 | History of Middle-Earth (Pt. 3)
Publication Date: January 6, 2003J.R.R. Tolkien is famous for his literary creation, exemplified in "The Hobbit", "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Silmarillion". He also produced a vast amount of further material that expands upon the mythology and numerous stories of Middle-Earth, and which gives added life to the thousand-year war between the Elves and the evil spirit Morgoth, and his terrifying lieutenant, Sauron. It was to this task of literary construction that Tolkien's youngest son and literary heir, Christopher, applied himself to, producing the series of twelve books, "The History o...
 |  | From the Winds of Manguito/Desde los Vientos de Manguito: Cuban Folktales in English and Spanish/Cuentos Folkloricos de Cuba, en Ingles y Espanol (World Folklore Series)
Publication Date: September 30, 2004As intoxicating as the traditional music of Cuba, and as delicious as picadillo and plantains, storytelling is alive and well on the beautiful island of Cuba. Cuban folklore is particularly rich, drawing from both Hispanic and Afro-Cuban traditions. Elvia Perez, a practicing Cuban storyteller brings you 21 tales of delight and wonder-from engaging animal stories and tales of the fantastic to Afro-Cuban patakies and side-splitting tall tales from the Cuban countryside. All stories are presented in English and Spanish, making this a great resource for ESL an...
|  | The Way of the World and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: August 29, 2006| Series: Penguin Classics The wittiest of a renowned playwright's masterful comediesA master of the comedy of manners, William Congreve was the most elegant of the Restoration dramatists. With piercing accuracy, he depicted the shallow world of "society," where the right artifice in manners, fashion, and conversation-and money-eased the passage to success. *?Also includes The Old Bachelor, The Double Dealer, and Love for Love ...
|  | The Printed Homer: A 3,000 Year Publishing and Translation History of the Iliad and the Odyssey
Publication Date: October 1, 2003| ISBN-10: 0786415509 | ISBN-13: 978-0786415502The Greek poet Homer was one of the greatest and most influential poets of all time. His epic Iliad and Odyssey were the foundation of Greek education and culture in the classical age ("Our earliest infancy was entrusted to the care of Homer," said Heraclitus 2500 years ago) and are widely read today. Nothing is known of Homer’s life (some even doubt his existence) or of the composition of the two epics but we can assume that the texts that survive are not as they were originally formed in oral tradition...
|  | Eugene Jolas: Critical Writings, 1924-1951 (Avant-Garde & Modernism Collection) (English and English Edition)
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|  | The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life
Release Date: July 2, 2002“I’ve changed a bit since high school. Back then I said no to using and selling drugs. I washed on a normal basis and still had good credit.”Introducing Laurie Notaro, the leader of the Idiot Girls’ Action-Adventure Club. Every day she fearlessly rises from bed to defeat the evil machinations of dolts, dimwits, and creepy boyfriends—and that’s before she even puts on a bra.For the past ten years, Notaro has been entertaining Phoenix newspaper readers with her wildly amusing autobiographical exploits and unique life experiences. Sh...
|  | The Satires (The World's Classics)
Publication Date: April 2, 1992| Series: The World's Classics Juvenal, writing between AD 110 and 130, was one of the greatest satirists of Imperial Rome. His powerful and witty attacks on the vices, abuses and follies of the big city have been admired and used by many English writers, including Ben Jonson, Dryden and, most notably, Dr Johnson, who described his writing as a "mixture of gaiety and stateliness, of pointed sentences and declamatory grandeur". Juvenal has been seen as a stern moralist and, more recently, as an extravagant wit, and is acclaimed for his vivid description of the s...
|  | Sleeping Beauty (Little Golden Book)
Release Date: January 13, 2004| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | Gymnastics (Sports Skills)
Publication Date: April 30, 1993 ...
|  | Wayne Gretzky (Sports Heroes and Legends)
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|  | The Christmas Candle
Release Date: October 2, 2007| Age Level: 4 and up On his way home for Christmas, Thomas needs a light for his lantern. He stops in an old candlemaker's shop and is dismissive of all of the old man's intricate and beautiful candles, buying an inexpensive one. However, as he continues his journey, this simple candle takes on some unbelievable power. By the light of the candle, he mistakes a beggar woman for his mother and gives her his cloak and he thinks a man lying in the streets with no place to go is his brother and gives everything he has to put him in an inn for the night. Though he los...
|  | Hungry Hen
Release Date: December 18, 2001There once was a very hungry little hen, and she ate and ate, and grew and grew, and the more she ate, the more she grew.Up on the hill lives a cunning fox. He watches the hen every day and thinks, "If I wait just one more day, the hen will be even bigger."Then one day he can't wait any longer... ...
|  | Little Elephants (Born to Be Wild)
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|  | Incredible Insects (Ranger Rick's Naturescope)
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|  | Who's Hatching? (Sliding Surprise Book Series)
Release Date: October 19, 1994| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Middle School: The Real Deal (revised edition): From Cafeteria Food to Combination Locks
Release Date: June 26, 2007| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up What your older sister won't tell you . . .What your parents don't know . . .Where's the cafeteria?How do I get to my next class, with all the right books, in less than five minutes?How do I deal with standardized tests?Which clubs should I join?Can I bring my iPod to school?If I get stuffed in my locker, how long will it take for someone to find me?From cliques to class schedules, electives to extra credit, cafeteria food to combination locks, you'll find everything you need to know right here. And in t...
|  | Please (Courteous Kids)
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|  | AMAZING MALLIKA Anger Management Children's Picture Book (Fully Illustrated Version)
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|  | The Taiga: Life in the Boreal Forest (Watts Library)
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|  | Under the Hammer Pb (Power Plays)
Publication Date: August 1990 ...
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