 | Jeff Foxworthy's Complete Redneck Dictionary: All the Words You Thought You Knew the Meaning Of
Release Date: November 4, 2008There’s no such thing as too much redneck. And it’s easy to understand why. A veritable gumbo of indigenous ingenuity, this deliciously distinct dialect rolls off the tongue like drool in the presence of a barbecue sandwich. Now, just in time for no time in particular, Jeff Foxworthy’s three bestsellers are rolled into one hilarious redneck reference. This practical, portable A-to-Z crash course will have you laughing and learning your way to flawless southern slang. Say after me:bay • ou (bi´-ü), v. and n. to purchase for a...
 |  | The Call of the Wild and Selected Stories (Signet Classics)
Release Date: August 4, 2009| Series: Signet Classics Robust tales of perilous adventure and animal cunning Includes Diable: A Dog, An Odyssey of the North, To the Man on the Trail, To Build a Fire, and Love of Life Out of the white wilderness, out of the Far North, Jack London, one of America's most popular authors, drew the inspiration for the novel and five short stories included here. Swiftly paced and vividly written, they capture the main theme of London's work: man's instinctive reversion to primitive behavior when pitted against the brute force of nature. ...
|  | Three Daughters of Madame Liang
Publication Date: July 1989After her husband takes a concubine, Madame Liang sets out on her own, starting an upscale restaurant and sending her daughters to America to be educated. At the restaurant, the leaders of the People's Republic wine and dine and Madame Liang must keep a low profile for her daughters' sake.Soon her two eldest daughters are called back to serve the People's Republic. Her oldest daughter, Grace, now a doctor, finds meaning through her work. Things are not as easy for her daughter Mercy, a musician who is not in demand in the People's Republic, nor for her new husband ...
|  | Old Tales of the Maine Woods
Publication Date: April 15, 2012From his phenomenal collection of over 22,000 articles and stories of the Maine Woods, Steve Pinkham has selected many of the most exciting and old hunting and fishing tales, as well as stories of animal encounters, lumbering, canoe trips, and even a few ghost stories for this book.Ranging from 1849 to 1913, the book covers the Maine Woods from Magalloway to Moosehead, and Mopang to Madawaska.Most people know that Thoreau went to Maine several times, wrote eloquently about his travels and coined the phrase "Maine Woods."Now for the first time the reader will g...
|  | A Heartbeat Away
Release Date: February 15, 2011The New York Times bestselling author and master of suspense delivers another novel at the crossroads of politics and medicine in this shocker of a thriller On the night of the State of the Union address, President James Allaire expects to give the speech of his career. But no one anticipates the terrifying turn of events that forces him to quarantine everyone in the Capitol building. A terrorist group calling itself “Genesis” has unleashed WRX3883, a deadly, highly contagious virus, into the building. No one fully knows the deadly effect ...
|  | The Black City
Publication Date: March 11, 2004Set against the backdrop of France's industrial revolution, this 1859 novel by the controversial, passionately socialist George Sand follows the fortunes of the dynamic, young metal smith Etienne Lavoute, known as Sept-Epees (or Seven Blades), as he strives to free himself not from the working class but from the woes imposed upon it by grasping mill owners. While ambition is the spur that prompts Sept-Epees to purchase a ramshackle factory he is ill equipped to run, love is the secret cause. For Sept-Epees, however misguidedly, would make himself worthy of the...
|  | The Secret of Sherlock Holmes
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|  | One Story, Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American Literature
Publication Date: November 1, 2010Since 9/11 there has been a cultural and political blossoming among those of the Afghan diaspora, especially in the United States, revealing a vibrant, active, and intellectual Afghan American community. And the success of Khaled Hosseni's The Kite Runner, the first work of fiction written by an Afghan American to become a bestseller, has created interest in the works of other Afghan American writers. One Story, Thirty Stories (or "Afsanah, Seesaneh," the Afghan equivalent of "once upon a time") collects poetry, fiction, essays, and selections from two blogs...
|  | Purgatory (The Divine Comedy)
Publication Date: September 1, 2011| Series: The Divine Comedy Describing Dante's second stage in his arduous journey to redemption, Purgatory features a host of unforgettable scenes and characters, and arguably some of the best poetry to be found in The Divine Comedy. The gloom, torments and evils of Hell have been left behind, but Dante's ascent of Mount Purgatory towards Paradise remains fraught with obstacles, not least the burden of his own mortality and his human passions. ...
|  | African Poems of Thomas Pringle (Killie Campbell Africana Library Publications)
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|  | Donne: The Reformed Soul
Publication Date: September 1, 2007John Donne's life story is inextricably tied up with the fabric of a society in the throes of religious persecution. His family had long been subject to the terror inflicted upon Catholics under the reign of Elizabeth I, and while his brother languished in prison, and his mother and uncles fled to exile in Europe, Donne was consumed by the question of his own faith and by trying to figure out what it is that connects human beings - and keeps them apart. In his biography of Donne, John Stubbs chronicles not only a long and bitter sectarian conflict, but also...
|  | The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism
Publication Date: June 2001| ISBN-10: 0393974294 | ISBN-13: 978-0393974294The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism presents a staggeringly varied collection of the most influential critical statements from the classical era to the present day.Edited by scholars and teachers whose interests range from the history of poetics to postmodernism, from classical rhetoric to ériture féminine, and from the social construction of gender to the machinery of academic superstardom, The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism promises to become the standard anthology in its field. ...
|  | Dreaming in the Middle Ages (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature)
Publication Date: September 15, 2005| Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature (Book 14) This wide-ranging study examines the role of the dream in medieval culture with reference to philosophical, legal and theological writings as well as literary and autobiographical works. Stephen Kruger studies the development of theories of dreaming, from the Neoplatonic and patristic writers to late medieval re-interpretations, and shows how these theories relate to autobiographical accounts and to more popular treatments of dreaming. He considers previously neglected material including one impo...
|  | Howl at the Moon (The Others, Book 12)
Release Date: October 30, 2007Noah Baker never wanted to betray The Others. But if his military commanders want him to covertly investigate a Lupine scientist--whose extraordinary research on sensory perception in werewolves could be used to develop werewolf-sharp senses in human soldiers--Noah must oblige. Even if it means deceiving the woman he desires the most. Samantha Carstairs is the personal assistant to the Alpha of the Silverback Clan, and as best friend to the Lupine community's most brilliant scientist, she is privy to its most dangerous secret. Noah knows that Sam will ...
|  | Silver Beach Romance (Volume 1)
Publication Date: July 27, 2012Discover the Sunset Coast of Saint Joseph and Benton Harbor, Michigan.Travel back to a time of first kisses, last dances, sidewalk struts and side ways glances.On any summer Saturday night in 1962 kids and cars roamed State Street in perfect confusion.There was no fear, and all things cool, and all things very cool were seemingly there mixed in that wondrous night air.You need only be there to embrace it.It was hard to explain the impetuous feelings that were conjured in the minds of teenagers roaming that street.State Street drew kids like moths to a flame.Yes...
|  | Never Tell: A Novel of Suspense (Ellie Hatcher Series)
Publication Date: June 1, 2013| Series: Ellie Hatcher Series (Book 4) Sixteen-year-old Julia Whitmire appeared to have everything: a famous father, a luxurious Manhattan town house, a coveted spot at the elite Casden prep school. When she is found dead in her bathtub, a handwritten suicide note left on her bed, her parents insist that their daughter would never take her own life. But Julia’s enviable world was more complicated than it seemed. The pressure to excel at Casden was enormous. Abuse of prescription antidepressants and ADHD medication ran rampant among students; an unlabeled...
|  | Stoneport
Publication Date: May 16, 2012STONEPORT is a work of literary fiction, a story of love and betrayal between psychotherapists, an account of ethical misconduct within the behavioral health care industry, and a far-reaching inquiry into the nature of mind.Marriage counselor Eli Fox has always been led by the commander -- a persona within his mind who guides him through his waking thoughts. Eli trusts his commander implicitly, for he has proven to be a protector and master strategist. At the historic Stoneport Institute of Psychiatry, Eli supervises psychiatric resident, Meagan Rush, as they co...
|  | Tom Clancy Collection (Limited Edition): Clear and Present Danger, The Hunt for Red October
Publication Date: December 7, 2010Clear and Present Danger:The sudden and surprising assassination of three American officials in Colombia.Many people in many places, moving off on missions they all mistakenly thought they understood. The future was too fearful for contemplation, and beyond the expected finish lines were things that, once decided, were better left unseen. Tom Clancy's thriller is based on America's war on drugs . . . and the covert - and shocking - U. S. response."The issues raised are real ones, and a jump ahead of the headlines." The New York Times"Rousing adventure...A cr...
|  | The Paper Dragon
Release Date: November 1, 1997| Age Level: 5 and up Mi Fei is a humble painter of scrolls. Between each day's sunrise and sunset, he paints scenes of the gods and their festivals' portraits of heroes and their deeds. Although the scrolls bring him fame, Mi Fei is content to live in his village, surrounded by people he loves. But one day a messenger enters the village with terrible news: the dragon Sui Jen has awakened from its hundred years' sleep and is destroying everything in its path. Someone must find a way to return Sui Jen to its slumber. To the villagers, only one among them is wise ...
|  | NFL Today: The Story of the San Francisco 49ers
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