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Welcome to Monster Isle by Oliver Chin A family's vacation goes bananas when a perfect storm tosses their skipper's tiny boat off course. Now seven castaways are stranded on an uncharted desert island!... More about this book »	The Tao of Yao: Insights from Basketball's Brightest Big Man by Oliver Chin As a basketball player and international spokesman, 7'5" Yao Ming has quickly become the eighth wonder of the sports world. Amazing fans, players, and... More about this book »
9 of 1: A Window to the World by Oliver Chin Called a "comics expert" by the San Jose Mercury News, Oliver Chin creates a compelling blend of fact and fiction where a high school class (based in... More about this book »	The Year of the Rat: Tales from the Chinese Zodiac by Oliver Chin 2008 is the Year of the Rat! With his parents' blessing, the baby rat Ralph investigates the village with his new friend, the boy Bing. But being accepted isn't as... More about this book »
Julie Black Belt: The Kung Fu Chronicles by Oliver Chin When Julie takes a kung fu class, she thinks getting a black belt will be easy. But her bold teacher says guess again! As reality doesn't match her expectations,... More about this book »	Timmy & Tammy's Train of Thought by Oliver Chin All aboard with this joyful celebration of the railroad! Timmy and his sister Tammy love trains, so their parents treat them to the ride of their lives. Sitting on... More about this book »
The Year of the Pig: Tales from the Chinese Zodiac by Oliver Chin 2007 is the Year of the Pig! Born on New Year's Day, the piglet Patricia explores the farm with her parents and Farmer Wu. Growing up is a learning process, as... More about this book »	The Year of the Dog: Tales from the Chinese Zodiac by Oliver Chin 2006 is the Year of the Dog! Born on New Year's Day, the puppy Daniel explores the world with his parents and the girl Lin, and learns how to become "man's... More about this book »
The Adventures of WonderBaby: from A to Z by Oliver Chin Faster than a speeding bulldog, more powerful than a "loco" mole, and able to leap tall building blocks in a single bound...comes WonderBaby!... More about this book »	The One Year Mini for Busy Women by Jennifer Lyn King Daily inspirational for busy women, one short reading for each day of the year, published in full-color, and purse-sized hardcover More about this book »

Shepherdess with an Automatic by Jane Satterfield Shepherdess with an Automatic is intense and perceptive, full of lyrical, descriptively vivid poems that range across cities and centuries. From bleak British moors... More about this book »	Fort Apache, The Bronx by Heywood Gould They were only rookies… Two green cops blown away on the killer walkways of New York. Fort Apache, The Bronx… the 41st Precinct where nobody ever gets a second... More about this book »
I Am Rene, the Boy/ Soy Rene, el niño by Rene Colato Lainez When René learns that in the United States his name is also a girl's name, he does some research and relates the name's meaning and letters to his homeland of El... More about this book »	Playing Loteria/ El juego de la loteria by Rene Colato Lainez A little boy visits his grandmother in Mexico, and with the help of la lotería, learns a new language and how special the bond between a boy and his grandmother... More about this book »
Threading Beads Millennium Anthology by Kate Lord Brown Threading Beads Millennium Anthology - Stories based on Discovery and Betrayal: 'Company' 'Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando' More about this book »	Dancing with Rose: Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's by Lauren Kessler One journalist's riveting -- and surprising -- in the trenches look at Alzheimer's. Like many children of Alzheimer's sufferers, Lauren Kessler, an accomplished... More about this book »
And Then Put Out The Light by Deborah Grabien At thirty-eight, the last place sculptress Emily Moon-Bourne ever expected to find herself was at the winning end of a nasty divorce. But when her wealthy husband... More about this book »	Journey to Tracer's Point by Gwyn Ramsey Alexander Anderson had dreams of getting rich quick. When lured by his brother John to seek adventure in the California gold fields, sells his Virginia farm,... More about this book »
Simply Natural Baby Food: Easy Recipes for Delicious Meals Your... by Cathe Olson Simply Natural Baby Food shows even the busiest parent or care provider how to prepare fresh, natural foods for young children. It explains why whole, organic foods... More about this book »	Utamaro Revealed by Gina Collia-Suzuki Kitagawa Utamaro is one of the most well-known and admired figures in the history of Japanese art, renowned throughout the world for his portraits of beautiful... More about this book »