 | Love Finds You in Bridal Veil, Oregon
Publication Date: January 1, 2010| Series: Love Finds You Amidst a backdrop of thievery and murder in historic Bridal Veil, Oregon, a schoolteacher is torn between the memories of a distant love and the man who could be her future. Margaret Garvey had given her heart to Nathaniel, but he left town four years before. Now she’'s giving love another chance, but her decision to build a new life with Andrew is shaken when Nathaniel steams back into Bridal Veil on a riverboat to work at the nearby sawmill. When disaster strikes the town and threatens the welfare of its citizens, Margaret will...
 |  | Possession
Release Date: October 1, 1991National Bestseller Winner of England’s Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets. As they uncover their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements from London to Yorkshire—from spiritualist séances to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany—what emerges is an extraordinary counterpoint of passions and ideas.&#...
|  | Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood
Publication Date: April 20, 2009Highly illuminating for parents, vitalforstudents and booklovers alike,Enchanted Hunters transforms our understanding of why children shouldread.Ever wondered why little children love listening to stories, why older ones get lost in certain books? In this enthralling work, Maria Tatar challenges many of our assumptions about childhood reading. Much as our culture pays lip service to the importance of literature, we rarely examine the creative and cognitive benefits of reading from infancy through adolescence. By exploring how beauty and horror operated in C.S....
|  | A Modern Southern Reader: Major Stories, Drama, Poetry, Essays, Interviews, and Reminiscences from the Twentieth-Century South
Publication Date: October 1986This anthology represents the best work of important Southern writers of the twentieth century -from the 1920s (and the beginning of the Southern Renaissance) to the present.The volume includes examples of fiction, drama, poetry, essays, interviews, and reminiscences. Ben Forkner and Patrick Samway, who edited the highly acclaimed STORIES OF THE MODERN SOUTH, draw from the works of such greats as Ernest Gaines, William Faulkner, C. Vann Woodward, Allen Tate,Eudora Welty, Zora Neale Hurston, Caroline Gordon, Reynolds Price, Robert Penn Warren, Alice Walker, Andre...
|  | Brightfount Diaries
Publication Date: July 1, 2001In a small provincial city, Peter lives with his long-suffering Aunt Anne and his eccentric Uncle Leo, and works in a bookshop called Brightfount’s, which he describes as a ‘shabby outpost of literacy’. Cutting the apron strings, he moves into a bed-sit and composes these witty diaries, in which he includes amusing remarks about publishers, authors, booksellers and customers, a revelation about his dotty uncle, and his efforts to find ‘a suitable girl’. ...
|  | Circulation of the Blood (Everyman's Library (Paper))
Publication Date: October 15, 1993| Series: Everyman's Library (Paper) Deer Lake is a small Minnesota town where people know their neighbours and crime is something that happens on the evening news. But the illusion of safety is shattered when eight-year-old Josh Kirkwood disappears from a hockey rink as he waits for his mother to pick him up after practice. The only thing the police find is his duffel bag with a note stuffed inside, 'Ignorance is not innocence but SIN'. With each passing hour the search for Josh takes on a more ominus intensity. For Megan O'Malley, the new regional officer ...
|  | Blazing Bedtime Stories: Once Upon A Bite\My, What A Big...You Have!\Sexily Ever After (Harlequin Blaze)
Publication Date: February 1, 2009| Series: Harlequin Blaze (Book 447) These Valentine's Day stories have Blazingly happy endings...Once Upon a Bite by Kimberly RayeBeauty and the beast--in the bedroom! When wolfishly irresistible Matt Keller lands in Skull Creek, Texas, Shay Briggs sees a hunky beast who needs her taming touch.My, What a Big...You Have! by Leslie KellyScarlett Templeton doesn't believe in fairy tales. That is, until she meets a sexy rogue in the woods, on her way to Grandmother's house....Sexily Ever After by Rhonda NelsonUgly duckling Juliet only wants to be a femme fatale...
|  | Cowboy Domination (Siren Publishing Menage Amour)
Publication Date: January 21, 2011| Series: Siren Publishing Menage Amour [Menage Amour: Erotic Cowboy Menage a Quatre Romance, M/F/M/M, bondage, sex toys, public exhibition] Callie will do anything to save her grandfather's farm. She's even ready to offer her body to one of the wealthy Black brothers in exchange for peace of mind. What she doesn't expect is how much she loves being dominated by the kinky trio. But can she trust the known playboys with her heart? Colton and his brothers can't get enough of the feisty blonde cowgirl with the wicked tongue and killer curves. They love pla...
|  | A Child's Book of Poems
Publication Date: September 1, 2007| Age Level: 3 and up William Blake, Kate Greenaway, Emily Dickinson: the writers in this charming anthology of 200 poems—first published in 1969—are among literature’s most beloved. And Gyo Fujikawa’s appealing illustrations depict children of all races sweetly interacting, as well as an engagingly rendered menagerie of animals and the natural world in all its wonderment. Among the verses that children will love are Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Christmas Bells,” Lewis Carroll’s “The Melancholy Pig,&#x...
|  | The Visiting Angel
Publication Date: November 3, 1999Kattie and Elisa, the heroines in this captivating child's tale, overcome the constraints of a social-classed society during the Civil War to become best friends. Kattie, the white daughter of a Virginia plantation owner, and Elisa, the daughter of African-American slaves who work for Kattie's family, look past their differences to find shared similarities. When an unfortunate illness falls on both girls, Kattie and Elisa become friends and classmates at angel school. Kattie and Elisa find the other angels to be a diverse mix of races and nationalities. They...
|  | Good Knight Sleep Tight
Publication Date: October 1, 2005| Age Level: 4 and up A baby princess has just been born to the royal family, but her elder brother the little prince can't understand what all the fuss is about.On one unlucky day the fat royal cat squashes the baby's soft pillow, and the princess can't sleep on it any more. She cries and cries, which prompts the king to send his brave and loyal knight out to the forest to find soft, new stuffing for the pillow. After many an adventure, the knight finally returns with fresh feathers for the princess's special pillow. Will it make her happy again? Will she fi...
|  | One Tiny Turtle with Audio: Read, Listen, & Wonder
Release Date: April 8, 2008| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Wherever You Are: My Love Will Find You
Release Date: September 14, 2010| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up . . . I wanted you more than you’ll ever know, . so I sent love to follow wherever you go. . . . Love is the greatest gift we have to give our children. It’s the one thing they can carry with them each and every day. If love could take shape it might look something like these heartfelt words and images from the inimitable Nancy Tillman. Here is a book to share with your loved ones, no matter how near or far, young or old, they are. ...
|  | Framed
Release Date: January 29, 2008| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and upA few things to know about Dylan He is the only boy in his entire town. His best friends are two pet chickens. Criminal instincts run in his family. And one more small thing about nine-year-old Dylan—the crime of the century has just fallen into his lap....
|  | Regina's Big Mistake (Sandpiper paperbacks)
Publication Date: March 27, 1995| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Ghost at the Window (Peter's Neighborhood Series)
Release Date: August 26, 2002| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Never Cry "Arp!" and Other Great Adventures
Publication Date: May 15, 1996| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up America's best-selling outdoor humorist for adults has a secret following:middle-grade and young-adult readers.Never Cry "Arp!" is a lively collection of twelve stories about young Pat's misadventures in the Great American Wilderness.All the McManus regulars are here:Crazy Eddie Muldoon, the best friend everybody wishes they had (and everybody's mother wishes they didn't); Rancid Crabtree, the good-hearted, if gamey, woodsman; Pat's skunk dog, Strange, who lives up to his name; and Pat's pal, Retch Sweeney, who does...
|  | Honda (Red-Hot Bikes)
Publication Date: August 31, 2008| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | The Bilingual Book of Rhymes, Songs, Stories, and Fingerplays: Over 450 Spanish/English Selections (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: September 1, 2004Did you know that children who are exposed to just 50 words of a second language prior to age six develop an “ear” for the sounds of that language? The Bilingual Book of Rhymes, Songs, Stories, and Fingerplaysoffers over 450 selections, with Spanish on one page and English on the opposite. Children will be thrilled to learn new words to their favorite Spanish and English tunes. At the same time, they will build vocabulary and explore the sounds of both languages—important skills for beginning readers! Organized by theme for easy use, th...
|  | Risky Business (Psychological and Behavioural Aspects of Risk)
Publication Date: September 1, 2010| ISBN-10: 0566089157 | ISBN-13: 978-0566089152What are the financial and psychological costs of risky behaviour in business to the individuals concerned and their organizations? "Risky Business" provides a perspective on addictive behaviours such as gambling, drug taking and even addiction to work; criminal behaviours such as theft and corruption; and, behaviours such as aggression and violence. The authors then look at their implications to employee and organizational health within the context of the workplace environment; and, an environment ...
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