Instead, Nina has returned to the same Lake Tahoe court. Her only concession to her lingering fear is to give up criminal law. She figures an invasion of p...
|  | Tough as Nails: The Complete Cases of Donahue: from the Pages of Black Mask
Publication Date: April 1, 2012Presenting Tough Dick Donahue, the inter-state detective agency operative who replaced the Continental Op after Dashiell Hammett stopped writing for Black Mask Magazine. Collected for the first time in a single volume is every one of the fifteen Donahue stories: "Rough Justice" (November, 1930), "The Red-Hots" (December, 1930), "Gun Thunder" (January, 1931), "Get A Load of This" (February, 1931), "Spare the Rod" (August, 1931), "Pearls Are Tears" (September, 1931), "Death’s Not Enough" (October, 1931), "Shake-Up" (August, 1932), "He Could Take It" (Septe...
|  | Good Answers To Tough Questions About Death
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|  | India (Celebrate! (Chelsea Clubhouse))
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|  | Oregon (Portraits of the States)
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|  | Peter the Great and Tsarist Russia (Rulers and Their Times)
Publication Date: January 2000| Age Level: 11 and up...
| | Jesus Loves Me: Bible Memory for Preschoolers
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|  | The Daring Miss Quimby
Publication Date: September 1, 2009| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up In 1912, airplanes looked like bicycles with wings. Only men flew these scary new machines. When a spirited young woman named Harriet Qimby decided to learn to fly, everyone said it would be too dangerous. But Harriet tried it anyway! She was the first woman in the United States to earn her pilot's license. Soon the whole country was just wild about her! Harriet loved the attention and designed a purple flight suit to stand out even more. Before long she was the first woman to fly across the English Channel. Wha...
|  | Igcse Maths Edexcel Answers (for Workbook)
Publication Date: September 1, 2010The complete answers for the practice questions in CGP's IGCSE Edexcel Maths Workbook (9781847625557).It's designed to help students mark their own work, find out where they might be going wrong and improve their answers. ...
|  | Corporations (CrunchTime)
Publication Date: February 20, 2009| ISBN-10: 0735572291 | ISBN-13: 978-0735572294| Edition: Stg The most trusted name in law school outlines, Emanuel Law Outlines support your class preparation, provide reference for your outline creation, and supply a comprehensive breakdown of topic matter for your entire study process. Created by Steven Emanuel, these course outlines have been relied on by generations of law students. Each title includes both capsule and detailed versions of the critical issues and key topics you must know to master the course. Also included are exam questions with m...
|  | Information and Management Systems for Product Customization (Integrated Series in Information Systems)
Publication Date: November 4, 2004| ISBN-10: 0387233474 | ISBN-13: 978-0387233475| Edition: 1 In today's competitive environment, manufacturing and service companies are intensifying their customization processes. Customization means companies must meet the challenge of providing individualized products and services, without introducing high costs. Therefore, companies must address both customization and cost factors to gain a competitive advantage. While product customization is the manufacturing of products according to individual customer needs, it does not involve any focus on the co...
|  | Resumes for Law Careers (Professional Resumes Series)
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|  | Stephen R. Covey's The 4 Disciplines of Execution: The Secret To Getting Things Done, On Time, With Excellence - Live Performance
Publication Date: April 1, 2012Executing strategic goals is the greatest challenge in business today. Aligning the organization's work teams with your most important objectives is a never-ending battle. In addition, keeping teams engaged and focused on the top goals is critical. Imagine an organization where every team - from senior leadership to the front line - is focused on the most important priorities and committed to achieving the Wildly Important Goals. FranklinCovey has studied the topic of execution for several years in thousands of teams and in hundreds of organizations. Our resear...
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