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 |  | I Knocked Up Satan's Daughter: A Demonic Romantic Comedy
Publication Date: September 6, 2011She came for his soul, but left with his heart...Jonathan Vandervoo lives a carefree life in a house made of legos, spending his days building lego sculptures and his nights getting drunk with his only friend--an alcoholic sumo wrestler named Shoji. It's a pleasant life with no responsibility, until the day he meets Lici. She's a soul-sucking demon from hell with red skin, glowing eyes, a forked tongue, and pointy red devil horns... and she claims to be nine months pregnant with Jonathan's baby. Now Jonathan must do the right thing and marry the succubus or...
|  | English: A Novel
Publication Date: March 30, 2010 "I loved this book and can't stop talking about it. . . Transcendent." -Carolyn See, The Washington PostIn the tradition of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Wang Gang's English is a captivating coming-of- age novel about the power of language to launch a journey of self- discovery. When a new teacher comes to school-a tall, elegantly dressed man from Shanghai carrying an English dictionary under his arm-twelve- year-old Love Liu turns away from Chairman Mao's little red book and toward the teacher's big blue book for answers to his most pressing qu...
|  | Clive Cussler CD Collection: Golden Buddha and Sacred Stone (Oregon Files Series)
Publication Date: April 29, 2006| Series: Oregon Files Series Golden Buddha: Only Juan Cabrillo could convert the interior of a nondescript lumber hauler into a state-of-the-art spy ship -- and only he could take the helm on the dangerous covert missions it carries out for whichever US agency pays the price. In this adventure, Cabrillo and his crew of expert intelligence and naval men must put Tibet back in the hands of the Dalai Lama by striking a deal with the Russians and Chinese.His gambling chip is a Golden Buddha containing records of vast oil reserves in the disputed land. But first, ...
|  | Hard Times (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: August 22, 2001| ISBN-10: 0486419207 | ISBN-13: 978-0486419206| Edition: 1 Classic 1845 novel offers a powerful indictment of the dehumanizing effects of mid-19th-century industrialization. Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Tom and Louisa, in a sterile atmosphere of strict practicality. With no guiding principles, the young Gradgrinds sink into lives of desperation and despair, played out against the grim backdrop of Coketown, a wretched industrial community. ...
|  | The Fairies Return: Or, New Tales for Old (Oddly Modern Fairy Tales)
Publication Date: September 9, 2012| Series: Oddly Modern Fairy Tales Originally issued in 1934, The Fairies Return was the first collection of modernist fairy tales ever published in England, and it marked the arrival of a satirical classic that has never been surpassed. Even today, this reimagining of fourteen timeless tales--from "Puss in Boots" to "Little Red Riding Hood"--is still fresh and bold, giving readers a world steeped not in once upon a time, but in the here and now. Longtime favorites in this playfully subversive collection are retold for modern times and mature sensibilities....
|  | The Public Mirror: Moliere and the Social Commerce of Depiction
Publication Date: December 15, 1999| ISBN-10: 0226591522 | ISBN-13: 978-0226591520| Edition: 1 Though much beloved and widely produced, Molière's satirical comedies pose a problem for those reading or staging his works today: how can a genre associated with biting caricature and castigation deliver engaging theater? Instead of simply dismissing social satire as a foundation for Molière's theater, as many have done, Larry F. Norman takes seriously Molière's claim that his satires are first and foremost effective theater.Pairing close readings of Molière's comed...
| | Nostalgiia obeliskov: Literaturnye mechtaniia (Russian Edition)
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|  | Cervantes' Epic Novel: Empire, Religion, and the Dream Life of Heroes in <i>Persiles</i> (University of Toronto Romance Series)
Publication Date: May 8, 2009| Series: University of Toronto Romance Series Miguel de Cervantes conceived his final work, The Labours of Persiles and Sigismunda: A Northern Story (1617), as a great prose epic that would accomplish for its age what Homer and Virgil had done for theirs.And yet, by the eighteenth century Don Quixote had eclipsed Persiles in the favour of readers and writers alike and the later novel is now virtually forgotten except by specialists.This study sets out to help restore Persiles to pride of place within Cervantes's corpus by reading it as the author's summa, as a...
|  | The Visions of Ransom Lake
Publication Date: September 17, 2011Youthful beauty, naive innocence, a romantic imagination thirsting for adventure-an apt description of Vaden Valmont, who would soon find the adventure and mystery she had always longed to experience-in the form of a man.A somber recluse, Ransom Lake descended from his solitary concealment in the mountains, wholly uninterested in people and their trivial affairs. And somehow, young Vaden managed to be ever in his way, either by accident or because of her own unique ability to stumble into a quandary. Yet the enigmatic Ransom Lake would involuntarily become...
|  | While the Gods Sleep
Publication Date: October 28, 2009In this future earth, if you’re not connected, you simply don’t exist. Ecological collapse, terrorism, and new, opportunistic viruses have devastated the entire planet. All faith in authority has vanished, and people are loyal only to their tribal networks. Zachary Crowe is a facially disfigured outcast who escapes a low-tech prison zone and begins a desperate search for his vanished wife. On the run from the authorities, he wanders the world alone -- without a network, friends, or life-enhancing technology. Hunted by a tribe that wants to cull...
|  | Mercury's Rise: A Silver Rush Mystery (Silver Rush Mysteries)
Publication Date: November 1, 2011| Series: Silver Rush Mysteries In summer 1880, many come to the fast-rising health resort of Manitou, Colorado, at the foot of Pike's Peak to “chase the cure” for tuberculosis.But Inez Stannert, part-owner of the Silver Queen Saloon in Leadville, travels for a different reason. After a long separation, she's reuniting with her young son, William, and her beloved sister, Harmony. However, the stagecoach journey to Manitou turns lethal when East Coast businessman Edward Pace mysteriously dies under the horrified gaze of Inez and Pace's wife and ch...
|  | Zombie Town
Release Date: April 13, 2012| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4th and up This used to be such a nice, quiet town. But that was before all thezombies. When twelve-year-old Mike and his friend, Karen, go to seea horror movie called Zombie Town, the last thing they expectis for the title characters to come down off the screen and chasethem through the theater. And it’s not popcorn these hungrycreatures want to chomp on—it’s human brains!Now Mike and Karen frantically try to flee through the panickedstreets of their hometown before shuffling bands of zombies turnevery las...
|  | Hot Rod (Transformers (Spotlight))
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|  | Stowaway Monster (Dragonblood)
Publication Date: January 1, 2010| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | We are the People: A Trilogy of Okanagan Legends
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|  | El The Pied Piper / Flautista de Hamelin: A Bilingual Book (Bilingual Fairy Tales)
Publication Date: January 30, 2008| Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Hippopotamus Stew and Other Silly Animal Poems
Release Date: March 21, 2006| Age Level: 4 and up Wonderful, wacky animal poems that will tickle the funny bone and bring on the giggles... A centipede in running shoes. A lizard who dreams he's a dragon. A whale who prefers showers to baths. These are just a few of the quirky animal friends you'll meet in this imaginative poetry collection. Joan Horton and JoAnn Adinolfi team up again, this time to depict animals of all sizes--from mosquitoes to kangaroos--with the perfect mix of playful language and boisterous pictures. Who wouldn't be delighted by berry-flavored jellyfish? ...
|  | The Fantasy of Family: Nineteenth-Century Children's Literature and the Myth of the Domestic Ideal (Children's Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: October 30, 2007| ISBN-10: 0415980356 | ISBN-13: 978-0415980357The myth of the Victorian family remains a pervasive influence within a contemporary Britain that perceives itself to be in social crisis. Nostalgic for a golden age of "Victorian values" in which visions of supportive, united families predominate, the common consciousness, exhorted by social and political discourse, continues to vaunt the "traditional, natural" family as the template by which all other family forms are gauged. Yet this fantasy of family, nurtured and augmented throughout the Victorian era, ...
|  | Wintering
Release Date: December 12, 2000| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Pierre, the 14-year-old hero of The Broken Blade, spends a winter with the North West Company in the wilderness of French Canada. The canoe-men build a camp beside an Ojibwa village, and Pierre learns the deep-winter survival skills and secrets of the fur traders and trappers. Surviving in close quarters with the repulsive bowman Beloit is a challenge, but friendship with an Ojibwa brave opens up a rich new world to Pierre. ...
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