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Willard and His Bowling Trophies: A Perverse Mystery
by Richard BrautiganA surreal exploration involving stolen bowling trophies, gas station robbers, and sado-masochism.
Shadowdale (Forgotten Realms: The Avatar Trilogy, Book 1)
by Richard AwlinsonThe gods walk the Realms. Banished from the heavens, they now roam the world, from Tantras to Waterdeep, seeking to regain their full powers.
Tantras (Forgotten Realms: The Avatar Trilogy, Book 2)
by Richard AwlinsonElminster has been murdered, and Midnight and Adon, who saved the Dales from the evil god Bane in the Battle of Shadowdale, have been sentenced to death for the murder.
Waterdeep (Forgotten Realms: The Avatar Trilogy, Book 3)
by Richard AwlinsonAdon suddenly knew why the guards had not been able to stop the attack. The man was an avatar. The avatar of the God of Assassins turned toward Adon and smiled in acknowledgment.
The Crack in the Sky
by Richard A. LupoffAcross the planet, only a handful of domed cities exist, cities like NorCal where multiple marriages and drug-taking are encouraged. Everyone waits for a technology to save them. IN CASE OF INFERNO ... "Sir, I checked the high-angle video shot again. That fire is just going and going." "Anything else on the condition screen?" "Sir, it says we have to stand by for a complete dome evacuation. How can we do that? That's impossible, it must be some obsolete code. We can't evacuate thirty million people!" The computers had the answer, but the question was: In earth's spoiled atmosphere, could anyone survive outside the dome?
Workbook for Wheelock's Latin (3rd edition, revised)
by Paul T. Comeau Richard A. LafleurWorkbook associated with the classic text Wheelock's Latin
Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail
by Frances F. Piven Richard A. ClowardHave the poor fared best by participating in conventional electoral politics or by engaging in mass defiance and disruption? The authors of the classic Regulating The Poor assess the successes and failures of these two strategies as they examine, in this provocative study, four protest movements of lower-class groups in 20th century America: -- The mobilization of the unemployed during the Great Depression that gave rise to the Workers' Alliance of America -- The industrial strikes that resulted in the formation of the CIO -- The Southern Civil Rights Movement -- The movement of welfare recipients led by the National Welfare Rights Organization.
Life Rolls On (2nd Edition)
by Rich Ochoa Duane HaleWhen he was four years old, doctors told Duane Hale's parents that their son had Spinal Muscular Atrophy and that he wouldn't live past his teens. That was forty-two years ago and he has now outlived some of those doctors. What happens to a rambunctious little boy whose disease turns him into a man who can't move? How does such a man graduate high school as Student of the Year, work twenty years for the police department, buy a house, get married, father and raise a son?This is the story of a man and the strength he derives from his family and his community. Even as the disease paralyzes more of his body every day his spirit stays strong and Life Rolls On.
RahXephon (Volume #1)
by Hiroshi Ohnogi Rhys MosesRelive events from the anime from the 1st person perspective. Tokyo has been quarantined from the rest of the world. A liberation force rises to free Tokyo from its alien captors.
RahXephon (Volume #2)
by Hiroshi Ohnogi Rhys MosesAyato is living on Niraikanai. With the report on Terra, Haruka's switch to Operations, and Elvy's transfer to Terra, Ayato's world in in constant flux.
The Survival Guide for Kids with LD*: *Learning Differences
by Gary L. Fisher Rhoda CummingsThis book discusses how children with learning differences can get along better in school, set goals, and plan for the future. With references and index.
Shipwrecked! The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy
by Rhoda BlumbergBased on a true story. In 1841 rescued by an American whaler, after being stranded on a deserted island with friends, 14-year-old Manjiro becomes the first Japanese person to visit the United States.
How to Develop Your Children's Creativity
by Reynold BeanA guide to help parents teach their children to become more flexible and adaptive thinkers in an ever-changing world.
Dream of Darkness
by Reginald HillSairey Ellis, at age 18, is haunted by recurring nightmares of her childhood in Uganda and her mother's death there years before. She begins to bring her cloudy past to light...
My Hippie Grandmother
by Reeve LindberghA young girl describes all the things she likes about her grandmother, including the purple bus she drives, growing vegetables, picketing City Hall, and playing the banjo.
The Names of the Mountains: A Novel
by Reeve LindberghA powerful novel about the importance of memory, the tyranny of fame, and the consequences, both joyous and tragic, of being an intensely private family in an insatiably public world.
Andrew Jackson: 7th President of the United States
by Rebecca StefoffA biography of the seventh President of the USA, describing his frontier childhood, education, career as a soldier and politician, and his new approach to the presidency.
The Emperor's Plague (Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights)
by Kevin J. Anderson Rebecca MoestaIt's a race against time to find and destroy the Emperor's Plague before it can be released. But first the young Jedi knights must face Nolaa Tarkona and her very lethal hired hand Boba Fett. This is book 11 in the Young Jedi Knights series
The Lost Ones (Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights, Book 3)
by Kevin J. Anderson Rebecca MoestaLuke and Leia are 14 and enrolled at the Jedi Academy on Yavin 4. The future heroes are beginning their training.
Satu Country: Coming Tides
by Rebecca ChanceA fire at a boarding school sparks a journey for seven teens that changes their lives. Coming Tides is the first of the Satu Country tales.
101 Montunos (in English/Spanish)
by Rebeca Mauleón-SantanaThis book explores the role of the piano in the various types of rhythmic styles associated with Afro-Caribbean music and its never-ending evolution
Fatal Majesty: A Novel of Mary, Queen of Scots
by Reay TannahillHistorical fiction about 18-year-old Mary who returns from the sophisticated French court to claim her throne in cold, backward Scotland.
Magician Apprentice (Riftwar Saga #1)
by Raymond E. FeistOnce he was an orphan called Pug, apprenticed to a sorcerer of the enchanted land of Midkemia. Then he was captured and enslaved by the Tsurani, a strange, warlike race of invaders from another world.