 | Shoofly Pie & Chop Shop: 2 Bugman Novels in 1
Release Date: October 13, 2009 In 2003, the Shoofly Pie introduced an intriguing and unique detective: forensic entomologist Nick Polchak. So popular did Polchak become that author Tim Downs has now published five Bug Man novels. And now for the first time: the first two Bug Man novels under one cover. Shoofly Pie Within minutes of a murder, the first fly arrives at the scene. Soon there are hundreds, then thousands, and each one knows the victim's story... Thirty-year-old Kathryn Guilford turns to Dr. Nick Polchak, the Bug Man, to help her learn the truth about the apparent suicide of h...
 |  | Phantom of the Haunted Church (Bloodhounds, Inc. #3) (Book 3)
Publication Date: May 1, 1998| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Rumor has it that a pirate's treasure is hidden deep within the walls of Midvale's deserted church, which is guarded by the dreaded Zeeg Reed! Ages 8-13. Bloodhounds, Inc. book 3. ...
|  | The Graveyard Book
Release Date: September 30, 2008| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 5 and upNobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy-an ancient Indigo Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will...
|  | Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Willow & Tara
Publication Date: June 2, 2003Buffy the Vampire Slayer's own Amber "Tara" Benson takes up scripting duties on these collected stories of everyone's favorite Wiccan couple with the help of writer Christopher Golden (Angel, Buffy TVS: The Watcher's Guide, BPRD). This volume will collect the Willow and Tara one-shot "WannaBlessedBe" drawn by Terry Moore, the two-part Willow and Tara: "Wilderness" story and Andi Watson's two- part Willow and Tara comic strip featured in Dark Horse Extra! ...
|  | Go Not Gently
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|  | The Laying On of Hands: Stories
Publication Date: May 2, 2003| ISBN-10: 0312422253 | ISBN-13: 978-0312422257| Edition: Reprint Alan Bennett’s extraordinary ear for dialogue and sharpness of perception have made him a master storyteller. In “Father! Father! Burning Bright” he writes with tragicomic insight about a son’s vigil at his father’s deathbed where their lifelong battle continues to the end. “The Laying on of Hands,” a brilliantly funny satire, describes a society memorial service for a rather special masseur who died tragically young; and in “Miss Fozzard Finds he...
|  | The Frumkiss Family Business
Release Date: August 2, 2011Thomas Mann meets Mordecai Richler in this outstanding novel of great intellect and humour that already reads like a classic.The Frumkiss family doesn't look much different from any of the others in Toronto's Bathurst Manor. Grandpa survived the Holocaust; Grandma the Second came from Poland at the age of five. Dad's a foot doctor; Mom is dead, and her mother — Grandma Number One —died while giving birth to her in Kazakhstan. Her three kids — the oldest is forty-two — are as frustrated and directionless as most baby boomers with no real...
|  | Lao-tzu's Taoteching
Publication Date: November 1, 2009“A refreshing new translation. . . . Highly recommended.”—Library Journal“With its clarity and scholarly range, this version of the Taoteching works as both a readable text and a valuable resource of Taoist interpretation.”—Publishers Weekly“Read it in confidence that it comes as close as possible to expressing the Chinese text in English.”—Victor Mair, professor of Chinese studies, University of PennsylvaniaLao-tzu’s Taoteching is an essential volume of world literature, and Red Pine’s nuance...
|  | Blindsight: A Case Study and Implications (Oxford Psychology Series)
Publication Date: November 20, 1986| ISBN-10: 0198521294 | ISBN-13: 978-0198521297| Edition: 1 The author and his collaborators were among the first to describe blindsight, the phenomenon in which patients who are blind due to damage to the neocortex can nevertheless discriminate certain types of visual events within their blind fields, even though they believe they are only guessing. This book gives a detailed account of the research conducted over ten years on an individual case of blindsight, together with a discussion of the historical and neurological background of the patient.It al...
|  | On Wings of Song: Poems About Birds (Everyman's Library Pocket Poet)
Release Date: March 28, 2000| Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poet From backyard to barnyard, from hawks to hummingbirds, from pelicans to peacocks, from Coleridge's albatross to Keats's nightingale to Poe's raven-all manner of feathered beings, the inspiration for poetic flights of fancy through the ages, are gathered together in this delightful volume. Some of the winged treasures: Emily Dickinson on the jay; Gertrude Stein on pigeons; Seamus Heaney on turkeys; Tennyson on the eagle; Spenser on the merry cuckoo; Amy Clampitt on the whippoorwill; Po Chü-i on cranes; John Updike on se...
|  | Decadence: In Morbid Colours- Art and the Idea of Decadence in the Bohemian Lands 1880-1914
Publication Date: October 1, 2006The monograph In Morbid Colours: The Idea of Decadence in the Czech Lands 1880 till 1914 published to accompany the exhibition of the same name in the Municipal House in Prague, introduces for the first time, even within the universal context, the specific part of the fine arts scene influenced by the ideas of decadence. It involves such important artists like Max Pirner, Hanu Schwaiger, Bene Knupfer, Jakub Schikaneder, Franti ek Bílek, Karel Hlavá ek, Max vabinský, Alfons Mucha, Jan Preisler, Franti ek Kaván, Franti ek Kobliha, Jan Zrzav&...
|  | An Introduction to British Arthurian Narrative (New Perspectives on Medieval Literature: Authors and Traditions)
Publication Date: July 8, 2012| Series: New Perspectives on Medieval Literature: Authors and Traditions The legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table permeate our culture: we find them in novels, movie parodies, and even the American government. Yet beneath and before it all lies a deep literary tradition that has influenced history, art, and culture over the centuries. Examining the legend at its very source, <i>An Introduction to British Arthurian Narrative</i> covers over 400 years and discusses a broad range of romances, histories, and ...
|  | An Introduction to Classical Rhetoric: Essential Readings
Publication Date: May 5, 2009| ISBN-10: 1405158611 | ISBN-13: 978-1405158619| Edition: 1 An anthology of primary texts in translation, An Introduction to Classical Rhetoric offers an overview of the social, cultural, and intellectual factors that influenced the development and growth of rhetoric during the classical period.Uses primary source material to analyze rhetoric from the Sophists through St. AugustineProvides an in-depth introduction to the period, as well as introductions to each author and each selectionIncludes study guides to help students develop multiple perspectives on th...
|  | Don Quijote De La Mancha (Audio Libros Paloma Negra) (Spanish Edition)
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| | Curse of the Moors
Publication Date: November 1992Arriving at Carnaugh to deliver a letter to her Aunt Minna, orphaned Laura Parkinson finds her stay at the Scottish castle marred by the disturbing cry of a child. Original. ...
|  | Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes adventure history
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|  | Asterix and Son (The Adventures of Asterix)
Publication Date: May 28, 2002| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | The Curse of the Campfire Weenies: And Other Warped and Creepy Tales
Release Date: August 26, 2008| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up A boy discovers the answer to one of the great urban mysteries: why are pigeons always pooping in parks? A second-grade class learns why they should always be nice to their math teacher….An ancient predator uses the internet to search out its prey… A young girl and her little brother escape a campfire weenie only to encounter something even more terrifying: a troop of Girl Scouts singing campfire songs. For this, his third collection of warped and creepy “weenie” tales, critically-acclaimed au...
|  | Tell No One! (Ghost Detectors)
Publication Date: August 1, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Monster Trucks & Tractors (Race Car Legends) (Race Car Legends: Collector's Edition)
Publication Date: September 1, 2005| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
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