| Avenue Publication Date: June 15, 2012Poetry. "Moving with penetrating attention through avenues of cityscape and dreamscape, Michael O'Brien's poem is a cartography of experience, inner and outer—splendors and vanishing points, snapshots, aphorisms, brief lives, the discarded ideograms of history, the eerily suspended clarities retrieved by memory—ordered by the syntactic music of a rare intelligence."—Geoffrey O'Brien ...
| | Deadly Choices Publication Date: January 1, 2009What happens when medical treatment is determined by the patient's ability to pay?Alex Lowe has painful memories of Richland Memorial Hospital. Five years earlier, she watched helplessly as her mother spent her final days of life in bed three of the ICU, suffering needlessly before succumbing to the ravages of metastatic colon cancer. Now, as the newest nurse at Richland, Alex finds herself working in the same intensive care unit, determined to do what she can to banish the demons that have plagued her since her mother's death and to prevent the suffering of ...
| | Utah Deadly Double (The Trailsman #361) Release Date: November 1, 2011When a man goes on a bloody rampage across Utah Territory using SkyeFargo's identity, the Trailsman has to hunt down the lethal lookalikebefore his own face ends up on a poster marked Wanted: Dead or Alive... ...
| | Little Shop of Horrors Publication Date: October 2004| ISBN-10: 0573681821 | ISBN-13: 978-0573681820Little Shop of Horrors is a rock musical, by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman, about a hapless florist shop worker (Seymour) who nurtures a plant (Audrey II) and discovers that it's bloodthirsty and highly intelligent, forcing him to kill to feed it. The musical is based on the low-budget 1960 black comedy film The Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Roger Corman. The music, composed by Menken in the style of early 1960s rock and roll, doo-wop and early Motown, includes several well-known tunes, inc...
| | Six Tragedies (Oxford World's Classics) Publication Date: February 28, 2010| ISBN-10: 0192807064 | ISBN-13: 978-0192807069Here is a lively, readable, and accurate verse translation of the six best plays by one of the most influential of all classical Latin writers--the only tragic playwright from ancient Rome whose work survives. Tutor to the emperor Nero, Seneca lived through uncertain, oppressive, and violent times, and his dramas depict the extremes of human behavior. Rape, suicide, child-murder, incestuous love, madness, and mutilation afflict the characters, who are obsessed and destroyed by their feelings. Seneca forces ...
| | Egil's Saga (Everyman's Library (Paper)) Publication Date: March 15, 1993| Series: Everyman's Library (Paper) SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT is one of the most important alliterative poems of Medieval literature.From the north-west midlands,it dates from the second half of the 14th century.Gawain,a knight in Arthur's court,takes up the challenge of the Green Knight,and cuts off his head.The Knight informs Gawain he will have his revenge.Journeying to the Knight's abode to receive his lot Gawain takes thehospitality of a Lord,and endures the advances of his wife.The Lord is the GreenKnight and,when the time comes,merely nicks Gawai...
| | James Starkey/Seumas O'Sullivan: A Critical Biography ...
| | History of the Florentine People, Volume 3: Books IX-XII. Memoirs (I Tatti Renaissance Library) Publication Date: November 30, 2007| ISBN-10: 0674016823 | ISBN-13: 978-0674016828 Leonardo Bruni (1370-1444), the leading civic humanist of the Italian Renaissance, served as apostolic secretary to four popes (1405-1414) and chancellor of Florence (1427-1444). He was famous in his day as a translator, orator, and historian, and was the best-selling author of the fifteenth century. Bruni's History of the Florentine People in twelve books is generally considered the first modern work of history, and was widely imitated by humanist historians for two centuries after its official publicatio...
| | Valentine Bachelors Publication Date: January 12, 1996Three romantic stories with a common theme: bachelors searching for love in the lonely hearts column. Nicholas, Tristan and Alec are determined to find the women of their fantasies by Valentine's Day and each place a special advertisement. ...
| | Barefoot Waterskiing (Extreme Sports) ...
| | The Never-Ending Greenness Publication Date: March 1997| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up A country blossoms with promise and lifeThe trees in the old European city of Vilna stretch their branches toward the sun-filled skies. But when war comes, a small boy and his family escape to Israel. There, in the safety of their new home, the boy begins planting seedlings in the barren hills. In hope-filled text and soaring illustrations, a boy's dream becomes a rich vision of life, a never-ending greenness of the human spirit that is celebrated today in the Israeli tree-planting holiday of Tu b'Shvat. ...
| | The Little Blue Box of Bright and Early Board Books by Dr. Seuss Release Date: August 7, 2012| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
| | Chateau de Babar (French Edition) ...
| | Great White Shark (Staplebound, Paperback Book, CD) Publication Date: April 1, 2009 ...
| | A Time for Freedom: What Happened When in America Release Date: May 8, 2007| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up"I offer this time line as a way of encouraging study of the past and I also hope it will spark conversation about what is truly important for us to know.... America is our home -- and how lucky we are that it is." Did you know that John Adams thought we would celebrate America's birthday on the second of July? That ten generals went on to become president? That our country has had nine different capitals, including Trenton, New Jersey, and Annapolis, Maryland? Bestselling author and historian Lynne Cheney takes readers...
| | A Picture Book of George Washington (Picture Book Biography) Publication Date: April 1, 1990| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
| | Cha-cha-cha En La Selva (Spanish Edition) Publication Date: November 1, 2003| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up The Spanish-language edition of The Animal Boogie.Come and join the fun as a group of creatures from the Indian jungle shows children from all over the world how to dance to the animal boogie! An elephant, a sloth bear, a vulture, and a snake are some of the characters who will help you boogie your way through this playful book. A lively, rhyming text, a musical score, and an easy-to-learn dance routine teach children coordination and make sure that they have plenty of fun at the same time. Illustrator Debbie Har...
| | SHIMMY SHAKE EARTHQUAKE: Don't forget to dance poems. ...
| | Strike Fighters: The F/A -18E/F Super Hornets, Revised Edition (Edge Books: War Planes) Publication Date: January 1, 2008| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
| | The Railroad (Inventions That Shaped the World) Publication Date: March 2006| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
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