 | As the Crow Flies: A Walt Longmire Mystery
Release Date: May 15, 2012| Series: A Walt Longmire Mystery Walt gets shanghaied into a murder investigation on the Reservation in this New York Times bestseller from the author of The Cold Dish and Hell Is Empty, the most recent novel in the Walt Longmire Mystery Series, the basis for LONGMIRE, the hit A&E original drama series Fans of Robert B. Parker will love this eighth adventure in the New York Times bestselling and award-winning Walt Longmire mystery series. Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire has a more important matter on his mind than cowboys and criminals. His daughter, Cady, is get...
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Release Date: August 2, 2011Minerva Dobbs knows all about risk management, which is why it’s such a shock when David, her extremely logical choice for a boyfriend, dumps her three weeks before her perfect sister’s wedding: David was not supposed to be a wild card. So when Min overhears David make a bet with his old nemesis—the gorgeous and successful Calvin Morrisey—that Cal can’t get Min into bed in a month, she decides that fate has just handed her a stacked deck: she can make Cal sweat his sex appeal and get a date to the wedding, if she plays along and doesn...
|  | Night Games: And Other Stories and Novellas
Publication Date: March 8, 2003These artful new translations of nine of Arthur Schnitzler's most important stories and novellas—including "Dream Story," on which Stanley Kubrick based his widely acclaimed film Eyes Wide Shut-reinforce the Viennese author's remarkable achievement as literary modernist, depth psychologist, and prose stylist. The psychologically complex and morally ambiguous tales of love and adultery, dream and reality, desire and death in Night Games prove Schnitzler to be fully the equal of his great contemporaries Kafka, Rilke, and Musil, and justify Freud's praise o...
|  | I Love Dollars: And Other Stories of China
Release Date: February 26, 2008An immediate sensation upon publication in China, I Love Dollars is a hilarious send-up of China's love affair with capitalism by one of its most gifted new writers. In the title story, a young man, acutely aware of his filial duty, sets out to secure a prostitute for his father, only to haggle his old man out of a good time. Here, gleefully exposed, are the inanities of everyday life in contemporary China. As penetrating as Kafka, as outrageously funny as Larry David, and with a slangy swagger all Zhu Wen's own, I Love Dollars is priceless. ...
|  | Poesia Selecta (Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage)
Publication Date: November 29, 2000| Series: Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Although today Luis Palés Matos is virtually unknown tomost American readers, the eminent U.S. poet and writer William CarlosWilliams once praised his younger contemporary as "one of the mostimportant poets out of Latin America."Palés Matos was a native, and lifelong resident, of PuertoRico. Though he was not black, he became one of the Caribbean'sleading advocates of poesía negra (black poetry). His landmark 1937collection Tuntún de Pasa y Grifería: Poesía Afro-Antillana...
|  | J.D. Robb CD Collection 4: Witness in Death, Judgment in Death, Betrayal in Death (In Death Series)
Publication Date: November 29, 2011| Series: In Death Series Witness in Death: Opening night at New York's New Globe Theater turns from stage scene to crime scene when the leading man is stabbed to death center stage. Now Eve Dallas has a high profile, celebrity homicide on her hands. Not only is she lead detective, she's also a witness - and when the press discovers that her husband owns the theater, there's more media spotlight than either can handle. The only way out is to move fast. Question everyone and everything . . . and in the meantime, try to tell the difference between the truth -...
|  | The Hell Screen: A Mystery of 11th-Century Japan Featuring Sugawara Akitada (Penguin Mysteries)
Release Date: June 24, 2008A tangled web of deceit strikes very close to home in this new mystery of ancient Japan featuring Sugawara AkitadaEleventh-century Japan is the expertly realized setting for I. J. Parker?s ingenious mystery series featuring sleuth Sugawara Akitada. In The Hell Screen, Akitada is on his way to the bedside of his dying mother when bad weather forces him to take refuge in a temple whose central treasure is a brilliantly painted hell screen. Perhaps its violent imagery influences his dreams: that night he is awakened by a scream. It?s only after Akitada returns to a sc...
|  | A Painted Ship: A Thomas Ford Mystery
Publication Date: June 30, 2009The unrelenting presence of murder interrupts the bliss of Thomas Ford's honeymoon in June of 1923. Ford, a Detective Chief Inspector from Scotland Yard, is enjoying his honeymoon with his new wife, Victoria, in a remote fishing village in Cornwall when fishermen discover the murdered body of Lord Clarence Danglars Pengriffon tangled in a fishing net. There hasn't been a murder in this village for twenty years, and authorities drag a reluctant Ford into the case.The authorities and townspeople question who would kill the affable and generous Pengriffon. By all ...
|  | Bride of the Living Dummy (Goosebumps Series 2000, No 2)
Publication Date: February 1998| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Fear Itself: Avengers
Publication Date: September 5, 2012| Grade Level: 4 and up...
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|  | Fun with Egyptian Stencils (Dover Stencils)
Publication Date: October 26, 1994| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Dinosaurs Big and Small (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science, Stage 1)
Release Date: May 7, 2002| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Cherry Ames Boxed Set (Books 17-20): Companion Nurse, Jungle Nurse, The Mystery in the Doctor's Office & Ski Nurse Mystery
Publication Date: January 29, 2008Cherry Ames Boxed Set 17-20 contains the Cherry's final adventures in four pulse-pounding mysteries: Companion Nurse, Jungle Nurse, The Mystery at the Doctor's Office, and Ski Nurse Mystery.Cherry Ames is back, just as you remember her! The books are just as you remember them, retaining the same look, feel, and sense of adventure and patriotism as when they were first published. With fully illustrated color covers and a soft-finished hardcover format just like the originals, these books will transport you back to the days when you were reading about this spu...
|  | When Someone You Know Has AIDS (The Aid Awareness Library)
Publication Date: August 1997| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Penrod, the Dancing Emperor Penguin
Publication Date: November 1996Penrod is a year-old emperor penguin who discovers he is dressed in his new tuxedo-like suit after shedding his baby chick feathers.He is dressed to go dancing, but to what?The Music of the Spheres, of course.The Music of the Spheres is based on an intriguing theory by Greek mathematician/astronomer Pythagoras that the planets are in harmony with each other.The book teems with information about emperor penguins and Antarctica in an amusing and delightful way.It is illustrated by the author's colored pencil drawings and has a glossary in the back of the book. ...
|  | The Story of the H. L. Hunley and Queenie's Coin
Release Date: October 31, 2011| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up During the Civil War, Union forces blockade the port of Charleston so the Confederate army seeks a way to attrack the Yankee Ships.George Dixon is part of the group of men given the task of creating and building the "fish boat," a submarine.The H.L. Hunley ultimately sets out on its mission to sink Yankee ships, but fails to return, its whereabouts unknown.For more than 100 years, the mystery of the Hunley and fate of its crew stayed buried.The Story of the H.L. Hunley and Queenie's Coin recounts the story of the "fi...
|  | Carved Box, The (Gillian Chan)
Publication Date: August 1, 2001| Age Level: 10 and up...
|  | In His Arms: Children's Prayers
Publication Date: June 30, 2004| Age Level: 4 and up Beautiful children’s prayers for all occasions including table grace, prayers for the sick and the poor, for Christmas and for Easter.Long before I ever walked,Long before I ever talked,Jesus looked at me and smiled,And he claimed me for His child.Now I show my love in prayer,Thank You, Jesus, for Your Care."This is a book that will touch your heart in its simplicity and thoughtful approach to children’s prayers.I love it."— Doris "Do" JasinekEarly-childhood EducationAdministrator ...
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