 | Her First American: A Novel
Publication Date: November 30, 2004She's Ilka Weissnix, a young Jewish refugee from Hitler's Europe, newly arrived in the United States. He's Carter Bayoux, her first American: a middle-aged, hard-drinking black intellectual. Lore Segal's brilliant novel is the story of their love affair —one of the funniest and saddest in modern fiction.First published by Knopf in 1985, Her First American is widely considered to be a modern classic. It is about the process of "naturalization," about the differences and the common ground between peoples and people. It is also about Jews and Blacks, whos...
 |  | The Earl's Mistaken Bride (Love Inspired Historical)
Publication Date: November 29, 2011| Series: Love Inspired Historical As soon as Marcus Brookstone lifts his bride's veil, he sees he's been tricked. He made a bargain with God—to marry a good, Christian girl if his mother recovered from illness. But Marcus intended to marry pretty Amanda, not stubborn Constance. His next plan, to ignore his new wife, fails as well when Constance makes it clear that she wants a true union. Constance Somerton doesn't dare reveal that she's been enamored of Marcus for years. The man believes love is for weaklings. Someone needs to teach him about marria...
|  | The Infection
Publication Date: August 30, 2011Five ordinary people must pay the price of survival at the end of the world.Amysterious virus suddenly strikes down millions. Three days later, its victims awake with a single purpose: spread the Infection. As the world lurches toward the apocalypse, some of the Infected continue to change, transforming into horrific monsters. In one American city, a small group struggles to survive. Sarge, a tank commander hardened by years of fighting in Afghanistan. Wendy, a cop still fighting for law and order in a lawless land. Ethan, a teacher searching for his lost fam...
|  | The Taqwacores
Publication Date: January 1, 2009A Muslim punk house in Buffalo, New York, inhabited by burqa-wearing riot girls, mohawked Sufis, straightedge Sunnis, Shi’a skinheads, Indonesian skaters, Sudanese rude boys, gay Muslims, drunk Muslims, and feminists. Their living room hosts parties and prayers, with a hole smashed in the wall to indicate the direction of Mecca. Their life together mixes sex, dope, and religion in roughly equal amounts, expressed in devotion to an Islamo-punk subculture, “taqwacore,” named for taqwa, an Arabic term for consciousness of the divine.Original...
|  | Hunt the Wolf: A SEAL Team Six Novel
Publication Date: June 26, 2012| Series: Seal Team Six Navy SEAL Team Six commando Don Mann infuses his debut military thriller with the real-life details only a true insider can reveal.In the midst of a grueling training exercise, Thomas Crocker, USN, unearths a pocket of terrorism that leads straight from the slopes of K2 to the cities of Europe and the Middle East. Crocker and his team, who are trained for the most intense kinds of combat in the most extreme environments, must blaze through a perilous web of terrorist cells to track down a ruthless sheikh who is running an international k...
|  | A Sea of Voices: Women Poets in Israel
Publication Date: March 31, 2008A unique anthology that brings the voices of fifty-one women poets who live in Israel but write in their native languages as well as Hebrew, there are poets from France, Spain, Iraq. Poland, and USA. who write in French, Yiddish, Russian, Spanish/Ladino, Arabic, Polish, German, Hebrew, and English. ...
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|  | Plum Island
Publication Date: August 1, 2011The hair-raising suspense of The General's Daughter... the wry wit of The Gold Coast...this is vintage Nelson DeMille at the peak of his originality and the height of his powers...Wounded in the line of duty, NYPD homicide cop John Corey is convalescing in rural eastern Long Island when an attractive young couple he knows is found shot to death on the family patio. The victims were biologists at Plum Island, a research site rumored to be an incubator for germ warfare.Suddenly, a local double murder takes on shattering global implications -- and thrusts Corey a...
|  | The Babysitters Club Collection 14: " Jessi and the Dance School Phantom " , " Mary Ann Vs. Logan " , " Claudia and the Middle School Mystery " No. 14 (Babysitters Club Collection)
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|  | Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa: Spring Babies
Publication Date: April 1, 2010| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | Hoppy Graduation!
Release Date: March 23, 2006| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up Young graduates will love to read about these frogs ready to take theleap to bigger lily pads. Follow them from rehearsal to their diplomasas their friends and family hop with joy! ...
|  | Pompeii: Lost and Found
Release Date: January 10, 2006| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up The famous eruption of Mount Vesuvius that snuffed out life in Pompeii and buried the town has long been a fascinating moment in history for children. This book presents that dramatic story with Mary Pope Osborne’s brief text and with stunning frescoes created by Bonnie Christensen, using the same colors, style, and technique as the ancient frescoes unearthed at Pompeii. In addition to the destruction of Pompeii and the rediscovery of the ruins nearly 1,700 years later, the book shows what daily life was like ...
|  | Noah's Ark (Bible Tale Readers)
Publication Date: January 1, 2004| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Monorails (All Aboard!)
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| | Rigby On Our Way to English: Leveled Reader 6pk Grade 3 (Level M) New Pen, The (On Our Way English)
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|  | Secret Believers: What Happens When Muslims Believe in Christ
Publication Date: May 1, 2008In his most incredible and eye-opening book to date, Brother Andrew invites you to meet brave men and women you never knew existed. This is the riveting true story of the Church in Islamic countries struggling to come to grips with hostile governments, terrorist acts, and an influx of Muslims coming to Christ. The names and places have been changed to protect the real people in the real places. But the stories are true.Now available in paperback, Secret Believers not only gives you a glimpse of the lives of these courageous believers, it also proposes four practi...
|  | Overcoming Fear (Women of Faith Study Guide Series)
Publication Date: May 8, 2007| Series: Women of Faith Study Guide Series Women of Faith, renowned for their unique combination of personality and truth, offer fresh new messages in four new topical study guides in the popular Women of Faith Study Guide Series. Each study guide, teeming with insights and quotes from the conference speakers provides twelve weeks of Bible study and a leader's guide for small groups. ...
|  | It Is Well With My Soul: Selections from Lift Every Voice and Sing II
Publication Date: September 1, 2001| ISBN-10: 0898692903 | ISBN-13: 978-0898692907It Is Well with My Soul features the Adult Choir of Grace Episcopal Church, Norfolk, Virginia, which has been in existence for over one hundred years. They sing a varied selection of traditional Negro spirituals, gospel hymns, and contemporary spiritual songs, as well as several selections of service music. Carl Haywood, organist; Terry Butler, assistant organist/choir director. We Have Come Into His House Better Be Ready O Sacred Head, Sore Wounded Taste and See Sweet, Sweet Spirit God Has Smiled on Me Cal...
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