"When her Zen teacher is attacked in front of her by a silent, hoodie-clad assailant, Darcy Lott feels uncharacteristically helpless. If she cannot identify Garson-roshi's attacker, she cannot protect him. For whoever it is will surely strike again. But who would have a reason to...
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A young girl demonstrates to her mother and father how well she has learned to read.
In Berkeley, California, Jill Smith, the people's policewoman, investigates the disappearance of an informant. The department disapproves of this, they think she devotes too much time to bums and nobodies, but Jill feels nobodies too deserve police protection. By the author of Su...
A young girl loves all kinds of shoes except the ones with laces, until her mother gives her--and the reader--a lesson in tying shoes.
"22 essays explore wide-ranging themes, including redefining materialism and environmental justice, assessing the risk and promise of technology, and celebrating place; includes a foreword by Bill McKibben"-- Provided by publisher.
"When her Zen teacher is attacked in front of her by a silent, hoodie-clad assailant, Darcy Lott feels uncharacteristically helpless. If she cannot identify Garson-roshi's attacker, she cannot protect him. For whoever it is will surely strike again. But who would have a reason to...
With the help of the goddess Athena, a young prince tames the winged horse Pegasus and destroys a dreaded monster.
Recounts how the Greek hero Perseus vanquishes the serpent-haired Medusa whose gaze turned people to stone.
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Flight Patterns comes a stunning new novel about a young single mother who discovers that the nature of friendship is never what it seems. Recently divorced, Merilee Talbot Dunlap moves with her two children to the Atlanta suburb of ...
Twenty-two reprints of stories on crime by women. They range from Marcia Muller's All the Lonely People, in which a woman goes to work for an escort service to catch a criminal, to Joyce Carol Oates' Extenuating Circumstances, the confession of a murderess.
Explains the Egyptian pharaohs' beliefs about life after death, details the technique of mummification, and describes pyramids as burial places.
San Francisco stunt double Darcy Lott specializes in creating the illusion of serious danger. But when her lawyer brother calls and asks her to wine and dine a mysterious client, the danger is no illusion. Darcy takes an instant liking to the client, Karen Johnson, but there are...