 | (Not That You Asked): Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions
Release Date: July 8, 2008In (Not that You Asked), Steve Almond documents a life spent brawling with the idiot kings of modern culture. He squares off against Sean Hannity on national TV, takes on Oprah Winfrey, nearly gets kidnapped by a reality TV crew, and winds up in Boston, where he quickly enrages the entire population of Red Sox Nation. Amid the carnage, he finds time to celebrate his literary hero, the late Kurt Vonnegut. These are essays the Los Angeles Times has called “rich, fearless [and] cutting.”Praise for (Not that You Asked)“Refreshingly irreverent . . . ...
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 | Self-Reliance and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: October 13, 1993| Series: Dover Thrift Editions The six essays and one address in this volume outline the great transcendentalist's moral idealism as well as hinting at the later scepticism that colored his thought. In addition to the celebrated title essay, the others included here are "History," "Friendship," "The Over-Soul," "The Poet" and "Experience," plus the well-known and frequently read Harvard Divinity School Address. ...
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 | A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts
Release Date: April 14, 1990The classic play about Sir Thomas More, the Lord chancellor who refused to compromise and was executed by Henry VIII. ...
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 | Murder Shoots the Bull: A Southern Sisters Mystery (Southern Sisters Mysteries)
Release Date: June 6, 2000| Series: Southern Sisters Mysteries Patricia Anne would swear that either she or her sister Mary Alice were switched at birth, except they were both born at home.Flashy, flirtatious Mary Alice is one foot taller, twice the body weight of Patricia Anne, and three times as likely to do something completely off the wall. But now Mary Alice's impulsive behavior has land them both in the Birmingham jail!It all begins with a call from their good friend Mitzi Phizer, who's starting an investment club -- kind of a Beardstown Ladies group. Patricia Anne is willing to make a...
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 | The Dark Brotherhood
Publication Date: January 1, 2011After years at a desk job CIA Agent Analia Arias is thrilled when her new boss, Assistant Director Banes, sends her on her first field assignment. That is, until she learns that the national emergency involves a disturbance at the International Institute for the Research of Psychic Phenomena.As the case unfolds Agent Arias finds she is investigating parallel universes, inter-dimensional demons, a possessed magician, and time traveling monks who have a tendency to disappear.And to solve the case, she will have to rely on the mysterious Arthur Alexander who use...
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 | Shout at the Devil
Release Date: August 29, 2006Wilbur Smith's adventure tales are big, bold and unforgettable. In SHOUT AT THE DEVIL, the New York Times bestselling master storyteller takes us to a brutal paradise engulfed in the fires of civilization's war...A MAN ON HIS OWNThey couldn't be anymore different: an earnest young Englishman named Sebastian Oldsmith and an Irish American adventurer named Flynn O'Flynn who never encounters a rule he doesn't break. Fate brings them together in Zanzibar. A sadistic German turns them into allies, then into warriors.A WOMAN IN LOVEFrom the moment Rosa O'Flynn lays eye...
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 | Genocide (Dr. Who Series)
Publication Date: September 1998| Series: Dr. Who Series A Doctor Who story in which Jo Grant is asked to join a project 1.5 million years in the past, to observe the evolution of the human species at first hand. The Doctor learns of this only when he visits Earth in 2109 and finds the peaceful Tractites - but no trace of the human race. ...
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 | Poesia de cancionero / Songbook Poems (Letras Hispanicas) (Spanish Edition)
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 | Le futurisme russe (Ecriture) (French Edition)
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 | A Journey Through Time in Verse and Rhyme
Publication Date: March 1999This is an invaluable collection of poetry for use by teachers at every stage of school life from primary to mid-teens. The poems are arranged by age of the child from six to fourteen, and provide support for the subject matter of lessons, from botany and physics to history and astronomy. They encompass a wide variety of moods from gratitude and wonder at the natural world to the courage and heroism of individuals pitted against the odds, and range from ancient Egypt to modern times. Works by well-known poets - Shakespeare, Blake, Wordsworth, Browning - are found ...
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 | Theocritus and the Invention of Fiction
Publication Date: April 30, 2007| ISBN-10: 0521865778 | ISBN-13: 978-0521865777The bucolic Idylls of Theocritus are the first literature to invent a fully fictional world that is not an image of reality but an alternative to it. It is thereby distinguished from the other Idylls and from Hellenistic poetry as a whole. This book examines these poems in the light of ancient and modern conceptions of fictionality. It explores how access to this fictional world is mediated by form and how this world appears as an object of desire for the characters within it. The argument culminates in a fres...
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 | That Perfect Moment (Kimani Romance)
Publication Date: July 19, 2011| Series: Kimani Romance (Book 247) The law is her life. Until now…Kimberly Thurman is used to life throwing her curves. The beautiful, fiery judge has struggled hard to get where she is and nothing's going to make her back down. That includes the high–profile murder case that has suddenly plunged her life into danger. And into irresistibly handsome Zachary Hood's arms. Kimberly hired the virile P.I. to guard her body. But who's going to shield her heart?Taking risks may be the Hood Team's stock–in–trade, but Zach will die be...
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 | Heart Of The Matter (Arabesque)
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 | Under the Blood Red Moon
Release Date: September 30, 2008Cursed with the ability to hear the thoughts of others, beautiful Angelica Shelton Belanov feels most comfortable when hidden away in the library of her father's English country estate. Now family duty requires that she make an appearance at a glittering gala, mingling with the cream of London society in hopes of finding a suitable husband. Assailed by the unwanted “chatter” of many minds, Angelica finds relief in the company of a handsome aristocratic stranger who remains, refreshingly, an enigma. But Prince Alexander is not like other men. The powe...
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 | For the Sake of Elena
Release Date: April 1, 1993Elena Weaver was a surprise to anyone meeting her for the first time.In her clingy dresses and dangling earrings she exuded a sexuality at odds with the innocence projected by the unicorn posters on her walls.While herembittered mother fretted about her welfare from her home in London, inCambridge—where Elena was a student at St. Stephen's College—her father and his second wife each had their own very different image of the girl.As for Elena, she lived a life of casual and intense physical and emotionalrelationships, with scores to settle and goals to a...
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 | Shakespeare's Champion (Lily Bard Mysteries, Book 2)
Release Date: December 5, 2006When Lily stumbles upon the well-built corpse of a local body builder-his neck broken by a barbell-the town's underlying racial tension begins to boil over. The white victim was somehow connected to two unsolved murders of black residents of Shakespeare-and a dogged policeman is determined to stop the killing. But it is Lily herself who may have to decide whether to stay and fight for justice, or run away one more time. ...
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 | Snake Dreams (Charlie Moon Mysteries)
Release Date: September 29, 2009| Series: Charlie Moon Mysteries Charlie Moon has been fighting crime—and investigating the truth behind Ute tribal myths—for ages. Now, the seven-foot rancher and part-time P.I. wants to carve out a little more time and space for himself and a very significant other, FBI Special Agent Lila Mae McTeague. Is that so wrong?No one—himself included—ever believed the time would come for Charlie to get hitched. There’s only one problem: His beloved, belligerent aunt Daisy. She’s an aged Ute shaman whose own investigativ...
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 | Pok
Publication Date: February 2, 2010| Age Level: 8 and up R to L (Japanese Style). Red doesn't just want to train Pokémon, he wants to be their friend too. Read along as Red embarks on adventures with Pikachu, Bulbasaur and others that follow storylines from the videogames!Pokémon trainer Red has vanished... Trainer Yellow Caballero and Red's faithful Pikachu are off to rescue him. But it will take smarts, skills, and a lot of help from friends and other Pokémon to find and rescue Red!And watch out for the Elite Four, Yellow Caballero... Are you a strong enough Pokémon trai...
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 | Jungle Doctor Collection #1 (Jungle Doctor Stories)
Publication Date: May 25, 2012| Age Level: 9 and up...
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 | Raccoon Child of a Child
Publication Date: August 17, 2012Raccoon Child of a Child is told simply and infew words, with charming line drawings. This true story allows us a glimpse into a family who lives close to nature and recognizes the spiritual connections among all creation — whether they be animal or human. Not just for children. ...
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