 | Lumby on the Air
Release Date: July 6, 2010| Series: Lumby (Book 5) Fifth in the acclaimed series set in the enchantingly offbeat town of Lumby.Pam and Mark Walker are celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary with a week-long family reunion and a ceremony renewing their vows. But when Mark's brother-in-law starts broadcasting his radio talk show from Montis Inn, his disparaging remarks about small-town life cause immediate rifts that only widen when he sides with a real estate developer who wants to turn Lumby into an asphalt Aspen. As the controversy pits family against family, and neighbor against neig...
 |  | The Way They Were: The Histories of Some of Adventure Fiction's Most Famous Heroes and Villains
Publication Date: May 31, 2011Have you ever wondered when Victor Frankenstein created his monster?Or when Dracula terrorized England?How about Captain Nemo’s past? The Way They Were takes an in-depth look at the life and times of some of adventure fiction’s most famous heroes and most notorious villains.Inside you’ll find not only the answers to the above questions, but those to many more, covering characters as diverse as Korak, Son of Tarzan, James Bond and the Phantom of the Opera – who, it is revealed, is related to none other than Doc Savage and Sam Spade of ...
|  | Adelgitha; Or the Fruits of a Single Error: A Tragedy in Five Acts (Classic Reprint)
Publication Date: June 30, 2012History in the composition of this Tragedy, may gratify his curiosity by consulting Gibbon: neither can I plead ignorance as an excuse for my frequent violations of historical veracity.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful atte...
|  | A Fierce Brightness: Twenty-Five Years of Women's Poetry
Publication Date: January 1, 2002| ISBN-10: 093497182X | ISBN-13: 978-0934971829Poetry. Twenty-five years' prize-winning poetry selected from CALYX JOURNAL, this outstanding collection presents a diversity of poets who illuminate a poetic tradition in women's literature that was submerged during much of the 20th-century. Here women's voices pierce that obscurity with a fierce and dazzling brightness that is expansive, fertile, joyous, and powerful. Included among the more than 50 poets are: Julia Alvarez, Anna Akhamatova, Olga Broumas, Chitra Divakaruni, Marilyn Hacker, Barbara Kingsolve...
|  | La Memoria de Shakespeare (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: October 2004Autor de celebres cuentos y ensayos que modificaron radicalmente la literatura en castellano, Jorege Luis Borges logro hacia el final de su vida esa dificil forma de la perfeccion que consiste en describir con sencillez hechos portentosos. Cada uno de los cuentos reunidos en "La memoria de Shakespeare", los ultimos que escribio, registra con maestria esta circunstancia. ...
|  | Eugene Onegin: Translation By Douglas R. Hofstadter
Publication Date: April 22, 1999Sparked by reading Jim Falen’s beautiful English version of Eugene Onegin (published in 1992), Douglas Hofstadter presents a more liberal, distinctly American, colloquial version of the Alexander Pushkin classic. Hofstadter’s version is entirely in so-called “Onegin stanzas”—a unique sonnet form devised by Pushkin with a very intricate rhythmic and rhyming pattern. There is also a preface in Onegin stanzas, in which Hofstadter talks about Pushkin, his novel in verse, its form and content, the challenges of translating it into...
|  | The Child, the State, and the Victorian Novel
Publication Date: February 1, 2000| Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series The Child, the State, and the Victorian Novel traces the the story of victimized childhood to its origins in nineteenth-century Britain. Almost as soon as "childhood" became a distinct category, Laura C. Berry contends, stories of children in danger were circulated as part of larger debates about child welfare and the role of the family in society.Berry examines the nineteenth-century fascination with victimized children to show how novels and reform writings reorganize ideas of self and society as narratives...
|  | Letters of Herod and Pilate
Publication Date: June 1, 2004And he did another yet more mighty work, which had been strange even among our gods, he raised from the dead one Lazarus, who had been dead four days,commanding by a word alone that the dead man should be raised, when his body was already corrupted by worms which bred in his wounds. And he commanded the fetid body, which lay in the grave, to run, and as bridegroom from his chamber so he went forth from his grave, full of sweet perfume. ...
|  | Alien Rule
Publication Date: June 14, 2011Marked for execution, Jessica McInness knows joining the enemy is her only hope for survival. However when Kalquor’s crown princes arrive to rescue her, she discovers the three alien men aren’t quite what she hoped for in lifelong mates. Arrogant and brutish, the royal clan infuriates her—and awakens passions as no other men have. The Kalquorians are determined to seduce the temperamental woman who inflames their lusts. They relentlessly pursue the hesitant Earther, resorting to forceful means to claim her as their mate. But love comes at a...
|  | The Curse of the Pharaohs (Sherlock Holmes Tales of Terror #1)
Publication Date: 1997Something strange is walking in the darkness. Professor Sloane Coffin has spent his life studying the secrets of ancient Egypt-and now he lies, dying, in his dark old mansion in Scotland. He believes the old magic of the Pharaohs will bring him back to life. Soon, the creature who is the Walking Dead is stalking the living. And everyone is trying to find the diamond called "The Eye of Osiris". When the creature kidnaps Laura Coffin, there is only one man who can save her life-and find the diamond . . . Sherlock Holmes-the world's greatest detective. ...
|  | The Elves and the Shoemaker
Publication Date: June 1989| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up A poor old shoemaker becomes successful with the help of two elves who finish his shoes during the night. ...
|  | Sungura and Leopard: A Swahili Trickster Tale
Publication Date: October 1993| Age Level: 3 and up A small but clever hare and a fierce leopard agree to share a house, but as the hare's family grows, he realizes that he must find a way to get rid of his bad-tempered neighbor. ...
|  | Mortimer Mooner Stopped Taking A Bath! (The Mooners)
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| | Who am I? What am I?: Sign Version
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|  | Flags (Rourke Guide to State Symbols)
Publication Date: July 1, 1997| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | The Boy Who Saved Baseball
Release Date: May 12, 2003| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Tom Gallagher finds himself in a tight spot. The fate of Dillontown rests on the outcome of one baseball game, winner take all. And it's all because Tom had to open his big mouth. If only he could get Dante Del Gato-the greatest hitter to ever play the game-to coach the team. But crazy ol' Del Gato hasn't spoken to folks in years, not after walking away from the game in disgrace just before his team played in its first World Series. Maybe Tom has one more hope: Cruz de la Cruz, the mysterious boy who just rode into town...
|  | God's Mighty Warrior Devotional Bible
Publication Date: June 5, 2012| Age Level: 4 and up This popular devotional Bible teaches boys how to be the mighty warriors God created them to be.Even though they are often filled with energy and imagination, boys may not always feel very mighty. With this devotional Bible in storybook format, boys can learn how to be strong, honorable, courageous, and true. Selections of Bible text from the International Children’s Bible® are combined with delightful articles to help a budding warrior earn his armor and grow strong in the Lord. Features include: The Belt of Truth (Morals a...
|  | Herein Is Love, Vol. 4: Numbers
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|  | What to Doodle? Dinosaurs! (Dover Doodle Books)
Publication Date: July 21, 2010| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
| | Communication at Work: A Guide to the Communication Skills Needed at Work and on Training Schemes
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