- Table View
- List View
Spectacular Stone Soup (New Kids at the Polk Street School #5)
by Patricia Reilly GiffMrs. Zachary wants her class to be people-helpers and prepare a Spectacular Stone Soup. Stacy works hard to be helpful, but no one seems to notice.
Spring Bamboo: A Collection of Contemporary Chinese Short Stories
by Jeanne TaiShort stories by 10 of China's foremost writers
St .Francis of Assisi
by G. K. ChestertonFrancis of Assisi is, after Mary of Nazareth, the greatest saint in the Christian calendar, and one of the most influential men in the whole of human history. By universal acclaim, this biography by G. K. Chesterton is considered the best appreciation of Francis's life--the one that gets to the heart of the matter. For Chesterton, Francis is a great paradoxical figure, a man who loved women but vowed himself to chastity; an artist who loved the pleasures of the natural world as few have loved them, but vowed himself to the most austere poverty, stripping himself naked in the public square so all could see that he had renounced his worldly goods; a clown who stood on his head in order to see the world aright. Chesterton gives us Francis in his world-the riotously colorful world of the High Middle Ages, a world with more pageantry and romance than we have seen before or since. Here is the Francis who tried to end the Crusades by talking to the Saracens, and who interceded with the emperor on behalf of the birds. Here is the Francis who inspired a revolution in art that began with Giotto and a revolution in poetry that began with Dante. Here is the Francis who prayed and danced with pagan abandon, who talked to animals, who invented the creche.
Sunglasses After Dark
by Nancy A. CollinsA beautiful vampire of consummate, immortal power ... lust beyond the warmth of blood ... revenge beyond desire ... the world lay at her feet ... the kiss of life has never been so deadly.
The Blooding
by Joseph WambaughFor the first time, Joseph Wambaugh turns his attention outside the United States to deal with two murders in neighboring English Midlands villages-ancient villages that still have whitewashed Tudor cottages, pavements too narrow for passing baby prams, streets barely wide enough for two cars, and churches or pubs as the sites of community life. What intrigues the master of true-crime writing is that out of the sleepy setting grew a landmark case: the first murders solved by genetic fingerprinting. The victims of the terrifying rape-murders -two fifteen-year-old girls who do not know each other-have in common one fatal mistake: they choose to walk village footpaths bordering the lands of a psychiatric hospital. Forever after, the names Ten Pound Lane and The Black Pad will evoke fear and dread. The murders occur three years apart, and during all those years the members of the Leicestershire constabulary never give up their search. The local newspapers cooperate by keeping the cases alive. And the families of the victims try to cope with the chaos of their existence.
The Braggin' Dragon
by John Archambault Bill Martin Jr.For young children, a dragon practices for his school spelling bee.
The Devil and the Giro: Two Centuries of Scottish Stories
by Carl McdougallCarl MacDougal has assembled a collection of Scottish short stories from the past 2 centuries which will appeal to a wide variety of reader. Drop in to the over 700 pages to read haunting tales of the supernatural, like the story of a sensitive girl born to fall in love with a man only she can see through a library window at twilight. Enjoy the Gudewife's comic instructions on how to Hammer a husband in to docility and obedience. Ponder the inevitability of death, as a son learns that preventing the death of one, can cause the deaths of all. Consider social commentary as a child refuses to parrot his catechism at Sunday school and a man approaching middle age without ever having kept a job fantasizes a better future while steadfastly clinging to near starvation on the giro supplemented by handouts. Sample short stories by familiar authors like Conan Doyle and Robert Lewis Stevenson. Some stories are told in Scottish dialect as it has evolved over the past 200 years and others are modern addressing issues of racial tolerance and alcoholism. MacDougal's commentaries include short biographical information about each author, a summary of the author's writing career, style, and place in literary history, and an explanation of the nature and relevance of the story to follow. Collectively these stories showcase the Scottish character in the city and in the country, from childhood to old age in every conceivable social and economic circumstance. The editor suggests further reading for each author. A 4 page list of works by Scottish authors in the Canongate Classics is included at the end of the book.
The Dragon and the Lemon Tree
by Robert WaltonTwo children left with a kindly old man hear a story from him, a story about a young boy who learns to have confidence in himself and to care for others.
The Dreaming Tree
by Patricia MatthewsConvicts, banished from England, were sent to serve out their sentences in the primitive and unforgiving headlands on Botany Bay. Hope and Charity staked out a destiny as bold as their grandest dreams.
The Egyptian Cinderella
by Shirley ClimoIn this version of Cinderella set in Egypt in the 6th century B.C., Rhodopis, a slave girl, eventually comes to be chosen by the Pharaoh to be his queen.
The Future of an Illusion
by Sigmund Freud James StracheyIn the manner of the eighteenth-century philosopher, Freud argued that religion and science were mortal enemies. Early in the century, he began to think about religion psychoanalytically and to discuss it in his writings. The Future of an Illusion (1927), Freud's best known and most emphatic psychoanalytic exploration of religion, is the culmination of a lifelong pattern of thinking.
The Karate Kid Part III
by B. B. HillerWhen Daniel and his karate teacher return to California, they find that Daniel's old enemies from the Cobra Kai dojo are waiting for him.
The Midnight Mystery
by Betty Ren WrightIf only Rosie's mother hadn't bought the old man's wardrobe ... If only Rosie's father didn't have to go to Milwaukee for his job ... If only Rosie had ten fingers ... If only the "Dance of the Dinosaurs" could be a march ...
The Moon Under Her Feet
by Clysta KinstlerFictional feminist history of Jesus Christ and Biblical events, from the point of view of Mary Magdalene.
The Once and Future Goddess: A Symbol for Our Time
by Elinor W. GadonA sweeping chronicle of the sacred female and her reemergence in the cultural mythology of our time.
The Passport
by Herta Müller Martin ChalmersFrom the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 2009. Just as the father in the house in which we live is our father, so Comrade Nicolae Ceausecu is the father of our country. And just as the mother in the house in which we live is our mother, so Comrade Elena Ceausecu is the mother of our country. Comrade Nicolae Ceausecu is the father of our children. All the children love comrade Nicolae and comrade Elena, because they are their parents.' THE PASSPORT is a beautiful, haunting novel whose subject is a German village in Romania caught between the stifling hopelessness of Ceausecu's dictatorship and the glittering temptations of the West. Stories from the past are woven together with the problems Windisch, the village miller, faces after he applies for permission to migrate to West Germany. Herta Muller describes with poetic attention to the dreams and superstitions, conflicts and oppression of a forgotten region, the Banat, in the Danube Plain. In sparse, poetic language, Herta Muller captures the forlorn plight of a trapped people.
The Religious Traditions of Asia: Religion, History and Culture
by Joseph M. KitagawaFrom the Encyclopedia of Religion the history of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Islam in Asia.
The Scent of Snowflowers: A Chronicle of Faith, Hope and Survival in War-ravaged Budapest
by R. L. KleinThe true story of a Jewish family and the Gentiles who hid and protected them during World War II in Budapest.
The Star-Borne: A Remembrance for the Awakened Ones
by SolaraEach of us who has touched the stars becomes a langern which illuminates all with starry light. This is an accelerated path homeward which leads to the new octave of the greater reality.
The Titan Game
by Niven BuschThe rules of the Titan Game are as deadly as gas and as devious as fog: torturers can become esteemed customers, bystanders are seldom innocent, a man's worst enemy is often himself...
The Winner (The Gymnasts #4)
by Elizabeth A. LevyDarlene has to prove she's a winner, since her father is a famous person, a football player for the Denver Broncos.
There's Something in a Sunday (Sharon McCone Book #8)
by Marcia MullerAfter returning from a routine surveillance job, Sharon McCone finds her kindly old client lying in a pool of blood.
This Boy's Life
by Tobias WolffAutobiography of Wolff as a boy in the 1950s, by turns tough and vulnerable, crafty and bumbling. Separated by divorce from his father and brother, Toby and his mother are constantly on the move. As he fights for identity and self-respect against the unrelenting hostility of a new stepfather, his experiences are at once poignant and comical, and Wolff masterfully recreates the frustrations, cruelties, and joys of adolescence.
Through the Ice
by Piers Anthony Robert KornwiseSeth Warner falls through the ice on a frozen lake, can't get to the surface, and somehow wakes up on a white beach with a dense jungle behind him. He's one of the 4 Chosen...
Total Recall
by Piers AnthonyObsessed by dreams of Mars that he can't afford to realise, Doug Quaid, a construction worker, settles for the Rekall Incorporated Ego Trip mind-travel package. But when the treatment dislodges some true memories, Quaid suddenly finds he is playing the fantasy for real.