Synopsis: /HIGHTOWER LYNN; A/ Handcuffed to the wheel of his car, he is doused with gasoline and set on fire. Police Specialist Sonora Blair of the Cincinnati Homicide Division is awakened in the middle of the night with an urgent summons to take a deathbed statement. The victim can hardly speak, but he gives Sonora one key detail--the psycho who commited this gruesome crime is a woman.

Synopsis: Having begun a most unlikely romance, Bella and Edward are together and on the run in the forest of Fork as dangerous wolves and the revenge of a female vampire track them down at every turn, in the exciting fantasy sequel to Twilight.

Synopsis: Modern photographs and artists' reconstructions depict twenty of the world's ancient sites, as they are today and as they were in their period of greatness

Synopsis: The stunning story of one of America’s great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation’s burgeoning industrial prosperity. In the mountains above Johnstown, an old earth dam had been hastily rebuilt to create a lake…

Synopsis: This is a refreshing return to the hardboiled edge,of detective fiction and a great example of the,international mystery. Middle-aged private eye,Christomos Zaras, is hired by a whisky smuggler to,find a missing thief and a lost fortune. Leaving,his native Greece for the tension-filled shores of,Cyprus, Zaras immediately seeks out the island's,underworld. His only link to this underground,network is the beautiful and elusive Lena,secretary and…

Synopsis: “What an achievement, these sixty years of poetry! In whatever terms we Americans regard the rest of our recent history, the score of things done well and done ill, this much at least we have done superlatively.”—Hayden CarruthThis famous anthology includes the works of more than 130 major American poets of the modern period—Robert Frost, Paul Goodman, Carl Sandburg, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Allen Ginsberg, and Gwendolyn Brooks among them—along…

Synopsis: The 2 million–copy bestseller—now with lessons that will help you lead a more meaningful life and an exclusive DVD featuring commentary from Eben Alexander, M.D.Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those scientists. A highly trained neurosurgeon, Dr. Alexander knew that NDEs feel real but are simply fantasies produced by brains under extreme stress…

Synopsis: What is it Cathy finds so fascinating and frightening about the reclusive artist that children call the Wicked Witch? Author Isabelle Holland also wrote Toby the Splendid. Elegantly crafted . . . Wonderfully pungent and wise.--The Horn Book.

Synopsis: "The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay" is a collection of some of her most loved poems. Brought together in this volume are the individual works of "Renascence and Other Poems," "A Few Figs From Thistles," "Second April," and "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver."

Synopsis: Retold out of the old romances, this collection of Arthurian tales endeavors to make each adventure--The Quest for the Round Table, The First Quest of Sir Lancelot, How the Holy Grail Came to Camelot, and so forth--part of a fixed pattern that effectively presents the whole story, as it does in Le Morte D'Arthur, but in a way less intimidating to young readers. (All Ages)

Synopsis: Young teen fiction on cassette tape.

Synopsis: Haunted is the fifth book in the thrilling, romantic Mediator series, from the New York Times bestselling author of the Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot.Suze is used to trouble, but this time she's in deep: Ghostly Jesse has her heart, but Paul Slater, a real flesh-and-blood guy, is warm for her form. And mediator Paul knows how to send Jesse to the Great Beyond. For good.Paul claims he won't do anything to Jesse as long as Suze will go out with him.…

Synopsis: About the AuthorNació en Viena y estudió en la Academia de Bellas Artes de su ciudad natal. Empezó a colaborar en periódicos y en la radio en temas de educación, y así entró en contacto con autores de libros infantiles, que la animan a escribir. Sus libros tratan sobre las relaciones familiares, la escuela y la educación, los jóvenes, la marginación y la intolerancia y la liberación de la mujer. Destaca por sus cualidades literarias y su papel…

Synopsis: En esta obra de Matute se dan sus mejores aciertos constructivos y sus imágenes más intuitivas y aparecen, aparte del marco imaginario, los temas repetidos y casi obsesivos de sus novelas: la infancia siempre mal recuperada, la muerte, el anhelo frustrado de huida, el amor y el odio.

Synopsis: Libro usado en buenas condiciones, por su antiguedad podria contener señales normales de uso

Synopsis: Writing Success Is designed to: -To instill a love for writing so students become better writers. -To prepare students for the rigors of college level writing. -To develop higher level thinking skills in all academic areas. -To help parents assess their children's writing more objectively. -To encourage students to be proactive writers in their homes and communities. -To practically guide special needs and at-risk students in the writing process…

Synopsis: The Pearson Education Library Collection offers you over 1200 fiction, nonfiction, classic, adapted classic, illustrated classic, short stories, biographies, special anthologies, atlases, visual dictionaries, history trade, animal, sports titles and more

Synopsis: "Está basada en una metodología ecléctica que se sirve de todo lo positivo de los diferentes enfoques y persigues una completa integración de la civilización y la cultura hispanas. Todo el material que presentamos ha sido experimentado por alumnos de diferentes y edades."--Editor.

Synopsis: For use in schools and libraries only. A two-headed creature and a large, red-furred carnivore are among the members of a party that arrives to explore a mysterious world created in the shape of a ring.