 | Dear Asshole: 101 Tear-Out Letters to the Morons Who Muck Up Your Life
Publication Date: August 2, 2011Ever wish you could leave a nasty note for that jerk in the Hummer who blocked you in, or the idiot who didn’t clean up after his dog? Now you can! Dear Asshole includes 101 letters to all of the assholes you encounter on a daily basis, each letter conveniently perforated so you can tear it out and give it to the desired offender. Whether it’s the asshole landlord, the asshole cheapskate, the asshole backseat driver, or the asshole with the Bluetooth, you will surely never leave home without this humorous and useful book ever again! ...
 |  | The Impostor: A Play for Demagogues (Discoveries (Latin American Literary Review Pr))
Publication Date: August 30, 2006| Series: Discoveries (Latin American Literary Review Pr) Regarded by literary historians as the play that signaled the start of modern Mexican drama, this enthralling play is set in 1930s post-revolutionary Mexico and was censored by the Mexican government in its first years of the late 1940s. It centers around César Rubio, a failed history professor who is mistaken for a missing revolutionary hero by the same name, but instead of an error he sees an opportunity and attempts to capitalize on the other man's fame. He quickly becomes disill...
|  | The Apple That Astonished Paris
Publication Date: February 1, 2006In 1988 the University of Arkansas Press published Billy Collins’s THE APPLE THAT ASTONISHED PARIS, his "first real book of poems," as he describes it in a new, delightful preface written expressly for this new printing to help celebrate both the Press’s twenty-fifth anniversary and this book, one of the Press’s all-time best sellers.In his usual witty and dry style, Collins writes, "I gathered together what I considered my best poems and threw them in the mail." After "what seemed like a very long time" Press director Miller Williams, a poet ...
|  | Fall On Your Knees (Oprah's Book Club)
Release Date: January 24, 2002The Piper family is steeped in secrets, lies, and unspoken truths. At the eye of the storm is one secret that threatens to shake their lives -- even destroy them.Set on stormy Cape Breton Island off Nova Scotia, Fall on Your Knees is an internationally acclaimed multigenerational saga that chronicles the lives of four unforgettable sisters. Theirs is a world filled with driving ambition, inescapable family bonds, and forbidden love.Compellingly written, by turns menacingly dark and hilariously funny, this is an epic tale of five generations of sin, guilt, an...
|  | Sense and Sensibility
Publication Date: February 1, 2004The old gentleman died: his will was read, and like almost every other will, gave as much disappointment as pleasure. He was neither so unjust, nor so ungrateful, as to leave his estate from his nephew; -- but he left it to him on such terms as destroyed half the value of the bequest. Mr. Dashwood had wished for it more for the sake of his wife and daughters than for himself or his son; -- but to his son, and his son's son, a child of four years old, it was secured, in such a way, as to leave to himself no power of providing for those who were most dear to h...
|  | Thunder of Heaven: A Joshua Jordan Novel (End Series, The)
Release Date: June 7, 2011| Series: End Series, The The End Series by New York Times bestselling author Tim LaHaye and Craig Parshall is an epic thrill ride ripped from today's headlines and filtered through Scriptural prophecy. As world events begin setting the stage for the 'end of days' foretold in Revelation, Joshua Jordan must weigh the personal price he must pay to save the nation he loves. Thunder of Heaven appeals to the tens of millions of readers who have already made Tim LaHaye a household name and one of the best selling authors of all time. This book is a return to form for Tim ...
|  | Brecht Collected Plays: Man Equals Man and the Elephant Calf : Part 1
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| | A Little Hotel On the Side
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|  | Hebbel's Prose Tragedies: An Investigation of the Aesthetic Aspect of Hebbel's Dramatic Language (Anglica Germanica Series 2)
Publication Date: April 14, 2011| Series: Anglica Germanica Series 2 A study of the nineteenth-century German writer Friedrich Hebbel, concentrating on his tragedies in prose, and examining in particular the way in which the language is used to convey Hebbel's beliefs, attitudes and intellectual preoccupations and also the dramatic effects. The three tragedies Judith, Maria Magdalene and Agnes Bernauer are studied in turn. ...
| | Chinese Rhyme Prose (UNESCO collection of representative works:)
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|  | Little House On The Prairie (Masterwork Studies Series)
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|  | French Romantic Travel Writing: Chateaubriand to Nerval
Publication Date: February 20, 2012| ISBN-10: 0199233543 | ISBN-13: 978-0199233540In the first half of the nineteenth century most leading French Romantic authors wrote travel books. French Romantic Travel Writing is the first study exclusively devoted to surveying the travelogues they produced and the reasons for, and significance of, this trend. Whilst 'the journey' was one of Romanticism's central images, suggesting as it did a dynamic, expanding, and evermore complex world in which artists' lives were increasingly experienced as wanderings and endless quests, the fashion for Romantic...
|  | El Ocho (Best Seller (Debolsillo)) (Spanish Edition)
Release Date: March 3, 2009| Series: Best Seller (Debolsillo) Nueva York, 1972. Catherine Velis, aficionada a las matemáticas y al ajedrez, trabaja en una auditoría como experta en informática. La firma la destina a Argelia, pero, antes de partir, una vidente le lee las líneas de la mano y le advierte de que un grave peligro se cierne sobre ella. Poco después, un marchante de antigüedades hace a Cat una misteriosa oferta: un cliente suyo está intentando reunir las piezas de un antiguo juego de ajedrez que presuntamente se encuentra en Argelia. Si Cat le con...
|  | Juvenal and Persius (Loeb Classical Library No. 91)
Publication Date: January 1, 1918| ISBN-10: 0674991028 | ISBN-13: 978-0674991026| Edition: RevisedTHIS EDITION HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A NEWER EDITIONJuvenal, Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (ca. AD 60–140), master of satirical hexameter poetry, was born at Aquinum. He used his powers in the composition first of scathing satires on Roman life, with special reference to ineptitude in poetry (Satire 1); vices of fake philosophers (2); grievances of the worthy poor (3); and of clients (5); a council-meeting under Emperor Domitian (4); vicious women (6); prospects of letters and learning unde...
|  | Try Anything Twice: A Gay Man's Erotic Friendship with a Free-Spirited Straight Man
Publication Date: May 1, 2011A gutsy, uninhibited straight man, Ziggy, becomes sexually active with Josh, a shy, newfound gay friend. Josh has a lot more to offer someone than he's ever been able to show. Ziggy's generosity and genuine affection allow Josh to express feelings and desires he's never shared with anyone before. The friendship begins one early morning when Ziggy rescues Josh from a couple of scoundrels. When daylight approaches Zig offers Josh a place to crash -- it'll mean sharing a single bed, but Ziggy says it won't be a p...
|  | J.D. Robb Box Set (In Death)
Release Date: October 3, 2006| Series: In Death Together in one extraordinary boxed set- Naked in Death, Glory in Death, and Immortal in Death-the first three In Death novels featuring New York Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas. Naked in Death Eve Dallas is a New York police lieutenant using her instincts to hunt for a ruthless killer. Breaking every rule, Eve gets involved with Roarke, an Irish billionaire-and a suspect in Eve's murder investigation. But passion and seduction have rules all their own. Glory in Death Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas has no problem finding connections between two viol...
|  | Before Sunrise
Release Date: January 31, 2012Since Jeremiah Cortez broke her heart, Phoebe Keller has devoted herself to her career.As an expert in Native American culture, she has her doubts when an anthropologist claims to have discovered priceless artifacts on a nearby reservation. But before Phoebe can pursue the matter, the professor in question turns up dead — and the FBI sends Cortez to investigate. Cortez thought he’d left the past behind him — especially his history with Phoebe. Once, she’d sparked his world-weary soul…but he’d had to walk away. Now, seein...
|  | Here to Stay: A Harrigan Family Novel
Release Date: January 25, 2011| Series: Harrigan Family Mandy Pajeck had a tough childhood. Now 28, she feels responsible for the accident that took her younger brother's sight. But his complete reliance on her care is making them both miserable. When she meets handsome Zach Harrigan and his mini guide horse, she thinks she's found the ticket to her brother's happiness-and maybe her own. ...
|  | And Gold Was Ours (Love Spell historical romance)
Publication Date: June 1999| Series: Love Spell historical romance At the age of 16, the beautiful Aurora had her fortune told in her Spanish homeland: an escape across vast waters, to a savage jungle and a man. Now on a plantation haunted by a tale of lost love and hidden gold, she awaits the warrior she has seen in her dreams. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Love, Lies and Liquor (Agatha Raisin Mysteries, No. 17)
Release Date: August 28, 2007Agatha Raisin is lonely. Busy as she is with her detective agency and the meetings of the Carsely Ladies’ Society, she still misses her ex-husband, James Lacey. So when he suddenly resurfaces and invites her on holiday at a surprise location, she’s ready to go yesterday. With visions of a romantic hideaway in Italy or the Pacific dancing in her head, Agatha sets off with James to...Snoth-on-Sea, in Sussex. While James may have fond memories of boyhood holidays there, the once-grand Palace Hotel is in shambles and freezing cold—as are fellow gues...
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