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"Winner of the Pulitzer and Bollingen prizes, among many others, he [Gary Snyder] is also the unofficial 'poet laureate of deep ecology,' an influential seeker of alternatives to Western modes of living and thinking, and for many, a kind of personal sage, his poetry a species of ...
"The predatory catlike warrior race known as the Kzin never had a hard time dealing with all those they encountered, conquering alien worlds with little effort. That is until they came face to face with the leaf-eaters known as humans who should have been easy prey. But for years...
A millionaire faces a terrifying life and death situation in which he must rescue his son from the clutches of a diabolical kidnapper in this fast-paced adventure.
Ten-year-old Jeanie Leclare has just moved to the West Coast from Saskatchewan. She's desperately lonely and longs for a new friend. When the girl sitting in front of her at school seems friendly, she feels a little better. Then an excavator arrives and demolishes the cute house ...
The film re-frames the emotionally charged issue and offers, for the first time, the opportunity for a rational and scientific discussion on how to create a safer and more effective vaccine program.
Mildred is dying of Alzheimer's Disease. As her memories fade, she requires the aid of a full-time android to assist her in her everyday life. The android's duty: to tend to Mildred as Alzheimer's steals her away one memory at a time, and to pretend to be her absent family. Soon...
"Hugh Collier in "The Danger Lover" feels he is living an empty life as little more than a competent bank employee in the town of Stanton. He decides to leave behind a life that for him was a "caricature and savage cartoon of the beautiful truth that life may be" and heads into t...
In 'Treasures Afoot', Kimberly S. Alexander introduces readers to the history of the Georgian shoe. Presenting a series of stories that reveal how shoes were made, sold, and worn during the long eighteenth century, Alexander traces the fortunes and misfortunes of wearers as their...
If a story begins with "Once Upon A Time," it's a good bet it will end with "and they all lived happily ever after." Readers of all ages will delight in this collection of tales with fanciful beginnings and happy endings. For generations readers have enjoyed the tale of Rapunzel ...
A little angel has been chosen to find the best Christmas present this year, only he doesn't know where to begin looking. The wise old rabbit offers to help, and what follows is a marvelous exchange of stories, as the rabbit and the angel tell each other tales of gifts and deeds ...
Once upon a time, there lived in Denmark a young shoemaker named Hans Christian Andersen whose magical tales delighted boys and girls throughout the land. Hans one day journeys beyond the borders of his small village, across the sea and into the dazzling city of Copenhagen. There...
Join Davey and Goliath on their adventures as they discover valuable lessons based on biblical values. Contains six classic episodes, including the all-time favorite, The winner.
"At last, a book about curling, the noble sport that every winter turns otherwise sane Canadian men and women into broom-waving fanatics. Given the chance, any one of them would actively consider selling their soul to the devil for a chance to win the national championship known ...
"A riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer Thomas Smallwood, who bought his own freedom, led hundreds out of slavery, and popularized the term "underground railroad," from Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist, Scott Shane. Flee North tell...
"The predatory catlike warrior race known as the Kzin never had a hard time dealing with all those they encountered, conquering alien worlds with little effort. That is until they came face to face with the leaf-eaters known as humans who should have been easy prey. But for years...
"Keep sweet no matter what, for this is the way to be lifted up Keep sweet with every breath, for it is a matter of life or death 1964. Fifteen-year-old Daisy Shoemaker dreams of life beyond her small, isolated fundamentalist Mormon community of Redemption on the Canada--US borde...
Ten-year-old Jeanie Leclare has just moved to the West Coast from Saskatchewan. She's desperately lonely and longs for a new friend. When the girl sitting in front of her at school seems friendly, she feels a little better. Then an excavator arrives and demolishes the cute house ...