 | My Brave Year of Firsts: Tries, Sighs, and High Fives
Release Date: September 4, 2012| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and upThe first time I rode a two-wheeler alone, I crashed and my mom filmed it on her iPhone. . . . The tenth children's book by the #1 New York Times bestselling team of Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell celebrates the extraordinary, everyday bravery of trying new things for the very first time. Whether Frankie's learning to ride a bike, love her first dog, make new friends (her very first twins), or help out her dad, she discovers that trying new things is how she grows—and that being brave enough to do so is ...
 |  | Diana: The Ghost Biography
Publication Date: April 1, 2009What happens when a person returns, unrecognized, to place and situation they left long ago? Will some see a ghost, or perhaps a threat? Can the past be altered, or the future changed? When Prince Harry arrives at Balmoral to convalesce after a bungee jumping accident in Bali, he is accompanied by Sister Julia, a plain-looking nurse who dotes on her charge. Julia's behavior provokes instant dislike and suspicion in two senior royal servants, the formidable housekeeper Janet McDuff and Prince Charles's equerry David Baron. Julia seems to know her way around the ...
|  | Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval: Literature (Classic Reprint)
Publication Date: June 28, 2012These essays are intended as a general description of some of the principal forms of narrative literature in the Middle A ges, and as a review of some of the more interesting works in each period. It is hardly necessary to say that the conclusion is one in which nothing is concluded, and that whole tracts of literature have been barely touched on the English metrical romances, the Middle High German poems, the ballads, Northern and Southern which would require to be considered in any systematic treatment of this part of history. Many serious difficulties have b...
|  | Relentless
Release Date: May 5, 2009In the erotic universe created by hot new talent Lauren Dane, passion knows no rank... Fifteen Families rule the Federated Universes-and Abbie Haws has spent her life battling the system. She's always been too driven to pay much attention to love. But when she meets Roman Lyons, Head of House Lyons, who stands for everything she hates, Abbie's attraction catches her off-guard... Their world, Ravena, revolves around born leader Roman, who dreads meeting this defiant- if stunning-rabble-rouser. But sometimes headstrong personalities that collide in public become hot-an...
|  | Operator
Publication Date: August 10, 2012When Michael Herne's high school girlfriend Melissa commits suicide, he makes the fateful decision to return home for her funeral. Michael hasn't stepped foot in his Catskills hometown for more than a dozen years since he left it and a college football scholarship behind to join the Army.Michael quickly learns that his hometown has changed as he is pulled into the web of mystery and corruption surrounding Melissa's death. He will soon confront the abusive ex-boyfriend, a town sheriff with mixed motives and the ruthless Russian gang at the heart of it all. Mic...
|  | Little Bunny Kung Fu
Release Date: October 30, 2005| Grade Level: P and up Regan Johnson takes the classic children's nursery rhyme and provides it with a new twist.Set in China, this bunny doesn't like to play with field mice.Instead, he prefers chopping down bamboo.Unfortunately for Little Bunny Kung Fu, many creatures in the forest rely on the bamboo.Eventually, Great Dragon must come down and set Little Bunny Kung Fu straight.Join Little Bunny Kung Fu in his romp throught the Chinese forest as he learns respect for others. ...
|  | Soccer Skills (Usborne Hotshots)
Publication Date: October 1995| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Pinocchio, Puppets, and Modernity: The Mechanical Body (Children's Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: October 25, 2011| ISBN-10: 0415890969 | ISBN-13: 978-0415890960| Edition: 1 This study assesses the significance of Pinocchio in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in addition to his status as the creature of a nineteenth century traversed by a cultural enthusiasm for dummies, puppets, and marionettes. This collection identifies him as a figure characterized by a 'fluid identity,' informed with transition, difference, joie de vivre, otherness, displacement, and metamorphosis, making Pinocchio a truly modern, indeed postmodern and posthuman, cultural icon. Pinocchi...
|  | The Fire-Eaters (Costa Children's Book Award (Awards))
Release Date: May 11, 2004| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Bugs & Critters I Have Known
Publication Date: December 1998| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up "Bugs and Critters I Have Known" is a collection of humorousverses and story poems - all ecologically aware - featuring insectsand sea creatures with appealing personalities.The text is aimed at school aged children and employs a challengingvocabulary with surprising rhymes. The book is illustrated with wittypen and ink drawings. ...
|  | Teens in South Africa (Global Connections)
Publication Date: September 1, 2008| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up...
|  | Schenck V. United States: Restrictions on Free Speech (Landmark Supreme Court Cases)
Publication Date: May 1, 1999| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up...
|  | 11 De Febrero 1990 La Liberacion/11 Of February 1990 The Liberation (Fechas Para la Historia) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Alfred Nobel: The Man Behind the Peace Prize (True Stories)
Release Date: October 31, 2011| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | The Robert Pattinson Album: Revised and Updated
Publication Date: June 15, 2010| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Not long ago, Robert Pattinson was best known for his supporting role in the Harry Potter films. Now the young British actor is everywhere, provoking headline-grabbing hysteria wherever he goes. His sudden global fame is due to his starring role in the blockbuster Twilight Saga movie franchise, based on Stephenie Meyer’s 85-million-selling book series. This biography-in-pictures charts Pattinson's rapid rise to prominence, from his early years as a teenage model in England to his arrival on the set of the movi...
|  | Kyoto Hb (Holy Cities)
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|  | Estas Aqui/You Are Here (My Neighborhood Discovery Library)
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|  | Christian Ethics: An Introductory Reader
Publication Date: May 18, 2010| ISBN-10: 1405168870 | ISBN-13: 978-1405168878| Edition: 1 This comprehensive anthology of primary documents and materials explores the evolution and study of Christian ethical principles. It may be used independently, or alongside the accompanying textbook, Introducing Christian Ethics, for a complete overview of the field.Represents the entire canon of Christian ethics, including first-hand accounts from major figures in the theological and ecclesial traditionIntroduces foundational figures such as Augustine, Aquinas, and Luther; contemporary theorists in...
|  | Miracle Workers, Reformers, and the New Mystics
Publication Date: May 1, 2006Miracle Workers, Reformers and the New Mystics contains more than 70 photos, illustrations, and biographies of men and women whose lives have demonstrated the phenomenal throughout the ages. Let their stories inspire you to join their ranks as part of this coming revival generation. ...
|  | Employees First, Customers Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down
Publication Date: June 8, 2010One small idea can ignite a revolution just as a single matchstick can start a fire.One such idea—putting employees first and customers second—sparked a revolution at HCL Technologies, the IT services giant.In this candid and personal account, Vineet Nayar—HCLT’s celebrated CEO—recounts how he defied the conventional wisdom that companies must put customers first, then turned the hierarchical pyramid upside down by making management accountable to the employees, and not the other way around.By doing so, Nayar fired the imagination of bo...
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