 | Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Fake Facts: Really Unbelievable . . . Because They're Not Real
Publication Date: September 4, 2012The crackpot staff of the Bathroom Readers’ Institute is out of control. After 25 years of laboriously researching facts and verifying them and then verifying them again, Uncle John’s mischievous minions decided to blow off a little steam. The result: Fake Facts. It’s stuff that isn’t even remotely true—we just made it sound real. Why? Because it’s really funny. Fake Facts is 228 pages of origins, facts, weird products, strange diseases, kooky fads, slang terms, historical oddities, and other fascinating bits of informatio...
 |  | Spooner
Publication Date: October 25, 2010Warren Spooner was born after a prolonged delivery in a makeshift delivery room in a doctor's office in Milledgeville, Georgia, on the first Saturday of December, 1956. His father died shortly afterward, long before Spooner had even a memory of his face, and was replaced eventually by a once-brilliant young naval officer, Calmer Ottosson, recently court-martialed out of service. This is the story of the lifelong tie between the two men, poles apart, of Spooner's troubled childhood, troubled adolescence, violent and troubled adulthood and Calmer Ottosson's in...
|  | Barlaam and Ioasaph (Loeb Classical Library)
Publication Date: 1914| ISBN-10: 0674990382 | ISBN-13: 978-0674990388One of the best known examples of the hagiographic novel, this is the tale of an Indian prince who becomes aware of the world's miseries and is converted to Christianity by the monk Barlaam. Barlaam and Josaphat (Ioasaph) were believed to have re-converted India after her lapse from conversion to Christianity, and they were numbered among the Christian saints. Centuries ago likenesses were noticed between the life of Josaphat and the life of the Buddha; the resemblances are in incidents, doctrine, and philosophy, and Ba...
|  | The Sorcery Club
Publication Date: November 1, 2006"Rain is responsible for a great deal more than the mere growth of vegetables -- it is a controller, if a somewhat capricious controller, of man's destiny." Thus begins Elliott O'Donnell's novel, The Sorcery Club and thus begins the story of Leon Hamar who is forced to take refuge in a second-hand bookstore to avoid the rain and there ends up acquiring a curious book on the black arts in Atlantis. Hamar and his two friends study the book and the information contained therein with surprising and frightening results. Although The Sorcery Club is fiction, Ellio...
|  | We, the Drowned
Release Date: May 22, 2012AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A THRILLING EPIC TALE OF THE SEA “We, the Drownedsets sail beyond the narrow channels of the seafaring genre andapproaches Tolstoy in its evocation of war’s confusion, its power tostun victors and vanquished alike . . . A gorgeous, unsparing novel.” — Washington Post “Agenerational saga, a swashbuckling sailor’s tale, and the account of asmall town coming into modernity—both Melville and Steinbeck might havebeen pleased to read it.” — New Republic Hailed in Europe as an instant classic...
|  | Tales of the Mountain Men: Seventeen Stories of Survival, Exploration, and Frontier Spirit
Publication Date: August 1, 2004Long the dominant icon embodying the spirit of America's frontier past, the image of the cowboy no longer stands alone as the ultimate symbol of independence and self-reliance. The great canvas of the western landscape-in art, books, film-is today shared by the figures called "Mountain Men." They were the trappers of the Rocky Mountain fur trade in the years following Lewis and Clark's Expedition of 1804-1806. With their bold journeys peaking, during the period of 1830-1840, they were the first white men to enter the vast wilderness reaches of the Rockies in s...
|  | Divided Kingdom
Release Date: July 11, 2006One night a boy who comes to be called Thomas Parry is taken from his family, caught up in a comprehensive unraveling of what had been a united kingdom. Reacting to their country’s inexorable decline into consumerism, turpitude, racism, and violence, the powers that be establish four independent republics based on the perceived nature of the citizens assigned to each. These new partitions are reinforced with concrete barricades and razor wire. Renamed, relocated, and granted favored status, Thomas enjoys one success after another until, working as a devoted c...
|  | Dying To Know
Publication Date: July 16, 2012Callie Morrow, a thirty-six-old photographic illustrator, lays the groundwork for an arcane adventure, when she’s faced with a cancer diagnosis and must decide what to do. Dead set against the medical route for treatment, she panics her friends when she opts out determined to find another way.Though normally unadventurous, Callie bets her life on a hunch and the wisdom of three intriguing friends: a Taoist Chinese restaurateur, a renowned Inuit artist, and a disheartened internist. In her race against the clock, one question overshadows all the rest: Wha...
|  | A Certain Age: A Novel
Release Date: July 5, 2000From the bestselling author of Slaves of New York comes a hilarious, clear-eyed, satiric novel about the sad plight of a misguided woman on the make in Manhattan. Thirty-two-year-old Florence Collins is an "aging filly-about-town"--still beautiful enough to be (sometimes) invited to the best parties and the right restaurants, but unmarried and rapidly going broke. In her world, marriage to a wealthy man is all that can save her, although Florence's hard-hearted search for security and status takes her on an inevitable downward spiral.New York "society novels" at the...
|  | In the Dragon's Claws: The Story of Rostam and Esfandiyar from the Persian Book of Kings
Publication Date: July 1, 1999The story of Rostam and Esfandiyar is one of the most moving tragedies in Ferdowsis epic Shahnameh. In this story, Esfandiyar, the designated heir to the throne of Iran, has just returned in triumph from his campaign against the shah of Turan. He has slain Arjasp, Irans greatest enemy, captured his family and treasury, and liberated his own sisters from their captivity. He expects that his father, Goshtasp, will now abdicate the throne of Iran in his favor, as he had swornto. Goshtasp, however, is not yet ready to honor his promise. Instead he sets his son yet a...
|  | H.P. Lovecraft's Favorite Weird Tales: The Roots of Modern Horror
Release Date: November 1, 2005In 1929-30, H.P. Lovecraft made some lists of both literary and popular stories "having the greatest amount of truly cosmic horror and macabre convincingness." These lists of his favorite weird tales make for a truly landmark Lovecraftian anthology. We present Lovecraft's own favorites horrorstories, including some well-known classics, alongside of a number of excellent rare tales by forgotten authors. Many of these stories are classics, inspiring several generations since of the world's best horror authors. Contributors include Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, ...
|  | A Fatal Thaw: A Kate Shugak Mystery (Kate Shugak Mysteries)
Publication Date: December 6, 2011| Series: Kate Shugak Mysteries On the first day of spring, a young man’s fancy turns to thoughts of massacre when he takes a .30-06 and kills nine of his neighbors in a national park in Alaska. Or did he kill only eight? And if so, who killed the ninth victim—and why? Alaska Aleut Kate Shugak investigates. The second in the Kate Shugak series, available for the first time in hardcover from Poisoned Pen Press. ...
|  | Peter and the Starcatchers
Release Date: April 25, 2006| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Thanksgiving on Thursday (Magic Tree House #27)
Release Date: September 24, 2002| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | Sticker Adventures (Astro Boy (Price Stern Sloan))
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|  | Marvel Adventures Thor Featuring Captain America, Dr. Strange & Ant-Man
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|  | The Merlin Set-Up
Publication Date: June 9, 2000Join our four intrepid adventurers on their quest through time, exploring worlds past, present and future under the guidance of the wizard Merlin, Master of Space and Time.Set against the splendid backdrop of Georgian Bath, in the mystical heart of the West Country, Tom, Lucy, Gilly and Sam experience strange happenings and magical encounters with characters from the past. Their different reactions help them to understand the true significance of these events. They are then flung into the future to see how the world may change and to put their new knowledge to g...
|  | Let's Talk Baseball (Scholastic News Nonfiction Readers: Sports Talk)
Publication Date: September 1, 2008| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Ty Cobb: Bad Boy of Baseball (Step into Reading, Step 4, paper)
Release Date: March 7, 1995| Age Level: 7 and up...
|  | Swish!
Publication Date: September 15, 2000| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up A fast-paced book about two girls' basketball teams fighting for the championship."The Cardinals and Bluejays are in the final game of the championship. The tension builds as the clock ticks away. The score is tied at 44/44 with one second left . . . who will win the game?"New interest in women's basketball, including the 1996 Olympic team and the heavily watched 1996 NCAA women's championship, makes Swish! an exciting addition to the list. Bill Martin, Jr. and Michael Sampson have created an action-packed text...
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