 | The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass
Release Date: May 1, 2012From the New York Times bestselling author and host of HBO’s Real Time, Bill Maher’s latest collection of political riffs and savagely funny suggestions for preserving sanity in an insane world. New Rule: The next Republican Convention must be held in a giant closet. Every week there’s a new gay Republican outed. I have a feeling that “big tent” they’re always talking about is in their pants. There are so many Republicans in the closet, their symbol shouldn’t be an elephant; it should be a moth. New Rule: If one of your news ...
 |  | Common Place: The Representation of Paris in Spanish American Fiction
Publication Date: August 31, 2010This book charts the image of paris in Cortazar's Hopscotch, Ribeyro's La juventud en la otra ribera, Carpentier's Reasons of State, Fuentes's Distant Relations, Garro's Reencuentro de personajes, and Goytisolo's Landscapes after Battle. These novels were published between 1963 and 1982, a period that corresponds with the coming of age of Spanish American fiction. ...
|  | Barmy in Wonderland (Collector's Wodehouse)
Release Date: October 29, 2009| Series: Collector's Wodehouse Cyril Fothingay-Phipps, known to his friends as Barmy is persuaded to invest his modest fortune in the stage production of Sacrifice. But not everyone views his enterprise with such optimism, in fact if it had not been for the delectable Miss Dinty Moore, Barmy may well have given up any thoughts of being a theatrical tycoon. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | The House of Women (Center Point Platinum Fiction (Large Print))
Publication Date: June 2002| Series: Center Point Platinum Fiction (Large Print) Emma Funnell is the matriarch of Bramble House, built for her as a wedding gift by Patrick Funnell who had since died. Now into her seventies, and with the avowed intent of living to be a hundred, Emma continued to keep the firmest of hands on domestic affairs and commercial interests.Under Emma’s roof and rule lived three more generations of the Funnell family, all of them women. Widowed daughter Victoria had over the years become increasingly preoccupied with hypochondria; granddaughter Lizzie bore the ...
|  | Don't Blame the Devil
Release Date: August 31, 2010Hang on to your seat as Pat G’Orge-Walker spins a hilarious, inspiring novel of mistakes and second chances, heartache and love, sin and salvation…Appearances mean everything to Delilah Dupree Jewel. So after hearing of her daughter-in-law’s sudden death, Delilah decides that coming to the rescue of her long estranged son Jesse and her granddaughter Tamara would be a good look . . . though Lord knows she’ll have to dig hard to find her maternal instincts.But Delilah quickly discovers Jesse wants nothing to do with her. And Tamara, who&...
|  | Blindfold Game
Release Date: November 28, 2006In Thailand, a bomb destroys a tourist spot while two North Korean terrorists casually walk away from the site to plan the next phase of their plot against the United States. In Washington, CIA analyst Hugh Rincon catches the chatter about something big being planned along the Pacific rim, and his best agent says its linked to the Thailand blast. Now Hugh is beginning to connect the dots between missing radioactive material, a SCUD missile sold on the black market, and a Russian ship sailing toward the Alaskan coast…but the Administration refuses to...
|  | Christmas gifts in South Japan: Israel at equinox, wild geese, paddling setter, Sunium's templed steep, the wall is a window and other haibun, haiku essays
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| | Kansho kanshi no kokoro: Yukyu no shijo o tazunete (Yuhikaku sensho) (Japanese Edition)
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|  | Outlandish Companion
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|  | Foreign Language Printing in London, 1500-1900
Publication Date: April 10, 2003For centuries London has boasted a rich variety of communities from all over Europe. Here, 13 papers, written by British Library curators and other specialists in the history of the book, examine a long tradition of London printing in German, Dutch, Scandinavian languages, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese, Modern Greek, Russian, Polish and Hungarian. There is also a useful index of printers, publishers and booksellers. ...
| | Bibliographies of Studies in Victorian Literature for the Ten Years, 1975-1984 (Ams Studies in the Nineteenth Century)
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|  | Refusal of the Shadow
Publication Date: May 17, 1996| ISBN-10: 1859840183 | ISBN-13: 978-1859840184| Edition: First Edition In 1932, at the very peak of French colonialism, a group of Martiniquan students at the Sorbonne in Paris established a Caribbean Surrealist Group, and published a single issue of a journal called Legitime Defense. Immediately banned by the authorities, it passed almost unnoticed at the time. Yet its publication began a remarkable series of debates and collaborations between surrealism and Caribbean intellectuals that had a profound impact on the struggle for cultural identity. In the ne...
|  | I Heard That Song Before
Release Date: February 26, 2008| ISBN-10: 0743497309 | ISBN-13: 978-0743497305| Edition: First Thus In a riveting psychological thriller, Mary Higgins Clark takes the reader deep into the mysteries of the human mind, where memories may be the most dangerous things of all.At the center of her novel is Kay Lansing, who has grown up in Englewood, New Jersey, daughter of the landscaper to the wealthy and powerful Carrington family. Their mansion -- a historic seventeenth-century manor house transported stone by stone from Wales in 1848 -- has a hidden chapel. One day, accompanying her fa...
|  | The Italian Secretary
Release Date: May 2, 2006Mycroft Holmes's encoded message to his brother, Sherlock, is unsubtle enough even for Dr. Watson to decipher: a matter concerning the safety of Queen Victoria herself calls them to Edinburgh's Holyrood House to investigate the confounding and gruesome deaths of two young men--horrific incidents that took place with her highness in residence. The victims were crushed in a manner surpassing human power. And while recent attempts on her majesty's life raise a number of possibilities, these intrigues also seem strangely connected to an act of evil that took place centur...
|  | Fortune's Magic Farm
Publication Date: February 6, 2012| Grade Level: 3 and up Everything changes when Isabelle discovers that she is the heir to Fortune's Farm, a wondrous place where the final remnants of magic grow. For as long as she can remember, ten-year-old Isabelle has dreamed of escaping her home in Runny Cove, a gray village where it never stops raining, and where she is forced to work at Mr. Supreme's Umbrella Factory.Journeying across the ocean, Isabelle finds a sunny new home filled with magical delights, including Curative Cherry trees that can heal all kinds of sickness, and Floating Fronds that m...
|  | El Dragon Frio (Coleccion Mi Primera Sopa de Libros) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Barbie: A Perfect Christmas
Publication Date: September 1, 2011| Age Level: 7 and up...
|  | Boy Scout "Handbook for Boys" (Revised 28th Printing) 1923
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|  | The Quest of the Holy Grail (The High History of the Holy Graal)
Publication Date: January 1, 2012Here is the tale of the search for the Holy Grail, the vessel that received the blood of Christ upon the day of his Crucifixion. This anonymous story is thought to be a continuation of the French trouvère Chrétien de Troyes' unfinished "Perceval, The Story of the Grail." Written sometime in the early 13th century, this Arthurian Romance remains unique for its high amount of allegorical mysticism and use of Celtic lore. Our hero Perceval here goes through various toils and trials in his continued search for the Holy Grail. An important piece of the A...
| | Dragon and the Mouse: Together Again
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