 | Chinese Americans (Immigrant Experience)
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 | Beach Music: A Novel
Release Date: March 26, 2002PAT CONROY, America’s preeminent storyteller, delivers a sweeping novel of lyric intensity and searing truth–the story of Jack McCall, an American expatriate in Rome, scarred by tragedy and betrayal. His desperate desire to find peace after his wife’s suicide draws him into a painful, intimate search for the one haunting secret in his family’s past that can heal his anguished heart.Spanning three generations and two continents, from the contemporary ruins of the American South to the ancient ruins of Rome, from the unutterable horrors of th...
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 | Qué bueno baila usted: La música cubana a través de Benny Moré (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: April 1, 2009Esta maravillosa biografía novelada narra la vida del sonero más importante de la historia: Bartolomé Maximiliano, "El Benny", Moré. Con una prosa llena de emoción y poesía, el autor describe el desarrollo musical de "El Benny", desde su humilde infancia, hasta sus años de fama y su muerte. Qué bueno baila usted es también una historia de la música cubana y de su instrumento protagónico: la Clave. Un libro indispensable para entender, y disfrutar, los orígenes del ritmo que ha inspirado un sinnúme...
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 | From Cane Field to the Sea
Publication Date: April 6, 2011Poems that explore the range of human emotions: joy, love, friendship, heartbreak, alienation and loss. The poems are inspired by the author's experience growing up in Jamaica and as an immigrant in North America. ...
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 | The Peter Pan Chronicles: The Nearly 100 Year History of 'The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up'
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 | Morrigan's Cross (The Circle Trilogy, Book 1)
Release Date: August 29, 2006| Series: The Circle Trilogy, Book 1 (Book 1) In the last days of high summer, with lightning striking blue in a black sky, the sorcerer stood on a high cliff overlooking the raging sea… Belting out his grief into the storm, Hoyt Mac Cionaoith rails against the evil that has torn his twin brother from their family’s embrace. Her name is Lilith. Existing for thousands of years, she has lured countless men to an immortal doom with her soul-stealing kiss. But now, this woman known as vampire will stop at no...
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 | Heart of Stone
Publication Date: April 29, 2001Global climatic changes during the early part of the 21st century have placed enormous demands on fossil fuels. Global warming has altered the once predictable weather patterns for the whole planet. The largest shifts in weather have put the United States, in the year 2004, at risk of freezing to death if something isn’t done about the problem. Fossil fuels have been in the final stages of exhaustion for some time, however with the shifting weather patterns, this demand has become an unquenchable thirst. Even in late 1999 as his Presidency was ending, B...
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 | Brian Urlacher (Football Heroes Making a Difference)
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 | Gleam and Glow
Publication Date: August 1, 2005| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up Inspired by real events, master storyteller Eve Bunting recounts the harrowing yet hopeful story of a family, a war--and a dazzling discovery. ...
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| The Stock Market (Exploring Business and Economics)
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 | Far North (Vanishing Cultures Series)
Publication Date: May 1, 2007| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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 | Cultural Atlas for Young People (Cultural Atlases for Young People)
Publication Date: June 2003| ISBN-10: 0816051445 | ISBN-13: 978-0816051441Maps and text offer information on the cultures and histories of native groups in both North and South America. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
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| Kuns En Kultuur Vir Almal (Afrikaans Edition)
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 | The Imperative of Preaching: A Theology of Sacred Rhetoric
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| Contrary winds and other sermons
Publication Date: 1930This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...while there was undeniably a specialty in the case of Paul, inasmuch as he was distinctly and divinely commissioned to be the apostle of the Gentiles, the obligation to which he here refers is general and rests on every individual believer. In him it came to a distinct and definite head, and took an individual and peculiar direction under the articulate co...
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| Black Communion Book
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 | Uncommon Object Lessons and Discussion Starters
Publication Date: March 7, 2010| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up...
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 | Body Life:The Book That Inspired a Return to the Church's Real Meaning and Mission
Publication Date: August 1, 1995Ray Stedman shows you how to recapture the vigor and authenticity of the early churcha radical body of enthusiastic believers who spread the Word of God throughout the world! This bookconsidered a classic by manybrings you challenging questions that make Body Life both personal and practical. Body Life is a groundbreaking book inspiring churches and disciples to return to New Testament Christianity. Using principles from Romans 12, 1 Corinthians 12, and Ephesians 4, Stedman helps you discover the dynamic purpose of the church and the exciting role you have to ...
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 | Decision-Making Group Interaction: Achieving Quality (4th Edition)
Publication Date: July 1, 2002| ISBN-10: 0321049195 | ISBN-13: 978-0321049193| Edition: 4 Formerly entitled "Decision-Making Group Interaction," the new edition of this popular small group book features a new title that reflects the substantial and exciting revision it has undergone. Long known for its unique focus on issues of quality group interaction, Patton & Downs' book introduces the communication practices, patterns, and circumstances that promote or inhibit group performance. The Fourth Edition includes several new chapters addressing the most recent developments in the fie...
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 | Striking with the Ballot: Ohio Labor and the Populist Party
Publication Date: March 31, 2010 Historians have typically thought of Populism as a radical agrarian movement. In this much-needed corrective, Pierce argues that, in Ohio, Populism was an urban, not rural, movement and that industrial workers and trade unionists formed the core of the People’s (or Populist) party. Through case studies of Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Columbus, Pierce examines the efforts of Ohio unions—especially the United Mine Workers —to protect the rights of workers, curb the abuses of corporations, and reform the state’s and nation’s...
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