 | Philosophy Made Simple
Publication Date: March 1, 2007Rudy Harrington is ready for a new life. His daughters are grown, his wife has died, and the idea of running an avocado grove in Texas suddenly seems infinitely more appealing than staying in his rambling Midwestern house. So a new life it is. Rudy heads off for a part of the world where he knows scarcely a soul. But he has a guide: a slender book called Philosophy Made Simple, each chapter highlighting the ideas of a different philosopher. No amount of Plato, Schopenhauer, or Sartre, however, can prepare Rudy for the surprises that emerge as he arranges for hi...
 |  | The Keep
Release Date: July 10, 2007Award-winning author Jennifer Egan brilliantly conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep –the tower, the last stand –is both everything worth protecting and the very thing that must be surrendered in order to survive. Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe. In an environment of extreme paranoia, cut off from the outside world, the men reenact the signal event of their youth, with even more catastrophic results. And as the full horror of ...
|  | CATAWAMPUS Or Growing Up Slightly Askew
Publication Date: December 1, 2011Catawampus is a coming-of-age story driven by the premonition of an alcoholic father that his eldest son would play professional baseball, the slow, inexorable descent of the mother into emotional illness, and the author's role as youngest son and chronicler. It is, nevertheless, a tale of triumph, underscored by humor and the sustenance afforded by family and friends. ...
|  | Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves: Book I of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene
Publication Date: January 1, 1999Edmund Spenser (1552-99) ranks just below Shakespeare, with Chaucer and Milton, in the pantheon of great writers. In The Faerie Queene, he spins a sub-created fantasy universe that would be the model for Tolkien and Lewis. This poet, whom Milton considered to be a better teacher than the medieval theologians, wrote an epic tale of adventure, love, noble deeds, and faith.Despite all his acknowledged greatness, almost no one reads Spenser any more. Roy Maynard takes the first book of The Faerie Queene, exploring the concept of Holiness with the character of t...
|  | Voices from the North: New Writing from Norway
Publication Date: July 28, 2008Stavanger in Norway, one of the world's three leading oil cities, has been chosen as a European Capital of Culture for 2008. Seven prize-winning writers, all with a connection to the region, showcase their work, both prose fiction and poetry, in this celebratory anthology. Exciting and innovative, these young writers use images of life and death, the past and the future, of Norway and abroad, of the poetic and the everyday, to illuminate our current lives and issue warnings about the future.""An amazing showcase of modern-day literary talent from Norway.""The M...
|  | The Voices of Hope: Poems, Stories, and Drawings by the Children of La Esperanza, Guatemala
Publication Date: June 6, 2003Collected and translated by Carolyn Alessio, this bilingual anthology of poems, stories, memories, and philosophies was written and illustrated by the children of La Esperanza, Guatemala. Drawing upon the fortitude of their mothers, who began hand-sewing crafts to sell in the United States in order to survive the hardships of this war-torn impoverished country, Alessio’s students, aged four to sixteen, reveal amazing survival skills, fertile imaginations, and dreams of attaining better lives. The resulting work is a collection of poems and drawings that a...
|  | The Secret Bride of Crannoch Castle
Release Date: April 1, 1992Vacationing in Scotland with her guardians after her engagement is broken, orphaned heiress Adella Sarne is further stunned when her aunt and uncle die in a freak boating accident and she is rescued by Sir Robert MacCrannoch. Original. ...
|  | Double Dutch (Aladdin Fiction)
Release Date: December 30, 2003| Age Level: 10 and up...
| | Last Stories of Polly and the Wolf (Galaxy Children's Large Print Books)
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|  | Electra
Publication Date: September 22, 2003| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up "Have you ever wondered about the old horse as you stare at her in her stable? Have you ever wondered if she's lived a life of joy or sorrow? Have you ever cared about her health or comfort? If you have, then follow my story. This is the story of my life."Electra, a palomino American Quarter Horse, was born on a happy little farm where she lived with her mother and their loving owners. But then her life took a sudden turn, and like most horses, she was sold. Now, as she grows into a young mare, her life is in t...
|  | Aesop's Fables: A Pop-Up Book (Pop Up Books)
Publication Date: June 1, 2012| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Cold Snap
Release Date: October 9, 2012| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up It's snowy cold in the town of Toby Mills. The thermometer is sinking toward zero, and the icicle hanging from the nose of General Toby's statue is growing closer to the ground. The newspaper headline reads "COLD SNAP!" The people of the town are losing hope—and the feeling in their toes—until the mayor's wife saves the day with a toasty treat. ...
|  | The Mystery of UFOs (Can Science Solve?)
Publication Date: May 5, 2006| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Cattle and Oil: The Growth of Texas Industries (Spotlight on Texas, the Growth and Development of the Lone Star State)
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|  | Jennifer Love Hewitt (Real-Life Reader Biography)
Publication Date: August 2000| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Homeland Security Officers (Extreme Careers: Set 5)
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| | Amma Et Kassi (Bibliobus)
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|  | Hostage to the Devil: The Possession and Exorcism of Five Contemporary Americans
Release Date: November 20, 1992One On One With SatanA chilling and highly convincing account of possession and exorcism in modern America, hailed by NBC Radio as "one of the most stirring books on the contemporary scene." ...
|  | Visible Thinking: Unlocking Causal Mapping for Practical Business Results
Publication Date: August 2, 2004| ISBN-10: 0470869151 | ISBN-13: 978-0470869154| Edition: 1 Causal mapping is a tool that enables you to make sense of challenging situations so that you can get more out of them. A causal map is a word and arrow diagram in which ideas and actions are causally linked with one another through the use of arrows. Typically, only specialists such as physical or social scientists and operations researchers know about causal mapping and the tool is therefore not widely known or its broad applicability understood. Until now there has been no guidance available on...
|  | E-Learning Standards:A Guide to Purchasing, Developing, and Deploying Standards-Conformant E-Learning
Publication Date: November 25, 2002For the first time ever, clear, comprehensive information about the major e-learning standards has been brought together in a single resource. No more confusing patchworks of information gleaned from scattered Web sites and periodicals. No more frustrating searches through hundreds of pages of technical specifications to find the twenty pages that apply to you. No more sorting through the alphabet soup of acronyms trying to discern which of them you need. Written by the developers of the first Learning Management System (LMS) to be AICC-certified for Web-ba...
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