 | Ghosts/Aliens
Release Date: November 4, 2008Are you freaked out by the mere thought of a bird winking at you? Or do you panic when you hear an unexplained gurgling sound?Well, listen to this. On Saturday, March 8, at 7:12 p.m., Trey Hamburger heard a second hand account of a teleporting Hot Pocket and started wiggin' out bad. So he and his amigo Mike Stevens basically went into combat mode and ended up encountering some of the most seriously messed-up shit ever. And they're STILL FREAKED OUT ABOUT IT.Now, even though these guys aren't SCIENTISTS, it's pretty for sure that they might have extrapolated some...
 |  | Dreams of Decadence #11 Summer 2000 Vampire Poetry and Fiction
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|  | Night Shift
Release Date: October 1, 1993Night Shift—Stephen King’s first collection of stories—is an early showcase of the depths that King’s wicked imagination could plumb. In these 20 tales, we see mutated rats gone bad (“Graveyard Shift”); a cataclysmic virus that threatens humanity (“Night Surf,” the basis for The Stand); a smoker who will try anything to stop (“Quitters, Inc.”); a reclusive alcoholic who begins a gruesome transformation (“Gray Matter”); and many more. This is Stephen King at his horrifying best.Fro...
|  | Hong Kong (A Jake Grafton Novel)
Release Date: July 3, 2001| Series: Jake Grafton Novels The U.S. government sends Jake Grafton to Hong Kong to find out how deeply the U.S. consul-general, Tiger Cole, is embedded in a dangerous plan to overthrow the Chinese regime. he takes his wife Callie with him. They haven't returned to the island since their first meeting there, and Tiger Cole is an old friend from those days. Their trip soon turns into their worst nightmare...Hong Kong is a powder keg ready to explode. A political murder and the Communist government's closure of a foreign bank are the sparks that light the fuse...and ...
|  | The Blood of Strangers: Stories from Emergency Medicine
Publication Date: October 4, 2000Hailed by The Boston Globe as "a compact, faceted gem that shines with intelligence," this remarkable and fascinating book offers an honest, startling, deeply moving depiction of the modern emergency room. The twenty-eight vignettes in The Blood of Strangers, all written by a young E.R. physician and writer based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, seamlessly juxtapose visceral portrayals of real and unedited hospital situations with perceptive and lyrical meditations on the world of medicine--and the world at large.All students, scholars, and practitioners of emerge...
|  | Tyrus
Publication Date: July 19, 2002Tyrus Raymond Cobb. Elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in a nearly unanimous vote. Highest lifetime batting average in baseball. Highest lifetime number of runs scored. Second highest lifetime number of hits. The run of statistics goes on, making it clear that Ty Cobb was baseball's greatest overall player. But before Ty Cobb was a legend, he was a young man trying to escape from his famous father's lengthy shadow. William H. Cobb, former state senator, renowned educator, champion of the Southern cause in the late 1800s and early 1900s, a gentleman and a scho...
|  | The Raven Who Spoke With God
Publication Date: September 4, 2001The Raven Who Spoke With God is the inspiring, heartwarming story of a young raven who believes there is more to life than eating and playing, but faces obstacles at every turn as he seeks to understand and realize his life's true purpose. The book is also an invitation to step outside our busy world and experience the serenity of Now--the simple joy of Being.When he sees his family and friends killed in a massacre, Joshua is overcome with despair. However, as we follow his adventures in this inspiring fable, we realize that the answer to our difficulties i...
|  | The Masks of God, Vol. 3: Occidental Mythology
Release Date: November 1, 1991A systematic and fascinating comparison of the themes that underlie the art, worship, and literature of the Western world. ...
|  | Jerry Seinfeld: Much Ado About Nothing
Publication Date: October 1, 1993Jerry Seinfeld is the master of observational humor. Pointing at the small absurdities of daily life, Seinfeld makes his audience laugh with recognition. For many years a stand-up comic, Seinfeld is now the star of his own phenomenally successful television show, Seinfeld. But the road hasn't always been easy; at his first stand-up performance, he froze. This first unauthorized biography follows his rise to stardom. Also included is a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Seinfeld. ...
|  | A Whistle In The Dark (Methuen Drama)
Publication Date: July 13, 1989| Series: Methuen Drama Tom Murphy's early masterpiece, A Whistle in the Dark depicts the reunion of an Irish family in Coventy: a picture of Irishmen 'over here' asserting themselves in one of England's post-war dream cities. Michael Carney has left Mayo for Coventry, hoping to leave behind his homeland and his past with modest ambitions for a decent job and respectable family. However, he is relentlessly pursued by his past: a past that is both the flesh of his own family and the soured spirit of a haunted, marginalised people. With tragic inevitability, the ...
|  | The Invisible Ladder: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poems for Young Readers
Publication Date: October 15, 1996| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Sitting by the barbecuewaiting for sausages and hot dogs..........I see a tiny spider..........a silver speckglisteningat its mouth,climbing the invisible ladder--from "Dinner Together" by Diana RiveraThis anthology of poems by America's best poets glistens too, and offers its own silvery ladder for readers to climb.Liz Rosenberg, herself an accomplished poet, wanted to make contemporary poems for adults accessible to a broader readership. She searched for works which, in both feeling and expression, could reach ...
|  | Beyond the Horizon: Poems of Life and Adventure from Asia and North Africa
Publication Date: August 12, 2009Poems about life and travels in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Japan, China,Russia, Iraq, Morocco, Algeria. Original poems as well as a few classic poems from Rabindranath Tagore, William Blake and Walt Whitman. ...
|  | Bare and Breaking
Publication Date: April 24, 2012Karin Schimke is a widely published journalist and columnist, and the Cape Times books editor. She also works as a writing tutor and mentor, an author of non-fiction - including the best-selling Fabulously Forty and Beyond, co-written with Margie Orford - of children's books and of short stories. She edited Open, an anthology of erotic short stories written by some of South Africa's best known women writers. Her poetry has appeared in South Africa Writing, New Contrast, New Coin and Carapace magazines. Bare & Breaking is her first collection of poems. ...
|  | Ultimate Peter Rabbit
Publication Date: March 1, 2002| Grade Level: P and up Prepare to celebrate a century in print with one of the most visual guides to one of the world's best-loved children's characters. Packed with detailed sketches of Beatrix Potter's best-loved characters, descriptions of each of the 23 "Little Books" she created, and a selection of gorgeous original illustrations, Ultimate Peter Rabbit is the perfect guide for new readers and dedicated fans alike. Generous access to the Potter estate's archives has produced a volume which includes 300 artworks from the books and over 50 specially commissi...
|  | Mediaeval Latin Lyrics
Publication Date: November 20, 2008Writing excitedly to her sister Meg in 1929, Helen Waddell quotes an early review of Mediaeval Latin lyrics: ‘Miss Waddell has kept her promise well: she promised a volume of translations from those fascinating “vagantesâ€. Some indeed are among the loveliest in any literature; and Miss Waddell has not dulled their brightness. She has come to them not merely with scholarship and literary tact, but with a soul attuned to the thought and feeling and the very idiom of another day. She has the most important of ...
|  | Avitus of Vienne: Selected Letters and Prose (Liverpool University Press - Translated Texts for Historians)
Publication Date: August 1, 2002| ISBN-10: 0853235880 | ISBN-13: 978-0853235880Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus, bishop of Vienne from c.494 to c.518, is known for his poetic works, but his Latin prose style has led to some neglect of his letters. This first complete translation of the letters into English gives access to an important source for the history of the Burgundian Kingdom in the early sixth century. ...
|  | Nightwalker (Harlequin Nocturne)
Publication Date: June 21, 2011| Series: Harlequin Nocturne (Book 116) All her life, Takala Rainwater hoped to find the mother who'd abandoned her and her sisters. But she'd never expected the woman to be a shadowy double agent in the spy-ridden underworld. Nor did she anticipate falling for the very vampire who wanted her mother destroyed.Like his name, Striker Dark was ruthless…and the sexiest thing Takala had seen in both worlds. Her white-magic power—and her willpower—was defenseless against him. But Takala didn't know the long-dead passion she roused in him co...
|  | Killing Time
Publication Date: September 29, 2010In 1985, with much fanfare, a time capsule was buried under the front lawn of a small-town county courthouse, to be reopened in 2085. But just twenty years later, in the dead of night, the capsule is dug up, its contents stolen. That same night, one of the contributors to the capsule is brutally slain in his home - with no sign of forced entry or indication of a struggle. One by one, others who had placed items in the time capsule are murdered. Besides his suspicions about the sudden, mysterious appearance of Nikita Stover, the chief investigator, Knox Dav...
|  | Wolves of the Beyond #3: Watch Wolf
Publication Date: June 1, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Benjamin Franklinstein Meets Thomas Deadison
Release Date: August 30, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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