 | Richard Henry Dana Jr.: Two Years Before the Mast and OtherVoyages (Library of America)
Release Date: October 6, 2005| Series: Library of America (Book 161) This volume collects three sea-going travel narratives by Richard Henry Dana, Jr., that span 25 years of maritime history, from the age of sail to the age of steam. Suffering from persistent weakness in his eyes, Dana left Harvard at age 19 and sailed from Boston in 1834 as a common seaman. Two Years Before the Mast (1840) is the classic account of his voyages around Cape Horn and time ashore in California in the decade before the Gold Rush. Written with an unprecedented realism that challenged the romanticism of previous m...
 |  | One Amazing Thing
Release Date: December 21, 2010"Ingeniously conceived and intelligently written, this novel is a fable for our time." --Ha Jin, author of A Free Life and the National Book Award-winning Waiting "[A] jewel of a story." --Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone "Hauntingly beautiful." --Houston Chronicle One catastrophic event. Nine strangers. One amazing story. The scene: Late afternoon in a passport and visa office in an unnamed American city. Most customers and even most office workers have come and gone, but a punky teenager, an upper-class Caucasian couple, a young Muslim-American m...
|  | These Girls: A Novel
Release Date: April 10, 2012Family secrets may shape us all, but it’s the rich, complicated layers of friendship that can save us. Cate, Renee, and Abby have come to New York for very different reasons, and in a bustling city of millions, they are linked together through circumstance and chance. Cate has just been named the features editor of Gloss, a high-end lifestyle magazine. It’s a professional coup, but her new job comes with more complications than Cate ever anticipated. Her roommate Renee will do anything to nab the plum job of beauty editor at Gloss. But snide comments a...
|  | Those Jordan Girls
Publication Date: January 1, 2000Fiction. With THOSE JORDAN GIRLS, the author of the Tyler Jones mystery trilogy (including CLOSED IN SILENCE) delivers a family novel that follows four generations of women living together in small-town Minnesota. Narrated by Maddie, the youngest, the story centers around matriarch Gummie, a strong and independent woman who finds her way to the forefront of every major twentieth-century social movement while raising a daughter, granddaughter and great-granddaughter to follow in her footsteps. Julia Alvarez (How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents) commented, ...
|  | Don't Smell the Floss: Amazing Short Stories by Matty Byloos
Publication Date: August 1, 2009Like pop songs that have overdosed on camera cleaning fluid and pills, Matty Byloos's short stories are most definitely NOT traditional ideas on the subjects of love, daydreaming, and the psychological dramas that have become an unavoidable part of the human condition. Byloos, at first glance, appears to share too much; but the information is masked, skewed and filtered through a very weird, perverse universe of characters who play out human dramas underneath layers of oddity. Byloos's characters are confused - they're sad, they're searching - but in those emo...
|  | Metamorfosis / Metamorphoses (Biblioteca Tematica / Thematic Library) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | The Price: A Novel (Bitter Creek, No. 4)
Release Date: January 27, 2004Joan Johnston presents the thrilling saga of two dynastic families, the Blackthornes and the Creeds, with this powerful New York Times bestseller -- a novel of intrigue, passion, ambition, and love set amid Houston's towering skyscrapers and the majestic plains of South Texas ranch country.Luke Creed has sacrificed everything for his career at the prestigious law firm DeWitt & Blackthorne: a chance to run his family's ranching empire, his marriage, even time with his two daughters. Defending a major client in a wrongful death case, Luke crosses paths with his ...
|  | The Texas Ranger
Publication Date: June 30, 2011When Texas Ranger Marc Brannon returns to the line of duty, a high-profile murder mystery pits him against the vibrant—and vulnerable—junior investigator from his past. Years ago, Josette Langley made no secret of the fact that she was desperately in love with the rugged lawman, and despite their differences, the rough-hewn loner became drawn to the innocent young woman. Yet Marc and Josette parted on explosive terms when she made a shocking accusation that shattered both their lives. Now they are back together again.... And this time a lot more i...
|  | Stone Soup with Cards
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|  | The Detroit Pistons Basketball Team (Great Sports Teams)
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|  | Alligators and Crocodiles (Welcome to the World Series)
Publication Date: January 1, 2010| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
| | Ciencia voladora/ Flying Science
Publication Date: February 21, 201150 artefactos que pueden lanzarse, vuelan, flotan, o giran-creados por los ninos. ...
|  | F is for Fiddlehead: A New Brunswick Alphabet (Alphabet Books)
Publication Date: September 1, 2007| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | Maya Angelou (African-American Biographies (Raintree))
Publication Date: September 15, 2005| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Barack Obama: 44th U.S. President (Presidents of the United States Bio-Graphics (Graphic Planet))
Publication Date: September 1, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | River Glory
Publication Date: December 1999| ISBN-10: 1884369871 | ISBN-13: 978-1884369872Through the analogy of the river, God has given us a whole new consciousness of His Spirit. Because He wants us to know the Spirit, He is showing us the river. When we see the Spirit of God as a great flowing river, we can better understand how to step into it and how to flow with its currents. The river is the Holy Spirit and the flow of the river is the outpouring of the Spirit. Whatever brings us to the river, if we can all gt into it, every need will be supplied. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edi...
|  | The Methodist Hymnal; Official Hymnal of the Methodist Church
Publication Date: 1939Hymnal of the Methodist Church ...
|  | Preparing for Ministry: A Practical Guide to Theological Field Education
Publication Date: November 3, 2008Most seminaries now require their students to get real world training by way of supervised theological field education. This volume presents the wide array of issues that must be understood in order to integrate theological education and practical ministry, including the importance of theological field education, its purpose and challenges, the need for flexibility in meeting different students' needs, and the resources available to create a meaningful and educational experience. ...
|  | Final Accounting: Ambition, Greed and the Fall of Arthur Andersen
Release Date: April 13, 2004A withering exposé of the unethical practices that triggered the indictment and collapse of the legendary accounting firm.Arthur Andersen's conviction on obstruction of justice charges related to the Enron debacle spelled the abrupt end of the 88-year-old accounting firm.Until recently, the venerable firm had been regarded as the accounting profession's conscience.In Final Accounting, Barbara Ley Toffler, former Andersen partner-in-charge of Andersen's Ethics & Responsible Business Practices consulting services, reveals that the symptoms of Andersen's fat...
|  | I Scored a 760 on the GMAT Using These Tips
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