 | Out of My Mind
Publication Date: October 2, 2006Every Sunday evening, millions of viewers tune in to60 Minutes to hear Andy Rooney riff on everything fromcoffee percolators to the state of the union. Millions moreread his weekly newspaper column. Why? BecauseRooney tells it like it is.But Rooney fans have never seen him quite likethis. Andy Rooney is plain frustrated by what's going onin America and the world. Why can't Americans—letalone our president—speak English anymore? How do weexpect to fight a terrorist enemy that we can't even locate?And when did capitalism go so terribly wrong? This boo...
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 | Mommy, Mama, and Me
Release Date: June 9, 2009| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Rhythmic text and illustrations with universal appeal show a toddler spending the day with its mommies. From hide-and-seek to dress-up, then bath time and a kiss goodnight, there's no limit to what a loving family can do together.Shares the loving bond between same-sex parents and their children. ...
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 | The Country Life: A Novel
Publication Date: January 1, 2000A New York Times Notable Book of the YearStella Benson answers a classified ad for an au pair, arriving in a tiny Sussex village that's home to a family that is slightly larger than life. Her hopes for the Maddens may be high, but her station among them is low and remote. It soon becomes clear that Stella falls short of even the meager specifications her new role requires, most visibly in the area of "aptitude for the country life." But what drove her to leave her home, job, and life in London in the first place? Why has she severed all ties with her parents?...
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 | The Accidental
Publication Date: December 27, 2005Barefoot, thirty-something Amber shows up at the door of a Norfolk cottage that the Smarts are renting for the summer, insinuating herself into their family. Dazzled by her seeming exoticism, the Smarts begin to examine the accidents of their lives under the searing lens of Amber’s perceptions. When the mother Eve finally banishes her from the cottage, Amber disappears from their sight, but not—as they find when they return home to London—from their profoundly altered lives.Fearlessly intelligent, disarmingly playful, The Accidentalis a...
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 | After Shakespeare
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 | Surrealism in Latin America: Vivisimo Muerto (Issues & Debates)
Publication Date: October 16, 2012| ISBN-10: 1606061178 | ISBN-13: 978-1606061176| Edition: 1 This collection of essays—the first major account of surrealism in Latin America that covers both literary and visual production—explores the role the movement played in the construction and recuperation of cultural identities and the ways artists and writers contested, embraced, and adapted surrealist ideas and practices. Surrealism in Latin America provides new Latin American–centric scholarship, not only about surrealism’s impact on the region but also about the r...
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 | MOTHER OF GOD: A Novel
Publication Date: November 6, 1996Tessa Lambert races against time after she creates Fred, thefirst viable artificial intelligence program, and Fred escapes andmakes contact with a manic serial killer over the Internet. 25,000first printing. ...
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 | Shoes To Die For (A Jaine Austen Mystery)
Release Date: May 1, 2006| Series: A Jaine Austen Mystery Freelance writer Jaine Austen is not your typical Los Angelino. She's not rich, she's not thin, and she's definitely not starstruck. She is a sarcastic, sometime-sleuth who's never met a carb she didn't like...or a mystery she couldn't solve...If clothes make the man, then what do Jaine's elastic-waist pants and T-shirts make her? A fashion nightmare, according to her neighbour, Lance. She doesn't expect Lance - who works in the designer shoe department at Nieman Marcus - to understand...which is how she ends up visiting his favourite...
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 | I Need My Monster
Publication Date: April 1, 2009| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up Scholastic Book Club Selection Alabama Camellia Award list, 2010-11, K-1 category A unique monster-under-the-bed story with the perfect balance of giggles and shivers, this picture book relies on the power of humor over fear, appeals to a child’s love for creatures both alarming and absurd, and glorifies the scope of a child’s imagination. One night, when Ethan checks under his bed for his monster, Gabe, he finds a note from him instead: "Gone fishing. Back in a week." Ethan knows that w...
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 | The Bremen Town Musicians
Release Date: March 1, 2007| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up This is the classic tale of four beleaguered animals—a donkey who can no longer work, a hound who can no longer hunt, a cat who’s too old to chase mice, and a rooster who’s scheduled to become dinner—who decide to run off to be musicians in the town of Bremen. But they get more than they bargained for when they stumble upon a frightful gang of robbers. Maybe they can find a clever way to turn their dreadful singing to their advantage in this wittily illustrated book that’s sure to appeal to M...
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 | Last Stories of Polly and the Wolf (Galaxy Children's Large Print Books)
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 | Wally and Mae
Publication Date: April 1, 2010| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up A fastidious rabbit and a slovenly bear make a new Odd Couple on the NorthSouth list. This book should appeal to fans of other classic tales of friendship like Frog & Toad or Ernest & Celestine. ...
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 | Crushing Avalanches (Awesome Forces of Nature)
Publication Date: September 1, 2003| ISBN-10: 1403442304 | ISBN-13: 978-1403442307| Edition: 1ST What is an avalanche? Who helps people affected by avalanches? How can people prepare for avalanches? This book describes the causes and effects of avalanches, case studies of past avalanches, and how they can be predicted or prevented in the future. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
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 | Earthquake (Emergency!)
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 | The Respiratory System (Pebble Books)
Publication Date: September 1, 2000| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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 | Colors of a Sunset: An Algonquin Nature Myth (Short Tales Native American Myths)
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 | The One Year Sports Devotions for Kids
Publication Date: September 16, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up This devotional is perfect for kids who love sports and who love fun trivia facts about sports, facts about sports heroes, and stories about sports figures who overcame odds and performed the extraordinary. The devotional covers a large variety of sports, including sports both girls and boys will enjoy reading about. From the Polar Bear Club’s New Year’s Day swim to football to yo-yo records, the stories will encourage kids to read this devotion daily. The spiritual insight that connects the trivia to Scripture comes in ...
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 | Beginner's Italian Reader (Italian Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 1990| ISBN-10: 0844280305 | ISBN-13: 978-0844280301| Edition: 1 An Italian reader for beginning Italian studentsBeginner’s Italian Reader (Rolfs) gives your students a successful experience reading, writing, and speaking Italian. Each of the 27 readings is about cultural experiences relevant to students’ lives and can be covered in a single class period. This reader is softcover, 6” × 9”, and 60 pages in length. ...
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 | Altar Work 101
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 | Fundamentalism & Freemasonry: Investigation of the Fraternal Order
Publication Date: May 10, 1995It will remain the single most important study on the topic of freemasonry from this century.—Forrest D. Haggard, past president of World Convention of Churches of Christ ...
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