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The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets
By Barbara G. Walker. 1983
Do You Know... where the legend of a cat's nine lives comes from? why "mama" is a word understood in…
nearly all languages? how the custom of kissing began? whether there really was a female pope? why Cinderella's glass slipper was so important to the Prince? The answers to these and countless other intriguing questions are given in this compulsively readable, feminist encyclopedia. Twenty-five years in preparation, this unique, comprehensive sourcebook focuses on mythology anthropology, religion, and sexuality to uncover precisely what other encyclopedias leave out or misrepresent. The Woman's Encyclopedia presents the fascinating stories behind word origins, legends, superstitions, and customs. A browser's delight and an indispensable resource, it offers 1,350 entries on magic, witchcraft, fairies, elves, giants, goddesses, gods, and psychological anomalies such as demonic possession; the mystical meanings of sun, moon, earth, sea, time, and space; ideas of the soul, reincarnation, creation and doomsday; ancient and modern attitudes toward sex, prostitution, romance, rape, warfare, death and sin, and more. Tracing these concepts to their prepatriarchal origins, Barbara G. Walker explores a "thousand hidden pockets of history and custom in addition to the valuable material recovered by archaeologists, orientalists, and other scholars." Not only a compendium of fascinating lore and scholarship, The Woman's Encyclopedia is a revolutionary book that offers a rare opportunity for both women and men to see our cultural heritage in a fresh light, and draw upon the past for a more humane future.Understanding Catholic Christianity
By Barbara Allaire, Thomas Zanzig. 1997
As young teens begin to understand the rich heritage of Catholicism,they need a text that engages them at their stage…
of life. The one- or two-semester course Understanding Catholic Christianity offers a comprehensive overview of Catholicism for ninth graders that gives these teens a foundation in their religion. Through engaging stories, writings by teens, and inspiring original artwork,the material in this course comes alive for students. This extensively revised edition of Understanding Catholic Christianity was developed using the Catechism of the Catholic Church,and covers topics that include faith, the adolescent, the Jewish roots of Catholic Christianity, Jesus Christ's life, ministry, death, and Resurrection, the sacraments and the liturgical year, and spirituality and prayer. Awards: Understanding Catholic Christianity was awarded second place in the category of Educational Books by the Catholic Press Association in 1997. It also won the 1997 Certificate of Merit for the Premier Print Award from the Printing Industries of America. Chosen from thousands of entries, the Premier Print Award goes to those firms who demonstrate a unique ability to create visual masterpieces.Dangerous Attachments
By Sarah Lovett. 1995
"[A] SUSPENSE-SOAKED THRILLER . . . A welcome addition to Patricia Cornwell territory, Lovett is a meticulously fine writer who…
offers both cold, clinical realism and sensitive insight. " --West Coast Review of Books As a consultant to the New Mexico prison system, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Sylvia Strange has probed the minds of some of the country's most disturbed and dangerous criminals. But nothing prepares her for the madness of Lucas Watson. "[A] CHILLING TALE, PEPPERED WITH CONTINUOUS PLOT TURNS. --San Francisco Examiner When Lucas escapes from the state penitentiary, he cooly and methodically begins to stalk Sylvia. Now, caught in a harrowing cat-and-mouse-game that only one of them can win, Sylvia must use all of her psychological insights and courage to stay one step ahead of a madman. "DANGEROUS ATTACHMENTS continues to surprise and excite to the very end. An emotional, vivid thriller. " --Vincent Bugliosi Author of Helter Skelter "COMPELLING . . . NOT TO BE MISSED. " --Mostly MurderThieves Like Us
By Stephen Cole. 2006
A mysterious benefactor hand-picks a group of teen geniuses to follow a set of clues leading to the secrets of…
everlasting life, secrets which they must steal and for which they risk being killed.Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore
By Robin Sloan. 2012
A gleeful and exhilarating tale of global conspiracy, complex code-breaking, high-tech data visualization, young love, rollicking adventure, and the secret…
to eternal life--mostly set in a hole-in-the-wall San Francisco bookstore. The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a San Francisco Web-design drone--and serendipity, sheer curiosity, and the ability to climb a ladder like a monkey has landed him a new gig working the night shift at Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. But after just a few days on the job, Clay begins to realize that this store is even more curious than the name suggests. There are only a few customers, but they come in repeatedly and never seem to actually buy anything, instead "checking out" impossibly obscure volumes from strange corners of the store, all according to some elaborate, long-standing arrangement with the gnomic Mr. Penumbra. The store must be a front for something larger, Clay concludes, and soon he's embarked on a complex analysis of the customers' behavior and roped his friends into helping to figure out just what's going on. But once they bring their findings to Mr. Penumbra, it turns out the secrets extend far outside the walls of the bookstore. With irresistible brio and dazzling intelligence, Robin Sloan has crafted a literary adventure story for the twenty-first century, evoking both the fairy-tale charm of Haruki Murakami and the enthusiastic novel-of-ideas wizardry of Neal Stephenson or a young Umberto Eco, but with a unique and feisty sensibility that's rare to the world of literary fiction. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore is exactly what it sounds like: an establishment you have to enter and will never want to leave, a modern-day cabinet of wonders ready to give a jolt of energy to every curious reader, no matter the time of day.Treasures 4th Grade
By Diane August Donald R. Bear Janice A. Dole. 2011
Lulu Dark Can See Through Walls
By Bennett Madison. 2005
Lulu Dark is a chic, tough-talking city girl, who never meant to get involved in a mystery. But when her…
favorite purse is stolen during a rock concert, Lulu Dark and her friends discover a twisted mystery involving a rock star, a rich socialite, and a serious case of mistaken identity.Lulu Dark and the Summer of the Fox
By Bennett Madison. 2006
The last thing Lulu Dark needs is a mystery getting in the way of her Important Summer Plans which include…
snacking, sunbathing, and trash TV. But when Lulu's mother, B-list celebrity Isabelle Dark, drops into town to shoot a movie -- and disappears -- Lulu gets just that.The Curse of the Ancient Mask and Other Case Files
By Simon Cheshire. 2009
Solve It With Saxby, a new series aimed at unraveling the mystery of getting boys excited about reading. Saxby Smart…
is no ordinary ten-year-old. He's the best detective in the world, or at least the best one who also happens to be in elementary school. In this brand new series--with three cases in each book--the reader solves the mystery alongside Saxby, getting peeks at pages of his casebook as the crimes unfold, and searching for clues rather than letting the main character do all the work and have all the fun.The Treasure of Dead Man's Lane and Other Case Files
By Simon Cheshire. 2009
Put On Your Detective Hat . . . Take Out Your Magnifying Glass. The Saxby series lets readers solve the…
case! Using wit, logic, and the help of his friends, young detective Saxby Smart is back to work, recovering a valuable comic book, searching for hidden treasure, and keeping intruders out of the neighborhood. Saxby records the facts for three new cases in his notebook, laying out all the clues readers need to solve the mysteries on their own.Gypsy Rizka
By Lloyd Alexander. 1999
Living alone in her wagon on the outskirts of a small town while waiting for her father's return, Rizka, a…
Gypsy and a trickster, exposes the ridiculous foibles of some of the townspeople.Mrs. Coverlet's Magicians
By Mary Nash. 1961
It's up to Molly and Malcolm to see that their brother "the Toad" has a proper Christmas when nosy Miss…
Penalty, who is babysitting while the housekeeper is away at a bake-off, comes down with a mysterious malady that "the Toad" may have caused.Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
By Dava Sobel. 1999
The author of Longitude presents a biography of the man Einstein called the father of modern physics, and the Church…
long branded a heretic, as revealed through the newly translated letters of his confidante daughter. Includes b&w illustrations of featured personalities, locales, and scientific paraphernalia, and a chronology demonstrating Galileo's legacy through the present.The Boy in the Alamo
By Margaret Cousins. 1958
American Tall Tales
By Adrien Stoutenburg. 1966
Here are the most robust characters in American legend. Told by a poet with a poet's ear for the impact…
of words, these American mavericks walk and talk across the pages in a free, wide way, as they walked and talked across the free, wide America of pioneer days.Amelia Earhart: Young Aviator (Childhood of Famous Americans Series)
By Beatrice Gormley. 2000
Abe Lincoln Grows Up
By Carl Sandburg, James Daugherty. 1956
From the author of 'Biography of Lincoln', this book introduces the journey of Abe from childhood to adulthood and what…
transformed the young man to rise above the ordinary to be one of the finest presidents of America.Knot My Sister's Keeper (A Quilting Mystery #6)
By Mary Marks. 2018
In tracing her ancestry, quilter Martha Rose discovers a ritzy half-sister, a stash of family secrets, and a decades-old mystery…
that only she can unravel . . . Martha Rose is shocked to find she has a half-sister, especially one so different from her. Giselle Cole is wealthy, widowed, and lives a glamorous life in West Los Angeles. At least her grandmother was a quilter! But Giselle can’t answer Martha’s many questions about their father—he disappeared when she was only a child and the few clues left behind indicate he may have been murdered. So Martha and Giselle team up on an investigation that weaves them through the streets of L.A., their father’s hidden love affairs, and into some mysterious unfinished Cole family business . . . Praise for Mary Marks and her Quilting Mysteries “A pleasurable and satisfying addition to any quilting mystery fan’s reading list. Recommend to those who cannot get enough of Terri Thayer, Elizabeth Craig, or Earlene Fowler.” —Library Journal on Knot in My Backyard “Readers will be surprised by the ending.” —RT Book Reviews on Knot What You ThinkChinese Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing Based on Naturally Annotated Big Data: 15th China National Conference, CCL 2016, and 4th International Symposium, NLP-NABD 2016, Yantai, China, October 15-16, 2016, Proceedings (Lecture Not
By Yang Liu, Maosong Sun, Zhiyuan Liu, Xuanjing Huang, Hongfei Lin. 2016
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th China National Conference on Computational Linguistics CCL 2016 and the…
4th International Symposium on Natural Language Processing Based on Naturally Annotated Big Data NLP-NABD 2016 held in Yantai City China in October 2016 The 29 full papers and 8 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 85 submissions They were organized in topical sections named semantics machine translation multilinguality in NLP knowledge graph and information extraction linguistic resource annotation and evaluation information retrieval and question answering text classification and summarization social computing and sentiment analysis and NLP applicationsFirefight: A Reckoners Novel (The Reckoners #2)
By Brandon Sanderson. 2015
The #1 New York Times bestseller and sequel to Steelheart—a novel that James Dashner called “fantastic.” Brandon Sanderson, the author…
of Words of Radiance, coauthor of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time series, and creator of the internationally bestselling Mistborn trilogy, presents the second book in the Reckoners series: Firefight. And don’t miss Calamity, the exciting conclusion to the Reckoners series available now! Newcago is free. They told David it was impossible, that even the Reckoners had never killed a High Epic. Yet Steelheart--invincible, immortal, unconquerable--is dead. And he died by David's hand. Eliminating Steelheart was supposed to make life simpler. Instead, it only made David realize he has questions. Big ones. And no one in Newcago can give him answers. Babylon Restored, the city formerly known as the borough of Manhattan, has possibilities, though. Ruled by the mysterious High Epic Regalia, Babylon Restored is flooded and miserable, but David is sure it's the path that will lead him to what he needs to find. Entering a city oppressed by a High Epic despot is risky, but David's willing to take the gamble. Because killing Steelheart left a hole in David's heart. A hole where his thirst for vengeance once lived. Somehow, he filled that hole with another Epic--Firefight. And now he will go on a quest darker and even more dangerous than the fight against Steelheart to find her, and to get his answers.Praise for the Reckoners Series:#1 New York Times Bestselling Series “The suspense is relentless and the climax explosive.” —James Dashner, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Maze Runner series “Another win for Sanderson . . . he’s simply a brilliant writer. Period.” —Patrick Rothfuss, author of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller The Name of the Wind “Action-packed.” —EW.com “Compelling. . . . Sanderson uses plot twists that he teases enough for readers to pick up on to distract from the more dramatic reveals he has in store.” —The A.V. ClubFrom the Hardcover edition.