 | How's That Underling Thing Working Out for You? (Dilbert)
Release Date: November 29, 2011| Series: Dilbert For more than 20 years, Scott Adams's Dilbert has chronicled the problem-filled work world of pointless projects, questionable employment practices, and interoffice politics that eerily resemble our own 9-to-5 cubicle existence.In How's That Underling Thing Working Out for You?, Adams takes on the challenges of Elbonian sensitivity training, employee satisfaction surveys, confusopoly consultants, and more inside this new Dilbert book.If you agree that every indeterminable project has to have at least one WDG (Worthless Dumb Guy), or are subjec...
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 | A Book That Was Lost: Thirty Five Stories (Hebrew Classics)
Publication Date: September 1, 2008| Series: Hebrew Classics This broad selection of Agnon's fiction introduces the full sweep of the writer's panoramic vision as chronicler of the lost world of Eastern European Jewry and the emerging society of modern Israel.Expanded Edition, Including all stories from Twenty-One Stories. ...
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 | Life in San Francisco's Chinatown (Picture the Past)
Publication Date: September 2002| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
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 | The Divine Comedy (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: May 15, 2008| ISBN-10: 0199535647 | ISBN-13: 978-0199535644This single volume, blank verse translation of The Divine Comedy includes an introduction, maps of Dante's Italy, Hell, Purgatory, Geocentric Universe, and political panorama of the thirteenth and early fourteenth century, diagrams and notes providing the reader with invaluable guidance. Described as the "fifth gospel" because of its evangelical purpose, this spiritual autobiography creates a world in which reason and faith have transformed moral and social chaos into order. It is one of the most important works...
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 | Wives and Sisters
Release Date: March 7, 2006Decades ago, young Allison Jensen and her best friend Cindy were separated in the woods. Cindy disappeared forever. Allison survived amid a web of small-town secrets and lies that greeted every anguished question she asked about that fateful afternoon.Years later, Allison has come home to the bedroom community of Farmington, Utah--back to the devout tyranny of her father, back to the close-knit society she rejected, and back to the conspiracy of silence that has plagued her with nightmares of guilt and loss. Out of her patchwork memory, the truth is emerging. So is...
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 | Shop Horror: The Best of the Worst in British Shop Names
Publication Date: April 1, 2005“I was lying in bed, trying to think of it. And I was singing to myself, badly. ‘Shoobie-shoobie-do.’ Then it came to me: Shoe-Be-Do.” Shop Horror is a celebration of the best of the worst in British shop names—from the genuinely inventive to the truly awful. The Prawnbrokers. Sherlock Homes Properties. Pane in the Glass Windows. Sherwood Florist. A hilarious read, packed with color photos and words of wisdom from some the nation’s most imaginative shopkeepers. ...
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 | Keats's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Editions)
Publication Date: August 6, 2008| ISBN-10: 0393924912 | ISBN-13: 978-0393924916| Edition: 1 This Norton Critical Edition seeks to returnKeats—one of the most beloved poets of theEnglish language—to his cultural moment bytracking his emergence as a public poet.Forthis reason, this volume presents the writingsin the order of publication rather thancomposition. Readers can trace the poems through letters, reviews, and related materialchronologically interleaved with the textsthemselves. This edition offers extensiveapparatus to help readers fully appreciateKeats’s poetr...
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 | Euripides:The Complete Plays Volume IV
Publication Date: October 1, 2005Athens of the fifth century B.C.E. represents one of the towering achievements of civilization. It is the crucible in which Western Civilization was given form. It created democracy: rule by the people. Of the three supreme tragedians of Classical Athens; Aeschylus, Sophokles and Euripides, Euripides (480's-406 B.C.E.) is the most modern. His people are no longer the heroes of Aeschylus, inspired by Homer and the Heroic world of war and warriors. Nor are they the more humanistic characters of Sophokles, who created men and women of grand moral integrity. Rath...
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 | Porche Du Myst de Vert (Poesie/Gallimard) (French Edition)
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 | El modernismo: Apuntes de curso, 1953 (Biblioteca filologica hispana) (Spanish Edition)
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 | Second Wind
Release Date: November 1, 2005When a hurricane-chasing plane is downed on a Caribbean island, TV meteorologist Perry Stuart barely escapes with his life. But he can't escape what he saw on the island--and if the people who've tracked him back to England have their way, Stuart will have a zero percent chance of survival....
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 | The Mammoth Book of Movie Detectives and Screen Crimes (Mammoth Books)
Publication Date: September 16, 1998| Series: Mammoth Books Hollywood film makers and television producers have created many of their most successful and long-running series from original short stories. In this superb collection, Peter Haining has brought together murders and mysteries from writers who have made their name among the greats of crime fiction. They include: ...
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 | Moominvalley Turns Jungle
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 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4)
Release Date: July 8, 2000| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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 | The Story of the Los Angeles Dodgers (Baseball: The Great American Game)
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 | Gracie & Grandma Underwater
Publication Date: September 1, 2008| Age Level: 3 and up...
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 | Two in the Wilderness
Publication Date: September 1, 2005| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Grab a paperback and join Sandra Weber and her eleven-year-old daughter Marcy for a trek in the Adirondack wilderness. Feel the sensation of climbing mountains, sleeping in open lean-tos, eating wild blueberries, floating like lily pads, and laughing with loons. Add alpine flowers, a bear, and five days of rain, and the result is an appreciation of nature. By the end of the 60-mile trip, mother and daughter also learn to appreciate each other. ...
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 | Side by Side: Five Favorite Picture-Book Teams Go to Work
Publication Date: September 1, 2001| Age Level: 8 and up Have you ever wondered how a picture book is made? The process is similar to the way we play a team sport, put on a play, or build a sandcastle-through collaboration. Writers and illustrators collaborate in a variety of ways. Sometimes they start as friends who choose to work together. Sometimes they become friends through the work they do. And sometimes they find that their feelings and styles change to the point where they can no longer work together. Each collaborative team and venture is unique. Side by Side focuses on five famous ...
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 | Tiger (Wiggle-Waggles)
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 | How Many Ways Can You Catch a Fly?
Publication Date: October 6, 2008| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Flies are fast! They can hover, walk upside down, and use their lightning-quick reflexes to escape predators. But rainbow trout, slender lorises, and assassin bugs can catch them. Chimney swifts can, too. How do such diverse creatures manage to capture the same prey? Similar in structure to What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?, this eye-popping picture book introduces readers to a menagerie of animals that approach the same challenges in very different ways. ...
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